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Power. ukraine's foreign minister says the plant has diesel generators that can power it for 48 hours. but after that, the cooling systems for nuclear fuel stored there will stop, making radiation leaks imminent. nbc news has reached out to the russian government for comment. the international atomic energy agency said in a tweet that it saw no critical impact on safety, but that the power loss violated a key safety pillar. the agency went on to say that the heat load of the spent fuel storage pool and the volume of cooling water at the plant are sufficient for effective heat removal without t...

Those reactors that can start cooling things down. then this morning we hear about these evacuations. what's the latest? >> well, these developments over the last 24 hours show just how serious this thing remains. i think last week the feeling that i had and others was it was sort of one step forward, two back. i think over the weekend it started to feel like two steps forward and one back. so i think the trend is good but this smoke from one of the reactors, the most troubled reactor just reminds us that we're not out of the woods yet and om serious radiatii radiati releases can still happen ...

Effort? did you ever think something like that would work from the beginning? >> it looked like a real long shot, when i say it. these pools are very large, very deep, compares to the capacity of the chinooks and the ability to hit the fuel storage pool is, is limited. and i think anybody that saw the videos saw it might have worked for a forest fire but not to hit a target like that small. >> you have said this is a real crisis of confidence regarding what we are hearing from japanese officials, as well as the owners of some, say, as well as the owners of the plant itself. do you believe a pa...

Commission testifying that what has been told to the rest of us by the japanese was untrue i.e., there was no water in the fuel storage pool and we had been told up until then there was water. so that's pretty astonishing. on the other hand, it's difficult to actually know what's going on in an emergency like this. we probably need to be patient. >> you had said that you believe that the u.s. has probably used satellites to take photos of the reactors. >> yes, i'm sure that that's been the case. >> obviously that would be to try to get some information perhaps that is not being provided by jap...