There has been endless hand-wringing and finger-pointing following the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. But the full effects of the disaster are still shrouded in secrecy, and both TEPCO and the Japanese Government have limited any meaningful analysis of the disaster’s impact on health and the environment. Featuring interviews with scientists and whistle-blowers, this unwavering documentary reveals the political and financial interests at work behind the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
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00:30Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh,
00:57my God, my God, my God, I wish you a great day today.
01:10Oh
01:40Oh
02:10Oh
02:1716,000 people died that day and 2,500 went missing
02:27For the rest it was a lifetime traumatic incident
02:34Many many people lost everything
02:41But
02:45The worst was yet to come
02:47The earthquake created a power blackout at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
02:52The emergency generators started but did not run for long
02:55The cooling pumps did not restart and about 45 minutes later. The tsunami reached the nuclear plant
03:02The entire nuclear plant quickly became out of control
03:08Without the cooling pumps the temperature of each reactor went off the chart. A multiple meltdown was threatening to happen
03:21Starting March 12th
03:222011 one of the six reactor units exploded followed not long after by two others
03:29Releasing an unprecedented amount of nuclear radiation into the air
03:37Fukushima is the world's largest ever
03:41industrial catastrophe and
03:45Within hours. It's clear that
03:48Tepco the company
03:50managing the the complex
03:53Had no proper emergency plan
03:56So that the CEO of Tepco as the Japanese say
04:03He fell like a dog into the river
04:06For five nights and days. He locked himself inside his office
04:11Refused any media appearances did not communicate with his staff. This company was not prepared
04:19Despite the extremely risky business. It was not prepared
04:24For the catastrophe that unfolded and
04:28You can say that actually the catastrophe was worsened by the fact that this company had wrapped itself in silence
04:39Things were made worse by the use of what is called the Keisha Club system the Keisha Club system is
04:48Embedded journalism, so the company had living inside
04:53the organization a team of journalists whose job
04:57was to
04:58Present to the outside world in a highly risky industry to present only good news to Japanese media and the world
05:14According to multiple newspaper
05:16Investigations two agencies were involved in the cover-up the Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency and the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry
05:25One is the government regulator and the other is promoting the nuclear industry. They are also known as the nuclear village
05:35Because this illegal collaboration also involves the media that relies on energy industry advertising
05:41Japanese organized crime
05:44Cover-ups and political corruption some analysts refer to the nuclear village as the nuclear mafia
05:51Japanese media was ordered to censor information
05:55The Japanese government failed to protect its people
06:14That day
06:17Because all the train and subway was stopped. I was stuck in Tokyo. I live three hours away from Tokyo
06:23And I couldn't go home
06:25I couldn't call my family and I stayed in that building that night with a hundred other people who couldn't go home and
06:32the TV was on
06:34that night and we were around the TV watching the tsunami waves taking people and cars into the ocean and
06:43I remember about
06:45Maybe nine or ten o'clock at night
06:48the announcer didn't say anything about it, but there was a
06:52in writing it said
06:56station blackout at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants and
07:01my heart cringed
07:04Wow
07:06that means it lose power and
07:09And
07:10Nuclear core will start to melt within I don't know hour or two
07:16So I thought that night the Fukushima
07:22nuclear power plants gonna go meltdown and
07:25I still couldn't connect with my family and I was thinking about evacuating
07:31Because if the meltdown happens, you don't know where the plume gonna go and I have small children
07:38I don't want them to be exposed to radiation and in the morning
07:44At maybe 6 I went to the station waiting for the train to move
07:49but no train was moving and I had to search for information which train is moving and I found
07:57One subway moving to another subway and going to my direction and slowly
