Anderson Cooper In Japan: 'Should I Get Out Of Here?' (VIDEO)

Anderson Cooper usually heads right into dangerous territory, but an explosion at a nuclear power plant in Japan had the CNN anchor wondering if he should get out of the area.

Cooper, who has been reporting from the country in the wake of the massive earthquake that struck on Friday, was anchoring his show on Sunday night (Monday afternoon in Japan when he got news that there had been a second explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Cooper was in the midst of speaking to nuclear expert Jim Walsh about the blast, but he stopped and turned to his crew.

"How far are we from Fukushima?" Cooper asked them. "Which way is the wind blowing?" He told Walsh he was concerned, since he was 100 kilometers north of the reactor.

"The subtext here, Jim, is, should I get out of here?" he asked Walsh.

Luckily, Walsh told him that he was "inclined to think" Cooper and his team would be okay.

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Comments

[butchcliff]

07:16 AM on 03/16/2011

Wonder..what part of nuclear fallout & radiation exposure don't ya understand?

[Ascoli]

06:19 AM on 03/16/2011

It's always the same thing.......American 'journalists' breathless and wide-eyed at some world tradegy. They become the story.
Look to Aljazeera for real reporting and depth.
American 'reporting' is a shallow joke.

[FelicityFilthbiscuits]

07:05 PM on 03/15/2011

Not bright enough to know when you are in a dangerous situation, Koop?

[Tresco]

05:20 PM on 03/15/2011

The first sign of radiation poisoning is your hair turns white.

[eskimo2]

05:09 PM on 03/15/2011

Anderson has decided that he now wants to be the news and not to report it. Gone off him totally

[Nutcase]

10:35 AM on 03/15/2011

This unscheduled leaving of the scene is starting to become a habit of Andy's.

Not a hit. Just an observation from a former foreign correspondent. It makes sense to know when to leave but his have been very high profile, particularly from Egypt.

[hopeisalive]

08:35 AM on 03/15/2011

Mr. Cooper, take your iodine and understand that what is out there is invisible to the eye, but more deadly than many snake bites. If you don't have monitoring devices---gieger counters----you are sitting next to a fire with a can of gasoline.

[dporterdvd]

05:58 AM on 03/15/2011

If Cooper comes down with thyroid cancer in 10 or 15 years, he'll know he should have got out of there.

[Art Jaquez]

03:00 AM on 03/15/2011

He is perfectly right. Which way the wind blows should tell him exactly where he should be on this one.

[boomcat44]

01:41 AM on 03/15/2011

I don't blame him.
My question would have been;
"Just what the F*** are we trying to accomplish here, and why the F*** does it have to be ME?"

[Cliff Williams]

01:31 AM on 03/15/2011

During the London Blitz Edward R Murrow, risked life and limb daily to bring the news to the US, never once wringing there hands asking should I get outa here? I fear the likes of Murrow and Cronkite et al. are gone, and all we are left with are pampered Prima Donas! Surprised though, I always thought Cooper had more class!!

[Art Jaquez]

03:03 AM on 03/15/2011

Hardly, with radioactive fallout increasingly a certainty, knowing which way the wind is blowing and acting accordingly is the only intelligent course of action.

[RobJames]

04:53 AM on 03/15/2011

Yes, I'm sure Mr. Murrow was on top of a building to get a better perspective of the german bombings in real time.

[loki]

01:30 AM on 03/15/2011

he can go anywhere without claims of danger to his life can he.

[I Make Stuff]

11:45 PM on 03/14/2011

Once again Anderson Cooper has to make the story about himself. He really is becoming a broken record.

[Art Jaquez]

05:49 AM on 03/15/2011

Funny how the US Navy has decided to move away as a result of the increased radiation blowing out to sea. I guess they are just trying to make the story all about them.

[twffic]

09:57 PM on 03/14/2011

Why enjoy parody when we have CNN. While this is a classic Cooperism nothing will ever beat his "Reporting secretly from Egypt" segments...unless he actually was reporting secretly and I was supposed to call someone about that malarkey?

[texlib2112]

09:33 PM on 03/14/2011

I really like Anderson Cooper style of reporting he is one of the best in my opinion and many of you might disagree with my assessment. However, I do hope that those who do not agree at least respect my opinion.