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Fukushima Outlines 9-Month Long Shutdown Plan |
| From: NewsyVideos | 18 Apr 2011 | 15 views Loading... Transcript by http://www.newsy.com BY JACQUELINNE MEJIA ANCHOR SALEM SOLOMON You're watching multisource global video news analysis from Newsy Tokyo Electric Power Company released a timeline describing when it expects the nuclear crisis in northeast Japan to be resolved. HLN summarizes the strategy. "It could be nine months before those damaged reactors in Japan are completely shutdown. The owners of the Fukushima nuclear plant say that it's gonna take three months just to bring radiation levels down and get the cooling systems back to normal. Then it could be another three to six months before the reactors get cold enough to shutdown." So what exactly is a "cold shutdown"? The Financial Times explains, in order for a reactor's radioactive uranium fuel to not heat up, water inside a reactor must be below 100 degrees centigrade at normal atmospheric pressure. The FT also reports on the plan's execution. "To overcome the problem, engineers plan to flood the reactors' containment chambers with enough water to immerse the internal pressure vessels that hold the fuel. [...] Once a "cold shutdown" has been achieved, the long decommissioning process can begin. The plant's fuel will have to be left to cool for years, and the whole process is expected to take at least a decade." Many Japanese people living in the evacuation zone and beyond have expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the plan, due to the previous lack of transparency from both TEPCO and the Japanese government, the Telegraph reports. "In Fukushima, locals complained that the government's decision to suddenly and inexplicably raise the alert level at the plant two notches to seven, the same level of seriousness as the Chernobyl disaster, has created a maelstrom of rumours." The nine-month timetable isn't sitting well with the estimated 100,000 people evacuated from areas with high levels of radioactivity. An editor for Japan Today talks to CTV on the multiple effects for those forced from their homes. " [...] No one was happy at all, because these people want to go back to their homes, but it looks like they won't be able to for at least 9 months. So...what do they do? And then the farmers need compensation for their crops and the dairy farmers need compensation, they're throwing out their milk. So this is a really contentious issue that's gonna go on for many, many months." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met over the weekend with Emperor Akihito to discuss the long-term rebuilding process -- euronews reports on how the U.S. wants to help. "She announced the creation of a public-private partnership to help Japan rebuild from the world's most expensive natural disaster." There was one bright spot for victims of the nuclear crisis. The Japanese government told TEPCO to pay $12,000 to each family and $9,000 for single-person households. |
| Date: 2011-04-18 06:27:11 - Added by: KMC |
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Where Are Your Tax Dollars Going? |
| Check out the link to the online tax receipt calculator: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/taxes/tax-receipt Uploaded by NewsyVideos on 18 Apr 2011 Transcript by http://www.newsy.com BY ALLIE SPILLYARDS ANCHOR ALISON ARCHER You're watching multisource politics news analysis from Newsy Ever wonder what your tax dollars are being used for? Now you can find out- dollar for dollar. MSNBC explains how it works. |
| Date: 2011-04-18 06:01:27 - Added by: KMC |
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Who Owns Your Genetic Material? |
| Uploaded by AgendaStevePaikin on 10 May 2010 Scientific progress or an ethical minefield? Who owns your genes? GUESTS Rebecca Skloot is the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and a science writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; Columbia Journalism Review; and many other publications. She is also a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine, and has worked as a correspondent for NPRs RadioLab and PBSs Nova ScienceNOW. Daryl Pullman is a professor of Medical Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Timothy Caulfield is a professor of Law and the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta. Tom Hudson is president and scientific director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. |
| Date: 2011-04-18 06:01:23 - Added by: KMC |
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More Than 100 Tornadoes Rip Through Southern U.S. |
| Uploaded by NewsyVideos on 18 Apr 2011 Transcript by http://www.newsy.com BY CHRISTINE SLUSSER ANCHOR SALEM SOLOMON You're watching multisource US video news analysis from Newsy. Springtime is here--and so is the weather. There have been reports of up to 116 tornadoes ripping across eight states over the past few days--and meteorologists say it's not over yet. DAVID KERLEY: "That high tide is pushing all this water inland in to tributaries, this is one of them. This is Chesapeake Bay--it looks a little bit more like an ocean today. What's left of tropical storm Ida is contributing to an unusually early in the season nor'easter." (Video Source: ABC) A nor'easter is a storm that always travels to the northeast from the south--with winds also coming from the northeast. But storms have moved in every which direction over the course of the past week--including an EF-3 tornado in Oklahoma. "An EF-3 can contain wind gusts of up to 165 mph. [County Commissioner Gilbert] Wilson said the tornado started four or five miles west of Tushka and traveled east, destroying homes and the school in the town about 120 miles southeast of Oklahoma City." (Info: News OK) As for the tiny town of