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Water that came in and prevented any of the back-up coolant operations from going forward? >> that's precisely right. the whole issue is trying to keep that reactor cool. as we have discussed before, it's like an ovp. if i put a pan in the oven, it gets hot. if i shut off the oven and i go in and reach for that pan, i'm going to burn myself because the pan is still hot even though the oven was turned off. the plant was shut down but it's still generating heat. the tsunami knocked out all the back-up generators. so there's no electricity to pump in cool water. there may have also been a problem...

A fire has been extinguished at one. there's concern still centering around a reactor at fukushima daichi where apparently it's been shut down, but the cooling system, necessary to keep the nuclear fuel in the core of the reactor cool, has broken down, and so the iaea, the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog agency, is saying they are seeking further clarification on what's been done by that by the japanese authorities. the japanese say so far there's been no radiation leak and, of course, they are doing -- they are very aware of the problem and doing whatever they can to make sure that the problem doesn'...

The nuclear plants in japan. that the pressure is building to one and a half times what is normal and may have to do a controlled radiation leak. hillary clinton announced earlier today that the air force is sending coolant, basically water to keep the reactor cool. robert gates, the defense secretary, in brussels today announcing that all u.s. personnel are safe as far as we know in japan. we have a total of more than 85,000 u.s. military and civilian contractors, defense contractors, in japan and ships at sea. i'm joined now by chris matthews, obviously, a host of "hardball" and "the chris m...

Meltdown within the reactor in number one and the possibility of a meltdown in reactor number three. what they're doing is pumping seawater in to cool it. they brought stability to reactor number one but the temperature is cooling and remaining stable at least. in reactor number three, they're just pumping water in there to keep it cool, but the reactor itself is still exposed so what happens is the water level drops, the reactor is exposed and when that heats the reactor, of course, there is nothing to cool it down so they're continuing to pump seawater in there to manage that process and try...