Chernobyl; Fukushima; The Spill at Dan River | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

From 2014, Bob Simon's visit to the site of the decades-old Soviet nuclear disaster. Simon's 2014 report on the aftermath of the disaster in Fukushima, Japan, where he found toxic ghost towns frozen in time. And also from 2014, Lesley Stahl's report examining the handling of a coal ash waste spill in North Carolina.
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0:00 Introduction
0:11 Chernobyl
13:15 Fukushima - Three Years After the Disaster
27:39 The Spill At Dan River

[@ABCannon]

Bittersweet update on the Japanese man who lost his daughter: Two years after this 60 minutes piece (2016), he was able to find fragments of what he believed to be her remains. Again in 2022, he returned to the same site and was able to recover the femur of his daughter. "Gushiken walked around the site and checked bumps on the ground. Suddenly, he stopped walking. It was the place where part of Yuna’s neck bone had been found years before. Using shovels, they began digging a hole several meters below where the remains had been located. About 20 minutes later, Gushiken discovered what looked like a long, thin stick in the ground. “No way.” Kimura continued to dig there. “Yuna, wait! Your dad is here!” Gushiken’s voice trembled. What Kimura unearthed was the femur of a child, measuring about 25 centimeters (10 inches) long. Yuna was the only child killed by the tsunami in the immediate area. Kimura’s eyes filled with tears, and he discarded his shovel, digging with his hands. “Maybe I haven’t searched enough. Yuna was here,” Kimura said. He held his daughter’s remains in his arms, gently stroking them over and over again. “I finally found Yuna,” he said." (Story via the Huffington Post)

[@ShannonLH1108]

Thank you so much for posting this. So gutwrenching

[@nultari1]

Goosebumps

[@jabellatv3240]

Wow I’m just visualizing that and looking over to my 9yr old daughter and it imagine how I would feel if that was my baby girl smh just so sad but at least he found her and I hope he is at peace 🙏

[@danis4054]

Thank you!

[@jameseugene9212]

😮😮

[@philtorrez4198]

As a father, the segment about the man looking for his daughter absolutely crushed me. I can hardly believe how composed he is. He is steadfast and I hope one day he can be reunited with his little girl so that he can lay her to rest. When that little girl said her friend is in Okuma and she thinks that she’s lonely, I started bawling. Gonna go give my daughter a hug now.

[@ngatiharty1]

Yeah that part ripped my heart to pieces. 😢

[@s_photo1385]

My god ur gay

[@darinb.3273]

I can tell both of you that daddy of his baby girl can have joy because she is with our Heavenly Father now, waiting for him to come join her NEVER to be victim of human death again.

[@MrPaxio]

^this is your brain on LGBTQ+

[@ashleydaniel3215]

@@darinb.3273 Amen 🙏

[@janefrommel]

Interviewing the Duke CEO is about as productive as questioning the USSR was in 1986.

[@jonbongjovi1869]

Yup. As always, 60 Minutes PROTECTED another fellow Millionaire! EACH thing that CEO said was provable FELONY FRAUD & Conspiracy to do fraud -- so no wonder 60 Min and ALL POLICE helped the murderous criminals escape like the prior billion times!

[@victoriadeyot9321]

Right. She sounds a great deal like a politician.

[@markcottrell7792]

What should they do with the ash? Hey I have an idea! Let’s raise the price of electricity!

[@ECGProductions092]

I still think 60 Minutes is the finest journalism I have ever seen

[@JasonAlexzander1q47]

Then you love to be brainwashed

[@m42037]

In America

[@PlatinumIrishrose]

David Paulides is the finest journalism now. True news.

[@JasonAlexzander1q47]

@@PlatinumIrishrose 😆

[@jonbongjovi1869]

You're insane. EX: Leslie LET the CEO of DUKE tell giant FRAUDULENT lies over and over, as usual.

[@katyja8812]

😔😪💔 The guy from Japan, searching for his daughter & her belongings.. it's heartbreaking..

[@glenclarkchidley3637]

Duke Energy… That’s exactly like letting police departments investigate their own criminal activity. It just gives them a chance to shore up the leaks that get them into trouble.

[@ForbiddTV]

please show how they can lie to my 10,000 radiation detectors and millions more worldwide.

[@CONCERTMANchicago]

Spend 34 million on environmental projects⁉NO, donate to fund misc. public EV projects.

[@WM-lt4sm]

Watching the first story gives me a new appreciation for how accurate many of the set and costume designs were for the “Chernobyl” HBO series.

