up tonight on the big picture as part of its cleanup efforts the company that runs the crippled fukushima power plant wants to dump almost eight hundred thousand tons of radioactive material into the ocean how could that possibly be seen as paul gunter just a moment and exxon mobil lied to the public for decades about the threat of climate change should we give it the corporate death penalty state mccall and allen are goldfield into nice big picture. is the american nuclear industry on its last legs all across the country right now reactor projects are failing and existing power plants are sinking deeper and deeper into the red all of a sudden the so-called energy of the future is starting to look at awful lot like a relic what's going on with us joining me now is paul gunter director of the reactor oversight project of nuclear paul welcome back and thank you tom it's great having you with us so the big news in the nuclear world right now to utility companies out of south carolina south carolina electric and gas and santee cooper recently stopped construction on a couple of advanced react

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if we have longer in fukushima have. been attending this school. yes i do feel responsible for it. because it's. a nuclear accident. or a nuclear power station. but to this consequence. i was a member of the nuclear division. i was the safety engineer. and gone through a lot of soul searching still. still do go through soul searching. when i could have your. so now after the radiation level in the main control room started to increase. the operator at the put on. will face respirator. continue to. work in the main control room. without relief for the us. with a lack of instrumentation communication means lighting. food water . sleep. and on top of that the increase in radiation level. fear. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but new forced signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people seeing stuff that was leaked or biological or chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene these batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between brom pit

if we have longer in fukushima have. been attending this school. yes i do feel responsible for it. because it's. a nuclear accident. or a nuclear power station. but. it was a member of the nuclear division of i was nuclear safety engineer. and gone through a lot of soul searching still. to do go through soul searching. what i could have prior to the earthquake. so now after the radiation level in the main control room started to increase. the operator at the put on. will face respirator. continue to. work in the main control room. without relief for the. with the lack of instrumentation communication means lighting. food water. sleep. and on top of that the increase in radiation level. fear. lysis militants have just shown to patrol base on the left and right the ministers come out and. enemy troop movements have been spotted on the other side of the river. here in the only two groups of militants have joined forces. both groups leaders have declared their determination to fight for an independent islamic state in the philippines. even after two months of fighting the army keeps fi

if we have longer in fukushima have. been attending this school. yes i do feel responsible for it. because it's. a nuclear accident. or a nuclear power station. but to this. i was a member of the nuclear division. i was the safety engineer. and gone through a lot of soul searching still. to do go through soul searching. what i could have prior to the earthquake. so now after the radiation level in the main control room started to increase. the operators at the put on. full face respirator. continued to. work in the main control room. without relief for the. with the lack of instrumentation communication means lighting food water. sleep. and on top of that the increase in radiation level a team. fear. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down lose business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. but also did to the ship between kids it was proved suggested no proof and a fairly strong one there were two thousand

if we have longer in fukushima have. been attending this school. yes i do feel responsible for it. because it's. a nuclear accident. or a nuclear power station. but to this. i was a member of the nuclear division. i was the nuclear safety engineer. and gone through a lot of soul searching still. still do go through soul searching. what i could have prior to the earthquake. so now after the radiation level in the main control room started to increase. the operator at the put on. will face respirator. continue to. work in the main control room. without relief for days. with a lack of instrumentation communication means lighting. food water . sleep. and on top of that the increase in radiation level. the fear be . be. valid if over a tank that's a seventy billion dollars potential loss and you point out it's mostly private investors which would include let's say goldman sachs and others but if these folks like the goldman sachs suffer any losses at all remember they've taken over the government for a bailout so they could go to the government and say hoover blew up we need to bail out

much about it until of course in march 2011 the massive tsunami struck a nuclear power plant in fukushimaausing a huge disaster and that made it obviously a lot harderfor companies and that made it obviously a lot harder for companies to sell nuclear energy. then again we didn't really hear from them until two years ago when we found out toshiba has been inflating profits over the last seven years. just as the company was starting to recover from that accounting scandal in december last year, we heard westinghouse, the us nuclear company, has been losing quite a lot of money. we didn't know how much but the number kept ballooning and that's basically why the company hasn't been able to report its results. it started trying to sell the chips business, which is the only profitable unit, but it's facing legal challenges from its us partner. because of that we saw the company's chairman resign and then westinghouse filing for ba n kru ptcy and then westinghouse filing for bankruptcy as well. earlier this month we saw shares in toshiba being demoted to the second section of the tokyo stock exc

