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>> reporter: not silent here are the dose meters that show the hot spots. all of this video was captured by our nbc cameras six years ago. >> looks like you can still go in and go for a ride. >> reporter: even then a few tourists ventured in. and some hearty residents moved back to farm. but officials here have determined that today the radiation level is low enough to bring people through on tours to show them the sort of nuclear nowhere that japan is desperate to prevent. at least there, unlike chernobyl, huge protective barriers surround the reactors. >> we are all keeping our fingers cross...

Sells at enormous risk to prevent a bigger catastrophe at the plant. we are told the plant operators have been rotating the workers in and out of the most dangerous part of the facility to minimize their exposure. in for 15. out for 45. back in and back out but the danger is everywhere. reports indicate that the workers have been crawling through the dark carrying flashlights and heavy equipment, listening for explosions and struggling to keep water flowing to the reactors. yesterday, officials say they pulled out the remaining plant workers because of rising radiation level and we got the wor...

Tourists ventured in, and some hardy residents moved back to farm. but officials here have determined that today the radiation level is low enough to bring people through on tours. to show them the sort of nuclear nowhere that japan is desperate to prevent. at least there, unlike chernobyl, huge protective barriers surround the reactors. >> we are all keeping our fingers crossed and hoping and praying that if things take an even greater turn to the worse, that these barriers will serve to prevent large releases from occurring. >> reporter: here, what was a paragon of what humans can do, split ...

Which surrounds and protects the nuclear fuel rods in the core. that's where the really bad sort of radioactivity lives. there was also a fire in the number four reactor. this is also alarming because what happened here were the fuel rods that were in a pool. what they believe is so much heat had been generated. the water evaporated leaving those also exposed. now, after that, there was an alarming -- alarming spike in the radiation level, particularly inside the plant. it had gone 1,000 times higher than it had previously. that number has fallen back outside the plan itself. the government is...

What's also amazing, you are here in tokyo that there are elevated levels that you are getting a month's worth of level in one day. the radiation level every 200 meters they drop by 50%. if you are getting high levels 200 miles. then something doesn't jive. it sounds like you are not getting the accurate levels because it wouldn't go to that high a level it would drop, you know, 200 meters by 50% every 200 meters. you are talking about much higher level at the reactor site. >> shepard: dr. steven garner. dr. garner great to hear from you. the best to you and your family. raised levels of radia...