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At three mile island it was also human error that ended up being a significant part of the cause there. that does not seem to be the case in japan. as you point out, these are well built facilities that are as well run as anywhere else in the world. i worry that our comfort with nuclear power is based not on a lack of organization or a lack of being -- a a lack of our ability to believe we could be bad at our jobs but lack of imagination about how bad things are that the earth could throw at us. are we basing our faith in this energy process on fundamentally unsound assumptions about how stabl...

Case scenarios. >> unless you get a super high lethal dose, most of these people will survive, even though they have high radiation exposures. >> to be clear if this is freaking you out at home, you should know u.s. officials say they don't expect any of the radiation leaks so far will affect any part of the united states and what's been released so far is blowing out to sea and is becoming dilute. that's the best news as we watch this unfold. david, thanks for coming in and helping. >> my pleasure. >> we will get a report live from japan next.

Structure, like containment within containment. the inner is primary containment, four to five feet thick concrete with inner steel liner two inches thick of steel to ride integrity against release of radioactivity. >> it is that primary containment vessel you are worried may have been compromised by the recent blast? >> initial reports hopefully turn out not to be true. initial reports are part of the containment called the pressure suppression pool or the toris, the round metal donut looking thing has been compromised. we don't know whether it was by the third blast the facility experienced ...

Happened at chernobyl is complicated, but for me reading about it as i understand it it seems like a poorly designed experiment and three-mile island was a significant part of the cause. these are well built and well run as much as anywhere else in the world. i worry that our comfort with nuclear power is based not on a lack of organization or lack of our ability to believe that we can be out of our jobs, but a lack of imagination of how bad things are that the earth can throw at us. are we basing our faith on fundamentally unsound assumptions about how stable the world is in terms of climate ...

Previous disasters, what happened at chernobyl is complicated but for me as a lay audience reading about it as far as i understand it, it seems like a poorly designed experiment that went bad. at three mile island it was also human error that ended up being a significant part of the cause there. that does not seem to be the case in japan. as you point out, these are well built facilities that are as well run as anywhere else in the world. i worry that our comfort with nuclear power is based not on a lack of organization or a lack of being -- a a lack of our ability to believe we could be bad a...