glitch. 63 million dollars. that s how much it will cost the u.s. astronaut in 2014 to flyy two and from a international space station on a russian spacecraft. they have a biggest contract charge and 56 million and now that we are overa barrel. russia wants more. brian: us the space plane. threat of a nuclear disaster in japan may affect america s energy policy. we have details on what else we could be dealing with. hey, william. reporter: there are three concerns. the engineering problem that may exist in 12 u.s. plants and what does it mean for the nuclear industry. first, remember that no energy source is risk free. you have oil rick. coal mining cave ins and nuclear release and national gas explosion. that can have a political back
plan for the gulf of mexico, and not one time in the 582-page plan buzz bp lay out a method for controlling the gusher after a blowout occurs. the blowout wasn t a possibility. in a recent interview with the financial times you admitted what is undoubtedly true is we did not have the tools you would want in your tool kit. my question to you is very simple. why not? why weren t you prepared? why did you elevate profits over safety? i don t believe we did elevate profits over safety. what i was referring to in the article was a very complicated engineering problem we were faced with after the rig sank. attached to his riser. so we had a well, a riser, and a rig on the floor. we didn t have the pieces of equipment instantly available to cut the riser to cut off the top of the riser, and find a way to
but but you and i have spoken on the phone, professor, and i know yes. you re concerned about the whole structural quality of this rig that is out there right now. tell me what your worst-case fears are? well, let me explain for your listeners that a well is actually sort of a very fragile system in which the pipe goes through the rock and quite complex. and my concern, my fear, is that the integrity of that well has, in fact, been compromised by the blowout and by other activities. my worst fear is that the oil will find its way through the rock to the seabed rather than through the well and we ll go from an engineering problem to a natural problem. we here living in santa barbara have an example. there are natural seeps, 100 barrels of oil a day, they ve been doing it for half a million years. this could go from something we can resolve to a permanent
basic reason, which is that president obama right from the start said to the private industry, look, don t go after us on this. i m not going to go after you. you don t go after us. he said, i would deliver a very large customer base for you, who would be insured largely with federal dollars. i don t think his idea was to bring business to him, but to avoid a massive lobbying onslot. without a deeper change of the health delivery system which we never discussed really in the past year, we re not going to get the costs in a meaningful way under control. what s wrong with the current health insurance discussion, you can hear it when we try to grapple with it is it s treated as an engineering problem. it s a markets problem as well. we don t know the price of our
that president obama right from the start said to the private industry, look, don t go after us on this. i m going to go after you. you don t go after us. he said, i would deliver a very large customer base for you, who would be insured largely with federal dollars. it was to avoid a massive lobby and onslaugt. without a deeper change of the health delivery system which we never discussed really in the past year, we re not going to get the costs in a meaningful way under control. what s wrong with the current health insurance discussion, you can hear it when we try to grapple with it is it s treated as an engineering problem. it s a markets problem as well. we don t know the price of our health insurance, so we can t cost it out. one reason americans are so