VIDEO: “No Happy Ending”: Nuclear Experts Say Japan’s Disaster is Intensifying

Democracy Now - March 16, 2011
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/16/no_happy_ending_nuclear_experts_say

Japan’s nuclear crisis is intensifying. A second reactor unit at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station may have ruptured and appears to be releasing radioactive steam. The plant has been hit by several explosions after a devastating earthquake and tsunami last Friday damaged its cooling functions. It has sent low levels of radiation wafting into Tokyo more than 130 miles away. The company operating the reactors withdrew at least 750 workers on Tueday, leaving a crew of 50 struggling to lower the temperatures. We go to Japan to speak with Philip White of the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo and with Peter Ford of the Christian Science Monitor in Sendai. We also speak with Peter Bradford, a former commissioner at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “The best case scenario at this point is not a good one … for the public or for the nuclear industry,” Bradford says. “There is not going to be a happy ending to this story.”

Philip White, International Liaison Officer at the Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo, Japan.
Peter Bradford, Former commissioner at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Three Mile Island nuclear power station disaster.
Peter Ford, Beijing Bureau Chief for the Christian Science Monitor reporting from Sendai, Japan.

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