the seat beside fukushima is also contaminated. levels of radioactive iodine, almost five times above safety limits have been measured. cesium has been found in fish. is a disaster for tokyo's fishmongers. drinking water has also been contaminated. however, some people living in the affectededegion have come to terms with the situation according to this woman. >> according to the official report, the water contains a slight amount of radioactive material. but they say it is below recommended levels, so i am not worried. >> bottled water is in short supply. it is being rationed to families with children. authorities warn cldren should not drink tap water. parents are worried. >> the water i'm using could have been contaminated. >> there is no alternative but to struggle on. this guitarist from tokyo says he is not getting into fear. >> we have a very inconvenient life now and aftershocks are still coming. we are afraid of radioactive contamination for the power plant, but i will never run away from a year. we will stand up again. >>

that has not happened at fukushima. there are varying accounts as to whether the core melted into the reactor. there was an explosion in the suppression pools, but it is not clear that it was within this type of scenario. that means that mishima is not as severe as the worst-case accident you can have. we sell at fukushima that sometimes you need to get regular activity from the containment. that in itself can result in significant radiological releases on the order of 10% of the volatile isotopes. now i will fast forward. i did a study back in 2004 looking at the indian point nuclear power plant in the united states. it has the highest population density within 10 and 50 miles. in fact, it is the second- highest power plant in the entire world in regards to population. doing analysis using nuclear regulatory commission on computer models, you can estimate that even if you have a full evacuation of the 10-mile zone from the nuclear power plant, you would still potentially see more than 40,000 deaths from acute radiation

backyard twenty five years ago over the war and it's to make sure nightmares like chernobyl and fukushima will never happen again. reporting from chernobyl and being ukraine. now as alexei mentioned as we mark sure knoebels anniversary it's hard not to draw parallels with what we saw unfold in japan just some six weeks ago questions are rising over whether the world has learned lessons on nuclear safety that the true noble tragedy provided we spoke to journalist james corbett was in osaka japan and he says the handling of the fukushima nuclear power crisis is repeating mistakes twenty five years on. i think the real analogy could be drawn here is that the flow of information that's coming from the governments and it's not of an analogy that favors the japanese government but we saw in the wake of the true. noble the immediate wake of the chernobyl disaster we saw the official soviet reaction was to to attempt to cover up and deny what was going on but once it became apparent the scale and scope of what was happening we saw that kick start a new era of glasnost and openness whereas we see

safety -- after fukushima, this is now front and center. this is on every headline in the newspapers. we will see how long that lasts. waste -- this is the issue that everybody puts off to the indefinite future. one of the lessons of fukushima is that maybe you should not put this issue off. i am a little optimistic that countries may take this more seriously, moving spent fuel from what stores to dry storage. proliferation and terrorism -- these are typically in the background. governments can always come up with a thousand reasons to put something higher on their agenda than non-proliferation, but there is a little bit of hope that with the next nuclear security summit in 2012 that this will be paid more attention. if enthusiasm for nuclear energy wilts, if we don't have a lot of growth as people had been expecting a last five years, what then does any of this matter? i would argue that, yes, it does matter, you have the enduring problem of proliferation and terrorism, proliferation of sensitive materials and facilities, capabilities. so

in fukushima we haven't seen that level of release yet. we've seen some of the environmental levels, particularly in the air and some in the water, but not the full core blowing up and polluting the atmosphere. >> reporter: officials say the change is the result of a fuller, more accurate picture of how much radiation is being released, not because anything's gotten worse at fukushima. still, it's one more body blow for japan. "for the first time i'm a bit shocked," said tokyo vegetable vendor kiichi kobayashi. "they don't seem to be making progress," said fukushima resident fusako nakahara. "if makes me uneasy." prime minister naoto kan went on television to say progress is being made, claiming radiation leaks are declining. he urged people to focus on recovery and rebuilding and to buy products from the disaster zone. in tokyo officials made a show of eating fukushima-grown vegetables, shunned by consumers. despite a small electrical fire and another strong aftershock today, workers began pumping an estimated 14 million gallons of highly

