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You're doing it across multiple sites. i don't see how they can sustain this. i would hope, and i talked to a former person who used to work in the nuclear industry in the united states. i would hope they would call on international teams and get other people in there to help them. they're going to need the help. >> jim walsh standby for a moment. i want to bring chad myers into this conversation. tv asahi now reporting that they're battling a blaze of fire in the one reactor. chad, walk us through what we know about this. this is so disturbing. they don't need another fire at a sensitive loca...

Steam and cool it back into water. the way you do that is having a large body of water. here in the united states, we do that on big lakes. we do that on rivers. and we put in a cooling tower so we need less water. but we too have a lot of reactors that are on the ocean or on major bays. luckily, the east coast and the gulf coast are not subject to tsunami. the west coast may be. but those are designed for tsunami. at least they're designed for the biggest tsunami we think they'd see. what happened in this case is this plant was hit by both an earthquake and then a tsunami bigger than what it ...

Areas, so that businesses can get some power and can actually start, you know, doing the business of the country and starting the relief efforts and the buildup, because you can't have an -- you want to minimize the economic crisis while you're dealing with the human crisis. >> so it's approaching 10:00 a.m. now, sunday morning in tokyo, where you are. very quickly, how concerned are people in tokyo about the potential for radiation fallout from those reactors? >> in situations like this one, it has to be very fatalistic. you realize, well, first you're 200 miles away. that's helpful. secondly...

These plants? >> i'm not -- i don't think my intelligen intelligence -- i am privy to that kind of intelligence. however, i can tell you when we were leaving the evacuation center the officials were putting on these bright yellow hazmat type suits with face masks to -- i would assume to protect themselves against any sort of radiation fallout that would occur. >> how were you holding up? what's it like for you? >> it's fine. it's been a busy couple days but nothing like the harrowing experience these people up north are going through. >> i want you to hold on a moment. kenneth is joining us no...

Of what happened then, paying a price for that radiation fallout that occurred in chernobyl. matthew chance is in direct contact with officials at the international atomic energy agency in vienna. there are conflicting reports right now about whether one of japan's nuclear reactors is actually experiencing a meltdown right now. it is a very alarming situation, i must say. experts tell cnn a full-fledged meltdown allowing fuel rods to be exposed could result in temperatures rising to 5,000 degrees fahrenheit with radiation so intense, it would be impossible to deal with. our homeland security c...