America's Nuclear Nightmare

A Rolling Stone article by Jeff Goodell shares shocking facts about the dangerous state of many nuclear power plants and lack of oversight in America. Is a Fukushima type meltdown inevitable in the United Sates? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss.

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[CrawlingChaos]

@AllWalksofLife "Cancer didn't exist 100 years ago."

wat

[mrmikerotch]

I don't mean to rant, I never do, but this issue hits a little close to home for me. Don't get your information from people who don't understand the subject matter.

[thecaseycourage]

As others have said, I normally enjoy TYT but this video was nigh unbearable. To suggest that the US nuclear industry is some sort of crony, good ole boy, profit-at-any-cost business that cuts corners in lieu of safety is simply beyond the pale.

[TheBoxingCannabyte]

@CrawlingChaos, Oh man, I think I just laughed so hard I now have goat-cancer. It didn't exist until just now.

[xssRavenssx]

@cutting13strings Learn before talking.

[problemnation]

Money doesn't talk it swears.

[cutting13strings]

@xssRavenssx ya cancer is real green

[mrmikerotch]

Gah! I tend to love you guys, but this is stupid! I know you're not nuclear engineers, but come on! "The plants are only supposed to operate for about 40 years"? There's no such thing as retrofits or upgrades? People act like there's a guy shoveling in "nuclear stuff" into a big cast iron reactor. And the fact that people are still comparing the CHS-style reactor (like Chernobyl) to modern reactors is just painfully stupid.

[TheDarkEmporer]

So much misinformation in this video...

[Plautzy77]

I'll admit, I could only make it halfway through this video. I don't need people who know nothing about nuclear power to read articles to me and add their sarcastic comments at the end. By the way, a collapsing cooling tower means absolutely nothing. Coal plants have cooling towers. All they do is cool down water before returning it to the river/lake/ocean or the plant itself. Fukushima is the result of poor location. You don't build one of these things on the ring of fire where you can have hu

[CHEESYhairyGASH]

american population 320 million, 17 million is nearer 5% of population.