japan has also signaled a shift back to nuclear energy, 11 years after the fukushima disaster. plans to extend the lifespans of aging reactors and develop new ones. china is planning to build at least 150 new reactors in the next 15 years. that is more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35 years. ♪ let's bring in our guests. from lengthen, jonathan cobb, senior analyst at the world nuclear association. from scotland, a senior specialist in greenpeace east stacia and filled chaplain is deputy editor of nuclear intelligence weekly and bureau chief for energy intelligence. welcome. jonathan, is it safe to say that it is because of soaring energy prices that many countries are rethinking their policies, opting to move towards nuclear energy, which was abandoned a few years ago? >> i think what has happened with the energy crisis that is affecting some parts of the world has added to the impetus to move forward building new nuclear capacity. before that, climate change had been something that had already started to reignite tension on nuclear energy for countries who h

the results of, of human error then in fukushima, what we saw was an earthquake, a bit of su nami, a natural disaster causing than a nuclear disaster, with the ukraine situations apparatus. yet, we could have a situation where the workers make a mistake, but for the 1st time in history we all have also have the situation vet missiles or shelling outside could penetrate the, the walls of a reactive for example, in cause a meltdown. this is a 1st, isn't it? there's not a guidebook for what inspectors are supposed to do with their absolutely not. absolutely. this is the i that value the have this excess not risk because effect shelling there shelling they did contain them. dawn loftus 6 reactors may protect them against the internal react are sitting in the containment of they may be protected by the containment of, but the huff huge 6 is fen fuel. to that they require constancy correlation, and they are not protected by contain mental. and then on the other side, the people i always considered was not human monopoly in terms of nuclear plant as the 1st and last year of the last layer o

co-author of "fukushima, the story of a nuclear disaster."we will into your piece "can the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant avoid a major disaster?" and we want to thank olexi pasyuk with the ukrainian ngo eco-action. next up, somalia is facing a looming famine. we will go to a good issue to speak with a u.n. mediterranean coordinator and we will go to ethiopia where drought is devastating east africa. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. the united nations is warning of a looming famine in somalia, where a searing drought fueled by the climate crisis has withered crops, killed livestock, and left nearly 8 million people, half of somalia's population. in need of humanitarian assistance. the u.n.'s humatarian chi martin griffiths spoken the capil mogadishafter tourg camps fointernallyisplaced people and visiting hospitals treating malnourished children. griffiths said afterwards hundreds of thousands of people are at imminent risk of death. >> sho

, in germany, the decision to suspend nuclear activity because of the fears associated with fukushima. so why are the european so laid back about that? even if they fully agree with the ukrainian intention to kind of cancel out the rush altogether. well, i think the reason is of course, the conflict. i just created such a political atmosphere in the west, in general and in europe in particular. which perhaps, that i'm from saying the truth, which prevents them from any ward which criticizes ukraine or even is different than do you agree, ma'am? their weakness, the scale of condemnation soften by henry kissinger, by amnesty international, by the pool room francis, when they are a thing which slight blue differs the ukrainian narrative, again, a molded by the united states and the united kingdom, the level of the in the scale of condemnation was out. this is why even extreme danger this current political atmosphere in the west, unfortunately does not allow independent voices and you know, too full of voices in the continental europe. to say something that would contradicts the political

he's credited by many people in helping japan recover after the devastating fukushima earthquake and synonymy of 2011 by introducing economic policies by bringing the fated olympics to japan, japan to try to stimulate the economy. and also by making japan more assertive on the world stage, improving relations with the united states that is recognized by the fact that the vice president commer harris is in attendance. she is the most important of the g 7 leaders to, to come here to japan. and so he is credited with allowing japan to become for certain, for the, on the other side of that he is the suspected of trying to change the constitution of wanting to change the constitution away from the traditional path of pacifism that japan has followed. since the end of world war 2. so he is linked with being something of a militarist of trying to return to some of the old days of japan's militarism of the last century robin. they were playing the national anthem a moment ago as you were talking there. clearly, this and i was got a speech about to begin with. i believe it'll be for me becaus

