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That? >> should not worry. >> okay. some people are worried about radiation particles making it to the united states and actually like getting into the sands of california or hawaii. >> yeah. the amount -- you know, the radiation is being dispersed in the atmosphere. the amount that will get to the united states will be detectible but it's going to be in such small amounts that it's not really going to harm anyone. the radiation that we might get may very well be greater if we go out to the beach for one day as opposed to what we're going to get -- >> you mean from the sun? >> that's right. io...

Impact on human health. they also said that they expect these levels of radiation, these venting of radiation particles into the atmosphere would be continuing for some time. how to piece this all together, how to give it context, involves give looking at what the radiation is and how high the doses are. 400 millisieverts, keep in mind this is one of the highest readings that was found today near one of the reactors. typically just walking around, living in most countries in the world, you're going to get a certain amount of background radiation, a few millisieverts a year. if you get a chest ...

We heard today in tokyo that officials said levels were higher than normal, but still not a threat to human heft. the experts i talked to today said tokyo will probably have to get used to this. if these reactors keep emitting radiation, radiation particles with travel several hundred miles downwind, and tokyo is just 150 miles south of this plant. >> i'm very concerned about tokyo. obviously there's a huge number of people that live inside tokyo and around it. when you talk about the surrounding areas, you're saying that people outside of that 12-mile perimeter simply need to shut their doors...

Officials say the death toll could go to 10,000. power and water still out to millions of people because these nuclear plants are shut down. millions of people are struggling to find food. a fox news alert, new information on the situation in japan as we've been breaking news all throughout this morning. the kyoto news service is saying that the fuel rods at one of those reactors has become fully exposed. so the water has declined to the point where these rods are exposed and that means there could be a possible meltdown. also an explosion at different reactor at that plant earlier. this is ...

>> reporter: maria's parents, yuri and yelena sharapov, were living less than 100 miles from ukraine's chernobyl nuclear power plant when on april 26, 1986, a safety test went horribly wrong, causing an explosion and a deadly cloud of radiation. yuri and his wife initially stayed. but four months after the disaster, she discovered she was pregnant. as radiation particles drifted into their town and those around the sharapovs began to suffer illnesses and birth defects, the couple decided they'd flee to live with family in western siberia, where in april of 1987, maria was born. >> my parents t...