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Situation. things are changing hour by hour, but are the authorities in japan perhaps walking a fine line between telling every single detail that's happening here at this plant or perhaps creating some sort of panic? >> well, i think they are walking a fine line, and it is a genuine concern to create panic that may be unnecessary. you have to understand, too, that they don't -- they may not have enough people on the ground at the site to have a full understanding themselves. >> i've just gotten some information here. i want your reaction. apparently gregory jaczko from the nuclear regulatory ...

That's the spent fuel rods that were sitting in those storage pools. they were still hot, still radioactive. now do you know where they are? >> they are in the building. they are slightly below the place where the explosion took place. almost like we lost half -- we lost the facade of an old west movie theater, you know? you go and take a look at an old western like "gunsmoke." the buildings are here and there's a big facade on the building to make it look taller. that facade is gone. that was actually the attic where some of the gases and vapors were pumped up into. that's where the explosion...

Show you what it looks like now. this is what has been captured by digital globe. can you see the damage here, steam coming out of here, damage here, damage over here on number four. what we know is reactor number one, a hydrogen explosion on saturday. number two, we had an explosion on monday, and the containment vessel seems to be cracked with fuel rods exposed there. number three, hydrogen explosion sunday, suspected damage to the containment vessel, failure to cool the rods there and an evaporation of pool water and plus this one, number three, has plutonium in it, not just uranium, potent...

Guess i would differ on is probably it wouldn't go all the way to a meltdown in the pool. but it doesn't matter because the -- long before that, the volatile radioactivity would have been driven off by the heat. you don't need to go to a meltdown to release the radioactivity that we are concerned for the environment. >> so just the damage to the fuel rods which could happen just by them being exposed to the air is enough to release radioactivity, that is the worst case. >> the cladding around the uranium pellets, these metal zirconium tubes would burst. and at that point the heat would drive o...