two major ideas either childhood leukemia is a rare response to a common but as yet unidentified infection all large scale urban rural population mixing th has been an increase of childhood leukemia i mean that's very compelling epidemiological evidence conclusion either a virus or population mixing around sellafield is responsible for cancer but not the highly toxic nuclear waste from the i that was we are confused and ask a german expert the physician klaus hoffman a member of the various german federal governments radiation protection committees we meet the busy scientist in a bone hotel let's settle the that's what it is say when u k experts stand there and proclaim that these connections don't exist well they are simply wrong there is little evidence for the population mixing hypothesis and there is absolutely no evidence of the virus hypothesis there is neither of virus nor are there antibodies in other words forget this whole infection hypothesis  it is no longer possible to explain away radiological risks contained in internal i eighty eight documents here we read of the advantages low energy costs jobs but there is also a record here of the very things professor wait for does refuting radiation is indeed responsible for shorter life expectancy and premature death cancer is also named as the cause leukemia bone cancer fire oid cancer lung cancer together with his colleague richard brown the whole bunch be told us an incredible story the cancer statistics around the sellafield are ten times higher than in the rest of the country and if they're lying or else you have to find some it will he district areas which is much bigger but when the data came i put it on the computer i find that it was the small area data it wasn't the big so whoever done it either by mistake well because they wanted to leak it had given us the small area d recently the house of lords refused to publish coming pediatric cancer numbers data protection policy and the nuclear industry it strikes a balance between cancer rates and costs the effort required to protect people from radiation exposure should also take stock of the cost implications of balancing you have to do is that it's supposed to mean that you are prepared to accept a number of cancer deaths to keep the costs of discharging atomic waste into the sea as low as possible you are doing that comparison reading that and that's no different to what happens in many other areas of decision making in society where do such cost benefit considerations come from in our research we come across the influential i see or paid the international commission on radiation protection the group operates as and independent charity for the benefit of the public a request for an interview with the director is refused but we find a lecture on the internet by the former chairman roger clark society has changed if you when you the cost benefit principle clark cites epicurus's utility i think some examples of the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few right everybody the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few and it was a good thing so you vaccinated everybody the immuno siders tell us that the i c r p is the elongated arm of the nuclear industry we also come across professor waite for its name on the website the expert from the university of manchester open honest exercise one of the for a lot more confident that government doesn't want to do this they just want to go with the official standard view which actually is the nuclear industry here and at the coal face for years now shown bernie in janine alice smith have endured much frustration no one talks openly the environmental activist and the mother of a son with leukemia a fighting a quixotic fight i think in a way  place it used to be every thriving holiday place people used to come from all over the trains from opal it's of cumbria anger that decisions by governments over many decades of create this nuclear disaster on the coastline and for most people here they don't know about it or if they do know but it they don't want to know about it it's out with their control is a decision made by government in london sellafield in my show that the disposal of waste into the sea was and still is a mistake however hardly anyone is prepared to fisheries because then you would have to deal with tough questions who was lying what can still be salvaged and who is going to pay for it from the northeast at night to keep them sites all the way up to the coast of norway nuclear contamination from barrels and pipes is a problem which is deliberately being brushed under the carpet this can only be resolved by sealing off the pipes and salvaging the undamaged barrels per possible of deadly wastes and it's all moving towards our lifeblood the columbia river  l this is probably the most dangerous stuff on the planet ever very very small quantities of this waste and it's been said that a dixie cup full of this waste in a crowded restaurant everyone would be dead in the restaurant inside of an hour if even the amount that would fit on the leg of a fruit fly is considered a problem dose and that's happened at hanford fruit flies have landed are contaminated materials and then flown off to go to the washroom and deposit contamination on food and on tables and whatnot and they've had to evacuate a twenty acre area at the everett site because of hot fruit flies and wasps so this this waste in these tanks is very dangerous in small quantities and it has another feature which is it's dangerous for very very long periods of time bush administration obviously has a war or two to pay for their cheaping out on protecting public health and safety at the hanford site at this point intend to empty one tank per year but do the math hundred seventy tanks left to go to empty out over one hundred years to be out the tanks at hanford me no way will those tanks last that long i mean one small earthquake out there could spell disaster for this region unlikely anyone will ever set off a nuclear device on top of this school that's what they prepared for today together with the seattle police department the state patrol and the health department the national guard got ready to deal with a weapon of mass destruction it's a simulate one of the most serious abuses of human rights has come through the pentagon's development of production of in years of depleted uranium munitions these munitions have have created an ending toll of casualties were they have been used that the mere use of such munitions constitutes an offense against humanity we're talking about something that will never go away part of it immediately enough i don't know how they got to go hide that part i don't know where the science was that allowed them to take those last four parts of the acronym off because we know that the blood the blood donor system has been contaminated we know that the organ don organ to these heavy metals because when the fluids are pushing them through excrete and like that they just rip through these organs this is going to be around long after that even the human experience is they had no idea