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six thirty pm on monday here in moscow you with. judges in the hague issue arrest warrants for libyan leader colonel gadhafi and two of his closest confidants charged with ordering the killing of the regime protesters over the last four months. israel says its navy is gearing up to intercept a humanitarian aid flotilla heading for gaza but it has backed away from previous threats to deport any journalists who sailed with the flotilla. and now that fifteen people showed signs of radiation exposure japan's fukushima nuclear plant last month the government check solving met with anger and skepticism . well i want a man who says fukushima shouldn't be called a disaster rich director general of the world nuclear association he explained. why

he thinks that nuclear energy is still one of the safest sources of power and continues to get safer. jerry it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much is 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 force

for sure we had three mile island in america we had sure noble 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 east safe it has begin been it does not emit any emissions into the into the global atmosphere and it has only on a 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 callus always wondering who pays for storing the waste and how can an engineer be profitable when they have to pay for storing their ways 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. if but you don't know what to do with the waste let me say something that may shock you. the greatest comparative asset of nuclear power is its waste now why is this. in other major energy forms where there be cold or natural gas or oil what you find is that the atmosphere or 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 emitting carbon dioxide at the rate of thirty billion tons a year which is eight hundred tons per second into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric waste dump nuclear energy is producing

a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six while producing an amount of radioactive waste that sequent 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 is 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 it kind of eventually 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 environmentalist what serious job right now how would you characterize it i think when bill makes me credibility as a 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 ism is one of the fundamental principles i'm in the

nuclear power business precisely because i believe in the in my or 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 that 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 the remainder of my career to promoting this clean energy technology plant so i'm with natural gas why why nuclear energy is past natural gas when 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 come out in 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 you're upset powerhouse germany a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want thing it's out of their country and i leave that last five to ten foreign minister recently and very extremely proud of has to be nuclear free. and you said that it's actually to gain votes we said it was a democratic house so i was saying it was a sad it was 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 produced as democracy sometimes does a highly irrational result i'm an american i know that irrationality can come out of a political system i've seen it many times in my life and american democracy democracy does not produce great results and sometimes it produces silly results and we've just seen one and in germany what about for christina what happened there and least you keep telling me that it's all safe and i don't keep telling you that it's all safe there was an accident fukushima 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 media 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'm in 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 fukushima you said we need to go back and look at

whether those post shutdown cooling systems can survive the worst case events we can imagine what do you mean by go back the japanese made a mistake. 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 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 a 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 resupplied electricity supply to power cooling systems that would get them down from five percent of their overall heat level they have been at one 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 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 they think they are operators telling you i don't have to believe it 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. they are operators who visit each other's power plants and write reports and analysis and criticism of each other so that they are all working to come up to the same standard of best practice there is a great deal of conversation inspection analysis application of standards judgement 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 happens 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

earthquakes like plane crashes and that those questions are being asked right now i think they will result in some changes i don't think that 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 with the world will have drawn a lesson from fukushima and nuclear safety will be even stronger in the aftermath thank you very much for this interview. to.

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the headlines here on r t judges in the hague issue arrest warrants for libyan leader colonel gadhafi and two of his closest confidants 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 backed away from the previous threats to ban and deported any journalist who sailed on board. it's been confirmed now that fifteen people showed signs of radiation exposure near japan's fukushima nuclear plant last month the latest government checks are being met with anger and skepticism. part of those are the headlines here on our team more news in about fifteen minutes time but for now it's case and big news as one of the defending champs at wimbledon is out the sport is now.

hello welcome to the sports nears and here is what's coming up. the field narrows holder serena williams is not tapped by marion bartoli reassure wrap of the rushes into the quarter finals a scorching day at wimbledon. while seal of approval is in it to the north finally signs a deal to prepare the russian national ice hockey team the saatchi winter olympics . and flying high rushes to cave which aims to become the first quite 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 out in straight sets to france's top woman marion bartoli the younger williams sister did look like she was on her way back in the second set but former find the spot wanted on a tie break in the match and joining her in the last eight is two thousand and four champion maria sharapova as the world number six cruised past china's peng schweiger 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 at night if the trials are thought easy victim number four seed victoria azarenka russia's latest hot prospect to send me a pretty back is also knocked out this time in three sets up and come up to me that project of austria. does well for more world number one sorry world number one caroline wozniacki has been taken the distance i don't know if it's a book about patrick's it's about the russian you know big mile and in the late match five time went out between twenty and carries a ton of it on to about. the already three is sabine lisicki the german wildcard reaching her second quarter final in three years to match that of sky seven six six one. i think i did a pretty good job tonight. you know it's it's never easy to come off a huge. only from time to current and then to plan smaller chords but so you

know for me i'll take you those matches in wimbledon and i still love it so. and you know i mean i didn't when i had to know and i'm really looking forward to next round well of the men's side last question standing with all youzhny will try to break his fourth round drinks and says he's prepared for battle against six time champion roger federer or reigning champion rafael the dollars in for what could be the showpiece match against juan martin del potro local fire andy murray has beaten ryszard s.k. in straight sets to go into the quarterfinals for the fourth successive year while he never djokovic another frenchman michael laudrup. spaniard let the ana lopez is struggling against luka while they're at will play joe wilfried tsonga and america's number one marty fish face a giant check on russia burdick while the first player in the men's draw to win through to the last days was fast rising australian tony the teenage qualifier dispatching five in serbia in the least six one seven five six four after also be

