Roll nonkosher all survives an explosive crash. Im on me and use of welcome to the show. United nations says that more than 40 people have been killed in a brutal massacre, and nigeria, motorcyclists are said to have gunned down civilians in villages and towns in the Northeastern State of borno. Un has described it as a heinous and senseless act. No one has admitted carrying out the killings, but the militant Group Boko Haram has attacked the area in recent years. The victims of a gruesome massacre laid to rest in a mass burial. The point reports say the farm workers were attacked by armed insurgents, unmeasured bikes. While they were harvesting rice, someone shot others with their throats cut. It is that there were 6 of us in the bush. Then we headed back into the village. We were shocked when we got there. I got to move, we found the bodies and that was where the main killings took place. Then we went through a nearby village called good though. We met so many people fleeing from our village without knowing where they were going. The huge amounts of harvested rice was set on fire are used as you well know. This is the most violent attack on civilians in bonus state. This year. The region in northeastern nigeria has been gripped by a jihad just insurgency. For a decade both the islamist Group Boko Haram and a rival group, the i. A. S. Affiliated socalled Islamic State west Africa Province operate here. The 2 groups have been blamed for attacks on fondness and fisherman who make use of spying for the army and progovernment militia. But so far, theres been no claim of responsibility because i came from work around it killed many of our people. We need assistance. We need weapons because we have young men who cannot guard our farmers while they work. Please, please, for gods sake, the kimock, i dont like it like that. The Nigerian Military has been unable to quell the insurgency in which tens of thousands have been killed or abducted. There are reports that several women may also have been kidnapped in the latest incident. And the number of men remain missing, raising fears that the death toll from this brutal attack could still rise. Now to australia where a record heat wave is fueling fears of another scorching bushfire season. The Southeastern State of New South Wales is seeing temperatures topping 40 degrees celsius. Wildfires are already burning, and officials have put residents on high alert for more. The big fear is a repeat of last years black summer in which dozens of people perished in blazes. This fires in the sydney suburb of north meet. Its just one of dozens of wildfires that have been burning across the state of New South Wales. Its also reminiscent of the scenes that played out during the devastating bushfires in australia last summer. Huge swathes of land were destroyed, then on the authorities are warning australians not to become complacent. This time around we cannot fall into why false sense of security the community out there unfortunately thinks that after the last season, we will that we are not at risk. The reality is 90 percent of the state is still untouched by bush far heat waves are not unusual in australia at this time of year. But with the late november temperatures, searching records, residents of australias most populous station being asked to be extra vigilant. The states fire service, total fire ban for large areas of the station over the weekend, saying there was a very high to severe fire danger. Residents of new thought with wales will have to stay alert with high temperatures for cost in parts of the story. For several days to come. Earlier i spoke to journalist Roger Maynard in sydney. I asked him how this years wildfires compared to last years when australia suffered one of its worst ever fire seasons. Blasphemers coincide with a period of intense drought, which turned much of the countryside into a bushel. Tinderbox, if you like. But theres been a lot of rain in the past few months, so dry conditions dont pose quite so much of a problem this time around. Certainly no one wants a repeat of the bush farmers and say, which burned about 20000000000 acres last summer and decimated wildlife. I mean, so were seeing the beginning of this fire season right now. If it does get worse, have firefighters learned something from last years disaster that they can apply to this year . Well yes, i mean, since the last bushfire season, theres been a major government inquiry into the causes of the fire and how best to handle it in future. Among the conclusions were the need for more fighting, as its more planes dumping water on to fuzz, improved back burning controls or critical roles. And the need to detect and extinguish fire as much earlier than usual before they get out of control. Over all the inquiry accepted that Climate Change and played a major part in these push by contributing to the drought over the past few years. And the other book and other factors heard also played a part. We should challenge the assumptions of how we fight in the future. Journalist Roger Maynard in sydney, thank you. Thank you. Lets have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines this hour. If you open Prime Minister, has declared the governments offensive in the Northern Region over after the armed forces capture the capital mccully. International observers say the conflict is likely to continue as rebel forces are able to keep on fighting. Many refugees who fled to sudan have also dismissed ahmeds claims. Thousands of people have been evacuated from the slopes of an erupting volcano in indonesia. A column of ash has risen 4000 meters into the sky. Officials have said it set up an exclusion zone on limbaugh to island and close the airports. Seismic hotspot in the media has more than 100. 