CNN Crossfire November 8, 2013 04:36:00
Consider this. earlier this year, former nasa climate scientist james hansen did a study. he found that nuclear energy over the last 40 years that's been used worldwide has saved 1.8 million lives by producing zero air pollution energy. and he says that if we expand it we'll save another 7 million lives. those numbers have to be convincing for people that care about climate change. >> there's still radiation. >> tell that to the fukushima area, the chernobyl area. tell it to the areas where hundreds of square miles are now uninhabitable. the atomic energy commission in the 1950s, michael, said...