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Down. some were shut down before the earthquake. all were shot down during the earthquake. you have some hot, radioactive fuel. we need to get it cool enough so it does not burn through. so far, very little has. the amount of radiation that has escaped and is here in tokyo is minuscule. this is not over. until they are stable and cool, which has not happened yet from all the see water they are pumping in and trying to with helicopters, but they realize the fire did not have a whole lot. >> they couldn't get to it. >> yeah, they cannot get to the roof. an enormous amount of technical problems. ...

Wrong. a violent explosion blew the 2,000 ton roof off the reactor. temperatures shot up more than 3600 degrees. >> it's a reactor. >> the voice of chernobyl a thousand feet away from the power plant she shows us a model of the twisted tangled interior of the reactor as it is today. she says the sir could have gus built to shield the world from radiation has 50,000 square feet of holes in it. >> everything is done just to prevent it. >> the u.s. was the largest donor pledging $200 million to build a new shelter over the existing surfkofagus. it was supposed to be done in 2008 but the money dis...

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