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And in hong kong michael friedlander, a former senior nuclear power plant operator for more than a decade. so michael, is dumping so many tons of radioactive water into the ocean really the best option available? >> well, anderson, i have my doubts about that. you know, over the course of my career i've seen some pretty amazing things done in similar circumstances where there's large volumes of water such as bringing in temporary 100,000-gallon tanks, storage bladders, building evaporation basins and things like that. it's certainly the most expedient, but i'm not sure that it's exactly the mo...

Three or four of his friends. so to have 300 people gather outside of tepco, that's something extraordinarily rare. and if you talk to the people who are there this weekend, what really struck me is that these are regular people. they were organized by social media. average moms and dads, many people who had never protested a single thing before in their life. so it's extraordinarily rare. a really unusual thing that we saw this weekend. and something else. if you look online, you really get the sense of growing frustration by the public, who really are wondering is tepco making the right move...

So to have 300 people gather outside of tepco, that's something extraordinarily rare. and if you talk to the people who are there this weekend, what really struck me is that these are regular people. they were organized by social media. average moms and dads, many people who had never protested a single thing before in their life. so it's extraordinarily rare. a really unusual thing that we saw this weekend. and something else. if you look online, you really get the sense of growing frustration by the public, who really are wondering is tepco making the right move? there are death threats agai...

>> michael, do we know what kind of impact this would have in the sea? i mean, do you agree with those who say, well, look, this is quickly diluted and this is a small, you know, drop in the bucket? >> i think that the figures that were quoted are pretty accurate. in the grand scheme of things, as it gets diluted out over the seven seas the reality is that you're probably not ever going to ever know that it was done. but i think that it's just an example of this is not excellence in nuclear operation and it's just another example of how the crisis is being mismanaged. >> they also used, tepco ...

Contaminated water. and we certainly need to deal with that promptly. >> and kyung, i know you've tried to and had a tough time doing it. have a lot of reporters been able to speak to the families of the workers at the plant? >> certainly not. what reporters have been doing is trying to talk to those family members, and what the difficulty has been is if you go to the shelters, and i've been to a couple of these shelters where these evacuees from fukushima are staying, there is the sense, and one person told me directly, that tepco has told family members not to talk to the press. and because ...