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Radiation exposure is cumulative. so it's something that has to be dealt with in terms of removing -- like the seafood from the market that would be tainted. >> that leads me to my next question. when we heard that some of the food was testing positive, now, they're saying not in levels that could be considered immediately dangerous, but how do you even know if you're there if what you're getting is safe. >> when you're ingesting food that's radioactive, the more that you ingest the worse it's going to be. it's dose related. the longer you're exposed to it, the worse it is. they're going to ha...

David, a general question here are we better off now today than we were last monday at the same time? >> yes, much better off. last monday started a whole series of major explosions and fires that led to quite a large amount of radio activity being released into the environment. i think this week i think the japanese are on kind of an uphill climb to getting the reactors under control. but it remains a very serious situation and i think the fire today in unit three particularly shows that some serious accidents can still happen, and the japanese are going to have some i think greater number of...

Toughest nut to crack out of the three of them. nipt to close this down. i want to show you number three because of the signatures we received from infrared. this has more of the red. you see the yellow. more scattered throughout. based on entrepreneur ti mate knowledge on how these are built, what does this tell you? >> i notice that they were scattered about. i'm hoping the scattered is fires and not radio activity scattered been. you know, when those explosions occurred, it's likely that there's oil fires inside there. at best there are oil fires where the radioactivity moved away from wher...

Around the nuclear site and leafy green vegetables and cows are most vulnerable. and that is a concern. the levels, the government says, are five times higher than usual and compares them to getting a ct scan but still people worry about that a lot more than they worry about many other things to do with the radiation levels. so when you think about your kids having milk being contaminated with a radio activity, it's not a good thought. the government has a big problem on their hands in terms of trying to keep people calm in what is going to be a long battle. even as reactors were shut down tod...

They might look like communication towers or an oil dike. there was some significance to you. explain to us. >> yeah. when the plants were designed after an accident you were supposed to exhaust all the radiation up those towers. and you get an elevated release which allows for more dispersion of the radioactive material. when the fans went out and no radioeleva radioelevate -- radio activity got pumped up. if stead of going up those tax the radioactivity is lying close to the ground. i would expect you see more contamination in the local communities and less of it getting lofted out to sea. >...