even the rich are they getting closer to the mill stone who took some of the old country holes to fill a day in the big east goldman tells the immigrant the grim it used to be the most acute nature of the world ruben's regional. it's all gone now ahead in moscow a nuclear meltdown feeds grow into a turn off to a novel blossom before she mcconnell and it's not just says that the rest baltar of fire and explosion were used fuel rods to hell it's. called darcy's say radiation levels near one of the reactors are now dangerous to human health reports want to put in same and levels of protecting one of the reactors has been damaged around two hundred thousand people have now been

evacuated from the surrounding area. all forces have been for nearly two thousand five hundred people dead so far more than three thousand the missing from the powerful earthquake and devastating tsunami that hit more instances. and more over ninety countries are sending eggs two tons of coal all of the stuff godfrey has also lost the international atomic energy agency for its ex-pats means in attempts to stabilize the fukushima plant. or russia has been pledging help and support in stricken japan sending crews of emergency workers and eight episodes the first earthquake triggered blast assays company that is out of the house more moscow's involvement. russia has sent a number of emergency ministry personnel to japan and they're working in any number of locations we know that

a lot of other them have already arrived in japan and have basically brought every kind of gear with them to be completely utmost independent or at least two weeks that everything it. says is basically necessary to help with that i believe that assistance or so look for survivors that may still sound under the rubble at the sun all the time has left moscow yesterday that's monday heading that warship that was agent and that was a person out deal specifically with the radiation affected areas so all in all the agency this seat is expected to have at least a hundred people working in japan doing everything necessary everything in their power to give assistance where it may be needed as mr russia knows firsthand experience how difficult it is and how horrifying him is to deal with the aftermath

of the radiation the accident at the chernobyl power has as much devastation of course and many mistakes have already been gleaned from that experience building one very bitter lesson that perhaps not everything is under human control as my colleague alex assures can see if. it was a frail old experiment that led to history's biggest nuclear disaster in april one thousand nine hundred six the chernobyl reactor exploded as a result of the wrong individuals being in the wrong place at the wrong time and i'm here and it was they had very poor knowledge of the physics of the reactor they knew the manual and what bonds to push and that's it they knew nothing of the reactor physics the personnel draw the reactor and the street it was out of control while the authorities. clearly knew who to blame for the fall out even the soviet union's top scientists were at a loss as to what to do in the days the catastrophe unfolded the most dump of

a little patient as a remission free will this was something unseen with a nuclear power station with flames and smoke over it always or order of a century on history seems to be repeating in japan despite the or thought of these claims there of having the situation under control the bush human nuclear power plant has already seen by explosions and that's despite advanced safety systems which the chernobyl reactor never had it you. quick reaction was completely foresee means. all the reactors happened as to be happening this is very an exception. when it's. easy it would be decent. but such a situation is unfolding in one of the world's most technologically advanced

countries has heightened the sense of alarm internationally and some experts say one should look into how the japanese have been dealing with nuclear physics to get clues as to their continuing difficulties in dealing with a disaster so the technology is the top. the society the government the regulators believe that the technology can be operated safely but there's a built in psychological complacency if you're operating something so inherently dangerous when you go to work every day do you keep thinking about how dangerous that technology is that would be over time rather damaging psychologically so in other words they convince themselves that they've mastered this technology and unfortunately with nuclear power there's no second chance the japanese nuclear drama is certainly not the first case of man's overreliance and technology can be a dangerous trend and one mishandled can strike in disastrous fashion we have

always seen this with these what they call tech reject this asters you remember last year there was a massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico again you had a very competent famous company that seemed to know what it was doing they simply hadn't planned for conjuncture conditions that would create a disaster so this is the human. condition we we simply are able it seems to handle these technologies were probably not ready for them the nightmare that the chernobyl reactor became was eventually sealed off within a massive concrete sume called the circle forgets the catastrophe provided valuable lessons in how to deal with the reactor disaster but also stern warnings about the dangers of nuclear energy what new lessons will be learned and what implications they will have for nuclear technology the world nervously waits to see alexey russia's ski r.t. . may have been the worst nuclear disaster in history is just one of

