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Done. the radio activity, especially if the winds were to blow into toky tokyo. let's hope it doesn't go there. do you see an obvious way, at least a next step to try to avoid catastrophe? >> the electricity has to be restored to the circulation pumps in some way to cool the cores of the melting down unis.s i know that they have been try frg days but they have to continue to try. they can't abandon the site and hope for the best. >> let me bring this into the

Years. and there are so many problems. you mentioned the leakage of radio activity. vermont yankee has a massive leakage of radio active hydrogen into the ground water, into the connecticut river. it's going greatly exasser bait the clean up cost of the clean up. it eegs a risky one as well. given its age and bad design to begin with they have had serious incidents. they had a cooling tower collapse and the age degre dags. they have had transformer fires. that plant needs to be shut down as soon as possible but so do the other 22 general electric boiling water reactors of the mark one design, ...

Happened in the last hour or so. 50 workers, the last workers at the nuclear can't hold out for 45 minutes because of dangerously high levels of radioactivity. they are now being led back into the plant, but the question is, can it be stabilized after all the developments? more fires, explosions, two workers now missing. let's talk about what is happening in united states. henry waxman calling for hearings. he wants to know, our u.s. nuclear plants safe? no response to that from the republican leadership of the house energy republican house leader did reaffirm the nuclear power. he cited presi...

>> yes, there is a crack in the containment structure that. is beyond what is in three mile ilabbed. >> steve: but below chernobyl. you are talking apples oranges. in chernobyl there was graphite. >> that was a soviet extrave gansa. we'll never have that again. but people talk about what if it meltdowns as if it is's bomb going off. everyone thinks it is a bomb. if you have a meltdown. it means that the fuel melts to the bottom of the container and that's it what we are worried about is radiation release. as long as the fuel is contained and the steel structure has not rupured or broken and yo...

Would find here in the capital city. some people have been leaving. some international workers have been told to get out. americans at airports, train stations, many of them deciding they are going to leave japan. hundreds of thousands of people, especially in the hardest-hit areas, are facing food stored edges. maybe today's snowfall would help matters, but think again. radioactivity hangs in the air until rain or snow brings it to the ground into the soil, the water, the food supply. thailand, south korea and singapore have now begun checking foods imported from japan, checking for radioacti...