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Nuclear regulatory commission was reported back in 1990 as not managing counterfeit and substandard parts. and so the report from the oig now in 2011 is disturbing because its back -- harkening back on the faults and failures of the agency to capture substandard parts again. >> let me ask you about this. im worried about the profit motive. if you make shoddy sweaters, i go to a different manufacturer to get my sweaters. thats capitalism. no problem. but if you try to cut corners at a nuclear pla...

Californias aptly named diablo canyon nuclear reactor, the hellish confluence of seismic faults, nuclear fission, and human error, lots and lots and lots of human error over and over again over decades. we put out the call on that story, and lo and behold, a miracle happened. a republican, a real live elected republican official agreed to come on this show to talk with us about it. that miracle before your eyes, coming up. but first, one more thing. about the bp disaster that apparently is not o...

Axis in american politics in recent years, in large part because of climate change. this democratic administration has been the most pro-nuclear power of any in recent memory. the president guaranteeing federal financing for a whole bunch of new nuclear plants. the underpinnings of that obama administration inclination is climate change, the idea being that nuclear power for all of its faults -- oh, god, dont say faults -- nuclear power to all of its drawbacks is pretty good compared to fossil f...

Little we know about mother nature. check this out. four other recent major quakes came from, quote, undiscovered fault lines. they include new zealand this year, haiti last year, north ridge in california back in 1994 and santa cruz, california, in 989. so what dangers do we face from these so-called undiscovered faults? dr. mike haggerty is here, these a seismologist with the department of earth and environmental sciences of boston college. doc, why dont we know more? >> you know, jenna, i was...

You wouldnt expect, for instance, to see a fault of that size in the middle of the u.s. in the stable interior. so while its true that there are faults we dont know about, its not true that they can be anywhere in the world. they tend to be in the tech on theically-active areas. just to compare that, a 6.7 earthquake, the fault is not nearly as large as the size of the fault plane that rupture inside this latest japan earthquake. so we know we cant have faults that big that we dont know about be...

But hey, polsters note at least these guys are not wisconsin governor scott walker. after he proposed stripping state employees of their union rights, he finds himself bracing for a recall campaign. this is the same scott walker that won by 6 points, not that long ago. recent polling from february shows him losing a hypothetical do over election by 7 points. thats if youre counting at 13 point swing against him. thats the definition of buyers remorse. scott walker, the people of wisconsin are so...

Office, you might come up with a number of, you know, the largest earthquake you think possible or the size of the tsunami it could produce, but scientists are by nature very conservative, and we tend to down play those and think that maybe our models arent exactly accurate because weve never seen that before. jenna: i think our audience would be surprised to know that one in three earthquakes under the 6.7 magnitude occur on previously unknown fault lines. im a native californian, if you live i...

Governor scott walker. after he proposed stripping state employees of their union rights, he finds himself bracing for a recall campaign. this is the same scott walker that won by 6 points, not that long ago. recent polling from february shows him losing a hypothetical do over election by 7 points. thats if youre counting at 13 point swing against him. thats the definition of buyers remorse. scott walker, the people of wisconsin are sorry they voted for you, wish they had not picked you. a year ...

John. >> you had many remarkable conversations with her over the years and in one of them back in 2006 you asked her if she believed in life after death. if she believed in reincarnation. >> she said she did. well, if reincarnation is, in fact, a fact, that means elizabeth taylor is going to come back. as what, john? how would you bring elizabeth taylor back? >> we live in a culture now where its not a surprise and its, in fact, sometimes sadly i would say expected that the personal lives of her...

California. when the utility pacific gas and electric, pg&e, applied for the permits, the company said the site had only insignificant faults that have shown no movement for at least 100,000 and possibly millions of years. construction costs for that assuredly totally nonseismic nuclear plant were estimated to be around $320 million. barely a year later, its 1971, and a new fault line is discovered offshore less than three miles from the plants location. humans decide that the site is still well...