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From having to sit through a donald trump joe biden debate on cognitive decline now a very very real possibility to the coronavirus still on the rampage across the globe things my friends things are looking very bleak these days so bleak that even the 2020 olympics appear to be in jeopardy is the quadrennial gathering of the worlds greatest athletes representing their respective nations on the grandest stage of the mall is facing not one but 2 potential threats this year not only is there now very real talk of the games being postponed due the global effects to contain him due to the global efforts to contain the corona virus but now greenpeace he has greenpeace is reporting that like a zombie in the 3rd act of a 2 bit horror movie fukushima may put a dent in this years Olympic Games i kid you not the Nuclear Disaster of 2011 has clawed out of the ground once again you see despite japanese Prime Minister declaring that the fukushima situation was under control back in 2013 greenpeace is reporting that 7 years later there still remains a Nuclear Emergency at the Nuclear Plant and surrounding areas how bad is it well according to greenpeace as recently as december of last year they had detected some spots with radiation levels as high as 1. 00 micro severed per hour when measured on the metal on the meter above the surface and that tepco the company who operated the torrijos Nuclear Facility is still facing the enormous challenges of how to safely manage over 1000000 tons of contaminated water at the site and as much as 880. 00 tons of nuclear fuel. 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World everybody to watching the hawks i robot and i know me and joining us is radioactive waste watchdog kevin cams from beyond nuclear thank you so much for coming on the base for having me look lets cut right to the bone here and how bad is the situation at the fukushima disaster sites because we havent even brought up or talked about fukushima a long time since youre 212013 you know i mean what kind of dilemma is tepco sitting on with like you know a 1000000 tons of contaminated water theyre still trying to figure out what to do with we know the lies about the olympics go back to 2012 thats one still serving japanese Prime Minister abbay said to the International Olympic committee please come to japan in summer 2020 Fukushima Daiichi is under control that was a lie that was a very serious lie that he told they won the games the lies do continue to this time and you mention the greenpeace report theyve done really cutting edge work theyve showed that across downtown fukushima city there are hot spots all over the place that need to be cleaned up before large numbers of people come in from around the world to watch the games even at the softball and baseball stadium which is near fukushima city where the olympics will be held you know those events there are serious contamination spots and even worse than all that is the j. Village its a soccer complex very near Fukushima DaiichiNuclear Power plant which fortunately didnt go up on march 11th you know 9 years ago but its not that far from Fukushima Daiichi and it is contaminated and greenpeace found pretty serious contamination there you mentioned 1. 00 micro sieverts per hour. They found a hot spot at j village of 71. 00 micro sieverts per hour and ironically enough thats where the japanese will begin the relay with the olympic torch so those kinds of serious contamination spots have to be cleaned up before dust gets kicked up and the worst exposure of all is if you breathe it in because now its in your long where it can stay for years or decades depending on the particle just quickly just to people to so whats like the normal level of these you know whats the normal level of acceptable kind of radiation in the air that were going to talk about like you know 1. 7 whats the most whats the normal before the catastrophe a normal background was 0. 04 michael similar to. The japanese government goal at this point is 0. 23 so you can see that theyre violating that all over the place and its going to take a long time to get down to 0. 23 which is still a serious level to have to live with thats the residence of japan the ones who live in this area are going to be facing this for the rest of their lives not just for a short visit during the olympics in terms of timespan because we just talked about that number and right now they are greatly outside of what a recommendation would be how how long do you think it would take them to get to something that is a lot safer or something closer to what the japanese government has issued as regulatory for an appropriate measure while the japanese government and tokyo electric have spent Something Like 28000000000. 