Check out this week's radio segment here. It discusses the current flooding at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant near Council Bluffs and potential safety issues all Americans should consider. You can read the transcript below. With the Fukushima tragedy still fresh on everyone’s mind it’s time for Americans to consider the safety of our own…
ilgts is ten minutes past the hour. back to your quote of the day. quote that was former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. he said that to piers morgan and said it just last night. he was talking about a presidential bid and if he might, you know, kind of ran, he could probably win. apple, and nike, are making our high-tech headlines at this hour. let s head straight to hong kong and kristie lu stout. this apple thing is getting weirder and weirder. weirder and weirder. new twist in the story. police in san francisco have launched an investigation into the search of a man s home by apple xwlooes employees. last month two apple investigators searched a man s home looking for what is believed to be a prototype of the next iphone lost in a bar. the man told sf weekly that he consented to the search when the investigators identified themselves as police. and he said it was not clear the pair searching his home were from apple and he would not have authorized the
5.8 and people from boston to richmond, virginia, run out on the street. check this out, last month revealing u.s. nuclear officials were working on a new study about how well our nuclear power plants can handle earthquakes. we re concerned about a magnitude-6 earthquake occurring and surprising us in the east. that s speaking in the context of what our nuclear plants can stand up to. the 5.8 quake we saw today was still a way from being a 6.0, but if you are concerned about something surprising you and something close to that thing happens, can you still say you were surprised? today s quake was in mineral, virginia, happens to be home to the decades old north anna power station, a power plant, at the epicenter of the quake, officials at the plant felt the shaking today and powered down both reactors.
the ten are in the eastern half of the united states. where, remember, they are worried a 6.0 quake might come along and surprise us all, north anna, located at the epicenter of today s quake is top seven of the list. its risk went up 38%, not because the nuclear power plant is more dangerous, but because we know now more about how earthquakes work and the risk they pose to nuclear plants. we started getting more reporting and more reports on the worst risks to america s nuclear power plants starting, of course, in march when an earthquake and tsunami knocked out power to fukushima plant. fuel in three of fukushima s reactors didn t just melt down, it melted through the super strong containment vessels at the plant. that disaster is still not over. coincidentally, vice president joe biden was in japan today. remember the scenes of
they also lost the source of electricity the plant brings in to cool the super hot, super dangerous nuclear fuel so it does not overheat. when the quake hit, its diesel generators kicked in. the plant is now running on those generators. in a statement today, no major damage has been reported at the plant and no release of radioactive materials has occurred beyond the minor releases associated with normal station operations. after the earthquake, a dozen nuclear plants from north carolina to michigan declared what the nuclear regulatory commission calls unusual events. those plants are continuing to operate. new estimates for the risk of devastating earthquakes at our country s 104 commercial nuclear reactors. on the top ten list for serious damage of an earthquake, nine of