a number of incidents like the late his japanese nuclear crisis later on we talked to a former governor of the u.s. state of pennsylvania who had to deal with a similar nuclear virgins in back in one thousand nine hundred ninety he says a one of the most serious setbacks in such situations is the lack of cohesive information coming out or don't miss our interview with richard in around ten minutes time here a lot. of we are following all the continuing developments in japan since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country there are yet more threats in japan news cooling systems of seymour reactors appear to be faltering this is what led to the explosions we've seen so far fears all the nuclear meltdown of skyrocketed since the reactor began to ban is reportedly now told the international atomic energy agency that the facility is releasing radioactive materials into the

atmosphere with a major concern is a radioactive leak increasing radiation levels are now being detected throughout the country including in the capital tokyo readings at the front gate of how a station on tuesday morning showed three years worth of naturally occurring radiation is being emitted within a single hour with the explosions of the side triggered by friday's earthquake and tsunami fault he says maybe two thousand five hundred people dead and more than three holes and obviously that that number is expected to rise dramatically with the situation because she wrote me a power plant it's critical engineers have been using c who also has to cool the reactors at the complex in an attempt to avert a nuclear meltdown here in russia people are also taking the initiative and coming up with ways of helping the stricken country families that live in. in a safe proximity to japan are offering

a temporary foster carers of children caught up in the ongoing quake disaster in russian regions that are closer to the danger zones emergency services remain on high alert we have calls for follow this story for you throughout the day here on r.t. so do stay with us for all the latest updates. but it has economy is facing its biggest challenge since world war two after being hit by one of the strongest earthquake in recorded history and although the quakes theory by pastor pounds industrial heartland shock waves have been felt throughout the business sector for more details as calls over to you the on the business desk. welcome to the business update that's right japan's worst economic collapse since world war two has become a reality as it faces first crippling prices initial estimates are ready to put the country's losses at one hundred and seventy billion dollars but some experts say

the actual laws could be much more although all the quake's fury bypass japan's and dust trail heartland the shock waves have been felt throughout the business sector power supply is critical in the country firms like toyota and nissan have had to stop production because with eleven or japan's fifty four power stations out of action they are running out of energy carmakers should builders and technology companies worldwide are short of supplies after the disaster transportation is also badly affected ports handling as much as seven percent of japan's industrial output sustained major damage with most likely to be out of ration for months and damage while refineries as having i'm not going to affect with queues forming out at trial . let's see how the asian markets reacted to the situation in japan the massive selloff of the choucroute stock exchange continued on tuesday as investors were trying to guess how badly japan's major companies could be hit the nikkei is

now shedding just under eleven percent its second slump in two days is tracking those losses trading down three percent this hour increased losses were compounded by japan's prime minister's statement that a substantial amount of radiation was leaking from the fukushima nuclear power plant and the bank of japan has another ninety eight billion dollars into the financial system to help stabilize the country's economy the move comes a day after the bank injected one hundred eighty three billion dollars into the economy. and european stocks are down in early trading on the back of earnings selling that swept across tokyo in the aftermath with another explosion at the troubled for the sheema nuclear plant since trading over one percent in the road and the footsie is almost two and a half percent down this hour. moving on to russia the markets are down in tuesday's during trey's both the r.t.s.

and the nice itself began tracking global losses after largely ignoring the japanese crisis on monday energy shares a losing ground on decreasing oil prices let's have a look at some individual show moves most banking shares are down with burbank and p.g. be leading the full both a down almost two percent on nice it bucking the trend just north of little which is over if the signs are on the r.t.s. that's after mattel inverse plans to point shares in russia's largest mining company. in order to support the japanese financial system the country's central bank says it's injecting additional ninety eight billion dollars into the markets after each announced one hundred eighty three billion dollars into its financial institutions on monday but critics with a real say it believes more may still be needed and the action will inevitably weaken the national currency. but injecting that amount of money into the financial system always weakens

a currency we can expect to see more money being injected into the japanese economy from the country's financial reserves remember they have the world's second largest financial reserves with a considerable amount of financial firepower that they can inject into the economy eyes that money comes into the economy that i believe will lead to more sustained weakness in the end this year and you know probably that will be a benefit or beneficial in the economy tries to revive its export business tries to buy the economy a weak currency is always a good stimulus digitization to cash so i think we can look for a weaker yen as a result of this crisis if the yen goes we can as expect this then that could have a competitive crease competitive pressure on chinese exports as against the one we could certainly see the one strengthening as a relatively safer currency perhaps in this environment and that my pen lead to some trade tensions. chris we've got from. reps up the business bulletin now

