Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110324:15:46:00
Have the radiation hovering over the plants. and there's two things that can bring it down into populated areas. one, the winds, obviously. and thankfully for the most part the prevailing winds at the surface and at the midlevels and higher levels is from west to east. that with take it out to sea. the other issue is, if you get any sort of precipitation with an on-shore wind which doesn't happen often but it can happen, that will take some of that radiation and the particles that are in the air that are radioactive and precipitate that down to the ground with the rain and the snow. so we don'...
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