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Much differently about deepwater drilling than we did before. >> i felt better when i read your reassurances on it but then not when i looked into the basis. five of the eight new permits you had had given out before tonight went to companies that contracted with helix well containment group. the fast response system which you have been bragging about is the new containment technology that they have. this week helix revealed themselves that by their own assessment it could take them 17 days to contain a spill. 17 days is the new fast response that we're supposed to feel better with in terms of...

Drilling than we did before. >> i felt better when i read your reassurances on it but then not when i looked into the basis. five of the eight new permits you had had given out before tonight went to companies that contracted with helix well containment group. the fast response system which you have been bragging about is the new containment technology that they have. this week helix revealed themselves that by their own assessment it could take them 17 days to contain a spill. 17 days is the new fast response that we're supposed to feel better with in terms of containing a disaster that has a...

Your reassurances on it but then not when i looked into the basis. five of the eight new permits you had had given out before tonight went to companies that contracted with helix well containment group. the fast response system which you have been bragging about is the new containment technology that they have. this week helix revealed themselves that by their own assessment it could take them 17 days to contain a spill. 17 days is the new fast response that we're supposed to feel better with in terms of containing a disaster that has already happened. to me that doesn't feel like a great adva...

Containment new technology, i want to talk to you about this new report about blowout preventers. but in terms of any new containment technology that's been developed, has it been tested? >> there's no -- there's been no real-life testing of this equipment, rachel. but essentially, all this equipment that they have, there's two companies doing it. one marine well containment company and another one called the helix well containment company. they essentially took the equipment that bp built on the fly during the maconda well blowout and set that up as a permanent well installation that's on the...

What does radiation -- how bad does the radiation level have to be for it to be bad for human beings. what radius are we talking about? >> so far it's 12 miles. >> still contained and the iaea of the u.n. nuclear agency, the u.n. nuclear watchdog, saying another chernobyl, not likely, because they have the kind of containment technology that chernobyl did not have, so it doesn't look like we're looking at that possibility in japan. >> thank goodness, but what is unique is we're talking about multiple different nuclear reactors. that is unprecedented. >> that is absolutely the case, and we're l...