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Tsunami that hit california, the least of color problems would be those two nuclear reactors, you would have water from los angeles to las vegas, 25 million people would be underwater. >>neil: i would not want to compound that with a crippled nuclear plant. >>guest: but the reactors even with the old technology, they shut down. what happened was the cooling, we have a cooling problem similar to three mile island, you know how many have died due to nuclear power in the united states? zero. >>neil: chernobyl was different, right? >>guest: different matter and different plant and even --. >>neil:...

If you have high cholesterol you may be at increased risk of heart attack and stroke. don't kid yourself. talk to your doctor about your risk and about lipitor. more disturbing troubling news just in to cnn. an explosive impact occurred on tuesday morning, it is now tuesday morning in asia. this is the same reaction officials said earlier today had its rods fully exposed during a cooling problem. they were pumping sea water in, they had a temporary problem with that, the rods were fully expo exposed. they have now had an explosive impact. this as japanese authorities continue pumping sea wat...

That's what leads to the fears about a meltdown. now, according to government officials here, they cannot rule out the possibility of a meltdown or at least a partial meltdown in all three of these reactors. and that's because they've been unable to cool the reactors. in the numbers one and three reactors that have been having this problem, and then there was this hydrogen explosion, actually, in the number three reactor today, which blew out part of a wall and part of the roof of the building housing the reactor. it also knocked out the cooling system to reactor number two. now you have three...

How effective is that? >> that -- it's not very effective. there are certain isotopes that you certainly don't want to breathe in, they're much more hazardous if you inhale them, but simply covering your mouth is not effectively screening those out. >> you have concerns about this experimental type of fuel that contains plutonium that is being housed at the same facility. >> yes. one of the reactors that suffered a cooling problem is the number three reactor, and in september of last year a number of fuel assemblies containing plutonium were loaded into that reactor. this is a type of fuel cal...

In the process. >> they are very concerned could take place. now we haveens of thousands at a minimum who are without power or cell phone service, who are without access to roads or any other easy means that least of finding out what is the status of their loved one and and families elsewhere in japan. the one thing on this nuclear site. according to our brain room, japan is the world's third largest producer of nuclear power. nuclear power provides 30% of the country's electricity. they are experts at dealing with nuclear power and power plants. they have redundancies for this sort of problem...