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Given enact tphreufgts in times past. a lot of people -- inaccurate information in times past. >> sean: radiation that causes severe cancer, thyroid, bone cancer, leukemia. i want to go through these reactors within by one. reactor number 1 began leaking radiation if we recall saturday. they vented the air that triggered the explosion there. there's the fear the fuel rods are melting on reactor 1. reactor 2, they did the explosion the day before and the rods similarly overheated and we expect a meltdown in there. reactor number 3, they suffered a hydrogen explosion. that's believed to be melti...

Let's bring in cnn's jeanne meserve following the nuclear crisis for us. jeanne, what do we know? >> reporter: in a very worrisome development the head of the nuclear regulatory commission told congress today that there may be no water in the spent fuel pool at the fukushima plant. >> what we believe at this time is that there has been a hydrogen explosion in the unit due to an uncovering of the fuel in the fuel pool. we believe that secondary containment has been destroyed, and there is no water in the spent fuel pool, and we believe that radiation levels are extremely high which could possib...

Have been injured as a result of that. now, i think you may have some before and after pictures that we can pull up on the screen. these are coming from nhk, our affiliate here showing the power station before the explosion, then you see the explosion, of course, the smoke and everything else coming from it and then the damage as a result of that. now, once again repeating a hydrogen explosion, that's been confirmed. not in the reactor, not in the casing surrounding the reactor but in the building housing the reactor causing some damage pauline? >> so now we're learning it was expected and it'...