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The plant, it is reportedly now losing coolant. bringing fresh concerns over its stability. meantime, "the new york times" is reporting that the u.s. pentagon is reporting that the "uss ronald reagan" traveled through a radioactive cloud and crew on deck are believed to have received a month's worth of radiation in an hour. meanwhile, experts are weighing in on the potential impact at home if a disaster as devastating as the one that hit japan were to hit quake-prone areas here. for that we go to tracey potts. >> reporter: the obama administration wants to build more nuclear facilities here ...

Housed the nuclear reactor but it was only the outside of the building that was damaged. the inside, the metal -- steel casing surrounding the nuclear reactor and the nuclear reactor itself were not damaged. actually, since the blast, the amount of radiation leaking from the plant has actually gone down. the japanese government has declared a state of atomic emergency because of problems of trying to cool down the fuel in the reactors. -- that endangers the fuel inside the reactor. the pressure has actually gone down. still, even with that they have expanded the evacuation area to about 15 mil...