This program is about 1 hour long
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(Akita, Japan: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with MIT's Jim Walsh and CNN's Tom Foreman about the reactors. [WALSH - comments on the seriousness of the fire in reactor 4, the concerns with reactors 1, 2, 3, the smoke from the fires carrying cesium 137.] [Using diagrams, FOREMAN - comments on radioactivity in the reactor fuel rods.]
(Akita, Japan: Anderson Cooper) The timeline of the last five days starting with the earthquake and tsunami and with the escalating crisis with the problems at the nuclear power plant reviewed; scenes and Fukushima reactors diagrams shown.
(Akita, Japan: Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta) A discussion continued about the power plants, the exposure of the workers and people around, the problems with taking protective iodine pills. [WALSH - comments on the problems with fuel rods; asks where is the government and the IAEA, which should be helping manage what is happening; outlines the worst-case scenario at the power plants.]
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(Akita, Japan: Anderson Cooper; studio: Chad Myers) What has happened, is happening and will happen with winds that can carry the radiation over Japan reviewed; weather maps and models shown.
(Akita, Japan: Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta) Live discussion continued with MIT's Jim Walsh and CNN's Drew Griffin about the ways to prevent/curtail exposure to radiation and reports that operations have been suspended at the power plants. [WALSH - comments on what to do; sums up problems at the six Fukushima reactors.] [GRIFFIN - says the company managing the power plants has lied about safety issues in the past and now.]
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(Akita, Japan: Anderson Cooper, Soledad O'Brien) The problems for the Japanese people in the aftermath of the disaster, word about the stoppage of work at the Fukushima nuclear power plants and the credibility gap about the company running the plants discussed. [Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yukio EDANO†- {thru translator} says workers have suspended operations and been evacuated to a safe area.] [MIT's Jim WALSH - reacts to the statement about evacuating workers; compares what is happening here to Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.]
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