00 just to decontaminate contaminated areas and what the greenpeace reports every year have shown consistently is they can decontaminate an area then a typhoon will hit like happened late last year and that massive amount of rainfall brings contamination from the forested mountains of Fukushima Fukushima 70 percent forested mountains where they havent even tried to decontaminate washes it down through the rivers through the streams to rican tammany decontaminated areas having spent tens of billions of dollars to decontaminate this its incredible how you know. Disaster you know almost 10 years ago it was still kind of you know coming up to date i think it speaks to the dangers of Nuclear Energy yet weve got a lot of people ive heard a lot of these arguments come out you know when were talking about you know Climate Change and how do we get to Carbon Neutral lot of people still come out and say well you know Nuclear Energy is like the fastest and the cleanest way to get to carbon 0 and we see that many of these arent environmental activists who stand on this you have weight in the in the Community Still when were seeing Something Like this and it looks extremely dangerous what do you say to those people well colleagues of mine at institute for energy and Environmental Research row just you know groundbreaking book in 2006 it was called insurmountable risks that said Nuclear Power cost too much and takes too long to solve the Climate Crisis and besides that has a long list of its own problems the 1st of which they named was accidents disasters catastrophes this was in 2006 this was 5 years before fukushima was after chernobyl but other insurmountable risks are Nuclear Weapons proliferation the unsolved radioactive waste problem and then we would add things like the routine release of radioactivity during normal operations at a Nuclear Power plant an incredible statement by a tokyo electric official just weeks into Fukushima Daiichi was we cant see why people are getting so worked up we release 10 percent this amount during normal operations thats very telling they release into the air they release into the water will permission from about the wastewater is one of the big ones too because i think i believe theres a debate right now opening with what to do with the waste water and she was you know if it was 100000000 gallons and theres a big push the oil will dump it in the ocean well thats not really going to be helpful what the in the day i mean what do you do with this waste water yeah its 1200000 tons which is like 250000000 gallons of highly radioactive waste water they want to dump in the ocean they think dilution is the solution the problem with that that they dont mention is really concentration in the food supply its going to bio accumulate in the seafood supply and humans are going to. Eat it so the japanese fishing cooperatives have been the little dutch boy with their finger in the dike preventing this intentional release this attack on the ocean so what needs to be done again Arjun Makhijani at i. E. E. E. Are pointed out weeks into fukushima what needs to happen is that waste water should be moved to a more stable location and allow the tritium the radioactive hydrogen that they cant get out because they cant filter it allow it to decay and yes it will take over a century for that to happen but thats what needs to happen not to dump it in the ocean or evaporated into the air which then people would breathe right through it isnt thank you so much for the growing and education of everything going on over there thank you so much. Former Vice President joe biden is the comeback kid there is the best thing of leigh no longer a path for senator Bernie Sanders to clinch the Democratic Partys nomination after stunning defeats in michigan mississippi idaho and missouri the future of the democratic socialist campaign that was known to inspire young people those thinking the revolution and biting the establishment came up short though some saner supporters might but moaned upset and blame the democratic machine for his losses the real story lies in the voters choice and the reasons they reacted the way they did for starters famous coalition relied heavily on low propensity voters specifically young people who rarely show up the polls secondly the road to the democratic nomination runs through the black community a well known fact that seemed to be an afterthought for sanders. Earlier this week he scrapped a speech on race in michigan hes canceled appearances scheduled in mississippi the state with the largest percentage of blacks in the country and these missteps along with the narrative that never really appealed to the black Community Cost vermont senator dearly he lost the black vote by 71 percent in many states a last minute Jesse Jackson endorsement didnt seem to have much of an effect at all in contrast biden is putting the Obama Coalition back together in michigan alone by one women by almost 20 points the kicker here is white women biden won them by double digits as well the same white women Bernie Sanders one in 2060 and in mississippi 84 percent of black voters went for biden and overall the White Working Class those with and without College Degrees from urban centers to rural areas for joe biden even among groups who have expressed strong favor ability towards some of the interest policies like medicare for all the beat down last night was so bad that sanders didnt even speak the writing is on the wall fainter isnt about to bow out but will the ongoing battle for the nomination further split the Democratic Party and can his Democratic Socialist Movement continue if you leave this to biden. Good you know good burning questions especially coming off of tuesdays interesting you know michigan primary and what happened that theyre split between biden and sanders and i do think the progress in my opinion i do think the progressive groups are going to move on whether its burning at the helm thats