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confirmed now that fifteen people showed signs of radiation exposure knew japan's fukushima nuclear plant last month the latest government checks are being met with anger and skepticism. well i want to who says events fukushima shouldn't be called a disaster is john rich director general of the world nuclear association explains to auntie's and so if you should not say what he thinks that nuclear energy is still one of the safest sources of power and continues to get safer. carrie it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much of the new production technology improved since its first reactor well the history of the nuclear age goes back more than

a half century and enormous changes have taken place in that period of time i think the remarkable thing about the history of nuclear energy is how safe it has been almost from the very beginning. when we go back and see the first reactors experimentally being built in the one nine hundred fifty s. we're looking at a very very new technology and now we've had some bumps along the way that is forced for sure we had three mile island in america that we had turned over all in ukraine we just had fukushima but the i think the remarkable thing about this technology which is producing so much of the world's electricity is how essential least safe it has begin been it does not emit any emissions into the into the global atmosphere and it has only on very very rare occasion and harmed anyone and meanwhile we've had thousands hundreds of thousands even millions of fatalities from the extraction of fossil fuels from the surface of the earth and from the health consequences of carbon emissions so if you look at the history of nuclear

technology you not only see a very safe technology but you also see a relatively superior technology because it is essentially emissions free callous always wondering who pays for storing their ways and how can a dangerous or be profitable when you have to pay for storing away for thousands of years you know that the question of waste is i think the most fundamentally misunderstood aspect of nuclear energy most people say well nuclear energy might be ok seems to be pretty sad. but you don't know what to do with the waste let me say something that may shock you. the greatest comparative assets of nuclear power is its waste now why is this. other major energy forms where there would be coal or natural gas or oil what you find is that the atmosphere the global public atmosphere is being used as an enormous planetary waste dump all of those

carbon particulate all of that carbon monoxide all of that carbon dioxide is going in there right now we are admitting carbon dioxide at the rate of thirty billion tons a year which is eight hundred tons which seconds into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric way stop nuclear energy is producing a considerable portion of the world's electricity one six producing an amount of radioactive waste with equivalent to the size of the fuel which becomes highly radioactive and then must be safely stored but the wonder of nuclear technology is that it can be managed it can be contained there's a relatively small amount of it and it can be very very safely stored in the immediate term when it comes out of the reactor and a kind of tension will be put in long term storage containers placed back into the earth in the geological repositories that are carefully selected and without any

ultimate harm either to people or the environment how you sound like and grassroots environmentally threats are job right now how would you characterize it i think when building the credibility of the nuclear power industry well there are a lot of people think it's the greens versus nuclear and in fact in many green organizations anti-nuclear is a misnomer of the fundamental principles i'm in the nuclear power business precisely because i believe in the environmental virtues of nuclear power i got into this business. when president clinton assigned me to be the his ambassador to the united nations organizations that deal with nuclear energy and i was particularly concerned and focused on the question of nuclear proliferation containing them and i did that work for president clinton for eight years but in the process i got a real education about the positive side of nuclear the the electricity generation that nuclear could bring to the world without environmental consequences and it was

on that basis that i decided to dedicate dedicate their remainder of my career to promoting this clean energy technology full time with natural gas viable i need fair energies first natural gas well natural gas produces a lot of waste it produces carbon dioxide emissions on a very very large scale these emissions come out of the burning of the natural gas and they call not even more potent form they come out of the transmission of natural gas through long pipelines where the unburned gas leaks in small quantity but in the form of methane that is twenty times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide so the combination of burning natural gas and the leakage of unburned natural gas that comes through the transmission lines makes this a very very serious liability for in terms of global greenhouse gas concentrations and you know that europe sat powerhouse down in germany a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want thinks out of their

