Wherea Second Fire News Today

Tonight we are live from japan with the multiple disasters ongoing right now. . the largest nuclear disaster happening since chernobyl going on right now. multiple problems at six reactors in one location in japan. well have details on that. new picture from that plant of smoke rising from reactor number four, where a second fire broke out today. very alarming news. well have all of that. well also have the problems with the tsunami areas, the hardest hit areas. and we have new pictures of the m...

Plant? there were 800, 750 have left. are there enough people physically to do the job thats required? >> they have no need to keep more people than they absolutely need since all are soaking up dose -- if this goes on, i imagine theyll rotate people through to share the dose as widely as possible. that number of people can run pumps, emergency generators and dump water into spent fuel pools and reactors. its challenging work, and i suspect they will find volunteers to get it done. and i suspect...

Different directions. they had a fire in one of the reactors. there was some initial report it was the spent fuel pool which would have been really awful. it turns out to have been oil, lubricating oil in machinery near the pool. theyre talking about bringing in helicopters as they did at chernobyl. in this case, the helicopters would drop water into the spent fuel pool. the spent fuel pool started out with maybe five or six times as much material as is in the reactor. and 30 feet of water over ...

And we dont know a lot with precision about the effects of small doses. theres a theory that every little bit hurts, but theres observational data that says we cant demonstrate that. >> without wanting to be doom-laid ben thden about this, is the worst possible news that you would hear as an expert in this area from that plant? >> probably that the spent fuel spool on fire because what would burn there is the metal cladding, and thats very difficult to put out. that would disperse more radioacti...

Astonishing images of all, people running for their lives, literally, as the tsunami sweeps through their town. lets begin with the latest from japan. heres my colleague, anderson cooper. >> reporter: day five this disaster. and the problems keep on growing, it seems. a fire break out in reactor number four at the fukushima daiichi plant. the plant that has six reactors. virtually all of them have had problems over the last several days. there are now deep concerns about the spent fuel rods in r...