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Journalist. she takes us deep inside the nuclear plant to explain the risky clean-up operation in this cnn exclusive. >> we are here inside reactor 4 at the fukushima daiichi power plant that was severely crippled during the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 leading to the country's worst nuclear disaster. it was in here where there was that massive hydrogen explosion that severely damaged the building, that this was the least damaged of the four reactors because it was under maintenance and it wasn't actually operating. well, now, two and a half years later, tepco says it's reached a milestone. ...

Radiation and they've dumped 18 tons of sea water into the storage pool and managed to bring down the temperature. encouraging news but they haven't finished the job yet. back to you. martha: we hope to keep putting small pieces of the good news together, thank you so much as all way, and in the meantime, one atomic whistleblower saying he saw this catastrophe coming 40 years ago, a former engineer for ge, claiming that he always had concerns about the design of the reactor that was used at fukushima and he and a colleague resigned over that issue, and there are pictures from the paper, in the...

Jenna: so many thought domestic issues were going to dictate the issues of 2012 but now they will be whether or not international polices are going to do that. karl rove, we'll discuss this another time, i guess. always nice to have you, thank you. >> thank you for having me. jon: a fox news alert, workers at the nuclear plant in japan taking action to hold down a storage pool that holds spent nuclear fuel, water in that pool reaching a poiling -- boiling point. crews also reconnecting power lines to all six reactor units at that stricken facility but more work needs to be done before the elec...

Mentioned the water from the fire trucks on the ground. they've been trying from helicopters from above. they keep shooting water specifically into number three. greg yazko has been talking a lot about number three. can you surmise where that water is going? might there be a chance that the storage pool could have cracked? maybe from the earthquake we don't know? and there could be water leaking out? if so, what's the danger there? >> it's really -- there's a lot of speculation built into that series of events. really what they're trying to do is to get as much water into that pool to make sur...

There's the smoke billowing from that plant today, and it seemed to come from the same exact corner where the spent fuel rods are stored in the storage pool. my question to you, sir, does that in itself cause you to worry? >> i think one of the things that happened yesterday, there was a large amount of water put into that spent fuel pool. there is more waterborne material that could be the potential source of steam. we really don't know. what we do know is right now it's about quarter of 6:00 or 10 minutes to 6:00 in japan. light will be coming up. we'll get a clearer view of what's happened....