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disease is threatened by hunting and by the destruction of their natural habitat, zookeeper, se ziggy and history are likely to become star attractions, not least because of their human. like all the you're watching d. w news up next. we've got a documentary looking at the very real danger that nuclear weapons still pose. i'm terry martin from me and all of us here at the w. thanks for watching the news in the green. do you feel worried about the i'm neil, host of the on the green thing. we need to change. join me for the size of the green transformations for me, for you. ah
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. right now, i'd like to bring you a different kind of story in its own way. it's just as dramatic as anything, a writer, a dream that has to do with a new power source. this power source is moved in 70 years because the deadly power of the atomic bomb was re branded as the piece for nuclear energy model. we were a full fund of technology, glamorous. they were like inside a secret inside the magical world and irresistible to government. it was clear to france that is a salivation was nuclear, nuclear business. everybody in the electric utility business is suddenly deciding, wow, we need nuclear power to back from the beginning. the peaceful actually was don't buy safety concern primo and basically being clear that accidents could
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have a serious accident by rising cost economically so complex, so difficult, so tricky is kind of pulled under by its own dead weight. and that's for that period of time left, a school counted about for new in favor of greenpeace. to be honest with you today, nuclear power to survive is keep kind of there is no nuclear, renee sounds that's a fairy town fabricate. if i look on that title, love tases, and we know the awesome has changed. our world isn't or room who why don't in the aftermath of world war 2,
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everyone was talking about the awesome and terrifying capabilities of new fish. and what really changed the climate was the speech given by president eisenhower in december, 1953 at the united nations, which he called adams for peace, thomas bombs today. i'm more than 25 times as powerful as the weapons with what the atomic aides don't. it began with a lot of gloom and doom, and then heat circles around and ends with this beautiful happy tale of how atomic energy is going to bring blessings and health and prosperity to the world. this greatest of destructive forces can be developed into a great boon for the benefit of all mankind. the president's speech was immediately transmitted to 70 or overseas post by the u. s. i a press service they bore the communist could to start and misinterpret americans. proposals. adams for peace,
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quickly became internationalized the propaganda around adams for peace included traveling exhibits where people could go and see little nucular artifacts. niece exhibits would attract throngs of people around the world. the exhibit in west berlin was visited by a quarter of a 1000000 people, including thousands from the adult ah, in india, prime minister nero came to view of the exhibit and share the experience with thousands of his countrymen, of all the countries that were targeted for adams for peace propaganda, none was more important to the american government than japan. on the 1st day of november, 1955 united states, adams activation opened in tokyo, the united states since exhibits to japan. it promoted the work of japanese scientists and atomic energy work. adams for peas,
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helped sort of send this message that have a good guys. it's sort of help whitewash the bad odor created by hiroshi, nagasaki. the general public was being encouraged to look on the bright side, so to speak, by demonstrating the or was this enthusiasm, burgeoning all over the world? was it propaganda or was a policy? the answer is it was both. it was at the same time and effort to influence public perceptions to change the way people talked about nuclear energy. and the other hand, it was a serious genuine initiative to spread what they saw as the benefits of atomic power throughout the world. the potential of civil nuclear power suddenly was seen as a global beacon of progress. every country involve water to take part in the development of this, this new leaving future of atomic energy can cut off by nuclear power. was one of
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the technologies that distinguish you as a high tech country rather than an average want to ship. if you were a young scientist or engineer graduating college in the 1950s, in the united states of america. you are in a pretty sweet place. the scientists had stepped forward as the new wizards, the warlocks, the magicians were going to bring all of these wonderful things to the future. they were like, inside the magical world. you know that the scientist, the study, this was really fascinating people and they were part of this very, very elite group of special people. the british set up the 1st civil nuclear plants had called her whole in the u. k. rep. it's such a very important event. the queen came to perform the sentiment of the big switch on a definite lead. and the 2nd industrial revolution has been taken by the british
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government was triumphant as being the 1st nation to launch and nuclear power program. britain saw itself as the pioneer of nuclear power. we were the 1st where the nuclear power station and our technology lead the world. but others weren't far behind. france will begin producing nuclear energy and take its place as one of the great atomic nations alongside the united states. the u. s. s. r and english gone. they're going to tell you when to go came to power after world war 2 separate people should main concern went to restore frances former glory as a world power on. don't you self 945 to go find an official order to create the atomic energy commission to meet. but frances, react as one not only for producing electricity. the 1st nuclear power site in france was presented as a prototype for electricity generation. and that was what all the fanfare was about
