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juan: you think the japanese government has been lying? i don t know. it s very difficult to say. is tepco pulling a bp and saying hey, it s really not as bad as we said? juan: that s tokyo electric power. yeah. are they pulling the same thing we saw last year with the bp oil spill? it s fine, it s fine, it s fine. it s telling that the u.s. military came and said hey we would like to clear a 50-mile radius off of this. u.s. experts both international and u.s. nuclear experts came in and said that i mean, that s very telling. juan: richard, what do you say to that? this is a signal this is the end of nuclear power in the world. it s just too dangerous. it might be a small chance of a problem, but if there is a problem, boy, it s bad news? the incidents that howard is referring to are really minor things. you have incidents. if you want to compare it to something. compare it to the horrendous explosion that took place at the petroleum refinery in japan which was on televisio ....
Over the neighboring city. yeah, nuclear power has some dangers. but compared to the tsunami, we re really not talking about big dangers here, when howard refers to 400 deaths. that s 400 deaths if they had not evacuated. in the worst case, if the nuclear reactor actually blows, then we will get 400 deaths with no evacuation. but that has already happened. we expect zero deaths even under the worst case. this reactor was designed to accommodate a meltdown and to juan: let me let howard respond to that. i think that the idea is even that we are in this situation, we are talking about radiation traveling to the united states. whether or not it does any damage, this still a major issue that we are dealing with here. juan: are you using this for a political agenda then because you are opposed to nuclear power in principle? no, it s not that i m opposed to nuclear power in principle. ....
You only hear about when something happens. juan: you think the japanese government has been lying? i don t know. it s very difficult to say. is tepco pulling a bp and saying hey, it s really not as bad as we said? juan: that s tokyo electric power. yeah. are they pulling the same thing we saw last year with the bp oil spill? it s fine, it s fine, it s fine. it s telling that the u.s. military came and said hey we would like to clear a 50-mile radius off of this. u.s. experts both international and u.s. nuclear experts came in and said that i mean, that s very telling. juan: richard, what do you say to that? this is a signal this is the end of nuclear power in the world. it s just too dangerous. it might be a small chance of a problem, but if there is a problem, boy, it s bad news? the incidents that howard is referring to are really minor things. you have incidents. if you want to compare it to something. compare it to the horrendous explosion that took place at the petrol ....
Huge amounts of carcinogens all over the neighboring city. yeah, nuclear power has some dangers. but compared to the tsunami, we re really not talking about big dangers here, when howard refers to 400 deaths. that s 400 deaths if they had not evacuated. in the worst case, if the nuclear reactor actually blows, then we will get 400 deaths with no evacuation. but that has already happened. we expect zero deaths even under the worst case. this reactor was designed to accommodate a meltdown and to juan: let me let howard respond to that. i think that the idea is even that we are in this situation, we are talking about radiation traveling to the united states. whether or not it does any damage, this still a major issue that we are dealing with here. juan: are you using this for a political agenda then because you are opposed to nuclear power in principle? no, it s not that i m opposed ....
It had, we estimate, 36,000 people killed by the radioactivity. if they didn t evacuate here, and if the worst possible thing happens, then the number would be 400 people, not i m not talking about the workers, the people who are there risking their lives to prevent this from happening. i m saying if everything goes wrong, then the estimate is that 400 people would eventually contract cancer, assuming there was no evacuation. best guess right now sunday the worst circumstances zero deaths from this. juan: okay. the fact is right now as we are talking zero deaths. but, howard, you are saying, you know what? the risk is too great. it might be minimal risk. the radiation might not be great as we are just hearing from howard, but you say still too much of a risk. i think absolutely the risk is there. i mean, we are obviously seeing this from environmental standpoint. 400 people may be nothing compared to chernobyl. the risk is still there. we don t know what s going to happen. the fa ....