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When the quake hit, they were turned off for maintenance. what those three reactors have, the reason we are talking about them now is because they have spent fuel poles inside them. as far as we can tell, they are just protected by outer containment walls, which had two fires and an explosion at one of the reactors with spent fuel poles continue, with a spent fuel pole in it. we had reports of the water level dropping at two other spent fuel pools. these are the ones at fukushima. there is trouble there keeping them cool, and there is a danger because of it. at reactor 4, there has been an exp...

The fukushima power plant. and government finding radiation in tap water and spinach and milk. california govern gov brown assuring his residents of hisitate that there is no problem from the radiation . the fda is screening anything from japan in this government. it is in the food and air but in the airplanes in planes and passengers from japan for radio activity. robert crandel if it is a speed bump for the industry or much like 9/11 something worse. what do you think, bob? >> noo, everything as we have heard today. everything that has happened to date indicated that airplanes and people com...

They are still insisting that the radioactive exposure is not high. however, according to officials, 1,000 microof activity have escaped into the atmosphere. what does that mean? apparently if you're exposed to that level of one hour, you would get the exposure that you would normally get in a full year. so once again, the indication of the risk from that. and then we have an explosion in the last hour or so, four people have been injured. we're waiting to get the details of that explosion. and this explosion blew the roof of one of the reactors. now analysts that you're speaking to, becky, th...

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Cool this down. of course, that was affected after power supply was knocked out by the earthquake yesterday. it really reached a peak this nuclear emergency with the explosion this afternoon. four people were injured, we're still awaiting news about just how seriously. but we understand now according to the nuclear safety energy agency that this was a hydrogen explosion, it was not an explosion related to the reactor itself. they say that no harmful materials released into the atmosphere. no increase in radio activity since that explosion. naoto kan has also said that no one yet has been affec...