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. what do you do? what do you believe? now the public can see what has made france a player and the industrial utilization of the ad. in reality and from the very beginning, the market reactors were designed to optimize the production of weapons grade, plutonium pulled whole wasn't a power reactor, its purpose was to produce weapons, grade plutonium material. the electricity was a useful byproduct. and in fact, that was not connected to react to a toll. ah, governments were not the only ones spinning a positive message. private nuclear companies were getting, you know, me, to general electric was really instrumental and they did a lot of work. they had a comic book, they had film strips, and it was all done with bright colors, with exciting little characters. let's start by meeting a leading authority on the subject. doctor adam the public mood was
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galvanized by the new atomic power station springing up. the reactor actually became towards detraction in and of themselves. at my school, there was a lookout point where tourists could go and view models of the reactor and see the whole site. but i felt the thrill quite so much in science. i felt proud of franko when i look back, i think, yeah, i always say that we felt we were the full fund of technology. it wasn't the driver. what the country has a home was raising their head out and saying, we can make it 50 is gone, vice insane. even had a lot of hair. and one of my jobs was to test materials for steve x and i used to climb inside the reactor building main structure inside the ducks and
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everything and chest, all of the wells looking rather like a super version of a plastic macintosh is unusual. designed for workers that britain's atomic blood. once you're inside m, as in between 5 and all that remains is to pump in compressed as to where i can breathe easily. these be transport like a mitchell in man with a special cry, living with an umbilical code supplying a actually my body, sorting and breathing and sized throat microphones and name climb through every part of the react. when the boilers satcher, we will not talk to because people from coal plants used to come to us and said, my is in a clean, is it a wonderful, clean environment you living? i could take you to an old coal thought pass station with doing exactly what tony and i used to come out black ah, across the atlantic american utility companies were to invest in atomic energy. ah,
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it seemed like there was no risk in building a nuclear power plant because the price was low, and the vendors, westinghouse, and general electric guaranteed that price. and then comes the gold rush, where everybody in the electric utility business is suddenly deciding, wow, we need nuclear power to not everyone share that enthusiasm. i bought a g o o d g there was a plan to build a reactor to digger bay california. protests 1st started from local people who were just concerned about the view, but then people began to do a certain amount of homework, and they began to get concerned by radioactivity released from the plant in normal operation. there was also more particularly the possibility of an accident involving a nuclear plant, which might release a lot more radioactivity the public didn't in fact,
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really know that they're all had already been the number of significant industrial accidents in nuclear installations in canada, in switzerland, in the us and in the u. k, there was a very big fight with scale. i've never cold. i discovered when i went to japan, i was talking to the japanese ministry shed to me, how did, how are you getting on with getting with the counselors? and i said to my officials, what we didn't want to bother you minister. but eager bay actually persuaded the local our tricity company to abandon the plant. and this was the 1st time that a nuclear proposal of this kind had actually failed because of opposition by the public. and it was going to be the 1st of many. i remember when i 1st read to the states as a minister, i was told that they had a policy of 2002002000 nuclear power station by the year 2000. but the local
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opposition was so strong that they couldn't build them, and they were some nuclear scientists and engineers who help this opposition. we had to marvelous general electric engineers who quit and became whistleblowers. i testified on the n r c quality assurance program that the quality assurance on a toaster is greater than that for the instruments that control a nuclear power plant. on the other hand, there was inadvertent support the very pro nuclear director of the oak ridge, national lab, alvin weinberg always harboured concerns. he thought that there shouldn't be one nuclear plant here and one nuclear plant there, that it will be better if we had 6 in one nuclear reservation. so that you could use what he called the small number of very competent scientists and engineers to manage it. just as the position was growing, stronger, global,
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and then suddenly my nuclear power looks a lot more appealing in 1900. 73. the big middle east producers cut off oil shipments. 2 major consuming countries on the embargo was lifted. the price of foreign oil had jumped from $3.00 to $12.00 a barrel, 4 times higher than before. this nation in 1980 can have all the energy we need. now don't right another probably a lot. now you're really gonna catch it from your readers if you do, because it scares, nope, you're out. i think of the bach. i think of the possibility that what i'm going to go up, my house and san clemente, just miles from the southern california edison companies, nuclear power plant, it's safe, it produces good power. it's cleaned out. and the united states, which 1st found the secret of the am, is buying where it ought to be. and the develop a nuclear power. nixon proposed
