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Journalist. she takes us deep inside the nuclear plant to explain the risky clean-up operation in this cnn exclusive. >> we are here inside reactor 4 at the fukushima daiichi power plant that was severely crippled during the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 leading to the countrys worst nuclear disaster. it was in here where there was that massive hydrogen explosion that severely damaged the building, that this was the least damaged of the four reactors because it was under maintenance and it wasn...

Radiation and theyve dumped 18 tons of sea water into the storage pool and managed to bring down the temperature. encouraging news but they havent finished the job yet. back to you. martha: we hope to keep putting small pieces of the good news together, thank you so much as all way, and in the meantime, one atomic whistleblower saying he saw this catastrophe coming 40 years ago, a former engineer for ge, claiming that he always had concerns about the design of the reactor that was used at fukush...

Jenna: so many thought domestic issues were going to dictate the issues of 2012 but now they will be whether or not international polices are going to do that. karl rove, well discuss this another time, i guess. always nice to have you, thank you. >> thank you for having me. jon: a fox news alert, workers at the nuclear plant in japan taking action to hold down a storage pool that holds spent nuclear fuel, water in that pool reaching a poiling -- boiling point. crews also reconnecting power line...

Mentioned the water from the fire trucks on the ground. theyve been trying from helicopters from above. they keep shooting water specifically into number three. greg yazko has been talking a lot about number three. can you surmise where that water is going? might there be a chance that the storage pool could have cracked? maybe from the earthquake we dont know? and there could be water leaking out? if so, whats the danger there? >> its really -- theres a lot of speculation built into that series...

Theres the smoke billowing from that plant today, and it seemed to come from the same exact corner where the spent fuel rods are stored in the storage pool. my question to you, sir, does that in itself cause you to worry? >> i think one of the things that happened yesterday, there was a large amount of water put into that spent fuel pool. there is more waterborne material that could be the potential source of steam. we really dont know. what we do know is right now its about quarter of 6:00 or 1...

>> president obama will head to chile late they are morning to lay out his vision for deeper ties within latin america. in japan, new problems at the countrys crippled nuclear complex are overshadowing some success at cooling the plants overheated reactors over the weekend. there had been some optimism. this morning, workers at the facility were evacuated after gray smoke rose from the spent storage pool at the plants number three reactor. it development comes after officials said they had suc...

Damaged reactors two and three. that means a likelihood of a limited release of radioactive material, possible deaths from radiation and severe damage to the reactor core. despite the reassessment, though an assessment that is now more in line with what the united states had two days ago, they decided not to expand the 12-mile evacuation zone. u.s. officials advised americans to evacuate 50 miles. tons of water was sprayed on reactor three on friday in an attempt to refill the storage pool. insi...

What were going to find out. whether the water wins or whether the radiation wins is the big question. >> bob, theres still this agreement even among japanese officials about whether or not in reactor four, in that storage pool that holds all that nuclear waste, those spent nuclear fuel rods, whether that pool is empty. >> reporter: well, it was very interesting today at a press conference a few hours ago, japanese deputy minister said, some people in the japanese government believe that it was ...

Place with respect to the reactor. its up on the reactor refueling floor. its there because it make it very handy when they go into refueling. they dont have to move the fuel very far to get it out of the reactor, get it into the reactor. and of course ultimately it is -- after it cools off in that pool for a while, it is moved out of the reactor building, and into a -- another storage pool which is common to the five or six units at the plant. it -- the spent fuel pool itself is actually in the...

Heating up in this storage pool within one of the rooms of these reactor facilities. when you hear that, how loudly do alarm bells go off and how much does it worsen the situation? >> well, its something that we have to be very concerned about because the spent fuel has to also be cooled. its the cooling of the spent fuel is nowhere near as urgent as the reactor, but if something were to happen to cause the spent fuel pool to lose its water, these are pools that are several stories above ground ...