Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110314:15:11:00
Fukushima daiichi and what occurred at three mile island. there are differences as well. we didn't have to cope with a world record earthquake and aftershocks and tsunamis, but the essential challenge is the same. and that's to bring the reactors in question to a cold shutdown status and not pose a threat of radioactivity to the populous. >> and how similar would what three mile island back in 1979, the type of structure that it was, the type of design that it is, would be in comparison to the 40-year-old nuclear power plant that's being so watched so carefully now in japan? >> very similar. w...