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a huge expansion of nuclear power in the name of getting america out from under the boot of opec. but even with nixon support, there was one pressing problems, the cost of every reactor and the nuclear power plant surrounding it. those costs were doubling every 2 years doubled and then it doubled again. i can't tell you, let me see because when the price of oil quadrupled, it was quite a shock. let's look at their cost. 68 percent of our electricity came from oil digital. we had, i think the moment crisis began. it became clear to france that it salvation was nuclear. it didn't nuclear, the midwife clear power for electricity, lily pcp missile the only area where you could easily replace oil electricity because in 1973. we already had the generation of nuclear reactance act on nuclear
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. spurred on by the oil crisis, the french government move quickly to build more nuclear power plants. it didn't have to worry about public opinion. i quoted you point when it comes to decisions. it's just a small group of people making the body from the area from the atomic energy commission fuels, basically tom administrator and i work with the state representing that people don't pay for off. and so you have the authorization to build a nuclear plan and that was it in the us. things were a little more complicated to us. it was very fragmented around 2800 different electricity company. you felt they kept changing the designs in an, in a competitive frenzy to try and get ahead of the other guys. and that meant that the construction times for nuclear plants just balloon way to do business. the business i france's ambitious nuclear
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program is becoming the largest in the world. the united states could only look on and one down the front on clearing the time, the bill to $58.00 reactors, the americans candle. 200 to solve ma'am, was the difference in what i just felt. meanwhile, frances next door neighbor had other nuclear issues to contend with. the 1970 west germany. so the growth of one of the largest movements, again, nuclear energy in western europe, possibly the well. yeah, there's or this of all of those, those people were concerned because they started hearing that in the areas around reactor tries from doors that were unexplained illnesses or environmental change. the concord sailor
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down the same door. so you have to remember that germany had a pass mark by war, and it was part of the cold war in which nuclear weapon he played an important role . awesome. and so there was a lot of insecurity, and this was intensified by atomic energy. wouldn't be at home and the real point of origin protests in a very small south german village of via where a new power station was pissed rebuild this law. the local citizens initiative tried to stop it in the ass was the only option they had was to occupy the building site where the ball plots not up, they mark the site. they brought in 10 whole thousands of people too many, really for the police to handle and set up a camp with a lot of guitar singing. and what was classes in free love and all that sort of
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thing. oh i see when you got wind makers from the kaiser store student, then journalists and an expert talking to one another, exp, this counter expertise is the foundation of the german anti nuclear movement to the end, it all started here and to the phil the veal piece, will teach in gave way to much uglier scenes wherever there were plans to build a reactor. there were huge protests and pay on lexi pleasures with the police in golf. blocked off in 1981, 150000 people gathered for an illegal demonstration in february. and the freezing call by issac came to dallas. tx dot for the state reacted completely disproportionately the gas, they spent hundreds of policemen by helicopter munster,
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who went through the crowd cooper and i think we were sorry, frisked, but we settled, went aloud on to the site and puts in demonstrations that was for business with foreboding to demonstrate protesters on both sides of the atlantic had been sound in the alarm about the prospect of an accident at a nuclear plant. the industry dismissed their fears until early one morning. in march 1979, i came in to work in the commissioner went running by me. john earned any sick. i use your car as a t shirt. i guess there's a discovery that we've got a problem. harrisburg, pennsylvania, an accident at a nuclear power plant. a spokesman said that a feed water pump broke down this morning, automatically shutting down the 3 mile nuclear power plant. people think that emergency, everybody starts running around like an operating room. you know,
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in fact everything kind of slow down because you tremendous uncertainty about the facts. the information's contradictory meters are reading very high radiation. as for saying these meters must be wrong. overwhelming feeling is just the fog of information. no information fog. it was very much unexpected. and is feeling is this is much worse than anything that could have imagined it been some near serious accents, but not one like 3 mile island. and when that happened, i think the whole the whole framework fell apart. it could no longer claim that nuclear plants were safe. that was a very defining moment. even though they say, what was joe, we all have the i
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was going to blow was the peace activist collector. this is a new problem to deal with in the ages. we had this sort of is this inevitable march towards a future? and at the same time, we were looking at the situation where there was his wheezing puffing planted winscow and which was pumping out 2000000 gallons of contaminated material into the she everyday. i mean know thing was just a joke. i really was and we had to dress in some way at 1st light green a piece roll ready and about that plan was simple block one and a half mile long discharge pipe with stoppers like this one is confidential briefing with depression. i said, you know, we're going to bung the pipe pump, we have bunk ready. we're going to stop discharges. and somehow that got late,
