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Images of the entire daiichi plant unit 2 seems to be in the best physical shape in terms of what we can see of the external containment structure. is there reason to assume that the -- that theres likely to be more to plug into at reactor 2 than at any of the other sites? is it likely that thats why they are focusing on getting power back to that site, because it can do the most good there? >> im not exactly sure why they made the decision to go for unit 2 first. but if you remember, a couple o...

Made the decision to go for unit 2 first. but if you remember, a couple of days ago there was an explosion. and unlike the explosions we saw at 1 and 3 that led to all that mangled mess on the outside of the plant, the explosion at 2 was on the inside of the plant, and it has potentially damaged that key giant concrete and reinforced -- reinforced concrete and steel tomb-like internal containment structure. so my guess, and this is only just a guess, is that when they made the decision about whe...

700 times normal levels. authorities say its still low and likely to have been caused by the radio activity from the blast at the fukashima plant. it has called a low state of emergency there. sea water is being used to clean at least two reactors to clear them up and cool them down. they are trying to keep temperatures down at unit 3. there has been much talk about explosion there. unit 2 was a problem. they used water to cool it. this comes after a blast yesterday at fuka shrksshima on. expert...

Be another press conference and we would not be talking about we would not be talking about it.@2