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 situation. 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 beer. hyping that's what the associated press concluded after a year in nam investigation. southern california edison says it will be closing the troubled 7 o 3 nuclear powered by a good landing in san diego county has been offline for months because of a mechanical bill. that led to trace amounts of radiation being a leave of absence the latest in a number of environmental problems of xenophobia over the deal. vernon is the host. for mine a ke

nuclear regulatory commission and now instead they voted to extend vermont yankee is license the n.r.c. says it will formally issue the yankees new license and a matter of days but under vermont law the public service board in the legislature must also approve the less than 6 tension. tonight unlike a lot of nuclear emergency a massive new explosion rocks or crippled reactor plant in japan prompting the greatest fears yet radiation catastrophe and a new wave of back you wish you'd. pull out a british reactor up in smoke how dangerous radiation leaks can be a plant located on a seismic fold 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 roof 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 nuclear safety advocate who consults with ve

designed to hold in all the radioactivity after an accident is too small by $986.00 the nuclear regulatory commission had determined there were 85 percent probability that the containment would blow up and fail 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 is. capable of withstanding inaction since it was built. during the middle of the crisis in africa she went to each one of the key regulators of the n.r.c. a guy named chuck casto said this is the worst containment in the world. well of a source containment in the world why are we keeping $23.00 of them running here in america. the actual szymon daiichi was caused by an earthquake and the tsunami. but really at the root of it was that the earthquake knocked out the offside power and that the tsunami knocked out the cooling more pumps on warming the ocean. that can happen anywhere you can lose offsite power from the storm or from a