that these particles are so small they were going through their filters they were breathing and they were ingesting i mean these soldiers have you know alpha mating particles lodge in their lungs and all over their body and and you know the qualitative result or the end result is that you know that had children that were born with the form of these incredible deformities some people have described it that we will be at war with iraq till the end of earth because we cannot turn off the weapons that we used against iraq this is the time test you have to be able to stop the weapons at the end of the war depleted uranium has a half life of four point five million years so we are at war with iraq for the end of time well hanford has two hundred square miles of contaminated ground  water below the site there and that is spreading over time because the contaminants in the soil are leaking at a constant rate into the you know into the groundwater i know this sounds incredible to people but there are forty miles of unlined trenches at hanford he stretched and and into which our federal government your government was dumping radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production on its own reactors until the year two thousand and four when we put those pictures on the air and in our campaign literature for initiative two ninety seven it's been against the law for decades for municipal government to  dump in municipal garbage online landfills but our federal government thinks it's ok for hideous act of waste even though it seeps right out of those trenches and and that stuff is all moving through the soil to the columbia river there but they're not telling the public is that they also let the liberally something out of the high level nuclear waste tanks in the one nine hundred fifty s and one nine hundred sixty s billions of gallons of liquids into the soil and it is very very toxic it is radioactive it includes here a medium that half lives of hundreds thousands of years and tony m and technician ninety and strontium ninety nation ninety nine document contains warning results about the rise in the number of the four babies who were beyond explosion in such cases since two thousand and five one year after the battle of two thousand  was something so that we had to start sending people around with some political person that everybody knew concert of something and off that it was ok and we just finished it when the iraqi government found out about it another put out something on the television also taken the test results are i continue my inquest in champaign illinois two hundred kilometers from chicago and home to dog rock army decided to use some of it to manufacture munitions and  we were the best of the best all i for many morse not worth it too many people are sick to me people are dead since this photo was taken twenty one members of his team have died returning from iraq dug submitted an attempts to plug the hole with a junk shot of sawdust chemicals and shredded newspaper don't appear to be working either it will then take hundreds of thousands of years for this mass caused by the use of nuclear power to decay to safety for more on it's now confirmed that there are uncontrolled releases of radioactivity going into the ocean there principally or the tremendous amount of water that tokyo electric power company over eleven thousand tons of radioactive water that's been used to wash over the melting fuel in the fuel pools in the reactors and now they simply don't have any place to put that so they have now started a process to dump this radioactive waste into the ocean and then we have another leak from the trench the concrete trench where we were last monitoring we heard the readings are over one hundred this is these are deadly i mean is an annual exposure just normal background like around one miller around these are these are deadly fields of radiation that are rams is one hundred isn't five grams liked you know life time exposure work work but we have situations now around this concrete trench that is spewing intensely radioactive water into into the ocean as well so we've got tremendous amounts of radioactive inventory and i'm afraid that each day that this proceeds it looks more and more like a just an unprecedented event where we thought two noble was different from dumping all this radioactive waste we have the nuclear industry apologia apologists you know mainstream media what they're not telling us is how all this radioactivity being dumped is going to bio accumulate and then bio magnified back up through the food chain so phytoplankton were at the top of the food chain phytoplankton plankton small fish large fish this is this is going to have some very serious consequence for the fishing industry all authors of thousands possibly millions of people walt die as a result of this of of a million people died because of chernobyl and that number is being taken very seriously by scientists say that that's just going to happen and b that the really only genuine way we can eliminate the dangers of radiation are to eliminate nuclear power plants nuclear weapons absolutely mining uranium absolutely the most the only relevant protection is prevention and if you want to prevent another fukushima only with a different name maybe it's seabrook maybe it's dresden maybe it's callaway but these plants are aging these days signs are flawed human error can enter into this picture at any moment it doesn't it could be a digital tsunami next time from cyber attack sure these are all the concerns that surround the inherent danger in nuclear one affect us rain water and milk in berkeley california been found to contain radioactive iodine at more than eight thousand percent above drinking water standards here it is ation food and water watch wrote a letter to president obama asking for clarification on the dangers of radiation here in the united states letter read the three agencies that monitor almost all of the food americans eat have insisted that the u s food supply is safe the agencies however have done very little to detail specifically ways in which they are responding to the threat of radiation in food the e p a was supposed to release findings on radiation rainwater in the u s last week but has since delayed the release until this week anyone else have a feeling we're not being told the entire truth like the fact that there's no such thing as a safe level of radiation back at this story nuclear plant in virginia folks have been waiting so long for a place to send their nuclear waste they've come up with a new generation of dry casks the great thing about the horizontal storage modules is that inside this bunker is the canister that we could actually use for shipment now all they need is the shipping address with nuclear energy and its challenges besides needing to figure out what to do with all the radioactive waste from power plants there are plenty of other critical questions especially since the fukushima disaster in japan we will take a look at the things that happened in fukushima daiichi and see if there are some lessons we can learn it