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>> the u.s. government today gave a more dire technical assessment of what's going on in japan than we've been hearing from the japanese government. the u.s. then changed advice to u.s. citizens, advising americans to evacuate further from the reactor area than japan had been advising. do you know why that shift happened? >> well, the nrc apparently published some calculations on its website that shows that there would still be significant doses 50 miles away from the site if all four reactors meltdown. this is really no surprise. anyone familiar with these types of assessments knows that 50 m...

>> yeah, very hard, bill. 20 miles around there, exclusion zone. people were told just stay inside. luckily for our sake, it dissipates mile by mile as you leave the reactor area. we're down here in tokyo now. it's huge city. and the levels here, even lower. but, again, changes from day to day, hour to hour. >> bill: absolutely. >> the big fear the core meltdown that could be serious. >> bill: if that happens, and new york city is the largest city in america, 18 million in the metro area, 36 million double in the tokyo area. you can just imagine. adam, you went out to a small town in the nuke ...

>> yeah, very hard, bill. 20 miles around there, exclusion zone. people were told just stay inside. luckily for our sake, it dissipates mile by mile as you leave the reactor area. we're down here in tokyo now. it's huge city. and the levels here, even lower. but, again, changes from day to day, hour to hour. >> bill: absolutely. >> the big fear the core meltdown that could be serious. >> bill: if that happens, and new york city is the largest city in america, 18 million in the metro area, 36 million double in the tokyo area. you can just imagine. adam, you went out to a small town in the nuke ...

>> yeah, very hard, bill. 20 miles around there, exclusion zone. people were told just stay inside. luckily for our sake, it dissipates mile by mile as you leave the reactor area. we're down here in tokyo now. it's huge city. and the levels here, even lower. but, again, changes from day to day, hour to hour. >> bill: absolutely. >> the big fear the core meltdown that could be serious. >> bill: if that happens, and new york city is the largest city in america, 18 million in the metro area, 36 million double in the tokyo area. you can just imagine. adam, you went out to a small town in the nuke ...

Says a third of the rots in reactor 2 are damaged. here's the most recent picture of what the complex looks like. let's turn to james acton, by the way, with the carnegie endowment for international peace. let's talk about this thing. these reactors, run through the dangers to people going on right now. we cover this as news -- in cog knitto, tell me about what to worry about with the people. >> i think you have to distinguishes between two dangers. the first is to 9 brave workers currently on site, who are working in increasingly hostile irradiated environment. the second danger is to the wid...