as conscientiously as he can after fukushima after the disaster. can we state this nuclear renaissance is over i think it's the best it can be is very much delayed because if you're a safety regulator now how can you possibly sign off or design a safe to build when you don't know what's happened at fukushima much less that the designs that you're certifying will never suffer from those same problems and you know just as turner bill couldn't have been written off as. a freak juta this eccentric technology operated in this very strange way for consumer can't be written off as a matter of if you're in a worth quake zone where you might get a tsunami it was the quake it was a tsunami was it you people see it it is that only was a couple of inches smaller and there would have been away with it because it was a little bit later metre needed to hurry and it was designed for a nine needed tsunami incident was ten metres in and this is what was critical salt water salt water did this drawing all the ground station and those were again so good but if we buil

this is footage from the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant as of now. according to the meteorological agency, the wind is moderate from east to west or from the land side to the sea. in the day, there will be southeasterly winds prevailing. >> radioactive substances that leaked from the fukushima daiichi plant have been detected in tap water in tokyo and other parts of the konto area. we look at how those substances reached konto and the measures taken by the government to prevent radiation getting into the water supply. >> this is professor hirom hiromi yomozama who analyzed the situation. according to his analysis, radioactive substances leaking from fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant seem to have reached konto area at least twice, though in very small quantities. radioactive substances first reached konto area after the hydrogen explosion of the number three reactor at fukushima daiichi nuclear plant on march 14th. specifically from march 15th through 16th. there were traces of radioactive substances from fukushima daiichi seems to have been carri

endo and her 3-year-old son fled from fukushima. they have been staying at relatives home and at a hotel since the quake hit the region two weeks ago. but on march 26th, they moved in an apartment in shizuoka, tokyo. the rent is free for the first three months. mrs. endo found this apartment on the web site. it is run by a think tank called daiici sogo. it offers more than 500 homes and rooms provided by individuals wanting to help evacuees. if terms and conditions are met, they can move in right away. i wanted to stay away from the nuclear plant as far as possible. it is so nice that someone i don't know at all gave me such assistance. mrs. saki offered the room to mrs. endo and her son free of charge. since mrs. endo hardly brought anything from her house when she evacuated, mrs. saki prepared the necessary items for daily living. do you have towels? >> yes, i purchased some at a discount store. >> translator: mrs. saki says there are many different ways to support people. such as donation. and this is what i can offer. mr. toshio

a freak due to this eccentric technology operated in this very strange way fukushima can't be written off as a matter of safe you're in a worth quake zone where you might get a tsunami it was the quake it was the term it was it people see that is that so nobody was a couple of inches smaller there would have gone away with it because it was a little bit later a meter needed to hurry and it was designed for a nine needed cinnaminson it was ten meters and this is what was critical to salt water salt water just destroyed all the station. again but if we build if we build a nuclear power plant similar to fukushima in a land far is it with tsunamis don't reach it doesn't automatically make it twenty percent c does it yes it is but what safety regulators look at is not the triggering event but what happens afterwards so with turner bill they didn't look at the fact that the operators did stupid things what they looked at was they needed designs that would not go out of control. full proof so there is a lot of talk about passive safety now so that a reactor if everything goes wrong will reve

the radiation levels around fukushima the nuclear power station are sufficiently high to keep people out for also a very long time i think you'll be able to compare that for this happening now in. unless you would remove the first half meter of top shortstops all you always have higher radiation levels in the surroundings that are so high that it will not be able to live there for quite a long time let's talk about the way this has all been handled in japan that japanese nuclear industry has been accused of forming a close relationship with the government a relationship that some say is actually too close would you agree that this is actually been an unhealthy relationship in this particular situation yes we have seen that quite clearly in japan and it is a situation that we see throughout the world so we see it in rush hour in the u.k. or. in france it's something that need. now worldwide more in more attention because if you are too close you start overseeing the issues so what you're saying is that this relationship has actually led to the public really know not knowing the full p

also listed as a grave so there was no release of radiation into the environment from fukushima but followed. for disasters first an earthquake after which the reactor. immediately thought this was a vent salo by this enormous fifteen twenty meter tsunami wave that knocked out the second the cooling system mr reagan let's just look at look at how it has been treated how how it the actions that followed after the disaster now it's been reported that the pressure levels in the first reactor were allowed to rise twice the limit before the radiation was burned and i was that necessary do you think that added to the crisis i think they didn't do it on purpose i think i had no choice because the water the tsunami wave that knocked out the cooling water systems there was no mechanism for cooling down the inside of the reactor core. and that's what gave rise to this massive increase in pressure. viewed the effect of that of course very dramatically when the reactor was widely read the material that came out with stephen hawking calls the external walls to explode but that's still very very

