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Welcome to a special edition of the Scientific American Podcast Science Talk.

David Beello prepared what follows for his podcast, 60 Second Earth. We are running it as a science talk. David Bello prepared what follows for his podcast,

60 Second Earth.

We are running it as a science talk as well.

This is Mike Weber.

We received a cable through international programs,

which came from the ambassador in Vienna.

And we just want to alert you to this,

not that you need to do anything with the information,

but to make sure that you have awareness of it.

Mike Weber is with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the NRC,

and that's him on March 11, 2011, informing his colleagues at the agency

that a nuclear accident is brewing in Japan following the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

This recording and the others that follow come from those released by the NRC in the wake of multiple Freedom of Information Act requests.

Weber went on.

It's a brief cable that summarizes the current perspective of the International

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