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Further and further away from it. 20 kilometers is the evacuation zone. another 10 kilometers after that. especially people are shielding themselves. they're turning off the ventilation from the outside and they're shielding from those gamma rays, that gamma radiation we're talking about here. >> they're also telling people to wear long sleeves, to not have too much skin exposed. >> right. there's concern that this can penetrate the skin. to cover your skin in that way can be helpful and to wash those closes or dispose of them afterwards, all of that can be helpful. reducing the time of exposu...

Don't go higher than the levels than we've seen, that starts to disburse as you get outside the gates, as you get further and further away. 20 kilometers is the evacuation zone. another ten kilometers after that. especially people are shielding themselves. they're turning off the ventilation from the outside and they're shielding from those gamma rays that we're talking about here. >> they're also telling people to wear long sleeves, to not have too much skin exposed. >> there's certain this can penetrate the skin. to cover your skin in that way can be helpful and to wash those closes or dispo...

Being emitted. that water used to shield those gamma rays so essentially there's a gamma ray field on the site that's going to affect how well the people can do their work onsite. it wasn't bad enough to be in the suit and all that, now they're going to be exposed to a lot more gamma rays. it's compounded the problem a lot. >> compounded the problem a lot. sharon, you have visited nuclear facilities in japan. not this one but i think we can show people what a spent fuel rod pool looks like and it is on the top of the building there. on the top of the building. it's not like the main reactor co...

Officials in the united states government saying at reactor number 4, the pool where the spent fuel rods are kept completely drained. those rods at least one point were dry and exposed and talk about two possible ruptures of two of the other reactors, number 2 and number 3, we've had these conversations for the last couple of nights about the severe weath severity. what is your sense today based on yesterday. >> i think the united states made the right choice it getting it out to 50 miles at least for our personnel. but, you know, the fool pool issue has two problems. the first is now that the...

When the fuel rods burn or become volatile like dr. von hippel said, when that happens, now particles are released. the particles are affecting people off site in the rain and falling on their clothing and things. my guess is the biggest problem is direct gamma rays, x-rays coming out of the fuel pool. >> those would be the things of most concern to the people on site at the nuclear facility, gamma radiation. >> that's correct. >> okay. let me just ask you to restate what you just said about radioactive particles, in terms of how radiation travels, where the weather takes it. what can you expl...