. >>> >>> managers at the fukushima daiichi plant are stepping up efforts to improve their employees' long-term working environment but they are facing many obstacles. we went for an inside look on this edition of "nuclear watch." >> reporter: cleaning up fukushima daiichi is a big job. workers are removing radioactive contamination and decommissioning damaged reactors at the same time. the area around the crippled buildings still had high levels of radiation. people here work in shifts and take breaks every few hours. this is the resting place for workers. so whenever workers finish their works or they wait for another works, they spend the time here. relaxing, maybe have a cup of tea, water, or read a magazine. as many as 6,000 workers come to the site every day. their schedules are designed to minimize radiation exposure. tepco officials explain most of the people here are employees of subcontracting companies. it means the utility is not directly responsible for their safety. but tepco officials have started taking measures to improve conditions at the plant. >> translator: we con

fortunately it wasn't as severe as things that fukushima daiichi but i also sense that this had caught the experts offguard too. the nrc, the utility officials, state government officials and so that was the parallel track with fukushima daiichi too. we had 30 some years to learn the lessons read it didn't appear that they had quite sundem from three mile island. >> host: what was different watching the fukushima accident in a sense of a layperson as opposed to three mile island where you had a professional goal? >> guest: i was taking notes constantly and visually i mean, visually it was phenomenal. as we write in the book, people watched the reactor building explode. we saw the helicopters flying over. you saw the people being rousted from their homes, packing their belongings and fleeing compounded with this horrific natural disaster. i think we tend to lose sight of the fact that a natural disaster would have been headline making in and of itself. so i did watch it with a certa certain, with a certain arm's length objectivity but i kept taking a lot of notes because i had a lot of

hour newly released study reveals that wild monkeys living in the forests near the stricken fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant have tested positive for radioactive cesium or humans next and just how much radiation has been released during cleanup efforts of that plant and on tuesday california and acted statewide water conservation measures that state deal with one of the worst droughts in its history unfortunately it now looks like things are only going to get worse with or without those measures i'll explain why in tonight's feel we take. in the best of the rest of the news would you like antibiotics for that burger despite plenty of studies that have shown widespread misuse of antibiotics and factory farm animals and that have highlighted the dangers that that misuse can cause the government is continuing to let factory farms abuse antibiotics anyway in a two to one decision last week the u.s. second circuit court of appeals ruled that the food and drug administration the f.d.a. does not need to consider banning the routine feeding of antibiotics to healthy factory farm animals despite

particularly after the triple melt down at the fukushima daiichi melt down. the atom can face us from global catastrophe many feel. michael okwu has the story. >> three years after the fukushima daiichi disaster, the california plant is the only one left in the state. >> do you want this plant shut down and every nuclear plant shut down tomorrow? >> i want every plant in the united states shut down today. >> i traveled to fukushima last year and found out firsthand what happens when nuclear energy goes wrong. >> 3.2 microseverts per hour, that's the largest level be since we've been here in japan. >> the eary on going disaster an ocean away has level many americans skittish about nuclear power. the accident at two mile island had already eroded support for a form of energy that had been popular with americans after the 1973 oil embargo . and the film "china syndrome" in spheres. >> can you not promote a technology that produces the most toxic substance on earth and also protect the public. >> polls show that more than half of americans oppose increasing nucle

that more technological development is needed to use robotics in decommissioning the fukushi fukushima daiichi power plants. >>> a japanese theater director has crafted a play about the place he calls home. he is turning away from okinawa's wartime history. with the help of local people, he is showcasing the island's culture on stage. ♪ >> reporter: the show is filled with song and dance. it tells the story of a quiet boy who takes karate lessons and learns the meaning of true strength. the director whose work on broadway was nominated for a tony award. he says his desire to highlight the island's appeal drove him to make okinawa the focus of a new show. local performers auditioned for the cast. they include people with a background in owe i can na with a's traditional performing arts as well as other fields. >> translator: these small islands have given birth to culture, which is it a mix of several influences. so i thought a cast including basketball players, actors, singers and dancers would symbolize okinawa's mixture of people. >> reporter: during world war ii, okinawa was the battlefield

