Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110315:17:34:00
>> well, as far as the acute effects of radiation go, they typically would affect only a very localized group of people, those in the vicinity of the reactor and, of course, there have been reports of a very high -- i think there was a news release in front of me from the nuclear industrial safety agency in japan indicating that right by the reactor, by the northwest of the site boundary monitor there was a reading of 231 mcper hour. you would need to be exposed to 20 years continuously of that in order to reach the dose limit that is set for the general population at 5 milli see verts for a w...