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i'm being felt then knew that we were going to do it right at this moment. no confusion maintenance to the punch. they've obviously known precisely what we've been going to do for the last week or so. i worked very heavily on this point and it's impossible for us to we've got at the moment block the point. it was a balancing act always to try to deal with him sensible. but india to use a lot of message to stop them doing things which i felt dangerous. they needed to be told. they will not be on the law any more than where you are and the sell hours are badly a times. advocates of nuclear power and opponents of nuclear power just didn't speak the same language. it wasn't that one of them had a monopoly effects is that the interpreted the evidence differently. they saw the range of concerns differently be nfl decided that they would no longer use name when scale for the facility. they would call it sellafield,
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which is the name of the little village where it originally been built. ironically it, soon after the name change was announced, be nfl was accused of having radioactivity on the shoreline and leaks in at least 2 of their facilities. i was tempted to go and tackle a safety issue and then i was told no, be positive about the good things which i knew they will bring. and that was the start of the idea of a business center. welcome. so her name is dale to showing you around the summerville plans. it goes to the to include it to go. the whole consternation shade, the generation electricity on the 1st commercial sized nuclear power station. subliminal messages got through which we could then build on. it must be safe, mustn't it? because they've been, digest us to go up,
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go round. and they are trying to be out on this because they're asking us to go to the nuclear had previously been really in secrecy. the industry had a quite a reputation for just not telling anybody or anything and the result now we're really trusted them. so they went for a kind of kind of glance and openness policy. and then, just as the charm offensive seemed to be working, unless viewers of moscow television were watching the 9 p. m. news closely on monday, april 28th. they would have missed the brief and buried report of the biggest nuclear accident in history and accident that occurred at least 2 days earlier, at chernobyl in the ukraine. chernobyl definitively ended the industry's line that there could never be an explosion that a reactor could never blow up like a bomb effectively. that's what happened. it blew up
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dramatic event and of course did create widespread doubts about nuclear. there was a very concerted effort by all the western governments to distance themselves as fast as they could and blame it all in russian technology. it can be stated categorically that an accident, similar to that one could not happen in a british nuclear station to reactor of the generic design simply wouldn't have been allowed to operate in britain. in the days following the disaster, a plume of radioactive fallout drifted west wood over europe to the along those in the appendix. you know, the off that you noble. there was an area in germany and italy collective i know human organ can sense the danger only these machines detected as radioactivity. i was found in the school at playground, with my geography teacher at the time,
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who had got himself a geiger counter out of the pharmacy to check whether there was any high radio activity. level of course was useless because we didn't know what the normal level of words the momentum was. it's from the moment of people that old don't aim me. mushroom kind of pit from that moment on the accepted among the german violation. time was completely calm that i can refer a goal phallic to him. i just really nice is completely normal and highest. and then she never happens, and it hits us like a bomb, disliked i'm in a bullet, hits us personally, and supposed to be for me with a road to damascus moment. my eyes were suddenly opened to what it all meant. boyd, in an effort to be called ourselves parents against their parents. but then we know that's not really a good name. we don't want to be against them. i think we want to be for something
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this and that's why we changed our name to parents for a nuclear, for a future ones. together with other families. and michelle flooding was so determined to rid the village of nuclear power that they made, and they should be to take control of the local energy grid friday. couldn't be your 1st day. you can hardly imagine when a citizen initial we're building our own energy company to apply to the citizens of our town with electricity at 1st everyone says mich, how is that supposed to work to you to asked my yeah. so that scheme and, and of course the energy provider said, definitely won't work, they'll never feed their shots, and d doff need up against all odds. the initiative did succeed, creating a citizen owned in his cooperative resort. we have a vision of an energy supply without nuclear power. at the energy provider wasn't prepared to do that. for britain,
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the energy market was changing all over the country or electricity use it would be preparing for the 12 regional electricity companies share rappers. real estate should not everyone supported the conservative governments privatization plans. the postponement by 6 months of the privatization of electricity industry is only 6 months, and it's still going to happen. is it really that significant? i think it's significant because what it indicates is that the plans that are complete mass and most people already realize that that bills have gone out in order to pay the way for privatization. they've got huge problems because they want to sell the nuclear industry, which is going to be very difficult to sell the cost of ultimately decommissioning and return the sites to essentially a complete, usable, clean status have been underestimated the costs of future dealing with the spent fuel had been underestimated. i think it's very unwise to embark on
