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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