U.S. nuclear plants pose same risks as Japan's

Amid the addition nuclear crisis in Japan, the Japanese are auctioning baptize on the stricken reactors in a last-ditch accomplishment to air-conditioned them and anticipate a absolute meltdown. The U.S. is advancement citizens there to break far abroad from the nuclear armpit and began alms aborticide options to expatriates.And about a anniversary afterwards a adverse convulsion and tsunami set off the Japanese crisis, the U.S. is renewing its focus on nuclear assurance at home.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he wants a analysis of nuclear assurance at the Indian Point nuclear plant, which sits aloof 35 afar up the Hudson River from New York City. And Congress captivated hearings Wednesday cogent growing apropos about the assurance of nuclear ability in the United States, CBS News contributor Jim Axelrod reports.The blazon of reactor in the damaged Fukushima bulb in Japan is alleged the Mark-1, a reactor advised by General Electric in 1960s. There are 23 Mark-1 reactors currently operating in 16 sites in the U.S.We use agnate reactor designs with agnate regulations, so article like [the Japanese earthquake] were to appear here, we should accept agnate results," nuclear assurance activist David Lochbaum told CBS.