indicating a serious situation. he told her to take care of her herself because he won t be home for a while. a lot more to report on the nuclear front. for a while today, traces of radioactive cesium and iodine found in tap water in fukushima, 50 miles away from the stricken plant. later the water was clean and officials stressed there was never danger to human health. authorities want to flood one of the super hot reactors with seawater dropped from a helicopter. earlier flight was aborted when the radiation spiked. cnn s stan grant has been watching developments and many others. he joins me from tokyo with the latest. after 2:00 a.m. what s happening at the plant? what s happening in tokyo? we ve had more tremors today. reporter: yeah, more tremors. the tremors are a reminder the country s going through so much and not out of the woods. the tremors take everyone back to the catastrophic event that started all of this.
nuclear power. one-fifth of our power in the united states is from nuclear power. this is how confusing this discussion is because we don t really know the effects. chad is here because he s got news on that second nuclear power plant that we re getting some troubled reports out of. this is south of the daiichi. daiichi and daini, one and two. it s about seven miles south of daiichi. a bit ago we had a new alert, ten-mile radius, it s hot. it s under control but let s move. that was kind of overlapped by the 30-kilometer that we had for daiichi. but now just issued by the u.s. embassy in japan, a 50-mile radius for all u.s. citizens, saying we ve looked at the situation. we understand what s going on. we believe the radiation can go farther, and we re recommending u.s. citizens to be 80 kilometers away or 50 miles away
he s deeply impressed by the courage of the survivors. we can t speak about courage without talking about the unnamed volunteer utility workers surely exposed to radiation levels at the nuclear plant. the company hasn t realized any personal information about them, but a newspaper says one is 59-year-old and six months from retirement. we also heard this today from a plant worker s wife. she says her husband is working at the site in the danger of radiation, but she wants him to do his best. she says he s reply by e-mail looked serious. he told her to take care of herself because he won t be home for a while. we ve got much more to report from the nuclear front. for a while today, fraiss of radioactive iodine and seize yum for found in tap water from
from the daiichi plant. that would encompass everything here. with steam or things escaping from the plants, there are two issues about the radiation. one of them has to do with the winds. where are the winds going now? at least nor the next three days the winds will blow offshore, the plant being right there. and all along the japanese coast, the winds will blow offshore, which for japan is a good thing. it doesn t get better. let s widen our view and take this to maybe a more worse-case scenario. where does it go if there is a much more significant release? because at the moment we don t think the concentrations in there are enough to matter as it blows off. correct. it spreads out, moves away, and the isotopes decay to nothing. but where does it zo go? for five days the winds blowing offshore here and around the horn, around the low pressure
fukushima city. later, the water was clean and officials stressed there was never danger to human health. officials want to flood one of the reactors with sea water. a flied flooit was aborted when radiation levels spiked. now a separate facility is raising concerns. the government has evacuated a six-mile rate yus of the fukushima daini plant there. the four reactors are all shut down and for now everything appears to be under control. that is still far from the case at the daiichi. cnn s tom foreman brings us up-to-date on what s gone wrong. this is the fukushima daiichi plant before the earthquake and tsunami. here are the nuclear reactors we re talking about. numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. here s what they look like now since the terrible events.