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Textbook for accidents. because four reactors at the same time. yes, normally you do try to inject boric acid and mixed in water and the boron is to control and prevent a chain reaction from occurring and causing further structural damage and heat. the water is to keep the spent fuel or in the reactors the fuel cooled because the radioactivity generates an enormous amount of heat. it's like a pressure cooker. and in a pressure cooker, if you don't vent it, it will blow up on you. so the valves have to work and in this case the heat is inside the pressure cooker so you can't switch it off. so y...

Pressure and abandoned a plan to use helicopters and dump water over the sites and saying that could be too dangerous for the choppers and others use fire trucks to spray on boric acid. there are large after shocks and the video shows the 6.zero magnitude over mitto in japan. the death tollstands at 3,373 . that number will surpass the 10,000 mark as they continue to go through the rubble in japan. >> brian: rescuers pulled out awe 73 year old woman in the rubble. she's spent four days in the debris that was her home in near freezing temperatures. she suffers from hypothermia. her house was kn...

The workers who are working there are working in a very, very difficult environment. it's very difficult to say how this is going to evolve. i don't believe this is at the level of chernobyl yet. but i would agree that it certainly has the potential to go there. >> take us through this process. officials are considering spraying water and acid into the reactors to prevent further radiation. this is somewhat unchartered waters for everybody on the globe right now dealing with this over a five-day period. take us through that process. is that something that would be successful do you think? >> w...

Sea water being used now to cool these plants in addition to boric acid, it's sort of a hail mary is what we're hearing from people on the ground. meaning the sea water can be so corrosive it may shut down the plant. it may make it difficult for the plant to come back online. so this is obviously a big deal. but this concern about radiation. this anxiety about radiation has compounded obviously in addition to the people being asked to evacuate. compounded situations like the one you see behind me, this is one of the refugee centers that soledad was talking about. one thing i found really inter...

Whee a meltdown but it was contained and that's -- we're not there yet but if we.god forbid were to get to this point, we would hope the containment vessel would nevertheless hold that radiation and that material in so that we would not have a chernobyl style accident. >> why are they pumping in sea water now at this point? >> yeah. because they got no other choice. you don't pump in sea water as your first choice or your fifth choice. they're doing it now because they're trying to keep that reactor cool. they are not able to pump in fresh water. they don't want to pump in sea water because on...