good r.t. live from moscow a lot of stores and in japan braces itself for further along that stricken nuclear power plant as a cooling systems run through more reactors appear to be faltering skyrocketing fears of a nuclear meltdown the same problem is exactly what triggered the explosions on monday and tuesday. authorities claim that radiation is reaching in dangerous levels near the plant two hundred thousand people have already fled. out of this point three thousand people are confirmed dead and another four thousand are

officially missing since friday's mega quake gun colossal tsunami but of course suggest that the final toll will be much higher. and while that's quotes from the international atomic energy agency head to be disaster area to offer their assistance some say the devastation is proof that the world can't cope with the problem is this helping to create. what is the situation in japan develops the world's left wondering just how to prevent a similar catastrophes in the future we sat down with the former governor of pennsylvania richard thornburgh and shared his thoughts on what important lessons can be learned from the past that's coming up next. i this time when the world is watching with fear the developments of japan's fukushima nuclear power plant experts see comparisons and examples in the past and maybe help for see the future analysts tell us it's not yet sure novel but very

comparable to another tragic accident which occurred in the united states in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the three mile island power plant which is part of the state of pennsylvania and now i'm joined by take thornburgh 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 well 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 at those 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 mean we had no sense of what it really transpired and 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 in to 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 accident 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 search this way 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 bad things you were backing nine hundred seventy nine or the soviets were in one thousand nine hundred six went to a novel 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 apply 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 in fairness to the japanese however i think the fact that this was such an extraordinary natural occurrence the earthquake itself a record sized earthquake followed by this giant tsunami that made this a little bit different and then he went before talking about japan's handling of the situation the japanese experts decided to flood the reactors with an improvised lower 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 japan's 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 that reactor and showed that they were giving off on using more conventional means to cool it down again in fairness they lost all the electric power in the area the generators were. defunct everything they tried had failed and maybe this was just their way of saying look we don't say this and that's too bad but it does indicate that. defense in depth against these kinds of occurrences is absolutely nest eggs accurate is 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 fears are legitimate or you can believe that certainly in the united states and i know and i suspect in other areas where plants have been built anywhere near a fault line that they're rethinking their processes now they don't want to become

another japan in that sense and 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 heard about forty thousand people you know who took to the streets in germany for example to protest nuclear energy 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 and looked and looked upon as a savior for humanity that we were going to have electricity was to chew. leader it was going to be the solution to all or energy problems that all vanished with 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 the fact that nuclear power doesn't give off of the

kind of carbon emissions that are suspected to cause global warming so that made a favorite in some aspects of the environmental community what do you think the wrapper conscience role or be on the nuclear policies of the government said thank you western 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 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 well i'm in no position to make a 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 just you've got to calibrate your response depending upon

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 oh you're also right about this fiction and fact aspect . in the car for a check five is that referring of course to the three mile island accident what do you think that the proportion is going to be hearing from if i knew 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 its source and setting within which it arises it's not an easy thing to do it's 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 sir thank you guys.

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what experts from the international atomic energy agency head to the disaster area to offer their assistance some say the crisis is proof that nuclear energy comes to high across. just about a devastating situation in japan in about fifteen minutes time after the sporting news. thanks for watching the scores and this is what is coming up over the next few. by scenes of the last fall's cargo of a step closer to the k h l semifinal. rostock top the premier league after a stunning fall in the a win over the muscovites. sauteing stunned that indian wells but you're right about the group. that started with the kontinental hockey league playoffs where

scar. just to win away from the last or both have gone three one up in their best of seven series against atlanta and in armorica respectively scar getting a last gasp when i'm watching no one with i'm coughing that. futures looking pretty grim for the moscow region side after game four left them with one win versus three four scholars say it is very the visitors what was somewhat depleted going into this match with key players alexei yashin and sergei zero both algy's and injury however boss but sykora managed to find a suitable supposition for yosh and they may feel part of crew cost to prove his worth by scoring one of the three goals against the plants on saturday but that's the natural hand ends of the first period the pressure seems to get to scott in the opening minutes with three of their players sent off to at the same time that brought the home side and in that it's a ball goal thanks to at the outlet on dusty just and seven minutes of an on the

second period now where the match evens out somewhat not with the home side still mostly in control boiling points was reached after atlanta in the maze and they hit the crossbar and then suing tanner exact created a stir at the opposite ends a goal the second period and in the third it seemed like a goal was a certainty one style but almost and minutes of play five on three just so minutes after restart that chance was wasted just like the rest of the our immense power play opportunities up to that point and to make matters worse konstanz impaneled was shown the line for ten minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct not seen believin was the next top player to lose his composure possibly jeezy's teams inability to school and provoke a fight that's launched fuck you better and i like that's all distracting the flow of the match proved to be the right strategy but it is inside in the dying moments but it's a plot of the near perfect opportunity to double their lead in less than two

minutes from the final buzzer and sealed victory here but young bullets shot just wide scott culture but it's not sykora decided suppose goalie about a minute and a half from sign and that worked exactly as he wanted it says a go it's twelve seconds from the final buzzer by the things that he said. six caught in the overtime and score broke home or it's less than two minutes from the overtime buzzer thanks to moxie but even i thought it was a typical playoff game a struggle from beginning to end the start of the game was hard because we had many players sent off at l'enfant an advantage of that and we were lucky to concede only one goal we were chasing the park for the rest of the match and call it twelve seconds from the buzzer it showed our team a character. character plus goalkeeping skills mark this match as both sides of netminders hopes the partick and constantine maroulis were picked as men of the match the series now moves to st petersburg rome on course for artsy moscow region

