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The course of events at fukushima. dr. acton, thanks very much for joining us. really appreciate your time. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> engineers were able to connect an external grid power line cable to unit 2 today. how important is that? how will connecting power to the unit 2 reactor help the overall safety situation at daiichi? >> well, rachel, you focused in your introduction on this issue of the spent fuel pools. and that's one thing we're worried about. but if you remember, this crisis started off and continued with the issue of these rods in the reactor core, the rods that we're worrie...

Nuclear power plant. there's the reactor core itself and there's also the storage coal for high level radioactive waste. and this monstrous amount of radioactivity at risk of being released into the environment so i hope and pray that they're able to prevent that, but the loss of the containment building is a huge blow. these are massive levels of radioactivity. chernobyl in that 25 year ago after that, involved an explosion and fire that burned for ten days. here, we have an explosion that has removed the containment buildings, that they were trying to preserve by venting radioactive steam fo...

Points around the fukushima plant and they are concurring with the japanese officials saying the radiation levels are at this point somewhat normal. >> they are saying the accident at fukushima is worse than chernobyl and three mile island. are you seeing any similarities to chernobyl in ukraine? >> there are big differences. clearly. i'm not a nuclear expert, but one of the characteristics of chernobyl in 1996, 25 years next month is the anniversary of the explosion at chernobyl is there was an enormous explosion that didn't take place in the building but in the reactor core. it spread radioa...

News changes everything. in "studio b" today. and from japan the government has officially raised the threat level of the badly damaged fukushima nuclear power plant from a level 4 to a level 5 and that is on an international scale of 7 and it puts it on par with the disaster at three mile island. the worst nuclear accident in american history. for context, a level 5 nuclear emergency entails severe damage to a reactor core; the release of massive amount of radiation and high problem deficit of significant public exposure," and several deaths from radiation, and from the director of the power ...

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