Fact Checking Dr. Arjun Makhijani - "Nuclear Reactors Create 30 Bombs of Plutonium Every Year"
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2015-03-26

Arjun Makhijani's statement to the Minnesota Senate, that "Every nuclear plant generates about 30 bombs worth of Plutonium every year" is worth looking at in detail.

Makhijani was interviewed by Rod Adams in 2012. That was a more technical exchange than the single fact-check performed by Minnesota Senator Michelle Benson.

http://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-183-arjun-makhijani-explains-carbon-free-nuclear-free-strategy/

Visuals to describe Makhijani theoretical bomb construction are "Crazy Knex Ball Robotics Contraption" captured by Fred Rick: https://youtu.be/hrWk6BixxTc

Isotope primer "A is for Atom": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Is_for_Atom

Depleted Cranium was used as a learning and visual resource on matter of weaponizing spent fuel: http://depletedcranium.com/why-you-cant-build-a-bomb-from-spent-fuel/

This video was constructed by Gordon McDowell. It was created between chapters of "Th" Thorium documentary, when I heard Makhijani had testified before Minnesota's Senate.

Makhijani wrote the IEER report "Thorium - No Panacea for Nuclear Power". That is how I came to learn his name. If he hadn't written that report, no doubt this video would not exist.

You can read Kirk Sorensen's rebuttal to Makhijani's thorium report here: http://energyfromthorium.com/2011/03/23/sorensen-rebuttal/

And if you're curious about that report mentioned on German TV, it can be read (in English!) here: http://www.e-fi.de/fileadmin/Gutachten_2014/EFI_Report_2014.pdf ...pages 7, 15, 51 & 52 touch on Germany's renewable policies, and their impact.