Steroids do you think its definitely going to happen or do you think crisis could be of. No i dont think crisis can be averted. Her containment building of the d. B. Spacy Nuclear Reactor could keep that power plant shutdown longer than expected 1st energy says it will be stored in the plants clean told of cracked displaced those who live in the shadows to dispense see any problems can be alarming i dont give a whole lot of thought that once in awhile when you hear Something Like that the concern should. Be Nuclear Regulatory commission is monitoring the situation. Indian Point NuclearEnergy Center in a condition no one wants to see. With black smoke pouring out and these photos were posted on social media as responders on the sidelines plus these firefighters nearby her line 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 when youre talking about a 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 bury piping and thats what the Associated Press concluded after a year long investigation. Southern california edison says it will be closing the troubled 703 nuclear. Good. San diego county has been offline for months because of a mechanical recall. That led to trace amounts of radiation being really bad just the latest in a number of environmental problems that sent him over and over. Hernan is the host. For mine a key. Part of me in. The town of learning is a very close knit town. The people really care about one another. And were more than just neighbors its a great community. When people think of the state of vermont they think at dairy farms. In fields they think of maple trees maple syrup. They think of rivers and pristine lakes. And we got a Nuclear Power plant right on the southern border. For my yankee welcome to romano. If people think that there is a radioactive problem at this plant in vermont our vermont brand is done want to drink our milk whos going to want to whos going to want to use our sear whos going to want to come here and drive past that. No. No no. Shut up shut up. And say we know right now. There is no source of energy in this world that doesnt have risk associated with it in nuclear it is very very low so i feel its a very Safe Technology our job is to protect Public Health and safety and never have an accident that jeopardizes Public Health or safety so thats with us every day people like me come in here in the 650. 00 men and women that work here that is our focus the safe operation of this plant. I live right across the street from Vermont Yankee and theyve always been a Good Neighbor i have children that go to the school which is also right across the street from my yankee. You dont move to. In vernon if youre worried about the point both our girls live in town or 6 grandchildren live in town in fact my youngest daughter lives down the road here well as the crow flies its less than a half mile from the point. Where we dont worry about the poor being here. I live 70 miles from the Vermont YankeeNuclear Power plant and what that means in terms of any sort of incident or accident that might happen. Is that if it was a serious incident most likely i would no longer be able to live in my home the whole area would be contaminated if you. Would lose my home my community where ive been for the last 30 years of my life and i would have to relocate to some other place it would be a complete disaster. People shouldnt have to live with that sort of risk. Thats not acceptable. I have a passion for justice. And theres always a lot of work to be done our area and thats the way i have lived my life im frances crowe. And i live in northampton massachusetts and navy 3 years out and ive been involved in trying to say no to this fighting of the adam and all of the consequences of it since night jane 45 when i heard about. The rape. I am a member of the shut it down Authentic Group a group of women that came kick outta there. Oh shut down. With our batteries and action. Is that hot yes ok we meet once a month we have a pot like here my house and wave figure out what were going to do and then we do it for my yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous oh no prayer power plant and if there is that accident at all by this area of knowing and maybe all of new langley and uninhabitable for generations. You started to run in 1972 it only had a license to run until 2012 in 2009 they applied to the Nuclear Regulatory commission to get another 20 years on their license so they could run it said 2032 the state of vermont asked me to oversee from a yankee and see if it was reliable enough to run for true 20 more years so i was chairman of the Oversight Panel thats looked into Vermont Yankee in 2009 we found 80 problems but if we cleaned up the problems we all signed a report saying reminding he could run for another 20 years there a year later we found out that they were lying to us entergy on a number of occasions including under oath before our Public Service board. Denied the existence of. Underground piping carrying radioactive material. The point is should we actually be charging for education because this is when we charge for things is because its a benefit to the person whos buying it and thats the audiology that took over education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit for society in general i wouldnt want to live in a Society Without doctors or engineers all saw it as what happened without economists. Saying it of being a private benefit and ignoring the public means that were ignoring that the skill bias we need for a Sophisticated Society and putting the burden of that skilled biases on the individuals what we turned it into is just now the trying institution of Higher Education become a form a version of a real estate scam that is not the bisons for a functional saudi. Is later systematic. This means that. There is no no no not. All of them ok it. Was not known to most of that killed in battle day i believe. It was that it was not going to be. The one that had been. Given for people. Who give the name not a. What the how they were not slow idea so when i saw one you know i know those they need the whole corn. Donna you know. What politicians do something to. Put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. So when you want to be president and she. Wanted. To go right to the press as a white woman for 3 of them or cant be good that im interested in the waters in the. First city. And. Did you see a drum on small straw student who supports since the channel 3 moves more trouble for Vermont Yankee a concrete trench at the plant is unexpectedly filling up with radioactive water radioactive water discovered in a concrete ditch at the Nuclear Plant contains high levels of tritium the tritium found at the plant is 100. 00 times the level deemed acceptable by the Nuclear Regulatory commission the tritium concentrations are in sky high Nuclear ExpertArnie Gundersen says this is yet another indication the aging clay at should close this is either a leak in a pipe or a leak in the tank that pipe connects underground pipes that Vermont Yankee originally claimed did not exist until after the 1st leak was discovered gunderson was on the public Oversight Panel when he made false statements as Parent Company says it was mis commune. Nothing more the radioactive water contained tritium lots of tritium but it also contained other isotopes he contained strontium 90 which is a bone seeker and causes leukemia because cesium 137. 