japan's describing the situation at the fukushima nuclear station is very grave and detected in soil near the plant off the highly radioactive water leaked from one of the reactors the government says it's on maximum alert to tackle a crisis. it's also considering whether to extend the evacuation zone around the plant which is now thirty kilometer radius the bathrooms he was stored cooling system has been underway for almost three weeks but with little progress ever since the reactors were damaged by the earthquake traces of radiation were found in some products in tap water as far as tokyo which is two hundred fifty kilometers south of the machine or the country still struggling to look after communities shattered by the earthquake and tsunami disaster nearly a quarter of a million people are still living in mass shelters. where by the way are to dot com much more in japan as it struggles to recover from disaster we've online video reports from the moment tragedy struck and its aftermath. with the bodies of thousands of victims relatives are being forced to lay their loved ones to r

from moscow and japan's describing the situation of the fukushima nuclear station as a very grave ternium. a highly radioactive. a leak from one of the reactors and the government says it's on a maximum alert to tackle the crisis is also considering whether to extend the evacuation zone around the plant which is currently at a thirty kilometer radius the battle to restore the cooling system has been underway for almost three weeks but with little progress ever since the reactors were damaged by the earthquake traces of radiation were found in a sauna products and water as far as tokyo that's about two hundred fifty kilometers south of folk who she know the countries are still struggling to look after community shattered by the earthquake and tsunami and eight quarter million people are still living in that massive shelters. wealthy dot com has more on japan as it struggles to recover from disaster we have online video reports from the moment that tragedy struck and its aftermath branded with reporters all the thousands of victims relatives are being forced to lay their loved ones to rest

so japan's describing the situation at the fukushima nuclear station as a very grave plutonium that was detected in soil and near the plant hour after highly radioactive water leaked from one of the reactors but the government says it's on maximum alert to tackle the crisis it's also considering whether to extend the evacuation zone around the plant which is now a thirty kilometer radius battle to restore the cooling system has been underway for almost three weeks but with little progress ever since the reactors were damaged by the earthquake traces of radiation were found in some products and tap water as far away as tokyo which is two hundred fifty kilometers south of russia the country's still struggling to look after communities shattered by the earthquake and tsunami nearly a quarter of a million people are still living in that massive shelters. welty dot com has more on japan as a struggles to recover from this disaster we've online video reports from at the moment the tragedy struck and its aftermath. with bodies of thousands of victims relatives are being forced to lay their lov

station in japan is far more powerful than the one. this could lead to a serious contamination to a serious emission of radiation should anything should any accident any explosion happened at the fukushima nuclear power station this according to some experts from the russian academy of sciences means that the whole of the russian far east some part of china and to a large extent the korean peninsula may be affected by the possible radiation emission from this reactor in japan so far as we've heard as you mentioned the government is saying that the situation is out of the control despite the numerous reports that the radiation levels are rising inside this nuclear power station in japan and also we've heard assurances from american scientists who are saying that right now the wind is blowing westward from japan so should any accident happen then the all the radioactive material will probably find itself in the middle of the pacific north in the russian mainland or china or korea or anywhere else but. the wind can. change any minute and obviously if something happens at the station this could be far far ten times more serious than what happened after chernobyl ok . nothing comes to nothing. but f

black smoke seen rising from the fukushima nuclear power station prompts emergency crews to abandon work and move to safety radiation has already reached a tokyo with the government advising people not to drink tap water workers have been battling to restart cooling systems crippled by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck almost two weeks ago. coming up in just about thirty minutes my colleague being with a full look at your news right now it's back to the second part of the show and a look at why one u.s. state lets him walk off the street and buy a gun straight away but makes women wait three days for an abortion. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get the invoice face to face with the news makers. are it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight's winner is no stranger to our daily award seems that senator john mccain has absolutely no trouble at all contradicting himself yesterday the senator did an interview on c.b.s. his early show where he fully backed the u.s. mission in libya saying that this move was necessary and he even suggested that the u.s. supply the

questions have been raised about several nuclear power stations, but especially fukushima daiichi and because. what is meant to happen inside a nuclear power station is this. inside the reactor, the nuclear fuel heats up. that is the process of vision. the atom splitting, releasing energy. water flows around the keel. it is heated up and turns to steam. -- water flows around the fuel. the if the reactor runs dry, as one did today, the fuel rods overheat and melts. the nuclear fuel and then sink to the bottom of the reactor, the beginning of what is called meltdown. provided the container remains intact, there should not be a leak. no one can get close enough to check exactly what is happening. what about the worst-case scenario that nuclear fuel does burn its way out that we asked the british government's chief scientist. >> in that situation, you will get an explosion and radioactive material would be in it. it would be committed up to 500 meters. it would be of relatively short duration, about an hour or so. compare that to chernobyl where the top blew off the reactor. >> the design

