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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110322:01:42:00

What will happen if the vessels are flooded with water again. the fuel has been exposed partially several days. that could cause degradation to the core in ways that aren t understood. if you pump water again, it could cause damage and make it harder to ultimately cool. i know this is not over, it is not time to step back from this, but we are having a review, 90 day review of u.s. nuclear facilities, then a larger comprehensive view. then a step back to look at what s happening. do you feel this uncovered a fundamental flaw, fundamental understatement of risk in reactor design and in disaster planning? yes. i would say that is our sense. i think in that era of complacency after three mile island, chernobyl, regulators in the industry may have become too comfortable with the idea we re never going to see that type of accident again, and i think ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110322:08:42:00

Harder to ultimately cool. i know this is not over, it is not time to step back from this, but we are having a review, 90 day review of u.s. nuclear facilities, then a larger comprehensive view. then a step back to look at what s happening. do you feel this uncovered a fundamental flaw, fundamental understatement of risk in reactor design and in disaster planning? yes. i would say that is our sense. i think in that era of complacency after three mile island, chernobyl, regulators in the industry may have become too comfortable with the idea we re never going to see that type of accident again, and i think that s influenced their decision making and their practices. i think they re going to have to take a fresh look how they made decisions over the last decade and where the safety margin to the extent we may be at risk at home. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110318:11:32:00

Geist. we have a number of nuclear plants here in the united states along fault lines in california. how confident are you this morning that if a catastrophe like this would strike the united states we would be prepared or at least better prepared to manage the situation? well, what i can tell you about our confidence, willie, is that we are very, very confident that we have an independent regulatory authority going back to 197, the nuclear regulatory commission which has got the responsibility and expertise to ensure that all 104 plants are operated safely wherever they may be in the united states. do they have different mechanisms than the plants in japan? how do ours compare to the ones at fukushima as far as containment goes. the plants are designed and they re boiling water reactors and pressure water reactors. there are similarities there. every site is specific and has unique circumstances and the licenses of the nuclear regulatory commission are always specific both to th ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110315:03:19:00

By some want nuclear and cl coal and natural gas. to meet this goal, we will need them all. to meet the clean energy goal outlined in the mideast recent address, he proposed $36 billion in department of energy loan guarantees to build new nuclear power plants and hundreds of millions more towards nuclear energy research and reactor design. the united states operates 104 nuclear power reactors in 31 states. 23 of those reactors use general electric technology, similar to that used in the fukushima site. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110315:07:19:00

Tonight, i challenge you to join me in setting a new goal. by 2035, 80% of america s electricity will come from clean energy sources. some folks want wind and solar. others want nuclear. clean coal, natural gas. to meet this goal, we will need them all. to meet the clean energy goal outlined in his most recent state of the union address, president obama s budget proposed $36 billion in department of energy loan guarantees to build new nuclear power plants, and additional hundreds of millions more towards nuclear energy research and reactor design. the united states currently operates 104 nuclear reactors in 31 states. 23 of those reactors use general electric technology, very similar to that used in the fukushima nuclear disaster site. general electric is parent company of msnbc. ....

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