professor at the here assume at peace institute he says japanese at first to distance the crisis at fukushima from chernobyl are desperate attempts at damage control. the. crisis is not resolved i think that because of the process of the chernobyl anniversary the japanese government has been very interested to try to position the fukushima crisis as a less intense than the trouble crisis but by this period of time the chernobyl crisis had been resolved and there was it was the cleanup of this site but the ongoing incident was result much quicker than this currently in japan and we don't really know what the end game will be we really don't know exactly how this situation will go so it's absolutely impossible to say that it's that it's less than chernobyl. no of course those who were deployed in the cleanup effort in the immediate aftermath of the term noble disaster were putting their lives on the line to prevent the tragedy from spreading even further our teeth spoke to one of them.

to crown plans to end the fukushima crisis within nine months by enclosing that reactor complex. young herr accountable nuclear power expert for green please explain why the idea maybe a little too ambitious. the first estimate that they can build the door in six months i only have to remind you of. two crew or four channel before we have to first across the gears and. the four we have a second cycle because it's something that's very easy to do don did for also take a lot longer than the six months because one of the dorm is a. fuel needs to be removed and it is a very very complex operation and even. if you could come out to get the radiation levels around fukushima station are sufficiently high to keep people out for also a very long time i think we'll be able to compare that for this happening knowing in. unless you would remove the first off we. always have higher radiation levels in the surroundings that are so high that people will not be able to live there for a long time. and tonight is headlines all the way off first up right here on our. home. we have seen the damage i

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so from the onset of the japanese nuclear crisis the unthinkable was that fukushima could become the next cho noble the twenty fifth anniversary of which is coming up this tuesday but it's obvious alexy going to shift the reports the passing years haven't made the world's most infamous exclusion zone any safer. this still remains the world's biggest manmade nuclear disaster and it happened because of a failed experiment when the employees of the juggle nuclear power station tried to bring the reactor to a temporary stop and the experiment failed and resulted in an explosion the whole area around the plant and thirty kilometer radius was contaminated some parts of belarus and everywhere across the european cauldron traces of radiation were felt even ricci the east across the united states now this is still remains historical landmarks still some people trying to draw a perilous with bushy my accident nowadays but it's many experts agree that the accidents have been completely different not only in the causes of the disaster but also in the immediate aftermath because the levels of rad

a possible new radiation leak at the site is attracting increasing concern about the stress that fukushima showed them how vital it is to be prepared for the repeat of a nuclear disaster. and a culture clash and for most russians are through grief controversy after winning a state award for one of their works they say what they did was artistic protest but critics argue it's nothing more than obscenity and that some. are calling a billboard will be here and half an hour's time but for now it's cross talk time with people of elena's guests but be discussing if the world should keep using nuclear energy one day ahead of the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl disaster he will. if. you think the. welcome to crossfire computer liberal twenty five years ago the world was coming to grips with the catastrophe unfolding it turn noble today the same could be said about the sheema what is the future of nuclear power does it run its course or is it in evitable that it will be with us for a very long time. crosstalk the pros and cons of nuclear energy i'm joined by william tucker in new york he'

that is potentially at risk in fukushima so. you could argue that even one tenth of chernobyl is a significant release that incident occurred twenty five years ago and you know bill has anything been learnt from that incident do you think bearing in mind what's happening. it's a different sort of different strokes for different folks different people have different responses to this germany the strongest economy in europe has clearly stated that it will exit from nuclear by twenty twenty italy says no no new build. the minister for economics in switzerland says no more newbuild in england it's a bit of a choice the. easier the french company has invested twelve point four billion in nuclear sites in the u.k. and at present the u.k. government is slightly gung ho so it's difficult to predict what may or may not happen in the u.k. it's also interesting to note that of the three hundred fifty planned new reactors in the world one hundred are planned for the pacific seismic ring of fire. that has caused such a disaster. so if you th