Tushka, Oklahoma itself--an NBC video surveys the damage on a destroyed high school. REPORTER: "Survivors are struggling to piece together what's happened and what comes next. Some of the most severe damage was at the high school." MAN: "From a school stand-point, a total loss. I don't see a possibility of having school in these buildings again." HIGH-SCHOOLER: "We don't even know where we're going to hold our graduation." REPORTER: "Just one of so many questions this community and others in the strike zone must answer." ..and KWTV reports even more problems for the Sooner State--looters. JACQUELINE SIT: "There's a lot of people misplaced from their home this morning, just like this puppy, who actually just literally walked up to me right now, seems like he's misplaced from his home, too, but unfortunate incident that's going on out here in Tushka, Oklahoma this morning. Officials tell us that there's a lot of officers patrolling the area to keep the looters out of certain neighborhoods as well and they're waiting for the sun to come up to get a better evaluation of how expensive this damage is." CBS spoke with professional storm chaser Reed Timmer, who says the storms that have hit the southern United States were some of the largest he's chased in his entire career. REED TIMMER: "The number of storms was substantial. I think we were chasing at least six or eight different tornadic supercells and the environment was so perfect for such a large area, the conditions were setting the stage for a historic outbreak." But it wasn't just Oklahoma that was hit hard--this video is from Mississippi. Other southern states like Arkansas and Alabama were also slammed. (Video Source: WDBD) The New York Times reports on the damage in Arkansas-- which includes trees up to eight feet wide ripped from their roots and utility poles snapped like toothpicks. "In Arkansas, most of the fatalities were caused by trees and heavy branches falling on mobile homes, ...Among the victims was a 6-year-old boy ... who was sleeping on a couch in his family's house when an enormous tree crashed through the ceiling and crushed him, the authorities said." So far, media reports the death toll across the southern states from the tornadoes is seventeen. Get more multisource US video news analysis from Newsy. |
| Date: 2011-04-18 05:55:31 - Added by: KMC |
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The Onion Review: Congress Cuts Its Step-Son's Funding |
| Uploaded by TheOnion on 18 Apr 2011 Aspen police frantically search for a missing ski, the show Ghost Hunters somehow always finds ghosts, and voyeurs watch a womens' march through the bushes. It's the week of April 11th, 2011. |
| Date: 2011-04-18 05:48:00 - Added by: KMC |
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Bill McKibben Fiery Speech at Power Shift 2011: Congress Has Passed Bill Saying Climate Change Isn't Real |
| Uploaded by 350org on 17 Apr 2011 At Powershift 2011, Bill McKibben gave a fiery speech about the climate movement, and outlines thoughts on 350.org's campaigns for 2011. |
| Date: 2011-04-18 04:56:36 - Added by: KMC |
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Con Job - GOP Debt Ceiling Hypocrisy |
| Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on 15 Apr 2011 Republicans John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are taking a tough stance on raising the debt ceiling but it doesn't match up with their past votes under president George Bush. |
| Date: 2011-04-16 06:22:49 - Added by: KMC |
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Rupert Murdoch's Watergate, Whistleblowers & what happened to the Egyptian revolution? |
| Listening Post - Rupert Murdoch's Watergate From: AlJazeeraEnglish | 16 Apr 2011 | 184 views Loading... On the show this week: Rupert Murdoch's Watergate - the phone hacking scandal, the extent of the crime and the implications for News Corp. Also, debating the role of whistle blowers in society. |
| Date: 2011-04-16 06:12:41 - Added by: KMC |
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Finally Prosecutions of Wall Street Banksters!? Featuring Michael Hudson |
| Michael Hudson is author of The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America and Spawned a Global Crisis Uploaded by TheAlyonaShow on 15 Apr 2011 Senator Carl Levin released the results of a two year inquiry into the financial crash and Congress is finally naming names. The report says Goldman Sachs misled clients and Congress about the firms bets on securities tied to the housing market, in order to profit off of the brewing financial crisis. Levin says Goldman executives, including chairman Lloyd Blankfein be referred for criminal prosecution. Will it really happen? Center for Public Integrity's Michael Hudson weighs in. |
| Date: 2011-04-16 05:39:06 - Added by: KMC |
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Nicholas Shaxson: Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking & Tax Havens. |
| As millions of Americans prepare to file their income taxes ahead of Monday's deadline, Democracy Now! interviews British journalist Nicholas Shaxson on how corporations and the wealthy use offshore banks and tax havens to avoid paying taxes and other governmental regulations. "Tax havens have grown so fast in the era of globalization since the 1970s that they have become at the heart of the global economy and are absolutely huge," Shaxson says. "Anywhere between $10 trillion and $20 trillion are sitting offshore. Half the world trade is processed in one way or another through tax havens." Shaxson is the author of the new book, "Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens." Watch Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31e0LWPGPo0 |
| Date: 2011-04-16 05:26:53 - Added by: KMC |
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