tv Documentary RT February 23, 2013 5:30pm-6:00pm EST
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gravity. of the shape. a total of one point eight kilograms. propane. was designed by. want to make sure everything. should. have all the. any condition and it must immediately. then forty five degrees below zero it has to work properly. and it has to work. or any other whether. the torch has to function in. a limited number of torches it will be produced especially for this purpose. to
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light the cauldron in sochi next year it's got quite a busy travel schedule ahead of it it will make its way all over russia carried by many of the country's biggest personalities. their compatriots. into competition. and. it will be taken. one hundred twenty three. past three thousand cities around sixty five thousand. paralympic torches will be filled. with. the olympic flame and ideals that simply won't be extinguished. the journey to this point started five and a half years ago. chose a. park and
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a company. in an effort to make the experience more accessible for visitors. will be within a ten to fifteen minute. has had to be built from scratch what you see today is. just a few years ago but that's only half the story here. some fifty kilometers away. jumping. competition given the commute between the two clusters transport solutions have taken a front seat. change. train station. to everything. and even. the country's largest train station.
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of all the transport projects though. the mountain cluster. follows the. river up the hill roughly fifty bridges spanning almost twenty kilometers had to be built including this state bridge stretching eight hundred meters it's the first of its kind in the south of russia eighty meter high concrete pylons engineers opted for this design to minimize the risk of. the first stop on the way to the top station for all intents and purposes just about ready for action at the base of the ski jumping center it will be the main stop. station will help some twenty thousand fans of their high altitude destination each hour. only heavy machinery and supplies are being tugged up and down the line train by the time two thousand and fourteen rolls around new electric. longet speeds up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour
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thirty minutes from bottom to top it's your high speed to get all of the olympic projects under detailed expert review to make sure that they don't unnecessarily threaten the environment or spectators. in the distance russian technology is being used for that very purpose. the longest track in the world. it was built from the ground. to make sure everything is working smoothly in anticipation of the world's attention the technology required to create such breathtaking displays is. just the right temperature and is a major part of the task. so far the results speak for themselves. i like the track the ice is
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getting better every day is becoming. i think the track was designed. to help keep over the top speed. on the potentially dangerous. to make. the two main ways to keep cool. always been valued for the relatively low cost. power. on the other hand. which actually may make for. decades. have become a major reason. for doesn't have. any kind of smell. it's
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a heavy gas and in case of major leaks it settles down to the ground. so if they are the freon leak they can experience oxygen deficiency which may result in or even death. depending on the concentration of whole sections of the piping. these systems it would take fifteen to sixteen minutes for information about emergencies to reach those who needed it but at times it was even covered up now it's impossible to conceal this kind of data. the company actually develops and
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produces a wide array of different detecting sensors they run the gamut from electro chemical catalytic to. the heart they all have fast acting technology after going through calibration and testing here at. the ready to be plugged in for round the clock contamination monetary. to magically it's constantly running constantly doing what it's supposed to. the case of an emergency within forty seconds. transmitted to trigger the warning system and allows the necessary measures to be taken it all happens very quickly. with. all the data from such sensors. and then federal branches of the country's emergency services ministry. information from the connected sensors. stations like this. and another pair of. monitors failed to spot
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a problem those local and federal watchdog should be able to react in real time. to devote to record breaking feats. where the ongoing construction and coming influx of sportsnet the region's power grid was in need of much. louder. transmission. substation was built in two thousand using techniques that reduce the impact of construction on the surrounding area. substations popping up in the area after it given the sometimes twenty degrees below zero temps engineers how much of the machinery behind closed doors. including the federal grid company has increased the number of mountain substations many times over the.
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transformers are already hooked in and deliver the right voltage to the mountain venue sites while under construction is said to be ready for action this march at the same time six more have been built provide the juice to the coastal. and surrounding areas if that weren't enough existing substations have been updated to ensure the lights don't go out on the olympics. over the past few years. the constant. projects have been completed and. the grid. safe. stations have given extra. capacity to. produce. the clean. fuel for generators.