and in japan black smoke seen rising from the fukushima nuclear power station prompts emergency crews to abandon work and move to safety radiation has already reached tells you a list of the government advising people not to drink tap water workers have been battling to restart cooling systems crippled by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck almost two weeks ago. on the show continues its coverage of the situation in libya taking a look at what the actual goals are of the international coalition. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. but can they loan a show where they get the real headlines with none of the mercy or can he live out of washington d.c. for the military attack on get off he continues but who exactly is in charge and we have to wonder if this war is doomed from the start with no strategy no goals no end game in sight and there are reports of more violence in the middle east this time coming out of israel rocket fire is picked up in recent days between israel the gaza strip and just today there was a bombin

nuclear fallout. >> the situation in japan is changing by the minute. today we spoke with an expert who said it could takes to get things under control at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power stationat sent some people scrambling for emergency supplies. what its happening here has motivated people people to come here. to the mountain view surplus store in campbell. owner crystal bonner says survival items like meal bars are selling fast. a few people expressed interest in gas masks, but the safety blankets emergency meals and first aid kits flying off shelves. >> with the tsunami and japanese earthquake we have had a run on everything, i mean we have run out. >> preparations here at home as we monitor the situation in japan the today japanese authorities reported plutonium an element highly fatal to people has been discovered in five areas in and around the plant. >> the detected amount of plutonium is extremely small. and will not affect the human health. >> highly contaminated water is escaping damaged reactor. a retired physic professor and nobel laureate says moving forward there are several scenarios. >> depends on whether they can get this water put into some containment tan

cables or something like that in a way you know down the road your workload from these nuclear power station of the fukushima going up. it is to begin the confederates or near near to managua problem now if you're in hundred kilometers from nuclear power plant you have rising collateral for the world kind of new play i don't know exactly because eve eve zero gears is a radio if you glad it's a very short life and in any case we will get a little bit suitable because are you your doom or do you do you know if you're actually in the regular season i want to. be sure mr ivanov that it was the earthquake that provoked the accidents are the japanese fukushima station is it is it is it really because of the earthquake yes of course well then i would ask mr young local we've got as far as i understand we do know the russians do have nuclear power plants also in say slick areas so how vulnerable are the far eastern regions of russia from the from the beginning of this year i think prediction the in this year exactly to two thousand and eleven you have. some nuclear. not clear accident it was my prediction three mont

threaten the cooling systems of nuclear reactors, so does the prime minister agree that what has happened at fukushima will have consequences for the new nuclear power stations proposed for the uk? >> i am sure that the whole house will want to join the hon. lady in sending our condolences to people in japan and to express their admiration for their griebel bravery and resilience in dealing with this immense crisis. of course, we must learn any lessons that need to be learned about nuclear power. that is why the head of the nuclear safety inspector it is looking at this issue. of course, as i have said before, the power stations rehab in britain are of a different tack from those in japan. we're not planning to build any like those. we're not in a quick zone or is no substitute tsunamis but, of course you have to always test against all eventuality. i am sure that is further testing we can do on nuclear power. japan is doing a good job in dealing with this problem and the signs from the nuclear station are little better than they were a few days ago. but it is certainly not out of the danger zone. what we should do is make sure that we give the corrected buy

with our neighbors in japan the group of russia is also sending its nuclear experts to do deal with the unstable fukushima power station or what he considers some of the most serious nuclear accidents in twenty five years ago others legs looks back about tragedy. a painful trip down memory lane alexander often goes to the thirty kilometer or not the exclusion zone in ukraine but every visit evokes sad emotions twenty five years ago what is now the gold star of what's his home before the chernobyl fallout changed everything. you know i didn't come here just to take photos it still feels like home. i spent my best childhood years here along to here and even those who have never been here before come and feel the current. so they want to come back here. oleksandr is one of hundreds of thousands whose address changed after april the twenty sixth one thousand nine hundred eighty six the patient is one of the keys youngest districts in the late one nine hundred eighty s. houses sprung up here literally overnight many of those who had to leave their homes in the chernobyl area found their home here a total of three hundred th

levels spiked at fukushima daiichi nuclear at seventeen our weather stations across russia have been constantly carrying out checks that we're now in the city that is russia's largest port city on the pacific ocean this city is only five hundred seventy miles away from local she my local residents are taking no chances on top of official reports are also mourning tory radiation levels on the road from the current situation prompts many to go ahead and take their safety in their own hands that's why i'm buying discount to watch your diet has been sold out of pharmacies across the city of lady bus stop and the cheapest geiger counter costs as much as seven hundred dollars but especially say it's not enough to just because that's a device you also need to be taught how to use it properly. to voice to text to mary's and x. rays and she also has an additional radiation detector the biggest problem in japan right now is the radiation dose in the air with this to be going to take the level of radiation on your clothes when you come from c m clean right now. and we have also managed to get o

