plus much of a missile launchers network. brushes russia russia russia. feel the fear that they will experience or sit there and i really have to join to see you then on our team. who are so proud and still. are just getting the number. why have you not shut down our t.v. on you tube it's a propaganda machine mr walker. i

understand that he of vermont doesn't know how to lead the world in getting off rogers and doyle and moving toward normal energy as fast as possible the planet will be unlivable for organisms like us. legs shut down vermont yankee in 2012 the promise there we may be sure that initially scheana cleans up the masts and much of our governor who's going to move us to removal energy and move to his shane energy future let's vote for change on november 2nd thank you so much. peter shall. do solemnly swear that i will be true and faithful to the state of vermont. where there will be true and faithful to the state of vermont.

federal regulators now say that her mind yankee is fit to be open for another 20 years our jeanne a bowler joins us now with the latest on this gina kristen late this afternoon in a conference call the n.r.c. clear regulatory commission and now said they voted to extend for model employees license the n.r.c. says it will formally issue with new license and a matter of but under vermont law the public service board and the legislature must also approve a license extension. are

you going. to come on. tonight on nightline a nuclear emergency a massive new exposure rocks a crippled reactor plant in japan prompting the greatest fears yet radiation catastrophe and a new wave of back to a should. call out for this reactor up in smoke how dangerous radiation leaks can be a plant located on a seismic fault the smoldering disaster zone the latest challenge at the fukushima

daiichi site a fire in the number 4 reactor that's right down here in the area just near the room where highly radioactive spent fuel rods are stored in this turn for the worse in reactor 4 after a day in which there was some evidence to pass and might finally be making some small progress as it struggles with the worst nuclear crisis since trolled. let's assess the risk with arnie gundersen he's a nuclear safety advocate who consults with them on state government about the month yankee nuclear plant mr gundersen is joining us on the telephone sir based on what you have heard this is reactor number 4 there was a fire there the other day what does that tell you mr gundersen i have learned from my sources that the radiation levels in the 4th reactor are so high that they've had to evacuate the personnel from there. that indicates is that the fuel pool is running out of order and if the personnel are not there to keep it refilled it

doesn't surprise me that radiation levels are increasing dramatically if the wind turns and goes the other way. i would suspect contamination not just in japan but but potentially korea and china as well unless time they have before this is catastrophic it can boil dry in a day so they have you know on the order of 24 hours to straighten it out arnie gundersen is a very sober assessment we appreciate your expertise you have experience building these spent fuel rods checks and we appreciate your expertise tonight i can't say i enjoy what i'm hearing but i'm glad we're getting from someone who knows this so well mr gundersen thank you so much.

i feel angry i felt scared felt very sad when i heard about the focus. because of the people there who were displaced and because of the contamination of our world environment. those folks had to evacuate and god knows for how long i love this place i love where i live i don't want that to happen here. i don't want to see this beautiful paradise destroyed like that. in the united states there's 23 general electric mark one reactors identical to fukushima daiichi are mine yankee came on line almost. to

fukushima daiichi you know what. never the same design. is the same reactor same contractors worked on them and the same flaws and weaknesses. the containment structure designed to hold in all the radioactivity after an accident is too small by $986.00 the nuclear regulatory commission had determined there were 85 percent probability that the containment would blow up and fail in the event of a meltdown. so much hydrogen gas would be released that the containment would be blown to smithereens all of the radioactivity inside it would be released to the public. she showed us on to percent 3 of. the regulators have known that this design is. capable of withstanding an accident since it was built. during the middle of the crisis in africa she went to each one of the key

regulators at the n.r.c. got him chuck casto said this is the worst containment in the world. well of a source containment in the world why are we keeping 23 of them running here in america. the actual shaman daiichi was caused by an earthquake and the tsunami. really at the root of it was of the earthquake knocked out the off side power and that the tsunami knocked out the cooling more pumps on warming the ocean. that can happen anywhere you can lose offsite power from the storm or from a target action and you can lose the pumps they call the plant from the same exact cause so we don't need a tsunami we don't need an earthquake to cause that kind of a damage in an american nuclear plant.

i'm here because i think this is very dangerous we're facing the end of life as if it just about. when i heard that. it up i was devastated. i thought i've got to get erik at yankee because it's of potential fukushima.

well or. we would like to believe that you're trespassing. on what we've. done everything that i know to do and all i have left is my body. get in the way just say no. we will definitely be doing it together again your. name in a women a women. when people asked me how many times have you been arrested and i say not.

the afternoon. today entergy sued the state of vermont in u.s. district court. lawsuit claims that vermont should have no role in approving vermont yankee speech or after 2012 in the state of vermont i don't think it's too much to say that this is this is an anti-democratic situation you've got a large. wealthy out of state corporation trying to have its way and override the legitimate laws. of a sovereign state and it's a it's a power struggle unfortunately from being its size it's a david versus goliath power struggle but. when we've got a lot of energy to fight. it's

the 1st day of the trial corporation versus the state of vermont and there are many of us who lot of support the state of vermont in that legal battle we believe that corporations are businesses that operate in the state of vermont should be should be following. this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where is it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the ide the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is power lie with the people. this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways.

