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Peter Welch: “If something can go wrong, even when we think it won't, it probably at some point will go wrong and that's what we saw…”

On the recordDecember 13, 2011
If something can go wrong, even when we think it won't, it probably at some point will go wrong and that's what we saw in Japan.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Welch highlights the potential risks of nuclear power, referencing the Fukushima disaster.

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