concern about the shika, this plant, pre-date last year's disaster. the power company applied for permission to build the plant in 1987. the document used for that application included figures showing the shapes and the locations of fracture running under the site. the company researcher said those fractures wouldn't pose a problem. the government approved the plan. in 2006 the government revised its quake, earthquake register guidelines for nuclear plants. the operator was ordered to examine active faults around the facility. the company's engineers carry out a drill survey in 2008 to reassess 20 faults near the shika plant. but for reasons unknown, they didn't include the fractures under question in their survey. >> what happens if investigators discover the fault under the plant is actually active? >> if that's the case, they could trigger an earthquake, the operator wouldn't be allowed to restart the reactors and it would be forced to shut down the facility for good. government guidelines for nuclear plants do not allow utility to build or operate

it swept across the plant's sea walls and flood of the turbine buildings shutting down the emergency diesel generators and cutting off critical cooling to the reactors at this point the operators of the fukushima plant knew they had a crisis on their hands at approximately three forty one in the afternoon less than an hour after the earthquake tepco which operated the plant notified the authorities that they had a first level emergency on their hands reactors were melting down by themselves time operators began relieving pressure from the reactors by releasing radioactive steam out of the reactor buildings and into the air and in a frantic attempt to keep the reactors cool nearby seawater was pumped into the plant but that wasn't enough and there's not much else the plant operators could do since the radiation around the plant was spiking soon the reactor buildings began exploding one day after the earthquake on march twelfth reactor one suffered a hydrogen explosion collapsing its roof over the next few days reactors two three and four would give way to similar hydrogen explosions m

there was a gentleman named gemstone on the plant was built in 1951, the plant started production in52. there was a problem with the engineering report in the beginning in terms of the location of the plant. they needed to locate the plant close to a growing population. it wasn't like los alamos where they had things on site and it was a company town. rocky flats had to be close to a growing population so that they had workers. at the same time from the needed something that was kind of her mouth. when they built rocky flats, the engineering report was mistakenly based on wind patterns at stapleton airport rather than the rocky flats site. so as i mentioned earlier, the winds come down off of that, even one of the requirements was the plant must be located in such a way that none of the material will blow over a major metropolitan area. well, that would blow right across. as i said in the beginning, they said that they should not locate the plant here, and he was ignored. he continued to work with rocky flats over the years, and there were a number of things that happened that he was

mifrheckts eaap plant. actually, our first house was seven milesway, and then in 1969, we moved to a subdivision which was closer to the plant, about three e ana lewom rat srsdotr and i had an idyllic childhood in the sense we had horses and dogs and spent time outdoors riding horses in the fields around the plant and swimming in the lake. we never knew whatnt o ckla deat ly was. we had no idea of the environmental contamination that was happening in the area. plutonium and carbon chloride and a number o things going in envinment the . teika k neighborhood, i worked at the plant myself, and i got a sense of what it was like to be on the inside of the plan there was one evening when i came home fromworking atrock flat anehe leond e aow "nightline" that it was an expose of what was really haening at the plant. it was the first time i had an awareneswha hni erhoxtdi amios. it was on that day i decided to quit my job at rocky flats, and the day i quit was the day i decided to write a book about it. it took ten

danger in in all nuclear power plants could play out in any number of disasters this plant for examplethere are miles and miles of electrical cable that are underground in vaults that were submitted were submerged for months for during the flood and these electrical cables are safety related and they were never qualified to be wet or submerged for any any time so this boat of the four calhoun plant remains shut down now but clearly we don't know you know we doubt that it's safe because they never qualify the electric cable that stretches out into these plants we have a graphic of when basically these things fail this the bathtub curve for nuclear accidents kevin three mile island and chernobyl were early on in the life span the break in phases here of the reactors and then the break down phase were seen indian point david explain what this means sure yeah thanks to dave lochbaum and enough concerned scientists for this graphic put together it shows that there's elevated risk of reactor accidents at brand new reactors like t.m.i. internet which were a year older last and the reason for

we made the initial investments in the plants and the pipes. but once we accomplished that, there was this great recognition that we had a series of issues associated with wet weather conditions. storm events where, all of a sudden, you're dealing with a lot of water. narrator: large amounts of rainwater can cause flooding. engineers developed two approaches to stormwater infrastructure to transport water away from the urban environment. one approach was to carry waste and stormwater through the same pipe. this combined system was less expensive than building two individual pipe networks. and stormwater was seen as a way to flush out the sewers. through the 19th century, the combined system was considered state-of-the-art throughout the world, and is still in use in many cities today. but cities constructed these systems before treatment was the standard. and even today's largest treatment plant doesn't have the capacity to treat the sudden volumes of water rushing through a combined system during rain. the plant is overloaded, and the excess r