. >> reporter: uchimizu came back into fashion following the nuclear accident of fukushima daiichi in 2011. after that, all nuclear reactors in japan went offline. people became more aware of saving energy. some people doubt that such an old-fashioned practice really works. they say the effects of uchimizu are mostly psychological so the business group decided to test it. on this day, about 40 people sprinkled about 460 liters of water around the street. when they measured the ground temperature, they found it had dropped from 32.2 degrees to 30.5 degrees. behind the uchimizu campaign is some enthusiastic support from tokyo's historic imperial hotel. every year, more businesses are taking it up. there are now 15 uchimizu organizations in the district. >> translator: uchimizu is more effective when many people do it so we ask neighborhood organizations to join the event. >> reporter: the hotel staff started uchimizu together at the same time. it requires a large amount of water, but the hotel uses so-called gray water from washing. the water has been filtered to remove bacteria. it's a

." >>> japanese scientists have shared more of their findings of what happened with the fukushima daiichi plant. they said that one of the meltdown of the reactors was caused by the tsunami. they released an interim report saying reactor one lost its emergency power because of waves that hit the plant. members of a commission suggested in 2012, the cause had been the earlier earthquake. data that showed up later indicated the arrival of the tsunami coincided with the loss of power. the scientists rejected the suggestion that the earthquake caused the meltdown of the reactor's pipes. they will continue their investigation and interview former commissioners and then release their final report. >>> the u.n. security council has called on north korea to comply with its resolutions no to fire any more ballistic missiles. it has condemned the country for carrying out three rounds of missile tests between late june and early july. the council members held an informal meeting on thursday. south korean officials had requested it. in a statement the council president criticized the north. >> the me

it's used for inspecting the fukushima daiichi power plant. right now, high radiation levels only allow humans to spend a small amount of time inside the plant. it has a sensor to figure out the position and surrounding. it's designed to avoid obstacles. amazon and google are developing unmanned planes. >>> a person writing messages on cars may identify himself or herself as a parking critic. they say that person is a vandal. they found this awful message scrawled on her car earlier this week. the car's owner talked to a local tv station, but wanted her identity hidden. >> try these things. so, it's like very upsetting. >> another spray painted instructing a driver to park right in the same area. new york police detective found surveillance video outside a school. it shows akca carrying spray paint. >>> the country's consumer protection agency is suing mcdonald's saying several items have calorie items. they want items that don't meet the regulations to be declared illegal. critics say the agency is known to initiate legal action for political

. >>> engineers at fukushima daiichi are trying to stop the flow of radioactive water at the plant. but the work is not going as planned. they say they'll take additional measures to freeze the water. water used to cool melted fuels inside the damaged reactors has been leaking. the runoff has been reaching the soil and mixing with groundwater and seeping into the sea. workers want to freeze the water inside the tunnels before it can leak into the ground. but they haven't managed to complete the work. nearly three months after the project began. officials with the plant's operator tokyo electric power company briefed members of the nuclear regulation authority about the additional measures, including instulg more pipes to carry refrigerants in and out of the tunnels. regulators have been skeptical about the feasibility of tepco's original plan. they've suggested other options such as filling the tunnels with concrete. workers are carrying out a separate project to freeze soil and create an ice wall around the four-reactor building. to prevent groundwater from entering the buildings.

they're taking precautions in case the fukushima daiichi site gets hit by heavy rain and powerful winds. crews are pumping rain water out of barriers surrounding storage tanks for contaminated water. they're concerned the tanks could be leaking and don't want anything radioactive to spill out of the barriers. they also attached weights to cranes to hold them steady. workers used cranes to clear debris from areas around the reactor buildings. >>> let's now bring in our meteorologist, jonathan oh. we haven't seen much rain in tokyo yet, but the winds are picking up. what can we expect? >> shery, looks like you will eventually start to see rain as the system interacts with the rainy season front. and we're talking about a copious amount of rainfall, which will lead to flooding and also landslides. let's take a look at the statistics. this is this moving to the east, northeast, 45 kilometers per hour. it has weakened to 90 kilometers per hour, but still it is packing winds and the greatest threat with this particular system is the rainfall that will be accompanying the interaction. so it ha

it will be used for inspecting the fukushima daiichi power plant. a group developed the unmanned plane. it is about one meter both in width and length and has six propellers. about ten firms including electronics makers cooperated in the project. to fly indoors where gps does not work, conventional drones had to have positioning information provided from outside by infrared or other rays. this new model has a sensor for figuring out its position and surroundings. it is designed to avoid obstacles on its own. global competition is becoming intense for the drone market. amazon and google of the u.s. are among those that are deve p developing unmanned planes. >>> some investors believe they can find some wealth in the power of the sun. two years ago the japanese government launched a program to promote more solar power and other renewable energies. and investors from japan and abroad rushed in to get a piece of the market. nhk world has more on that. >> reporter: an array of solar panels cover the prefecture in western japan. it generates from a plot h

