i'm moving toward global energy as fast as possible the planet will be unlivable for organisms like. i used to say let's shut down vermont yankee in 2012 meet the promise that we made a huge sure that actually scheana cleans up the mast and let's have a governor who's going to move us to removal energy and move to a chain 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 vermont yankee is fit to be open for another 20 years or jeanne a bowler joins us now with the latest on this jena kristen late this afternoon in a conference call that and are seeing nuclear regulatory commission and now said they voted to extend vermont includes license the n.r.c. says it will formally issue is includes a new license and a matter of if but under vermont law the public service board and the legislature must also approve a license extension. tonight

on nightline a nuclear emergency a massive new exposure rocks a crippled reactor plant in japan prompting the greatest fears yet radiation. and a new wave of a back to a should. fall out 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 this turn for the worse in reactor 4 after a day in which there was some evidence japan 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 vermont state government about the mont 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 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 what 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 injured. pan

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've had 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 it 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 fukushima 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 for mining he came on line almost. to fukushima daiichi you know what. they have the same design. new 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 was an 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 and all of the radioactivity inside it would be released to the public. she showed us 100 percent 3 of. the regulators have known that this design isn't capable of withstanding an accident since it was built . during the middle of the crisis and hooper she went to each one of the key regulators at the n.r.c. a guy named chuck casto said this is the worst containment in the world. well it's the worst containment in the world. why are we keeping 23 of them running here in

america. the actual szymon daiichi was caused by an earthquake and the tsunami. was really at the root of it was that the earthquake knocked out the off side power and that the tsunami knocked out the cooling more pumps a warm me ocean. that can happen anywhere you can lose offsite power from the storm or from a tourist attraction 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 damage in an american nuclear plant. i'm here because i think this is very dangerous we're facing the end of life and as

planned it. that. when i heard that sent. it up i was devastated. i felt i'd got to get erik at yankee because it's 10 child focus shape.

we would like to believe that you're trespassing. on not reading. everything that i know to do and all i have left is my body. put away just say no. we will definitely be doing it together again. name in a women a women. when people asked me how many times have you been arrested and i say not enough.

the afternoon. today entergy sued the state of vermont in the u.s. district court energy's 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 want to support the state of vermont in that legal battle we believe that corporations or businesses that operate in the state of vermont should be should be falling for want long. 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 idea the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is power lie with the people. this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways.

the point is should we actually be charging for education because this is when we charge for things it's because it's been a benefit to the person who's 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 wouldn't want to live in a society without doctors or engineers all saw just happen without economists. saying it of being a profit benefit ignoring the. public means that way ignoring that the skill bias we need for a sophisticated society and putting the burden of that skilled biases on the individuals and what we're turned it into is just now the china institution public higher education become a form a version of a real estate scam that is not the basis for a functional society. in

the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks the population of tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and what was striking to put these attacks was that the are you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the hague more than a 100 innocent civilians were. as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of secrets which the inclusion was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named. getting i think it went to the very very top i think it is for all the water where all the taste since you thought was going on and give the go ahead

. 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 not 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're placing ourselves in jeopardy jeopardy of being arrested and possibly jailed in order to make the strongest statement that our consciences call for us to make.

mistake years life mistake here's our 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 the market. 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 that for my yankee earlier this morning we told these men and women that 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 fund. not operational performance not litigation risk. nor political pressure simply put the plan costs exceed the. it's not good news it's a very sad day. it's sad because we're worried about what's going to have more friends neighbors for the folks who have to move away it's going to be painful see them go nuclear plants around the country under 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 daiichi. sankyo 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 we're 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 victory 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 citizens have the ability to affect change.

what gives me hope in all of this is that. in some little way our actions are going to inspire other. say to make a wish my grandmother for her like you say your grandmother did join our. and you know we have a victory for egging men that day i feel fortunate to be alive and in relatively good health and able to you know struggle. you can do what. you

need can be myriad to do this sound then you can support one another and low fat head together. there's no getting around the fact that the site we're vermont yankee exists on the banks of the connecticut river will remain as a high level nuclear radioactive waste endangering people for miles and miles and miles and miles around. in this toxic legacy of what has been created is not going to disappear and it will affect future generations for a time. 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 in an 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 with cerm she doing and shut this technology down to earth. guy.

point iraqis now they move should we have had a much better 17 years could we could have had a much more prosperous iraq a stable iraq yes as their. mistakes happen absolutely could dramatically how many things must have by far they could have done they should have have made a better but that does not take away from the flag i have now stood up to romney dictator who was bloodthirsty and he participated in the muslim killing of hundreds of thousands of iraqis a millions a morsel of iran and then the invasion of kuwait and saudi.

i think is a leader still must. have . at united. and i don't as you know don't you know you not. can if you could vote all of them ok if 2. was not anonymous today i killed in battle day only to ask me about it could watch that i'm not going to be. the one that had to. give the name not. what i do not. assume. you know not those they

need. to go forward. but i will not and so on i think just. so you know we've talked a lot on the show many years about economy and currencies and what makes a currency usually what makes a currency is scarcity for example gold is a currency is money because it's scarce that's the primary reason people use it as money keynesian economics or socialism is usually unworkable because the people who are organizing it think that well you can just print all the money you need you need a program print more money there's socialism for banks on wall street as was pointed out recently one a big presidential debates in a bank gets in trouble just print more money well what's the ultimate scarce commodity what is the ultimate scarce commodity think about it what is the ultimate

scarce commodity. greek police clash with migrants at the turkish border after ranker gives the green light to asylum seekers hoping to reach the e.u. . pressured into supporting its offensive in syria's. the long weekend julian the sounds of his supporters with the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case now complete with hearings the wiki leaks founder was kept in a glass cage denied the opportunity to interact with his lawyers we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the court process this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are.