the reprocessing plant has been idle for more than three years. test operations began wednesday at the japan nuclear fuel facility in northern japan. they involve mixing radioactive waste water with glass to make nuclear waste. repeated incidences caused it to be taken off the grid in 2008. on reporting the spent nuclear fuel both domestic and imported. crews extract plutonium in the nuclear process again. the ongoing crisis sparked by the 2011 accident at the fukushima daiichi plant put the recycling policy under heavy scrutiny. a government review is expected to reach a conclusion this summer. >>> car manufacturers around the world can't help but feel uninspired by recent headlines. many of their customers in europe and in the u.s. are caught up in the downturn. some are looking into emerging markets to find business opportunities. ai uchida joins us now. what are you hearing from people? >> we often hear about car makers going into china, india, thailand. now we're hearing car makers are betting their future also on russia. the country's car in

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there are plants for 152 more nurseries. even the prison sends orange-clad inmates to load up on saplings. on this day the bishop has local officials and church leaders planting trees in a clearing. they're doing this because they're convinced that they are the victims of global warming and that it is caused by man here and around the world. near kilimanjaro, it is man cutting trees. sometimes giant trees. for export. for housing. for charcoal. and to make room to grow food. >> you will find that people -- >> the pastor preaches about global warming from the pulpit. you think mankind has caused all the problems? >> yes. it is created by human being. >> who cuts the trees down? >> we can't tell because people just cut it. >> reporter: that's why they're planting these in these old cemeteries. he says no one would steal trees from a cemetery. >> in the beginning of the bible in the book of genesis, it is well stated that god created human being and other creatures, but he gave the human being the greatest responsibility -- to

iaea members will visit the plant on monday.fficials with the industrial nuclear and industrial safety agency say the team will enter all three reactors, they'll examine pipes and cooling systems and check the condition of pools. iaea team members are expected to use the findings to draft global nuclear safety guidelines. >>> the accident at fukushima daiichi had widespread kens s questions in japan on th environment, on society and on the government and policy. now we're seeing the impact of the disaster on education. students are turning away from the field of nuclear science and just when the industry immediates them the most. for the decades long decommissioning process of fukushima and to keep an eye on the rest of the country's power plants. >> the japan atomic industrial forum helps the nuclear industry recruit new workers. a number of students interested in working in the nuclear field has dropped. this has been noticeable at university job fairs. in the past, the nuclear industry was seen as helping to combat global war

those are the street trees we want people to be planting. we do a lot of tree plantings. all of you must intuitively go, "of course it's good to plant trees," of course, i want to put a rain barrel on my house." but is there a measurable environmental impact? trees are going to take up a lot of stormwater over time and are kind of a long-term green investment. we've had more than 200 volunteers come out planting street trees. we need people to make active changes on their property. and to reduce the amount of flow that's going into the combined sewer lines, we're trying to install 4,000 rain barrels. narrator: homeowners can disconnect roof gutter downspouts from the sewer system and divert the stormwater into a rain barrel. schombert: the rain water then can be used to water lawns and gardens and infiltrate back in the ground slowly, rather than being piped to a creek where it disappears moments after the storm's over. it's being held within the watershed and it helps regenerate ground water and stream flows. hecht: that's what we're going to do this afternoon is think a

this means that the new type of power plants that we either build in russia or offer to our customers like ruled would have endured the disaster that hit fukushima in march two thousand and eleven nothing would have happened to them even if they had to withstand the worst possible earthquake coupled with the worst possible tsunami which even if there had been no personnel at the power plant at the time the machinery itself would have ensured absolute safety. mr bush sometimes says those things can progress as he believes that technological progress can ensure that safe nuclear energy what's your reaction to environmental. activists. nuclear energy if you look at all species that are in it collect nuclear energy is perfectly environmentally friendly much more so than all other types of power generation such as thermal energy for example in fact it would be more precise to consider nuclear power alternative energy right there with wind power solar energy and hydraulic power engineering which it does not produce greenhouse gases such a period when a nuclear power plant is running normall