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a new nuclear program when we don't even know how to deal with the what's left over the legacy of the old. but we realize that the nuclear industry just could not be privatized quite early on. we told the government, we can't do it and the government said rubbish, go away and think of a way that we can do it. so we went away with trying this and trying that. but in the end we just said, look, we just really can't do it. and so the government, the end said, okay, you can't do it. therefore we will pull it. and it was quite a momentous occasion. the government did manage to sell off the power stations soon . the new private nuclear company also ran into the company, went into steady financial decline for from about the year, 2000 to my 2002, it was in effect bankrupt. it had to be rescued by the government with 340000000 pounds initially. and eventually went up to over 600000000 to keep the company
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alive. nuclear suddenly looked like her just just a dead end area to work in. and these of them very, very well qualified, very smart people felt that they, they've made a terrible career choice and their whole life in a sense, been wasted. they had never look so fine, ripple. i know we moved to an in germany if, when the peace movement and logical movement discovered the parliament plan could be, you know, when the green party form the government. this is centralist, social democrats. in 1998, it looked like time was up for nuclear power. in the year 2000 and the red green government decided to phase out nuclear power went out to time. and i think we have to answer the process of negotiation with the company about the maximum lifespan of each plant, which until then had been unlimited. and the bas diane on began spun. and we wanted to limit them to enable a phase with shot down. but that meant that once all the existing reactors that had
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started operating in the seventy's and eighty's reached the end of their lifespan, nuclear phase, out in germany, what happened automatically comes with let's go on to see if broad support both from the media and from the general public, these understood the some was yesterday's news. it needed to recapture the excitement of the early years. but then came the of a come back. the very 1st time i heard the term warming was from a nuclear power industry executive in 1981. when i said what is that? and he explained what the warming was. he says, that's why we can't rely on coal. says just once, i'd like to pick up the phone and say, atomic industrial form co kills energy is the story you just to be good to continue writing with c o 2 by the 2000 people had begun to
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realize the global warming was a severe problem and people in the fire, even leading environmentalists began to say, well, maybe we'd better rethink nuclear power. the threat of climate change prompted us to, to ask the question, if we wanted to build nuclear plants in the united states by the 2010, what would it take? so we start to ask that question could department of energy, but also there were policymakers. senator pete domenici was a voice in the congress on this. i think we all know that the world must have nuclear power as soon as possible. it is time for this country to start building nuclear power plants. again, we are now roughly $8000000000.00 in loan guarantees to break ground on the 1st new nuclear plant in our country in 3 decades. first, nuclear power plant the
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us, you see industry was brimming with renewed confidence. 13 companies apply to 25 new reactors. and the mix is changing in the u. k. 2 by 2025. if current policy is unchanged, there will be a dramatic gap on our targets to reduce c o 2 emissions. these fact puts the replacement of nuclear power stations back on the agenda with a vengeance. i suppose we shouldn't be surprised. the politicians say one thing and there's nothing in government, but that's what happens. and that's certainly what happened. it was often reported the new plan wanted to leave a strong legacy and a part of his legacy most perhaps launching a nuclear power program that would solve the problem of global warming and insulating a few lofts bringing in
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a few small wind turbines on land. doesn't have that same impressive sound to it as launching a huge nuclear power program. successes will equally enthusiastic in 2008 gordon brown called for a nuclear plants to be built cross c k. and in 2010, david cameron's new coalition government gave those plans the green light. even the germans looked fit to give the atom. another chance the nuclear industry knew that medical was rethinking her previous position. and then when the c d, u and the liberal party, the f b p fall into government, they actually agreed to go back on the decision and not to face out nuclear energy . it was the basic idea at the time was to use nuclear power plants for as long as was technically feasible. with them longer acts the resulting additional income and
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then use this tax to finance changes for the energy policy landscape in germany. listen to finance. in france, we're hoping to repeat, it's new to success on the international stage. when stuff because he came to power, many of the trips he made abroad involved seeking nuclear deals. he signed contracts with china. he signed nuclear cooperation agreements with several countries in north africa and the middle east. you need to keep in mind that you can't build endless numbers of reactors and france, no matter how enthusiastic you get about it. the extraordinary thing that happened looking back was the british energy. the british nuclear industry became effective in the french nuclear industry and was taken over by adf, the french government, state, and energy companies. ah, the 1st decade of the new century came to close the nuclear. renee was in full swing. but then you know,