country and i like that my spent in foreign minister recently i'm very extremely proud of that to be nuclear free. and you said that it's actually paying votes will say it was a democratic house so i was saying it was a sad it was and it's a sad result of democratic politics responding instantly and irrationally to some event halfway around the world to change the basic energy policy of europe's largest industrial economy it was certainly done according to democratic procedures. but these democratic procedures produce this to democracy sometimes does a highly irrational result i'm an american i know that irrationality can come out of our political system i've seen it many times in my life and american democracy democracy does not produce great results and sometimes they produce a silly results and we've just seen one end in germany where my focus enough look what happened there and nice that you keep telling me that it's all the same i

don't keep telling you that it's all safe there was an accident look what happened i mean how can how can that nuclear power be the future when it's still so incredibly dangerous for life well it's interesting that you would say that because we've just seen twenty four thousand japanese citizens killed by an earthquake and a tsunami. we've seen the needy of have a frenzy in covering the accident at fukushima which has not made it had not been responsible for a single radiation fatality we have twenty four thousand citizens having died from the earthquake and a tsunami we've had a mishap a serious mishap at the fukushima power plant that has yet to produce a single fatality and yet people are using the word the phrase nuclear disaster nuclear tragedy as if something terribly harmful has occurred i mean the at the beginning of the of the line when it comes to being unhappy about what happened at fukushima i think it was a tragedy in terms of the world's understanding of the essential safety of nuclear

power i also think however that it might also be educational in the long term because people have begun to focus on it and as they begin to begin to focus even more clearly on the ultimate consequences of fukushima they will learn that there was relatively little damage done by this event and this was a worst case nuclear event after focusing on he said we need to go back and look at whether those post shutdown cooling systems can survive the worst case events we can imagine but if you mean by go back the japanese made in the state. the. the fundamental mistake they made was deciding that the worst tsunami they might encounter would come at a certain height and that would be the worst case to nami that they would encounter and if they defended against that there there are backup cooling systems that would be safe that was a mistake because they misjudged and the result was that they did not have waterproof backup cooling systems and because they did not have waterproof backup

cooling systems those were flooded and rendered an operative now why is this important how did this happen you have to think of nuclear energy as the equivalent of a racehorse that finishes running a race and then needs to cool down period the reactors at fukushima when the earthquake began shutdown they became essentially helpless on purpose but they still needed some exteriors some external we supplied electricity supply to power cooling systems that would get them down from five percent of their overall heat level they've been in a hundred percent they were already down to five they needed some extra cooling to get down to normal atmospheric and ambient temperatures all nuclear power plants require that outside assistance after they have shut down and the japanese mistake resulted in those outside non-nuclear systems not being available so the great irony of what happened at fukushima it is that it was the failure of non-nuclear

support systems to be available after the shutdown that resulted in this meltdown but you really believe everything that a nuclear operators tell you i don't have to believe but we operate a system of tremendous transparency we have i.a.e.a. standards that are enforced by national nuclear regulatory about bodies all around the world which are independent bodies completely separate from the operators we have a worldwide network of new. we're operators who visit each other's power plants and write reports and analysis and criticism of the show other so that they are all working to come up to the same standard of best practice there was a great deal of conversation and spectrum analysis application of standards and judgment about whether people are adhering to standards that is going on on a daily basis throughout all of the four hundred thirty five power plants in the

world the problem at fukushima was that they made a mistake in reactor design not in reactor operations but in reactor design and what happened to happen now is that every nuclear regulatory authority in the world needs to go back and ask the question are all of the reactors under my supervision protected against worst case natural catastrophes like floods like tsunamis like quakes like plane crashes and that those questions are being asked right now i think they will result in some changes i don't think the changes are going to be terribly expensive i don't think they're going to take a long time to implement and i think that the the good of this is that when the world will have drawn a lesson from fukushima and nuclear safety will be even stronger in the afternoon and thank you very much for this interview.