he's a nuclear safety expert and worked in japan for a year following the fukushima nuclear accident and 2011. dr. casso then served as the american government's lead nuclear representative. mr. casto, welcome to the day. first up, how big do you think the danger of a nuclear disaster is right now at this upper regia power plant? oh, thanks. remo, nicole. well the, the dangers, it's unprecedented to have this situation. nuclear power plants are not designed to be operated in a war zone. so it's definitely a dangerous situation. it must be monitored in prepare, we must prepare for any eventuality that could happen at that station. there has been a lot of talk though about the plan being quite robust, that a plane could potentially crash on to wait. and the structure court with sandy impact. whatever missile actually did strike a reactor. well the, as you said to call, they have been tested for that and it would take quite an impact for anything to hurt the reactor itself. what i worry more about is the dry fuel storage that's nearby in canister is concrete canisters at the facilities.

he's worked at a safety as a safety inspector at nuclear power plants including to noble and fukushima. and i began by asking him what could happen if the power plants reserve power line fails as well? situation, as you said, is a plan. if this last straw basically goes down this, as you mentioned, is the power line that brings electricity can, could take electricity from the plant. but this is a little bit lower voltage line that the other offset power is that we have that's what, because it doesn't have enough capacity. they have to shut down to one of the 2 remaining operational reactors. if this power goes down, then the mercy of emergency diesel generators, which are very cranky and finicky equipment. and of course the, as the name colors, emergency it are only used for emergency are polar comes back. and if that emergency generators cannot supply enough power to the plant done, unfortunately, we're going to have a situation called total the station blackout. as the director general go see a fire. yeah. which, why did they move on? i think that he and his agency, he's ever nobel p

worked as a safety inspector of nuclear power plants around the world, including tra, lobel and fukushima. he told us more on the proposed security zone, the ideal se demilitarization of separate lucia was originated by secretary jobs on shore, new york, which is almost a month ago. and you beat you actually russia for says, a russian ambassador rejected. the idea came up in the 1st security council meeting, 2nd, security johnson. and again, right now there is a euphemism. now there are being using, it's got a protection. so i'm being honest with you. i don't think that the russian federation will accept that protection zone is ation as being proposed by a year, which is a very noble, i'm very logical demand. my humble assessment is we need to really to elevate this, trying to escalate that to the level of the political negotiation. and security concept needs to be more proactive rather than sitting down and listening to their pontification and this fiery passion to speech us you cranes has 3 civilians have been killed by russian missile attacks near the eastern city of hot q. ukraine. se

after fukushima, we need to reduce older men because what i'm afraid about is that the situation is going to go on for 3 years, right. can you imagine how our industry sector in europe is going to survive for 3 years, even if they are either shortage of energy because they're going to be the 1st good of the asked to leave. we pretty crazy prices compared to anybody, s into what our industry just going to be on competitive we are at war. we are at economic war. we've russia, i mean people need to realize that and we need to think as we should be thinking in terms of an economic war, not try to seemingly fiscal year. maybe we can renew so we can be know. i mean, this is extremely serious situation that we are in you are from anatomical boy, from the center on global energy policy at columbia university. thank you very much for being on the show today. thank you for to the dish. this is the w news life from berlin up next hour documentary looks at what came off the gulf, which off with the rise of his excess of ours elton said june for that i've been fooling cnx down with the landscape a ref

to reduce our demand and said collective effort that either because what the japanese did, after fukushima, we need to reduce older men. because what i'm afraid about is that the situation is going to go on for 3 years, right? kendrick machine, how our industry sector in europe is going to survive for 3 years, even if they are either shortage of energy because they're going to be the 1st good of the asked to leave. we pretty crazy prices compared to anybody. s, into what our industry just going to be on competitive we are at war. we are an economic war with russia. i mean, people need to realize that, and we need to think, i said we should be thinking in terms of an economic war, not try to see me. but if you go, you may be, when can, when you so you can be know, i mean, this is extremely serious situation that we are in your home from anatomical boy, from the center on global energy policy at columbia university. thank you very much for being on the show today. thank you for says the dish. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines. in pakistan, the humanitarian crisis cause