this role that toshiba has in fukushima will extend for decades.nding anytime soon. doesn'tit certainly seem that way at all. what you expect in the coming quarter for toshiba? now that they have this endorsement, what is your short-term outlook from what you want to see coming out from the company? the new term results for the second quarter after the third quarter, they have continuing strength in the memory business. if you look at the first quarter thelts, and if you look at whole year, it shows all the strength was in flash memory. this will continue to be a theme. a shame that toshiba can't benefit from the upside because the sale values have already been determined. >> thank you so much. thong, senior analyst. is ourng on bloomberg interactive tv function. you can find it at tv . you can watch us live and see previous interviews and dive into the securities of the bloomberg function we talk about. you can be part of the conversation by sending us instant messages during our shows. check it out at tv . this is bloomberg. ♪ "daybreak:

the fukushima disaster that occurred in march 2011 was a terrifying reminder of the risks associated with nuclear power. but around the world many nations remain convinced that it's necessary. in 2016, 447 nuclear reactors in 31 countries were in operation. a further 60 are currently in construction. there is still no solution to the question of what to do with the hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive nuclear waste generated over the last few decades. 50 yet ghana in west africa a country where electricity outages are commonplace sees nuclear power as the answer to its energy problems. >> even in remote rural districts, it is becoming easy for farmers and herders to charge their mobile phone. mobile solar panels are becoming a common sight in many parts of africa for smallscale, individual or home use. but comprehensive electrification remains a distant dream in most countries on the continent. unstable, aging grids and problems with power plants mean frequent power outages. ghana is no exception. last year even saw public demonstrations because of the poor power provision. t

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up tonight on the big picture as part of its cleanup efforts the company that runs the crippled fukushima power plant wants to.

think of fukushima. we areitary is a risk. comparing the risks.l more people with a violator -- biological agent then you would with a dirty bomb. it would kill a lot of people of course and a horrible thing, it would definitely, want to make sure it doesn't happen, but the biggest risk is not the new clear. of a screen.o much the things that are going to harm you are the things not on screen. >> how should people be thinking un and northng korea? there: i don't see what is to think about something. i don't spend time on this, it makes my life easy, ok? of course, you will have saber .attling i just am think, i don't know the details. erik: you don't think we are going to have nuclear war with north korea? nassim: how could you call that a war? let's see that say that we have a thousand attacking -- a thousand wolves attacking one wolf. is it war or is there another erik: name? erik:because the outside for one side is so catastrophic? nassim: exactly. one thing i will say, we are very good that kind of stuff, nuclear war. we know the risks. there

nuclear in an area like lucas shema is bad, the worst you can think of is fukushima.sks, you would kill vastly more people with a biological agent or by poisoning the water supply than you would with a dirty bomb in new york. the dirty bomb will kill a lot of people of course, and it is a horrible thing, and would definitely -- they would make sure it does not happen, but the biggest risk is not the nuclear it is too much on the radar screen. the thing that is going to harm you is something that is not on the radar screen. >> so how should people be thinking of kim jong-un and north korea? >> this, i don't know. i am not following. i don't know if he wants to commit suicide or something, i cannot spend time on this, so it makes my life easy. i mean, of course you will have saber-rattling with them but -- i just don't think -- i don't know the details. >> so you do not think we will have nuclear war? >> with china? >> no, with north korea. >> how can you call it war? think about it. let's say you have 1000 wolves attacking one wolf? is it war, or would you give it anot

there's a mass extinction level -- we have dead zones, we have fukushima, we have chemtrail poisoningwhat are we really doing to improve those situations? they are the ones hitting us square in the face. robots are coming. these people touting what trump is talking about and all this, it's a short-term situation. it is not a long-term situation to help all people. look at china's pollution. host: marcus is calling in from texas. you say you're not sure about the economic numbers. what questions do you have about it? caller: i'm not sure about the i'm not sure which way the economy is going at all. right now, we have a president in office who is not doing anything. whilel miss four years he's in office right now. i think our focus is on the wrong thing as far as health care. i don't think health care is the main reason we are in the situation we are in. , theybama was in office said we were lending money to people we knew could not make their home loans. and forced foreclosures. that brought the economy down with everything else. guys that were talking about bringing jobs to north caro

