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It causes the explosion. it was causing the explosion for the top of the outer containment. they have to release that. it's a risk they have to take, knowing they still have the pressure cooker. the main containment structure around the reactor. they say that that is still intact. now you are hearing about radiation in the air. let's have some perspective. the latest explosion at the number two reactor may have leaked radioactive materials in to the air. the plant operators say it's reading had reached more than 8,000 microsieverts per hour. i don't know about you but my doctor says stay under...

Efforts failed this time and that's why the explosion damaged the steel containment structure. government officials evacuating emergency workers out of that area right away. and just urging people, anybody that is left within that 12-mile radius to just get out. now, we got a sense of just how urgent the situation was when we heard the prime minister speak in a nationally televised address earlier today. he went as far to tell people who were outside of that evacuation zone to be sure to stay indoors and monitor radiation levels. we have heard from officials saying that the radiation levels ar...

Material. and company executives have publicly apologized. in the event of a large meltdown, the japanese government has distributed 230,000 doses of stable iodine to evacuation centers that experts say there isn't a significant health risk yet. >> the amount of radiation that is likely to be released is going to be relatively small compared to an accident like chernobyl. >> we're just learning that a nuclear industry official here in the united states says that the primary containment structure of those reactors in japan, it looks like has breached. it raises the risk now of a further release...

History, that was chernobyl where there was no containment structure. it blew up. in the end, ten years later, when all the facts were in, there were less than 10 fatalities, from that explosion. only people right near the plant were affected by the radiation, a thousand people got leukemia, 998 were cured, and, there were absolutely no effects whatsoever of the radiation that moved down range, hundreds of miles, as we sprikted. it was predicted that tens of thousands of people would get cancer and their children would be affected and so on and it never happened. this is not an atomic bomb. an...

Some towns reporting they cannot handle all the dead bodies that have washed ashore. and evacuation centers are now reporting they are running out of food and water as well. >> akiko, just amazing to hear some of the details there. we know this has had an impact on you as well. you said some of the workers at that plant have been asked to leave. i know they were staying there, trying to keep the reactors cooled, but now they've been told to evacuate as well? >> reporter: they did. we did get a chance to spend some time at the evacuation centers where those evacuees are being brought to. they h...