true. q. chain reaction process in the reactor be a tremendous heat which scientists have learned out of control. really. seem to harness the. i was so excited about nuclear engineering because i thought it would solve the world's energy crisis is exciting science to realize you've got

the power of the sun. reactor near seoul all inspiring when everything works. to refute with making energy the problem is that everything just worked on japan's nuclear nightmare continues a 2nd hydrogen explosion at the fukushima daiichi nuclear complex destroyed the reactors exterior all 3 daiichi reactors have nuclear fuel rods that have been exposed to some degree so they are teetering on the edge of a meltdown. you need to say. there is. no heat. they need to get you in. a more serious. concerning that situation in japan i'm now joined live from vermont going to some now we're reporting at the moment that they're all suggestions that a partial nuclear meltdown is now underway. this is not

a nuclear chain reaction this is not a nuclear bomb this is the radiation left over after the chain reaction is started ok sort of sorts of interrupt but you say this is not a nuclear bomb but would not the effects be the same as a nuclear bomb if obviously it does reach meltdown and there is an explosion. the chemicals that are going to be released are similar actually the chemicals released from other the radioactive chemicals released from a nuclear bomb disappear quicker then the radiation that is released in a nuclear power plant all we're looking at an apocalypse this is churned all bowl on steroids do you think it's definitely going to happen or do you think crisis could be averted no i don't think crisis can be averted.

containment building a big baby space the nuclear reactor could keep that power plant shut down longer than expected 1st energy says it will be stored in the plants clean told of cracked displaced those who live in the shadow of deep especially see any problem can be alarming i don't give it a whole lot of thought that once in awhile when you hear something wrong like that the concern should. be nuclear regulatory commission is monitoring the situation. indian point nuclear energy center in a condition no one wants to see with black smoke pouring out of these photos were posted on social media as responders on site once plus these firefighters nearby like went in to find a transformer turning. new york governor andrew cuomo came to see the response up close for himself this was a relatively minor situation people. you're talking about

a nuclear power believe there are really minor situations of. radioactive tritium is leaking from 3 quarters of all u.s. commercial nuclear power sites and a cancer causing material often seeps into groundwater from corroded buried piping and that's what the associated press concluded after a year non-interest a geisha in. southern california edison says it will be closing the troubled 703 nuclear. good. san diego county has been offline for months because of a mechanical recall. that led to trace amounts of radiation being a leave of absence the latest in a number of environmental problems of salmon over and over.

vernon is the host. for mine a key. part of me in. the town environment is a very close knit town. the people really care about one another. and we're more than just neighbors it's a great community. when people think of the state of vermont

they think of dairy farms. in fields they think a maple trees. they think of rivers and pristine lakes. and we got a nuclear power plant right on the southern border. for my yankee welcome to romano . if people think that there is a radioactive problem at this plant in vermont are vermont brand is done. to drink our milk who's going to want to who's going to want to use our syrup who's going to want to come here and drive past that.

oh no. no no. he just has to. say we know. that. there is no source of energy in this world that doesn't have risk associated with it in nuclear it is very very low so i feel it's a very safe technology our job is to protect public health and safety and never have an accident that jeopardizes public health or safety so that's with us every day people like me come in here in the $650.00 men and women that work here that is our focus the safe operation of this plant.

i live right across the street from vermont yankee and they've always been a good neighbor i have children that go to the school which is also right across the street from my yankee. you don't move to vernon and live in vernon if you're worried about the point both our girls live in town or 6 grandchildren live in town in fact my one to my youngest daughter lives down the road here well as the crow flies it's less than a half mile from the point. where we don't worry about the point of being here.

