welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour workers at another nuclear power plant in japan are racing against the clock to prevent yet another catastrophic nuclear disaster there's quite a large hurdle they have to jump three tons to say and as you hear about the statewide ten day manhunt here in the united states for a known terrorist i'll tell you all about it and the terrorist who is still on the loose and tonight still a take. it japan didn't have its hands full with one militant down nuclear plant actually six

at fukushima it certainly does now with another nuclear power plant on the verge of melting down about three hundred miles southwest of fukushima since the manjoo nuclear reactor prototype fast breeder reactor filled to the brim with plutonium the deadliest element on the face of the earth and last year a three ton device of some sort fell into the module reactor blocking access to the nuclear fuel rods in the reactor core and despite several attempts as yet to be recovered another attempt will be made next week to clear those three ton object from the reactor the critics question that the procedure is extremely dangerous and can trigger it could trigger an explosion in the nuclear fuel rods one ominous sign of just how dangerous the situation is a top manager at the plant just recently committed suicide. think of the damaged manjoo plant as a nuclear bomb just waiting to go off it could take out the city of kioto which is

just sixty miles from the plant that has a population of one and a half million people and you're panza largest city tokyo is downwind from the crippled knowledge you plant so what does all this mean and what's the latest with the two nuclear plants right here in the united states that are in danger in nebraska here offer some answers as kevin cams nuclear waste watchdog beyond nuclear kevin welcome back to the program so many times first of all fast breeder reactor. this is one module in japan it's an experimental reactor that's actually designed to generate plutonium which would then be extracted from the high level radioactive waste and then used this reactor fuel so it's an experiment is a grand experiment we had one fermi unit one near detroit and the famous book is called we almost lost detroit they had a partial meltdown in one thousand nine hundred eighty six because say i remember that i remember that book the. normal nuclear power plants they're basically just giant furnaces and they heat water and the water turns a turbine and it's basically a steam operation you take

a nuclear plant out and stick in a coal fire or a gas fire and pretty much do the same thing but i understand that this fast breeder reactor is not is not heating water it's using sodium that's a part of the danger sodium is intensely reactive it with water or air it's liquid sodium liquid metal and so on contact with water or air it could explode or catch on fire so it's a very risky reactor design they've had fires that manjoo they had a bad fire in one thousand nine hundred five that's been largely shut down ever since and the danger of this procedure it's so unnecessary they can just shut the reactor down not try to extract this thing it's in the extraction of this three point three ton weight that they could step in dominoes falling that could lead to a disaster what is this three and a half ton thing that i didn't know what it was used to be honest i don't know it's a newer cities any. they are saying i fell in there and ok it plays a role in the reactor and i'm not sure what it is but it weighs three point three

tons they don't need to remove it but they want to operate this thing this manjoo experiment is twenty years old it's cost twelve billion dollars and a part of it is suppose it's supposed to generate electricity for our society it's generated electricity for one hour in those twenty years. isn't isn't one of the other reasons why countries build fast breeder reactors because they can create plutonium that they can use for nuclear weapons well any country that has a plutonium supply extracted especially weapons usable could put it into weapons and there are a number of countries that do have fast breeder reactors they're called plutonium breeder reactors russia's one any country that decides to use the plutonium for weapons could do so through workable turn our attention united states we have two nuclear plants here that we've talked about several times over the talk to us over times and here in nebraska the are within a few feet of water levels swapping them out which is basically what happened fukushima the water swapped out the diesel generators that were providing the

backup and power and that oddly enough it sounds crazy but a nuclear power electrics electricity generating station has to have electricity coming to it or they can melt down and what's what's the deal with the ones in the us right now well the four coach calhoun nuclear power plant which is north of omaha is the one getting most of the news coverage right now it looks like a nuclear lake with the vital areas of the plant in the middle surrounded by an eight. rubber wall that's filled with water sort of the last line of defense for this nuclear power plant and the other one is the cooper nuclear power plant which is south of omaha and it is a twin to the fukushima daiichi units one through four it's a general electric boiling water reactor of the mark one designed cal for calhoun is a pressurized water reactor so yes if you were to lose the electrical grid. and the emergency diesel generators would plunge these reactors into a station blackout they only have four hours of battery as opposed to fukushima

