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Carrying radiation, with they have 5,000 miles to disburse and to spread out over the ocean. and so it's really -- you know, for the facility to be on the pacific ocean, that's really the best place for it. obviously, it's not a good situation. it's a very dire situation in japan. but for the radio activity to be disbursed over the ocean, that's the best situation for it. >> brian, you know, you mentioned the workers and the people in japan who are exposed to this. in particular, i want to talk about those workers. you probably heard the story about one of the mothers of the one of the 50, the...

Main benchmark closed up by about the same amount. shares of tokyo electric power rose early on friday but then they struggled to maintain their gains. the company's stock was down nearly 4% by the close of trade. now the every raise came up after it's considering pumping public money into the trouble l controlling stake. in the three weeks since the earthquake more than 80% of tepco's market value has been wiped out. nina? >> well, they still can't find the leak that's contaminating the nearby pacific ocean. the level of radio activity is

Europe who's been doing these great compilations of what's happening every second and all the little stories going on in japan. one is this worry about radiation leaking into the ground water and the second, this idea that the u.s. may send in some marines to help with the nuclear plant. >> reporter: well, on the ground water issue, yes. this is the first time we've talked a lot about the radiation levels spiking in the sea water. we've talked about it being in soil samples along the surface. today, they announced there was some radio activity in the ground water for the first time. exactly ho...

Supply, if japan needs more that takes from somewhere else. today, that there are some radioactivity measurements, most likely -- as a matter of fact, absolutely coming from japan. these levels are very, very low. if you're old enough you remember in the '50s and '60s all are concerned about fallout from nuclear weapons testing. and this is the same nature and we have plenty of experience of what low levels of radiation floating around the atmosphere mean to the food supply. in the case of the fish, they have halted the export of fish from japan for the time being. but even the levels that we ...

There? >> i understand the contamination is fairly localized out perhaps maybe 300 yards from the plant, it's not floating out into the ocean -- >> not a mile, is what you're saying? >> no. i have not seen any numbers that are worse than 300 yards. but it's important, because it will be flushed out into the ocean. it will be diluted into the ocean. the levels -- even levels there now that have been identified and in fact, there was a report today that they were less than they've been over the last couple of days, are significant enough and they have the proper radio activity in them, if you wi...