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power plants, affected by today's earthquake. there is the good news, the nuclear plants automatically shut down when there is a major earthquake for safety reece, of course and a fire as you said broke out at a turbine building at the plant add has since been put out but the most serious situation we continue to monitor is the plant where a state of emergency has been declared after the cooling system for one of the reactors failed through to a power outage and this is the first time, japan has ever declared a state of emergency at a nuclear power plant and the government has ordered the evacuation of more than 2800 residents, within a few kilometers of the plant, as a precaution. and asking them to stay at least 2 miles away from the plant and stay indoors. >> the heat has to be conducted away from the reactor with cooling water and that takes a number of days before we reach a state where the water is no longer hot enough to threaten the reactor and that is where we are right now.