to refer. the problems that everything to us work japan's nuclear nightmare continues a 2nd hydrogen explosion at the fukushima daiichi nuclear complex destroyed the reactor 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 sit. there you. know she. can get you include. 3 more. concerning that situation in japan joined live from vermont to go to some you know we're reporting at the moment that that also just tunes 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 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 or similar actually the chemicals released from other radioactive chemicals released from a nuclear bomb disappear quicker then the radiation 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 averted no i don't think crisis can be averted. because we know her containment building a good t.v. especially nuclear reactor could keep that power plant shutdown longer than.

expected 1st energy says it will restart the plans until the crack use linux to those who live in the shadow of dave dyspepsy see any problem can be alarming i don't give it a whole lot i thought that once in a while when you hear there's something wrong like that concerns you. 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 the sidelines 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 loose 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. that led to trace amounts of radiation being leaked but that just the latest in a number of environmental problems at 703000. well

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burning his post. count. for my. part in the enclosure the town of arnold is very close to town. the people really care about one another. and we're more than just neighbors it's a great community. in when people think a state of vermont they think a dairy farms malins in fields they think a maple trees never see or. they think of rivers and pristine lakes.

and. a nuclear power plant right on the southern border. or my yankee welcome to remind. people. that there is a radioactive problem at this plant in vermont are vermont brandis done want to drink our milk who's going to want to who's going to want to use our sear who's going to want to come here and drive past that. no. doubt. right now no. no

no i am not yankees just as you. show. not yankees i'm saying that we know right now to shut. up shop. 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 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. 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 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 poor 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 in that plan 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. would lose my home and 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 should 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 how are you and that's the way i have to live my life i'm frances crow. and i live in northampton messages says. i 93 years out and i've been involved in trying to

say no to the spending of the atom and all of the consequences of it since 1945 when i heard about hiroshima on the radio i am a member of the shut it down affinity group 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 like here my house and wave figure out what we're going to do and then we do it. as 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 bake this area at night when you go and and maybe all of the new language

and uninhabitable for generations. you started to run in 1972 it only had a license to run until 2012 well 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 and 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 materials. is you'll media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. tyson nation will community. are you going the right way or are you being led. away. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the

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people. to see a bomb on small stress to do so much since then channel 3 needs more trouble for a vermont yankee a concrete trench at the plant is. didley 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 $100.00 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 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 as parent company says it

was miscommunication nothing more radioactive warder contained tritium lots of trivia 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 and 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 for my yankee this problem is countrywide 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 a bird in underground pipe you knew when you read that that there was underground piping yes you bet and misstatements have been given yes that's right i was stonewall what has happened that remind 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 28 in 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.

maybe i'm. gonna walk 0. 000. 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 that happen to be january so that's when they're walking. out 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. a 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 vermont or it's not true a new license separate my yankee and that's how i will vote.

there was an intense level of organizing and behalf of the citizen activists. we held public forums. where senators match and are key to that we made phone calls would you be able to call them and talk to them about this we wrote norma some out of 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 it 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 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 math clicked us secretary please call the roll to start sooner than start he had us from the start was just under 5 . 100 lifeboats no. there's a series of us are both the ears for the nice $26.00. 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. the nuclear powers a hell of a way to boil water. what really happens inside a nuclear reactor is of uranium out pops and in the process gives off an enormous amount of heat does it boil water make some steam turn a turbine and generator and electricity comes out but what's left behind after you do you have use that electricity 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 no 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. were registering. the dimensions like a no smaller scale so instead of having a huge nuclear power plant now these 3 are really trying to get young people excited about the energy and power in different places so it's a very much more local. 3 surplus campaign is a student led arena's nation based out of middlebury college we got together but after the senate voted to close reminding because we were wondering what's coming next what are we going to place for money and keep it. be filled the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has

a really strong plan. a minimum wage doesn't guarantee you or job cheney's you that if you get a job and be paid that wage is precisely that care she was likely to get the job and so i would predict probably over a 1000000 people would lose their jobs if the minimum wage were double to 50 now they want to phase it in so maybe $800000.00. and that would be differentially in communities or a lot of black people helping out of mississippi lower wage states. we

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