. >> en seguida, el nivel de alerta se elevó al máxima en fukushima, algo que no se veía desde el desastreud 7,0, ocurrió horas después de que los japoneses realizaran ceremonias de duelo al cumplirse un mes del potente sismo y tsunami que mataron a unas 25-mil personas, y provocaron una crisis por fugas radioactivas en la planta nuclear de "fukushima". ---las autoridades dijeron que la réplica del lunes no puso en peligro las operaciones en el complejo nuclear, que queÓ sin suministro eléctrico y sin refrigeración por una hora.---no obstante, tambien hoy, la agencia nuclear de japón elevó la clasificación del desastre atómico de "fukushima" al mismo nivel que la de "chernóbil". --en peru, la candidata "keiko fujimori" se acuartelo con su >> en peru fujimori se acuartelo con su compañíad. >> maría elena nos informa. >> sin resultados oficiales la prensa se adelantó a decir que fujimori podría ser la contrincante de humala. >> creo que nos estamos acercando a una situaci'no en que es casi evidente que la segunda vuelta será entre keiko y oyanta. >> no hay ninguna razón para que eso cambie.

a possible new radiation leak at the site is attracting increasing concern after the distress at fukushima showed how vital it is to be prepared for the repeat of a nuclear disaster. and a culture clash an infamous russian not great breeds of controversy after winning a state award for one of their works they say what they did was artistic protest critics argue it's nothing more than obscenity and vandalism. probably about with more those stories and other news for in less than thirty minutes from now the mean time cross talk host piece lavelle and his guest discuss if the world should keep using nuclear energy one day ahead of the twenty fifth anniversary of the chernobyl disaster that debate is next on r.t. . if. you. he can. start. to think. well come across like i'm peter lorre twenty five years ago the world was coming to grips with the catastrophe unfolding eternal today the same could be said about the sheema what is the future of nuclear power does it run its course or is it in evitable that it will be with us for a very long time. to. start. to cross the pros and cons of nuclear e

you know i think the person is correct is that you know fukushima and sure noble aren't the only major nuclear accidents if you use the i.n.t.'s scale it's true that these are the only two that are level seven we did a long to do a study of one hundred years of energy accidents of my own university and we found that there are one hundred three significant nuclear incidents or accidents that either resulted in if they tally or cause more than one million dollars of damages so the question of will this be a black eye to the nuclear industry is probably not because the industry is very used to dealing with incidents and accidents but this is also a pretty big disadvantage to nuclear power these facilities are so large so expensive that some to lock in different decisions so even if japan wanted right now to kind of abandon the player power plants they can't because they've build an infrastructure that is so capital intensive that switching trajectories because of any reasons disaster shortages of fuel high costs is virtually impossible which is something that you don't see with your energ

--el nivel de alerta se elevo al máximo en la planta nuclear de fukushima, algo que no se veía desdeyl. ---una nueva réplica sacudió el lunes el noreste de japón. ---la réplica, de magnitud 7,0, ocurrió horas después de que los japoneses realizaran ceremonias de duelo al cumplirse un mes del potente sismo y tsunami que mataron a unas 25-mil personas, y provocaron una crisis por fugas radioactivas en la planta nuclear de "fukushima". ---las autoridades dijeron que la réplica del lunes no puso en peligro las operaciones en el complejo nuclear, que queÓ sin suministro eléctrico y sin refrigeración por una hora.---no obstante, tambien hoy, la agencia nuclear de japón elevó la clasificación del desastre atómico de "fukushima" al mismo nivel que la de "chernóbil". --en peru, la candidata "keiko fujimori" se acuartelo con su equipo de campaña, en busca de una estrtegia que revierta los resultados de la primera vuelta de la eleccion presidencial de ayer, que la ubican en el segundo lugar de las preferencias, tan solo superada por "ollanta humala" a quien intentaría destronar el proximo 7 de

well the the radiation levels around fukushima the new compiler station are sufficiently high to keep people out for also a very long time i think we will be able to compare that for this happening knowing engine of knob you. unless you would remove the first half meter of top shortstops slowly will always have higher radiation levels in the surroundings that are so high that people will not be able to live there for quite a long time. when all the village headlines are on the way it will be all through a short break here on our t.v. stay with us life in the sky. we have seen the damage it has done to our environment more of them because what the poor props we do not want any more new g.m.o. foods. of course system is just so there was a dismal experience and i'm just i'm just appalled that that's allowed to go on america. we are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling here for the news they come aboard for the experiment to be used as guinea pig. will now we have more questions than we have access to guards. like. wealthy british soil but it'

