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Levels, spent fuel rods, and unexplained white smoke seen spewing from the damaged reactors today. the water level in unit five is also on the decline. officials plan to use an operational diesel generator in unit six to get water to the unit. then, there was this alarming testimony today by u.s. nuclear regulatory commission chief regarding unit 4's condition. >> a fourth reactor is also right now under concern. this reactor was shut down at the time of the earthquake. what we believe at this time is that there has been a hydrogen explosion in this unit, due to uncovering of the fuel in the f...

Credibility information coming out? >> well,{ i mean, look, you know, i'll be honest with you. i covered bp, the bp oil spill, and this whole situation the way it has unfolded reminded me an awful lot of the crisis in the gulf. at first, they are always telling you, you know, nothing's wrong, we've got it under control. then day after day it becomes more and more clear that they don't have it under control. i mean, clearly if you don't have water in a spent fuel pool, that's a really big problem, and even just even tonight, the iaea released data about the temperatures in the spent fuel pools ...

Well, that's there plus radiation. so now these guys have to watch their dosimeter as well. i guess the problems are really exacerbated by the darkness and the rubble and the question is when you get to a spot where you have to be like near the fuel pool, you have very limited stay time. maybe you can stay ten minutes, maybe five, i hired employees that could only stay on the job for three minutes before they exceeded their personnel exposure so you get all suited up and do all that maybe you can do three to five minutes' worth of work. >> sharon, if you could only do that amount of work and w...

Assuming he's referring to the fuel rods, can't be for sure, the fuel rods in the fuel pool. we believe that secondary containment has been destroyed and there is no water in the spent fuel pool, that radiation levels are extremely high. so this is something we spoke about yesterday, that already used fuel rods, so that -- i mean, how serious is that? >> that's very serious. chairman jaczko has said this, this means that the spent fuel in unit four has been exposed, has been -- the zirconium which is the metal cladding around the uranium fuel has gotten so hot that it has been interacting with...

Preexisting assumptions. >> we're going to have more of the interview coming up this on capitol hill in washington. let's listen in briefly. there's new information coming in on what's happening in japan. >> what is the discrepancy between what the japanese government is saying and what we are seeing today? >> the information i have is coming from staff people we have in tokyo interfacing with counterparts in the nuclear industry in japan. i've confirmed they believe the information they have is reliable. we believe there's no water in the fuel pool known as number four. it is my great hope th...