they are doing in japan. what would happen in the u.s. if there was no electricity to the diesel to the generators that cool the plants? well, for indistance what the industry has pointed out is with any luck they wouldn t get to that state. for instance, most of our nuclear facilities have both their diesel generators and the fuel tank for them either underground or in concrete bunkers, precisely to protect them from water. their equipment is placed above sea level so that water can t come in and damage the vital switch gear for the pumps which is what happened in japan. there are some things they have done to protect. they also have lots of contingency plans of how you move immobile generators, et cetera. do you agree with that? to a . it is with 1960s era technology in japan. we have improved a lot since then, but it is irrelevant at this point. the economics have gone out of nuclear in this country.
not what you want to experience on a vacation in hawaii. cell phones and tv screens all across the u.s. state lit up with a terrifying warning saturday morning. this is what people saw when they woke up at home or at the beaches, parks or stores, the message on the left warning of a ballistic missile headed straight at them. it took more than a half hour before the correction on the right went out saying, actually, no miss lz weiles were on the w false alarm. people ran for shelter. residents huddled in parking garages, even concrete bunkers. some were calling loved ones to say their final good-byes. the initial missile alert came from the official state emergency center, but it was, in fact, a human error. an employee hitting the wrong computer button during a shift
world. i m natalie allen. newsroom starts right now. our top story, 38 agonizing minutes, that s how long it took for nearly a million and a half people in hawaii to find out that a terrifying missile alert was, indeed, a false alarm. this is what many woke up to, though, saturday morning. the u.s. pacific command detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea within minutes. this is not a drill. if you re indoors this was the nail biting alert warning of a ballistic missile heading to one of the most beautiful places on earth, all over hawaii people ran to take cover in garages, basements, police stations and concrete bunkers. turns out the false alarm