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Cesium escapes into the area, a strong possibility it was caused by a melting fuel rod. that's indication, again, i think your guest talked about before what we don't know. how much contamination there is inside. we do know there is extraordinary heat, up to three times the normal heat. we do know that there is eight times the radioactive material outside the gate. but officials are keen to stress there is no danger yet to people. now the explosions have taken place again as workers have tried to get in there and put water into the reactors to try to cool those reactors. this explosion has hap...

Explosion and that radio activity has been detected. so this sounds like they could have lost this race against time and this could be a worst case scenario. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, the -- the fuel rods conduct or continually produce radioactive material under great heat and pressure. unless that is cooled down, the heat and pressure will build up and the fuel rods can melt through the reactor core container. and in this case, the building is the only containment to keep it from being released into the environment. and, in fact, now it appears that the building has been damaged w...

Assessing the problems with these nuclear plants. as you do join us, i believe we have some sound & video at the time of the explosion. let's bring that up for our viewers. i hope you'll be able to see it if not hear it. okay. so we don't have any sound on this. it's just the moment at which we started to see activity from this plant. i think you've seen these pictures before. this is the shots of this sort of white plumes of smoke, stan, misting from one of these sites. we've just been talking to an expert who says only time will tell as much as to what is actually going on below the surface....

Material, eight times hotter than normal outside the fence of the reactor. and it has just continued throughout the day, the steam being released, the explosion, the cesium, so it has been building. again, we come back to what daniel said. if this a race against time, if we've seen 24 hours pass and unable to get in there to cool the reactor, you are getting into a case of worst case scenario. >> stan, thank you for that. stan, one of your reporters on the ground, of course, one of our senior correspondents in the region, we're going to take a short break. do not go away. more on the japanese ...

Plant in fukushima where there's been an explosion at the damaged nuclear facility and reports that it leaked radiation into the air. the tokyo electric company says four workers on the ground were injured in the blast. japan's nuclear agency believes a fuel rod may have melted after the facility's cooling system failed. residents have been evacuated from the area and they are not alone. a cooling system has failed at a second fukushima plant, triggering a second evacuation. the wind will go a long way in deciding what impact any radiation will have. ivan, how is that wind looking and why is i...