[@Memphis901Production]

Yeah when I watched the series I was surprised by the accuracy of events as well as the production value (set, costume, effects, performances, etc…)

[@francisphillips53]

That was an AWESOME series!!

[@threeminuteshate]

Truly great series. Even at 10 years old 1986 I was fascinated by Chernobyl, terrified by the spectre of nuclear war, etc. so the series was right up my alley. Ended up buying it.

[@djensen470]

Chernobyl is a JFK moment for me. I remember exactly where I was when I heard about it. I was attending my undergrad class on Scandinavian history. The professor was from Finland and you could hear the fear in her voice when she told us what happened.

[@MrDlt123]

My heart breaks for the man who lost most of his family. I cant imagine the guilt and pain he feels, even though it wasnt his fault. I hope he's been able to find some peace.

[@Alwaysherethere]

What a mess this world is in😢

[@gregparrott]

I visited Stockholm, Sweden a month after the Chernobyl accident. Sweden, despite being ~700 miles line-of-sight to Chernobyl, had already killed much of their livestock because they had eaten contaminated vegetation and also discarded milk, cheese, etc. I asked a waiter about the event. He lamented that tourism was down 50%. He then said that at least he learned how to make chicken Kiev. Of course, that led me to ask 'How?' His response?: "First you preheat the city the 350 degrees."

[@oxcolette]

I bet the coal ash is still there.

[@x_warhog_x8701]

It is, I live in Eden NC the small city you see to the right of the power plant at 29:54 luckily our water treatment/filtration plant (the small sliver of white between the city and power plant) is above the power plant on the river but affected Danville Virginia quite a bit, What so sad is the plant doesnt even use coal anymore it was switched to natural gas a year before but all this mess is left for the community to deal with for decades to come...

[@declantiberiuskelly1263]

That is so sad I could cry, my God, that poor guy :( He blames himself, yet he is an amazing father that did nothing wrong.

[@s_photo1385]

my god ur gay

[@darrellmaynard1588]

I was in Neu-Ulm Germany during Chernobyl s disaster. I was in a nuclear missile unit ,Pershing. When we were outside your could taste the ionizing radiation in the air. We were told it was safe but we knew better. This part of Germany was the hardest hit and exposed ,this is why all nuclear power needs to be done away with. I wish we as humans could come to terms with our humanity, that all life is equally important and all nuclear weapons were done away with. If people only knew the real dangers of an accidental use,and the world would be done.

[@fudgefudge8913]

You're being a bit dramatic. Nuclear power is great. Nuclear energy is the safest form of electricity we have. Just need to modernize the old plants and voila!

[@carolbellinger]

​@@fudgefudge8913 ok

[@davidflitcroft7101]

@@fudgefudge8913 He's not being dramatic at all. He is a realist. As for you, you should be listed in Webster's as an example of the Greek Word, "Idiot."

[@timgordon4853]

A-MEN,We are all not safe , this is insanity ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️👁️👁️ Dorothy says

[@fudgefudge8913]

@@davidflitcroft7101 Feel free to do literally ANY type of google search and it'll prove me right. Sorry that you enjoy being ignorant! P.S. you're trying too hard! :D

[@bryansmith9231]

Duke Energy needs to0 know that if your puppy poops in a park, the law is pick up the poop and dispose of the poop properly.

[@tedium37]

Yeah but it's easier to walk away if you can get away with it. Clearly they can afford to pay off those that could police them, cheaper than doing the right thing. Sickening!

[@mackattack8627]

Dam good to see Dan me & my father use to watch you together he passed in 2006 at age 96 I'm still alive at a year from 55 thanks for sharing the most important ecological disaster in the world up to date now that's real heritage & honorable journalism to the end long live Dan love u man😇✌️

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

Sending prayers to the man in Japan, who is still searching for his daughter.🙏🏻💔🥀🧸

[@cardelemoore2070]

God Will Bring back Their Love Ones in The Coming Resurrection And Paradise Earth "Death Will Be No More" Revelation 21: 1-5. Look i Am Making All things New: No More Sickness Pain And Death"❤😢😢😢❤

[@francisphillips53]

True.. but Fukushima is STILL dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. 😢😢😢😢

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

They never dumped a thing. Try facts next time.

[@veritas41photo]

So sad about the man's young daughter whose body was never found. Poor, poor victims... RIP.

[@maggiebannenberkowitz9254]

Thank you for this information and updates.

