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They're all close to each other in this area, when we talk about where the concern is. and i can give you a sense of the size of this. this also helps. this is video of reactors at some point in the past. you get a sense of how big the actual reactor is. here it is coming up, that's the reactor part. and you see the workers. you get a sense of the scale. here's what's interesting, this has been a series of issues from the beginning. they had an electrical failure and the pumps that cool the reactor down stopped running. it's not clear why, maybe the tsunami did this. then another set of batter...

Come up with these numbers that are arbitrary to us because they're not rooted in any particular science. and sort of this idea, that you know, they're walking around with these geiger counters, we've seen these images, they're test the air obviously but you've seen these images where they're waving them over people, that's really meaningless. i mean, that doesn't tell you anything about an individual's potential exposure. so a lot of it just doesn't seem to make sense, and i don't know if that's by design or just they're not sure what they're doing right now. >> tom foreman, you've been kind ...

Here it is coming up. that's the reactor part. you see the workers down here next to it, so you get the sense of the scale. here's what's interesting, this this has has been a failure of a series of failures from the beginning. they had an electrical failure and the pumps that cool the reactor down stopped running. it's not clear why, maybe the tsunami did this. then another set of battery pumps kicked in, they worked for a while and then they went dead. it appears maybe the batteries ran out. it's not entirely clear. they started pumping sea water into this area to try to solve the problem. w...

So the truth is, if you can't keep enough water in there to keep it cooled down, it will start melting on itself. and what jim was talking about was the different chambers here. this is the reactor part itself. the concern earlier this evening, all the worry was that not only did they have a problem here but this, the outer container, which is the last line of defense when they had that explosion this morning, they had a drop in pressure inside here, which would suggest that there was some kind of venting going on. and they had a rise outside here in the radiation readings they were getting th...