Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110312:01:10:00
Northeastern japan, dr. he did win lymon, senior staff scientist at the union of concerned scientists. dr. lymon, what do you make of the situation at the nuclear power plant at this point, and is a plant like this built to withstand these shocks? >> well, i don't think this plant was built to withstand this kind of a shock. the problem is that no nuclear regulator requires a nuclear plant to be resistant to the worst case earthquake and looks like what we have here is a pretty close to the worst case. so it's not a surprise that the plants are not doing as well as one would hope. as a matter ...