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Winsome Earle-Sears: “We're not talking about Fukushima type meltdowns. We don't…”

Featuring: Winsome Earle-Sears, Republican | Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

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One-on-one with Virginia's Republican Governor Candidate Winsome Earle-Sears

Published | Video Starts at 09:34

And by the way, the average age of those ships, guess what, they're about 22, 23. And we've not had any reports of that. We're not talking about Fukushima type meltdowns. We don't build those kind of nuclear reactors anymore. And so we have the ability in the study now with Wise University and, well, you know, the university at Wise. (09:34–09:41)

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Asserts that modern nuclear reactors are not built like those involved in the Fukushima disaster.

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