which had eight hours of battery hopefully they will keep the grid going out there hopefully the emergency diesels are ready to go but just last year the nuclear regulatory commission cited for calhoun for being unprepared for a flood they gave them a yellow finding which is the second highest another violation fortunately of the n.r.c. caught it and enforce their regulations last year or we could be in march or they wouldn't have the rubber dam around there and perhaps so the devil's in the details lucky to have enforced that regulation today we were looking at the n.r.c. site in our city. and the nuclear regulatory commission and we very deep down inside it is like the daily incident report i didn't even know about this somebody called into my radio show today and said you see this that and just yesterday i mean it just in the last twenty four hours the millstone in connecticut the columbia generating station was in washington limerick and pennsylvania area all had incidents do you know anything more about those and what's the deal what's

going on here this is a daily occurrence if you visit this page at the n.r.c. website every day you will see there will be a few or many incidents all over the country some more seriously about it was a complete shutdown of their of their cooling system. yes and there was another one that was a loss of communication of ability to run computers that would be needed in an emergency and this does go on all the time there are literally millions of moving parts in nuclear power plants that many times have to work especially during an emergency and sometimes these systems are down one of the worst cases that comes to mind is a twenty year lack of emergency diesel generators at the fermi two nuclear power plant michigan the largest fukushima style design in the world twenty years without emergency diesel generators so that if that one got knocked if a tornado went through vision i grew up in issue where we had tornadoes all as a tornado went through ripped up the high tension lines coming into the plant that plant could melt down they discovered the problem in two thousand and six and just

a few years later they did have a tornado at fermi so fortunately they had caught the problem before they needed their emergency vehicles a lot of times it's sheer luck that i almost lost a tree of choice exactly seventy five percent of us plants have lead to radiation in the united states is that true or that statistic that i've seen and if so. why are we having the kind of sanity we're pursuing here while the leaks are epidemic as the plants age that underground. corrode and then fail you've got massive tritium leaks at places like grade wood in illinois but actually one hundred two reactors in this country have leaked radioactivity into the environment in one way or another and then there's the routine releases the n.r.c. permits releases of radioactivity on a daily basis from nuclear power plants into the air into the water as long as it's below a certain concentration tritium is a case in point we have these tritium leaks underground water but where is that leaking from it's leaking from pipes and systems designed to dump it in the river

with permission mazie and just to put a final punctuation point on this there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation you know the national academy of sciences reported for decades that any exposure to radioactivity carries a risk the higher the exposure the higher the risk of these risks and. there is no zero going lifetime kevin thank you for being with us thanks for having me appreciate it as two nuclear power plants nebraska are at risk from for rising floodwaters the associated press just released a new report about the cozy relationship between nuclear power plant operators and government regulators according to a report in order to keep eighteen nuclear plants open the n.r.c. often eases regulations for plant operators and overlooks potential problems including leaks or cracks in the reactors slide by even though they pose a real risk as equipment fell into disrepair and no longer satisfied safety standards the n.r.c. would actually lower the standards so that the plants could remain open because this is lax oversight the report noted that seventy five percent of all u.s.

nuclear power plants have leaked radio active substances the corporate capture of government regulators has officially spread to the nuclear industry the most dangerous of all industries in america we saw a corporate capture of oil drilling watchdogs didn't go off of mexico with the b.p. disaster and with coal and the mastermind is esther sadly it may only be a matter of time before we learn the same lesson with our very own for shit. it's the good the bad of the very very arayan christly oddly first good sergeant major michael barrett the top noncommissioned officer in the united states marine corps spoke at a military base in south korea last week on the issue of repealing don't ask don't tell and sergeant major barrett's words were to the point and poignant he told the

troops stationed at the base to quote get over it let's just move on treat everybody with firmness fairness dignity compassion and respect let's be marines and what. orton step is all about civil rights for gay soldiers and it is more than a bad scott walker what's wisconsin's republican governor up to now more of the same screwing over working families earlier this year walker's republican cohorts in the state legislature passed a budget bill gives walker the authority all by himself to cut four hundred sixty six million dollars out of the state's medicaid program screwing over poor people without any input from state representatives but the two bill did require public hearings to be held in new medicaid proposals so at least the public's words can be heard right. not so much that was until last week when the new budget bill was passed again by republicans it now drops the requirement of public hearings so now

walker can destroy medicaid from the comfort of his own office without answering to anyone in the state it's unclear when walker's coronation will be held and when he was very demanding a red ball thrown in the governor's speech. it was last week and a very very ugly supreme court justice clarence thomas or more details are coming to light about how just how corrupt justice thomas is as think progress is reporting today back in two thousand and one thomas accepted a fifteen thousand dollars plus. abraham lincoln is your gift from the conservative think tank the american enterprise institute thomas then went to three separate cases in which the american enterprise institute filed briefs on behalf of one side and in each case not only do justice thomas not recuse himself but he sided with the american enterprise institute every single time so i can carve three more notches in justice thomas' corruption he's official the best supreme court drug money can buy and that's very variable. details on how apple

