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The power company's plans to address the problem. workers going ahead with the cleanup operation in reactor number one. paula hancock is live. where should we start here? sounds disturbing that the levels of radiation have spiked so dramatically? >> reporter: absolutely. we know that in reactor two, two workers went into the turbine building. remember, in the same building in reactor three where two workers were injured on thursday. they went into the area, took tests and realized it was actually ten million times higher than it would be on any normal day in these cooling systems. that particu...

This is an ongoing thing. there are continual aftershocks and continual earthquakes and many felt in tokyo, as well, so people are very much on edge hoping that we're not going to see a repeat of that tsunami. at this point, all the tsunami alerts have not really amounted to much. there was a very slight ripple we saw of the waves coming onto the northeast coast, and that was believed to be from that earthquake itself. but luckily this time there was no significant reaction from that. >> paula let's talk about the power plant in fukushima. and there are concerns it can't take any more rumbling...

Effort the officials told the iaea that officials have been able to lay an external grid power cable to reactor two, and that's a first step to restarting the generators that are keeping the reactors cool. >> you have done great reporting with the people. you have been meeting the japanese what is the sense of the information they're getting from their government? we had reports in the u.s. of frustration, that the government is sugar-coating the news to its people, not being forthright or giving them information at all. how are the japanese people feeling now a week later? >> it's interesting...

This latest breaking news on this? how do you view this? how seriously does it change the situation? >> well, ed, the news from reactor two is pretty grim at the moment because there appears to be two simultaneous problems. firstly, there is this long-running challenge of trying to cool the fuel rods in the core. and the plant operators have recently said 1.7 meters, and that's a significant amount of fuel rods, are now above water. secondly, there was also an explosion inside the outer walls of the reactor, itself. the fear is that explosion has damaged those outer walls and that creates the ...

And each time there was one of these fires, the danger to those spent fuel ponds increases. increases because they're not contained. unlike the reactors at one, two and three, there's no big concrete shielding for them. if they are compromised, it would be very serious indeed. >> let's display each of these different reactors. this is a confusing situation. i think it's important to point out what we know and what we don't know. there's a lot of information we don't know, and as we said, the japanese prime minister said to be furious with the company that runs the plant, because frankly they h...