reactors exterior all 3 daiichi reactors have nuclear fuel rods that have been exposed to some degree so they're teetering on the edge of a meltdown. you need to sit. down. so he. can get you in. a more serious one concerning that situation in japan i'm now joined live from vermont. now we're reporting at the moment that all suggestions that a partial nuclear meltdown is no way this is not a nuclear chain reaction this is not a nuclear bomb this is the radiation left over after the chain reaction has started sort of sorts of interrupt but you say this is not a nuclear bomb but would 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 or 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 true and noble on steroids do you think it's definitely going to happen or do you think crisis could be of. no i don't think crisis can be averted. her containment building of the d.b. especially nuclear reactor could keep that power plant shut down longer than expected 1st energy says it's going to storm the plants clean childer cracks displaced those who live in the shadows to dispense see any problems can be alarming i don't give a whole lot of oh i checked once in a while. and you hear there's something wrong with that concern should. the nuclear

regulatory commission is monitoring the situation in. 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 ones plus these firefighters nearby her client 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 but when you're talking about a nuclear power really minor situation. 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 long investigation. southern

california edison says it will be closing the troubled 703 nuclear power plant good . to san diego county has been offline for months because of a mechanical recall. that led to trace amounts of radiation being really bad just the latest in a number of environmental problems of salmon over and over. vernon

is the host. for my achy. the town of learning 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 a dairy farms mountains and fields. they think of maple trees. they think of rivers and pristine lakes.

the 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 brandis done. to drink our milk. who's going to want to use our sear who's going to want to come here and drive past that. no. no. no no i am not yankee just has to. show. shah. not yankees i'm saying that we no doubt. very much.

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 for. right across the street from vermont yankee. they've always been

a good neighbor i have children that go to the school which is also right across the street from. you don't move in vernon if you're worried about the point both our girls live in town or 6. in fact my youngest daughter lives down the road here well as the crow flies it's less than a half mile from. here 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 look from fukushima. lose

my home my community where i've been for the last 30 years of my life and i would have to relocate to some other place it would be a complete disaster. people shouldn't have to live with that sort of risk. that's not acceptable. i have a passion for justice. and there's always a lot of work to be done our area and that's the way i have lived my life i'm francis crowe. and i live in northampton massachusetts and navy 3 years. and i've been involved in trying to say no to this fighting of the adam and all of the consequences of it sense night in 45 when i heard about. the raid.

i am a member of the shut it down at senate ticker of a group of women that came together to shut down. with our batteries and action. is that hot yes ok we meet once a month we have a pot luck 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 prayer power plant and if there is that accident at all bake this area of knowing and maybe all of new england uninhabitable for generations.

and he 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 they 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

material. the point is should we actually be charging for it because this is when we charge for things it's because it's a benefit to the person who is buying it and that's the audiology to education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit for saudi in general i wouldn't want to live in a society without doctors or engineers to happen with or without. seeing it or being a profit benefit ignoring the public means that we're ignoring that the skill basis we need for a sophisticated society and putting the burden of that school on the individuals and what we turned it into is just now the turn institution of higher education become a form of version of a real estate scam that is not the basis for

a functional. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory in dramatic development only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. you sit. in. you see a. trusted news source sushma channel 3. more trouble for a vermont yankee a concrete trench at the plant is unexpectedly filling up with radio after. water

radioactive water discovered in a concrete ditch at the nuclear plant contains high levels of tritium the tritium found at the plant is $100.00 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 at should close this is either a leak in a pipe or a leak in the tank that pipe connects him underground pipes that vermont yankee originally claimed did not exist until after the 1st leak was discovered gunderson was on the public oversight panel when he made false statements at parent company says it was miscommunication nothing more radioactive warder contained tritium lots of trivium but it also contained other isotopes he contained strontium 90 which is a bone seeker and causes leukemia because cesium $137.00 which is the muscle seeker

causes heart disease they contain cobalt 60 which is a very high energy gamma source then a whole bunch of other isotopes minimal 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 treaty in leak of concern to us groundwater down there is being threatened and potentially the river water is being threatened something needs to be done right now i believe that miners on say. 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. do not have undergone ip do 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 a bird in underground pipe you knew when you read that that there was an 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 going and 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 truly aged 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 dandruff certainly on an unacceptable to the public and that shook public trust and confidence and we absolutely understand it and then have a tritium leak to groundwater. adds to a lack of confidence we've said numerous times we apologize for that were

embarrassed about that. that shouldn't have happened. in a time of. a. gun

omar 0. 00000000. 000 martyrs we're used to all the different seasons you put out some extra clothes it's winter obviously that raise certain challenges but it's not a problem it happen to be january so that's when the walking. i walking because it feels like a powerful way to stand up mass said 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 ally 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 ramada 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 interests of vermonter it's not sure a new license step for my yankee and that's how i will go. there was an intense level of organizing and behalf of the citizen activists.

we held public forums. your senators match and our key that we made phone calls would you be able to call them and talk to them about this we wrote norma some of the letters to the editor and we engaged 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.

spasmed 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 that i don't know what else you can have as an indicator that reliability is a problem with a nuclear power has a place in a future of energy in america. we can debate that 2 accounts come 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 a math like justice secretary please call the roll to stunt under the stars yes and

the star will say yes under fire. from the lifeboats no. please a series of us are both the ears for the nice 26. was the senate voted $26.00 to $4.00 in favor of closing vermont yankee 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 just. pointed out surprised again with the incidents that were happening at the plant it was understandable. that nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water. really happens inside a nuclear reactor is of uranium out pops and in the process it gives off an enormous amount of heat does boil water make some steam and turn a turbine in a generator and electricity comes out but what's left behind after you do you have use that electricity by these pieces and these pieces stay radioactive for a quarter of a 1000000 years. that

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 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 ways.

and then you bring it here. where registering young birds to dimensions like i know smaller scale so instead of having a huge nuclear power plant now these 3 really trying to get young people excited about clean energy and power in different places so to be much more local. there is surplus campaign is a student blared 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 a minute q where. do you feel the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has a really strong plan. thousands

of american men and women she was just seen of in the country's military decision little shot change lives every thing came to a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed you know told to shut up but they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and you graham my arm and he write me with his birth ink area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career

or chose very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. you know gone for it do 50 point jump when you see a good number of the 41 when you have no kids with you to go to sleep home and phone and don't going to pull. out of all who said the. culture was in there i'd have to trick our young. people. that it was just said i will put you on that you were going to drive that there's no natural place to play and there's a. sudden demotivate to be overseen so some of it to go up to see joe go to shows

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