before the devastating tsunami hit the area inaudible for more on this let's talk to professor christopher busby of the a european a committee on a radiation risks he joins us live now from wales in the u.k. many of us are being with us here professor now reports suggest that the reactor is up but actually mcclelland were damaged by the initial earthquake and not the some not only way given that us quakes a common place in japan or does this say about the safety of the rest of japan's nuclear reactors. whether i mean the obvious response is that is that they should actually all be shut down i think most people believe this and they also believe that it was very silly to do reactors on on what is clearly a mine and in an area where there are known to be. great. we see the result of having done the business of the obvious point but in the wake of these reports what should happen now in your opinion to japan's network of nuclear facilities. well in my opinion of course they should they should they should all be put into cold shutdown i mean and about their plan should ultimately . give up nuclear p

radioactive material since the disaster despite some efforts to clean this up well professor christopher busby of the european to resell radiation risks says that nuclear energy in japan should be abandoned altogether. but it was very silly to build reactors on on what what is clearly a line and in an area where there are known to be. quakes. we see the result of having to you cannot really believe that you can cage these things and expect them not to come out and not to have these sorts of accidents and other accidents will occur in the future and these accidents are so terrifying and the consequences of them are so pawling that really we cannot afford to use this method of generating electricity because you can't stop it just now because that would bring the whole plan to hold because it depends so so much from nuclear what we've got here is a situation where you've got fission taking place you know most neutron concentration neutral in flux and seawater. and effectively we're producing a very large quantities of radionuclides all the time and i haven't been able to deal with that we're talk