00 active volcano. Now, thousands of antigovernment protesters marched on the headquarters of an Army Regiment controlled by the king of thailand. Riot police blocked access to the barracks in the capital. Bangkok, the activists were pressing their longstanding demands for constitutional reforms and the replacement of the Prime Minister protesters. Removing buses used to block their path. They were trying to get closer to a Controversial Army barracks. The regiment housed inside is under the kings direct control for the prodemocracy activists. Its a further sign of a monarch with too much power that he like. I dont like about the control of the kings guards should be brought under the governments rule of the government that the people elected for the king to have a direct command means hes exceeded his power that an army should belong to the people not to the king abdullah, but actually what i have a bit of a catch when you talk about later in the evening, more protesters approached the barracks bearing huge inflatable ducks above their heads. The yellow dog has become an icon of the prodemocracy movement. It may look whimsical, but it was also used to shield protesters from police Water Cannons last week. Since then, it has come to signal the oppositions determination to continue demonstrating until it changes the system. And after that, i think the king should remain affiliated with the thai society, but it needs to be under the constitution of the work. You have been asking the jury along corn seen here with the door in supporters. A few days ago has amassed huge wealth and power since his reign began in 2016. But now thailands normally untouchable king is facing scrutiny from his people. His long absences abroad, mostly in germany, have not gone on notice to home, nor how does lavish spending habits during thailands economic slump. Now, after here, protest and open criticism cracks are appearing in his authority as never before. At least 3 people have been killed and 2 more missing. After flooding triggered, mudslides and sardinia, heavy rains have been pounding the italian island as authorities evacuate people from low lying areas in the hardest hit town. A rescue operation is underway. Months lives have buried everything in their path. In the morning firefighters and volunteers look for missing people in the small town of beatty in northeastern sardinia. But over the drizzle came down, we fled inside the mud, slid down from that through the hole. Far as to where we are, but its you who saw the brutality shocked we. Did you seen anything like it during the day, muddy waters still rushed through the town. The storm rolled in from spain overnight to rancho rains. Flooded the streets, destroying the bridge. 313. 00 millimeters of rain fell within 6 hours. This is 3 to 4 times more than little misstating stone to hit this area in 2013. So the storm also moved across sicily. A tornado and heavy rainfall caused considerable damage. And you could tanya leaving residents stunned. There was a lot of noise and after 5 minutes every single is gone with the wind. In sardinia, the cleanup operation will last a few more days. It isnt yet clear how much damage has been done. Police in argentina have raided the office of the doctor who was treating the football legend. Donna, the 60 year old former sports star, died of a heart attack last week at his home in windows. I had witnesses have reported seeing a struggle between their donna, his doctor leopoldo luke a before his death. Local media say the Doctors Office was searched as part of an investigation into possible involuntary manslaughter. The neurologist told reporters he was not responsible for marriage on his death and said the medical team had done everything. They could, he was tired. He was tired of being marathoner. Diego was the most rebellious person with more independence and autonomy than anyone i have ever met with. And he decided everything. Colona. Im not hiding anything. There is nothing to hide. I did my best and more. I know what i did. Im proud of what i did and what role the doctors did for diego. I mean, obviously, i regret how it ended, but i guarantee we did our best for diego. Told us in formula one, Lewis Hamilton sped to victory at the bahrain grand prix. The race was overshadowed, however, by a fiery crash, but the french driver, home on goals all miraculously walked away from the wreckage. The race around the floodlit sucky track got off to a wild start with several drivers losing control. None more so than haases woman calls around. His car was ripped in half and engulfed in flames as it speeded through. Protective barriers following contact with danielle could be out. Was able to free himself from the wreckage and was taken to a nearby hospital with minor burns and suspected broken ribs. The race was brought to a halt and after the restart drivers continue to skid on the track. Long stroll, flipped his car off to also colliding with Danielle Crean out. Despite landing upside down, the racing point driver was on hurt. However, there was more bad luck for his team. As said, gio perez was on course for a 3rd place finish, and his 2nd podium in 2 races until an apparent engine failure caused his car to catch on fire. That meant the race was ended with a safety car guiding Lewis Hamilton to a 95th grum prevent jury joined on the podium by red bull pairing max misstep and and alexander album us president elect joe biden has fractured his foot. Accident happened while he was playing with his dog. A 7878 year old was taken to a clinic in his home state of delaware by his doctor says a scan shows hairline fractures to 2 small bones in his right foot is expected to wear a medical build for several weeks. Biden suffered the injury while playing with major one of his 2 german shepherds. Youre watching the news up next, a