08:03I started making progress to towards where my house is
08:07And then I was able to connect with my husband and we both agreed. We should evacuate
08:14As soon as possible
08:16For fear of radiation coming to our way
08:21but on TV
08:22they said it's under control and
08:25They kept saying that for two months, you know, the nuclear power plant was already
08:31Melted and it's even exploded, but they never admitted the meltdown until May
08:38so people in Fukushima during that time were
08:42Severely exposed to radiation because they have to go out get water water was shut down
08:47so they have to line up for the water and food and
08:51Woman with babies they are outside when the strong radiation was being emitted to them
09:00The day of the accident the Japanese government ordered an evacuation within a three kilometer radius
09:07After the first explosion of one of the reactor units, they expanded the evacuation area to 20 kilometers
09:14On March 15th after two more reactor units exploded the government instructed residents
09:21Inside the 20 to 30 kilometer radius zone to stay inside their houses
09:27The radiation level around Fukushima Daiichi was precisely known but not released from the government on
09:35March 15th people were not aware of the highly radioactive particles spreading northwest of the nuclear plant by the wind and the rain
09:46Also because of many changes in government instructions
09:49Many residents around the nuclear plant were forced to move multiple times
09:53And were thus exposed to a very contaminated area with a radiation level 200 times higher than the background level
10:01But for others who were evacuated in low radiation areas within about a month it was too late
10:08They had already been exposed and contaminated. I
10:13Got to know Naoto Khan pretty well in the four or five times. We've met here in the United States on speaking tours
10:21and he said that
10:23direct quote
10:24Our existence as a sovereign nation was at stake
10:29Because of the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi and I said to him
10:36Mr. Prime Minister. I
10:39Think you did the right thing with the information you had
10:43And he turned to me and he said the information I had was neither timely
10:49nor accurate
10:51So the people that operated the reactor Tokyo Electric and his own regulators
10:57Were lying to
11:01I know
11:03Nissen June 10th and 11th, you know, Fukushima Genpachi, Ko
11:08Korewa Mazu
11:10Oki, Kuite, Futatsu no game day
11:13Okita, Genpachi, Kota, Nissa
11:15He thought so I you might be myself
11:19Work when you're at the mall. Let's take me money. Ni mil. Okina. She's into tsunami
11:25so they know they
11:26should not die. She can pass no
11:29Subitano, they can go so she's awesome
11:31Sorry, God
11:32Die, it's no game
11:34She just want more so to Okinagan
11:39So they were
11:41a Zen Dangan so it's
11:43are you a
11:45No, no, no, okina tsunami
11:47Do you go to Mataku?
11:49So they stay in a cut
11:51So it's a sorry. It's an itinerant
11:53Oh
11:55Junpy hard no menu item or soft no menu item. Oh, it's a so star
12:01Kotoni so now you're still in a cut
12:05Yabba, Gina
12:10After the nuclear accident
12:12Prime Minister Naoto Khan ordered all nuclear plants to be shut down for safety
12:17He resigned from his position in August
12:202011 with the condition for his government to move into renewable energy and to rebuild the damages from this disaster
12:28After his departure, he became an advocate against nuclear power
12:34However in 2012 nuclear advocate Chinzo Abe won the election and became prime minister
12:44Not long after in
12:462014 his government forced people back to their homes in supposedly
12:51decontaminated areas where they would lose their government support
12:56The cruelty the cynicism of this of this government and one other thing I want to tell you for sure that I found out that
13:05Nearly every member of Parliament leaders of the major political parties
13:09Executives of all the corporations have moved their families out of Japan
13:14Shanghai is the largest community Japanese community outside Japan now
13:19Hundreds of thousand people they're living in luxury apartments while these same people are telling the people Fukushima go home
13:27Okay, ten kilometers from Fukushima go home. It's safe
13:31While their families are overseas in Los Angeles and Paris and London and in Shanghai
13:40If it's safe why they left
13:43They tell us it's safe to live in Fukushima and to eat
13:48Fukushima food and they promote eat Fukushima food to support the Fukushima people. There's a campaign by Japanese government
