young families are not hesitant about having a senior citizen in their family where one man's utopia turns into a real village. welcome to be done with. russia blows up. welcome back you're watching live from moscow here's a look at the top stories more than half of the children living near the fukushima nuclear plant have tested positive for radiation meanwhile inside of it rationed zone police have arrested a gang of suspected looters accused of robbing abandoned homes. air passengers in russia are being put in danger by hooligans flying pilots with lasers from the ground more than fifty planes have been targeted during a landing this year and there are calls for police to toughen up on bananas. and

new sexual assault charges against former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn are filed in france as a new york case falls apart a french writer says she was attacked decades ago but still is khan's lawyers say slander and will soon. japan's nuclear worries are leaving anxious nations looking to their own energy supplies and whether it is worth the risk the general director of the world nuclear association now tells r.t. how he assesses the future of the industry. carrie it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much as an equal protection technology group 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 we had shared 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 to get big ben it does not mean that any emissions into the into the global atmosphere and it has only on very very rare occasions harmed anyone and meanwhile we 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 a dangerous or be profitable when you have to pay for storing away for thousands of years you know that the the question of waste is i think the most fundamentally misunderstood aspect of nuclear energy most people say well nuclear energy might be ok it 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 facet 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 in this fear 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 per second into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric place not nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six welfare do saying an amount of radioactive waste the sequence is 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 and geological repositories

that are carefully selected and without any ultimate harm either to people or the environment now you sound like and grassroots environmentalists 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 and 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 the remainder of my career to promoting this clean energy technology part time with natural gas why why i need fair energy is best natural gas well natural gas produces a lot of the way still produces carbon dioxide emissions on a very very large scale these emissions come out of the burning of the natural gas and they cannot get even more potent form a 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 than carbon dioxide so the combination of burning natural gas and the leakage of unburned natural gas that comes through the term transmission lines makes this a very very serious liability for in terms of global greenhouse gas concentrations you know that you're upset powerhouse continent germany

a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want being it's out of their country and ali that i spoke to the austrian foreign minister recently and very extremely proud of happy to be nuclear free. i mean sad that it's actually to gain votes and say it was an democratic house so i was saying it was a sad it was in its 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 dr mark received 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 in america and to my. you see democracy does not produce great results and sometimes it produces silly results and we've just seen one and in germany a climate of focusing on what happened there and least you keep telling me that

it's all safe i don't keep telling you that it's all safe it 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 night 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 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 with a pushing a 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 and

who can see and 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 pope machine and they will learn that there was relatively little damage done by this event and this was a worst case nuclear event after fukushima he said we need to go back and look at right there those trust 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 nami that they would encounter and if they defended against that there they were their backup cooling systems would be safe but it 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 your reactors at fukushima when the earthquake began shutdown they became essentially helpless on purpose but they still needed some exteriors some external resupply 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 is that it was the failure of non-nuclear support systems to be available after the shutdown there resulted in this meltdown if you really believe everything they think they are operators tell 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 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 analysis application of standards judgement about whether people are hearing 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 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 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 nuclear safety will be even stronger in the aftermath thank you very much for this and team.

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these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for a shelter on the day. more than half the children living near the fukushima nuclear plant have tested positive for radiation and while inside the evacuation zone police have arrested a gang of suspected looters accused of robbing abandoned homes. air passengers in russia are being put in danger by hooligans blinding pilots was lasers from the ground more than fifty planes have been targeted during landing this year and there are calls for police to toughen up on the net. and new sexual assault charges against former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn are filed in france as a new york case falls apart a french rider says she was a tags

a decade ago but strolls khan's lawyers say it's slander and will suit. as we have life here in our sports next. hello there thanks for joining me and these are the headlines so sinise can tell avon's pitch defending champion alberto contador to win stage for the tour de france. last time i got a bad leg forces boards to pull out next week so you could. land summer signing start at moscow bringing dutch international desired results to their liking season . to start the tour de france they were struggling to that evans has won a dramatic stage four pitting defending champion alberto contador and a photo finish on the line in the tour de france and is now just a second behind overall latest poll who show off the stage with

a mostly flat one yesterday and there was a breakaway of pie of riders but they were caught by the pilot and with just a few kilometers left and then the fireworks started there was a long inclined to the finish line and contador attacked with just over a kilometer to go he couldn't shrug off the field though and it was evans he was leading as they entered the final stretch it looked like he was going to be caught by contador but he on for his second tour de france stage win and that moves evans to begin the second of told you sure you hangs on to the yellow jersey contador is a further one minute forty seconds back in the overall standings today's stage five looks like one for sprint just one hundred seventy kilometers with relatively flat terrain through brittany. tiger woods has pulled out of next week's open the former world number one blaming and ongoing leg injury although he still believes he's his best years ahead of him and that's what he said at least on his website the thirty five year old has not played competitively since suffering a recurrence of the problems his left leg plays championship in mid may his world

