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Normally it's 800 work e. now we have 50 beleaguered workers doing four simultaneous actions at the same time, let's get real. >> if one goes over the top, shall we say, goes to the meltdown, it may make it difficult to service the others. >> reactor 2 has a crack in its containment. reactor 3 also has a crack. here we have 70% core damage, here 33% core damage. i mean 800 workers can't even handle one meltdown. we have 50 workers with four simultaneous accidents. >> and seen as heroes in the country of japan as they work so hard. thank you for some of those solutions that he discussion in his...

Be fine but, you know, there's a lot of uncertainty here and we're not going to know for a little while. >> correct me, i flunked science, there had been releases yesterday, i think it was and said because of the way the wind was blowing said whatever was released went over the ocean. what was released? why were they doing those kind of controlled releases, if you can explain that to our viewers? >> sure. what happened is it's getting very hot inside that reactor core because they're not able to cool it down. the water inside there is getting boiled. as it boils, it turns to steam and vapor an...

That's what sources are telling sanjay. people are seeking higher ground in the area he's in and nhk reported smoke has risen from one of the reactors at the fukushima plant, one of the plants in fukushima, the daiichi plant. smoke has been seen rising from one of the reactors. we'll talk to jim walsh about that. we're showing live pictures of that facility. what was it again? smoke from reactor 1 and what was from reactor 3? some sort of a blast reported by nhk at reactor 3. do we still have jim walsh with us? if we do, i know you went over it once, what would explain a blast at reactor numbe...

We can't speculate what that may be from reactor number 1 although there is a hydrogen there, and they were expecting it at night and jim made the salient point at reactor number 1, it was nothin reactor itself, in the outer wall containing the reactor and that's what authorities are saying, they're expecting explosion in reactor 3 but in the outer casing that holds the reactor. interestingly, too, when they were venting steam from the reactor, that's when some of the radiation seeped into the atmosphere. authorities were keen to stretch they were not at a level that would be physically harmfu...

Explosion did not compromise the core facility. the same process, deja vu all over again. we lose a cooling pump, had problems at one reactor, the hydrogen builds up, then explodes. that happened at unit 1 and apparently at unit 3 and we have to assess how significant the damage is. hopefully just the outer structure, concrete building itself and left unaffected the reactor and unaffected the containment vessel. if it were to affect those things, that would be bad news. oh, and by the way, they're actively trying to pump sea water into that unit number 3 in order to cool it down so we have to ...