[@liamgallagherrr]

the japan segment was brutal..so sorrowful

[@maggiebannenberkowitz9254]

Japan was devastated with that earthquake and waters.

[@Kaditsu-Chronicles]

So this is almost 10 years later and what has Duke Energy done to clean up their pollution poisoned coal ash pits and ponds to Now? How much have they spent to eradicate the problem and protect the people and the environment from further damages? AND how much profit have they made in the same period?

[@tedium37]

Cheaper to buy politicians to make sure no inforcement happens. Eventually they'll be allowed to disavow any ownership. Absolutely infuriating.

[@m42037]

🙄

[@namename9998]

Thats what people wonder about all the ewaste from solar and wind. By 2050 theres expected to be 78 million tons of waste from solar panels (batteries werent included). It would take Japan 19 yrs to recycle 10k tons of solar panels. "By the end of this decade, about 8 million tons of solar modules could arrive in landfills globally, according to an NREL study published in 2020. By 2050, panels could make up 10 percent of all electronic waste, according to the lab." "Global e-waste is thought to hold roughly 60 billion U.S. dollars' worth of raw materials such as gold, palladium, silver, and copper. However, just 17 percent of global e-waste is documented to be collected and properly recycled each year." "“With mounting volumes of production and disposal, the world faces what one recent international forum described as a mounting “tsunami of e-waste”, putting lives and health at risk.” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. "In the same way the world has rallied to protect the seas and their ecosystems from plastic and microplastic pollution, we need to rally to protect our most valuable resource -the health of our children - from the growing threat of e-waste.” As many as 12.9 million women are working in the informal waste sector, which potentially exposes them to toxic e-waste and puts them and their unborn children at risk. Meanwhile more than 18 million children and adolescents, some as young as 5 years of age, are actively engaged in the informal industrial sector, of which waste processing is a sub-sector. Children are often engaged by parents or caregivers in e-waste recycling because their small hands are more dexterous than those of adults. Other children live, go to school and play near e-waste recycling centres where high levels of toxic chemicals, mostly lead and mercury, can damage their intellectual abilities Children exposed to e-waste are particularly vulnerable to the toxic chemicals they contain due to their smaller size, less developed organs and rapid rate of growth and development. They absorb more pollutants relative to their size and are less able to metabolize or eradicate toxic substances from their bodies."

[@onion6foot]

I don't know what tthey have actually done; but I get charged every month by Dominion Virginia Electric for what I believe to have been their careless and/or corrupt acts to dump coal ash in places, including unlined ponds. And I believe this was done in collusion with corrupt and/or unconscionable government entities and persons. Outrageous that the victims of Deep State corruption should have to PAY for it.

[@jcollins8639]

Thank you for helping me remember what is important

[@katyja8812]

I remember Dir en Grey band and fans started a project in Japan, they felt the government was lying to them about levels and safety. I even made artwork, poetry & Haiku in support of their project "Scream for the Truth"..

[@oneoftheninetynine3953]

The year of Chernobyl I was living in Eureka, CA. We were told the radiation cloud from Europe was traveling across the sea more than once and some people went inland. We were advised over the following days to keep our windows shut. Never heard anything about it after that, and I'm still very curious if it did and how much.

[@crystalsswtor3760]

At the time I was 6 months pregnant and was living in Hawaii, and I was told by my mother and husband to keep the windows shut and don't go out. Then after several hours we were told it was ok to go out, but that was still scary, more for my baby than anything else.

[@DiZoSoMom]

They found out about Chernobyl around the world when radiation spikes happened in local waters and fish, so I can guarantee in some form it reached CA pretty quickly.

[@grahamstevenson1740]

It never got anywhere near CA. The rain brought down most of the radioactive dust. It didn't even get as far as Ireland.

[@grahamstevenson1740]

@@DiZoSoMom No they did NOT. You or someone else is making that up ! What happened actually was that a nuclear power plant in Sweden detected the radioactive dust being blown in its direction. You can find maps online of where the radiation ended up, ALL in Europe, mainly the result of rain bringing the dust down. NONE ever found its way across the Atlantic, not even as far as Ireland in fact.

