the nuclear regulatory commission is monitoring the situation in indian point nuclear energy center in a condition no one wants to see with black smoke pouring out of these photos were posted on social media as responders on site ones plus these firefighters nearby like went in to find a transformer turning. new york governor andrew cuomo came to see the response up close for himself this was a relatively minor situation but we're told your brother nuclear power really minor situations. radioactive tritium is leaking from 3 quarters of all u.s. commercial nuclear power sites and a cancer causing material often seeps into groundwater from corroded buried piping that's what the sociedad press concluded after a year long investigation. southern california edison says it will be closing the troubled 703 nuclear plant. the plan to poison san diego county has been offline for months because of the mechanical clock with bags of eggs that lead to trace amounts of radiation being leaked the bad just the latest in a number of environmental clubs and i think i'll be here banging. all. old. old. o

latest on this jena kristen late this afternoon in a conference call that and are seeing nuclear regulatory commission and now said they voted to extend vermont includes license the n.r.c. says it will formally issue is includes a new license and a matter of if but under vermont law the public service board and the legislature must also approve a license extension. tonight on nightline a nuclear emergency a massive new exposure rocks a crippled reactor plant in japan prompting the greatest fears yet radiation. and a new wave of a back to a should. fall out reactor up in smoke how dangerous radiation leaks can be a plant located on a seismic fault the smoldering disaster zone the latest challenge at the fukushima daiichi site a fire in the number 4 reactor that's right down here in the area just near the room where highly radioactive spent fuel rods are stored this turn for the worse in reactor 4 after a day in which there was some evidence japan might finally be making some small progress as it struggles with the worst nuclear crisis since trolled. let's assess the risk with arnie gundersen he's a nuc

designed to hold in all the radioactivity after an accident is too small by $986.00 the nuclear regulatory commission had the term and there were 85 percent probability that the containment would blow up and failed. in the event of a meltdown. so much hydrogen gas would be released that the containment would be blown to smithereens and all of the radioactivity inside it would be released to the public. she rasho decided to percent 3 of. the regulators have known that this design isn't capable of withstanding an accident since it was built . during the middle of the crisis a push even to each one of the key regulators at the n.r.c. got him chuck casto said this is the worst containment in the world. well if it's the worst containment in the world why are we keeping $23.00 of them running here in america. the actual fukushima dai ichi was caused by an earthquake and a tsunami. but really at the root of it was that the earthquake knocked out the off site power and that the tsunami knocked out the cooling more pumps more on the ocean. that can happen anywhere you can lose offsite power from the storm or

the nuclear regulatory commission has stepped in. you talked about the future of nuclear. right now, the u.s. has more power plants than any other country in the world. we have historically been the leader. i believe we are giving that up to russia and china. i think that is a mistake from an energy security perspective. from a global security perspective, it is a mistake as well. i think that as we move forward, we must invest in advanced nuclear. i think it is critical. you noted the fuel storage issue. it needs to be included in these thoughtful discussions. some of the newer technologies horizon, the waste issue becomes a much lower challenge, less of a challenge than it is today because of the type of technology we have moving forward. let me go back and say it again. right now, the united states has more nuclear power plants than anyone else in the planet. we only have two under construction right now. when you look at what china, russia, and other countries are doing, they are moving in the opposite direction. it is in the u.s. interest to progress advanced nuclear