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Three mile island was rated a five and the chernobyl catastrophe was a 7. >> woo f. we learned one thing from chernobyl, it is that we don't know. the radioactive clouds spread over the them fear sphere after chernobyl. >> is there a nuclear coverup in japan? history tells us it has happened before at the height of the cold war in 1957. there was another level 6 nuclear accident shrouded in mystery in the former soviet union. on may 1, 1960, it became one of the prime targets on france's gary powers ill fated surveillance flights. his u.s. fighter plane was shot down by the soviets. experts sa...

Rescue teams find life. >> three elderly people trapped inside their car. the car tumbled over and over and they had the doors jammed by debris. the rescue crews pulled them out alive and a 20-year-old man was also rescued where it 2* thousand people have died. he was under that debris for four days, pulled out suffering from hypothermia. >> other people were not as lucky. these parents who were looking for their son only found despair among the rubble. >> shepard: they went to the local post office where their son had worked and found the post office was still standing but walked around insid...

Back from the reactor cores and try and throw as much water on them and cool them down that way. >> the nuclear crisis in japan has turned the economic situation in the country from bad to worse. the nikkei plunged 11%. after two days of massive losses a glimmer of good news. japan's stock market went on the rebound. >> 5.7 points higher. >> but more bad news wasn't far behind. >> all kinds of automobile and technology electronics companies are shutting down their factory operations until next week. that represents a significant chunk of japan's industrial strength flat out shut down. >> japan...

>> japan's closest neighbors, china, south korea and russia are on edge. officials began to check owl livestock imported from japan for radiation levels. they have detected no increase in radiation and japan's largest trading partner china issues an order for monitoring. >> what about all of the people living at or near the plants especially longer term. >> there is no to radiation. >> but the person exposed to it. >> it is an increased list. >> workers have been evacuated from a nuclear plant in japan. here is the government spokesperson on japanese television just moments ago. >> all the wor...

The situation at the fukushima plant changes again for the worst. this is a fox news alert. nuclear officials confirm hydroagain explosion at unit three of the fukushima plant. >> currently they are pumping seawater around the reactor to try to cool it down and stop any kind of meltdown. >> the japanese authorities say there could be a partial meltdown already but they don't know because they can't get in to the reactor. >> sending one helicopter to dump 50-tons of water on a flaming nuclear power plant is hike using a sports gun to start a forest fire. what did -- hit with barricades and sa...