the worst case scenario is that you end up with a nuclear meltdown similar to what you had in fukushima. there are 6 reactors on the separation site. only one is currently operating at low power, but that in itself is hazardous because it's not stable, that reactors is operating to power the turbines and supply up just to the plant. because the, the site is cut off from the ukraine grid at the moment. so it's a inc. streamline dangerous situation. the consequences would be potentially very large contamination of southern ukraine, but also beyond ukraine into europe. sean burney, nuclear specialist with green pace, thank you very much. for talking with us. thank you. let's catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. germany paid tribute today to the last leader of the soviet union. mikhail gorbachev minutes silence was observed in the parliament and the bonus talks, present babble boss spoke of his policy decisions that led to the end of the cold war. gorbachev died last week at the age of 91. he was buried over the weekend in moscow next to his wife. r

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but that's why i make the fukushima comparison. that's what most experts are looking at.o, still, a major nuclear catastrophe, just not quite on the scale of chernobyl. i have to say i agree with bob. i think this is a form of nuclear terrorism. putin is using this to try to get ukraine to surrender and to try to get the west to back off. so far, both are holding firm. i'd look for one more move. i suspect that in the back of putin's mind is also a plan to steal this plant. it's connected to the ukrainian power grid. putin might say that for safety reasons we now have to connect it to the russian power grid in effect stealing ukrainian energy and shipping it over to russia. >> wow. and, bob, the last leader of the soviet union mikhail gorbachev was buried in moscow. many of the more thanners used his funeral as a silent protest against vladimir putin's war in ukraine. as the war drags on do you think putin faces any real threat of domestic uprising? i guess your thoughts on the passing of mikhail gorbachev and what this means. i remember at the time when the berlin wall c

also worked as a safety inspector at nuclear power plant around the world including chernobyl and fukushima. this report paints a troubling picture of the situation on the ground. what do you make of it? >> thank youor having me. it is a very sober report. i think they deserve a nobel peace prize. >> what is written between the lines? >> i think the area i am mostly concerned about is the pillar three about the staff condition, operating staff and the potential for human error due to fatigue and stress. th constant distress and potential for human ever under extremely stressful conditions, all of thesere unfortunately a recipe for disaster. >> a big concern for the workers at the plant is the fact that the occupiers seem to not know what they are dealing with. how big of a risk factor is that? >> thais aery important issue. the u.k. ambassador says these are not workers and were, they are hostages working at gunpoint. i cannot agree more with that characterization. >> we do know that the building is housing first nuclear field as well as damage. how worrisome is some of that? >> i did not e

. >> the former defense member said she was sexually saulted at a unit in fukushima prefecture. last month she called on the defense ministry to investigate the incidents and punish those involved. the muinistry said they confirmd multiple sexual harassment cases at her interviewing about 100 members. it says that in the unit sexual remarks and unwanted physical contact occurred in public on a dailybasis. it says multiple female members were sexually harassed. the report says members touched and pushed her down during training and other activities from autumn in 2020 to august last year. it says the units company commander did not report the incidents to his boss after hearing the cplaint. >> translator: i think it's really late to be recognized like this. i want the people who have sexually harassed me to apologize directly >> the muinistry will further investigate the matter and punish those involved. the defense ministry is conducting a insction o all organizations to investigate the actual situation of harassment and plans to take >>> turning to ukraine where russia is expec

the system could move over the fukushima islands over the weekend.d gusts could be 250 kilometers per hour. some houses could be destroyed. the center could touch south korea or western japan. we will keep you posted on the meanwhile, a water spout was spotted in canada. look at this video. >> water spout was seen forming on lake huron in ontario, canada on wednesday. there were no warnings issued, at least one street was closed due to weather related damage. we watch as the funnel shape cloud swirled and went across the water. >>> the northern hemisphere entered meteorological fall. it does not look like fall at all. the valley experienced 51.1 degrees on thursday. temperatures will stay that way into next week. death valley could see a high of 52 degrees on labor day. portland could see a high of 32 on friday. that is it for me. stay cool. >>> that is all for this edition of "nhk newsline" in tokyo. thank you for watching. please stay with us for more. >>> this is "newsline biz". the japanese currency dropped below 140 yen against the dollar in tra

