it's. good to have you with this is obvious is r.t. coming tonight from the russian capital top stories now for a diplomatic and dustup between russia and france moscow reportedly hits after the french almost dropped the libyan rebels saying it was a violation of the un resolution on the conflict. of the year as well as the concern for the worse is political get to get stung graded to junk status with panic spreading all over the world where it's lent. germany is reportedly planning to sell cheap hundred tanks to saudi arabia in a move sparking human rights concerns and condemned by opposition politicians as

illegal. and also reporting this hour as japan approves a second disaster recovery budget devastated communities caught up for more psychological support and fears grow ever radiation levels in the area around the question. are your plans nuclear worries and even anxious nations looking to their own atomic energy supplies and whether it's worth the risk the director general of the world. tells r.t. how he says his industry's future that's a special interview next. gerri 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 that 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 essentially 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 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 race and how can a dangerous or 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 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 of 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 way stop nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six while producing an amount of radioactive waste with 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 and grassroots environmentalist what's your job right now how would you characterize i think when bill makes me credibility of a 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 our 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 the time with natural gas fired by nuclear energy is just natural gas coal 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 then carbon dioxide so the combination of burning natural gas and the leakage of under 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 europe sat powerhouse germany

a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want thinks out of their country and i leave that my spent here asking for a minister recently and very skinny proud of happy to be nuclear free. and you said that it's actually came votes and 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 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 in america and in. you see democracy does not produce great results and sometimes it produces only results and we've just seen one end in germany. where my focus even know 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 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 the needy 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 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 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 their those costs shut down cooling systems can survive the worst case events we can imagine what do you mean by go back to the japanese made in the state. 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 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 a cool down period the reactors at fukushima when the earthquake began to 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 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 a nuclear 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 inforced 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 was a great deal of conversation and suspect 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 of fukushima was that they made a mistake and reactor design not in reactor operations but in reactor design and what has 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 and protected against worst case natural catastrophes like floods like tsunamis like earthquakes like 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 with 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 shame.

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book stores are naughty and diplomatic they'll stop between russia and france reportedly hit south of the french almost dropped the libyan rebels saying it was a violation of the un resolution on the conflict. as the second disaster recovery budget devastated communities caught up on more psychological support and fears grow over radiation levels in the area around fukushima. and the euro's woes take a turn for the worse as portugal's debt gets downgraded to junk status spreading over the land. germany is reportedly planning to sell two hundred tanks to saudi arabia the move sparking human rights concerns and condemned by opposition

politicians as illegal. on their stories in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime the latest happenings in the world of sports with. hello and welcome to the evening's sport round up here on r.t. and it is a taste of what's coming up. decision day the south korean city of p.r. china beats off two rivals to be chosen as opposed to the twenty eight even winter olympics. while the sprint mark cavendish wins the fifth stage of the tour de france as defending champion alberto contador crashes out an incident day. double sweep spot at moscow's splash absolutely lilian heroes on moroccan and dutch internationals to restart stuttering season. but first the south korean city of

pyongyang china has been chosen to host the twenty eighteen winter olympics after losing out in two previous bids there isn't contender which was the slight favorite was selected ahead of munich in germany and honestly in southeastern france the international olympic committee is ninety five members reach their decision in the first round of voting and this was their afternoon and this is a case of third time lucky young triangle trade led to each of the first rounds of the votes for the twenty ten and twenty two games last final rounds through their first start. as a sighting of mark cavendish has once again lived up to his nickname the spring king as the months rider won the flaps the stage at the tour de france on an instant packed day in britain a the h d c hired man trained his sixteenth stage victory at the to offer a frantic final dash and it had to first place however it's the end of the road for radio shack team leader yanez brockovich has the been pulled that is through injury following a bad crash defending champion alberto contador labelled bags of garbage facing

nicky sorenson and bradley wiggins also among those who get the floor norwegian thought that's a bow he's retained his overall leaders. yellow jersey for the false trail running there. may be counted but will now spartak moscow have made a second signing in the space of twenty four hours worth of midfielder made because a lot has drawn from belgian side standardly as a seven million euros and follows on from the signing of dutch midfielder de mi desire for my x. because later turns twenty two last week it scored eighteen goals for the action in . the belgian pull off and also made two appearances for the belgian under twenty one side opting to play for the moroccan national team austria sponsors have been with him to reinforce them with few officers and it seems injured at the start of these things and. calcutta still comes to feel as if the other thing is a way to go in my x.p. sixteen you play my thing was part of the netherlands wells cup squad in south