going to move forward because you dont a mass of that many people and beat that record breaking because of lets not forget that groundswell of grassroots that was record breaking numbers that he put together on small donations and things like that that doesnt just as much as like kind of like corporate centrist democrats want to go away and think like oh theyll just naturally go go back in with us that doesnt just go away whether bernie wins or loses this nomination i think youre right now if anyone was listening to any of the Mainstream Media talking heads last night it wasnt a move to dismiss those people who support support of bernie nor a move to dismiss that amazing fund raising he done along the way because i think that there is an understanding that the revolution he was attempting to build that coalition is one that may not have shown up in the polls in the way that he had expected but its definitely one thats not going to go away its one that has a way its one thats going to be active in policy making its one thats getting elected in state and local races across the country so i do think that theres something to be said about not ignoring them but the way that and i think biden understands it as well because even in his victory speech in his victory lap last night he talked about being welcoming to them hearing their ideas even knowing that he is in that more moderate camp i think that he recognizes that there is a groundswell he recognizes that it happened in 2016 its not going away in 2020 and that those young people are going to have to be brought into the fold because they are the future of the Democratic Party most definitely and the thing is this is an interesting war going on with the democrats because it feels a lot like the rest of the country kind of have the boomers versus the gen x. Was in the millennial is really you know kind of come in do it regardless of race color creed at this point too because like you said you know he didnt do well with black voters i think a lot of people thought that would have given him out something of a stem cord that you mentioned to his message didnt really go i mean this message. Its basically pretty much we want to take care of everybody we want medicare for all we want workers rights why didnt those use of you know why didnt those messages were true with black voters i think part of it is an age disconnect and a regional one so we look at the super tuesday states the majority of those were held in the south the south and south southern voters happen to be a lot more moderate a lot more conservative democrat than what youre going to see in a lot of the larger cities and a lot 4 of the urban areas outside of the south so thats a story in and of itself but by and large africanamerican voters aside from this swath that is 25 and under happen to leave more to the middle of the party and always have when it comes to social issues when it comes to Environmental Issues there is a prioritize ation not necessarily breaking the our current economic structure and building it over again and it is more so making it a more even Playing Field so that they can also be a part of this Capitalistic Society that many africanamericans dont see as ever going away so i think that for Bernie Sanders it had to have been a much more a much more talking with the community because i think that he designed several plans around what he thought the community wanted not necessarily things that the community has said time and time again and has told several people on the campaigns that they actually want to see happen theyre doing because its interesting somebody who did pull people was like need to turn and go to. Your car to be in the celebrity front and things like that but i mean cornel west you know you did see some of those prominent voices jump to his campaign for longer than 4 years ago but its interesting kind of that lock step biden thing just kind of bored well we know biden you know about face we know what hes going to say but the thing that still frightens me about this is moving forward a i wouldnt write burning off just because look theres still a long way to go from yesterday all the way to the primaries there are only 100 votes apart at this point i would say generally roughly generally yes still going to york city and still got pennsylvania this is been such a topsy turvy election cycle that i dont think i can just sit back and say oh bernie has done is frank wished he could suddenly sweep the next round and suddenly. Game of some neck and neck race to get someone i dont know the end of the endorsement factor matters is coming through with a lot of the major endorsements but in addition to that we have to also remember that goal coming into the coming into South Carolina everyone before the South Carolina primary assume that he was that Bernie Sanders was going to be the person who made this happen and it just didnt that was just 2 weeks ago i dont write up and down up and down all right as we go to break everybody remembered you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new portable t. V. You have available on smartphone through google play on the apple web store by searching portable t. V. Or stream us to your t. V. By downloading the portable to the apple t. V. In a portable t. V. And this great thing horrible t. V. 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