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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110315:02:07:00

unchartered waters right now. we are. i think that s right. there s only been one event in nuclear history where there was a substantial degree of core melting and that was at three mile island, so there is a very small experience base if you like to predict how this crisis is going to unfold from here. james acton, thank you for your time. my pleasure. appreciate your expertise as this breaking story unfolds. for those in other parts of the country, rolling blackouts and empty supermarket shelves. that s common. in the hardest hit areas of northeastern japan we re still getting the full scope of the disaster. loved ones searching for missing folks and shelters and makeshift hospitals are full. and the japanese broadcaster nhk reports many shelters are running out of food and fuel. meanwhile, this is what is left of the sendai airport. 21st century infrastructure completely destroyed. a cottage has landed at

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110314:08:03:00

accident. three mile was very difficult. it was caused by operation error. this was following by a devastating earthquake and tsunami. nonetheless the nature of cooling the reactor was the same. three mile island was the expense x tense sieve meltings of the core. what we have to hope is there s a similar outcome on this occasion. any time you have a core melting there s a substantial increase for radio activity but there s no guarantee. you can find out more about the impact the earthquake has had on our website. i know you ve got a lot of questions about that as have the rest of us. got in touch with a number of agencies to try to answer those queries. all of that is at cnn.com/international. we ve been seeing images

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110313:13:12:00

basic. preferred. at meineke i have options on oil changes. and now i get free roadside assistance with preferred or supreme. my money. my choice. my meineke. joining me now, james acton, a physician cy . 24 hours, they started pumping sea water into the course of the first of the reactors. you only do that if you basically decided to write off the reactor anyway. because it rested out and no longer useful. correct. so you re only going to do that if you re seriously worried about the possibility of significant core melting. overnight, they then started a similar procedure in reactor three. what s significant about unit three is unit three was not a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110313:16:14:00

of possibilities. we have seen the japanese authorities already acknowledged there has been some partial melting of the core. which is the better end of this bad spectrum. a whole specter of possibilities. melting of the core might release substantial amounts of radioactivity into the environment. but it does not necessarily do so. the three mile island accident, there was a very large degree of core melting. actually remarkably little quantity of radiation released into the environment. both significant uncertainty about what s going on at the moment and significant uncertainty about the possibility outcome. bottom line is it could be controllable and not as bad as the term meltdown might sound or it could be pretty catastrophic. we don t know what range this is in. that s right. i mean when you say catastrophe, i think what immediately comes to mind is chernobyl and that s a very unhelpful thing to people s

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110313:08:07:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110313:08:07:00
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