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japan's nuclear worries are leaving anxious nations looking to their own atomic energy supplies and whether it's worth the risk the director general of the world nicholas association now tells r t how he assesses the industry's future. gyrates 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 turned oval 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 very very rare occasion 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 tell us always wondering who pays for storing the waste and how can engineer be profitable

when you have to pay for storing away 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 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 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 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 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 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 me care energy's 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 and you know that but europe sat powerhouse germany a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want thing it's out of their country and ali that my spoke to the austrian foreign minister recently in their extremely proud and happy to be nuclear free. and you've said that it's actually to gain votes and you said it was undemocratic how 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 doug 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 you said 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 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 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 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 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 to 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 we supplied 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. 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 was 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 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 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 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 interview him.

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. top stories this hour in algiers japan approves a second disaster recovery budget devastated communities psychological support and fears grow over radiation levels in the area around fukushima. shining a light on the web of international terror russia publishes a declassified list of people and groups it says are financing extremism in the north caucasus. and the euro's worries take a turn for the worse as portugal's debt gets downgraded to junk status with panic spreading over where it will end. reporting that germany is reportedly planning to sell two hundred tanks to saudi arabia and human rights concerns and opposition politicians as illegal. now with more on those stories and fifteen minutes from now in the meantime the latest happenings in sports with kate.

hello and thank you for joining me for the sports news this wednesday evening and the news at the top story is. decision day the south korean city of pyongyang china beats off two rival is to try to host the twenty eighteen billion trillion fix. watching the sprint to mark cavendish winning is the first stage of the tour de france is defending champion alberto contador crashes into a. double sweet spot at moscow's splash thirteen million euros on dutch internationals to boost their stuttering season. with us the south korean city of people in china has been chosen to host the twenty eighteen winter olympics after losing out in two previous bids the asian contender which was the slight favorites was selected ahead of munich in germany and honestly in southeastern fronts the international olympic committee's ninety five members reached their decision first

round of voting in this wednesday afternoon it's a case of its third time lucky you are trying to try to lead to each of the first round of the boats between two ten and twenty fourteen games on final rounds to bring him back from sochi. and to cycling and mark cavendish has once again lived up to his nickname of the sprint king as the manx ride at one the flat fifth stage of the tour de france on an incident packed day in britain a d.c. high road mom claimed his sixteenth stage victory at the tour after a frantic final dash. to first place however it's the end of the road for radio shack team leader has but i can bitch the slovenian pulled out through injury following a bad crash sending champion alberto contador labor banks robert guessing nicky sorenson and bradley wiggins were also among those who hit the floor in the region for better way to reach. and his overall leader's yellow jersey for the falls day

running. now into football news and sponsor have made a second signing in the space of twenty four hours morocco midfielder made has joined from belgian side standard seven million euros and follows all from the signing of dutch midfielder david is a from my x. because i know who turns twenty last week scored a single eighty two games the belgian born incitement to play and to speak about one hundred twenty one stands for opting to play for nothing to. spots i could have been looking to reinforce them with field after brazilian sin was injured at the start of the season. because they are still comes just a few hours off and nothing new twenty eight year old is a agree to join from i.x. for six million euros the playmaker was part of the netherlands world cup squad in south africa will play alongside forward tonight our if it's a used to play together days out now where they won the dutch league in two thousand and nine spots like a hope and they can rekindle that winning partnership and lost their team

apparently seventh in the russian premier league after winning seven and losing six of their opening sixteen games. while meanwhile ironing and watch the city have signed montenegro defender stefan savic from partisan belgrade on a four year deal the twenty year old who has previously have a trial is also becomes city's second signing in three days following the arrival of who should form the gunners savage played for his country in last october's goalless nero twenty twelve qualifier against england at wembley is also played for parties on against australia in the champions league. meanwhile the first says mohammed bin hammam will face their ethics committee on july the twenty seconds to answer allegations of bribery during his election campaign to attempt to become president of football's governing body this is branded asian football confederation president has been sent to report i feel for investigators as we are asked to respond it's claimed to have tried to offer caribbean football cheats cash in return for their vote and terrible football union employees and jason sylvester