[@AWICKEDVIXEN1999]

​@Graham Stevenson not true it was detected a lot on the shores...body parts showed up on the shores too and they also have radiation

[@andyadams1222]

I love 60 minutes

[@braedon1986]

When that father passes away; I guarantee it will be his daughter who leads him into heaven. She will appear; take his hand, and walk into heaven with him. God is great! 💯🙏

[@JasonAlexzander1q47]

You know that science can target the part of the brain that experiences an NDE/OBE experience, don't you? It's okay. Most people confuse their ego as an immortal eternal spirit or soul. When in reality ego is merely a personality trait that is developed from birth. It is a part of your specie's survival mechanism. You only keep living if you spread you DNA, aka procreation. Your ego aka spirit or soul will not live eternally. Just your DNA continues if you chose to procreate.

[@jamierupert7563]

😢😢😢😢

[@davidflitcroft7101]

Yes. The universe will feel and hear his laughter for Light Years!! I absolutely believe. . .

[@joebillings1313]

8:39 It's really safe here. I mean sure I have four testicles, my hair falls out and Im down to three teeth, but I hate the city.

[@RHTeebs]

I miss Bob Simon.

[@walterwhite1]

Why did they fire him?

[@keitholenick6094]

@@walterwhite1 he died in a car accident

[@walterwhite1]

@@keitholenick6094 no he didn’t silly. He was just on 60 minutes

[@jmfia2391]

​@@walterwhite1 this is old. Goofy. He died in 2015. This was in 2014.

[@jeffengland9913]

I was born and lived by the Dan River in danville va. In the 70s I have saw the River all the colors of the rainbow when Dan River mills would empty their used dye into the river.

[@michellecahill1433]

I, too, am a Danville VA native and saw the dye in the Dan River decades ago. However, the environmental laws changed over time and Dan River Mills stopped polluting the river. I have seen so many birds, fish, and other wildlife come back to river in the last 20 to 30 years. The coal ash spill with it's heavy metals and poisonous contents, should have been prevented! Duke power has no excuse, they knew the situation was not safe; the pipe was too old and the pit too close to the Dan River. The safety of humans and animals along the river was jeopardized because Duke energy cares about making money above all else.

[@jayse1834]

either the lady in red is hoping the problem just goes away or disappears , clearly stalling is at the forefront to avoid millions of dollars to address the troubles they have started. you reap what you sow!!

[@joannbowden6220]

She should be a politician w/ the way she'd sidestep every question thrown at her! Answering but not answering! 😮

[@susanray8811]

You might be interested to know that Trump gave his full ... 'legal' ... blessing to dump their coal ash. Would you like to guess where?

[@merdynes]

They’re just as bad as Boeing when they had to deal with the 737 max crashings.

[@nobodysbaby5048]

Indeed.

[@butchfajardo8832]

Your report on Fukushima is incomplete. Did the radioactive water of Fukushima already reached New Zealand? The news said before that they will dumping 3,000 tons of radioactive water everyday for 40 years! So how radioactive are the waters now from Japan to New Zealand?

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

The waters all over the planet were radioactive millions of years before anyone knew what a Fukushima was, the accident didn't change anything.

[@namename9998]

The water isnt dangerous. Theres more sugar in a 12oz can of soda than there is radioactive material in all the water combined. And tritium (the concern) is naturally occurring so it was already in the ocean anyway.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@namename9998 All nuclear power plants on the planet release it routinely and no one in world history has ever been harmed by said tritiated water.

[@butchfajardo8832]

@@namename9998, the concern was the cesium 137! this is very very dangerous even in very very small amounts. we will soon see! this is what they will be looking for. one sign is fish getting cancer.

[@namename9998]