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a second hydrogen explosion rocked the nuclear station in fukushima, sending a huge cloud of smoke and steam into the air. 11 workers were hurt. on saturday a similar explosion tore through a different reactor building at the same plant. fuel rods in one were fully exposed at least twice today, and authorities continued dumping in sea water to cool down the nuclear core. in vienna, the head of the international atomic energy agency said the situation is unlikely to turn into an all-out crisis. and japanese officials said the containment shell surrounding both reactors remained intact with no evidence of widespread radiation exposure. >> it is true that irradiated materials which are not of a level that can cause harm to humans are moving within limits. there is no need for unreasonable worry. i think people should respond calmly. >> ifill: at the same time 22 people tested positive for contamination. three of them with serious exposure. others waited patiently as medical teams in head-to-toe protective suits used geiger counters and hand held scanners to check for radiation. nearly 200

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twenty kilometer radius zone around the nuclear plant in fukushima were evacuated almost immediately after the news broke out of a nuclear accident at the station something which of course did not happen twenty five years ago and should not will and people from a nearby town of god had to wait for more than a day to be evacuated this was caused by both the negligence of the authorities and the attempts to organize a proper evacuation early i did a report with a short recap of what exactly happened twenty five years ago in soviet a crane spare no effort in getting the job done this typical molto for construction projects in the soviet union also applied to the chernobyl nuclear power plant when construction kicked off in the nine hundred seventy s. it was intended to be a dream project for soviet ukraine. the birth rate in prepared was higher than all of ukraine people were given homes and there was a great demand for a work force in chernobyl so everyone worked and lighted there with this happy existence came to an abrupt end on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six with the explosion of a reactor at the power station the very same otto

nuclear meltdown. japanese defenses for forces stationed in fukushima have been worked around the clock, delivering supplies to quake zone evacuees and monitoring damage inside the zone. their mission won't soon be accomplished. celia hatton, cbs news, fukushima, japan. >> couric: amid the tragedy, there are also stories of dramatic rescues and joyful reunions. dozens of people who were airlifted out of the disaster zone got off a japanese military helicopter today and walked into the arms of waiting loved ones. an elderly woman trapped in her crushed car since friday was finally freed. two young children were rescued from a boat. a baby girl miraculously survived three days in the rubble and was rescued today by a soldier. she's back in her father's loving arms. and an emotional reunion of a grandmother and her granddaughter separated by the disaster now together again. in the city closest to the earthquake's epicenter, sirens sounded today as aftershocks continued and there were more tsunami warnings. much of sendai was wiped out by friday's tsunami, including the airport, the seaports, and many homes. bi

nuclear power say it's a clean and relatively safe way to produce and itching but with the current crisis unfolding at fukushima it will being forced to balance the benefits and with central dangers atomic stations as we head. as to pam struggles with the nuclear crisis are you concerned about the stability of nuclear facilities near you this week let's talk about that. the field is cold not when you click on in england but it's pretty safe you feel like it's safe o'flynn ourselves live across the river from a nuclear power plant virginia and it's it's it's it's it's a concern certainly it's better than spending a lot of tax dollars on a new energy is why some people you know it's like this go to you know you look at cell phones you know cell phone chargers radio waves if a report came out tomorrow that says cell phones cause cancer if you're going to the cell phones down no they're not so people take the nuclear energy if it is even works people are really interested in you know certain wins and different kinds of alternative energies what you think about those. enough companies put enough money into the research and if there's enough research dollars that it's not going to be a viable alternat

nuclear power stations. being suffered terrible. to the situation in fukushima and of course the situation of other power plants around the country following the earthquake and tsunami russia has pledged one hundred fifty thousand tons of liquid gas to. bring out. of coal to the country there's also the possibility of providing electricity directly to japan underwater cable which links the two countries prime minister vladimir putin and russia will do everything in its power to help its neighbor to the east. this is a great tragedy for japan corresponding ministries and. plans for how to help the neighbors we need to do everything to increase fuel to japan because of a slump in energy generation. second we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as possible or just talk to the local region the situation there is normal from the point of view of people's housing and radioactivity. the situation must be closely monitored. following this explosion at the fukushima plant on saturday there has been concerns that we could see a ful

