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Gilbert Gottfried arrives with the Aflac Duck to the 14th Annual Webby Awards in New York, Monday, June 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes) (Charles Sykes)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
In this image made off Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Earthquake fallout: U.S. looks good again

Andrew Leonard
A radiation detector marks 0.6 microsieverts, exceeding normal day data Tuesday March 15, 2011, near Shibuya train station in Tokyo, four days after a strong earthquake damaged a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa

Maddow delivers tutorial on Japan's nuclear crisis

Peter Finocchiaro
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Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers, mobilized to wash away radioactive material emitted from a nuclear power plant damaged by Friday's earthquake, put on protective gear on their arrival in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

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Wreckage of Toyota Yaris compact sedans, export model for North America destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, remain at a Sendai port, Japan, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) (AP)

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Officials wearing clothing to protect against radiation work in a center to scan residents who have been within 20 kilometers of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant damaged by Friday's earthquake Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) (AP)

Japan nuclear co. may spray reactor by helicopter

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Japan Self-Defense Forces personnel search for victims around a ship swept out by Friday's tsunami in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami hit Japan's east coast. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

Matt Zoller Seitz
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The TVA nuclear plant

Justin Elliott
Officials wearing protective suits chat as they usher people through a radiation emergency scanning center in Koriyama, Japan, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 four days after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) (AP)

Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa
In this Saturday March 12, 2011, photo released by the Japan Defense Ministry, Japanese troopers escort a local resident as they help the evacuation of stranded people at Tagajo, northeastern Japan, after Friday's earthquake and the ensuing tsunami. (AP Photo/Japan Defense Ministry) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Eric Talmadge, Shino Yuasa
An official wears protective clothing while waiting to scan people for radiation an emergency center on Sunday, March 13, 2011, in Koriyama, northeastern Japan, two days after a giant quake and tsunami struck the country's northeastern coast.(AP Photo/Gregory Bull) (AP)

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Christine Todd Whitman

Justin Elliott

Is the West Coast next in line for a deadly quake?

Peter Finocchiaro
In this image made off Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan) MANDATORY CREDIT, JAPAN OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Angela Charlton, John Heilprin

Can U.S. nuclear plants handle a natural disaster?

John Sullivan
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A Japanese rescue team member walks through the completely leveled village of Saito, in northeastern Japan, Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) (AP)

Todd Pitman
(Kenji Shimizu)

Andrew Leonard
A man looks at a securities firm's stock board in Tokyo as Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average lost 155.12 points to close at 10,434.38 Thursday, March 10, 2011. Asian shares fell Thursday, weighed down by ongoing fighting in Libya and a larger than expected contraction in Japan's economy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) (AP)

Pan Pylas, Pamela Sampson
Police officers wearing gas masks patrol in the area of the Fukushima power plant's Unit 1 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture (state), northern Japan, Saturday, March 12, 2011, amid fears that a part of the plant could meltdown after being hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami Friday. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Kaname Yoneyama) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY (AP)

Eric Talmadge, Mari Yamaguchi
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Larry Kudlow

Mary Elizabeth Williams
In this Oct. 3, 2008 photo, six reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant stand in line intact in Okumamachi in Fukushima Prefecture (state), northeastern Japan. Reactors, from bottom left, are: Unit 4, Unit 3, Unit 2, Unit 1, Unit 5 and Unit 6, top. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING ALLOWED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

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This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan underway in the Pacific Ocean Saturday March 12, 2011 enroute to Japan to render humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (AP Photo/US Navy - Dylan McCord) (AP)

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Residents evacuated from areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear facilities damaged in Friday's massive earthquake, are checked for radiation contamination, Sunday, March 13, 2011, in Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) (AP)

Justin Elliott
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