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The land where it can be absorbed into ground water, into vegetables, it can be exposed to human beings. do you want this to happen? no. but better out there than on land. >> michael, some of the other big news today. there are these containment structures around the core. and the concern seems to be one of the -- that there's a breach of the containment structure allowing radioactive material from the core to leak out. it could have happened when the hydrogen explosions were occurring. but what does this mean to you? does this make it more likely that's going to be difficult to bring this sit...

Do you want this to happen? no. but better out there than on land. >> michael, some of the other big news today. there are these containment structures around the core. and the concern seems to be one of the -- there's a breach of the containment structure allowing radioactive material from the core to leak out. it could have happened when the hydrogen explosions were occurring. but what does this mean to you? does this make it more likely that's going to be difficult to bring this situation under control? >> yeah. a couple points. number one, we have a relatively high degree of certainty now,...

Reactor core, the rods that we're worried about overheating and melting. and the hope is that when you connect power to unit 2 the cooling systems are going to start up again and you'll be able to get the core under control. but the key point was what you said at the end of your intro, which is that we don't know whether the systems within the reactor are working. >> in terms of reactor 2, obviously when we look at the images of the entire daiichi plant unit 2 seems to be in the best physical shape in terms of what we can see of the external containment structure. is there reason to assume tha...

Images of the entire daiichi plant unit 2 seems to be in the best physical shape in terms of what we can see of the external containment structure. is there reason to assume that the -- that there's likely to be more to plug into at reactor 2 than at any of the other sites? is it likely that that's why they are focusing on getting power back to that site, because it can do the most good there? >> i'm not exactly sure why they made the decision to go for unit 2 first. but if you remember, a couple of days ago there was an explosion. and unlike the explosions we saw at 1 and 3 that led to all th...

Images of the entire daiichi plant unit 2 seems to be in the best physical shape in terms of what we can see of the external containment structure. is there reason to assume that the -- that there's likely to be more to plug into at reactor 2 than at any of the other sites? is it likely that that's why they are focusing on getting power back to that site, because it can do the most good there? >> i'm not exactly sure why they made the decision to go for unit 2 first. but if you remember, a couple of days ago there was an explosion. and unlike the explosions we saw at 1 and 3 that led to all th...