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culture is that so much of it spiritually i mean what i see here in the real. hero in this meeting with yesterday the greek government survives a vote of confidence as its crushing debt ordeal continues unabated. the headlines are on r t and it judges in the hague issue arrest warrants for libyan leader colonel gadhafi and two of his closest confidants and charged with ordering the killing of and see regime protesters over the last four months. israel says its navy is quote gearing up to intercept a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for gaza but it has are backed away from the previous threats to ban and deported any journalist who sailed on board. it's been confirmed now that fifteen people were showed signs of radiation exposure on your japan's fukushima nuclear plant last month the latest government checks are being

met with anger and skepticism. writer those are the headlines here on our team more news in about fifteen minutes time but for now its case and big news as one of the defending champs wimbledon is out for sports now. hello welcome to the sports news and here is what's coming up. the field narrows holder serena williams is not tapped by marion bartoli reassure wrap of the rockies into the quarter finals in a scorching day of wimbledon. while seal of approval is in it to be at the north finally signs a deal to prepare the russian national ice hockey team the saatchi winter olympics . and flying high russians just the cave which aims to become the first kite surfer to cross the gulf of finland. but first to tennis and there'll be a new women's champion at wimbledon this year after serena williams crashed rations

straight sets to france's top woman marion bartoli the younger williams sisters did not like it was on her way back in the second set but former finest bartoli won it on a tie break in the match and joining us in the last eight is two thousand and four champion reassure out over the world number six cruised past china's peng schweigert and has yet to drop a set so far that she'll be the only female player to fly the russian flag from now on compact acknowledgment roosevelt easy victim to number four is the victoria azarenka russia's latest hot prospect because then you're pretty black is also not at this time in three sets and i was up and come up to me the passion of austria. how does work for more world number one sorry world number one caroline wozniacki has been taking the distance i don't know if it's a book about patrick lizabeth russian you know big mile and in the late match five time when i reached williams takes on kerry is spot on and becomes about. the already through is sabine lisicki the german wildcard reaching her second quarter

final in three years it's actually said that it's sudden six six one. thing i did a pretty good job. you know and so it's no reason to come off hugh. gnarly nonsense of course and invent smaller chords you know for me as much as a room alone and i still love it so. yeah i mean i didn't i had to know and i'm really looking for a next round well on the inside last question starting with all youzhny will try to break his fourth round joints and says he's prepared for the battle against six time childcare lodges phèdre the reigning champion with dollars in for what could be the showpiece match against martin del potro locals maybe andy murray has beaten ryszard cascade in straight sets to go into the quarterfinals for the fourth successive year. thing that djokovic another frenchman michael laudrup. spaniel

is struggling against. while they're out of play jo wilfried tsonga and america's number one molly fish faces giant check on much but while the first player in the men's draw to win through to the last days was fast rising australian time to the teenage qualifier dispatching had been striving released six one seven five six four after all said mrs robinson is going in the previous rounds. into football and russian champions the need to have signed italy defender the many coakley sheets from genoa on a five year deal this sunday for all that are in started his career as a center half now usually place up left back in the movie that's i'll defend the has played one hundred matches in syria scoring five goals he made his senior international debut in august two thousand and nine in the friendly against switzerland involved in this play fifteen times for his country his transfer fee is reported to be in excess of ten million euros. while some of the defending

champions were held for goalless draw at home to turn back as a second in the league behind in the last round of games with all the long summer break well meanwhile extended their lead at the top to four points and with the game in hand thanks to you to know when a car just suddenly. she ponders need to turn and pinpoint cross into the set of ivory coast like a city to the rear netted his first girl i put on and are seven minutes to go he completed his second brace two straight matches this one for the lead is a two no victory if we're in a row while i'm car they slip through eleventh. for me last spot at moscow and sevens after scoring a late winner in their thrilling treating victory at home to ross thought all goals came in the second half with the red and white finally breaking a deadlock after fifty four minutes after i was passed down brazilian striker of ellison and the home side double the lead just three minutes later shown as cross found the first of a defender for an own goal however spot x.