​@@butchfajardo8832 Please provide proof from several credible sources that cesium 137 is "very very dangerous even in very very small amounts". No one agrees on how dangerous cesium 137 is especially in small doses. Should you eat it, no. Should you be paranoid and live in a plastic bubble until you die, no. Youre more likely to die from cars than you are from exposure to cesium 137 or any other fallout. "Based on a rough calculation, tritium that has flowed out is estimated to amount to 20 to 40 trillion Bq" "The amounts of strontium and cesium having flowed into the port were roughly estimated as 700 billion to 10 trillion Bq and 1 to 20 trillion Bq, respectively" So theres less cesium than tritium. "Cesium-137, was used in intracavitary brachytherapy radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer, and now, as a sealed source, is used in the treatment of cancer." "Brachytherapy (brak-e-THER-uh-pee) is a procedure used to treat certain types of cancer and other conditions. It involves placing radioactive material inside the body. This is sometimes called internal radiation." "Physical half-life is defined as the period of time required to reduce the radioactivity level of a source to exactly half its original value due to only radioactive decay. Biological Half-life is defined as the period of time required to reduce the amount of a drug in an organ or the body to exactly half its original value due only to biological elimination." Cesium 137 has a physical half life of 30.19 yrs and a biological half life of 70-110 days. "The biological half-life of water in a human is about 7 to 14 days." "Due to its highly variable and prolonged half-life (up to 150 hours), methadone has the highest risk among opioids of accumulation and toxicity during initial titration and after changes in dose." "Ibuprofen is rapidly absorbed, reaching peak serum levels one to two hours after administration, and has a half-life of 1.8 to two hours." Half lifes are meaningless when determining whether something is safe or dangerous. Water has a long half life but "In acute hyponatremia, sodium levels drop rapidly - resulting in potentially dangerous effects, such as rapid brain swelling, which can result in a coma and death." "What causes hyponatremia? A low sodium level in your blood may be caused by too much water or fluid in the body." "Cancer isn’t just one disease. It’s an umbrella term describing dozens of diseases that develop when cells in the body rapidly grow out of control. This unchecked growth happens when changes in genes cause cells to behave differently than normal. And because every cancer is different, there’s no universal rate at which all cancers grow. Some cancers tend to remain in place and not grow much at all. Others grow slowly-so slowly that they may never require treatment. Aggressive cancers may grow and spread so quickly that they metastasize before the cancer has been diagnosed."

[@Galantus618]

60 minutes is real real good thank goodness for your good work

[@Clr-Clr]

I've never listened so much into a conversation, good video

[@cassanthemum4158]

Nuclear power is a two-edged sword. It's clean, relatively cheap and actually quite safe when all safeguards and honest communication is in place. The problem is when people become lazy, greedy, and/or dishonest. With the demand for energy, we find ourselves needing more and more. These disasters are heartbreaking and we are destroying ourselves. My heart goes out to these families. That little girl and her guilt-ridden father. 😢

[@marcoantonio-df4mr]

60 minutes legendary news

[@lonihollenbeck4654]

Such careless disregard for the planet that we live on won't end well.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

It was a natural disaster in japan. Nuclear energy is the safest form of electricity we have.

[@dianahill5116]

The water they use should be used for humans, animals, agriculture and vegitation.

[@valleytruthers3827]

That's the Master Race for ya....

[@markcampbell7577]

It is still radioactive In the area. It is misleading to watch these reporters walking around in the dead zone.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

Every spot on the planet is a radioactive area. Been that way since the beginning of time.

[@amyconway9923]

Heartbreaking

[@livinglife1874]

A “beeper”? You mean a Geiger counter??

[@gbriank1]

Also, what about the ash piles in South Chicago and Wheeling Indiana? They have piles of it stacked sky high. When the wind kicks up, you can find it blowing into towns and onto kids in school.

[@chineseredneck1211]

The report failed to mention Fukushima was a man made disaster through hubris and lack of planning. They could have easily prevented it if they listened to their risk assessment and engineers and placed the emergency generators on the hill or had an actual back up plan.

[@noahboat580]

I remember being at the mall and seeing red cross ads on helping relieve the fukushima disaster. It is kinda scary thinking the possibility (even if very improbable with failsafes and other precautions), of catastrophic nuclear failure in a powerplant.

[@BJake2]

THAT is why ALL of these solid- fuel, U235 nuclear plants should be shut DOWN, NOW! And the only kind of nuclear reactor that should EVER be built, ever again, should liquid- fueled, THORIUM- salt nuclear power plants! They physically canNOT over-heat and melt down, like these U235 messes do! The radioactive half- life of the fuel is also much, much SHORTER, and thorium plants can be used to 'burn up' and thus DISPOSE of the SPENT fuel FROM all of the OLD U235 reactors!😮😅

[@morvieous]

Is the active radioactive material that spilled still burning through the the core of the earth in the aftermath and even until now since we were never told anything further about the occurrence...

[@ForbiddTV]

You watch too many movies. No meltdown in world history could ever "burn through to the core of the Earth". If they did there wouldn't even be a need for clean up.

[@morvieous]

@@ForbiddTV how do you know this could u explain the chemical process because from what I understand the water doesn't stay compounded enough to cool it so it would have to be buried

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@morvieous Starts cooling immediately upon hitting concrete, earth, water etc and turns into a mass they call an 'elephant's foot'. We haven't seen the extent of the Fukushima Elephant's Foot, but in Chernobyl the mass was photographed and after cleaned up at Three Mile Island it was found it only penetrated a total of 15mm into the bottom of the containment vessel.

