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The oxygen comes apart from the hydrog hydrogen. when that happened, we blew up in three different spots. the spent fuel rods, back to that question, there's good news/bad news. the spent fuel rods don't have nearly the potential radiation. the bad news is they're not protected by any type of capsule. they're out there. they were under water in a pool, and they're not as radioactive. they're done being used as power, but they sit there in these plants until they're r really cool, at least a year and the water has dried up, heated up, so the radiation -- >> i have to ask quickly and then get to...

From what i understand you haven't been exposed to radiation from the fukushima daiichi plant, but what are you hearing about the threat around other parts of the country and also it appears culturally gentlem japanese not really out panicking. >> reporter: no. i think there have been many calls for people not to panic. it's not only for japanese but for everybody. there's been many, many pressers during the day from japanese officials about what's been happening within the plant and sometimes some of those conversations are a little contradictory. we know there have been problems at daiichi 3...

Informed the hill is that once that pool -- that fuel is uncovered by the water -- see, the water serves to both keep it cool and as a form radiation shielding. >> right. >> so if the spent fuel sun covered, then the radiation nearby becomes life-threatening. >> robert, the obvious followup -- we were just talking about this yesterday, is this was a concern yesterday as well with the spent fuel rods and they had talked about sending in the helicopters and dousing these storage pools with cold water, but those helicopters had to bail because of the steam coming up. the steam was full of radiati...

Normalbrook ground radiation, yours is at zero and likely to go up and that would be normal. if it got up into the one range, 1,000 times that, then it would be of concern. >> look at that moment. you know, we keep getting videos, i-reports of these terrifying moments during the earthquake and also i should say the many, many aftershocks. we'll share another one of these videos ahead. also, the cia contractor who killed two men in pakistan is suddenly now a free man, but does it have anything to do with blood money? that's next. is paying off! business is good! it must be if you're doing all...

Going on over time, it can cause basically all your organs to collapse. >> oh, goodness. well, that is potentially what some of these workers are facing, but there's so much more i want to talk to you about, including the iaea several days after the tsunami and quake, they're headed there. i'm curious as to the significance of that. several other issues as well. robert alvarez, we'll be talking to you next hour. we're all very curious what's happening at this particular plant. my thanks to you for now. coming up here, do you have anied idea what these tablets are? these are iodide tablets. y...