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>> reporter: jon after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that followed, japanese officials went on to say the radiation leak from the fukushima plant was not a threat. it was hard to believe that at the time since the nuclear plant suffered a almost total meltdown. scientists have proof that the radiation link was harlful. they point to a species of butterfly they have been tracking ever since the catastrophe. here is a healthy looking adult pale grass blue butterfly. that is the butterfly trademark. hear is the same species of butterfly. as you can see it looks very different. most of th...

They equate the two now even in terms of the threat level? because you hear that they're raising this to the chernobyl threat level and you know that the loss of life of chernobyl was huge. i mean that was a scale of disaster that has been rivaled few times in terms of here in in the world so why would they go that length with the increased radiation link, it would still seem to be significantly different from chernobyl unless i'm understanding where things are. >> again, i think that the difference, for example, if we were to put this on a scale in term of the three-mile island and chernobyl ...

Area, there are four million buildings with no electricity at this time and if a nuclear plant can't cool down the reactor core, that's a bad situation. the good news is so far, according to government officials and the associated press, no leak of radiation at this point has been detected. >> got to be worried about this, though. when you see this video and see the massive amount of fire and devastation and you know that there are nuclear plants that exist in and around japan, you got to be nervous about what -- about what the next step is going to be. now they're saying they cannot cool it. ...