may even be working for you from taking pictures of misbehaving cleats. and getting. into a little mirror military mechanisms to do the work to bring justice or to the world . i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as

the charismatic. of american exceptionalism. but so much for years here i thought a record concerts and sporting events in order to stop people from posting videos of live events online some key. companies may have exclusive rights to apple says that they're working with commercial broadcasters to disable the i phone's video recorder at such events infrared sensors mounted at these live events will scan the audience for i phones and then disable the video recording feature it's unclear if apple is doing this so they can sell more stuff like licenses to record certain live events or if apple just wants to lend a helping hand to reap record companies in exchange for better deals at the i tunes store one thing is clear this technology could have devastating effects on citizen

journalism as more and more people are using their cell phones to record breaking news for more on what this new camera disabling technology could mean for all of us i joined by ginger mccall electronic privacy information center ginger welcome back thank you for having me first of all i started this by saying apple said apple actually hasn't said anything they haven't had a press conference on this they just it's been discovered that they filed a patent application is that correct yes they have a hard sell for they haven't commented on this as as far as what i read in the news earlier this afternoon this came out in the press that there was a patent application that was filed and this patent application this this technology that apple has apparently developed would allow watched it would allow it's as apple say as the patent stated that it's designed to be used at sporting events at concerts of course there are other applications but basically the set up is there are infrared sensors that can then shutdown the camera function of your cell phone if you pull that cell phone out out at those arms so infrared is outside

the spectrum that we can see so if you were running a rock show or you know whatever it is and you had an infrared pulse up there that was just filling the room with infrared light nobody would notice and nobody would see it but if you pulled your phone out your phone and immediately know it would turn off the camera on the phone so you could take a picture that's that's a sense of this is just great you would know by the effect what is to prevent. the pull the police department from putting an infrared. poles light like that which nobody can see on top of their squad cars or to put it as a as a little light on top of the clip on microphone the police officers were so that will never again see a picture embarrassing picture like the rodney king king video nothing the other issue is these can be installed at protest events they could be used by oppressive regimes all over the world to keep protesters from participating in citizen journalism yikes i mean this. there would be there would be no

tahrir square if mubarak had access to this technology there would be. just you know it goes on and on we wouldn't know about what's going on we can't underestimate the importance of citizen journalism and the democratic efforts that we've seen in the middle east and even here in our own country macaca moment yeah yeah it's a video that we saw of the young protester neta in iran who was shot by the police those were citizen journalists are the videos that we've seen of protesters being abused here in the united states we need to have this information in order to hold our governments accountable. once it seems the. thinking of the technologies associated with photography. most cameras now have built into them g.p.s. units that inbred into the digital photo that you take where you were you tried to shelf phones yeah as to cell phones so that technology once it was developed and i

don't know frankly whether it was developed first for cameras or for cell phones probably for cell phones has migrated right across the board is a it seems to me probable reality check has with me that once this technology has has gotten out into the wild shall we say and particularly if apple is relatively cheap about license you know i mean if they make it available to others or if other people can figure out ways to reverse engineer it and have their own patents to something that does something very similar that every camera in the world every cell phone in the world that has a camera could end up equipped like this and then literally we have no more macaque obama it's not just cell phones but even people with flip cams or people with over the shoulder any kind of it's you know your basic can i mean is that possible it's there i have possibility and it has very troubling implications for freedom of expression and for government accountability so. is there anything that can be done . in this this reminds me of the technology i mean we know that. many

governments for example monitor all communications people are web sites they're using things like you know good old fashioned cisco routers to do it and technology built the united states or engineering here that is being used by many other repression regimes to. ferret out there are protesters and things. is there any way to stop us consumers need to demand that apple not implement this sort of technology. the company is only going to have to provide the protections for consumers that consumers demand consumers need to step up and they need to say this is just not acceptable we won't buy your product if this is what you're going to do with it wasn't there was there is some kind. if you're like that though about you know the g.p.s. in coding things i mean there was in here before yeah there was a backlash recently when people found out that apple phones had actually been tracking their movements and it triggered a change in apple's policies and they do that's the sort of thing that we want to

