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Japanese Embassy exterior, zoom in to flag at half mast2. Bouquets of flowers left to honour quake and tsunami victims outside embassy3. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Acton, Nuclear Energy Expert, Carnegie...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC\u003cbr/\u003e1. Japanese Embassy exterior, zoom in to flag at half mast\u003cbr/\u003e2. Bouquets of flowers left to honour quake and tsunami victims outside embassy\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Acton, Nuclear Energy Expert, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In reactor unit 2 there was an explosion.  Now in 1 and 3 we had seen explosions previously outside of the containment... outside of the outer wall of the reactor, if you like. At Unit 2 there was an explosion inside the containment, and there is a fear that it may have damaged the containment structure itself, and that is worrying because it is going to make it harder to prevent the leakage of radiation. The second important development was the fire in reactor unit 4. Now that is significant because that fire took place in basically a swimming pool-like structure where used highly radioactive nuclear fuel is stored. And that fuel is hot, and if it is not kept under water then the water is going to... then there is the risk of a fire, which we have already seen. So, that is also concerning.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide shot Acton in interview\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Acton, Nuclear Energy Expert, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it is very likely that the tsunami that hit Japan will kill considerably more people than the nuclear reactor accident will. Now, obviously any fatality as a result of nuclear power are too many, but I think that the tsunami is likely to prove significantly more devastating to human life than the reactor accident will.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eNew York, New York \u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid shot, Dr Clifford Chao, head of New York Presbyterian Hospital's Radiation/Oncology Department\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Clifford Chao, head of Radiation/Oncology Department at New York Presbyterian Hospital:\u003cbr/\u003e\"With nuclear reactors going on this way, constantly evolving - there might be more explosions coming in. I think there are very imminent dangers to those people living around, and also may have a more profound effect for even for those people who live hundreds, or even thousands, of miles away.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePool \u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC \u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid shot, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu shaking hands with Congressmen \u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are first and foremost are focussed right now on helping in any way we can to help the Japanese government and the power company contain.. cool down the reactors, contain it and stop the leaking. The next step after that is to try to understand deeply what happened, and then to look at our own reactors. We, in the United States, typically look at nuclear reactors and we clearly consider things like tsunamis and earthquakes and fires.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close-up flowers outside Japanese embassy\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close-up children's drawing of a US flag wrapped around flower stems\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close-up handwritten note: (English) \"To our dear friends, the Japanese\"\u003cbr/\u003eAs Japan copes with ongoing troubles at its Fukushima nuclear power plant, and carries on the gruelling task of clearing up after last Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami, experts in the US voiced their concerns about the reactor and its implications for nuclear power in their own country. \u003cbr/\u003eIn Washington, well wishers dropped off flowers outside the Japanese Embassy as the flag was lowered to half mast to honour the dead and missing after last week's earthquake and subsequent tsunami.\u003cbr/\u003eMonitoring the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, nuclear energy expert James Acton, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, described the last 24 hours there as the most serious and worrying since the earthquake hit.\u003cbr/\u003eActon said the twin accidents - the explosion in unit 2 and the fire in unit 4 - would make it harder for authorities to contain the radiation.\u003cbr/\u003eBut he added: \"I think it is very likely that the tsunami that hit Japan will kill considerably more people than the nuclear reactor accident will.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now, obviously any fatality as a result of nuclear power are too many, but I think that the tsunami is likely to prove significantly more devastating to human life than the reactor accident will,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eSome 70-thousand people have been evacuated from a 20-kilometre (12-mile) radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex. \u003cbr/\u003eAbout 140-thousand remain in the new 30-kilometre (19-mile) warning zone and have been told to seal themselves indoors to avoid exposure to radiation. \u003cbr/\u003eRadiologist Dr Clifford Chao, from New York's Presbyterian Hospital, said \"there are very imminent dangers to those people living around\" the site and said the effects could be felt for people who live hundreds or even thousands of miles away.\u003cbr/\u003eJapan, as the only country to experience an atomic bomb attack, is particularly sensitive to radiation fears.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, the Obama administration's most vocal advocate for nuclear power said on Tuesday that the reactor crisis unfolding in Japan would help the United States strengthen safety at its 104 reactors.\u003cbr/\u003eEnergy Secretary Steven Chu told a House of Representatives panel that America was committed to learning from Japan's experience.\u003cbr/\u003eThe US Energy Department has sent 34 people and 17,150 pounds of equipment to Japan to help monitor and assess the situation at the plant.\u003cbr/\u003eChu said the initial step was to help the Japanese government cool down the damaged reactors and to stop the leaking radiation. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter the reactors were secure, he said, the next step would be to understand what happened, and then assess whether US reactors have similar vulnerabilities. \u003cbr/\u003eUnder questioning, he said that reactors in the US were 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