Arnie Gundersen: Consequences Of A Nuclear Plant In a Seismically Active Area
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Date: 18/08/2016

Consequences Of A Nuclear Plant In a Seismically Active Area: Gundersen 12/10/12 https://youtu.be/r87SgMFYrqQ
What Are The Consequences Of Siting A Nuclear Plant In a Seismically Active Area?
In today's Fairewinds' podcast with Arnie Gundersen, we examine the effect of the recent earthquakes on both the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini sites, as well as potential damage from other quakes still to come. Arnie discusses Japan's previous large quakes and the impact on Japanese society. Finally, we discuss future problems with removing the spent fuel from the fuel racks in Daiichi Units 3 and 4.
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/what-are-consequences-siting-nuclear-plant-seismically-active-area
Not only did Fukushima Daini have increased pressure in the containment after the 7.3 earthquake a few days ago, Gundersen says that Fukushima Daini (Not Daiichi) has suffered core damage from the March 11, 2011 earthquake. We are also not being told about Fukushima Daiichi reactor 5,6 (AMONG a LOT of other things they are NOT talking about).
Gundersen says that Fukushima Daiichi unit 3 is more likely to collapse than reactor 4, but the consequences of number 4 collapsing is more catastrophic because of the Amount of spent fuel in the SFP..
Japan is only 0.5% of all the land mass in the world, yet has TEN times as many earthquakes as anywhere else. Because it's so mountainous, the people tend to live near the coast line - where the Nuclear Power Plants are.
Q: Why are they putting the covers over the damaged nuclear plants?
Most likely, the fuel racks are damaged. The spent fuel rods are brittle. More "junk" probably fell into the spent fuel pools, making the rods harder to remove. Because the rods are so brittle, TEPCO will expect there to be gaseous release of radiation. Now the SFPs have a lot of boron in them along with Salt water - causing chemical reactions.
We know the fuel is damaged in these SFPs because the water is highly radioactive, thus the fuel bundles are damaged... fuel rods most likely cracked (called a weeper).
One bundle of 8x8 fuel rods weighs about 1000 pounds. Wow, it's a long road ahead, that is for sure!

http://www.aec.go.jp/jicst/NC/about/kettei/100610.pdf
Current and Future Prospects of Japan's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Policies: Issues and Challenges document (June 2010)

Tsuruga has an active fault line under reactor 2, not to mention the active fault just beside the whole PLANT!


Tsuruga nuclear power plant may be on active fault
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/2...
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has determined that faults running underneath the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture are active.

The NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said the body cannot give a permit to restart the plant's reactors, which have been off-line since last year's nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

This comes after NRA official Kunihiko Shimazaki and 4 other experts carried out an on-site inspection earlier this month to see whether crush zones under the Tsuruga plant are actually active faults.

The Tsuruga plant sits near the major Urasoko Fault. The team conducted a boring survey on Urasoko Fault and a fault called the D-1. The D-1 Fault branches out from Urasoko and runs directly beneath the Number 2 reactor.

The experts said the Urasoko Fault is active and its possible impact on the fault under the plant in the event of an earthquake cannot be overestimated.

They said that the stratum deformation found near the D-1 Fault was caused by forces similar to those that cause the Urasoko Fault to move.

State regulations prohibit building nuclear reactors above active faults. Tanaka expressed readiness to convene a NSA meeting to hear opinions of members on what to do.

Dec. 10, 2012 - Updated 09:33 UTC (18:33 JST)