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Television around here. >> reporter: and the easiest way to compare it is on the international scale used to rate nuclear disasters. it runs from 1 to 7. 7 being the worst. and, chernobyl was rated a 7 by every, single nuclear expert and agency. so, the worst possible disaster. the situation in japan, was initially rated by the japanese of 4, but, now, most agencies are rating it a 6. the second-worst. so, not as bad as chernobyl but worse than three mile island and the big difference here, shep, was -- between japan and chernobyl is the japanese nuclear facilities are better bit and have prop...

Are outside of those containment shells. now that means there is nothing to hold back the radiation. the reason they burn is because they are no longer submerged in water. the experts say, get this, there could be some 60,000 spent fuel rods at fukushima posing a catastrophic scenario. the fire was left to burn yesterday because the radiation was so high they had to pull the workers out. we're talking about 50 workers. they called them the faceless 50. they either volunteered or were ordered to stay behind and fight and they, according to many experts, may be the last chance to avoid a catastr...