documentary, the atom and us looking at the continuing dangers of Nuclear Weapons. I dont forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site. Thats t w dot com. Im on me and use of thanks for joining us. Good to parliament. Everyone knows bobby why. Despite coming from a poor family, the pop star wants to become president and the challenges are, god doesnt fit. The bill story starts december 10th on the double right now id like to bring you a different kind of story in its own way. Its just a dramatic as anything a writer could dream up that has to do with a new power source. This power source, theyll be out of more than 70 years ago. The deadly power of the atomic bomb was reprinted as the peaceful asim Nuclear Energy was martin. We were at the forefront of technology, glamorous. They were like inside a secret inside this magical world and irresistible to governments to think it was clear to france that it salvation was nuclear, nuclear and business. Everybody in the electric utility business is suddenly decided, wow, we need Nuclear Power too. But from the beginning, the peaceful atom was dont buy safety concerns for moon basically made clear that accidents could have their true serious accidents by rising costs. Its economically so complex, so different, so tricky is kind of pulled under by its own dead weight. And by protests that through time leftists, the school car, about 4 new all in favor of greenpeace. To take on this week. And today, Nuclear Power is fighting to survive. Its keep trying, there is no nuclear renaissance, thats a fairy town abrogating. I got on that. Id love to hate it and simple to ignore. The atom has changed our world. This is it still in the aftermath of world war 2, everyone was talking about the war, some and terrifying capabilities of nuclear fission. What really changed the climate was the speech given by president eisenhower in december, 953 at the United Nations, which he called atoms for peace i made. Today. Im more than 25. 00 miners as well as the weapon with which they have tommy and does it begin with a lot of gloom and doom. And then he circles around in ns with this beautiful happy tale of how Atomic Energy is going to bring blessings and health and prosperity to the world. This greatest of Destructive Forces can be developed into a great movie for the benefit of all mankind. The president s speech was immediately transmitted to 70 or overseas posts by the us press servants, or the communist could distort and misinterpret americas proposals. Atoms for peace, quickly became internationalized. The propaganda around us for peace included traveling exhibits where people could go and see little nucular artifacts and these exhibits would attract throngs of people around the world. The exhibit in west berlin was visited by a quarter of a 1000000 people, including thousands from the soviet go. In india, Prime Minister, meru, came to be with the exhibit, and shared the experience with thousands of his countrymen. Of all the countries that were targeted for atoms for peace propaganda, none was more important to the American Government than japan. On the 1st day of november, 19th, 55. 00, United States, out of the peace exhibition open, then to be a part tokyo, the United States and its events to japan. It promoted the work of japanese scientists in Atomic Energy. Worse atoms for peace helped send this message that hey, were the good guys. Its sort of help to whitewash the bad odor created by hiroshima and nagasaki. The general public was being encouraged to look on the bright side, so to speak, by demonstrating that or was this enthusiasm burgeoning all over the world . Was it propaganda or was it policy . The answer is it was both. It was at the same time, an effort to influence Public Perceptions to change the way people talked about nucular energy and the others hand. It was a serious genuine initiative to spread what they saw as the benefits of atomic power throughout the world. The potential of civil Nuclear Power suddenly was seen as a global beacon of progress. Every country involved wanted to take part in the development of this, this new gleaming future of Atomic Energy. Kind of, i made it clear power, was one of the technologies that distinguished us a high tech country, rather than an average one from to shift. Or if you were a young scientist or engineer graduating college in the 1950 s. In the United States of america, you were in a pretty sweet place. The scientists had stepped forward as the new wizards, warlocks, the magicians who were going to bring all these wonderful things to the future. They were like, inside this magical world. You know that the scientists that had studied this were really fascinating people and they were part of this very, very elite group of special people. The british set up the 1st Civil Nuclear plant at calder hall in the u. K. A bread bread led to such a very important event. The queen came to perform the ceremony of the big switch on a definite lead. In the 2nd Industrial Revolution has been taken by the British Government was triumphant as being the 1st nation to launch a Nuclear Power program. Britain saw itself as the pioneer of Nuclear Power. We were the 1st with a Nuclear Power station. And that technology let the world bought up. Those went behind that france will begin producing Nuclear Energy and take its place as one of the great atomic nations alongside the United States. The us s. R. And let it go on. Theyre going to tell you when to go came to power after world war 2. So his main concern was to restore francis former glory as a world power. Well, you do know there have been 145. 