the twenty fifth anniversary of chernobyl the world's worst nuclear disaster that is until japan's fukushima crisis came along so quarter of a century later what is there to be learned. thanks. good evening it's tuesday april twenty sixth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy catherine of any watching r.t. . and he's one of the best known death row inmates around the world and mall has spent nearly three decades behind bars sentenced to execution following his controversial conviction for the quarter of a white police officer but today there's new hope for me as a court unanimously declared his death sentence unconstitutional finding for the second time that the death penalty instructions given to the jury at me as one nine hundred eighty two trial were potentially misleading archies honest to see a church has won this case. oh. beacon of justice or system flourishing with fraud and flaws. illegitimate this is prisoner mia jamal. seen as a political prisoner all over the world an honorary citizen you know we're twenty cities with a street named after him in france on death row in the us

japan has a created the severity rating at the paralyzed fukushima nuclear plant to seven arrival onlyever previously assigned to the sure noble disaster officials say it's been raised because high radiation has been recorded in the air ocean and out water but japan's nuclear safety agency is still reluctant to compare the dangers to what happened that chernobyl saying the radiation leak is smaller earlier a powerful aftershock shook eastern japan this came exactly a month after the devastating quake and tsunami hit the country killing more than thirteen thousand people robert jacobs from the hiroshima peace institute believes the authorities have been keeping the official severity rating at fukushima low to avoid panic. the dangers extremely severe right now and one of the problems is that the level of danger in syria he is still uncertain unknown you still have three implants in the cores and partial meltdown you have for the plant with heat spent fuel on getting off quite a bit of radiation and at this point there is no clear path towards resolving it ending this situation so it's r

twenty five years after trying to hold the world looks upon it with renewed concern as the distress fukushima shows how vital it is to be prepared for the repeat of a nuclear catastrophe. culture clash a controversial russian group wins a state award for what they say is an artistic protest but critics see it as an act over obscenity and evangelise. with r.t. live from moscow where it's now a just after four pm. libya's in colonel gadhafi forces are continuing their signature of the rebel held city of misrata while fresh new asteroids rained down on the capital more than a month into the allied intervention there's been a lot of discussion about the real aim of the action but there's a little said about what the rebels actually want. is going to try to discover for himself their hopes. of a country. for years saleem has been struggling to keep his auto parts shop running he cranes even opening men's pain thousands in bribes to various officials all linked to either gadhafi or his family. i won't even begin to describe how hard it was to start his business could not be as hands on everything f

. >> farmers affected by the fukushima disaster were protesting. radiation is forcing the evacuation of more residents, this time from beyond the mandatory restricted zone. >> what can i do? i am 70 years old. do they understand that pain? i am 70, just something to be thrown away, not a young person who can start again. >> higher levels of radiation have already been found in milk and vegetables from the region, which can no longer be sold. farmers face huge losses, and they want tepco to pay. >> we can not just afford to pick up and leave the way they think we should, so we finally went to hear just how much compensation they will give us. -- we finally want to hear. >> it is still unknown when and if residents will be able to return to fukushima. >> fukushima is not the only nuclear disaster in the minds of a lot of people. you may remember how the world changed forever 25 years ago on this very day. that ione reactor four at the chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded and unleashed a cloud of radioactive fallout across the western soviet union a

the german equipment will be used to cool the reactors at the fukushima plant.the pump's telescopic arm is over 60 meters long, allowing workers to keep their distance when spring water at a radioactive target. >> they also have a built-in fire extinguisher. our palms were used during the reactor disaster in chernobyl as well. >> at french president nicholas sarkozy has arrived in tokyo, the first foreign leader to visit japan since the earthquake and tsunami hit almost three weeks ago. >> japan is a country that is always prepared and quick to assist when there are disasters elsewhere. the world recognizes this generosity. now it is time to return the generosity and solidarity. >> france is providing technical expertise to help japan deal with the nuclear crisis. french nuclear reactor maker is advising on removing highly radioactive water from fukushima. meanwhile, radiation continues to lead from the plant. radiation levels beside the facility have risen to 4000 times ththlegal limit. they have now been detected radiation in the ground water in the area. at 5