africa with one side filled my salary is so used to play together it is it out moment where they won the dutch league in two thousand and nine spots i think they can rekindle that winning goal in a ship the last eighteen cardiff seven in the russian coming off the wing seven and using six at their opening sixteen games. for me one in england never call every to grieve it was relegated blackpool for the fans and the rangers literally out of the seventy five year old troubles run through the hard city for medical and discussed the times the reds had already had two kids rejected in january two thousand and six. minutes after his contract is set to become critical seconds on a signing off the midfielder jordan henderson a right sometimes are and. found meanwhile massa city have signed montenegro to send stuff and salvaged from parties on galbraith on a four year deal the twenty year old who has previously had a trial has also don't become city's second signing in three days holiday arrival

at galle clichy former governors savage played for his countrymen last october's goal this year zero twenty twelve qualifier against england the friendly and is also conscious of it as. not in the champions league. i mean while fee for says mohammed bin hammam will face their ethics committee on july the twenty second cancer allegations of bribery cheering his election campaign to attempt to become the president of the football's governing body this is when asian football confederation president has been sent a report by fee for investigators has been asked to respond its claims a man tried to offer caribbean football chiefs cash in return for their votes are being football union employees there we mean girl and jason sylvester will also appear before the hearing allegations against a fee for vice president jack warner were dropped when you resigned from all football activities. really one of the biggest football rivalries some substantial backing has been trying to hide christiane i remember though as world cup holder he said his serious says he rates israel with their team right better than barcelona's

fever player of the year little missy ray out in spain goalkeeper is in beijing professional and charity reasons and he will donate items for adoption before having a thoughtful clinic in the chinese capital as well to match to the asian nation next march because he is likely to take the captaincy for that trip i am beyond help if you will but really this is a really i can't you know and so provided vocal support for now though which probably comes as a surprise. to. us choosing between mention christian or analogy i would say i will go for christian if you are not only my teammate but all sort of friend i have to be counted both the best football is in the world and they're both for 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 christianity. is. now it's pay i tell dream team score some petersburg have

a point and then you retard start both as a person coach it's a time stanley cup winner left the n.h.l. to join the north national club three years ago but hip surgery was meant to the forty year olds playing career however the olympic champion is staying the scar to help those who have lost as one of russia's richest sides will not push to deliver the goods in the shell results in the three years since the league's inception was a quarter final exit in the playoffs last season. and there's also been a huge signing as basketball club as the european powerhouse as a group transfer of the continent's best player in the playoffs it was a four year old serve in has here passed a medical before joining the army went on a three year zero we got is moving from great johnson n.p.r. cos after a year league's most valuable player gets hired a year. twenty times cleared all searching is the latest thing they need to be brought in after lights and you know. i'm not here also. now relations

between estonians and russians living in stone here has been strained over the last however one man has come up with a novel way to get the two communities interacting again so what if the reports. yes. yes. you would hear and you assume you know russian in this speech i mean english below down by this man john sweet of him a 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 be you know this bullshit nation we set up for seven tigers the sports skills club and we know get a stone in a russian school play you know it's three balls three different ball game. this year is a first year. and hopefully next year we're going to come of the main part of this project is to try and get the russians and the stone you playing

together something which unfortunately is an all too rare occurrence unless you get children between nine and eleven meeting each other regularly not want to sit here every week. it's not going to happen. one of the one of the seven hundred eighty eight this go on for the first time obviously. there's going to be silliness there you must get. over important some of the 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 confronted each id however by getting the children involved in sports john believes he's giving the kids something to believe in keep them occupied while had been a number of success stories of the last few years over the last fifteen years we've got over forty boys and girls in the universities in your. visit.

so you know. for us success is not a. great rugby. you know we use rugby development tool. development for one boy who's looking to follow in their footsteps as young as twelve is infinitely russia to be exclusive stone you know to new student 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 because they're slightly girly his likes to call and respond to this simple yugoslavs improvement has been so quick he's already been named captain of a time in tiger's touch rugby team however the boys could have a few treat in store for them in the autumn john is trying to organize the tours of the rugby heartland of england to play some whites in gloucester no less the

biggest earnest these kids will gain is be interaction between their speech of communities which will hopefully lead to soon and russian children playing peacefully together richard and vocally doherty found in market is so new so close to sports. the thing after you see one of the newly unveiled yachts which will take part in the foster approaching volvo ocean race race is not a whole vessels come into being is team entrance to the world's longest race here around the globe regatta is taking off in less than four months on october twenty ninth seven crews are taking part this time outs and anchoring tempore it's on six continents before concluding the race on july the seventh average obviously ian walker has waited for more than a year for the not to be designed but the britain is not the pride of the thought in spreading its wings which is the national symbol of the united arab emirates. and that's all from the sports desk.

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