13:57You know you eat Fukushima rice or Fukushima produce to support and people
14:03Believe it like they they do want they have compassion for Fukushima people
14:08So they want to support right and if if the government do that kind of campaign, they they believe it and they do it
14:16I was there in Fukushima my first visit. I've been inside the Fukushima exclusion zone ten times
14:21My first time was in April. I went soon thereafter in June
14:25I got radiation burns all over it hurt right down to the marrow
14:29You could feel it right down to the marrow of your bone your skin gets red and it leaves a lot of spots
14:33So the contamination was very serious and you could see it when I was walking down the street in Soma the town of Soma
14:39By the coast north of Fukushima. She has the sky has been so strange
14:43It's so weird the colors in the sky
14:45And yeah, you can see these rainbow hues in the sky all our very weird light and this is all from radiation
14:52There was massive amount of radiation
14:54Another thing I feel about the Fukushima people and children is the medical society
15:01Is trying to get the live data
15:04They're doing big research on
15:09Human research, you know, they usually use mouse or the animals for testing
15:15They are testing humans real life like humans and see what happens to
15:22long term low level radiation
15:27at Fukushima Daiichi
15:29We're at the world is already seeing
15:32deaths from from cancers related to the disaster
15:37The TEPCO worker has recently been diagnosed with leukemia and several others have also died of cancer already
15:46And there'll be many many more over over time the numbers we're getting about the exposure to the Japanese workers are
15:53distorted
15:55on top of that we're finding a
15:58Huge increase in thyroid cancers in the surrounding population
16:03on the order of 50 times higher
16:07Thyroid cancer risks to children than would be statistically expected
16:13It's a serious problem and it's going to get worse
16:17Unfortunately, the Japanese government's not telling us all the evidence
16:21There's a lot of pressure on the scientists and on the medical community to distort the evidence so that there's no
16:30There's no blowback about nuclear power
16:35In May 2012
16:37The UN reported that aside from skin contamination of several workers
16:42No clinically observable effects have been reported and there is no evidence of severe radiation injury of the 20,000 workers who?
16:51Participated in TEPCO's effort to reduce the accident at the plant
16:58In their final report in April
17:012014 they concluded that the rates of cancer or hereditary diseases on the population
17:06Does not show any apparent rise because the radiation doses were too low
17:12The most important health effect is on mental and social well-being because of the tremendous impact of the earthquake
17:19Tsunami and nuclear accident and the fear and stigma about the risk of exposure to radiation
17:27Numerous Japanese doctors who've told us that if they tell their patients
17:33What's really happening that their illness or their cancer was caused by Fukushima Daiichi
17:40They'll lose their hospital privileges and they'll no longer be able to practice medicine
17:45There's also a thing in Japan called the State Secrets Act and the Abe
17:50Administration is actually capable of throwing scientists in jail if they publish information about these cancers
17:58In the first year after the nuclear disaster there were numerous
18:04Studies indicating bloody noses were increasing in school one teacher had 24 of his 25 students had bloody
18:12Noses on the same day
18:14now that's not normal and and yet the Japanese establishment is attributing the bloody noses or the hair loss or the
18:24Horses in the throat to the stress from the nuclear accident, but not from the radiation
18:30In fact, it's definitely all of these symptoms
18:34Related to the radiation release from Fukushima Daiichi
18:39But what is radiation
18:42Deep inside the center of every atom are tiny particles called protons
18:47Combined with other particles called neutrons and surrounded by a shield of electrons
18:52altogether creating an electric balance
18:59Some atoms have the right ratio of protons to neutrons while in others the ratio is wrong
19:05Making the atom unstable and creating radiation in the form of gamma rays beta and alpha particles
19:16Gamma ray radiation is a pure energy that causes disruption of the electron shield
19:22Which destabilizes the atom and its electric neutrality causing the atom to become abnormal?
