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showed signs of radiation explosion in japan's fukushima nuclear plant last month places government checks are being met with anger and skepticism. about what they put in about fifty minutes from now the meantime one man who says events at fukushima shouldn't be called a disaster is john rich director general of the world nuclear association he explains to r.t. so he should not say why he thinks but nuclear energy is still one of the safest sources of power and getting safer. carrie it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much has an equal protection 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 that we had sure noble in ukraine we just had fukushima. but there i think the remarkable thing about this technology which is producing so much of the world's electricity is how essentially it's 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 occasions 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 employing 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 ok so for a story that way so how can a dangerous or be profitable when you have to pay for storing the waste 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 the nuclear energy might be ok seems to be pretty safe 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 whether it 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 particular it's all about 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 or seconds into the planetary atmosphere as an atmosphere of. nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six while producing an amount of radioactive waste that sequence 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 it kind of mentioned we'd 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 a grassroots environmentalist what's your job right now how would you characterize it i think when bill make me 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 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 and 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 their remainder of my career to promoting this clean energy technology one time with natural gas why why you care energies test natural gas oil 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 and small quantity but in the form of methane that is twenty times more potent as a greenhouse gas then 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 but europe sat powerhouse germany a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want to use out of their

country and i like that i spent ten austrian foreign minister recently and they're extremely proud of happy to be nuclear free. and you've said that it's actually to gain votes in the senate was and democratic house so i was saying it was a sad it was an expense 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 going to america and i know that irrationality can come out of a political system i've seen it many times in my life in america tomorrow. you see can often see does not produce great results and sometimes it produces silly results and we've just seen one end in germany of climate for christina what happened there and least 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 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 has not been very responsible for a single radiation fatality we have twenty four thousand citizens having died from the earthquake and the 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 words 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 are beginning to focus on 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 for casino he said we need to go back and look at whether those trusts shut down cooling systems can survive the worst case events we can imagine what do you mean by go back the japanese made a mistake. 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 miami 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 systems and because they did not have waterproof backup proving

systems those were flooded and rendered inoperable 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 p.p.m. shut down they became essentially helpless on purpose but they still needed some f. styria or some external we supply electricity supply to power cooling systems that would get them down from five percent of their overall heat level they depended 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 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 and nuclear operators tell you that 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 world wide net. the work of nuclear 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 with the same standard of best practice there is a great deal of conversation inspection and analysis application of standards judgement about whether people are hearing to standards that is growing 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 needs 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 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 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 and change them.

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hotel. the meridian believe the joint the hotels church in new delhi who took the baby her to carry collection removed the clothes of the family maidens hotels park plaza medicine ship and it was promised to take her comments. top stories this hour on three judges in the hague issued arrest warrants for libyan leader. that charge with ordering the killing of regime protesters over the last four months. israel says it's making it's giving up the scepter humanitarian aid to anything else in the packs away from previous threats and the poor judgment saving with the amount. has been confirmed fifteen people showed signs of radiation exposure and parents pushing a nuclear plant last month and his government can be met with anger and skepticism

. i'll be back with more news from in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime though it's the sports and eventful day in tennis. alone on the sports news on the crunch that wimbledon and the top stories. the field narrows world number one caroline wozniacki and both the williams sisters go out we're sure after that it's through to the quarter finals three day wimbledon. was sealed bruegel is in it to liberia that did not finally signed the deal to the back the russian national high school p.t. subhuman showing six. player rushes. aims to become the first. to cross the gulf in. the first a ten is on the sharks have been coming thick and fast in the fourth round of wimbledon as well as the one caroline wozniacki and

both williams sisters the way crushing out presidents sailed through the opening set against what i could probably guess the bulk of our butts the world number twenty four turned the tables after that to top the three set wind may cause that's great even longer one hundred one slam the younger williams sisters the reader did look like she's on her way back in the second suspect former prime is not in the twenty one it's on a tie break on the much balbinus last until there is a plan is wrong about how about former champion maria sharapova is safely through the world number six did run into some tough opposition early in her match against china's prime schweik but the two thousand and four when i grew in strength to wrap it up six or six to get through the set so far she returns to the quarterfinals for the first time in five years. oh philip roman has definitely improved this era but i think that's because it played a lot of matches. hopes to i think a lot of it is also reaction in. getting ready for the next bit of bar instead of

thinking and so are being prepared to hit another one another one and. just always but it doesn't come. close. however she will be the only female player to fly the russian front from now on patrick not the easy victims of number four see victoria as an anchor in russia latest hot prospect is any better but it's also not at oscar time is that cash like topsy turvy much. crushed and i mean you have a client also very suddenly said see the german wildcard reaching her second quarter final in three years after beating check head where it's seven six six one. i think i'm going to pretty good job. you know and so that's no reason to come off a huge win against molly on center court and. smaller chords but so you know for me i take it as much as men women and i still love it so. much and yeah

