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Uranium from the mountains surrounding the town providing much of the fuel for the soviet union's 1st nuclear weapons and atomic power plants. the resulting radioactive waste millions of tonnes of so-called uranium tailings was buried around the town 50 years on old protective dams a crumbling and people have started raising their cattle on what was once a no go zone. i've been working here for 35 years when we came here uranium tailing sites used to be restricted areas locked behind barbed wire now people have built houses and live their lives or work. many of my lucy's residents have no alte...

Radioactive iodine 131, but it has. it says something about the culture that surrounds the technology. everybody is so sure of themselves and of the technology that it's a cavalier attitude and that is the core issue in terms of how we deal with this question of our fleet of 104 atomic power plants. everybody, proponentses of the industry and critics like to talk about the future, when we should, shouldn't, only one is just commissioned. none are under construction. there isn't going to be a future fleet because wall street doesn't want anything to do with this stuff. if you want to invest mon...

Renewal. so the management and regulation of our atomic fleet is, i think, totally inadequate. they overlook all of the obvious problems. most of these plants are essentially 40 years old. the nrc is not only relicensing them to run for another 20 years beyond the 40 years that they were designed to operate but many of them have been given what are called power uprates so are now allowed to run at 120% of their designed and intended capacity. you wouldn't do that to a car or anything else but they're doing it to atomic power plants. >> and how would we upgrade these facilities? how big a lift ...

Thing, three mile island went off. so, yeah. from the beginning people were saying, wait a minute. why are you building atomic power plants on the san andreas fault line? those fault lines are still active. i mean, there is no reason to think that there couldn't be a similar earthquake in california. >> and those are old structures. >> yes. they're old structures. >> yeah. >> radiation makes metal brittle and those are embrittled and it's very dangerous. >> thanks for your time tonight. very insightful. appreciate it very much. >> thank you. the story that can best be told with pictures at the...