i live 70 miles from the vermont yankee nuclear power plant and what that means in terms of. any sort of incident or accident that might happen. is that if it was a serious incident most likely i would no longer be able to live in my home the whole area would be contaminated if you. lose my community where i've been for the last 30 years of my life and i would have to relocate to some other place be a complete disaster. have to live with that sort of risk. that's not acceptable. i have a passion for justice. there's always a lot of work to be done our area and that's the way

i have lived my life i'm frances crow. and i live in northampton massachusetts i 93 years out. and i've been involved in trying to say no to this fighting of the adam and all of the consequences of it since night to in 45 when i heard about. the raid. i am a member of the shut it down at federated group a group of women that came together to shut down. with our batteries and action. it's that hot yes that we meet once a month we have a pot like here my house and wave figure out what we're going to do and then we do it. for my yankee is right now my

focus because it's a very dangerous oh no claire power plant and if there is that accident at all by this area of knowing good and and maybe all of new england uninhabitable for generations. you started to run in 1972 it only had a license to run until 2012 in 2009 they applied to the nuclear regulatory commission to get another 20 years on their license so they could run it said 2032 the state of vermont asked me to oversee from a yankee and see if it was reliable enough to run for true 20 more years so i was chairman of the oversight panel that's looked into vermont yankee in 2009 we found 80 problems but if we cleaned up the problems we all signed

a report saying reminding he could run for another 20 years. there a year later we found out that they were lying to us entergy on a number of occasions including under oath before our public service board. denied the existence of. underground piping carrying radioactive materials. is later systematics know how that is not. just me that.

there is no domes you know not. all of them ok it. was not a master plan a little bit about a day only 3 of us could rise. even for people. who give their net a 1000000 come on what the how do we not slow our d. s. when i last saw him now i know those they need the whole corn. let out a year or so and i think just. the point is should we actually be charging for education because this is when we charge for things is because it's a benefit to the person who is buying it and that's the audiology that took over

education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit for society in general i would want to live in a society without doctors or engineers all sada's to happen without economists. saying it or being a private benefit and ignoring the public means that we're ignoring that the skill bias we need for. sophisticated society and putting the burden of that school biases on the individuals who were turned it into is just now the china institution of higher education become a form of a version of a real estate scam that is not the bisons for a functional saudi. most trusted news source since the channel 3. more trouble for vermont yankee a concrete trench at the plant is unexpectedly filling up with radioactive water radioactive water discovered in

a concrete ditch at the nuclear plant contains high levels of tritium the tritium found at the plant is 100 times the level deemed acceptable by the nuclear regulatory commission the tritium concentrations are in sky high nuclear expert arnie gundersen says this is yet another indication the aging play it should close this is either a leak in a pipe or a leak in the tank that pipe connects to underground pipes that vermont yankee originally claimed did not exist until after the 1st leak was discovered gunderson was on the public oversight panel made false statements. parent company says it was miscommunication nothing more. to ward or contain tritium lots of trivium but it also contained other isotopes we contain strontium 90 which is a bone seeker and causes leukemia because cesium $137.00 which is the muscle seeker causes heart disease it contains cobalt 60 which is

a very high energy gamma source then a whole bunch of other isotopes and of all of those started to work their way into the soil and has definitely entered the connecticut river through the human all these radioactive isotopes can cause cancer. why is the tritium leak of concern to us ground water down there is being threatened and potentially the river water is being threatened . something needs to be done right now i believe that plan is unsafe we have buried corroded pipes that are way beyond their design life this problem is not only are mine yankee this problem is country wide maybe worldwide. we were told crystal clear that there were no buried underground pipes that contain

radioactivity how many other plants. to not have undergone ip you know there are none. i asked for an obscure report i got it and i read and i said oh my god there's buried in underground pipe you knew when you read that that there was underground piping yes you ben misstatements have been given yes that's right i was stonewall what has happened at her mind yankee is a breach of trust that cannot be tolerated in order to move forward on whether or not the plan will continue to operate questions need to be answered changes need to be made and the trust of vermonters must be restored we were now being lied to and lied to under oath on record and in vermont and in vermont and especially in the statehouse. your word is all you've got to live by we have a lot of to do and we have to rebuild public confidence and trust we're operating

a nuclear power plant and people expect that you know it is an industrial facility you are going to have incidents that's just a fact of life. we drilled approximately 23 wells in this area so that we can triangulate and pinpoint the source of the leak by obviously the highest concentration of traded water in this particular well we just did not do a good job of presenting information complete and accurate information to the vermont public service board and that's unacceptable to entergy it's certainly an unacceptable to the public and that shook public trust and confidence and we absolutely understand it and then have a treaty in leak to ground water. adds to a lack of confidence we've said numerous times we apologize for that were embarrassed about that that shouldn't have happened.

