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is our. top stories now the judges in the hague issued arrest warrants for libyan leader colonel gadhafi. charged with ordering the killing of protesters in february . israel says its navy is gearing up to intercept a humanitarian aid flotilla heading for gaza but backs away from previous threats to ban and deport journalists sailing with the armada. it's been confirmed fifteen people showed signs of radiation exposure and nuclear plant last month and this is government checks are being met with anger and skepticism. but one man who says events shouldn't be called a disaster is john rich director general of the world association explains. why he thinks nuclear energy is still one of the safest sources of power and getting safer

that's in our special interview next. jerry 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 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 least 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 tallis always wondering who pays for storing the waste and how can 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. 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 cold 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 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 a convention would 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 environmentalists what's your job right now how would you characterize it i think when bill make 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 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 part time with natural gas why why nuclear energy is best 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 you know that europe sat powerhouse germany a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want thinks out of their country and ali that my spoke to the austrian foreign minister recently and they're extremely proud and happy to be nuclear free. and you said that it's actually to gain votes and said it was an democratic house so i was saying it was a sad it was an 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 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 sane 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 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 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 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 christina you said we need to go back and look at whether those posts 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. 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 their 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 had 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 the 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 inforced 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 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 and 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 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. me. if.

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top stories this hour on r t judges in the hague issue arrest warrants for libyan leader khaled gadhafi and turned his closest confidantes that charge with ordering the killing of anti regime protesters in february. israel says its navy is gearing up to intercept a humanitarian aid flotilla heading for gaza backs away from previous threats to ban and deport journalists a link with the amount. that's been confirmed fifteen people showed signs of radiation exposure in their japan's fukushima nuclear plant last month and latest government checks and being met with anger and skepticism. about with more news in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime let's have the latest from the want to speak with kate. hello welcome to the sports news and these are the headlines. the field narrows

world number one how long does not speak and those williams sisters go out to her and she rapped about a street in the quarter finals wimbledon. was feel of approval you need to love me or do you not finally signed the deal keep the paddle rushing national i said thanks to the sochi winter olympic. gold and gold twenty two year old valued sanguine l.p.g. a championship to cover youngest golf maybe the female to win all four majors but first tennis where world number one caroline wozniacki and williams sisters all went crashing out in a shock filled fourth round at wimbledon for the finest marion bartoli seemed to be the happiest woman at the all england club ok the best of her day to outgoing champion serena williams the french woman survived a close second set tie break for. two hours to celebrate a six three seven six victory. of course i'm extremely happy about that i did today considering playing in syria i don't know how many times she wins there but you

know she's extremely tough to beat so of course it's a great performance but tomorrow is another day so i have to stay extremely focused so not taking too far ahead i think i did really well rumored was being able to come back in employee and when samantha. impeaches really played tough even today i lost but i was we were trying to hang in there and play tough and i can only get better and that can potentially be really scary because i am i going to go up from here. now meanwhile toggling buzzing out csail through her right exactly and still needs to book over watch the slovakia while number twenty four for back to catch big story segment on the passing of steve waiting in grand slam. what venus williams lost to get respect on that i don't go back and repeat score of last year the quarter final however former champion maria sharapova is safely through the wall number six ran into some tough opposition early in her match against china's peng sure i watched the two thousand and four when i proved to triumph six four six

to get to the set so far this year which is the course of finals for the first time in five years. i feel like my manners definitely improved this year but i think that's because i played a lot of matches. i think a lot of it is also reaction in. getting ready for the next set of bones to thinking it's over being prepared to hit another one another one and. just always but it doesn't come. because. she's the last remaining female russian players compaction on the felting of course the victoria azarenka and hot prospects to send you back once back to austria time later passé check bits of that crash landing live a quiet but also soaring sabine lisicki the german wildcard reaching her second quarter final in three years after beating chad at this point seven six six one i

think i've done a pretty good job today. you know it's it's never easy to come off a huge win against molly on center court and then to plant smaller courts but so you know for me i take you know those matches and wimbledon and i still love it so . and yeah i mean i didn't when i had to know and i'm really looking forward to the next round. on the men's side long after standing mccall usually has become the first man to take a set of six nine ten here i want to federer all reigning champion rafael the doll is backing down just. try to go one of them so you know that job it was cruised boss franklin michael llodra one elsewhere. a local favorite as two time semifinalist andy murray was given a standing ovation by prince william despite their stance the last couple to play it straight set when michelle glasgow front in seven six six three six two.