bad, thethe shema was worst you can think of is fukushima. -- you comparing risks would kill vastly moregical agent or by poisoning the water supply than you would with a dirty bomb in new york. the dirty bomb will kill a lot of people of course, and it would be horrible but it would definitely, it would make sure it does not happen but the biggest risk is not the nuclear it is too much on the radar screen. to think that it will harm you, is something that is not on the radar screen. >> so how should people be thinking of kim jong-un and north korea? me, i don't know if he wants to commit suicide or something, i do not spend time on it, it makes life easy for me. [laughter] haven, of course you will but rattling with them desperate work so you do not think we will have nuclear war? >> with china? >> know, with north korea. >> how can you call it war? let's say you have 1000 woves attacking onewolf, is it war, or would you give it another name? >> because the outcome on one side is very catastrophic? >> exactly, they are very small. one thing, we are very good at that kind of stuff. nucle

of the rest outhe world, we always help every other country that has a tsunami, like remember the fukushima reactor, and ebola virus sunami, in africa, the united states helps. help us. here are all our friends and allies when we need their help. national disaster for and we need the help from our countries other because we always help them, now we need their help. host: jason, san diego, california, good morning. yes, hi, this is jason. i was trying to make a katrina, and tween harvey. if it wasn't for the levees new orleans, you wouldn't have had anybody on he -- wouldn't have the devastation, it was the levees that gave way. harvey, i mean the rain bombs were so intense and raining and it just raining and raining, just i mean -- everything is flooding, i think this has to do with change. 140 twitters happening during the rainstorm, i don't know what is oing to happen with the rain, you know. that is all i got to say. host: you want to get to as many calls as we can today. arkadelph ia, arkansas. good morning. ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. i was wanting to speak about, i pr

nuclear in the air like fukushima was bad at the water.nd we talk about risks. we were comparing the risks. you can kill more people by a biological agents by a bo in agent than by a bomb in new york. the biggest risk is not nuclear. nuclear is too much of a reality. the thing that will harm you is the thing that is not a reality. >> how should people be thinking about kim jong-un and north korea? >> i don't know about this. i don't spend time on this. i don't know the details. >> but you don't think we will have nuclear war? >> what you mean nuclear war, with china? >> no, with north korea. >> how can you call that a war? war or do we have to give it another name? >> because the outcome for one-sided so catastrophic. >> exactly, and it is very small. it is so far away. we are very good at the kind of stuff, nuclear war. we know the risk and we are very good with nuclear. it is something the military is good at. at fightingble militants, terrorists. that we are not good at. fighting isis. skilled.highly so we can't fight them. the problem

very specifically that he and i were in the same job at the same time and in particular during the fukushima tamagotchi disaster and it was validation, i think, of the alliance, the way that we were able to support instantly support, not just the self-defense forces but the people of japan. by virtue of that experience, the friendship and respect that we develop for each other this forum came along a couple years later. it was very easy to commit to it. admiral blair talked about the issues we have discussed in broad detail and i'm sure will come to some of those but i've also watched the discussion mature. it's very similar to the relationship. one of the individuals in the audience today is general sharp and he was the commander of the forces in south korea when i was chairman, as well. starting last year in the end of this year we've worked to try to create some version of a trilateral with rock views as well as japan and the united states and this year we had a former chief of defense there, a general, treated greatly. from my perspective when i try to understand the problem i really do

reports i had been hearing last night and this morning i was thinking it was more akin to a mini fukushimauation. >> it sounded a lot more dire than it apparently is. >> do they have any idea about how long this will continue? if you have three trucks that have lost refrigeration, does that play out over a matter of hours, over a matter of days and what about the three trucks that are still running, are those okay >> reporter: there's a total of nine trucks so six trucks are still running. they don't know how much fuel they still have in order to keep the refrigeration going. obviously the hope is that they can get power back and have some refrigeration the normal way, maybe get these containers back into the plant but barring that, there's about 36,000 pounds of these peroxide compounds that are out in these trucks and if they heat up, if they lose refrigeration, the pressure builds because that's -- you know, their chemical composition and this is the inevitable result so all they can do at this point is sit back and watch, hope they get some actual powered refrigeration back and the wat