00 which is a muscle seeker causes Heart Disease they contain cobalt 60 which is a very high energy gamma source then a whole bunch of other isotopes animal all of those started to work their way into the soil and has definitely entered the Connecticut River trivium and all these radioactive isotopes can cause cancer. Why is the treaty and really of concern to us ground water down there is being threatened and potentially the river water is being threatened. Something needs to be done right now i believe that plan is unsafe we have buried corroded pipes that are way beyond their design life this problem is not only are my yankee this problem is country wide maybe worldwide. We were told Crystal Clear that there were no buried underground pipes that contain radioactivity how many other plants. To not have underground do you know there are none. I asked for an obscure report i got it and i read it and i said oh my god theres a buried underground pipe you knew when you read that that there was underground piping yes you ben misstatements have been given yes thats right i was stonewall. What has happened in her mind yankee is a breach of trust that cannot be tolerated in order to move forward on whether or not the plan will continue to operate questions need to be answered changes need to be made and the trust of vermonters must be restored we were now being lied to and lied to under oath on record and in vermont and in vermont and especially in the state house. Your word is all you got to live by we have a lot of going and to do and we have to rebuild Public Confidence and trust were operating a Nuclear Power plant and people expect that you know it is an Industrial Facility you are going to have incidents thats just a fact of life. We drilled approximately 23 wells in this area so that we can triangulate and pinpoint the source of a leak by obviously the highest concentration of 28 in water in this particular well we just did not do a good job of presenting information complete and Accurate Information to the vermont Public Service board and thats unacceptable dandruff certainly on an unacceptable to the public and that shock public trust and confidence and we absolutely understand it and then have a treaty in leak to groundwater. Adds to a lack of confidence weve said numerous times we apologize for that were embarrassed about that that shouldnt have happened. Im. Gonna walk 0. 000. 000 martyrs who are used to all the different seasons you put out some extra clothes its winter obviously that raise certain challenges but its not a problem it happen to be january so thats when the walking. I walking because it feels like a powerful way to stand up mass said that its time to shut the plant down. Were really excited to be here were looking forward to meeting with our legislators in a little while and i really appreciate the opportunity to have democracy ally in action are walking through the state. I am speaking on behalf of walkers who today completed a 126 mile 11 day walk. And now id like to present you with a petition to the members of the ramada Legislature Please retire Vermont Yankee on schedule no later than march of 2012 and a copy to you thank you peter. Thank you to the marchers thanks to all of you in this room for coming to the peoples house the greatest democracy in america and letting us hear your voices on this important issue i have concluded that it is in the best interests of vermonter its not sure a new license step for my yankee and thats how i will vote. There was an intense level of organizing and behalf of the citizen activists. We held public forums. Your senators match and our key that we made phone calls would you be able to call them and talk to them about this we wrote norma some of the letters to the editor and gauge people from all across the state and all across the political spectrum to call for our legislature to vote no on continued operation of Vermont Yankee beyond march of 2012. Spears and i just want to. But the debate. Is in vermonts best interest to operate Vermont Yankee beyond its scheduled closing date of 2012. If you dont think that leaking tritium and cobalt into the ground water and the Connecticut River and the environment of the state of vermont that every single for mano cherishes and holds dear then i dont know what else you can have as an indicator that reliability is a problem with a Nuclear Power has a place in a future of energy in america. We can debate that 2 accounts come what we should not be debating is whether we can extend the life of our e. G. Nuclear power plants beyond their design life this is crazy stuff and i felt very strongly that it was the wrong thing to do for remarks like just the secretary please call the roll to start sooner than start he had us from the start was just under fire. From the lifeboats no. Theres a series of us are both the ears for the nice 26. 00. Was the senate voted 26. 00 to 4. 00 in favor of closing Vermont Yankee its really a testament to all of the work that citizens did over the course of several years over the course of decades our voice as the people as as as the people of vermont is what matters. Well you know we were disappointed with the vote but. Not surprised again with the incidents that were happening at the plant it was understandable. The Nuclear Powers a hell of a way to boil water. Really happens inside a Nuclear Reactor is of uranium out pops and in the process it gives off an enormous amount of heat does boil water make some steam turn to turbine and generator and electricity comes out but whats left behind after you do if you have use that electricity by these pieces and these pieces stay radioactive for a quarter of a 1000000 years. It is toxic poisonous to humans for 250000 years i keep saying that number 250000 years its ridiculous its mind boggling id be the 1st to acknowledge that is the achilles heel of the Nuclear Industry nuclear waste. There is no answer to this they keep telling us oh no technology will take Care Technology technology is not taking care of it and if you cannot take care of the waste and you cannot manage the ways then the only responsible thing is to stop producing the ways. And then you bring it here. Where registering it even. If it only mentions like a no small or scale so instead of having a huge Nuclear Power plant will be for really trying to get young people excited about clean energy and power in different places so its a much more local. There is Surplus Campaign is a student led arena station based out of Middlebury College we got together right after the senate voted to close relying because we were wondering whats coming next what are we going to place for my new cubit. Be fillin the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has a really strong plan. C. And. Thats also very important. To. The nature and. In the. Structure is to break this cycle to show. Some french and so i hope for this to live in the will. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks particularly catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and what was striking to put these attacks was that the are you see the Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of full streets in belfast i think more than a 100 innocent civilians with. The you can seniors and we found out more. I was surprised about the extent and of the currents which the collusion was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named the gloomy getting i think it went to the very very top i think it is. The water where politicians you. Give the go ahead. Seem wrong why dont we all just dont all. Get to shape out just a constant advocate and engagement equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Just to look for common ground. 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