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my god we're the moderates we're used to all the different seasons you put on some extra clothes it's winter obviously that raise certain challenges but it's not a problem that happen to be january so that's when we're walking. i walking because it feels like a powerful way to say and i message that it's time to shut the plant down. we're really excited to be here we're looking forward to meeting with our legislators in a little while and i really appreciate the opportunity to have democracy in action are walking through the state. i am speaking on behalf of walkers who today completed a 126 mile 11 day walk. and now i'd like to present

you with a petition to the members of the remark legislature please retire vermont yankee on schedule no later than march of 2012 and a copy to you thank you peter. thank you to the marchers thanks to all of you in this room for coming to the people's house the greatest democracy in america and letting us hear your voices on this important issue i have concluded that it is in the best interest of the moderates not to renew the license never mind yankee and that's how i will vote. but there was an intense. level of organizing and behalf of the citizen activists there or we held public forums these senators

match. are key to that we made phone calls would you be able to call them and talk to them about this we wrote an enormous amount of letters to the editor and we engage people from all across the state and all across the political spectrum to call for our legislature to vote no on continued operation of vermont yankee beyond march of 2012. commissioner from when the spurs and i just want to wrap up the debate. is in

vermont's best interest to operate vermont yankee beyond its scheduled closing date of 2012. if you don't think that leaking tritium and cobalt into the ground water and the connecticut river and the environment of the state of vermont that every single for mano cherishes and holds dear then i don't know what else you can have as an indicator that reliability is a problem with the nuclear power has a place in the future of energy in america. we can debate that to a cows come home what we should not be debating is whether we can extend the life of our e.g. nuclear power plants beyond their design life this is crazy stuff and i felt very strongly that it was the wrong thing to do for. clicked on a 2nd. please call the roll just. under the stars yes and the star was under flight

. so there's a series of. these for $26.00 was when the senate voted $26.00 to $4.00 in favor of closing vermont 80 it's really a testament to all of the work that citizens did over the course of several years over the course of decades our voice as the people as as as the people of vermont is what matters. well you know we were disappointed with the vote but not surprised again with the

the incidents that were happening at the plant it was understandable. the nuclear powers unhealable were to boil water. what really happens inside a nuclear reactor is of uranium out of pops and in the process it gives off an enormous amount of heat all it does is boil water make some steam turn a turbine and generator and electricity comes out but what's left behind after you've you have use that electricity or these pieces and these pieces stay radioactive for a quarter of a 1000000 years. it

is toxic poisonous to humans for 250000 years i keep saying that number 250000 years it's ridiculous it's mind boggling i'd be the 1st to acknowledge that is the achilles heel of the nuclear industry nuclear waste. there is no answer to this they keep telling us oh technology will take care of technology technology is not taking care of it and if you cannot take care of the waste and you cannot manage the ways then the only responsible thing is to stop producing the waste.

and then you bring it here. where registering is simply mentioned like a no falling scale so after having a huge new can ever. be for really trying to get young people excited about the energy and power in different places so it's a much more local. there is surplus campaign is a student led arena station based out of middlebury college we got together right after the senate voted to close relying because we were wondering what's coming next what are we going to replace for mining cubit. the field and the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has a really strong plan. in

the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage 3 parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks particularly catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and what was striking to put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of full streets in belfast at the plague more than a 100 innocent civilians were murdered as live you can see in yours and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and the ticker into which the pollution was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named the gloom gang i think it went to the very very top i think it is.

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