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i still remember the morning when i woke up and heard it was a earthquake. it's not me in japan, an immunity star? i think about friends i have in japan, so i went to the office and it was trying to reach people by e mail, but also watching events on tv. and then we started to know, noticed that there was a problem that went to do for power plants in the early years, the worst radioactivity in the, in the planet came from all the weapons testing. now it's coming from the accident . on the civilian side. i remember it was one senior staff person who was watching the video on television and he was almost in tears. and i remember he turned to me and he said, you know, i spent my whole career trying to key something like this been happening. and now i'm watching you have no television, and it was really a very emotional moment. the. this was
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a western design reactor, and this was also japan. and this is a country, highly advanced country with excellent engineers. and somehow this still happened when folk ashima happened. you could see that the nuclear industry's damage limitation machine had moved into action as fate would have it. i was actually myself traveling with my wife through japan. and for me personally, i remember hearing these reassurances from the japanese government and i couldn't help. but thinking of the sort of irony of this message that the country that for that had been such a target of this peaceful am message in the 1950s, was now itself putting out its own version of reassurance of atomic energy. a p r faced was the biggest p r headache since to noble governments and the nuclear industry closed ranks. with one notable
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germany, let's see much of the machine. things have changed. it is about the reliability of risk reduction and about the reliability of probability analysis. done therefore, the use of nuclear energy and germany will be thought to an end by 2020 most of those always. so that's unless you have to see it as a final step and a very long good bye to nuclear power that's been going on. the 1970s in gets sold and hot. hi, patel won't find a single political party today of whatever color that's prepared to even talk about doing anything with nuclear energy. and that topic is complete. at this point, solar and wind power are growing so fast and the costs are declining so rapidly that nuclear is like this all dinosaur, they can't possibly keep up the only nuclear power plant and massachusetts will be
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shutting down by $29.00 team fighting california, changing energy landscape, pacific gas and electric is closing diable canyon. the real factor in the united states is just practicalities. i mean, we have the discovery of natural gas and large quantities and it's much cheaper and it's much easier. of course, nuclear power still has its champions. one of the things we want to do a deal is to is to make nuclear energy cool. one of the problems that the people who object to nuclear power really have. and can we solve those? technically, can we make nuclear power? it doesn't produce waste. that last for hundreds, thousands of years, can we make nuclear power plant? they can't meltdown. and i think the answer, those questions is actually yes, ah, i know you can be confident that it is going to happen this time in the western world. countries and it's going to happen in the far east.
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some of the oldest play is nuclear gain. china make no mistake about it. this is an important day for britain. a british plant financed by france and china. the focus has been on a planet called hinckley point c, and the claim was made by d f. that this would be done absolutely without any public subsidy, which turned out of course, to be complete nonsense the subsidies got less and less well disguised until they got to the point where they were offering a guaranteed price for the electricity for 35 years. at 3 times the going rate in the u. k. l breaks it right off teresa, my question, the deal made between camera and government and half google on the montgomery for the if hippy and the chinese is to fill in. and it seems, i managed to get my government to reconsider them. things went ahead after all,
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a whole, consider it left in the middle. china is becoming a nuclear energy exporting power house. the country is building reactors at home and selling its expertise abroad in china to resistance to atomic power is growing amid mountain concerns regarding health and safety and future costs lives an inherently political technology because of the nature of the risk and safety aspect . to decades, scientists and politicians for nuclear power as the technology, as the future one which they were best to quit to despise, felt like if the public would just leave them alone. they would control the technology, they would fix the problems with the accents. you know, if they just let us keep working, we're going to take care of all your concerns and all your problem when it comes to
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the relationship between the atom and us. history suggests that in the end, it will surely be just people who are filling computers. think of all kinds of reasons. you know, people are bike. and so these guys are thinking of all kinds of reasons posted by nuclear power plants. because that's, that's what they're selling. it's, we have to decide if we want to buy the me, they know how you think they know you better than you know yourself. there's no, they'll get your money said even recently found ways to get in your head how business behavior and how the pandemic has changed the get
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injured in 90 minutes on d w. me. oh, what people say matters to us in that's why we listen to their stories reporter every weekend on d w. it's about billions. it's about power. it's about the foundation of the world order. the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network. also in europe. china is promised partners rich profit. in europe, there's a sharp warning you want, wherever, except money from the new superpower will be dependent on china's gateways.
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