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i want to ask about that plant. in february of 2011 a new steam generator -- new steam generators were placed in service at that plant. this was a major capital expense that cause ratepayers' $670 million. this expense was large but the new equipment was supposed to last 40 years. on january 31st of this year, less than a year, one of the units steam generators started making radioactive steam into the atmosphere and the reactor was shut down. the other unit was not operating at the time. six months later, most remained shut down. and determine the actual release of radiation into the environment was minimal in this case. is that right? >> that is correct. >> after the january shutdown, sending an inspection team. the report last weekend according to the nrc inspection team after a single year of operation, the steam generators have been warm down because excessive vibration was causing them to run against each other. last week's report found this problem was caused by faulty computer modeling in the design of the s

plants like this day lily, people say it and think their plants are sick.t's actually happened is this plant has responded to having, you know, the succession of 100-degree days. you want to take all that away, clean it up as best you can, and you see mother nature has given us more blooms. so this plant is not sick. it's actually just responded to the excessive heat. >> okay. >> also our grass plants, this one here in the foreground, i went ahead and cleaned up before, and you can see the difference in here. what you want to do -- and be careful when working with grass plants like this. they will cut you. use a pair of gloves. get in there and clean out all the old and, you know, older stolens, and that will give you fresh growth. we did this about a week ago, and you can see the fresh growth coming out. >> okay. >> now, soil amendments are important, particularly going into a summer like this. make sure you have compost and a good organic compost. have a mulch. that will help your plants retain moisture during the heat waves. and-- >> cotton candy or -- >

plant having an accident and affecting the nuclear plant.how do i do with the new information? how do i determinth stlia?ate 's psst he gh process. the wait 10 years for license renewal. you need to do in real time when the information becomes available. >> jamsubsets, california has a plan with qutions aoew ovs. nee f ewae yet. so, where should nuclear seismic issues beconsidered? mat sou, i certainly agree ith id ahee, nothing was happening there. you can't go another 10 or 20 years without looking at that subject. right now, diablo canyon, which more and more fault or found offsre is otrug ocoftiison unsteady. diablo canyon filed 14 years i had at the expiratn dateof their license, which we thought s a rusho ugena an were not anti-nuclear. we're just a little concerned about behavior of some people. so you've got to remember, i used analogies of three liquor stores all the time. yove gotechnog han bein than mothr nada d em. no gets old. we've been waiting for years for a new type elegy. things were done on weather. you've got human teams

plants like these vincas are on special, one dollar a plant. >> reporter: why are they on special?als. coming to the end of the annual season. this sweet potato vine, that will fill in. >> reporter: you can spruce them back up for not a lot of money? >> right, for not a lot of money. i'm going to give you this white begonia. that will give a lot of pop. basically what you can do is you can have a revived planter just as your electricity is being revived. and it's going to last you for the entire rest of the summer. now, remember what this looked like just a second ago? >> reporter: it looks beautiful. >> for four bucks you've got a great revision to your planter. even your deck plants can be done. they have all kinds of specials at garden centers now. ed's has great specials. things that are going to be seasonal is what you want to be looking for. >> reporter: right. >> in these containers. and also, you can also start thinking about fall and start getting some of the evergreens. >> reporter: i can revive my containers, that's great. i can't transplant my grass blades, derek. what'

a lot of people are like plants?tly. >> so, first of all, tell us the difference between a plant based protein versus an animal protein. >> plant based protein has, it's all about making sure you get the right amount of nitrogen in it. they both provide protein. you need complete protein. many plant based don't have the essential amino acids. >> you brought examples with you. if not all plants have the complete protein, you have examples of some that have that. >> people do rice and beans. that makes it complete but you get 40 carbs. you don't stabilize your blood sugar. the right amount of protein and cashes. >> soy protein provides protein, fat and carbs. you have hemp seed. hemp is a higher quality protein than soy. >> people hear hemp and it raises eyebrows. that's okay. just saying. >> hemp is such a balance. >> you know where i'm going. >> from a protein side, it's fantastic. great omega-3, 6 and 9. a vegan or vegetarian, a boca burger. this is a soy with quality protein. soy milk, tofu. then you have quinoa an

the global ten percent reduction is not dr matic also remember that some countries have old power plants and in the coming ten to fifteen years they will need to take them out of production to maintain the nuclear share in the energy balance by twenty thirty they will need to build some three hundred twenty to three hundred fifty reactor units experts say this is a really ambitious plan in fact we expected the markets to shrink by fifty percent last year assuming that as market leaders we would experience a thirty percent downturn but in reality our contracts have doubled college is like . if it effects it doesn't mean that the ten percent decrease actually plays into russia's hands just as i did and you know i wouldn't put it that way i decline in market never fares well for anybody as it increases competition it is tougher requirements that have played into our hands rather than the ten percent decrease over the last year people have figured out for themselves what happened at fukushima and they realised that there is no irreparable defect with nuclear energy systems in april the japan

