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That is we look at the gorbachev option, the chernobyl option. what did gorbachev do? he called in the red air force. he called in the military. fleets of helicopters with lead underneath the airplanes, with sandbags, concrete, and boric acid. and they sandbagged that reactor. they entombed it in concrete, buried it in 5,000 tons of concrete, sand, and boric acid. that's the chernobyl option. >> and that starts with giving up on this thing ever being a nuclear facility again. have the japanese -- are the japanese somehow retaining the hope that there's something that they can repair there and ...

Forest fire. by you couldn't get close enough to it to shoot the water close enough to hit it. if they got any closer they would be too close to the radiation. he's the author of an amazing new book called physics of the future which describes in unbelievable detail the way he believes we'll be living in the future. including internet inside your contact lenses and organs that can grow from your own cells. because you are a physics expert we want to get your thoughts on japan and what can be done. there is one solution to this problem at this point. what is it. >> sending one helicopter to dum...

And he said they need to go chernobyl in terms of the way to deal with this, as gorbachev did, dumping cement and boric acid over the area. >> he said it is like shooting a squirt gun at a fire. it's not a forest fire, the rods will continue to reignite and all measures being taken now are temporary and, tepco announced they are putting a power line in and if the backup generators are disabled because of the tsunami, the measures are temporary, so the most important thing is, that they not only have it temporarily controlled, but keep it under control. martha: thank you very much. rick: when w...

The workers. >> there's also they water cannons. here's reactor three that they're working on. there's the approach of using water cannons on the ground. these water connoncould be in this area down here. again they're trying to reach the reactor, which is over here. is that an effective approach? >> no, it's not effective, because the workers cannot get close enough to put water here. that's why i would personally advocate the chernobyl option. do what gorbachev good, call out the japanese air force, get the army to bring a fleet of helicopters armed with sand, boric acid and concrete, entomb...

Stay oversite. officials are trying to decide the next step in trying to stave off further damage. they abandoned the plan to use helicopters on the site saying it would be too dangerous. other options are to use fire trucks and boric acid . large after shocks rock the quake ravaged area. this video shows a 6.0 magnitude shock near sheeba, japan. the death tollis 3373. and the number expected to surpass the 10,000 mark before it is all over. >> martha: japanese airports are packed as people are anxious to leave the country. shocks are continuing to rock northeastern japan and the ongoing threa...