00 to go in, signed an official order to create the Atomic Energy commission to make but frances reactors would not only for producing electricity. The 1st Nuclear Power site in france was presented as a prototype for electricity generation. And that was what all the fanfare was about. What you did when you now the public can see what has made france a player of the industrial utilization of the atom in reality. And from the very beginning, the muscular reactors were designed to optimize the production of weapons grade plutonium . Well, the whole wasnt a power reactor, its purpose was to produce weapons, grade plutonium material. The electricity was a useful byproduct. And in fact that, that was not connected to reactor atoll, governments were not the only ones being opposed to the summit message companies would give to General Electric was really instrumental and they did a lot of work going out a comic book very have a film and it was all done with callers with exciting little characters. Lets start by meeting a leading authority on the subject. Dr. And the public mood was galvanized by the new atomic power stations springing up. The reactors actually became Tourist Attractions in and of themselves. At my school, there was a Lookout Point where tourists could go and view models of the reactor and see the whole site. But few felt the thrill quite so much as those on the inside. Felt proud to be the pride. When i look back, i think that thats how we felt we were the forefront of technology. It was not only by boarding the country as a whole was raising their head. Im sorry, and we can make it 50 years gone by since they even had a lot of hay. And one of my jobs was to test materials for stay fex and the crime inside the reactor. They were my main structure inside the docks and everything and test all of the welds looking rather like a super version of a plastic macintoshes, unusual design for workers that were guns, atomic clock. Once youre inside on a wall, it remains is to pump in compressed air so that the wet i can breathe easily. Be dressed up like a mitchell in man with special crowd living with an im going to call cold supply a id say about my body. So thing and breathing and throat microfilms and then climb through every part of the reaction. The boilers, say we were not to because people from coal plants used to come to us and said, oh i see neat clean, isnt it . Wonderful. These Clean Environment you live in, i could psyche to an old cult, thought power station. Were doing exactly what you know i used to do. You come out black across the atlantic, american utility companies, which you could to invest in Atomic Energy. It seemed like there was no risk and building a Nuclear Power plant because the price was low and vendors, westinghouse, and General Electric guaranteed that price. And then comes the gold rush, where everybody in the electric utility business has suddenly decided, wow, we need Nuclear Power too. But not everyone shared that enthusiasm and there was a plan to build a reactor. It did a good day. California protests 1st started from local people who were just concerned about the view. But then people would begin to do a certain amount of homework. And they began to get concerned by radioactivity released from the plant in normal operation. There was also more particularly the possibility of an accident involving a Nuclear Plant, which might release a lot more radioactivity the public didnt. In fact, really know that there all had already been a number of significant industrial accidents in Nuclear Installations in canada, in switzerland, in the us. And in the u. K. , there was a very big fat. It would scale. Ive never told, i discovered when i went to japan, i was talking to the japanese minister said he said to me, how do you, how you getting on with dealing with the council of the 5 and i said traffic shows what 5. We didnt want to bother you, mr. But he could, they actually persuaded the local Electricity Company to abandon the plant. And this was the 1st time that a Nuclear Proposal of this kind had actually failed because of opposition by the public. And it was going to be the 1st of many, i remember when i 1st read to the states as a minister. I was told that they had a policy of 2002002000 Nuclear Power station by the 2000, but the local opposition says strong, that they couldnt build them. There were some Nuclear Scientists and engineers who helped this opposition. We had to marvelous journo, lector engineers who quit and became whistleblowers. I testified on the nics Quality Assurance program that the Quality Assurance on a toaster was greater than that for the instruments or control the Nuclear Power plant. On the other hand, there was inadvertent support. The very pronuclear director of the oak ridge, national lab weinberg. Oh, hes harbored concerns. He thought that there should be one Nuclear Plant here and one Nuclear Plant there. That it would be better if we had 6 in one nuclear reservation, so that you could use what he called the small number of very competent scientists and engineers to manage it. Just as the opposition was growing stronger, global events suddenly made Nuclear Power. Look a lot more appealing in 1073. 00, the big middle east producers cut off Oil Shipments to major consuming countries. Margaux was lifted, the price of foreign oil had jumped from 3. 00 to 12. 