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Getting hard information about the fate of the power station is proving really difficult. here's what we think is happening. reactor one, its outer building exploded on saturday. there's probably been a partial melting inside. and they're still pumping in seawater. reactor two, the most worrying, with an explosion here last night and crucially a potential breach inside it. the first possible damage to any of the reactors. it's thought that this device down below, which handles excess pressure, may have been breached. and this could be one source of leaking radiation. now, reactor three is also...

Four reactors there. here's what we know. reactor one exploded saturday, destroying the outer building but leaving the core intact. number two exploded yesterday, damaging steel walls containing the reactor core. an explosion in number three also damaged the containment building. potentially radioactive steam is venting from both of those reactors. and a fire broke out at reactor four today. the worry there is that the spent fuel rods being stored above the core will overheat. with me now, david albright, president of isis which specializes in global nuclear activity. david, it's great to have...

Different reactors, water evaporating, the fire in one, and how much of this radioactive material may be leaking out into the atmosphere. what is your take on what is going on? and how do they fix it? >> well, kiran, we're in this very strange place where each morning i wake up is that the good news is the bad news isn't quite as bad as it first looked, but things seem to be getting worse. and we saw that with what happened overnight tonight. there was a fire at a spent fuel pond. that is very bad. and we can talk more about that later. but they were able to put the fire out. there was explosi...

Damaged by explosions or fire. three are in some stage of melting. the last 24 hours a new explosion. one reactor and a fire in another. that fire in reactor number four is out. but it burned for hours sending dangerous radiation spewing into the air. japan's prime minister warning everyone within a 20-mile radius of the plant to stay indoors and close their windows. he says there's a very high risk that further radioactive releases are coming. the big concern how much radiation is in the atmosphere and how far will it travel if the wind changes direction. >> those are a lot of questions this ...

Reactors. that's a high number. much higher than it should be. and another important fact, which is up to 175 miles away on the uss george washington, they were detecting low levels of radiation. so imagine radiation gets released as it starts to disperse, the amount of radiation, the levels are going to start to go down. walking around a country like the united states, for example, you're subjected to about 3 millicevers a year. 400 at any given time right next to the reactor. what that means for people outside the gates tens of kilometers away. still unclear. but you can -- it's a relatively...