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Which is a battery-powered mechanism that also failed. that means inside because there's not water pumping in one, two, three different ways into this fuel core, you have heat. and that heat is a serious problem as this begins to melt. as you begin to damage this core. engineers went to battery pumps. those worked for a while, they went dead. you saw the diesel pumps, they worked for a while and went dead. it's not exactly clear what happened. of but in the last-ditch effort, they're starting to pump sea water into this core, into this reactor. if these rods become exposed, the temperature ins...

Inside the reactors. first, this is all the seismic activity you've seen in japan over the past week. i mean, the original seismic event, you can't see it anymore because these yellow dots show you how many other aftershocks they've been. here's inside the nuclear plant before the quake and tsunami. reactor one, two, three, and four. most recently an explosion at reactor number four. three explosions overall, and a fire. i want to take you inside on what exactly is happening inside that reactor. hold on a second. there we go. so this is the core. these are the control rods coming up, these are...

Now, according to officials, there was a build-up of heat and fuel rods were sitting in a pool. that pool of water may have evaporated exposing those rods, and they may have been damaged releasing radioactive material into the air. they're continuing to put safeguards into place to try to protect people. the 20 kilometers, the 12 to 13-mile exclusion zone is in place. now the prime minister is also warning that people within a 30 kilometer radius must also keep their windows closed, their doors closed, and stay inside as a precaution. now, radiation levels have also been detected in tokyo, but...