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Federation of american scientists. i want to start with this. first of all we're getting conflicting reports. they say the power has been reconnected. whether reactor number two is back up and working is an open question so it is hopeful. it doesn't mean that the problem is solved by any stretch of the imagination. but for a second let us assume they can get the power working again in reactor two and then in all of the reactors. would that solve the problem? >> well, cenk it first this sounds like great news. it lifted my spirits when i heard you talking about it. but i think you're right. thi...

Containment structure. it didn't even have that type of feature and a different type of system. the graphite in the chernobyl reactor which this doesn't have, the graphite caught fire. it was like a chimney effect. it was lofting materials into the air. that created the exclusion zones and also the readings read out in various parts of europe. we're far from that situation here in japan. we've seen these excess radiation levels but they're far, far less than we experienced in cher thoebl. >> the last thing here for the guys and girls inside the plant, it's not just the amount of radiation they...

Back and there's some type of core, reactor number two i think there's still cause for concern they need to make sure there's not a bridge to that containment structure. >> and how about reing a tore number four? it was leaking before from what we heard. even if you get the power back up, how do they plug that leak in the radiation? >> exactly. that was my next concern. reactor number four there's a spent fuel pool. yesterday we heard the chairman of the enthusiastic leer regulatory commission say to congress that he had information that that pool was empty. and then there is conflicting thfgs...

Streaming from a reactor today. authorities said it appeared to be radioactive steam from a breach in reactor 3's containment structure. the small crew still working at the plant was temporarily evacuated until the radiation dropped. over 8,000 people are missing and the weather is adding to the misery. snow has been falling on homeless survivors, rescue crews and anyone still alive under all of that debris. freezing temperatures are expected to hang on into next week. now for some other stories you might have missed, a cia contractor jailed for killing two men in pakistan has been release...

They have a good chance to get through this without enormous additional releases, but it could go in any number of different directions. they had a fire in one of the reactors. there was some initial report it was the spent fuel pool which would have been really awful. it turns out to have been oil, lubricating oil in machinery near the pool. they're talking about bringing in helicopters as they did at chernobyl. in this case, the helicopters would drop water into the spent fuel pool. the spent fuel pool started out with maybe five or six times as much material as is in the reactor. and 30 fee...