i planted pitching in. restore rero cours j past year reroots has helped more than 70 farmers get farming again. >> translator: local people are trying to physically demanding through the dirt. they have to hethey also clear dirt away from up nets to protect crops from wind.ow cleaned a t it's and more.he recovering this far. steps forward. mont piles of rubble back then andard to think tha at ity. so we want to keep helping until their lives get back to normal. >> reporter: a tsunami all but ripped away. nhk world, sendai. in business, a bookseller in local institution. so much so that peoplerld reports. >> reporter: sunda people stop by. >> translator: are >> reporter: they've come to lookost every week to take photos.nsorry, having bad d better. a new sign written and illustrated by hand by owner. sakamoto is 89. he's run secondhandbook shop for nearly. lylyars, but hens to my entire life. >> reporter: sakamoto every day of the year, but it got harder after years he also has health problems so heimself o

workers at the kaluga plant are churning out 125,000 vehicles per year. or three times their initial output. executives at mitsubishi hope to use the facility as the a platform for the russian market. the global financial crisis stemming from the collapse oflyman brothers, triggered a plunge in russian car sales in 2009. dealers sold 1.5 million units ahalf the year before. the sector has shown strong signs of recovery. salesmen sold 2.6 million cars last year. >>> japan is one of the most indebted nations in the world so it faces a pressing need to improve its fiscal health. one way to cushion the nation's coffers ties raise taxes. lawmakers in the lower house of the dias would raise consumption tax from 5%. if enacted it will reach 8% by 2014. and 10% by 2015. our business reporter, spoke with the chief economist for a securities company in japan to get her views. >> japan's credibility as a borrower was recently downgraded by a major ratings agency, how will a raise in consumption tax improve or affect japan's ability to borrow. >> i think the decision

the ohi plant is the first to restart following the accident at fukushima daiichi last year. one setoff an alarm after reactor four reached capacity. it indicated the water briefly rose high. the other readings were normal. it will keep the reactor in full operation. the number four reactor at ohi was restarted a week ago. ohi's number three reactor resumed operation this month and is also running at capacity. the two reactors have the biggest output of those run by kansai electric. it covers the second largest city of osaka. >> translator: we have now able to provide enough stable electricity. this is a big relief. >> power saving targets will now be lifted in the service areas of three other utilities in central and western japan. the government gave the go ahead last month saying the safety has been confirmed. a panel of experts is calling for a series of cracks beneath the line to check for faults. >>> prosecutors have decided to accept criminal complaints over the nuclear accident. residents filed the complaints last month against the central government and plant's opera

the power company plans to plant seedlings on 600 hectares. we ask again how this power is green. >> the energy is considered clean because the process of generating it doesn't pollute the environment. there is an impact on nature, i'll admit, but the power generation is clean. >> the brazilian government is sticking to that view and promoting the construction of more huge dams -- 30 of them in the amazon region alone. conflicting views between rich nations and developing countries make solving the big issues of our time so difficult. we spoke to elisabeth thompson. she is the former minister for energy and environment of barbados and now the coordinator at rio plus 20 for developing countries. we asked her for her bottom line of what needs to come out of rio. >> some of the other things i think we'll definitely come away with are agreement on issues like water, and energy and food security, which are all very important. how do we do it in three days? the truth is that the process is already very much ongoing. we've been negotiating now at the

the plants definitely help. >> the plants definitely help. most of -- these are all floating plants. they have roots that are down in there and they provide cover on the top so fish can go under there. they respond to the shade. >> and this particular one, even flowers a little bit, too. you can see it. you can see the roots. >> these are water flowers. they are gorgeous. allowed to grow them up north where they die in the wintertime and they really grow fast. i'm jealous of tim and the guys up here because they can pick plants and gain inventory at the end of the season. >> you will get a lot of them if you buy a few, you'll wind up with a lot. you may have to thin them out. >> there's some submerged objecting -- oxidating plants that allow the water to move through there. there's a filter. this is another type of plant. let's see, what was its name? this is waterleaf and this is great. we use this as a marginal plant and usually we have a shelf around the outside of the plant and you can go ahead and put that -- >> stays in this. and this o

