Concerns About Nuclear Power

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 16, 2011

The situation at the Fukushima plant in Japan worsened overnight. Matthew McKinzie, a senior scientist at the Natural Resource Defense Council's (NRDC) nuclear program, discusses the future of nuclear power and what lessons the U.S. industry should learn from Japan.

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