back to alice i believe it's going to. be able mess we are following all of the continuing developments in japan since and massive earthquake and tsunami struck the country all friday the raw yet more threats in japan now with news of the cooling systems of two more reactors appear to be faltering this is what's led to the explosions we've seen so far also a pool of spent fuel at the station is said to have reached a boiling point all fears of a nuclear meltdown have skyrocketed since the reactor blast down japan has reportedly now sold the international atomic energy agency that the facility is releasing radioactive materials into the atmosphere increasing radiation levels are now being partially detected around the country including in tokyo the situation of the nuclear power plant is critical engineers have been using seawater to cool the reactors at the complex in an attempt to a virtue

a nuclear meltdown or do you stay with us for more on the developing situation in japan and indeed let's cross live now to ask you barbara bennett who's within the just one hundred kilometers of the fukushima plant so i understand. are we talking about a situation that's now become truly dire. well it seems like it could be heading that way the country the whole car and tree things are on edge because it seems like we could be on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe now having two explosions at the fukushima power plant today so far feeling that second one no really seriously is the major radiation leak now just recently chief cabinet secretary for japan has been speaking to the press very frequently saying that the radiation levels around the plant have been dropping but following that second explosion they did peak at four hundred times the maximum level. one should be exposed to over the course of

a whole year now so widespread radiation contamination and radiation sickness levels. were really high warning levels as seem to be around one million so around hearts there now but it does seem like the radiation levels are decreasing however the number of foreign news crews i've spoken to today and a number of experts and foreigners living here simply don't believe what the japanese government is saying in general with. from those who live here and have been doing so for a number of years and what they think if they don't really trust the information they receive they think every reading through the light reading between the lines and from what the time in the public interest of people saying that they enjoy was that it's sort of a veiled guys. get away if you can and a number of people even you can it's increasing yes this seems to have begun and all the foreign news crews i've spoken to headed for the exits i'm actually now

a little bit further away from fukushima ted i'm heading towards cancer on the west coast because i'm with a team from new zealand who are heading for the airport but all the flights out. to tokyo and start there are actually picked up for the next two days so they're on on a waiting list for two days and it seems like all the other airports supposed to. well try to lead down the streets. over sendai this morning you can see the concern because you work your ng output i was shocked to still still have you less ready to stock car that is if it radiation clouds could soon spread their knowledge one hundred kilometers north but she wants to stay indoors for a long period of time if that radiation cloud does. co-writes either many banks there are date sun either then or there speaking to us just a few hundred kilometers of the things she replied many thanks. ok well as the situation in japan develops the world left wondering just how to prevent similar

catastrophes in the thing which have always sat down with the former governor of pennsylvania richard longer who shares his thoughts on what important lessons can be learned from the past. at this time when the wall there is watching with near the developments of japan's fukushima nuclear power plant experts say comparisons and examples in the past so maybe help foresee the future analysts tell us it's not yet sure not all but very comparable to another tragic accident which occurred in the united states in nineteen seventy nine i p three mile island power plant which is part of the state of pennsylvania and now i'm joined by take storm burke who was the governor of pennsylvania at the time sir thank you so much for joining us thank you guy and well first of all what do you think about the comparison but there's an. eerie similarity between what's happening in japan today and what happened in

pennsylvania in one nine hundred seventy nine. there are obviously differences because we didn't have to deal with a record earthquake or aftershocks or following tsunami but the technical challenges are pretty much the same so what happened to this three mile island was a partial core of meltdown in one of the reactors how bad were the consequences back then at the time i we had no sense of what had really transpired it took a long time to complete the cleanup process and determine precisely how much damage had been done but about a third of the radioactive core had melted down prior to the. the reactor being brought under control and that was serious how costly was that well the cleanup cost was something that. really was neglected for a while we had to go and cobble together a group of contributors but it ran to about a billion and