look for so what if apple says ok fine we want to do this we'll so we'll sell the patent too to a company based. and all of a sudden every phone in the middle east is equipped with us and that is it is the cat out of the bag here is that it is it is it conceivable problem and we can pressure companies to act in a certain way of product that's that's really the best that we can hope for here unfortunately i didn't see murs need to make that demands on the time are there any is there any legal way that we can prevent the deployment of this kind of technology in the united states or at least regulator control it or is that something you know how do you know of any legislators who have this on their radar screen it would be very difficult to monitor the activities especially of companies like ron we've seen a real reluctance in our courts here to enforce any sort of even human rights like very strong human rights norms basic things such as you can't use pesticides that

will cause people to be sterile or to die the courts are very reluctant to actually enforce those rights. and and here in the united states it would require legislation yeah we would need some sort of legislation and it would have to pass the supreme court if it possibly could love them ginger thank you so much for being thank you very much and for waking us all up to was really stored away which he can i on this one this could be the next step toward the george orwell if occasion of america. i'm sure you've all heard about this unfolding story of a terrorist manhunt in montana the f.b.i. is searching for osama muhammad hussain the former leader of

a terrorist organization known as project seven in a mass to cash machine guns and explosives in order to kill government officials declare war on the national guard and plot the overthrow explicitly plot the overthrow of the u.s. government hussein was last seen ten days ago when he exchanged gunfire with sheriffs' deputies and fled into the woods of missoula county montana he's believed to still be holed up there likely plotting his next attack he previously told officers that he wasn't going to be taken down like the last time which could mean that he's considering suicide attacks in the future police found guns and ammunition act into the engine compartment of hussein's left behind jeep and police fear that hussein stashed away gear food and more weapons like explosives in the woods to continue his terrorism while he's on the run police consider osama mohammed hussein armed and it's really dangerous and it's just

a matter of time before he strikes again you've heard the story right i mean the guy's been loose for ten days he tried to kill several police officers it's been wall to wall coverage on a.b.c. c.b.s. n.b.c. c.n.n. and us have b.c. and of course fox has devoted virtually every segment every day to a real live genuine you're not going to take me alive terrorist is on the loose in the united states and still hasn't been caught it's all over the news right away to say i'm being told i got the i've got the guy's name wrong excuse me it isn't. hussein it's david burgert is name is david burgert and he's a white guy an american. and i was out of town last week for net roots nation and missed the news so what there wasn't wall coverage of an at large terrorist. now i understand since the terrorist is a white america with

a familiar name it's no big deal and you can bet if the explosive toting guns slinging terrorist who's hell bent on the destruction of the united states government this guy is and currently on the run from cops in montana and this guy is was an islamic militant. it would definitely be wall to wall breaking news on every cable network and plastered across the front page of virtually every single american newspaper so if i use that why is our news media foaming at the mouth when it comes to stories about islamic terrorists but not white guy terrorists is that because muslims are a bigger threat in fact between one nine hundred eighty and two thousand and five and ninety four percent of all of the attempted or successful terrorist attacks on us soil were not carried out by islamic radicals but instead by non muslims mostly white guys so then why the obsession i think frankly it's

a side effect of george w. bush's decades long war on terror he and cheney had to human up this a rational fear of the other to justify the invasions of afghanistan and iraq and by other i mean someone who doesn't look like the majority of other americans specific with someone who is not white and not judeo christian there's not a left or right bias in our news media today it's a bias against people of minority races and religions. you see it the media's decision to not report on stories about white terrorists or to go nuts over story about arab terrorists and there are people who win big from the spies who use it to advance their political careers and john mccain saying that the drought induced wildfires eating his state right now are really because of illegal aliens from mexico or congressman peter king investigating muslims in our prisons all ignoring

issues of gangs and overcrowding in our prisons or herman cain saying if he's elected president he would require a muslim to take a loyalty oath that he has no problem with christians jews or warman's this is the sort of bias that our founders were horrified by it's the sort of bigotry that many of the early settlers in this country were fleeing from in europe is what president john adams opposed when he opened the treaty of tripoli ratified by the united states senate and signed in seventeen ninety seven adams their second president with the words as the government of the united states of america is not in any sense founded on the christian religion as it has in itself no character of empty against the laws religion or tranquility of muslims and as the said states never entered into any war or act still ity against any mohammad to be a nation is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions

show ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries or when thomas jefferson wrote the legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are injurious to others but it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god if god who picks my pocket or breaks my leg if founders understood religious intolerance and how dangerous it is which is why i do stablished one clause in the constitution makes herman cain's religious test for office illegal. this kind of scapegoating and bigotry is fundamentally on america and it's time to call it out and start reporting on a white christian terrorists as much as we do on terrorists now other races and other religions that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website. r.t. dot com also check out our huge new pages you tube dot com slash the big picture on t.v. and you tube dot com slash an hour and this entire show is available as

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