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I know that sounds like a lot to digest, but this is sort of what people are dealing with. let me give you a quick scale reference. i'm carrying around one of those -- basically a tool to measure radiation. you carry it in your breast pocket, put it here, and if the radiation level gets to a certain point, an alarm goes off and tells you that you're getting exposed to a radiation level that's too high. what would set off this alarm -- the levels were not high enough inside the gate, certainly not high enough outside the gate, but much higher than normal. what we heard just to put it in a scale...

3 mile island was a 5. we are somewhere in between both of those in a moment. alisyn: the situation seem to be getting more dangerous. all four reacto rereacross -- as seem to be affected. listen to the prime minister. >> the radiation level is high and there is a high chance of further radiation from here on. anyone within a 20-mile range of fukushima needs to evacuate. i understand most people did. and we urge people within a 20-30 mile range to stay indoo

What does radiation -- how bad does the radiation level have to be for it to be bad for human beings. what radius are we talking about? >> so far it's 12 miles. >> still contained and the iaea of the u.n. nuclear agency, the u.n. nuclear watchdog, saying another chernobyl, not likely, because they have the kind of containment technology that chernobyl did not have, so it doesn't look like we're looking at that possibility in japan. >> thank goodness, but what is unique is we're talking about multiple different nuclear reactors. that is unprecedented. >> that is absolutely the case, and we're l...

More disbursal of these radio active materials. >> exposed fuel rods, why is that dangerous, real quick? >> reporter: exposed fuel rods means that not enough water is in there, it can overheat and then it can degenerate. the water drops, the element is exposed, it can burn. it's the same thing with the reactor. >> and second question, it sounds like you've got valleys and peaks here when it comes to radiation level, do we have any sense at all if it's a dangerous radiation level to anybody who's around the plants? >> reporter: bearing in mind, there's a 12 or 13-mile exclusion zone, 200,000 pe...

You're watching world one. our top stories in japan, cooling down fuel rods at the daiichi plant badly damaged in friday's earthquake is proving to be more difficult than first thought. half of the cooling systems have failed. there was a new explosion near reactor number three. six people were injured in the blast. the radiation level is currently stable and posing no harm to people's health. in our headlines this hour, supporters of bahrain's rulers threaten student protesters at bahrain's university. elsewhere riot police moved in to disperse anti-government demonstrators on a highway. vide...