some of the filters maxed out the meters, the geiger counters.ould read as high as 1,000 picocurries, they maxed out the meters. this, these trailers is the worst anyone has ever seen in north dakota. until now yesterday at an abandoned gas station in the remote divide county north dakota town of noon an, population 120. at a 4,000 square foot abandoned gas station on the edge of town. a place that looks like this from the outside. on the inside of that facility, it was stuffed with hundreds of bags of industrial sized black garbage bags filled with highly radioactive filters. more than 200 bags of waste on the edge of town. the guy who owns the property is a fugitive, he escaped from law enforcement custody in wyoming, where he was being held on a larceny charge. maybe at his abandoned gas station property in noon an, north dakota he's not the best landlord. the fact that north dakota has no state plan for dealing with the tons of radioactive material they're letting the drilling industry to produce every day, other than telling them to charge 1

this viral youtube video shows a man waving a geiger counter at a beach near san francisco. it seems scary, but the experts say it is meaningless. in fact, the real experts say the amount of cesium in the plume is not and will not be a threat to marine or human health 5,000 miles from fukushima. >> if we get up to about 7, that's beyond what i'm actually expecting and will be a thousand times less than what we're allowed to have in our drinking water. >> reporter: that said, if any scientist worth his salt would like hard data to confirm it. so he is among a cadre of scientists asking various federal agents to fund a study on the fukushima plume as it arrives in the u.s. they approach the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, the department of energy, the environmental protection agency, the nuclear regulatory commission and the national institute of standards and technology. all said the same thing -- it's not their responsibility. >> one of our frustrations is our government hasn't taken this on as something we should sponsor in terms of our national interests.

we took some geiger counter readings in their yard read- cesium levels were .204 microsieverts per hour- just under the government limit of .23. still, the hakozakis are unsure about returning to their home. but their feelings about nuclear power are now etched in stone. >> ( translated ): we experienced this accident firsthand, which is all the more reason we think that nuclear power plants are not suitable for this country, he said. >> reporter: right now in japan, not a single nuclear power plant is on line generating electricity. 48 nuclear reactors able to generate 30% of japan's electrical demand- idle while this country decides if the hakozakis are right or if turning the nukes back on is prudent, perhaps even mandatory to maintain japan's highly electrified lifestyle. japan is making up for the idle nuclear facilities by running their fossil fuel plants at full tilt, importing $266 billion worth of oil, gas and coal last year. in the country where the kyoto protocols were drafted, co2 emissions are up 13%. prime minister shinzo abe is pushing an energy policy that would turn the

but one of these rocks when the geiger counter was set on it, it went through the roof.ndoned uranium eyes look like -- >> and there are how many? >> estimated over 1000 in our homelands. there are estimated to be over 10,000 abandoned uranium mines throughout the whole united states. primarily within 15 western states. the epa is never done a meaningful inventory on these threads that are -- threats that are really a toxic legacy that impact us to this day. it is a slow genocide of the people, not just indigenous people of this region, but an estimated to be there are over 10 million people who are miles ofwithin 50 abandoned uranium mines. >> taylor, what is grand canyon trust doing about this? >> we have been largely focused on efforts by the uranium industry to develop new mines on public lands. and since the mid-2000's when the price of uranium spiked, we have seen a rural resurgence of uranium mining activity in arizona. theed the charge to compel -- alongside a number of tribal and conservation trinity partners -- to compel the obama administration to enact a ban

will be dead zones for decades to come and all of us have a piece of focus shima in you i can figure geiger counter right to your body and detect some of the radiation from the reactor however is minimal so i don't think that everything is going to be radioactive here in the united states it's not that way food you can eat however we have to monitor the food very carefully because we do know that radioactive cesium with a half life about thirty years leaked into the ocean and it's water soluble and it did get into the fish and sea life around fukushima but the government does monitor these things and so far as we know the food supply is safe while i mean it i hope so i hope that we get that we can eat this food and i did want to ask you you know given the. the crisis like you said another minor earthquake could could trigger another melt another tipping point exactly and this there are so many different reactors all over the so many here in the united states do you think that as a result of fukushima you know what we've learned from chernobyl that in the future will eventually do away with

hearing from workers that they're detecting areas as high as ten sieverts but that's because they're geiger counters only go up to ten c. averts and of course at three or four sieverts you know you're you're ampad situation and. so the danger is that the workers may not be able to continue being on site and if that were to happen the poor thing would stop monitoring of the systems that they have in place now would stop and then. you know a slow slide into hell from that point on and how much time can it take before refugees can go by. i don't know that they can ever go back but you know according to the japanese government they're trying to move people back into some of those areas because they've done decontamination which people who have worked on the deacon decontamination. process have stated you know that it hasn't worked and we know just from bomb testing that even hydrochloric acid doesn't remove radiation so i think that those are. you know that that is false information that's being perpetuated by the japanese government no way to try to a stage people's fears and they just keep ge