that's not on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report. welcome back to what you know if you live from moscow these are the top stories japanese police arrest a gang of six that are the worst stock to be targeting homes end of the regime a nuclear evacuation zone meanwhile there is concern over the health of those living in the area was more than half the children they are testing positive for radiation. russia is willing sebring is the confidential index of people and groups thoughts to be involved in or funding terrorism in the country the list into names names of foreigners and international islamic organizations operating in the north

caucuses. and new sexual assault charges against former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn are filed in france as a new york case against him falls apart a french writer says he was a tad said decade ago but strauss kahn's lawyers say it's slander and will soon. pass nuclear worries are leaving anxious nations looking to their own atomic energy supplies and whether it's worth the risk the rector general of the world nuclear association now tells r.t. how he assesses the industry's future. charlie it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much as an equal protection psychology through 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 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 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 house always wondering who pays for storing the waste and how can a dangerous or be profitable body 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 well look we're 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 and 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 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 or seconds into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric greystone nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six well producing an amount of radioactive waste that's 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 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 a grassroots environmentalist 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 isn't this one of the fundamental principles i'm in the nuclear power business precisely because i believe in the entire 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 coincide with natural gas via by any fair energies just natural gas coal natural gas produces a lot of waste that 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 truck transmission lines makes this a very very serious liability for in terms of global greenhouse gas concentrations and you know that but you're upset powerhouse down in germany

a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want thing it's out of their country and ali them i spoke to the austrian foreign minister recently and very extremely proud of to be nuclear free. and you step back it's actually to gain votes we said it was undemocratic how 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 to 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 in many times in my life and american do not. you see democracy does not produce great results and sometimes it produces silly results and we've just seen one and in germany pretty much for chrissake now look what

happened there i'm used to you keep telling me that it's all safe 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 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 that media. 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 of the fukushima power plant that has yet to produce a single that's how it is 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 to me 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 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 right there 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 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 and i mean if they would encounter and if they defended against that 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 water proof backup

proving 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 shut down 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'd been in 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 and really believe everything that we think they are operators tell you. i don't have to believe that 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 to the same standard of best practice there is a great deal of conversation and spectrum in 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 of fukushima was that they made a mistake and 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 earthquakes right plane crashes and back to 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 a nuclear safety will be even stronger in the aftermath thank you very much for this insane.

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seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule today. japanese police arrest a gang of suspected looters to be targeting homes and if she were nuclear evacuation zone meanwhile there is concern over the health of those living in the area was more than half the children they are testing positive for radiation. brushes released a previously confidential index of people and groups thought to be involved in war funding terrorism in the country the list contains names of foreigners and international islamic organizations operating in the north caucasus. and new sexual assault charges against former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn i filed this pranced as the new york case against him bowls of hard french riders as she was attacked

a decade ago but strolls khan's lawyers say it's slander and will soon. tender face now time to look at what's happening in the world sports with andrew of course linda keys are making a big announcement today so we have a strong marina they will decide who will host the twenty eighteen winter olympics south korea hoping it will be third time lucky for them after being turned down twice before a more an up plus a look back at a thrilling day in the tour de france. hello there thanks for joining me and this is what is coming up over the next kenyan. summer signings bought up moscow bring into international design to bolster their flagging season. class photo finish taleban's paper defending champion alberto contador to win stage for the tour de france. got

a bad leg forces boards of next week's open. start with a new spot at moscow have signed dutch midfielder to meet design from i.x. the six million euros but club's first signing during the russian premier league's mid-season break the twenty eight year old international won the cup and lead the last two years and is also part of his country's world cup squad in south africa he will join up with in a training camp in austria where he will also meet former teammate abby they used to play together he said out more but the one that actually in two thousand and nine spartak are hoping i might rekindle that winning partnership too probably seventh in the russian prime elite after getting seven and losing six of the sixty . in other football used to be giants into milan have unveiled their new coach local specialist. yesterday uni is the man to take up the reins on a two year deal several big and names had turned down the offer of fifty three year

old with his general boss last november and becomes into his fourth manager in just over a year following judge marino rafa benitez and leonardo. recession is quite enough if i were to take a photo no it's a squad which hasn't lost anyone of all because you have players that's a team that two years ago once everything we did last year was less than some test next season in terms of results anything better was of course to be expected these can be used as a force for motivation. i mean all in the women's world cup hosts germany and england have taught their group some will play japan and france respectively in the quarter finals germany kept one hundred percent record with a four two win over france the hosts going head to the western caliphates there. and getting got another for the germans just before the break the french did pull one back through. billy's but they then had a keeper subaverage sent off and the resulting penalty was by green fronds to make

