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Conflicting opinions on the situation in japan's damaged nuclear plants. america's nuclear regulatory agency says there is nothing to keep exposed fuel rods from melting down, but japan's agency says water does remain at the reactors to keep the rods cool. concerns over deteriorating conditions caused the markets to plunge another day. the dow dropping 242 points. the "new york times" is reporting that four of its journalists covering the ongoing violence in libya are now missing. editors say they last heard from the reporters yesterday. for more details visit foxnews.com. glenn beck returns i...

Area up and keep the rods cool. because the radiation levels are so high, it's difficult for the workers to get in there. if they're able to go in without getting radiation burns, it limits what they can do. no one has identified where the breach might be coming from. we're hearing that there's been plutonium in five different areas. that doesn't present a risk to humans at the moment, according to the authorities running the utility, but as the samples were taken a week ago indicates that it would go to reactor 3. reactor 3 is run off plutonium and uranium. that is immensely toxic. megyn: dan...

They're just up there on that fourth floor of those buildings. those buildings that are not in great shape, as can be seen in the first moving pictures released today of reactors 3 and 4. these images were filmed from one of the helicopters that was trying to drop water onto the reactors below. shredded buildings are what is supposed to contain any radioactivity leaking from spent fuel pools inside those buildings. now, that would not be a huge issue if the spent fuel pools were intact, if they were full of water, if those fuel rods were under 20 or 30 feet of water in there, because the water...

Radioactivity leaking from spent fuel pools inside those buildings. now, that would not be a huge issue if the spent fuel pools were intact, if they were full of water, if those fuel rods were under 20 or 30 feet of water in there, because the water would not only keep those rods cool, the water would also have a shielding effect on the radioactivity as well. but if the pools are destroyed or empty or leaking or if the water in them is heating up to the point where it may boil off, then the fuel rods in those pools will heat up and start to break down and they will release their radioactivity ...