going to cut off one-fifth of the energy overnight. what i said was that there are some plants we have 23 of these fukushima designs here in the united states, a number of them on the new madrid fault. it s crazy to keep moving forward with old decrepit plant that s are then set on these fault lines o. that s insane. it has to be revisited by an independent evaluation. james, is there some middle ground here? i mean, can we should we be building nuclear plants with far more redundancy for an earthquake and a tsunami at the same time? yes. and we already have substantial safety regulations that require the operators of nuclear power plants to have procedures in place to test those procedures, to go through emergency drills. and keep in mind that for the decades that we ve been utilizing nuclear power, without any catastrophes, we are still going to learn from what s happening in japan, which is is not going to be a catastrophe either. so certainly we re going to
team. joining me, paul gunter, the president of reactor oversight and james taylor, a senior fellow at the hartland institute. paul, nuclear plants, good or bad for this country? bad. i mean, cliearly what s been noe straighted the fume chkushima i nuclear power is more of a disaster. when you need the power the most, this system will fail you, as has happened. you know, i think what we should remember is is that nuclear power plants, whether they re pressurized water reactors like he showed there, or boiling water reactors like at fukushima, they all shut down when the grid goes down. because 100% of their power for safety systems is is reliant the grid you mean the electrical grid. when electricity isn t present, they shut down. exactly. let s bring james in.
week. this effort to count america s population is a massive undertaking only happens every 10 years. so, just how many counters will it take, how much does it cost and what does all this information really rused for? check in with james rosen in washington to break it all down for us. james in. reporter: good afternoon. kudos to our top producer, maria donovan, laying down very groovy 1974 jefferson starship, count on me, teasing out to the bump right now. the great recession has been a boon to the census bureau it created a unusually well-qualified applicant pool for 1.2 million workers door-to-door this spring and summer to count every person in the united states. this is something we do that we spend $14.7 billion over 10 years. not because we re a nation of statistics junkies. the constitution mandates this exercise and it has a direct impact on everyone in america. the results determines how many seats each state gets