that was the peril of track from fukushima daiichi. we have had 30 some years to learn lessons.at they quite sunk in from three-mile island. >> host: was a different covering or watching the fukushima accident just innocent as a layperson, as opposed to three-mile island were heading processional role to i was taking notes constantly and visually. i mean, visually it was phenomenal. as we write in the book, but people watched the reactor building explode. we saw the helicopters flying over. you saw the people being rousted from their homes, packing their belongings and fleeing. compelled with this horrific natural disaster. and i think we tend to lose sight of the fact that the natural disaster would have been headline making in and of itself. so i did watch it with a certain arm's-length objectivity, but i kept taking a lot of notes because i had a lot of questions that i want to find out more about, and just kind of -- >> host: talk to me a little bit about the collaboration with you and the other staffers. >> guest: i had worked with dave as a source for many years. had met h

about one thing typhoon neo gurrey probably won't be causing any huge problems for the crippled fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant there was some concern a few days ago the typhoon you agree could hit the plant which is still having a lot of problems leaks and and if it did it could cause more parts of it to melt down however now that the storm has weakened of those fears have subsided but what if you agree adding tweaking but it was getting full force toward the japanese mainland to the north the northern japanese meal the fukushima right and sites give or take a few changes in air temperature and we could be talking about how a once in a decade super typhoon was about to cause another nuclear crisis in japan or greatly amplify an ongoing you know feeling you get after a. getting into a car accident that's the way the world should feel right now about typhoon and fukushima for wasn't already obvious after already happened in fukushima in the wake of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and so it should be obvious now every country that uses nuclear power is flirting with disaster nuclear po

casto is a good character through the book and he is the guy who is saying we have had tmi and fukushima daiichi and we have not learned our lessons. what we need is to be able to say to the american public we are doing everything we can. we don't want any more heroes. and that to me is the message that we have to all take out of fukushima and what i think is the message that the nuclear industry and regulators in this country have to work toward and that is we are never going to put a plant operator, workers in po risk their lives to do if what they can to stop the severe accident. >> host: with that last comment i appreciated and i have enjoyed very much this discussion. >> guest: i have to matter. thank you very much. >> host: thank you very much. booktv sat down with former secretary of state hillary clinton in little rock to discuss her book hard choices. >> getting to the point is never easy because you don't make peace with your friends. you make it with people who are your adversaries who have killed those who care about, your own people or those you are trying to protect and it's a psyc

fukushima diey chi touched -- fukushima daiichi touched a huging isment of society -- a huge segment of society. and economically, my gosh, it's an enormous accident of consequence. so you've got a lot of people who now have a real stake; personal, economic, health and people who are going to pay their utility bills that really are saying this is not what we want, and it doesn't seem to be that their voices are getting heard. >> host: why do you think that is? >> guest: i don't know. i think it's because, as i say, the nuclear industry has the ear of the decision makers, and they don't wield the same clout as the grandma with;n0: . >> guest: you are going to be able to evacuate 50 miles from indian pointlñ expeditiously? moving that many people is pretty -- one of the figures is 40% of americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear plant. that's, i think, 120 million americans. so those 120 million americans have a real stake this how safe the reactors -- in how safe the reactors in their neighborhoods are. so i think that you ask why change didn't occur, is not occurring in japan. i th

. >>> officials at the fukushima daiichi power plant in japan have invited tv crews to showcase the underground wall they're building to some radioactive water from leak from the facility. >> reporter: for years after the meltdown water is one of the biggest challenging at the tokyo electric power company. it needs to flush the reactors, and doing this makes the water radioactive and it mixes with fwround water and seeps out of the facility in the sea. that's why tepco started a containment wall around the contaminated site. it's driving 1500 pipes into the ground around and beneath the reactors. they're filled with coolant on freeze the surrounding earth and water into a wall of ice. tepco has already tested the technique at the site but ran into trouble when it failed to cool the earth enough for it to freeze. this time it says it's working better. >> translator: the ice wall itself is being tested, and in those cases we've seen that the ground itself does freeze. so i myself am not that worried that it will not go well. >> reporter: the ice wall technique is sometimes used in tunnelling proj