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The tsunami. those backup pumps were knocked out by the tsunami. i want you to see what those sprayers and air drops are aiming at, not the reactor core itself which is in the center of this picture, but the pool that houses the rods. it's on the right. those rods don't generate power, but they are still radioactive. when the pool runs dry or merely low, those rods overheat. fires and explosions can happen after that. the worst case scenario is a meltdown, which let's be clear, has not happened yet at least not on a major scale as far as we know. we do know from the international atomic energy...

It is nearly 3:30 in the morning in japan where fears rise and fall along with radiation levels. it's been another tran tick day at the fukushima daiichi plant. fire trucks and police water cannon added to the mix. their goal is to keep the reactors and some spent fuel rods from overheating and releasing huge amounts of radiation. the effort has apparently not gone. a senior official calls the situation reasonably stable at the moment compared to yesterday. just in the past hour, president obama made an unannounced visit to the japanese embassy in washington. he filled a page and condo lens bo...

The actual part that the hydrogen blew the roof off is now a benefit because they were able to drop water from the outside. with the roof being solid, there would be no way to get water in there. they are not dropping water to try to get these core fuel rods cool. that's where they're pumping in the saltwater. the sea water from someplace else. what they're doing and why they were doing these drops, we showed you pictures of these all day is because the pool where the spent rods are kept has been going down. the water is boiling out. there's no pump. >> they're hot and heating the water up, an...

They have had explosions there. they have had fires there. and the real issue continues to be these rods right up in here, the spent storage rods, and whether or not they have been exposed with no water on them and nothing to protect them at all from the elements. if this water level has, in fact, as u.s. officials think drain completely off you're talking about tremendous amounts of radiation coming out from here. radiation so high, you saw the helicopters flying over earlier trying to drop water on it? we measured it. they are roughly between 60 and a hundred meters above this. that's how hi...

Number four, the one we've been talking about so much. they've explosions and fires there and the real issue continues to be these rods right up in here, the spent storage rods and whether or not they have been exposed with no water on them, nothing to protect them at all from the emmentes, if that's the case, if this water level has in fact as u.s. officials think completely drained off you're talking about tremendous amounts of radiation coming out from here. radiation so hot you saw the helicopters flying over earlier trying to drop water on it, we measured it. they're roughly between 60 an...