celebrations were short lived as they squandered their lead within nine minutes from me to my jacket did most of the work on the right flank system a bomb of and then confusion in the spot act offense from the roster of corner and alexander gets to pick up the ball from the rebounds to equalize to two however spots i did manage to claim the three points sealing victory in the eighty first minute thanks to the meaty combat of joyful spots on the star stay fourteenth. elsewhere do not always hurt after thrashing la county for one in a feisty moscow darby and g a fourth after a two two draw at class know they are struggling ball the one three nil at home to meet for their opponents into twelfth transformer chavez ravine slipped to fifth after losing two minutes pentagon sponsored rows off the bottom after a two know when he is the better off in the basement battle to send their opponents for the table. saw the first part of this eighteen month long transitional season

is now over as russia is switching to an autumn spring calendaring twenty twelve in the premier league will be in sync with the rest of europe the top eight sides will battle for the title in the spring and those playoffs want to be held now these teams would be in the contest has got a first with again. that would second informed analysis that the sheer force of the by removing his honest he's gone six months later he starts acting like a monthly fee closing at the group. now staying with the ball and dozens of people have been injured in clashes between river plate fans and police and one is aries after argentina's biggest club were relegated for the first time in their history more than sixty thousand people watched the playoff game of updates from the ground a study on one human thought that riot police had to disperse the crowd with water cannons on the plates breaking one one draw against second tier side belgrano but nothing could call the tension as the right spilled out of the stadium things turned ugly on the streets of the argentinian capital never played

a record thirty three time national champions and dropped out to the top flight for the first time in a hundred ten years they did take an early lead in that vital much money on a par on the bottom rung up just five minutes in a second half equal also by a father who got killed at the same hopes the home side had a survival. of only ten from pharaoh to zero after seeing his life saving penalty tonight. i saw him now in russia's national team have officially signed the new coach as it's a lobby that the north put plans of paper to guide the red machine through the source the winter olympics in twenty four to thirty six year old next plans to pick his assistant coach also saying he's already chosen the goalkeeper in trainer but has so far declined to reveal his name really enough steps up to the national roll off leading at faster three russian titles in seven years he's the country's most successful club coach it's hopeful for top flight crowns to his name he also managed russia for eleven months six years ago and has received

a warm welcome back. you're with you know. you want to go out of the rough with your wardrobe and the children were together a lot of. africa for. the rocket. cavan she's aiming to make history by becoming the first person to kites a cyclone fence across the gulf in ruins which of course up with the russian. surfing. over the last decade kite surfing has become more and more popular it's dynamic great to watch all the riders can reach speeds of up to seventy kilometers an hour if the weather conditions are favorable for the sport is relatively new in russia however the country has one of the best kind service in the business kilter to steve each one the keiser if you could actually surf ways like the regular surf and you can actually go a long distance away from the reserve so i just like i was bored with takes all

different or similar but we were worth the word survey research that's why if you try once you really like what they're really everyone can find something different . while surfing and windsurfing are very dependent on the wind divans just kind surfing is not so reliant on the elements this means for the sport to be practiced wherever there's a stretch of water be it on the ocean or just on a lake but the sport may seem expensive all the equipment can be bought for just under five thousand dollars want to pick up a sport according to paid it's actually easier than it looks if you try first you need if you didn't make it for you or if you need only like one in the week and you're going to be able to go up we back and forth and right even to jump so it's actually easier to learn than the surface of the field work so i mean most of the people they see from you have to say oh that's way too complicated for us but if you try it first you can see the hardest thing is to control the kite well as soon

as you can get those dogs and it's not really hard but also like bicycle sports is in pages blood's is try just about everything from motocross to snowboarding however it was quite surfing which eventually fell in love with. well he spends most of his time outside of the country training mainly in spain in the militias but in order to be twenty four years old already is very short career preaches achieved fantastic success and becoming one of the best kind service in the world however the next few days is going to be facing one of the toughest challenges ahead i see the science across the gulf of finland all the way from thailand over here across the gulf of finland to helsinki which is a distance of eighty kalman says he aims to complete the challenge in around three to four hours which is quick given that it takes two hours for a passenger ferry to cover the same distance one of its greatest tests will be to try and read between the currents how the page is

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