[@shaf60]

Famous first words nothing to worry about .

[@RebelRoseJade]

It doesn't seem like that it has been that long since this happened. It's so sad that so many people have lost their lives and everything that they had worked for. It doesn't matter how long it has been there's always something that you know you lost and can't ever be replaced. It's sad that so many lost their lives. It's also sad that everyone around it has also lost their lives. Because not like the one's who was killed instantly. But the one's who have had endure the pain of being sick and losing their loved ones. Much Love, Prayers, and Good Vibes always for all. R.I.P. too all.

[@rodneyfiedler2149]

Can they put the coal ash back into the coal mines where it came from? Asking for a friend.

[@JohnSmith-tn1te]

They blew them up and moved away from the toxic dump site

[@MrDoyle07]

The Duke CEO Lady, whose name I did not see at first as a name I gave a damm about, has actually stood up with a mountain of courage and represented the truth and does so with a barrel of fortitude. I hope she can put all of her deliberate honor into play on getting this mess cleaned up. That will be the ultimate determinator of her measure in honor. I will have to research this and see how it played out.

[@geeneenduidelijk9829]

When he said 50000 people used to live here, I really want to hear him say and now it is a ghost town

[@SgtD1981]

Keep assessing until it’s too late

[@sibylb974]

Amazing; when you see that "Elephants Foot" in the video. you can see some pixels sparkling in the video; this is from the intense radiation impacting the sensors in the camera!

[@kurtisstutzman7056]

Just like our phosphate waste pots here in Florida...! Look up Manatee county's spill...! It went into Tampa Bay , then the gulf of Mexico...!!,!

[@sillenHDsportster]

I was walking my dog an hour in rain the day after Chernobyl exploded and the radioaktiv cloud was over Sweden ! Nobody now about it then . 😡

[@CyberspacedLoner]

most radioactive waste is still stored at the former sites of the nuclear industry, Hanford Site near Richland, Washington, Savannah River Site, Paducah and Portsmouth; Gasseous Diffusion Plants, etc. in the US, Ozersk near Tjeljabinsk and Seversk near Tomsk in Russia, even more sites in China and India

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

And no one in world history has ever been harmed by stored nuclear waste.

[@dv84sure]

Search for spent fuel rods. Large pools are required of which are steaming hot. Takes years for these rods to dissipate and able to be moved to “dry” storage. The high expenses of these pools and then the storage ... is forever.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@dv84sure Not forever. Ruinables waste toxicity is forever.

[@davidflitcroft7101]

@@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk Taken in context with the Human Race, all of this is forever. Our Great Mistake, to have regulated next to nothing.

[@daleneparole1502]

Keep in mine people....Cancer doesn't show its Origin.

[@rockems4959]

The fact the 3 guy shows up and says it simpler 😢

[@michaeltaylor4271]

As someone who has worked for plants and inspected many power plants I know how these places operate and it is really scary, just on the side that I’ve worked on I’ve seen major issues not be fixed for years at plants, and I’m talking where year after year I put in reports that I made myself that this is an issue and still 4 years later nothing was done, i dont know if my reports got changed, or what but that’s just a tiny piece of it I’ve seen with my own eyes, but you can ask just about anyone that isn’t working in the corporate offices at these places that these companies are worried about profits, they put on the front about caring about safety and the environment for insurance and political reasons, I mean could you imagine if a company like duke energy just said “nah we don’t care about the environment we are just going to do what we want” so of course they will put on the facade of doing what they should, but at the end of the day it’s all about production, they do these things because they have to… like I said ask any person who works there and isn’t in the front office or have a bonus they want to ensure they get that year and I’ll bet every one will say the same thing…

[@michaeltaylor4271]

Everyone talking about the man from Japan and how heartbreaking and this and that, and I see it as Society failed him and his family, from the things his daughter said, to coming back years later to find her bones, and to feel the need to do that to get the closure he needed? Like to me that says a lot more about the society that he lived in rather than the love of a father, cause everyone with kids knows what they would do, but they shouldn’t have to do that, she shouldn’t have been left there for however many years it’s been and there should have been more support for him and his family thru this time. I feel badly for that man, I do, and I don’t think anyone should ever have to do this after a tragedy, especially many years after, just to find closure..

[@oddevents8395]

52 canada river. england had one in the 50s too

[@dodgingrain3695]

CEO's like lynn need to go to prison for things like this. Thats the only way a CEO could justify the ridiculous pay they get which is the risk of jail time for bad decisions/events from the company they run. She just sits there with that dumb smile on her face spewing the corporate line and really saying nothing.