germany had originally wanted to phase out nuclear power in the aftermath of japan's fukushima disaster1 years ago. the energy crisis has forced the country to change its plans. berlin is adamant though that operations will not be extended beyond this winter. germany is now one of several countries turning back to nuclear power. a few months ago, emmanuel macron announced the new second-generation epr reactors will be built in france by 2050. kate: that is all for now. marc: thank you very much indeed. catalina is revved up and ready to go by the big board. this is of course are fact checking segment. catalina has a photo that shows apparently the destruction of ukrainian military building in odessa. so catalina, truth or fake. catalina: many pro-russian accounts based in west africa have been sharing this photo right here on social media. allegedly showing the destruction of the military headquarters of the ukrainian army in odessa. provided drones. these posts posted on sunday, september 25 with over 2000 likes on facebook. posted by a pro-russian account based in africa. claims and e

of cancer among their affected populations, you mentioned fukushima. and then there were a number of very important strategic decision making. for example, in germany, the decision to suspend nuclear activity because of the fears associated with shima . so why are the europeans so laid back about that, even if they fully agree with the ukrainian intention to kind of cancel out the rational together? well, i think the reason is because of course, the conflict is created side your political atmosphere in the west, in general. and in europe, in particular, which perhaps them from saying the truth, which prevents them from any ward which criticizes your grain or even is different than do you agree, ma'am? their weakness the scale of condemnation soften by henry kissinger? by amnesty international, by the pool pool room francis, when they are, i'm thing which slightly different the ukrainian narrative, again a from older by the united states and i, united kingdom. the level of the in the scale of condemnation was out. this is why even extreme danger this cu

you mentioned fukushima and there were a number of very important strategic decisions taken, for example, in germany, the decision to suspend nuclear activity because of the fears associated with shima . so why are the european so laid back about that? even if they fully agree with the ukrainian intention to kind of cancel out the rush altogether. well, i think the reason is because of course, the conflict is created side your political atmosphere in the west, in general and in europe in particular. which for them from saying the truth, which prevents them from a ward which criticizes your grain or even is different than do you agree, ma'am? their weakness the scale of condemnation? softened by henry kissinger by amnesty international, by the pool pool room francis, when they are, i'm thing which slight blue differs the ukrainian narrative, again, a from older by the united states and the united kingdom, the level of the scale of condemnation was out. this is why, even in extreme danger this current political atmosphere in the west unfortunately does not allow independent voices and you

operating for another 5 years. japan has also signaled a shift back to nuclear energy 11 years after the fukushima disaster took your plans to extend their life spans of aging reactors and develop new ones. chinese planning to build at least a 150 new reactors in the next 15 years. thus more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35 years. ah, let's bring in our guests from london. jonathan cobb is a senior analyst at world nuclear association from castle douglas, scotland. sean, bernie is a senior nuclear specialist, a greenpeace east asia and phil chaffey, his deputy editor of nuclear intelligence weekly, and the bureau chief or energy intelligence london office. welcome to the program, jonathan. is it safe to say that it is because of the soaring energy pry says that many countries are now rethinking their policies, opting to move forward to words, nuclear energy which this abandoned about for years ago. think what has happened with the energy crisis that's affecting some parts of the world has added to the impetus to move forward with building new new capacity. before that, the issue