. >> of the fukushima die ag plans to experienced a station -- the fukushima nuclear plant experienced a blackout. the normal power supply energizes of the equipment needed to operate the plant on a daily basis as well as the emergency culminated in an accident. when i normal power supply is lost, the back of comes on with emergency diesel generators that provide electricity needed to cool the reactor cores. at fukushima, this caused the normal power supply to the cause and the tsunami caused the backup power to be lost. batteries provided it is sufficient power to cool the reactor cores on units one, two, and three. there were no cooling system for the spent fuel cores. some have been damaged by overheating. had they been restored before the batteries were depleted, we would not have been here today. there are lessons that can and should be applied and i cannot emphasize enough that these apply to all reactors and not as the boiling water reactors that those affected that fukushima. none are yet to black out problems and all must be bit less vulnerable. they're designed to cope for bl

all its energy from its nuclear power stations they've been severely disrupted following the earthquake and tsunami and of course the the going disasters taking place at fukushima course moscow has experience with dealing with a serious nuclear accident chernobyl the worst in. history of course happening in ukraine and from ukraine we can now hear from the alexy out a shift he talks about what russia could bring to the table should force. nuclear disaster be on the cards at painful trip down memory lane alexander often goes to the thirty kilometer h. or not was exclusion zone in ukraine but every visit evokes sad emotions twenty five years ago what is now the ghost town of where you got which was his home before the chernobyl fallout changed everything. you know i didn't come here just to take photos it still feels like home. i spent my best childhood years here along to here. and even those who've never been here before come and feel the car. so they want to come back here. and look somebody is one of hundreds of thousands whose address changed after april the twenty sixth one thousand nine hundred eighty six the place is one of the youngest districts in the l

reactors at the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan appear to be faltering it's this exact problem that's caused all the blast so far also a pool of spent nuclear fuel that the station is said to have reached a boiling point or fears of a nuclear meltdown have skyrocketed since the reactor blast down japan has reportedly now told the international atomic energy agency the facility is it releasing radioactive materials into the air and it is have been using seawater to cool the reactors two of them. a new pin meltdown increasing radiation levels being published the detective around the country. where we're now going to. be no one are officials saying about the rising levels of radiation in the capital . but of course at this point in this officials are trying to keep things under wraps and keep their problem so they are saying we very decent level. it would have been raised but not significantly and are not presenting any need to danger to residents of the japanese capital of course at the same but you have to remember that the levels of radiation around the problems are such that thousands of people have already moved actually did and tens of thousands have been tol

fukushima nuclear power plant have prompted many european countries to review their own safety. here in germany, chancellor angela merkel has announced that her country will suspend an agreement to extend the life of its nuclear power stations chancellor merkel called the disaster in japan a watershed moment for germany, too. she ruled out a return to everyday business. safety at every german nuclear plant is now under review. >> we will suspend the decision to extend the life-span of germany's nuclear plants. this is a moratorium, and the moratorium will be valid for three months. >> that move could mean temporarily shutting down some of the country's oldest nuclear plants, such as the reactors in two locations. those plants have already reached the end of their life-spans. merkel said the moratorium would not require any new legislation. at the same time, the government is pushing for the development of renewable energies, but it says it has to be an u.-wide effort. >> we can't just back out of the world's most secure nuclear energy system only then to buy electricity from less safe plants in neighboring countries. that's not the solution we want. >> anti-nuclear activists joined members of the opposition outside the chan

japan used to draw thirty percent of all of its energy from nuclear power stations and that of course has been terrible. to the situation in fukushima and of course the situation. around the country following the earthquake and tsunami now russia has pledged one hundred fifty thousand tons of liquid gas to japan as well as stepping up. its trade of coal to the country there's also the possibility of providing electricity directly to japan through an underwater cable which links the two countries prime minister vladimir putin has said that russia will do everything in its power to help its neighbor to the east. this is a great tragedy for. corresponding ministries and to work out plans for how to reach the neighbors and we need to do everything to increase. because of a slump in energy generation the. second we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as. region the situation there is. a view of people's housing and radioactive. situation must be closely. following this explosion at the fukushima plant on saturday there has been concerns that we could see a full scale meltdown and with. radioactive