Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110323:08:57:00
California. when the utility pacific gas and electric, pg&e, applied for the permits, the company said the site had only insignificant faults that have shown no movement for at least 100,000 and possibly millions of years. construction costs for that assuredly totally nonseismic nuclear plant were estimated to be around $320 million. barely a year later, it's 1971, and a new fault line is discovered offshore less than three miles from the plant's location. humans decide that the site is still well suited for releasing energy from atoms as long as the money spent on construction goes from $320 ...