00 a barrel or times higher than before. This nation, one thing navy can have all the energy we need. Now, dont write an editorial on this, youre really going to catch it from your readers because it scares you they think of the bomb. They think of the possibility that one is going to blow up. My house and san clemente is just 12 miles from the Southern California edison Nuclear Power plant. Its safe, it produces good power. Its clean. And the United States, which 1st the secret is behind. Where it ought to be, and the development no pure pot nixon proposed a huge expansion of Nuclear Power in the name of getting america out from under the boot of opec. But even with nixon, suppose there was one pressing problem, the cost of every reactor and the Nuclear Power plant surrounding it. Those costs were doubling every 2 years doubled and then it doubled again. Let me see because when the price of oil quadrupled, it was quite a shock. Lucia look at their cost 68 percent of an atrocity came from all the good that you behold. We had, i think the money oil crisis began. It became clear to france that it salvation was nuclear. It didnt need wine clear power for electricity. The only area when you could easily replace oil was an actress, cities because in 1973 we already have a vast generation of nuclear reactors. I dont exist. Spurred on by the oil crisis, the french government moved quickly to build more Nuclear Power plants. It didnt have to worry about public opinion. You could do do when it comes to decisions and its just a small group of people making them from the media from the Atomic Energy commission as youre basically top administrators of the state representing the people that pay for all of it, all. Rants. If you had the authorization to build a Nuclear Plant, that was it. In the us, things were a little more complicated than in the us. It was very fragmented. There walk around 2800 different electricity comes, and if you dont, they kept changing the designs in a, in a competitive frenzy to try and get ahead of the other guy. And that meant that the construction times for Nuclear Plants just blew. And i way to do business feel the business france is a nuclear program, was becoming the largest in the world. The United States could only look on and one point on clearing the time that france and 58 reactors, the americans counts on 202 still was the difference. If i had felt meanwhile, frances next door neighbor head off a Nuclear Issues to contend with. In the 1977 west, germany saw the growth of, of one of the largest movements against Nuclear Energy and western europe. Possibly the, well, you have been sort of all of us this month. People were concerned because they started hearing that in the areas around reactors. There were unexplained illnesses or environmental changes. Concords fairly or the now most indorser you have to remember that germany had a past marked by war. And it was hard as a cold war on which Nuclear Weapons played an important role. And if so, there was a lot of insecurity and this was intense. That was why Atomic Energy he wouldnt have to. I told him to give them the real point of origin protests in a very small south German Village shift via when you power station was supposed to be built with good local Citizens Initiatives tried to stop it or for him in the us. The only option they had was to occupy the Building Sites where the ball plots they marked the site. They got in tens of thousands of people too many, really for the police to handle and set up a camp with a lot of guitar singing in public classes and free love and all that sort of thing. Here a little piece of video winemakers from the kaiser student, as journalists and experts, all talking to one another, expiate this counter expertise is the foundation of the german antinuclear movement. And it started here the deals, peaceful teachings gave way to much of the sayings wherever there were plans to build a reactor. There were huge protests and they often lead to clashes with the police involved. Go for a walk off in 1901150000, people gathered for an illegal demonstration in february, in the freezing, cold. To start for the for it was missing. The state reacted completely disproportionately. The high used tear gas. They sent hundreds of policemen by helicopter, who went through the crowd beating people who conduct which we were firing france. We still want to allow them to sign it and lots of demonstrations with a bit of food are full of demands to the protesters on both sides of the atlantic had been sounding the alarm about the prospect of an accident at a Nuclear Plant, the industry dismissed stefi is until early one morning in much the 1979 it came in to work the commissioner in writing by me. John heard your current sure. You know weve got a pro sport pennsylvania accident at a Nuclear Power plant. A spokesman said that a feed water broke down this morning, automatically shutting down the 3 mile Nuclear Power. People think that emergency . Is there any room to get an operating room . You know, in fact everything going to slow down cause you tremendous uncertainty about the facts. The information was contradictory, meters are really very high radiation experts who say these meters was the room. The overwhelming feeling uses the Forward Movement from the no information forward. It was very much an expected whos who was feeling. This was worse than anything route. One could have imagined have been some near serious accidents, but not one like 3 mile island. And when that happened, i think the whole, the whole framework fell apart. It could no longer climbing that Nuclear Plants war. So i think that was a very defining moment. Even though he says they go down to the corner going pace. Activists to activists are nothing new for them to deal with in the eightys. We had this sort of this, this inevitable march towards a future. And at the same time, we were looking at a situation where there was this wheezing, coughing, plant, winstrol, them, which was pumping out 2000000 gallons of contaminated material into the, our sea, every die. I mean, all things, just a joke. I mean, it really was and we had to address it in some way. At 1st light, green peas were already up and about. The plan was simple to block. One of the discharge pipe with stop is like thats what i would have confidential briefing with the press in this, you know, were going to bring the pipe up. We