to fukushima daiichi you know what. never the same design. is the same reactor same contractors worked on them and the same flaws and weaknesses. the containment structure designed to hold in all the radioactivity after an accident is too small by $986.00 the nuclear regulatory commission had determined there were 85 percent probability that the containment would blow up and fail in the event of a meltdown. so much hydrogen gas would be released that the containment would be blown to smithereens all of the radioactivity inside it would be released to the public. she showed us on to percent 3 of. the regulators have known that this design is. capable of withstanding an accident since it was built. during the middle of the crisis in africa she went to each one of the key regulators at the n.r.c. got him chuck casto said this is the worst containment in the world. well of a source containment in the world why are we keeping 23 of them running here in america. the actual shaman daiichi was caused by an earthquake and the tsunami. really at the ro

everything has worked on japan's nuclear nightmare continues a 2nd hydrogen explosion at the fukushima daiichi nuclear complex destroyed the reactors exterior all 3 daiichi reactors have nuclear fuel rods that have been exposed to some degree so they are teetering on the edge of a meltdown i mean you need to sit. there you. know the. first 3 more. one hour concerning that situation in japan i'm now joined live from vermont by all going to some now we're reporting at the moment that they're all suggestions that a partial nuclear meltdown is now underway this is not a nuclear chain reaction this is not a nuclear bomb this is radio. and left over after the chain reaction is started ok sort of sorts of interrupt but you say this is not a nuclear bomb but would the effects be the same as a nuclear bomb if obviously it does reach meltdown and there is an explosion. the chemicals that are going to be released are similar actually the chemicals released from other the radioactive chemicals released from a nuclear bomb disappear quicker then the radiation that is released in a nuclear power plant all w

that everything to us work japan's nuclear nightmare continues a 2nd hydrogen explosion at the fukushima daiichi nuclear complex destroyed the reactor exterior all 3 daiichi reactors have nuclear fuel rods that have been exposed to some degree so they are teetering on the edge of a meltdown i mean you need to sit. there you. know she. can get you in. a more serious one concerning that situation in japan joined live from vermont to go to some you know we're reporting at the moment that that all suggestions that a partial nuclear meltdown is no way this is not a nuclear chain reaction this is not a nuclear bomb this is the radiation left over after the chain reaction has started sort of sorts of interrupt but you say this is not a nuclear bomb but would the effects be the same as a nuclear bomb if obviously it does reach meltdown and there is an explosion. the chemicals that are going to be released or similar actually the chemicals released from other radioactive chemicals released from a nuclear bomb disappear quicker then the radiation that is released in a nuclear power plant all we're looking

no economic impact even in japan and i've also looked to the fukushima daiichi reactor disaster which was much more fundamental to japan's economy in that case. did knock. the japanese economy back for a year or 2 there was a there was a downturn in output and they raised the cost of energy and there isn't much that they had a public except that i mean i know there was a 15 percent rise in the cost of energy in japan after that exactly but there's also a supply constraint they have enough limited their ability to produce exports and as a result their trade surplus shrank for 2 or 3 years but in the end you're saying in the macro sense you know in america i know lots of people in the micro sense that are making the argument i know a lot of folks that right now that are supporting bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and they are out tweeting today about their worry that we have structural dependence on chinese producers chinese supply lines you know centrally supply drains for critical materials that might be needed in a health crisis like masks but that's you know 3 m. corporation in m