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Containment. and as appreciator started to build up in unit one and unit three, they vented the hydrogen gases into the reactor building. that's what blew up. the dramatic pictures of the explosion were of the reactor building. underneath that rubble is the containment. but in the building underneath that's intact, they didn't vent it inside. they had a hydrogen leak inside. that's like sneezing with your mouth closed and your nose pinched. it will pop your eardrums. so what happened in unit two, as a result of the explosion, the containment itself broke. so now radioactive liquids are leake o...

Eight-inch hole in it. that led directly into the ocean. so they plugged that league. that's good news for the ocean. the trench, however, is still getting radioactive liquid from the unit to containment building itself because there is, the containment has been damaged. so radioactive water is leaking out into the trench now. now the trench is not leaking out into the ocean. >> i've come over here to the wall to pull out the photos. what makes this interesting to the naked eye, anyway, it is four heavily damaged, three, destroyed, two, seems from the outside to be the most intact of the build...

Until they fix the leak, the more radio active water comes out. it could be not days or weeks but months. >> that's of grave concern. how about the two workers killed tragically following the earthquake and tsunami on march 11? how is it that was just discussed this week? >> reporter: well, they found the bodies last wednesday, alex. both were in their 20s. they found them in a reactor building. they think they were killed when the tsunami came roaring ashore. they had to tell the family and decontaminate the bodies before they were released. it didn't come to light until today. they are the o...

Been damaged a lot worse than first expected. live from tokyo where government officials are calling the situation at the daiichi power plant "very grave." what do they mean? >> reporter: well, they've got a real problem on their hands and that's too much water with too much radiation in too many places all around that facility and it's slowing down all attempts to try to turn the power back on, bring the cooling pumps back online, essentially bring all of those reactors under control because of the fact this is water that has so much radiation that it is definitely dangerous to the workers' h...

Concern is this is now radiation that has been found outside of the reactor building. this was found in the tunnel that is an electrical tunnel. these are designed to carry the electric cables around the facility there. tepco, the operator of the nuclear plant, decided to look in the tunnels. they opened them and found water inside there. they found a lot of water and they found it was highly radioactive. this could begin how this is getting into the sea water. tepco could not say for certain that these tunnels have overflowed. somehow that spilled into the ocean. we know there have been high ...