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Journalist. she takes us deep inside the nuclear plant to explain the risky clean-up operation in this cnn exclusive. >> we are here inside reactor 4 at the fukushima daiichi power plant that was severely crippled during the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 leading to the country's worst nuclear disaster. it was in here where there was that massive hydrogen explosion that severely damaged the building, that this was the least damaged of the four reactors because it was under maintenance and it wasn't actually operating. well, now, two and a half years later, tepco says it's reached a milestone. ...

Than this and where tepco has brought us here. we are in the building that suffered that blast in days after the disaster. this is the cooling pool and inside there there are 1,500 spent fuel rods. what the company is doing is remove those fuel rods to a more stable location, they say. they insist it is a routine and they have done it many times before. the fuel rods will be removed and transferred to a pool 100 meters from the damaged reactor building an operation tepco is calling a milestone in the recovery effort. officials say they do not believe the fuel rods were damaged falling into the...

Storage shed. i have nothing against the quality of sears storage sheads, but they're not suitable for nuclear waste storage. >> because spent fuel is very hot and radio active when it comes out, the nuclear regulatory commission says it must go into a cooling pool for five years. but there's no rule on when it had to come out and be stored in less vulnerable casts like this. >> fuel removed from reactors in 1984 is still cooling in wet, spent fuel pools. >> the nuclear industry says the federal government must come up with a national strategy so operators know whether to put used fuel in perm...

Plant has suffered a minor setback. smoke rising from two reactors now. right now workers are trying to restore power to the facility. take a look at the thermal images taken. reactor four registering 107.6 degrees fahrenheit there. reactor three registering 143.6 degrees. in the last few hours, firefighters began hosing down number three. and look at the last readings from reactor two, 95 degrees fahrenheit reported at the cooling pool near the spent fuel rods and 264.4 degrees from the containment vessel. reactor number one is also heating up, registering 136.4 degrees. now, thousands of ame...

Sudden, the spark from that could ignite those gases and cause further explosions. on part of that there is yet another problem at reactor number two. the cooling pool for system spent fuel rods there seems to be boiling off and they can't can't top it off fast enough. there is a real risk that those fuel rods could now be exposed and leak massive amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. >> shepard: dominick deno tally in japan. the body of a virginia teacher missing for several days. we believe she is the first known american victim in the disaster there. taylor anderson had taught in japan ...