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Concern about all of these in terms of the active part of it. this part was shut down beforehand. the problem with the rods is you're talking an area that is outside of the hardened area. the concern i've heard from nuclear experts as i talked to them today is maybe the reason this fire keeps happening is because the water that's supposed to surround, even the inactive rods, because they still have radio activity, has dropped low enough that they're catching on fire. the coating on the outside is catching on fire. and that, at least at the moment, is ha much more serious problem than the worry...

Here's what we've had so far. the highest radiation dose near here was measured in this area yesterday at about 400 over here. it's equivalent to 57 chest scans in just a few minutes. more importantly, if you're talking about these rods up here, which would be about 60, 70 tons of them. even though they're somewhat degrad degraded, in the water is drained away from them, because they're kept in water so as not to overheat t coating can catch fire. if it catches fire in this uncontained fashion, because this is just a building. it's not the real hard container inside, then the dust, the ash, th...

He started avastin, a free clinical trial, but the second time he needed it, it cost plenty. >> right here you can see it was charged at $27,360 for a dose of the avastin. >> for one dose? $27,000. >> one dose. >> reporter: over the course of his illness, terence had more than 60 chest scans, each about $3,200. >> and the last drug he took was at $200 a pill. >> $200 a pill? >> per pill. >> and how often did he take that? >> every day. >> reporter: that lasted about a month, because in december 2007, terence was rushed to the hospital. the cancer was in his brain. for the four days doctors wor...

Contributed to this overall situation. sometimes the medications you're on might cause a little bit of a problem. >> good enough. thanks so much, sanjay. >> yeah. i'm anchoring once in a long while, and you're asking me the questions. >> that's a good thing. next on "360," secrets of the high cost of medicine. more than $27,000 for one dose of medicine? $192,000 for chest scans. and there's more. tonight, the staggering price of one man's battle against cancer. plus, the astrophysicist and aliens. stephen hawking weighs in on whether there's life out there. the director...the commander. [ ...

The high cost of medicine. more than $27,000 for one dose of medicine? $192,000 for chest scans. and there's more. tonight, the staggering price of one man's battle against cancer. plus, the astrophysicist and aliens. stephen hawking weighs in on whether there's life out there.