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Levels increased rapidly. for a society that uses words carefully, and use nuance tones increase rapidly is a statement of great substance. let's put the facts together. reactor number 1, 70% exposed. which is tantamount to a meltdown. reactor number 2, 33% compromised. which is tantamount to something toward meltdown. reactor number 4, a fire yesterday, then it was put out or something like that. then today a fire again at reactor number 4. the reactor where the rods were in a cooling pool they had been off-line before putting off steam they don't have enough water they will contaminate the a...

Or tepko told everyone that they had the fire out. then it started again today. and what tepko is trying to convince us now is that it started today because they never actually but the it out yesterday. that would mean it's been burning all along. or that the water levels have dropped so far they can't get enough water in there that it's exposed. either one of those is a horrible situation. >> yes. my understanding is that the temperature by this cooling pool is so high that they can't -- they literally can't just walk up to it and put a hose on the top and put water. in it's just too hot it c...

Sets of nuclear material that we have to worry about. the nuclear material inside the reactors and the nuclear waste material which is in the cooling pool. this fire is in the cooling pool which you said already is not inside the containment structure which can deal with pressure and with shielding radiation. so the fear if this fire continues and continues to spew up a cloud of steam, that steam will contain particulate matter of items like eye -- iodine and -- these are materials which are highly radioactive. and so will be a continuing source of radio activity once they are deposited away f...

Those are the firefighters. in chernobyl, moscow firefighter like victor berken rushed straight in to the more than 300 toxic fires that were burning in chernobyl. out of control. he knew the risks. he knew what would happen if they didn't go in. so he drove his truck 50 feet from the reactor. got in. and with his bare hands took the fire hose and began siphoning water from the cooling pool. he started feeling the effects of radiation within seconds. within about a minute he began to vomit over and over again. he eventually was too dizzy and too weak to continue to battle the blaze. for over a...

Secretive nuclear program. we're asked to wear lab coats. >> probably the most important piece of the equipment. >> and pocket-sized radiation detecto detectors. precautions, because the reactor in tehran is on. we passed through two massive metal doors. slipped plastic covers over our shoes. and finally, enter the tehran research reactor. the central room is circular, about 100 feet in diameter. it's an old facility, built by the united states before iran's 1979 islamic revolution. today, a portrait of the revolution's founder, the late ayatollah humany, hangs on the wall. the core of the rea...