19:29When
19:32Radioactive atoms touch a cell in our bodies
19:35The particles released create a cascade of damaging changes within the cell and its electrical balance resulting in collapse and death
19:47If the radioactive atom is not removed it will continue to damage cells around it
19:59When
20:01These radioactive atoms get inside a cell they contact and then damage the DNA
20:08Disrupting its electric balance causing the cell to undergo pathological reproduction
20:13resulting in cancerous masses
20:21At a low but continuous level of radiation a
20:24Cancer can take anywhere from 2 to 40 years to form depending on the location in the body and the concentration level in tissues
20:34At extreme contamination the impact on tissues can cause death in a very short time
20:41Let's look inside a nuclear reactor an
20:44Astonishing amount of uranium atoms are split every second in a chain reaction
20:50creating a tremendous amount of new smaller radioactive atoms
20:54If these radioactive atoms escape they are tremendously damaging to all life-forms
21:01humans animal fish and vegetation
21:04all nuclear disasters release
21:07Monumental amounts of radioactive atoms into the atmosphere and into the ocean potentially harming all life in their path
21:19Whenever you are taking in the forms of radiation that have come from
21:24the nuclear plants
21:26Parts of them are airborne. Some of them are in water
21:29Some of them come into the soil and as the energy comes off of these they are damaging tissues
21:36Whether you're in physical contact with them or close to them or internally will do damage to
21:43mitochondria to the cell membranes
21:45To the DNA in the nucleus itself. So all structures of cellular physiology are damaged by radiation
21:54Radiation experience from nuclear power plants can mutate or damage a DNA molecule
22:01Which is a gene damage it biochemically
22:04That's called a mutation in every cell
22:07There's a gene that regulates the rate of cell division called the regulatory gene
22:12And if that gene is mutated and the cell survives
22:16years later
22:185, 10, 15, 20, 30 years later the cell will divide in an
22:24uncontrolled fashion
22:25Into trillions of cells and that's a cancer
22:28We can't generally stop that cancerous growth and the cancer cells spread all over the body
22:34They infiltrate lymph vessels blood vessels one cell will rise from the prostate
22:40Be it a cancer from the bowel be it a cancer from the breast be it a cancer up to the brain to cause
22:46Secondary cancers so a cancer is really a parasite
22:50It survives it thrives the body decays and then finally the body dies and the cancer dies
22:58Nuclear radiation symptoms are somewhat different many people will begin to experience hair loss
23:04Others will find burning in the skin on the area that was exposed some will become nauseated
23:10some will go into
23:13Gastric failure, and they will begin to vomit blood if there's a lot of neurological damage. They could have seizures
23:19long-term they can turn into cancer or
23:23Dementia other cells can go into atrophy it just depends upon where they've been damaged the type of radiation and the cumulative effect
23:31And
23:38Why do we have these atomic reactors and these atomic power plants every plant when it operates
23:46Makes plutonium and that plutonium waste is left
23:51These lead all the way back to nuclear weapons atomic weapons
23:56Atomic bombs and the atomic bombs are made from the waste of reactors
24:02And there's no solution for what to do with any of this waste. It doesn't exist anywhere on the planet
24:11Atomic power came as part of the atoms for peace program from the atomic bomb and
24:18these atomic reactors
24:21the industry said that
24:23Electricity would be too cheap to meter
24:26Atomic power is now the most expensive power there is on the planet
24:33It is not feasible. It never has been because the externalities. That's the financial term
24:41For the costs that are not factored in the cost of mining
24:45the cost of
24:48Baking the uranium into fuel rods and shipping it and and putting it in the plants the cost of cleaning up
24:56The waste at the mine sites and the chemical process that's done to leach
25:02The uranium out of the ground. None of that is factored in at the end of life of a nuclear plant. It has to be
25:10Dismantled decommissioned is is the process and then supposedly store the waste
25:17But where and how?
