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(Studio: Sanjay Gupta) Breaking news on radioactive iodine off the coast of Japan in the Pacific and concerns about a core breach at Fukushima reactor 3 reviewed. Live discussion held with MIT's Jim Walsh and former nuclear power plant operator Michael Friedlander about the nuclear crisis in Japan. [WALSH - offers a perspective on radiation in the ocean, the ground, the kinds of isotopes that may be involved; notes the workers face the greatest risk and they may have inadequate equipment.] [FRIEDLANDER - comments on the concern about radioactive material leaking out of the core; expresses concern over the overall management of the nuclear crisis.]
- Reporter(s):
- Gupta, Sanjay
- Duration:
- 00:06:50
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