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which are able to harness. between one hundred twenty five and one hundred fifty five such panels could eventually have. panels. just. inside. edition's. produce will be able to capture the whole spectrum of sunlight into energy to. allow them to harness both in. the form and some thirty percent. of course. close cooperation with. we do have sophisticated. scientists working on the premises of. certainly choice
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when you consider that the campus has long been. an innovation new facilities have sprung up including a special. energy technologies so by the time. may be in the position. told to our life. in eternal silence. her invisible. every day is a struggle. for our children sleep soundly at night. we are palestinian women in israel we've done more for our kids
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road to top for any of the fun here in russia have added an experimental exercise already in week training regimen. it seems cruel but despite all the hard work blood sweat and tears the majority of aspiring athletes will never reach these peaks of professional sport with that in mind researchers working with the university of physical culture and sport in moscow a looking to harness the latest technology to get aspiring athletes over that hump is potentially dangerous and illegal doping isn't an option the new secret to success may lie in element ever present in the air we breathe but longer overlooked . was discovered over one hundred years ago by sir william ramsey and morse travers' a novel finding certainly but practical applications for it were fleeting until the one nine hundred thirty s. when it found use in high speed flash photography and a bit later as an anesthetic in operations. high cost prevented it from being adopted by the medicine that all could be changing. thanks to work being carried
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out here at the institute of medical and biological problems xenon could be on the verge of a major revival. amongst the hyperbaric chambers where many of the country's divers and astronauts have gone through pressure chamber tests and training die. taking a look at just what xenon has to offer. in recent years what used to be observable favorable side effects of seen on base and has become objects of inquiry in their own right. exactly how the gas interacts with receptors is still under study initial trials and experiments have shown that xenon and its neuroprotective properties can relieve stress anxiety and even help addicts get over withdrawal symptoms. and if we talk about the production of xenon in russia there's no better place to look than in the business for over twenty years it ships its goods all over the globe company
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officials placed their market share but around one quarter of total demand. for most of the history of the company has primarily dealt with so-called technical xenon that is not for human ingestion but over the years as the gases and medical benefits have grown the demand for peers seen on has followed accordingly. other noble gases are all around us all of the time they just in such small quantities that getting our hands on them require sophisticated machinery and no small dose of know how as a result there's a very limited number of countries currently able to capture scene on and put it to use for humankind. you know if you meet up with her it's all of those who are only human producers worldwide extracted from air there are only five countries they produce it commercially around the united states france germany russia and ukraine . is a byproduct of production it's mental or physical factories it's plants special air
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separating machines single out oxygen and also generate as an encrypted mixture as a byproduct of the next of those to gases is then shipped to us for further finding which we manufacture is the known for making. purposes of the mixture requires extra cation. and they will produce is ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent when i mean initially we also limit the share of harmful impurities in the gas our refining technology is in paid indeed unique and allows us to remove all the. entity in pure medical xenon you can further be used for surgeries and all kinds of other treatments. at the end of the process. and nearly ready to be sent on to clinics and hospitals under the brand name med at the moment is still rather expensive especially when compared with other and
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statics. proponents argue that when you take into account problems in complications associated with other knockout gases the prices come closer together but before the medical xenon gets into the hands of a qualified doctor every batch is tested and checked for purity. requires them to control for six trays of impurities they go the extra mile to control for a full ten as a result the level impurities in the medical xenon produced here is around two to three times lower than regulators demand. every year we discover new particularly over using xenon as an end it's a tick as a result we're figuring out absolutely new ways to play zenon this is a truly unique medicine it is totally harmless to humans but at the same time it is still a very powerful and it can be used to treat just about any organ in the body there pending the problem is with the. medical xenon has many potential
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applications researchers here are specifically interested in how it can improve the performance of athletes they recently organize an experiment to lay the groundwork for future use in sports. to be a very. in other words cases involving stress whether it be acute a chronic stress the best way to deal with it is small therapeutic doses of this substance and when we talk about spilled. needs to relax sleep well and improve functional capacities with this experiment we're trying to see just how. period a group of young athletes were given a controlled. and had a healthy. research scientists to better understand how the gas actually interacts with the body's organisms as well as working out the best way to
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incorporate into one's workout after taking in the gas. in a controlled environment with. more closely. to see what the results of the experiment looked like from the athlete side of the coin. across country in. two thousand and fourteen in his mind. and a noticeable effect. after the experiment in the hyperbaric chamber it was much easier for me to train and i was able to recover much more quickly afterwards. during the test trainings at my ski club i posted the best results. more experiments are planned for later this year but of course it will take. breathing sessions to get to. the first results and researchers hope that they've
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done their part to bring hardware back home this time next year. old to be used in. professional sports. it's going to be up to physicians and hopefully they will be able to use it to help get. back at the olympic park. are already completed and starting to host their preliminary test events earlier this month the main hockey arena was packed to the gills not for any competition but to mark the start of the final countdown. performances as well as speeches by international sports chiefs and national leaders there's not. much less a second to waste. one county.
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