[@BamBamSr]

NAILED IT

[@codaalive5076]

More than 800.000 people die from coal burning each year. Chernobyl and Fukushima are bad but not nearly as dangerous as coal which kills more people than Chernobyl type of accident happening every 2-3 years. We don't have information about consequences from mining materials for technologies allowing use of renewable sources; Germany has large reserves of lithium but they wanted lithium mine on the most fertile land in Serbia, probably because it is harmful and doesn't look nice. The same thing is going on with more harmful materials than lithium so we have to go full nuclear or soon face the consequences most people can't even imagine.

[@TinaSexton-ju9sx]

all those plants need to worry about whats happening leaking under them

[@davidthomaschwclmt5925]

And this is new “protective” arch thing most certainly won’t outlast the radiation by about 20,000 years.

[@ForbiddTV]

Or it was designed so the site could be cleaned up, duh.

[@gaim44]

Do you have a better idea let us know please

[@amberlemaster4207]

Omg I wish I could help that man find his daughter

[@kylesanders5999]

guy said how do you know its safe as he is standing there with him lol.

[@twillison8824]

The sooner we get rid of all these coal and nuclear power plants, the sooner we can all be putting our homes up for mortgage to pay our electric bills.

[@jessicaphillips763]

Some guy on a yacht says oh who cares about the water ways in NC I've got a whole ocean to destroy. Evil and corruption is drowning us.

[@sextoyrepairman1621]

All those storage tanks at FUKUSHIMA have been emptied into the Pacific, FUKUSHIMA is the worst cuz it is still leaking into the Pacific, i think they should of built a double coffer dam around FUKUSHIMA to keep ground water from getting into the reactor area and getting into the Pacific, that nuclear plant should have never been built next to the ocean

[@Sara-lm8zv]

The coal ash thing is full of crap. They knew it was harmful and did it anyway. Make them fix the problem.

[@seaneduardodiaz9894]

untrue, there is people living in pripiyet. there is in today's modern age and day already some occupants that moved back into apartment blocks, there is even some working apartment blocks that still have their original elevator and power restored with the elevator even working... so 0 population is a incorrect statement.

[@EJ-74]

I'm from Eden and I can tell you first hand DO NOT DRINK THE WATER it letetly smells like sewage. 😡 This segment starts at 27:34

[@gaim44]

Thank God for the swift reaction of the Soviet Union and their brave heroes……THanK You!!!!

[@PapaTanGh0stNI9htM4R3S0nMaInSt]

Whose genius idea was it to put the backup gensets in the basement in such a tsunami prone region?

[@billythekid-tm5ed]

That is the only way to put a roof over the blowen-up reactor...roll the roof over it.

[@ForbiddTV]

Or it could have been buried, but then you would still be screaming nonsense.

[@davidthomaschwclmt5925]

3/4 of a billion dollars short. Meanwhile, Madison square garden inc just spent $2billion to build the sphere in Las Vegas. We humans sure have messed up priorities.

[@cmoulden78]

Learn something new everyday

[@darrellmaynard1588]

We asked for a patch you placed on your uniform to show if you were being exposed to radiation from the missiles and Chernobyl, and it was a couple dollars per day per soldier, and we were denied.

[@DRKBRANDON01]

Russians are working hard to outdo that one, give them more time

[@Wiseguy429]

Yep we’re doomed with this president that doesn’t handle this Russian and China very powerful people

[@gbriank1]

Why are they not harvesting the chemicals in the ponds? All of the elements listed in their virgin state are very valuable.

[@xevious2501]

We have all lived off the benefits of nuclear power, but its been a roll of the dice. And these events will continue to happen. The unforeseen always finds its way to fruition. And once again, this notion of clean energy reveals itself to be anything but clean. Even without an annual tragedy, the by product from spent nuclear fuel is equally dangerous and accumulatively just as worse. people in the distant future will look at the people of today and think to themselves.. how could we call our nuclear plants clean energy when they produce tons of dangerous radioactive by product.

[@haroldthaf]

The Chernobyl Plant still houses the Spiciest Ice Cream (and probably the most expensive too), its so spicy that getting anywhere near is strictly verboten.

[@butchfajardo8832]

The best thing to do is leave North Carolina!

[@michaeltaylor4271]

8:20 I like how they ask the family where the wife has one arm, if they weee told it was dangerous or not to move that close to Chernobyl.. just saying.