throbbing sidling in the previous round. moving to football and russian champions the need to have signed italy defender the medicare appreciates all from genoa on a five year deal but only for all the talian started his career as a center half now usually place at left back and the mother of the versatile defender has played one hundred matches in through syria scoring five goals to make his senior international debut in august two thousand and nine in a friendly against switzerland involved in this paid fifteen times for his country his transfer fee is reported to be in excess of ten million euros. what are some of the defending champions were held goalless draw at home to turn back to stay second in the league behind in the last round of games to hold the long summer break well meanwhile taste got extended their lead at the top to four points and with the game in hand thanks to you two no we're not card just seven minutes in. as you can on this needs turn and pinpoint cross the set of ivory coast striker say during net

it's his first goal with a qualm and are seven minutes to go he completed his second brace two straight matches this one for the chip of the lead is a two no victory if we win in a row but i'm car they slip to eleven. i mean last quarter moscow went seven so after scoring a late winner in their thrilling three two victory at home tossed off all goals came in the second half with the red and white finally breaking the deadlock after fifty four minutes of the past brazilian strike of ellison and the home side double the lead just three minutes later and china's cross found the force of a defender for an own goal however spotlights celebrations were short lived as they squandered their lead with a nine minutes me to my jacket did most of the work on the right flank setting them on a bomb of and then confusion in the spontaneity fence from rust of corner and xander gets to pick up the ball from the rebound to equalize to two however spot i could did manage to claim the full three points sealing victory in the eighty first

minute thanks to the meaty combat of joys the spots on the stuff stay fourteenth. elsewhere do not always hurt after thrashing luck one hundred four one in a feisty moscow darby and g a fourth after a two two draw a crowd and there are struggling ball the one three no at home to meet for their opponents into twelfth twice for which you have a dream slipped to fifth after losing to new tentacle ban sponsor rose off the bottom after a two you know when korea set off in the basement battle to send their opponents to the four to the table. saw the first part of this eighteen month long transitional season is now over as russia is switching to an autumn spring calendar in twenty twelve when 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 were to be held now these teams would be in the contest first with again. it's in its second informed and i'm a third or fourth followed by ribbon because i just bought six months to two spots

that looked like safe closing at the group. now staying with football and dozens of people have been injured in clashes between river plate fans and police in one is aires 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 have to disperse the crowd with water cannons on them we were quite caught breaking one one draw against second tier side belgrano but nothing good quality tension as the right spilled out of the stadium and things turning ugly on the streets of the argentinian capital river plate were a record thirty three time national champions and dropped out of the top flight for the first time in a hundred ten years they did take an early lead in that vital much marianna pavol in the two one up just five minutes in a second half equaliser by a father who got killed the same hopes the home side had a survival. of only ten from zero to zero after seeing his life saving penalty

tonight. i snuck in now and russia's national team have officially signed their new coach office in the two lobby that did not put pen to paper to go into the red machine through the sochi winter olympics in twenty four to thirty six year old next plans to pick his assistant coach or so saying he's already chosen the goalkeeping trainer but has so far declined to reveal his name he let dean off steps up to the national roll off the legal advice to three russian titles in seven years he's the country's most successful club coach with a total of four top flight crowns to his name he also managed russia for eleven months six years ago and has received a warm welcome back. at the i don't know if. you want to waddle centocelle rough for him or him and the children he got a lot of experience in africa for good for our team. and finally gave it she's aiming to make history by becoming the first person to kites

a cyclone just across the gulf of finland where she found cool feet caught up with the russian and also looks at why the kite surfing is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. 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 the sport is relatively new in russia however the country has one of the best kind service in the business people to ski the age of the kaiser if you could actually surf ways like the regular surf and you can actually go a long distance away on the listserv so i just like was bored with takes all different sports together but we were told were the words serve you we serve that's why if you try hard ones you really like those that really everyone can find something different. for surfing and windsurfing a very dependent on the wind the advantage of kind surfing is not so reliant on be elements this means for the sport can be practiced wherever there's

a stretch of water be it on the ocean or just on a lake but for the sport may seem expensive all the equipment can be bought the just under five thousand dollars want to pick up a sport according to paid it's actually easier than it looks if you tried first you need if you didn't make it for you or if you need only like one to be we find you going to be able to go out we buy them for the right even to dump it so it's actually easier to learn and on the surface of the world so i mean most of the people they see from you know this is that's way too complicated for us but if you try it first you're going to see the hardest thing is to control the kite but as soon as you get the guns and it's not really hard but also like bicycle sports is in pages blood he's tried just about everything from motocross to snowboarding however it was quite surfing which eventually fell in love with. but he spends most of his time outside of the country training mainly in spain in the marriages but he

might only be twenty four years old but already has very short career pages achieved fantastic success and becoming one of the best kind surface in the world however the next few days is going to be facing one of his toughest challenges ahead as he looks to try and surf 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 kilometers 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 his greatest tests will be to try and read the wind and the currents how the page is a ready looking ahead to new challenges with his next aim trying kite served on the navy in his native st petersburg richard pombo fleet artsy collin. and that's all the support for this policy.

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