tsunami which damaged fukushima power plant causing radiation leaks. from the all sides of the japanese nuclear crisis the most famous scenario was that fukushima could become the next chernobyl the twenty fifth anniversary which is on tuesday but as alexia's just your reports the passing hears have not made the world's most notorious exclusion zone much safer. this still remains the world's biggest manmade nuclear disaster and it happened because of a failed experiment when the employees that they did your local nuclear power station tried to bring the reactor to a temporary stall and the experiment failed and resulted in an explosion the whole area around the plans of thirty kilometer radius was contaminated some parts of belarus and everywhere across the european continent traces of radiation were felt even rechy the east because the united states now indeed this is still remains historical landmarks still some people trying to draw parallels with fukushima accident nowadays but many experts agree that the accidents have been completely different go

at fukushima, everything is operating again. there are no other problems at ototr nuclear reactors either. >> on monday morning, authorities said they were recommending people in certain areas beyond the 20 kilometer exclusion zone around the complex should also leave. >> radioactivity levels in some levels beyond the 20 kilometer zone have been higher because of weather conditions and geographical circumstances. we will evacuate these regions in the course of the month. >> the aftershock hit japan one month after a magnitude 9 quake and subsequent to t make damaged much of the northeast coast. an olive silence was observed for the estimated 28,000 people lost their lives. >> or on the earthquake and the damage the economy. >> there are estimates about just how much steam international monetary fund and lowered its 2011 growth forecast for japan, highlighting what it termed her large uncertainties hanging over the world's third biggest economy one month after it was hit by the massive earthquake and tsunami and a series of power

ok william trigger new york if i go to you first is fukushima a black eye for the industry or is it a knockout and because of the severity of the of the accident it's going to be with us for quite a while still yeah i think it's a black eye it's definitely not a knockout we're not most countries are not going to abandon nuclear those that do are putting themselves in a real bind i mean you already see germany is floundering around what are we going to do next if we ban a nuclear italy has the highest electrical costs in europe and they think they're going to abandon that i think i think it'll it'll countries will react to different degrees some may quit altogether but those that move ahead i think are going to reap the advantages for benjamin what do you think about that in paris i mean this is that this is a second really serious accident here and is as much as people talk about new technologies we still have the same kind of critical. level of danger seven ok we had twenty five years ago we have it now ok and that's all with the nuclear technology that has been improved others will

i agree more with with bill i think with benjamin the fact is for the for the near term fukushima is going to hinder nuclear development globally but look at what's happening in china a country that is heavily reliant on coal for what about seven hundred seventy five percent of its electricity they're planning to build sixty new nuclear reactors over the next decade it's clear that in the near term this action at fukushima is going to drive the world more toward natural gas because that's the only other source that is scalable and as relatively low carbon but over the long term i think nuclear is going to have to be and will be part of the answer because the demand for electricity globally is so great well you know if i go back to new york william what about the cost of it i mean that when when i was preparing for this program it's such a politicized issue a come across articles you say everything's just fine this is just a black eye of the future is writing for a radio and then other stuff saying these plants or they're all getting older is not enough new ones being built are extrem

safety of a nuclear energy sponsored concern over once again after the recent crisis of japan's fukushima power plant. italy is the latest to join nato bombardment of colonel gadhafi forces in libya and a month into the operation experts speculate it was planned a long time ago including the action of arming the rebels before any under-estimate the. pressure on wiki leaks revelations the picture of britain as a terrorism a breeding ground for commerce are trained in london mosques and the masterminds of finding safe haven in the country. and the russian ruble one of the strongest currencies globally so far this year may continue strengthening to reach pre-crisis levels versus the dollar probably the end all be more than our business bullets have been around twenty minutes. this is live from moscow now it is exactly twenty five years since the world was shocked and shaken by the worst civil nuclear catastrophe in history the deadly explosion at china mobile power plant spewed a radioactive cloud across several continents prompting long lasting human and environmental consequences. who's in

. >>> investigators say the radiation leaking from the fukushima plant is on the decline produces just one day after they increased the severity rating 27. in a televised speech today japan's prime minister says that radiation is decreasing. scientists criticize the rating as unwarranted. john fowler explains. >> reporter: this is about how much nuclear material the chernobyl accident released and this is how much the fukushima plant released in its worst hour. experts say in a close comparison of the two is greatly exaggerated the. >> fukushima is not a chernobyl in a chernobyl in terms of the effect on people and the environment. >> reporter: this nuclear engineer says unlike chernobyl the area near the japanese plant was immediately evacuated and radiation levels never were hazardous pay she is consulting with international officials to try to lower the rating. >> i think they are giving wrong message. >> reporter: in this engineering laboratory, new bay area radiation results. this man checks for rent spikes of japan's radioactive iodine. just barely detectable. he says continuing

