Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110315:07:08:00
Steam and cool it back into water. the way you do that is having a large body of water. here in the united states, we do that on big lakes. we do that on rivers. and we put in a cooling tower so we need less water. but we too have a lot of reactors that are on the ocean or on major bays. luckily, the east coast and the gulf coast are not subject to tsunami. the west coast may be. but those are designed for tsunami. at least they're designed for the biggest tsunami we think they'd see. what happened in this case is this plant was hit by both an earthquake and then a tsunami bigger than what it ...