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>> in yap jap, traces of radiation found in the local nood supply found near the nuclear power plant. s are works to restore electricity at the plant and firefighters pump in ocean water to cool down nuclear fuel rods. some radiation detected in the tokyo tap water. 150 miles away. they are treming live from osaka, japanment >> yeah, bad news and conserve ability good news on the nuclear reactor front. everies are feverishly to get down the temperature control the radiation in the troubled reactors to avoid that core melt down. officials have finished up the

To unfold further. there is also the matter of the spent reactor fuel pools, which are not in a containment, which are several stories above ground, and they are next to the reactor tops that also have to have water circulating through them to keep them cool, and if for whatever reason the water were to boil off or to drain, then you have the risk of a very severe radiation fire occurring, and so the problem has not been, i think, resolved in any remote sense of the word. i think they're still in an ongoing struggle. i'm happy to hear that they're able to -- that the containment on the reactor...

Four reactors there . trouble with two of them. cool system damaged by the earthquake. we saw an explosion there and there was a plume of radioactive gas and right now 12 miles from that area and evacuation from that area . people are very concerned about the worst case scenario for something like that . that is a core melt down. officials hope it is under controll . finally harris, rescue and relief efforts in full, full operational mode. 50,000 japanese troops involved and not just japanese, the u.s. getting involved. uss ronald aircraft carrier coming in the area and other ships. many other...

A full-scale core melt which would then eat through the bottom of the steal vessel that's holding what's left of the fuel and potentially lead to a large-scale radiological release that it would affect potentially tens of thousands of people. >> is it encouraging to you, that they're using seawater to flood this area where this explosion has taken place and that might help cool it down. do you buy that? >> actually, i don't. i think this is a measure of dispration. and that's what concerns me. i don't know of any emergency operating plan anywhere that calls for emergency injection of seawater....