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Wonder if fukushima nuclear site has a dirty secret past. ben da l.a. five. does fukushima have a history? >> it has had some accidents in the past. nothing this big but there had been incidents that warranted like a closer look at the power plant. >> greta: in terms of the power plant. two types of issues. one is some malfunction or problem or even human error and then there is the deceit. reports that there was falsified records and there was a scandal. what can you tell me about that? >> back...

Put human beings under these conditions for an extended period of time, not only do you have to face the challenge of the event itself, but inevitably there will be human error. im making, after five or six days of this im making mistakes and if you look at three mile island and chernobyl, the primary cause of that was human error. so you have a complex problem that changes every day and then you have people who are working 24/7 under emotional and physical stress in the worst possible circumsta...

Fires, turning valves. theyre dealing with whats happening on the ground. theyre not sitting behind a computer, and theyve been doing it day after day. they have to rotate people in. one of my concerns here, my heart goes out to them, but one of the challenges here is if you put human beings under these conditions for an extended period of time, not only do you have to face the challenge of the event itself, but inevitably theys is going to be human error. when you look at three mile island and ...

Scared a lot of people. theyre first to admit there was no viable emergency plan, the evacuation plan was weak. they have changed a lot since then. they say they have learned the lessons over the past 32 years. but surprisingly things on the outside still very much the same. >> we didnt know. it was scary. we knew the sirens had gone off. somebody said something happened at the nuclear power plant. >> chaos. >> chaos. >> it was march 1979, a partial core meltdown at three mile island that shut t...

>> good morning, everyone. some radioactive steam still leaking this morning from a damaged nuclear power plant in pennsylvania. >> reporter: it was a combination of mechanical failure and human error. to this day, the most serious nuclear power accident in american history. >> youre not finding anything, are you, brian? >> not a damn thing. >> reporter: believe it or not, no one died. and studies show there have been no long-term health issues. but there was fallout. americans were scared and f...

Nuclear facility. and the lessons learned since that incident. >> so much has changed in the past 32 years. it was march of 1979 when they had the partial core meltdown here at three mile island. a mixture of mechanical failure and human error inside. it shut the plant down, sent radio active gas foot air. no one was killed or died or was injured but it did change the trajectory of nuclear power in this country. theyre the first to admit here they didnt have much of an emergency plan at all, not...

In order to make it work, you can have missteps or problems or even human error, you know, these people have been working 24/7 for four days now. all of these things make it more difficult to do. >> jim, its almost unimaginable. this is a country that became the -- until recently the second largest economy in the world in the years after world war ii. its modern identity forged out of a nuclear crisis for this country and now here its facing a nuclear crisis and its position in the world, its ju...

Crazy range. 4,000 people in chernobyl. this disaster in japan has killed zero. could it kill more? yes, it could. chernobyl disaster was triggered by human error. japan brought on by a natural disaster. the third difference. the plant at chernobyl had severe design flaws. it was designed by people that designed the zil. do you remember that crappy car? yeah, same crazy people. dont let them make power plants. chernobyl used graphite instead of water. what is the difference between graphite and ...

At three mile island it was also human error that ended up being a significant part of the cause there. that does not seem to be the case in japan. as you point out, these are well built facilities that are as well run as anywhere else in the world. i worry that our comfort with nuclear power is based not on a lack of organization or a lack of being -- a a lack of our ability to believe we could be bad at our jobs but lack of imagination about how bad things are that the earth could throw at us....

Remember, and the whole of the northeast went out. so there is huge concern when youve got an already vulnerable design thats severely corodded, a very old plant thats been bombarded for year. its 40 years old, and then loss of power, youre in trouble very quickly. >> can human error also cause this level of problems? i know thats what happened in chernobyl, but do we have enough safeguards in the u.s. where human error wouldnt be an issue? >> theres nothing that you can invent to counteract the...