a half dollars for that one reactor and that was nine hundred seventy nine dollars so i'd be a lot more today the news coming from the fukushima power plant is pretty scary we heard about several explosions at the plant and your assessment how. critical of the situation in japan right now what's most scary is that we can't get ahold of the facts and i know that very well from my time as governor at the time the three mile. it was terribly frustrating you could not get a grip on what precisely the facts were people would tell you more than they knew or less than they knew self-appointed experts kept showing up and the company that ran the plant was a very poor source of information they misrepresented certain facts to us so we had to do was operate really as investigators and constantly go back to people for their version of the facts and then put that together with the with everyone else's service free mile island accident happened over thirty years ago when are we supposed to think that the japanese now are better at dealing with

a crisis like that when you were back in nine hundred seventy nine or the soviets were in one thousand nine hundred six when chernobyl happened one would certainly hope so i think one of the challenges when you have a major catastrophe like this is to learn the lessons that it teaches i think that around the world people involved in the nuclear energy energy industry i spent a lot of time studying three mile island and some of the lessons they learned to subsequent projects but we're all human we make mistakes we forget we don't learn the lessons of the past and sometimes we pay a whale of a price for it in fairness to the japanese however i think the fact that this was such an extraordinary natural occurrence. earthquake itself a record size earthquake followed by this giant tsunami that made this a little bit different for you it went before talking about japan's handling of the

situation the japanese experts decided to flog the reactors with an improvised flow from marine muck as i understand it right and many saw it as a desperate move coming from a nation that is considered to. one of the most technologically advanced and people are asking whether campaigns contingency planning for disaster a was is really as good as. everyone thought it was i think that's a fair question to ask the flooding of the reactor with seawater and boric acid effectively destroyed the reactor and show that they were giving up on using more conventional means to cool it down again in fairness they lost all the electric power in the area the generators were. sunk everything they tried had failed and maybe this was just their way of saying look we can't save this and that's too bad but it does indicate the.

defense in depth against these kinds of occurrences is absolutely nested sackler that's what i wanted to ask you about i mean people are now looking at japan and thinking of japan it's struggling what happens if a disaster like that hits another country with a power plant but not as technologically advanced do you think people's ears are legitimate or you can believe that certainly in the united states i know and i suspect in other areas where plants have been built anywhere near a fault line that they're rethinking their process they don't want to become another japan and that sense whether there's a solution or not we won't know until we've sifted through all the evidence that comes from this accident we've heard about forty thousand people you know who took to the streets in germany for example to protest nuclear energy a similar actions took place and different in other countries they want to ban it do you think that's the way to go well there have been strong feelings about nuclear power from the very beginning after the three mile island accident there

were lots of protests oddly enough up to that time nuclear power looked and looked upon as a savior for humanity that we were going to have electricity was too cheap. their leader it was going to be the solution to all or energy problems that will vanish for three mile island gradually lately there's been a softening of the attitude toward toward nuclear energy for two reasons one is the rising cost of alternative sources of energy and second is a little more subtle and that's a fact that nuclear power doesn't give off of a kind of carbon emissions that are suspected to cause global warming so that made it a favorite in some aspects of the environmental community what do you think the wrapper questions will be on the nuclear policy of the governments if they do west european union and china and india they're all going to stop and take a deep breath and look at the consequences of this when they're fully available. i don't think they're going to abandon their present commitment to nuclear power but

i think that it represents a step backward in terms of their desire to build more nuclear plants sir considering how much is at stake basically huge industry do you think we're getting the whole truth about what's going on in japan and i'm in no position to make that judgement i saw her experience i suspect that the japanese officials are trying in good faith to determine what the facts are as i said the worst thing we do is get out facts that are only yes you've got to calibrate your response that the name on the accuracy of the facts that you have and there i suspect if my experience is any guide they're working around the clock to try to make sure they have accurate information to convey to the public and to provide a basis for their response well you also write about this fiction and fact aspect. in the coverage at five disaster like this before it was going to close to the three mile island accident what do you think the purpose of the proportion is going

to be hearing if i do i'd go to the head of the class and could really provide japanese friends with some real guidance it's a process that has to be tested every fact has to be. examined in terms of source and the setting within which it arises it's not an easy thing to do with the single biggest challenge of emergency management is getting accurate facts so that you can make the right decisions you can be the best decision maker in the world but if you don't have the right facts you're in trouble thank you so much star thank you guys please.

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