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Development was under way but it would take about 15 years to do everything planned. Carter said there was “clear evidence” that the area was struggling but there was also evidence of a revival. Auckland Council and the Crown owned much of the land in the town centre, Carter said. Lots of sites were development-ready, either having nothing on them or “poor quality development” that needed upgrading. Supplied A render of the planned Aroha 117-apartment development in Avondale. Auckland Council had already sold a number of sites, including to Ockham Residential and Kāinga Ora, whi...

>> good afternoon everyone. thank you for braving the summer heat and joining us here at the new america foundation. i especially want to welcome our c-span audience who has been recording our event today and the important topic for the broader american audience to engage in and they think by the end of the session i think you will as well. my name is patrick dougherty. i help run the national security studies program. i run the grand strategy initiative here at the new america foundation. and, national security studies here at new america does what we think few other programs do and...

From nuclear power plants. so despite the debate, we're stuck with it for now. and that is not a good thing if you ask patrick dougherty. welcome, patrick. >> thank you, carol. thank you for having me on today. >> thank you for being here. even the president says nuclear energy is clean, safe, and better than depending on foreign oil. why do you think we need an alternative to nuclear energy? >> this is not clean and not safe. i think your reporting just showed that we've evacuated 200,000 japanese from the area surrounding it. there have been releases of radioactive material. it's not clean, ...

there are concerns this may have caused some damage to the containment vessel and that is important in the case of a full meltdown because that is the last line of defense in keeping in the nastier radiation inside the plant and not seeping into the atmosphere. a fire then in reactor number four. what appears to have happened in this disabled reactor so much heat generated that a pool of water in which there was spent fuel rods evaporated. the fuel rods according to an trs company here may have ignited and caused a fire and led to a sharp spike in the radiation levels. it tumped to a...