CBS Evening News - 1999-10-01
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[0:01] Jesse Ventura in political hot water.
[0:04] How much social security will you get at
[0:07] retirement? The government's about to
[0:09] tell you. And Sosa Security, the man who
[0:12] succeeded Michael Jordan as Chicago's
[0:17] favorite. This is the CBS Evening
[0:21] News with Dan Rather reporting from CBS
[0:24] News headquarters in New York. Good
[0:28] evening. Hundreds of thousands of people
[0:30] in northern Japan got the official
[0:32] allclear today, permission to go back
[0:34] outside one day after Japan's worst
[0:37] nuclear accident. This comes as new
[0:39] details are emerging about what did and
[0:42] didn't happen at the nuclear fuel
[0:44] facility north of Tokyo and what
[0:46] Japanese officials did and didn't do
[0:48] about it. CBS's Barry Peterson has the
[0:51] latest fallout tonight, nuclear and
[0:53] political.
[0:56] Tokamura was a ghost town. Ghosts who
[1:00] walked wore special protective suits and
[1:02] checked radiation levels while 300,000
[1:05] towns people were ordered to stay
[1:07] indoors. This was a nuclear accident
[1:09] that didn't have to happen. The uranium
[1:12] is supposed to be treated in a
[1:13] three-stage procedure. First mixed with
[1:16] chemicals, then pumped to a storage
[1:18] tank, and finally to a settling tank.
[1:21] But according to some reports, workers
[1:23] skipped all those steps. instead using a
[1:26] kitchen bucket to mix eight times the
[1:28] chemicals needed with the uranium,
[1:30] triggering the chain
[1:32] reaction. Company officials apologized
[1:35] and told a shocked nation, "It was
[1:37] worker error, and we accept it was
[1:39] extremely deplorable." On an
[1:41] international scale of 0 to 7 for
[1:43] nuclear accidents, Chernobyl was a
[1:45] seven. Three Mile Islan