have fungus ready. We are going to start this challenges and somehow that got leaked and im being a fellow then you that we were going to do it right at this moment. Should have been left to the punch. Theyve obviously known precisely what weve been going through for the last week or so very heavily on this point. And its impossible for us with the 2 weve got at the moment to block. It was a balancing act, all of us to try to deal with them sensibly. But in the end, to use the law if necessary, to stop and things which i felt the dangerous and i needed to be told they were not to be on the law. Any more than where you were. And so i was a baddie, a times advocates of Nuclear Power and opponents of Nuclear Power just didnt speak the same language. It wasnt that one of them had a monopoly of facts, is that the interpreted the evidence differently. They saw their range of concerns differently, b. N. F. L. Who decided that they would no longer use the name windscale for the facility. They would call it so a field which is the name of the Little Village word originally been built. Ironically, soon after the name change was announced, b. N. F. L. Was accused of having radioactivity on the shoreline and leaks in at least 2 of their facilities. I was tempted to go and tackle a safety issue. And then us all know, be positive about the good things which nuclear will bring and that was the start of the idea that this dissenter was somehow isnt just one of our names for they are very soft of heart. I got it, but struck the 2. I glowed, australian should generational, like christian on wall street, must have aspirations liberal messages got through which we could then build on. It must be safe, mustnt it . Because theyve invited us to go up, go around, and they are trying to be out there on this because theyre asking us to go nuclear previously been really in secrecy. The industry had acquired a reputation for just not telling anybody anything and a result. No one really trusts them, so they went for a kind of kind of glasnost openness policy. And then just as the child offensive seemed to be working, a little viewers of Moscow Television were watching the 9 pm news closely on monday, april 28th. They would have missed the brief and buried report of the Biggest Nuclear accident in history, that accident that occurred at least 2 days earlier, at church noble in the ukraine. Chernobyl definitively ended the industrys line that there could never be an explosion that a reactor could never blow up like a bomb effectively. Thats what happened. It blew up dramatically and of course, did create widespread doubt. There was a very concerted effort by all the western governments to distance themselves as fast as they could and blame it all on russian technology. It can be stated categorically that an accident similar to that one could not happen in a british Nuclear Power station. The reactor of the chernobyl design simply wouldnt have been allowed to operate in britain. In the days following the disaster, a plume of ready to fall out drifted west would of the year to the allow those in its path affected hundreds of after chernobyl. There was a mass hysteria as in germany and italy and i know human organ can sense the danger to not only these machines detect it, it is radioactivity. I was there in the School Playground with my geography teacher at that time, who had got himself a Geiger Counter out of the pharmacy, to check whether there was any high radioactivity level, of course, was useless because we didnt know what the normal level of whats in them amended, war is from the moment the people were told dont eat, came me time to eat, mushrooms on the pizza from that moment on they accept among the german population was completely gone. That i can be for frederick to him. Life is completely normal and piously. And then chernobyl happens and it hits us like a bomb slicked i. V. In a bomb, hits us personally, and president here for me, for me, it was a road to damascus moment music. My eyes were suddenly opened for what it all meant to be a dog. In that not should have 1st, we called ourselves parents against Nuclear Power. But then we thought, you know, thats not really a good name. We dont want to be against something. We want to be for something, and thats why we changed our name to parents for a nuclear free future. Together with other families and michelle, slavic was so determined to rid their village of Nuclear Power that they made in the day she speak to take control of the local energy grid by the couldnt the figure for she there. You can probably imagine that when a Citizens Initiative says, were building our own Energy Company to supply the citizens of our town with electricity. At 1st, everyone says, how is that supposed to work . Peter . I asked my yappy, so thats and of course the Energy Provider said this definitely wont work. Theyll never succeed. The chef and the doctor need. But against all odds, the initiative did succeed. Creating a citizen, energy cooperative. And it was your, we have a vision of an Energy Supply without Nuclear Power, but the Energy Provider was encouraged to do that. Over in britain, the Energy Market was changing, followed by the country. Ordinary electricity users would be preparing pretty well. Wed like to see the companys share wrappers take. Should not everyone supported the conservative governments privatization plans. That postponement by 6 months of the privatisation of the electricity industry is only 6 months and still going to happen. Is it really that significant . I think its significant because what it indicates is that the plans are a complete mess. And most people already realize that the bills have gone up in order to pave the way for privatization. Theyve got huge problems because they want to sell the Nuclear