25:19There is literally no technology available that can do that
25:25Permanently, it doesn't exist and any organization that tells you all we can store the waste for as long as we have to
25:32the maximum
25:34Amount is a hundred years that these technologies will even work
25:40There's one repository in Finland that claims
25:45250 years
25:46But the waste is going to be here for
25:51250,000 years
25:58We're all seeing a
26:00global political agreement among the least least centered in the UN organizations the IAEA United Nations the
26:08World Health Organization whitewashing all of this the environment agency
26:13All the international agencies are whitewashing what's happening in Fukushima we take dosimeters and Geiger counters in there
26:19We see a much different story and you know, there's not many people go in the exclusion zone
26:25Okay, I'm one of the few because if you want to stay overnight bring a tent and I tell you at nighttime
26:31when
26:32There's down draft from the mountains radiation rises by three times
26:39When I first
26:41Joined the nuclear industry. I had looked at
26:45atomic bomb and
26:47Thought that the atoms for peace program
26:51Was something that would change?
26:54weapons of war into instruments of peace
26:58In my role as a public relations rep for the nuclear industry that I would be helping
27:04People around the globe and especially here in the US and I was wrong. I was really really wrong
27:11The things that I was taught
27:14Simply aren't true the things that I learned from the nuclear industry in the classes that I took with my journalism background
27:22total untruths and as we've learned from the meltdowns at
27:28Three Mile Island
27:30Chernobyl
27:32Fukushima Daiichi
27:34We learned that none of the systems the industry taught me
27:40Were built in
27:42to protect
27:44Our species protect women and children to protect life on this planet
27:50They don't work they failed
27:52some of the lies were that for example
27:55containment never leak a
27:58containment built around the atomic reactor is
28:02Put in place to prevent any radiation from escaping
28:07yet
28:08It escapes every day as nuclear power plants operate and then when too much builds up
28:16The operators often vent their reactors or in the case of any kind of
28:23Mishap in the reactor they vent radiation to make sure that they don't explode like they did a Taiichi
28:31So these containments not only do they leak?
28:36When there's a calamity happening, but they also leak on a regular basis
28:43They just do not contain the radiation
28:46the industry
28:49Was based out of the Manhattan Project
28:52so that was weapons manufacture much of it was done in secrecy and
28:58A lot of the terminology is what I call nukespeak. There was even a book put out
29:05Maybe 30 years ago called nukespeak and
29:09It talks about the jargon the industry uses and how hard it is for people to understand that jargon
29:17The expert witness testimony that we've done
29:20Will I'm very careful to make sure that we clearly define all these terms
29:27In lay language so that the average person journalist filmmaker
29:32judge
29:33jury
29:35legislator can
29:37understand what is being said so the everyday person knows and
29:42the industry has several times criticized us and
29:45Tried to have our reports thrown out saying that they're not technical enough yet. All the technical information is in there
29:54There was a special federal study in Germany that the politicians chose to do because they expected it to
30:02Substantiate what the industry was saying that nothing happened around nuclear power plants, but what they found was that
30:10within
30:12Different circles around the plant, you know, three kilometers six kilometers within distances
30:19the radiation
30:20releases caused
30:22Significant numbers of childhood leukemias you could see it in the u.s
30:27the nuclear industry has fought consistently to not have that data made public and
30:32the United States finally got funding and they started through the National Institute of Health to
30:39Do the same study that was done in Germany?