things interesting when they got back to great so you would go rory georges. but down barbie settled. they'd go deaths a faulty to give me how it ended in a good idea to fall to. pan last england show you neil white got the first and it was a spectacular go to. the second half strike in such a cute breakthrough yankee sealed the way in to set up a last night. that sepp blatter has reiterated 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 blatter hell closed door talks with both zimbabwean president robert mugabe and prime minister morgan chang a high as the face of it all she returned to south africa for the first time since

last year's world cup last year also visited a local women's football match as well as construction sites in the pages the seventy five year old swiss re elected is fifty percent putting my last month amid an ongoing saga of corruption allegations but he pledged but the thief initiative holds firm to invest seventeen million dollars in african football even though blatter has to fend off critics. inside the people in the executive committee there were people in our executive committee say now again he gives all to africa only to africa by the way we gave also to the orders a little bit less but the seventy million still went to africa. strolling to delavan says one of dramatic stage four of the tour de france pipping defending champion alberto contador in a photo finish on the line and is now just a second behind overall leader paul who sure of the stage was a mostly flat one there was

a breakaway of five riders but they were caught by the pellets and with just a few kilometers left and then the guy work started there was a long climb to the finish and contador attacked with just over a kilometer to go he couldn't shrug off the field though and it was evans who is leading as they entered the final stretch it looked like he was going to be caught by contador but he hung on for his second tour de france they'd win that moves evans that within a second if you will who should be hands on the yellow jersey contador is a further one million forty two seconds back in the overall standings today staged by groups like one of his princes one hundred and seventy kilometers of relatively flat terrain through britain. tiger woods has pulled out of next week's open championship with former world number one blaming an ongoing leg injury although he still believes his best years are ahead of him at least that's what he's saying on his website the thirty five year old has not played competitively since training is left knee and achilles at the place trampoline she is in a day as world ranking is now slipped to seventeenth but woods says there's not

want to return until he is a hundred percent fit the american jason dufner will replace him at the open after straining brendan jones turned down the chance to play because his wife is expecting. the city which will host the twenty eighteen winter olympics will be announced today with pyongyang considered the slight favorite after losing out to bank coover and then saatchi in previous speeds the international olympic committee will make the announcement in durban in south africa a little later on the south korean but it has done its best to lobby last minute support in this promoting the country. as a place where people can enjoy winter sports the other cities in the happened in twenty eighteen games in munich in germany and annecy and france they are also making final presentations to the i.o.c. before the winner is announced in a few hours time. in motor sport twice for one champion fernando alonso is upbeat and ahead of what could prove to be the litmus test for his ferrari things the spaniard hopes for

a good acting at the british grand prix this weekend the italian outfit has recovered in the last three races following a bumpy start to the season but they are hardly the favorites as silverstone as eight of the competing teams of based in england including lead is red bull and second place mclaren in addition along though in his brazilian teammate felipe massa produced a measurable result last year finishing forty and fifty respectively which was ravaged worst performance in over thirty years but along with ninety nine points behind overall leader sebastian vettel atheistic trouble this time. is from it's not worth a try again for itself. to produce pics 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 that will suit me come green. change can be sensibly. and i think we have. some some new parts

for the clubs or we have. consumers and finally relations between the stadiums and russians living in the baltic states have been strained over the last decade however one man is come up with a novel way to get the team communities interacting again and it's through rugby league which you bump or fully expect. be ready what. you want here and you soon you will russian on this pitch only english below down by this man john street 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 school to grade b. to the youth of this baltic nation we said. seven tigers sports scale scores and we have got a stone in a russian school play so it's three balls three different ball game. this year is our first year. and hopefully next year we'll continue our level the main

part of this project is to try and get the russians in the stone unis playing together something which unfortunately is an all too rare occurrence the less you get killed in between nine and eleven meeting each other regularly not one single year every week. it's not going to happen. when i was one of seven hundred eighty eight this go for the first try obviously. there's going to be silliness so you must get. another important side 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 student population or one in every three thousand people a contract each id however going to children involved in sports film believes he's

giving the kid something to believe in and keep him occupied while i have been a number of success stories over the last few years but over the last fifteen years we've brought over forty boys and girls at universities in your. visit. so you know that it's pressed success is not a. great rugby. you know we develop a cool it was developed through one boy who is looking to follow in their footsteps as young as twelve exactly russia but big screw dystonia goes to new soon new language school he's only started to play rugby over the past couple of weeks but he says he really enjoys it as it gives him something to do during his three months of summer holidays. well natalie vance likely girlies his life this is simple you suppose improvement has been so quick he's already been named captain at a time when tigers touch rugby team however the boys could have to keep treating source

of them in the autumn john is trying to organize a tours of the rugby heartland of england to play some nights in gloucester no less but biggest kids will gain is be interaction between groups picture of communities which will hopefully lead to stony and russian children playing peacefully together richard i'm told we don't he turned in. the worthwhile project that is that was full for the moment.

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