Industry, which is going to be very difficult to sell. The cost of ultimately decommissioning station returned the site to ensure complete, usable, clean status, had been underestimated. The costs of future dealing with the spent fuel had been underestimated. I think its very unwise to embark on a new program when we dont even know how to deal with the whats left over the legacy of the old. We realize the Nuclear Industry just could not be privatized quite early on, told the government, we cant do it. And the government said rubbish, go away and think of a way that we can do it. So we went away and were trying this, were trying that. But in the end we said look, we just really cant do it. And so the government me and said ok, you cant do it. Therefore we will pull it. And it was quite a momentous occasion. The government did manage to sell off its power stations, but soon the new private Nuclear Company also ran into as the company went into steady financial declined. From about the year 2000 to my 2002, it was in effect bankrupt. It had to be rescued by the government with 340000000 pounds initially. And eventually it went up to over 600000000 to keep the company alive. Nucleus suddenly looked like a just just a dead end area to work in. And these often very, very well qualified, very smart people felt that they, you know, theyve made a terrible career choice and their whole life. But in a sense, been wasted. Time had never looked so vulnerable. I know we moved in, in germany. You feel to the Peace Movement and the Ecological Movement discovered the parliaments as a platform to win the green party formed a government with the center left social democrats in 1998, it looked like time was up when you clear power. And the year 2000, the red green government decided to phase out Nuclear Power when a time when 100 homes are in the lead. We started a process of negotiation with the companies about the maximum lifespan of each plant, which until then had been unlimited against one. We wanted to limit them to enable a phased shutdown for and that meant that once all the existing reactors that had started operating in the seventys and eightys reached the end of their lifespan, Nuclear Phase out in germany would happen automatically, was at school, or receive crowd support from the me, jad, from the general public is until the summer was yesterdays news. It needed to recapture the excitement of the it then came the chance of a comeback. The very 1st time i heard the term little warming was from a Nuclear Power industry executive in 1981. When i said what is that . And he explained what the warming was. He says thats why we cant rely on coal. He says, just once, id like to pick up the phone and say, atomic industrial form, coal kills n. A. C. Is a story that is still being busy. Lets continue writing with less c o 2. By the 2000 people had become to realize that Global Warming was a severe problem and people in fire, even leading environmentalists began to say, well, maybe wed better rethink Nuclear Power. The threat of Climate Change prompted us to, to ask the question, if we wanted to build Nuclear Plants in the United States by the year 2010, what would it take . So we started to ask that question. Could the department vary . But also there were policy makers, senator pete domenici, was the leading voice in the congress on this. I think we all know that the world must have Nuclear Power as soon as possible. It is time for this country to Start Building Nuclear Power plants. Again, we are announcing roughly 8000000000. 00 in loan guarantees to break ground on the 1st new Nuclear Plant in our conference in 3 decades. And the 1st report the u. S. Nuclear industry was brimming over with renewed confidence as 13 Companies Applied to build 25 new reactors. And the mood was changing in the u. K. 2. By 2025, if current policy is unchanged, there will be a dramatic gap on our targets to reduce c o 2 emissions. These facts puts the replacement of Nuclear Power stations back on the agenda with a vengeance. I suppose we shouldnt be surprised that the politicians say one thing in opposition. Nothing in government, but thats what happens. Im not certain. What humphrey was often reported to tony blair wanted to leave a strong legacy. Another part of his legacy, most perhaps launching a Nuclear Power program that would solve the problem of Global Warming. Insulating a few lofts bringing in a few Small Wind Turbines on land, doesnt have that same impressive sound too as launching a huge Nuclear Power program. Blow, success is equally enthusiastic. In 2008, gordon brown called to aid you Nuclear Plants to be built across the u. K. And in 2010, David Camerons new Coalition Government gave those plans the green light. Even the germans look sick to give the atom another chance. The Nuclear Industry knew that america, rethinking her previous position, and then when the c. D. U. And the liberal party, the f. T. P. Form to government, they actually agreed to go back on the decision and not to face out Nuclear Energy is going to do you also the basic idea at the time was to use Nuclear Power plants for as long as was technically feasible. When you dont use them longer tax the resulting additional income. And then use this tax to finance changes to the Energy Policy landscape in germany or france or from them. And france was hoping to repeat its new cars to excess on the International Stage because he came to power many of the trips he made a broad involved seeking nuclear deal. He signed contracts with china. He signed Nuclear Cooperation agreements with several countries in north africa. And the middle east, you need to keep in mind that you cant build endless numbers of reactors in france, no matter how enthusiastic you get about it. The extraordinary thing that happened