switzerland decided 5 years ago to shut down all of us nuclear reactors following the meltdown at japan's fukushima. however, thus far, it succeeded in only closing one of the full power stations. so i now, some are politicians have formed a group called stop blackouts and are looking to gather a $100000.00 plus signatures to ensure the remaining nuclear ponds funds continued to operate. this comes off of the swiss government last month, told it citizens to stock pile firewood candles and food me. while in france, the country's media announced the notion of carbon cod, their way to control energy consumption. that's in the context of the controversial carbon neutrality push. the cards would work as a system of quotas. aims to limit c, o 2 emissions for those whose consumption exceeds the allocated limits that a prospect of buying energy credits from people who have unused quotas. providing in theory and escape from strict limitations. now as europe tried to store up energy reserves ahead of the wind, so while refusing and sanctioning russian energy all at the same time, my colleague, you know, neil

we learned that it fukushima, that a staging area called j village, away from the station about 10 miles away from the station, or 18, somewhere around 810 to 18 miles away from the station. and i would do something similar here where you could store the diesel diesel fuel that they were talking about. we need the more diesel fuel for emergency diesel generate where you could store other sand, other equipment that you would use to rescue the reactor in the event of an accident. now your grain says it might have to shut down the plant altogether with that lower any of those risks that you just named it would go plants operate it full power normally. and when they shut down, they still generate electricity. heat, much as a pot on your stove, when you shut off the stove, the pot still was hot and you have to remove that heat. but the longer you go, the more heat that dissipate in a less hazard. there is so shutting down reactors when the saying always is, the safest reactors are shut down, reactor switching off europe's biggest nuclear power plant. i'd imagine that's not as easy as it sound

nuclear power plant, and we know this tragedy in 1986, and also and the events of 2011 at the japanese fukushimatation, but there were still such natural disasters, well, in our country, a row of new stations remains occupied by the military with heavy equipment and ammunition, so the scenario can unfold in a very, very difficult way, and in very difficult directions, and the workers are in a mess. they somehow report to the leadership of a country called russia , somehow they warn them. well, these are still people who understand what a nuclear power plant is, after all, we all know that the russians have no sense, yes, but i still, uh, i have such a hope somewhere deep down that the russians will have some instinct of self-preservation, because well, then guess at the corner of the wind where the radioactive clouds will drift, it will be the russian federation or the water area of ​​the black sea or other countries there, for example, as it was during the chernobyl accident, this is belarus, so in my opinion , the instinct of preservation itself should work in these people, because exposing th

similar to, than the nuclear disaster that happened at a novel i don't think that that noble of fukushima, nuclear accidents are a model or what might happen as a ratio. but nonetheless, we, it's difficult to speculate exactly. right, and you can security expectations. rafa speaking to us from vienna, thanks very much for your time. thank you. you are paying commission president of the lion has proposed a price cap on russian gas as part of federal measures to tackle the energy crisis minister. the do to hold an emergency meeting on friday, i made charges that russia weaponized energy supplies in response to western sanctions. we aim at lowering the costs of gas and therefore we will propose a price cup on rush and gas. of course, the objective is very clear. we all know that our sanctions, deeply grinding into the russian economy with heavy negative impact. but booting is partially buffering through fossil fuel revenues. so here the objective is we must cut rushes revenues, which put in uses to finance his atrocious war and ukraine database correspond. marina strauser following this stor

and the facts of de fukushima nuclear accident have not a dissipated date. the world just cannot afford yet another nuclear disaster was again called on the parties concerned to remain where did to humanity, scientific rationality, communication and cooperation strictly abide by the convention on nuclear safety. another rather than international laws strictly implement the 7 killer principles proposed by directed to an or grossi about actions that endanger the safety and security of nuclear facilities and refrain from repeated tass under cause of denture. we support the long term presence of the agency, experts at the z and p, p, and hope that the resident expert can provide continuous study and professional technical support to guarantee the safety and security of the nuclear facilities. we also encourage the agency to maintain its communication with development parties. mister president. since the outbreak of the crisis ukraine, the threat to the safety and security of nuclear power plants posted by armed conflicts has kept a world under the lumen, specter