they are attracted more to the native plants as opposed to the asian invasive plants. in this case, the monarch caterpillar is attracted to this. it's the only plant that they will eat. it's important that we plant this and create a habitat for them. >> you are the complete package with the shirt and everything. >> there is the monarch. >> i have to get one of those. >> i have to talk to this young lady. >> tell me your name. >> are you going to do something special? >> yes. >> i will be laying the wreath on the tomorrow of the unknowns. >> really? how did you get that. >> i entered an essay contest and i won the essay contest by telling them how arlington national cemetery was important to me and why i should be chosen to lay the wreath. >> why is it important to you? >> it's important that everybody that is buried here, they fought and died for their lives and they should be remembered. >> and, so, why should you be the one that gets to lay the wreath. >> i have a lot of relatives that were in the military. i have -- they were working on planes to help and they were

high radiation levels are keeping them from accessing parts of the plant. different teams investigating the disaster have come up with their own conclusions. a government panel released its report just this week. we're going to look at how the various findings compare on today's nuclear watch. and we'll also examine the debate over whether the accident was preventible. >>> the march 11th earthquake and tsunami caused serious damage to fukushima daiichi, a full-scale loss of power triggered meltdowns in three reactors. the crisis revealed failures of tokyo electric power company and regulators made before the accident and while it was ongoing. discussion on whether the disaster was preventible has yet to run its course. tepco concluded in its report that a tsunami beyond expectations caused the accident. it insisted the event was unpreventable. on the other hand, members of a diet-appointed panel stress the accident was man-made. they concluded if preventive measures had been taken before march 2011 the accident might not have happened. following this story,

the onagawa plant fared much better than fukushima daiichi. for one, its three reactors shut down as they are designed to do. the iaea wants to apply what it learns at onagawa to global nuclear safety standards. nhk world kaho izumitami reports. >> reporter: the iaea team wants to investigate what made the difference. 18 experts arrived monday at the onagawa facility in miyagi prefecture. they interviewed plant officials and nuclear regulators. the plant faces the pacific ocean as does fukushima daiichi. the disaster knocked out power at the fukushima plant leading to meltdowns and explosions. onagawa's automatic shutdown and elevated position prevented major damage. the iaea experts will examine what impact the quake had on its control and cooling systems, pipes and pools of nuclear fuel. >> when we look at all the three units, at this point, because it's the beginning of the mission, we have not any focused area to which we look at. once we look at information, we decide where we will look and what areas. >> reporter: they'll also research t

plants. then a look at serious operations in africa and how the united states rendered, tortured and discarded one innocent man from tanzania. and protests against the u.s. mining giant newmont are escalating in peru. five participants in those protests have been killed in the past week. a state of emergency has been declared. >> the government is mistaken if it thinks it is going to crash the justified cries of the people. >> we will speak with amy goodman in spain today, 75 years after the bombing of that city. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm juan gonzalez. i am filling in for amy goodman. the u.s. and european union are calling for new sanctions on syria similar to those used against the gaddafi regime ahead of the nato attack on libya. at an international friends of syria gathering in paris, secretary of state clinton invoked the threat of chapter 7 under the u.n. charter, which ranges from economic embargos to mili

resource developers are developing a natural gas plant. this is fuelling concern about harm to the reef, including decreasing the water quality. >> the development of ports needs to be better planned. and by limiting the amount of damage by developing only a small number of ports, and certainly not creating any new ports, i think that's the way forward. >> unesyo is also alarmed. officials recommended last month that australia forbid construction of a newport that could undermine the reef study. the global body also asked the australian government to take measures to protect the reef. unesco officials warned that unless the situation improves, the reef could be added to the list of world heritage in danger as early as next year. members of the australian government say they will promptly consider measures in consultation with local authorities, responsible for port construction permits. however, the government has to balance protecting the world heritage site with bolstering the resource industry. aillar of the country's economy. >> what t

around to planting them. just driving down here today, the mideast thing -- i think it they were awesome. i would go to that. hydrangeas are good but they will walz a little bit in the summer heat. drifter roses are great. >> great to see you. if you have a plant or gardening question -- ," aoday's "medical alert study finds that government- provided community health centers often provide better care to patients than private practices. researchers at stanford studied 73,000 patients and found that doctors were equally or more complied with professional guidelines that were private doctors. researchers say this may be due to the best technology provided to community centers. cases of whooping cough have been popping up across the nation for months and it can be deadly for infants. the story of a baby boy and his journey to beat the disease. >> this 10-week-old has spent a month of his life in intensive care. >> we had been baptized, because we did not think he was going to make it. >> he is finally recovering