and now some critics are accusing the japanese government of lying about how dangerous the situation really is. joining us to help us sort out fact from fiction are physicist richard muriel in san francisco and howard gould who exposes the expansion of nuclear energy. richard, we heard that some of the fall-out now is actually going to reach california. we re told the radiation threat is minimal but aren t you scared? not in the slightest. we can detect exceedingly low levels of radiation because we have exquisitely sensitive instruments. the levels that will reach here will be so minuscule that there is really no danger whatsoever in the united states. juan: on you mean to say it doesn t matter? i can t believe it doesn t matter. i think it doesn t matter. when the levels are so small that it takes these instruments to detect them, we re talking here about micrograms.
of lying about how dangerous the situation really is. joining us to help us sort out fact from fiction are physicist richard muriel in san francisco and howard gould who exposes the expansion of nuclear energy. richard, we heard that some of the fall-out now is actually going to reach california. we re told the radiation threat is minimal but aren t you scared? not in the slightest. we can detect exceedingly low levels of radiation because we have exquisitely sensitive instruments. the levels that will reach here will be so minuscule that there is really no danger whatsoever in the united states. juan: on you mean to say it doesn t matter? i can t believe it doesn t matter. i think it doesn t matter. when the levels are so small that it takes these instruments to detect them, we re talking here about micrograms. this is less than you get from a