and elsewhere was that battled back from two sets down to beat new cash who bought after facing two match points in a third set tie break ten see madi fish upset last year's runner up thomas verdict in straight sets. struggling against joe tsonga while the first player in the men's draw to win three of the last eight was fast rising australian bernard tomic a teenage qualifier dispatched belgium having a menes six one seven five six four after also beating robin so doing in the previous round. to different means i mean there not be much are in play but today i was playing for a big sport and. you know in one way you know they're both blue which is immense but i was with that we know really wanted and. paid for well i played well for. football now dozens of people were injured in clashes between river plate fans and police in what is ariz after argentina's biggest club were relegated for the first

time in the history more than sixty thousand people watched the playoff game at river plate's home ground to study on the mentality where riot police has dispersed the crowd with water cannons and reason it's heartbreaking one one draw against second tier side belgrano but nothing good call the tension as the right spilled out of the stadium things turning ugly on the streets of the argentinian capital river plate where a record thirty three time national champions dropped out of the top flight for the first time in a hundred tell me is they did take an early lead in that vital much money on a pov only putting one up just five minutes in the second half equaliser by yet more far a group of course the same pipes the home side of survival. turned from hero to zero after seeing his life saving penalty tonight. i saw you now in russia's national team have officially signed then you coach off the zenith to labial at dino's put pen to paper to guide the red machines freeze as

such the winter olympics in twenty forty fifty six years old now plans to take his assistant coach are saying he has chosen the goalkeeping try not without revealing his name that deal takes up the national role often leaving boston three russian titles in seven years he's the country's most successful club coach with four top flight plans to his name you also have russia for eleven months six years ago and has received and whom have come back. i think is the right you know if you want to go out of the channel seven russia here we're going to have the children who are about to get a lot of experience so i think it is a good for our team and the right. while in the other form of ice hockey russia's brand new sled hockey team has been given a major boost ahead of their maiden paralympic appearance at sochi in three years 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 entered the paralympic tournament sledge hockey was introduced into the games in le havre

in one thousand nine hundred four the united states norway canada and sweden are the big four in a sport that host nation russia want to make an impact on the games chief organizer demitra chana shank noted mobile operator mega-fun insurance company for backing. visitors to combine you legally can see for yourself the two big companies to market leaders have become partners of the paralympic movement they've taken on the responsibility of helping the games committee and the sports federations to prepare our future champions when you see a hugely beneficial change in attitude. now former world number one tennis player and two time grand slam champion yevgeny catholic off has been crowned russia's gold champion at the national championships in the moscow region cousin to the top of reports on the story of one man who tried in two different sports. the twentieth national tournament to meet bill down in history as one of the most interesting so

far in the woodlands there was a first ever hole in one memory that i can on the second day but there was no surprise in the overall can petition where my dear john a is still the biggest name in russia the twenty five year old dominated on the greens from the very beginning showing solidly however the first russian to achieve full time membership on the leader's european tour did give her a bronze if you chances on the final day but her lead proved to be too comfortable and that china has secured her third russian title for the first three days of play really good and you know this. like. today after after that night i was just like so slow completely lost my concentration was hard for me and missing person kind of. meanwhile the men's can petition turned out to be a real crack at the two favorites who took the little boys half way through the tournament were disqualified from moving distance markers and the feet of the

russian golf groan was to be decided on the clues and he took out stick under metre mark. the next day i went in there and knew about we just heard about it and we just wanted a reference that we had this kind of situation for that for. us and incredibly former tennis world number one in two time grand slam winner guinea cufflink of look it up a little bored to grip his first professional title the thirty seven year old was trailing by aides to oaks ahead of the final day but later found his perfect touch to produce an impressive last round which included six birdies in just one bogey and despite a pretty modest finish of fifteen over by the olympic tennis champion is going to boost his golf skills for the olympics in rio in two thousand and sixteen but i didn't expect to win it was a real surprise for me i'm very satisfied with my score in the last round as i finished five under par i love golf and will continue playing and it would be great

if i could take part in the olympics in two different sports with the growing popularity of golf in russia championships like this and results like company gives us the best way of encouraging those interested in the sport to pick up a golf club because they about out of party. staying on the greens and they knew the crowned u.s. open champion rory mcilroy looks like the game's wonder kid to you the best lot for jani saying she's also just twenty two but has now won all four majors on the ladies tour to become the youngest ever player both male and female to pull off the state the time when he's well the one who's just out of the l. from the g.a.a. championship to her collection and what a victory it was as she came to aix title on the tour by a staggering ten strikes and also produced a super final round of a six hundred sixty six inch in one thousand nine hundred eleven world to match the record low score twenty's major. and that's what sports news by then.

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