in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks protect the only catholic population in belfast tens of thousands

are forced to flee their homes come up with strike and 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 time more than a 100 innocent civilians were unloaded as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the currency which they collusion was involved in some of those cases they killers would later be named into the enemy gang and i think it went to the very very top i think it is the 1st frosts the water where all the taste since you thought was going on and give the go ahead. and have a 7th is later systematic. know how that is not. it's not like they're.

actually an area where. there is no no don't you know you're not. going anywhere at all of them ok if there. was not a master plan a kill with a battle they have laid. out a collage that would allow that to be. the military. even. if they're not i'm not a. what the how they were not allowed the a so when i last saw him and not those they need the whole corps to go before. why did. it out of.

print. and. when it became clear that entergy was going to continue to operate past the end of its 40 year license which came to an end on march 21st 2012. we felt that it was necessary to. take an action that would inspire people in the area now to give up. not to allow themselves to be rolled over by this corporation.

we are here to demonstrate in the most dramatic way we can that a gross injustice is being created by this pro corporation the entergy corporation against the people the government of ramadi and the whole surrounding area where all of us are threatened by this reactor as long as it stays open and we're calling upon the entergy to respect the democratic process in vermont and to shut this dangerous leaking accident plague plant down. there are times when you feel something so strongly that just holding up a picket sign or just attending a rally or demonstration is not enough you want to speak with your whole life your whole body and so we are placing ourselves in jeopardy jeopardy of being arrested and possibly jailed in order to make the strongest statement that our conscience is called finest.

mistake years life mistake years or future generations the very things that we need to exist clean water clean air the health of our citizens it's all at stake and for what. for right now it's just for corporate profit that's all it is. it's a power struggle about the will of the people to decide what's best for them. it's a political struggle about the basic fabric of our country despite democracy

so this is about whether people's voices are going to be heard. yankee is shutting down nuclear power plants will close by the end of next year of officials from entergy which for my yankee made a surprise announcement this morning. today's an extremely tough day for us of interest and more importantly really 630 employees and for my yankee earlier this morning we told these men and women the vermont

yankee nuclear power station will stop operating at the end of its current fuel cycle and move into the decommissioning process in the 4th quarter of 2014. this decision was based on the economics of the point. not operational performance not litigation risk. nor political pressure simply put the plant costs exceed the plant revenue in this asset is not financially viable for those of us and. it's not good news it's a very sad day. it's sad because we're worried about what's going to have nor friends neighbors for the folks who have to move away it's going to be painful see them go nuclear plants around the country are under the warmest financial pressures right now they're getting old and everybody knows it costs more to maintain an old car than a dozen new car the same is true for

a nuclear plant. all of them are going to require modifications from lessons learned after fukushima daichi. and he was going to need about $250000000.00 of repair and replacement over the next 2 or 3 years to keep running and entergy didn't want to spend that money. entergy new that from entourage were not going to allow this plant top arrayed unless it was in top notch condition. and they couldn't afford it so they pulled the plug on for mine yankee for economics but it was economics under the scrutiny of a smart electorate who had kept themselves in form for the last 10 years. the closing of vermont yankee is a fig tree for democracy. entergy would continue to operate if it wasn't for all the hard work all these people did to make this happen

it is a win for david over. people power works we as citizens have the ability to effect change. what gives me hope in all of this is that. in some little way our actions are going to inspire others. i. think you know that i find that there is no way. out people often say to me i wish my grandmother were for her like you know i say get your grandmother did join our benedict group. and you know we did have

a victory for egging meant that the whole state i feel fortunate to still be alive and in relatively good health and a boat you know struggle. you can't do it alone you need community to do this sound that you're going to support one another and both head together. there's no getting around the fact that the site where vermont yankee exists on the banks of the connecticut river will remain as a high level nuclear radioactive waste dump endangering people for miles and miles and miles and miles around. the poisonous toxic legacy

of what has been created is not going to disappear and it will affect future generations for a time to go. this

is a technology that's fundamentally flawed i don't believe we should build a new nuclear power plant ever again and i think we should orderly manner shut down every nuclear power plant we've got. beginning with all of these mark one designs that are identical to vermont yankee and identical the fukushima daiichi. plant gradually over the next 10 years do it the germans are doing and shut this technology down.

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more than a 100 innocent civilians with blood as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and it's occurring to which the collusion was involved in some of those cases they killers would later be named into the nanny gang i think it went to the very very top i think if he thought crossed the water where all the patients you thought was going on and gave the go ahead. through.

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