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And elston stevenson just told us in a conversation with our producer that his bosses at the park service dragged their feet, ignored his complaints. he said, dana, their behavior was essentially immoral. >> dana: what are park officials saying to that? >> reporter: well, they say they ought to have been removed and an investigation is under way. in an e-mail, emily davis, spokeswoman for the national park service, also said a radiation survey was recently carried out at the building in question and it, quote, found radiation levels at background levels. the amount always present in the enviro...

Grand canyon but the buckets were brought back in the building. >> shepard: trace, what is the response from the park service? >> the park service confirmed to us that an investigation is underway. a spokesperson said a radiation survey was conducted at the museum's collection building saying it found radiation levels at background levels, the amount always present in the environment and below levels of concern for public health and safety. the spokesperson went on to say there's no current risk to the park or employees and the building itself has reopened, a spokesperson for osha said an inve...

They will never be used to produce energy. what we see here is a gigantic nuclear waste problem, and we also see these devastating impacts. we now have situations in which we have children's playgrounds in this area of the evacuation zone that are hundreds of times beyond background levels. the japanese public is reeling and is truly terrified by the contamination, and i think our public has a reason to be anxious as well as we see the radiation beginning to arrive here as well. >> damon, just looking at those pictures, they do not look like the ornlal reactors buildings they were before. damo...

From japan. now so far, the officials say they found only trace amounts of radiation on people's clothing and shoes and a little bit in luggage. one radiation detector at dallas-ft. worth airport was triggered by a shipment of radioactive medical supplies. so they don't think there's much concern of people tracking radiation back from japan into this country, although flights out of japan are full. people are trying to get away from any possible threat there. but again, officials in this country emphasize that the plume of radiation from that plant will be largely dispersed as it crosses the o...

Trouble started, number one, they had that hydrogen explosion. it blew the roof off. and as i've been saying, the place to worry about, number one, and also number three, is the central pools which store the highly radioactive waste which are just as vulnerable to meltdown and fires and dispersal of radioactivity as the reactor, in some ways more vulnerable because they're more exposed. and the other thing that happened today is the pool in reactor four had a fire and hydrogen explosion and poked a hole in the reactor building and that seems to be venting radioactivity. some of the outside rad...