30:42Lo and behold just a month ago. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said
30:49It's no longer going
30:51To do that study. It doesn't have enough funding and it has to shut it down
30:56and and my
30:58Supposition and the doctors I've spoken to and the scientists I've spoken to is they're already getting data
31:04They don't want to make public. I
31:07Was a reporter and
31:09Reporters don't really read their editors tell them. Oh this
31:15Corporation just announced that they did XYZ
31:19Check it out read the report. Well, the report is 450 pages
31:23They can't decipher that they don't understand the nuke speak so
31:28They'll take a whitewash that the nuclear lobbyists have given to them nuclear energy
31:34Institute is a big spokes company for the industry and the media just repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and
31:41No one can get the truth out. It's very very difficult the media some media covers us now because we've created a
31:50Reputation of speaking truth to power
31:56Following the disaster during April and May
32:002011 more than
32:02300,000 tons of radioactive water had been discharged into the Pacific Ocean in
32:08July 2013
32:10despite the repeated denial of leaks
32:13Tepco finally admitted that radiation contamination of groundwater had indeed been happening
32:19There's been massive dumping of water from Fukushima into the water since 211 and which continues and the types of compounds
32:27The ratios are changing but still massively radioactive mix flows across the North Pacific on the North Pacific current to
32:35around Vancouver
32:36Area British Columbia where it splits apart
32:39the northern branch going to the Alaska current and the southern going down the California current going down the coast to Peru and
32:47The
32:48trade winds current across the Pacific to the Philippines that whole
32:54Cycle now has been completed. So we've got a whole cycle circulation of radioactive water going around
33:03The airborne releases are relatively low at this point but not zero
33:08but now we're getting the water and it's like a
33:12Bathtub that has not been the the the spigot has not been closed off on
33:18The water that we are now seeing in the Pacific has traveled all the way from Japan
33:235,000 miles the Pacific's a big place and has diluted the amount of radiation
33:29But it hasn't gone away and it's going to continue until
33:34Fukushima stops leaking into the Pacific the solution to
33:39Reducing the amount of war of radiation in the Pacific is to stop the leaks at Fukushima Daiichi
33:46And the Japanese government has done a terrible job of that and the international community has not stepped in and said hey
33:53Let's all help here
33:56They've left it to Tokyo Electric the incompetent operators that caused the disaster in the first place and the Japanese
34:03Government to solve and they've been very ineffective at stopping the leaks into the Pacific. So we're gonna see
34:10bio accumulation, which is how
34:13Radiation lies on the sediment and gets absorbed and increased by seaweed
34:18Something eats the seaweed gets absorbed by a little fish something eats a little fish gets absorbed by a bigger fish
34:24We're gonna see these radiation levels bio accumulate up the food chain
34:29for years
34:31Until they stop the leaks at Fukushima Daiichi, you know fish swim thousands of miles
34:36So no one's testing the fish on the west coast of Canada or America
34:41Fish could swim down to Australia
34:44You don't know you're eating radioactive
34:47Fish because you can't taste smell or see it. So it's a silent
34:53insidious
34:54cryptogenic killer
34:57When I went to school that there was this concept of dilution is the solution to pollution and
35:03the Japanese are saying that by
35:07releasing huge amounts of
35:09Radiation into the Pacific it's being diluted out and and no one's in danger that that's wrong
35:17there will be
35:19thousands of people in the Pacific Basin
35:22Who die of that radiation over then over the life of the radiation which is 300 years
35:28The the issue really is that they won't be able to say it's you who had cancer
35:36they can spread out the
35:38exposure over a large enough population that
35:42They won't be able to identify who it was who died
35:46But that people will die is certain and that it'll be tens of thousands of people around the Pacific Basin is also certain
35:54Everybody knows that and nobody wants to talk about it. There is no safe level of radiation
36:00I repeat there is no safe level of radiation each dose of radiation
36:05You receive is cumulative and adds to your risk of getting cancer. That's
36:10Absolutely documented in the medical literature, but the nuclear industry will say well
36:14There are safe doses and they're even saying well a little bit of radiation is actually good for you
36:19And that's called the theory of hormesis. They lie and they lie and they lie
36:27In 2015 marine scientists found that the radiation from Fukushima had reached the west coast of Canada
36:35Despite the low level found along the coast the unanswered question remains
36:42in the long run how much of this low-level radiation could harm marine life and human life and
36:49Since Fukushima is still leaking. What about the accumulation of radiation that will increase in the years to come?