ranking is nicely to seventeenth especially in brandon jones replaced woods. i understand which golf course go and start engine life will see i in football spot up north have signed dutch midfielder to me design from i.x. to six million euros the twenty eight year old international one of the dutch cup and league with i.x. over the last two years and is also part of his country's world cup squad in south africa he will join up with these new starter pack team mates in a training camp in austria. the russian friendly leads me to seize from the break while another football in the city at giants into milan have unveiled their new coach a local specialist young piano yes but in his demand to take up the reins in a two year deal several big names had turned down the offer of the fifty three year old was sacked as general boss last november and becomes into sports manager in just over

a year following getting marino rafael benitez and in our that. squad if we were to conclude it's a squad which hasn't lost any one with old clueless it's a team two years ago once everything last year was a listers from test season in terms of results and you can bet it was of course to be expected but this can be used as a force for motivation. meanwhile in the women's world cup hosts germany and england have topped their groups and will play japan and france respectively in the quarter finals germany kept one hundred percent record with a full two win over france the host during his brief period to get a fix there and into green's got another germans just before the break. the french to pull one back through murray barely but then they had their keeper supper which sent off results and i don't see. why bring.

france to make things interesting day when they got back to go through a good august. but. settled germany the big goal was the death ball to them to germany how it ends and they would like to. thank for japan last drinking so you know alan white got the first and the spectacular go to. the second hour strike so grateful going to seal the win to set up a last eight for. the has reiterated faith his commitment to pour millions of dollars into the development of football in africa the president of the sport's governing body was speaking in zimbabwe after meeting top local officials that blatter how closed door talks with both zimbabwean president robert mugabe and prime minister morgan chang are high as the street effect chief returned to south africa for the first time since last year's world cup blatter also visited

a local women's football match as well as construction sites and he pitches the seventy five year old swiss re-elect is supremely last month amid an ongoing saga of corruption allegations but he pledged that the fee for initiative to invest seventeen million dollars in african football even though blatter had to fend off his critics. inside the people it executive committee there were people in our executive committee saying now again he gives all to africa to africa by the way he gave also to the orders a little bit less but the seventy million still went to africa. i just bought now and twice formula one champion fernando along as i was up at what could prove to be polygamists test for his ferrari team at the spaniard hopes for a good outing at the british grand prix this weekend the tally an outfit has recovered in the last three races following a bump in start to the season but they are hardly the favorites at silverstone as

eight of the competing teams are based in england including leaders red bull and second place in clare and in addition a long as i am this brazilian teammate felipe massa produced a measurable result last year finishing forty and fifty respectively which was rory's worst performance in over thirty years but alongside who is ninety nine points behind overall leader sebastian vettel the stick hailed trouble this time. from it's not worth trying for itself. could be six of the circlip. i think you will be good to know who are who. we need to make sure that we need to be prepared for any circumstances with. change. and we need to. think we are from some new possible because we have. performances meanwhile didn't rain but it poured at the latest stage of

the russian touring car championship and showers and sure defending champion of crashed and slid into second spot in the overall standings started from pole in nation of god but even before it became web following an early crash in the opening session he returned only for the second race and had to settle for seventh overall we who caught up with relinquished his overall leave of the muscovite was overtaken by adventure when alexander fro the new leader also badly damaged his seat but the race was stopped after that and he was awarded maximum points in front of went on to win the second dry session in a different. to secure a seventy two point cushion and the chop bore more stages will follow before the end of the season you know october. and finally relations between the stones and russians living in the baltic states have been strained over the last decade however one man has come up with a novel way to get the two communities interacting again and it's through probate

which upon paul think explains how. you would hear in your soon you will russian on this speech only english below down by this man john sweeney a former major in the british army he's been living in tallinn for the last twenty years has been trying to introduce the new schools a grade b. to b. you know this bullshit nation we said. seven tigers motor sports skill score and we've got a stone in a russian school so it's three balls three different ball game. this year is our first year. and hopefully next year we'll continue some of the main part of this project is to try and get the russians and still us playing together something which unfortunately is an all too rare occurrence unless you get children between nine and eleven meeting each other regular not once

a year every week it's not going to happen. one on one so when a seven hundred eighty this go for the first time obviously. there's going to be silliness so you must wear. another important surgical project is to try and teach your children the dangers of drinking and taking drugs in two thousand and nine a staggering one point two percent of the stoning population or one in every three thousand people contracted h.i.b. however by getting the children involved in sports john believes he's getting the kids something to believe in keep them occupied while there's been a number of success stories are going to last few years but over the last fifteen years we've got over forty boys and girls of universities in your. mind so you know that it's pressed success is not about great rugby. you know

we develop a pool of people to belittle one boy who's looking to follow in their footsteps as young as twelve he's ethnically russian but speaks fluent a stone you in new language school he's only started to play rugby over the past couple of weeks but he says he really enjoys it as you gives him something to do during his pretty months of summer holidays. well natalie game is not a girly it's like a call and response to the simple subs improvement has been so quick he's already been named captain at a time and time just touch rugby team however the boys could have a peep treats in store for them in the autumn joan is trying to organize a tour of the rugby heartland of england to play some nights in gloucester no less the biggest these kids will gain as the interaction between distinctive communities which will hopefully lead to a stony and russian children playing peacefully together which i really don't see

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