[@michelemiller1764]

Why at min cover the elephant's foot with a radioactive blanket'/cover? This is insane. There has to have been a way to have modulated the building of the arch or another design that could've already begun being put in place. We already saw the concrete wall isn't completely the builders safe from all radiation. What's going to happen moving the arch at a snails pace to put in place? I get so frustrated that more practical & timely & cost effective ways serious things aren't being considered. Thus better for all, people, ozone etc.

[@myownstationofficespa9736]

Those contaminated fire fighters uniforms should be soaking in water

[@Truthseeker371]

What about the US Three Miles incident? Any update?

[@ziziroberts8041]

The crisis is with us more than ever today. May 2023.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

Crisis? What Crisis? No one has been injured by Fukushima radiation.

[@kincamell]

Pain

[@michaelwalters7110]

So this construction is currently underway? Is this not in a war zone? When was this filmed? (Edited for reference. Chernobyl)

[@sillenHDsportster]

Filmed 2014

[@michaelwalters7110]

@@sillenHDsportster Thanks for the clarification. Context matters.

[@maggiebannenberkowitz9254]

There are animals that have survived. But with genetic evidence of change.

[@ForbiddTV]

No genetic change and wildlife is thriving.

[@larry3311]

So what happens when the radiation builds up under the sarcophagus??

[@cjsrescues]

That lady is really good at word salad not answering questions.

[@kenmcbreairty7878]

Is there anything more evil than that Duke Energy CEO? Yikes

[@sitindogmas]

i cant have a gun because i grew some pot over 20 years ago. i dont believe law nor government will help the problem, i known good people and common sense would help us all out tremendously

[@fugetaboutit2050]

VERY SAD TO WATCH

[@Gsoda35]

time is ticking so fix the issue now. is it not illegal to contaminate the environment in the US or do they not care about the health of animals?

[@nicklowe4392]

I read the comments and it makes me cry. Are people so stupid to have missed the main point. Nuclear energy is not safe and may be cost efficient for the providers of electricity but the cost of the fuel storage and the aftermath of a melt down or accident is beyond anything they or we can afford to fix. Fuel rods after leaving a reactor core must be protected in water pools for over 50,000 years or more. How many of our structures no matter how well built have lasted that long. Seriously! It all comes down to money and greed and you can not replace or repair the demage that these incompitant corporations are doing to the planet that we live on. There is no where else to go and yet we continue to destroy it. We as humans have been blessed with this opportunity and only need three things to live on this planet. Water, Food, and Air and we are doing a great job frigging that up any way we can all in the name of profit and corruption. Think about it and then read how nieve the comments are below. As for the rep that is covering up the coal ash situation. You should be ashamed of yourself. There´s a hot place below waiting for you as you go against man kind. I suggest you move to a community near your plants and drink the water and enjoy the fresh air and see how short your life will become. All for money the devel knows your name and is leaving the light on for you. I also question if any of your ash waste made it into the drywall production industry. That would be an even bigger crime to humanity again all in the name of profit. Nothing like toxic drywall in your new home or renovation. I would quit my job before sitting there like you spewing crap like you do. Chuck what is wrong with this world today and more so the people. Perhaps when we have gone to far we will try to do something about it. Fat chance.....you need to fix this now!

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

Couldn't get past the first line in your book. Nuclear energy is the safest form of electricity we have.

[@obsoleteoptics]

How is it cost efficient for the providers when it takes twice as long and double the budget to build a new plant?

[@barbarafaulder9087]

She like the world biggest liar. No concern for people. Just the industry. The don’t want to pay to do the job right. And she know it. I hate this woman

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@obsolete opinions So obfuscate with a different topic? Very Well: Many countries have been building and using small modular reactors for many decades built in two years or less for millions not billions.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@obsolete opinions In any event, even mega nuclear is cheaper than ruinables with either storage or the fossil fuel plants needed to make them function on the grid.

[@Ketofit62]

Oh my birthday

[@naturalwoman3552]

Happy belated birthday 🎂🎉 🎈 🎁 😊

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

Keto Fit Happy Birthday! 🎂🎈🎁✌🏼😊

[@Ketofit62]

Wasn’t a good birthday I’ve been terrorize

[@Ketofit62]

Can you please help

[@Ketofit62]

Fake event

[@sonofkimbo]

call of duty references i see

[@Popcorncedar]

Industry standards is the key. Industry shouldn’t watch itself.

[@maggiebannenberkowitz9254]

So where is this compared to the war???