i mean i did it when i had to know and i'm really looking forward to my grand welcome and also russia suddenly fall usually just trying to break his fourth round jinx as he faces six and i'm champion roger federer reigning champion rafael nadal is in what could be the show this much to inspire not enough doctrove local by the mari please ryszard cascade straight sets to go into the quarter finals for the full service of the world rich cruised not the french for a lot of rounds chronically on the low side and podiums in the pleasure boats are in the swiss deciding if that's america's number one la the finnish is a set of a good against giant czech republic that it. take tremendously summed up in the late match of the first player in the men's draw to win through the last eight was a fast rising australian or not tomic to dispatch belgians copying my least six one seven five six or also be somewhat in so doing this round. we would go

on russian champions and have signed italy defend the medical conceits offer in general on a five year deal but you know your old italian style his career is a sensor hot but i usually base actually left back nicknamed me most versatile defender has played one hundred naches expensive out scoring five goals in a few senior international debut in august two thousand and nine in a friendly against switzerland in call on his plate fifteen times for his country is transferred he is reported to be in excess of ten million euros. well on sunday the defending champions were held to a bowl the straw and to stay second in the league. in the last round of games before the month long summer great me was i got extended there. lead at the top to four point zero and with a game in hand i say to know when some thought just seven minutes in the sun is needs ten. euphemistic i would just like to say did you hear that his first goal was a pawn and the seven minutes to go he completed the second brace to straight out is

. and is a two no victory faced win in a row and can't sleep so eleventh. now staying with the wall and dozens of people have been injured in clashes between river plate fans ons police and when a series after argentina's biggest club were relegated for the first time in the history more than sixty thousand people watched the playoff game actually to face her own ground this badly on the one thought by right place answer disperse the crowd with water cannons with eight operating on one top against second is all brawn and nothing could call the tension as the right spill that of the stadium. i think on the streets of the argentine capital of a place where a record thirty three time national champions and dropped out of the top flight for the first time in one hundred ten years they did take an early lead in that vital match money on a par only put in one up just five minutes in the second half equaliser by yet more

fire to kill if this impacts inside its survival the only time i think you're right to zero obviously is a life saving penalty tonight. i saw you now and russia's national team have officially signed the new coach opposition to lobby at being off the pens of papers a guy the red machines for the sochi winter olympics in france the forty the thirty six year old next plans to pick his assistant coach while also saying he has already tried in the goalkeeper in china but so far as the five three will remain he led you know steps up to the national role after leaving at bafta three russian titles in seven years he's the country's most successful club coach with its hopeful for top flight hours to his my most and that is russia for eleven months six years ago and has received a warm welcome back. sir you know if. you want to go out of their temple seraphic you were going to have a chill before about you got a lot of experience so i think it is a good for our team. while in the other four off ice hockey rushes brand new so

much hockey team has been given a major boost ahead of their maiden paralympic appearance in sochi israel's time after the country's paralympic committee netted a couple of big sponsorship deals ahead of the games russia held their first ever national championships in sledge hockey just two years ago and have never enter the power of the tournament such hockey was introduced to the games program in the one nine hundred ninety four the united states norway canada and sweden are the big four in the sport this nation russia want to have more say in sochi and chief organizer of the transition coach nor did mobile operator megaphones and insurance company in the slack but that. would be just to come by any legal you can see for yourself that to be companies to market leaders have become partners of the paralympics movement if take you know the responsibility of helping the games committee and this post federations to prepare our future champions we don't see a hugely beneficial change in attitudes. final constitutionally which is

a history by becoming the first person to kite launches across the gulf of finland . caught up with russia and also looks at why kite surfing is one of the fastest growing sports. over the last decade kite surfing has become more and more popular it's dynamic great to watch for the riders to 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 they each want to cry so if you can actually surf ways like the rate of the surf and you can actually go on the long distance away from the resort so i just like one word which takes all different sports together but we were still worth the word survey research that's why if you try one you really like a very everyone can find something different. while surfing and windsurfing are

very dependent on the wind people want to kite surfing is not so reliant on the elements this means for the sport can be practiced wherever there's a stretch of water be it on the ocean well just on the lake of the sport may seem expensive all the equipment can be bought for just under a thousand dollars let's pick up a sport according to pay chair it's actually easier than it looks if you tried first you need if you didn't make it or you were you need only like one would be weak and you're going to be able to go out we back and forth and right even if you don't so it's actually easier to learn and on the surface of the world so i mean most of the people that they see from you know it's you 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 crowd but as soon as you can get those dogs on there's not really hard but most of the bicycle sports is in peaches blood is try just about everything from motocross to snowboarding however it was kind surfing which eventually fell in love

. with that he spends most of his time outside of the country training mainly in spain in the marriages but i'm only twenty four years old and ready is very short career eight years as t.v. runtastic success and becoming one of the best kind service in the world however over the next few days is going to be facing one of his toughest challenges ahead i see lots of signs across the gulf of finland all the way from thailand over here across the gulf erlend 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 this tense one of his greatest tests will be to try and read the wind an occurrence. is a really looking ahead to new challenges with his next aim trying kite serve time a neighbor and his native son petersburg. r.t. starlin it. was that his personality back again into our son for you.

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