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Joining me with the latest are jay laar from the heartland institute and nuclear safety consultant margaret harding. jay, i'm looking at not only the contamination story of the uss reagan crewmembers. this is a race against time. japan's frantic efforts to avoid a meltdown. some day we were told not to breathe the air, scary. how realistic is this threat? >> sean, it is not at all realistic. i can tell you with the utmost confidence there will not be a health impact of anything that is going on at the fukushima power plant. a meltdown, people interpret it as disaster, explosion, destruction li...

Defense facility outside of japan. the other thing is researchers spend a lot of time interacting with our colleagues across the world to improve construction. >> sean: can can you tell us what we are looking at -- at in these videos? i assume a mock-up of a quake and structural issues, correct? >> correct. a shaking table that simulates an earthquake load. that causes the columns to swayback and forth. in one case they are older buildings that are looked at. >> sean: okay. as far as it relates to when you have a full scale 8.9 in the case of yeah, i'll go to you on this, -- jay, i'll go to yo...

Defense facility outside of japan. the other thing is researchers spend a lot of time interacting with our colleagues across the world to improve construction. >> sean: can can you tell us what we are looking at -- at in these videos? i assume a mock-up of a quake and structural issues, correct? >> correct. a shaking table that simulates an earthquake load. that causes the columns to swayback and forth. in one case they are older buildings that are looked at. >> sean: okay. as far as it relates to when you have a full scale 8.9 in the case of yeah, i'll go to you on this, -- jay, i'll go to yo...

Under a situation that could never be expected. the public in japan has enough to worry about a horrible disaster without worrying there is going to be a nuclear explosion. >> sean: the safety agency rated the damage at the plant in fukushima at a 4 on a scale of 1-7. three mile island was a 5. chernobyl rated as a 7. do you agree with the assessment of jay? >> not at all. i was a 4 two days ago. very bad things have happened since. we don't know what is going to happen. there may not be a significant breach of containment at any of the reactors, but there may be. that's the point. for the las...

Jay laar from the heartland institute and nuclear safety consultant margaret harding. jay, i'm looking at not only the contamination story of the uss reagan crewmembers. this is a race against time. japan's frantic efforts to avoid a meltdown. some day we were told not to breathe the air, scary. how realistic is this threat? >> sean, it is not at all realistic. i can tell you with the utmost confidence there will not be a health impact of anything that is going on at the fukushima power plant. a meltdown, people interpret it as disaster, explosion, destruction like an atomic bomb that is not t...