36:57Scientists and oceanographers found tuna with traces of Fukushima related
37:02Contamination across the Pacific on the shores of the United States
37:07aside from the leakage and dumping into the ocean since
37:112011
37:12Fukushima Daiichi has accumulated more than 1 million tons of wastewater
37:17Stored in more than 1,000 tanks on the land of the nuclear plant
37:22It's ran out of land for water tanks by
37:252022
37:27It has been suggested that the government could have solved the problem by allocating more land surrounding the power plant for water tanks since the
37:34Surrounding area had been designated as unsuitable for humans
37:39Regardless the government was reluctant to act on
37:43April 13th
37:452021 the cabinet of Prime Minister Suga
37:49Unanimously approved that TEPCO will dump the stored water into the Pacific Ocean over a course of 30 years
37:56starting March
37:572023
37:59Many scientists and experts around the world are condemning Japan's solution saying that it will create a bigger
38:05Disaster a threat to marine life and ultimately human life
38:10in an official statement from an expert panel in August
38:152022 to the Japanese government and TEPCO
38:17It was said the Japanese government's intention to dump its radioactive water into the ocean is very inadequate
38:24There is no scientific basis that could say that the effect on the ecosystems will be minimal
38:30The idea of dilution being the solution to pollution is outdated and not true anymore
38:40Other nations are also very concerned about Japan's plan
38:45in
38:482022 at the Pacific Islands forum leaders meeting held in Fiji Pacific Island countries expressed their concerns about it
38:57in Vanuatu for example an
39:00archipelago of 83 islands in the South Pacific
39:03opposition members of Parliament made a call for the Vanuatu government to protest against Japan's intention to
39:09Contaminate the Pacific Ocean from where their people get much of their sustenance
39:14There is something all Pacific Island countries share and it is the ocean when something happens at the other side
39:21We are also affected
39:23So I believe we have the right to say no to the Japan solution
39:27We can't let them jeopardize our sustenance and our livelihood
39:31Our people here are surviving mainly on the land, but also out of the ocean
39:37So for the sake of our people our country and the sake of the Pacific Island nations
39:42We asked Japan to reconsider what they are about to do
39:51Until a solution is found that can neutralize any radiation that we have created
39:57Nuclear energy is not sustainable, but we are not there yet if we ever will
40:04Some scientists around the globe are working on solutions
40:08Nuclear scientist Randy milky believes he can clean the radioactive race water at Fukushima
40:15What I've designed is what we call a bio optimized bioremediation system
40:20one of the greatest benefits of biofilms is its ability to
40:26capture heavy metals or
40:29contaminants in a specific environment
40:32When you take toxic water and
40:36Flow it across biofilms those toxins are absorbed by the biofilms and
40:41What you get at the end of this biofilm stream is clean water that has removed all of that
40:48Contaminant that was in that original water source and that's what's great about the Bob system or the bio optimized
40:55bioremediation system that I've designed is
40:57that you can
41:00Take this to any site and
41:02Grow with the consortium of bacteria that are already there and give them a surface to grow on and then you can remove
41:10the contaminant from that water source and then ultimately
41:14Harvest that biofilm and then you take that contaminant and make it into a hazardous waste
41:21We went through two years of back and forth trying to prove our technology our Bob system for use at
41:29Fukushima for cleaning up the water that was being used to cool down the reactor
41:37one of the main reasons they didn't use it was because
41:41During that time a crack occurred in that water system and the water went out into the ocean. And so they basically
41:49stopped all talk with us after that water was gone and they didn't have any use for my system anymore because
41:57It wasn't there anymore
42:02The water going in the ocean is coming from upstream and so you have water flowing across the site underneath it all the soils
42:10Contaminated so it's flowing in that direction
42:12But they have water that they're pumping in from the ocean that they're cooling down the reactor all the time
