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Complicates the problem of cooling it down even further and secondly it increase the risk maybe more catastrophic failure of the containment so far. >> tim, we have gotten reports now from the news agency and from the japanese government that there appear to be radiation level increases around that facility and concerns of a crack in the outer containment dome. help us understand that. >> well, there would be some rise in the radiation from the steam that's been vented earlier. if they're indicating that it's from the immediate vicinity, what that could be an indication of is that it is now no...

And we might expect that the radiation level in the vicinity could go up. and, also, if it -- if air is leaked out, this may spread with the wind. however, the nuclear international safety agency says that the level is not as high to cause immediate damage to human health. but if the containment vessel has been damaged, there may be very serious situation happen after this. once again, it seems that we will have a news conference shortly. >> shepard: that's the nhk world service trying to explain in a very delicate way in which they have kept people here informed across japan that apparently t...

Survivors and people who are isolated especially today because every minute counts. >> reporter: the blast at the fukushima power plant occurred on saturday. the two pictures you're seeing at the moment are of the plant before the blast and after the blast. in the lower one circled. you can see that some of the outer wall has fallen down. >> translator: i will repeat again this was not caused by the nuclear reactor, and there was no harmful gas emitted by this explosion, and the radiation level has not changed since the explosion. >> the biggest problem now we have is there's no food anywhere....

Live news conference. the chief cabinet secretary for japan. let's listen in. >> so this level, 1,557 microseivert equivalent to three x-ray examinations on a stomach. and the radiation level but lower to 184. >> translator: according to the statistics? >> this is one round trip of the japan, tokyo, new york and one time is 200 microsever tft of t exposure. if it's accumulated at the top

They're now saying any may have to release some of the steam from the reactor and that may increase the radiation level. as a result, they've put this 20-kilometer exclusion zone around the area, more than 200,000 residents have been evacuated. a number of people have tested positive in over coming into contact with radiation and that number, according to officials, could in fact, rise. iodine is being handed out to people to guard against contact with radiation. all of this very much a race against time. these officials now working around the clock, trying to get this reactor to cool down. th...