a, w, i n a r, a good for extreme scenario. vicious who could be my shalaka fukushima scenario event to apply for the pumps to share cooling, their acres stops, the core starts to them to meltdown and some hydrogen or own chemical explosion. and then the release to the sphere and to see that these 2 reactors are phillip waiting. they contain a lot of for various or i didn't look like a good idea at iodine, here's a big letter to that. it is very biologically accessible and very mobile. so what's that is released 8 can very easily get through the organism of people. and then there it is. a property of accumulation in a certain gland issue. grayson might create hydro, this answer this, the iodine pills they block or didn't prevent from this intake and accumulation mr to what it is, there is a scenario. let's leave it's very light. we certainly hope that the worst case scenario would not become true. but in the event of a radiation, leach, even if we were to have a meltdown in your opinion, is the medical infrastructure already in place around separate around that entire part of ukraine

i love the united states, $79.00 church, nobody. former soviet union ukraine in 86 fukushima japan, 2011 to out of these 3 accident treatment i learned, unsure about caused by internal factors. human factors, safety, culture related issues. and this condition that this operators are subject to, they are basically very conducive to increasing the human error probability. but in many false fatigue, a stress. and this pressure could increase the human error probability. we know that the plant is already relying on our reserve line for power and a number of its react as of already closed down. give us an idea of the stability of the plants as it stands at the moment. nuclear power plants, the electricity, but for cooling to react, or some cooling, this for you that needs constant of circulation don't rely on to a constant which is called offsite bother. if we lose the offsite power, which is called the loss of offsite power, that's a very dreadful situation for nuclear plants. if we lose the offset or at the mercy of time or not very reliable, emergency diesel generators and their fuel suppl

lens decided to shut down its nuclear reactors 5 years ago following the nuclear accident in japan fukushima plant wherever thus far it's succeeded. in closing, only one know a political group by the name stump. black coats is fighting together 100000 signatures to ensure the remaining nuclear plants stay in operation. it's seeking to amend the country's constitution making. bern, officially responsible for guaranteeing the energy supply. meanwhile, in france, the media is announced the notion of carbon car. it says a way to control energy consumption. that's in the context of the much vaunted carbon neutrality issue. the card is a system of ratio quotas, names to limit c, o 2 consuming actions of individuals just going through that for those whose at consumption exceeds the allocated limits. there is a prospect of buying energy from people who have unused quarter credits, thus providing in theory, an escape from strict limitations. while europe is trying to store energy ahead of winter and refuse russian fuel, at the same time we discussed with our public guess high things got to that stage

switzerland decided to shut down its nuclear reactors 5 years ago following the nuclear accident in japan fukushima plant wherever. thus far, it's succeeded in closing, only one. now, a political group by the name stop blackouts is fighting together 100000 signatures to ensure the remaining nuclear plants remain in operation. it's seeking to amend the country's constitution making. bern officially responsible for guaranteeing the energy supply. the law in france, the media is a nice the notion of carbon cards as a way to control energy consumption. that's in the context of the much vaunted and highly controversial carbon neutrality push were seen. the card is a system of ratio quotas, names to limit c o 2 consuming actions of individuals for those whose consumption exceeds the allocated limits. there is a prospect of buying energy from people who unused quarter credits, thus providing in theory, escaped from strict limitations. yeah, so europe is trying to store energy ahead of winter and refused russian fuel. at the same time, i asked her guests how that's going to work. you see, it seems to me th

all, the head of the mission, it is not important er, which is this in ukraine or do we have this fukushimapean station, it is his, not his i don't know who he is. by education , he is a diplomat. he entered the diplomatic academy and studied political science at the argentine catholic university. all of this is his education . they tell me to get busy. i didn't know the secret. maybe he is a diplomat or a lawyer. it's because he is an official who manages an institution and prices. it is his duty to give us technical experience, he has no right to do this he brought experts with him and this is the task of experts and today i am in the frame, i also listened to mr. petro kotyna, the head of our er-e nek energy atom. i recommend everyone who is interested to watch the video. i am freer as an independent expert. i can only comment. i am in a very positive mood, because what happened and everyone works within their powers, also mr. for the task and money, there was only one thing to demonstrate that the rich pays the highest level of attention to this object and that's why the head of the mis