the problem is that everything this 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 in. a more serious one concerning that situation in japan joined live from vermont to go to some you know we're reporting at the moment that that also destines 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 or 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 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 churned all bowl 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. spacy nuclear reactor could keep that power plant shut down longer than expected 1st energy says east. plants until the cracks display against those who live in the

shadow of day dyspepsy see any problem can be alarming i don't give it a whole line of 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 site ones plus these firefighters nearby for life 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 final good bye 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 that center over and over. vernon

is the host. for my aiki. the town of vernon 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 at dairy farms mountains in fields they think a maple trees maple syrup. they think of rivers and pristinely. takes.

a nuclear power plant right on the southern border. for my. welcome to remind. people. 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 who's going to want to use our sear who's going to want to come here and drive past that. you. know. where money has to go right now no. no no i am not yankee just as the. shah shah.

not yankees i'm saying that we know right now shut down shah 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 on and live 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 being. 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. would lose my home 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 live my life i'm frances crow. and i live in northampton messages says i 93 years. 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 tain 45 when i heard about. the rabies. i am a member of the shut it down authentic it group a group of women that came together to shut down for me 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. 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 good and and maybe all of new england

uninhabitable for generations. from i think you started to run in 1972 it only had a license to run until 20122009 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 syria 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. their 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. is sort of amazing country with so many friends in russia and i'm very excited to be here. i love that idea i think i can do that. every night i make a lot of money with the millions and hundreds of me.

he has a nice life. a great wall and nobody feels a lot better than me believe me and i'll build a very inexpensive like a great great wall. 'd and just in case you're worried about who's going to pay for it mexico will pay for . it we'll see what happens who knows i always say who knows what we'll see on the field it will be success. as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people made homeless. you can work 40 hours 'd in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of it is that we're not financially quality and i'm not comfortable housing or living minimum wage give many people no choice.

that's been a problem with the city and always turn around and told me stay away almost all too since the food that there is no answer because yes the reply. resource the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become invisible clocks. show small seemed wrong wrong wrong just all. the world to get to shape out just because the ticket and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. most trusted news source says but channel 3. more trouble for a 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 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 the radioactive warder contained tritium lots of tritium 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 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 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 once a. 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 not. 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 ben 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 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 trotty 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 the entergy is certainly an unacceptable to the public and that shook public trust and confidence and we absolutely understand it and then have a trivium 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.

gone oh. 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 stand on 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 step for my 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.

deliberately sort of when. i just want to wrap up the debate. is in vermont special interests 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 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 mom like jessica. please call the rule just. another star yes and the star was

under flight. is for denise $26.00 was when 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 disappointed with the vote but not surprised again with 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 and turn the turbine and generator and electricity comes out but what's left behind after use 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 waste in the only responsible thing is to stop producing the waste.

and then you bring it here. where registering it is going to mention like an oaf knowledge scale so after having a huge nuclear power plant the 1st really trying to get young people excited about clean energy is for power in different places so it's a very 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 place for mining cubit. the field and the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has a really strong plan. i'm

. not going to. know about that. one but you know what why why do you know. how to keep. telling me hope but there are some friends that the us are still so but they're still hoping to do something this year. which. they have about that was that it was a simple act of going to bomb us with someone that you know what happened.

was there's a threshold at which. big tobacco realised what they were doing in that they continued to do it they continued to put more and more things into cigarettes that made them more addictive and made me want to smoke more of them in the point i'm trying to make is that social media in particular these artificially intelligent algorithms are doing the same thing. a dark industry comes to life in los angeles every night. dozens of women sells their bodies on the street many of them underage. los angeles police reveal a taste of their daily challenge no if you're going to exploit for a child here in los angeles there we're going to come as you see officers going

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