March 13, 2011
Guests:
Jaker Tapper
Martha Raddatz
Joseph Cirincione - President Ploughshares Fund
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Amanpour: I’m in Tokyo as Japan deals with earthquakes, tsunami, floods, explosions and
oh yeah a nuclear meltdown
Audience: yikes
Amanpour: there could be 10,000 people dead in Sendai and the country needed those nuclear
plants for electricity
Audience: cripes
Amanpour: the trains are running again in Japan 3 days later
Republicans: Commies
Amanpour: the coastline areas have been devastated and rescue workers are returning from New Zealand to look for survivors
Audience: oh my
Amanpour: the government said the radiation
leak is safe
Audience: well okay then
Amanpour: the Germans have brought their own personal Geiger counters
Audience: there’s no app for that?
Amanpour: the government says there could another earthquake and of course a tsunami
Muir: there is no water in this devastated town
but there is a 7-11 open
Audience: those hot dogs can survive anything
Kaku: all the backup plans to stop a nuclear meltdown failed so now they’re pumping seawater directly into the core and 200,000 people are
being evacuated
Audience: holy crap it’s like a michael bay movie
Expert: Japan is now dealing with 5 nuclear emergencies
Woodruff: Three Mile Island and Chernobyl got people thinking maybe nuclear power is not all that safe
Amanpour: Is America going to be threatened by a giant Japanese radioactive cloud?
Tapper: no but you can never be too paranoid Christiane
Amanpour: is there something the government
isn’t telling us?
Raddatz: Japanese officials may have spotted Mothra off the coast
Amanpour: how could all the backup systems fail?
Cirincione: well they lost power so now the pumps are running on AA batteries
Audience: oh ok
Amanpour: could this disaster happen here?
Tapper: yes but if it did America would turn to
Japan for help
Audience: gulp
Amanpour: could this affect our need to build nuclear power plants here?
Raddatz: um yeah I think so
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
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