looking back was the british energy. The British Nuclear industry became, effectively the french Nuclear Industry and was taken over by e. D. F. , the french government, state adventure country. As the 1st decade of the new century came to a close, the nuclear and i saw it was in full swing. But then you know, i still remember the morning when i woke up and heard it was an earthquake and tsunami in japan. And i saw me start, think about friends i have in japan. So i went to the office and it was, you know, trying to restrict light by email, but also watching events on t. V. And then we started no notice that there was a problem. That one who powerplays in the early years, the worst radioactivity in the, in the planet came from all the weapons testing. Now its coming from the outside and on the civilian side. But i remember it was one senior staff person who was watching the new video on television, and he was almost in tears. And i remember he turned to me and said, you know, i spent my whole career trying to keep Something Like this from happening. And now im watching it happen on television, and it was really a very emotional moment. This was a western designed reactor, and this was also japan. And this is a country, a highly advanced country with excellent engineers. And somehow this still have happened. You could see that the Nuclear Industries damage limitation machine had moved into action as fate would have it. I was actually myself traveling with my wife through japan. And for me personally, i remember hearing these reassurances from the japanese government and i couldnt help. But thinking of the sort of irony of this message that the country that for that had been such a target of this peaceful adam message in the 1950 s. Was now itself putting out its own version of reassurance of Atomic Energy. A p. R. Faced with the biggest p. R. Headache since 2 noble governments in the Nuclear Industry, closed ranks. With one notable exception to me because she was after fukushima, things have changed. If you get is about the liability of risk prediction. And about the reliability of probability analysis there for the use of Nuclear Energy and germany will be brought to an end by 2022. Mostly because theres always that and you have to see it as a final step in a very long goodbye to Nuclear Power. Thats been going on since the 1970 s. And its hot taiwan find a single Political Party today of whatever color thats prepared to even talk about doing anything with Nuclear Energy that topic at this point, solar and wind power are growing so fast and the costs are declining so rapidly that nuclear is like this all dinosaur, they cant possibly keep up the only Nuclear Power plant in massachusetts will be shutting down by 2019 study californias changing energy landscape. Pacific gas and electric is closing diable canyon. The real factor in the United States is just practicalities. I mean, we have the discovery of natural gas in large quantities and its much cheaper and its much easier. Because Nuclear Power still has its champions. One of the things we want to do a deal way to make Nuclear Energy cool. You know, one of the problems that the people who object to Nuclear Power really have and can we solve those . Technically . Can we make Nuclear Power that doesnt produce waste . The last for hundreds, thousands of years, can we make Nuclear Power plants . They can melt down. And i think the answer those questions actually yes. I know you can be confident to get going to happen this time in the west. I think the country today is going to happen in the far east. Some of the oldest player china make no mistake about it. This is an important day for britain. A british plant financed by france and china. The focus has been on, a plant called Hinkley Point c. And the claim was made by a. T. F. That this would be done absolutely without any public subsidy, which turned out of course, to be complete nonsense the subsidies got less and less well the skies until they got to the point where they were offering a guaranteed price for the electricity for 35 years, at 3 times the going rate in the u. K. This is the publics it right off and ranks it to raise them a question. The deal made between camerons comments and the ath, who got them like a moron. It couldnt have it. And the chinese intervened. And it seems they managed to get mays government to reconsider the realm of things went ahead. After all, as america consider china is becoming a Nuclear Energy exporting powerhouse. The country is building reactors at home and selling its expertise brought in china to resistance to atomic. Power is growing amid mounting concerns regarding health and safety and future costs. Its an inherently political to knowledge because of the nature of the, the risk from the safety aspect. For decades, scientists and politicians for Nuclear Power as the technology of the future. One of which they were best equipped to decide here for the public would just leave them alone. They would control the technology, they would fix the problems with reactions. You know, if they just let us keep working, were going to take care of all your concerns and all your problems. But when it comes to the relationship between the atom in us, history suggests that in the end, it will surely be us. We just signed people who are so in computers, figure world kinds of reasons. People were broken. So these guys are very good water and the reasons are Nuclear Power plants. Because thats, thats where theyre selling. Its really we have to decide if we want to buy a small victory on the start 10 or join us cause my even in coronavirus times, it is not easy to dodge him each day on the most conscious certain spam filters. Why are people forced to hide in trucks . Muck . 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