Transcripts For RT Documentary 20240712

A while when you hear something wrong like that the concern should. Be 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 when youre told your brother Nuclear Power really minor situations. Radioactive tritium is leaking from 3 quarters of all u. S. Commercial Nuclear Power sites to cancer causing material often seeps into groundwater from corroded beery piping thats what the sociedad press concluded after a year. Im investigation. Southern california edison says it will be closing the troubled 7 o 3 Nuclear Powered by good bye to all in San Diego County has been offline for months because of a mechanical bill. That led to trace amounts of radiation being leaked the bad just the latest in a number of environmental problems example 3 of the. Vernon 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 of 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 are vermont brand is done. To drink our milk whos going to want to whos going to want to use our syrup whos going to want to come here and drive past that. I. Have. No no no no no the threat of my age out as you go right now no yes no no i am not yankees as there is no shutting that out shouted out there are not yankees i 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 and 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 vernon and live in vernon if youre worried about the point both our girls live in town or 6 grandchildren live in town in fact my 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 point of being here. I live 70 miles from the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power and what that means in terms of any sort of incident or accident that might happen plan is that if it was a serious incident most likely i would no longer be able to live in my home the whole area loopy. Contaminated if you. Lose my community where ive been for the last 30 years of my life and i would have to relocate to some other place will be a complete disaster. People shouldnt have to live with that sort of risk. Thats not acceptable. I have a passion for justice. Theres always a lot of organizing work to be done our area and thats the way i have lived my life im frances crow. And i live in northampton massachusetts i 93 years out and ive been involved in trying to say no to this fighting of the atom and all of the consequences of it since night to in 45 when i heard about hiroshima the rapee. I am a member of the shut it down of senate your group a group of women that came together to shut down. With our batteries and action. Its that hot yes ok we meet once a month we have a pot luck 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 at night when good and and maybe all of new england 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 syria 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 they cleaned up the problems we all signed a report saying for a minute 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 materials. Joined me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. A dark industry comes to life in los angeles every night. Dozens of women sells their bodies on the street many of them underage. Los Angeles Police reveal a taste of their daily challenge no if youre going to exploit for a child here in los angeles there are going to come out officers going undercover as 6 workers and customers to fight 6 trade. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. By a. What is true what is faith. In a world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Aura made in the shallowness. There was almost see and worth an update on the cease fire negotiations in moscow on the issue of the border and is a war on coal but also populism on the left. And right. Im max kaiser one more of my guide to financial survival this is fun its a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. Thats right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and were just adding more and more to them. To stabilize the Global Economy you need to protect yourself and get informed guys are. Going to is a very nice to a 1st term president. And i could have said no thank you or i could have said thank you and i said ill take it and now its time to introduce my. Mr dont travel thank you susan very much for the. Name whatever you want to name i mean i dont know how would i come that news thats dishonest telling our combat or recorder or a network thats totally dishonest c. N. N. Is you know 100 percent negative i clearly theres a change face changes so for sometimes ill say thats going to be a great story be a pretty good reporter another as good as you. Will see what happens. I always say who knows what well see on this bill will be 6 of us. Since the channel 3. More trouble for Vermont Yankee a concrete trend. 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 Expert Arnie Gundersen says this is yet another indication the aging play 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 made false statements as Parent Company says it was miscommunication nothing more. To ward or contain tritium lots of trivium but it also contained other isotopes we contain strontium 90 which is a bone seeker and causes leukemia because cesium 137. 00 which is the muscle seeker causes Heart Disease they contain cobalt 60 which is a very high energy gamma source then a whole bunch of other isotopes minimal all of those started to work their way into the soil and has definitely entered the Connecticut River through the human 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 miners on say. We have buried corroded pipes that are way beyond their design life. This problem is not only are mine 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. Do not have underground ip you know there are none. I asked for an obscure report i got it and i read and i said oh my god theres a bird in 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 that remind 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 statehouse. Your word is all you got to live by we have a lot of 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 the 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 shook public trust and confidence and we absolutely understand it and then have a tritium 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. Maybe im. Gonna walk 0. 000. 0000 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 that happen to be january so thats when youre walking. Out 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. A 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 for moderates not to renew the license depor 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 normal amount of letters to the editor and we 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. Spasmed i just want to wrap up 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 cobol 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 the 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 stand. On or start yes and the star will say yes under quite. The lifeboats no. Theres a series of us here both the ears for the nice 26. I 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 just. Pointed with the vote 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. What 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 and turn a 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 in here. Where registering young voters to the dimensions like i know smaller scale so instead of having a huge Nuclear Power plant theyll be 3 really trying to get young people excited about clean energy and for power in different places so to be much more local. There is Surplus Campaign is a student led arenas nation 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 replace for a minute q where. Do you feel the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has a really strong plan. What else should seem wrong why dont we all just dont call. Me old yet to shape our disdain comes to cattle. And in detroit because the trail. Went on many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. There was only a c. And were going to update on the cease fire negotiations in moscow on the issue of the border the end is a war on coal but also for populism and the left and right. Ok lets just say that the get a list of all the. People i want to make i wonder why you know. How lucky. We hope to be but there are some friends of the us are still so that the so beautiful thing to do something to see. The child for sure. They have about the house and i think this is the lack of selfcontrol and i was able to put them on them that you know what would happen. Im. Going to make. A fragile truce it takes effect in the disputed caucuses region of nagornokarabakh but reports of shelling from both sides our correspondent is in the heart of the conflict zone reporting on the devastation and how locals view the standoff in. This city of. Sites i can see it has been razed to the ground but it has been battered by so many. So many. 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