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All of the plants shutdown, and 111 of the pla the pla 1 all of the plants shutdown, and 111 of the pla 111 of the pla 11 of the plants shutdown. it is like putting a pan in the oven. you can turn the oven off, but if you go in to reach for the pan, it is still going to be hot. and the reactor core is still hot even though the plant is shutdown. so you have to cool it down so that the fuel inside of that plant doesn't melt. the problem is that theel cooing system, the initial cooling system broke down, and then the backup cooling system which was running on diesel fuel was flooded, and so it i...

According to the i.a.e.a., the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog. a great deal of concern concerning the one reactor fukushima where 2,000 thousand people evacuated from the surrounding area. the japanese government say no leak of radiation but the big problem is even though the reactor has been shut down, the nuclear fuel inside the reactor core is not being cooled sufficiently because you have to cool the nuclear fuel constantly to stop it from melting. if that doesn't happen, if the water isn't pumped around the cylinders to cool the nuclear fuel, you could be looking at a much bigger kind of disaste...

Area, there are four million buildings with no electricity at this time and if a nuclear plant can't cool down the reactor core, that's a bad situation. the good news is so far, according to government officials and the associated press, no leak of radiation at this point has been detected. >> got to be worried about this, though. when you see this video and see the massive amount of fire and devastation and you know that there are nuclear plants that exist in and around japan, you got to be nervous about what -- about what the next step is going to be. now they're saying they cannot cool it. ...

Main gate near one of the country's nuclear plants. rattling in the earthquake, japan's nuclear power plant. an american working inside told his wife of falling lights and windows. >> everything was shaking. and the next thing they were told to get out, leave, evacuate. >> 3,000 people living close to the plant were also told to get out. >> so far they have not seen evidence of radiation leaks. but obviously you have to take all potential precautions. >> when the quake hit, a reactor automatically shut down. but power coming into the plant was also disrupted, shutting down the system that cool...

Completely put up. >> let me interrupt you, joe. when they say that that should be rebuilt and reconfigured so that it doesn't produce large amounts of weapons grade plutonium, you're saying that you can't necessarily make it stop producing plutonium as long as it exists, they just have to make it produce that less efficiently and take it away the plutonium once it's made. >> exactly. every reactor core produces some plutonium in the fuel rods. the original design they would have been producing about eight kilograms, enough for about two bombs a year. completely reconfigure the core. less than...