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with fukushima, it always seems like they're going to stabilize, and then it gets worse. >> reporter: more than a month after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, experts believe the only way to solve a crisis as bad as chernobyl is with the same solution -- burying it in sand and boric acid and entombing it in concrete. up till now, the officials have played down the risks of the risk to the environment, but the damage will likely be substantial and last for decades. betty? >>> all right, joel brown joining us live in washington. thank you, joel. >>> federal inspectors are trying to find out why three workers in nebraska were exposed to excess radiation. it happened april 3 at the cooper nuclear station southeast of lincoln. the officials say the amount of radiation workers received was higher than expected but did not exceed safety limits. >>> here in new york, aviation officials are investigating a ruppway collision between a jumbo jet and a smaller commuter aircraft. it happened last night on a taxi way at kennedy airport. the wing tip of an airbus a-380 the largest plane, clip

in the wake of the fukushima disaster the word chernobyl echoed again worldwide just about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned another crisis put the nuclear energy issue through a serious debate with the former chernobyl liquidators say they are ready to fly halfway across the planet. just like they did in their own backyard twenty five years ago all they want is to make sure nightmares like chernobyl and fukushima never happen again and let's see russian ski reporting from chernobyl and key here in ukraine. commemorations for those who were affected and lost their lives during the tragedy began early this morning in fact in the middle of the night at the exact time of the accident a rock group was led by russians russia's patriarchy real here in kiev and so commemorations and ceremonies will be held throughout the day both in the ukrainian capital and internode where we will be crossing live for you throughout the day now of course this anniversary once again highlights the parallels with what happened in japan just over a month ago i and it's raising questions over wh

little here but you don't find the place without it anywhere we're not scared in the wake of the fukushima disaster the words your noble echoed again world wide just about what everyone thought all mistakes have been learned and now the crisis with the nuclear energy issue through serious debate with the former chair mobile liquidators say they are ready to fly halfway across the planet to japan just like they did in their own backyard twenty five years ago all the want is to make sure nightmares like should normal and fukushima never happen again let's see reporting from chernobyl and kia in ukraine. the next day will be international force throughout the day and will be bringing us the latest on what's happening there to mark this twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster now commemorations really just began began early this morning at the exact time of the accident one twenty three am a rapper was held by russia's patriarch real to mark those lives lost and of fact by the catastrophe of course commemoration ceremonies will be held throughout the day here in ukraine you know as alexei poi

a little here but you can find a place without it anywhere we are not scared in the wake of the fukushima disaster the words are noble echoed again world wide just about when everyone thought all mistakes have been learned another crisis with the nuclear energy issue through serious debate but the former chair noble liquidator say they are ready to fly halfway across the planet to help japan just like they did and their own backyard twenty five years ago all they want is to make sure nightmares like chernobyl and fukushima never happen again let's see russia ascii art scene reporting from chernobyl and here in ukraine. but focused more on the current situation interim noble today joining me to speak about that as i'm told so he's the principal advisor for the european bank on reconstruction and development at tell us first of all of all about the current star complicates how much is it containing the problem and what would happen if there was some kind of fault in that it was essentially bought as i understand it eighty six and then refurbished into house and six what's the situation now

about the suppression of information you talk about this so-called inconvenient information the fukushima power plant that's been releasing what is sensibly thousands tens of thousands of tons of a radioactive water into the ocean japanese officials are saying it's not dangerous it's not a risk to be environment or to people it's not accurate it's hard to believe. i think the notion that you could just release radioactive material or any pollutant into the sea was rejected needed a few decades ago. and now as a sort of an unavoidable situation at least they say it's unavoidable being forced to release. radioactive material to sea and so they're now trying to. tell people that it's not going to be a big problem but i mean it goes against the fundamental principles of environmental. conservation so i think you have to reject it but do they have any choices we recommend it for example. changes in the market feel goes up for the time being in the long term this water is just pouring through the reactors they have to pour water into reactors to cool them but then that just flows out and it's a