will also appear before the hearing allegations against fee for vice president jack warner were dropped when he resigned from all football activity is now in arguably one of the biggest football rivalries some substantial backing has been thrown behind christiane iran although as world cup holder cassius says he writes israel madrid team mate has been barcelona's fee for player of the atlanta let's say the ray allen spain goalkeeper is in beijing for emotional and charity reasons he will donate items for the action for holding a football clinic in the chinese capital of israel prepare for too much to the asian nation next month because he is likely to retain a captain suit for that trip and he owns up to his bathroom as coach joe's a marine i was planning to strip him of the role. for now though which probably comes as no surprise. that choosing between messi and cristiano

ronaldo i would say i will go for christian not a few not only my teammate but also a friend i have to admit that they currently have both the best footballers in the world and they're both very ambitious and given all their effort to play football for themselves and for their respective teams but anyway among the two best players i would choose chris cherno. is. petersburg have appointed the newly retired stop player started is involved as their assistant coach but your time stanley cup when i left the n.h.l. to join the north washington up two years ago hip surgery put an end to the forty year olds playing career in april however the olympic champion is staying with scar to help the new head coach. is one of russia's richest sides still being hard pushed to deliver the goods in the k h l the best results in the three years since the league's inception the quarter final exit in the playoffs last season. now has also been a huge sign to take on moscow's possible club as the european powerhouse has agreed

the transfer of the continent's best player in the last twenty four also will has yet to pass a medical before joining the argument on the three year deal the guard is moving from weak giants and p.r. costs both nearly to the most valuable player and your player of that twenty ten ten is the latest big names reporting the likes of men that first pitch you know to also join the club. now relations between estonians and russians living in the stone and have been strained over the last decade however one man has come up with another way to get the two communities interacting again so rugby which is on court has more. yes. yes. you will enjoy hearing your story new russian in this speech any english bellew down by this man john xxiii 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 b. u. of this bullshit nation we set up for italian tigers multi-sport

scales. and we now get a stone in a russian school play so it's three balls three different ball game. this year is our first year. hopefully next year we will continue some of the main parts of this project is to try and get the russians in the stone unis playing together something which unfortunately is an eight year rare occurrence the less you get children between nine and eleven meeting each other regular not want to sing year every week. it's not going to happen. one a child or one someone who's seventeen eighteen makes this go on for the first time obviously there's going to be silliness so you must get the most. yeah another important side of the project is to try and teach the children the dangers of drinking and taking drugs in two thousand and nine

a staggering one point two percent of the stone in population or one in every three thousand people have contracted h.i.b. however by getting the children involved in sports john believes he is giving the kids something to believe in keep them occupied while there's been a number of success stories over the last few years but over the last fifteen years we've got over forty boys and girls at universities in your. particular head imbra . so you know that is for us success it's not about great rugby. you know we use rugby development tool people as developmental one boy who's looking to follow in their footsteps as young as twelve he said frankly russia but speaks fluent a stone you in goes to new stone 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 free month or summer holidays. well malegaon slightly

girly has lied to paul and is fine with simple yourselves improvement has been so quick he's already been named captain of a talent tigers touch rugby team however the boys could have a big treat in store for them in the autumn john is trying to organize the tours of rugby heartland of england to play some nights in gloucester no less the biggest bonus these kids will gain is be interaction between their respective communities which will hopefully lead to a stone you know in russian children playing peacefully together richard don't r.t. turned in stone you. must finish with a thing of brutal lessons one of the unveils not to take part in the fast approaching ball for ocean roast the latest one a whole vessel to come into ball. into the world's longest roast here. and the global gas that is taking off in this than four months on october the twenty ninth seven crews are taking pot this time out and go and attack in ten courts in six

continents leading the race on july the seventh have a deadly skiff out in water has waited for more of them if not to be designed but the britain must now be proud of the fault in spreading its wings which is the national symbol of the united arab emirates. and that's all from the supposed us but i'll be back in a couple of hours with another update i hope you'll join me again a few. spending the year in iraq as a military journalist i saw some ways to go and u.s. contractors there is kind of wasting their time trying to get killed.

i thought all along the length of the movie at about five hundred miles. it would take me about twenty seven days into going to publicize and people invited him onto the i think the hope people started to bait have a dialogue just. chanting the slogan or reading the sun some stones. pearl. peace. to. keep the team. since.