42:19And they're taking that water now and putting it into
42:2310,000 gallon barrels and stacking them on the beach
42:26And this is where I would like to see my technology applied is to clean up that water sitting there and not throw it in
42:34The ocean again, but clean up that water with the bio optimized bioremediation system that can remove that radioactive nucleotide from the water
42:43Isolated in biofilm and then turn it into glass bricks where it doesn't impact environments ever again. I
42:51I
42:54Get out of college in 1972 and
42:58By 1980 there was already one
43:01atomic meltdown at Three Mile Island and then in the
43:051986 there was another meltdown at Chernobyl and then there was a period of two decades where there were no new meltdowns
43:13until in
43:142011 we had three meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi
43:19So that's five meltdowns in my in my career
43:22So five meltdowns in 35 years is a meltdown every seven years roughly
43:28Or essentially once every decade the world
43:32Needs to recognize that there will be an atomic meltdown somewhere
43:37Might be in France. It might be in Russia. It might be in the US, but
43:43Statistically we know that roughly once every decade based on the evidence of the last 40 years
43:49We're going to have a meltdown every
43:53decade
43:56The nuclear industry is saying they would like to build as many as
44:005,000 new nuclear plants or ten times more nuclear plants than we have today
44:06Which of course makes the problem of what are we going to do with this hot radioactive fuel for a quarter of a million years
44:13ten times more difficult
44:16Fukushima Daiichi has shown
44:19the damage that can be caused by an earthquake and the subsequent tsunami and that earthquake
44:26Was miles and miles out at sea
44:30I'm not just worried about
44:33What radiation is coming from the continuing operation, but I'm worried about
44:39The disasters and the meltdowns that have happened beginning with wind scale back in
44:461957 in UK
44:47That was one of the worst nuclear disasters or here in California the San Susanna
44:54reactor meltdown that that was never publicized the Department of Energy covered it up and
45:01All of this radiation
45:04Constantly constantly
45:06There have been so many
45:08nuclear
45:10reactor
45:11meltdowns atomic reactor meltdowns
45:14it's mind-boggling and
45:16Most of them have been covered up and then there's the issue of waste abandonment
45:21many of these plants that are being dismantled and
45:25And
45:26They're attempting to store waste don't have enough money to even take care of the plant for 20-30 years
45:34let alone this an
45:37Astronomical 250,000 years that this waste needs to be monitored protected
45:45How are we going to do this we shouldn't be making any more waste
45:49Hopefully the world will come to its senses and and realize that renewable power is
45:55No longer alternative power
45:58It's on the doorstep. It's here now and it works and it's cheaper than nuclear a
46:04Windmill produces power at about three cents a solar array at about five cents
46:09But a new nuclear plant produces power at 15 cents
46:13Why are we doing this? It makes no economic sense
46:17And hopefully Wall Street will say the same thing then refuse to fund these new nuclear power plants in the future
46:25But we're all stuck with this legacy of what to do with 450 mistakes that we made over the last 50 years
46:34If I was going to say anything special to
46:38People around the globe to hear I would say
46:42I'm a I'm a woman
46:45I'm a I'm a woman and
46:47I
46:48feel that
46:50It's inherent to us as women to protect
46:54Our children our grandchildren and it's our job now to raise our voices to have this madness stop
47:01I
47:13Want to bring
47:17This planet back
47:21To a
47:23Peaceful place
47:25We have war on on every continent
47:30We need to plan for peace and we need to plan a future for the generations that we're bringing into this world
47:40Clean water
47:42Adequate food
47:45And an environment that that they can breathe the air and run in the Sun
47:54I want that for these children
47:59I
48:19Ladies and gentlemen, the decision is ours
48:22Never have the nations of the world
48:24Had so much to lose or so much to gain
48:28Together we shall save our planet or together. We shall perish in its name
48:35Save it we can
48:38And save it we must
48:40And then shall we earn?
48:43the eternal thanks of mankind
48:46and as peacemakers
48:48the eternal blessing of God
48:57You
49:27You
49:57You
50:27You