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They've also brought in an automated super water pumper, and they're using it continuously to pump water for up to seven hours on volatile nuclear fuel rods. the strategy is to try to keep spraying water until they can get electricity flowing to restart the reactor's own pumps. engineers say they hope to have electricity flowing to some reactors by the end of saturday, and the rest by sunday evening. anna is following developments. she joins us now at cnn tokyo. anna, we begin on this one with the reactor itself. so we have this continuous pumping system now under way, which is -- which is, of...

And i think we can get through this. it's hard to say that every day when you wake up and there's something else that has happened. but i think the goal here is sort of limit it to where we are at right now. where are we right now? three damaged reactors. the best we can hope for is to hold the situation where it is. we keep that sea water in there until after a couple of days, they cool down some more and then, you know, it's like putting a lid on it. at that point you entomb them and shut them down and deal with that over a number of year. freezing the status quo, and with four, five, and si...

Continuing, and that is what we're getting, every day, we're getting more and more aftershocks. these people are just living in fear while trying to rebuild their lives. just a tragic situation. nhk the public television station is reporting there's been another explosion at a nuclear facility. we at cnn are trying to get more details about that. here's the epicenter up near here. i want to bring this map down now and show you this is the nuclear facility in question, right here. three reactors, all three have had problems. in the second reactor, they have had the core rods in the main eleme...

This is what you need to keep cool. there's a normal pumping system, that went out in the earthquake. and then there are battery generators that are supposed to pump cool water in as well. that system failed as well. we're not quite certain, did it just fail over time or was there some kind of malfunction? the alternative is to bring in ocean water, sea water to bring in here to cool this reactor. but the japanese authorities saying at least at one point these rods were fully exposed. that is the situation that can lead to a meltdown. they have pumped more sea water in, you heard at the top of...

Comes to mind is cher nobeb che that's unhelpful. almost inreceivable we would have a reactor spewing radiation everywhere. that outcome is unbelievably unlikely in this case. >> can you tell from -- look, this is a country that suffered first an earthquake and then a tsunami. now is having all these aftershocks that are quite large. so, the question is, it seems like the pumping system has failed in more than two, but in these two in particular. so, did it fail because the system doesn't work or did it fail because there's some things that a reactor can't handle and, you know, a huge earthqua...