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#990185
(Tokyo: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with MIT's Jim Walsh and CNN's Tom Foreman about the reactors; photos of the plant destruction shown. [WALSH - comments on a "difficult" situation as indicated by dropping water on the targets of reactors 4 and 3; talks about the explanations from the US and Japanese governments.] [Using diagrams, FOREMAN - sums up what is happening with the reactors 1, 2, 3, 4; explains the problems with dropping water on the reactors from a distance.]
(Tokyo: Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta) The risks in Japan from radiation with evacuation zones being arbitrary, the lack of information, the absence of the IAEA discussed; plant diagrams and photos shown. [WALSH - comments on problems with reactors 4, 5, 6, which were taken offline but waste was being stored there, on who is in charge of this: the private utility, what the IAEA could have been doing, the issue of radiation.] [FOREMAN - comments of the unknowns in a meltdown situation.]
#990188
(Tokyo: Anderson Cooper) The nuclear catastrophe in Japan, the lack of good information from Japanese officials and the sacrificing work by a small number of plant workers updated. [Worker's WIFE - {thru translator} comments on what her husband is doing.]
(Tokyo: Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta) The radiation suits, breathing apparatus and counter the workers are wearing and using and the question of where it is safe discussed; diagrams shown.
(Tokyo: Anderson Cooper, Anna Coren) The risks being taken by 180 workers at the power plants to prevent a nuclear disaster and why older men are being asked to volunteer discussed.
(Tokyo: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with MIT's Jim Walsh about the nuclear crisis. [WALSH - talks about the difficulties for the workers under emotional and physical distress; asks where is the international community.]
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#990194
(Tokyo: Anderson Cooper) The nuclear crisis in Japan updated; photos of a US radiation-detection plane shown.
(Studio: Chad Myers) The weather conditions in Japan with the wind currently blowing offshore reviewed; weather maps shown.
(Tokyo: Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta) Elements of the nuclear crisis discussed; details given about what Geiger counters measure. [Columbia University Center for Radiological Research David BRENNER†- says it is hard to predict what the radiation dosage will be which will determine the health risks; indicates the spread is dependent on dust and winds; asserts there are no issues for the US or for Tokyo; calls for a more systematic measure of the radiation doses on the ground.]
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(Studio: Isha Sesay) The impact of events in Japan on the US stock market; the battle for control of Libya and the growing violence in Bahrain between police and anti-government protesters reported.