. so a narrow victory then for the men from st petersburg and i was just a win away from the western conference finals. and completed the sixteenth russian . to go three one up in this series. see more games to save me a sound about could be the first side through to the last four with. the series whitewash while matter of course will be looking to level the series without a. father are surprised new leaders at the top of the russian primarily crossed over at the summit after beating spartak moscow for one ill and that of the season rostov started this one all guns blazing i moved into the first five but although it was so i rushed off school results in khulna them off with a head. and was gone another cool rest of the second just off the break adam of them sticking at me for the new guys

a spot i have their chances but they're not affected me feel that when you play the same right to speak then. great i can post defending. my brain the ball the five points make born in a. heartbeat. you rightfully we would find it on the head of their return leg that. i wasn't the only premier league new boys nation of god with a two no when overturn the lads he got a letter deflection of alexander could hit the north for the first one didn't stop but adds the celebrating on the less so good ben's added the second shortly afterwards heading home a free kick one school to neil to the home side. it is champions league football tonight with manchester united hoping to reach the quarterfinals for a fifth season in a row they face mask say that after a golden straw in the first leg in the good news for united is that portuguese winger is set to return it was thought he would be sidelined for three weeks after

picking up a leg injury against liverpool but he is in the squad say two is michael carrick he's recovered from a growing injury united bounce back from league defeat against liverpool and chelsea with an f.a. cup win over asking the weekend but boss alex ferguson is expecting another tough game tonight. it's nice to have the. big. view to. prove who. we want we will. say have been getting nice to be pictured old trafford with a training session after the goal of strong home turf they need a win or a score draw to go through marsay have not been in the last eight of the tournament since becoming the first winners of the champions league trophy in one thousand nine hundred ninety three they do have midfielder and i thought you were in that

fifty again with a manager did the shops still make united the favorites. completely you would expect that men just you know it it will certainly go through it but we have a little opportunity if you like it football is not about statistics alone in the other side deceiving defending champions into man need to overturn a one deficit against by munich the germans winning the first leg at the san siro and they also have a strong home record in the champions league winning seven successive games so a difficult task they're into. but of course you have to believe in the victory. this game it's about one hundred eighty minutes we just play ninety minutes we lost one zero at home but we played well we created some chances so tomorrow is the other ninety minutes and we have to go for it we believe in it and we will see tomorrow by meanwhile have hit form a six no win over humbard in the bundlers league at the weekend so are robin

scoring a hat trick a welcome tonic after news coach louis van heart will be leaving at the end of this season after having his contract cut short but he's got a real chance now of reaching the quarter finals of the champions league let's switch to tell it where maria sharapova is through to the fourth round at indian wells in these in sixty six to victory for the number six scenes in it against others and as i have france the russians a champion in the well from can see thousand and six wrapping up the win in seventy three minutes but also an easy win there the women's number one coulomb wozniacki against spain's media here is a massive sanchez this was a potential banana skin for the day and lost through the usenet is against the spaniard but it was no slip up here making the fourth round for fourth year running getting a six one six three victory and an hour and twelve minutes alone at least one of those will spend all match point and length and rally with wozniacki eventually claiming the wind.

i. men's top seed rafael nadal is also through to the next round beating america's ryan sweeting in straight sets not showing any of the signs of the hamstring injury that led to the nearly exit finish train open he took the first set six three. before racking up the second six one. there was a shock but also a broken stolen crashing out of the german fleet called freiburg so going came into this marriage with their three titles already under his belt and she felt a bit free cell phones you said using the tie break and then kohlschreiber pulled away the second. some action out of me n.b.a. where the memphis grizzlies have tightened their grip on the final playoff spot in the western conference snapping a team game losing streak with one hundred five points to eighty two victory over the los angeles clippers thirty points from zach randolph helped them on their way

in tennessee he also weighed in with twelve rebounds giving his side a new lead in the first in a three pointer in the second here put the grizzlies fifty thirty three. you can see the spree in the fourth biting of two defenders there to make ninety six and seven a route then the memphis we keep the postseason hopes on the board. but pakistan have made it through to the quarterfinals of cricket's world cup but after a seven wicket victory over zimbabwe rain delays affected this match and pakistan were set to revise target of one hundred sixty two when thirty eight zero is middle order batsman aside should be making press it world cup day in school and seventy eight of ninety seven balls leaving his side of the season when pakistan is training at their last group to determine who finished top of the table. i am finally tickets have gone on so for the london twenty twelve olympics the

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