Arnie Gundersen Update 260811 TEPCO Data Confirms Assertions of Significant Fuel Pool Failures
Channel: rumorecurioso
Date: 2011-08-28

Arnie and Maggie Gundersen/Fairewinds Associates (Mr. Gundersen, a nuclear engineer and a former nuclear industry executive, is an unequalled US expert on nuclear energy and nuclear industry problems):
http://www.fairewinds.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/fairewindsenergy

Websites recommended by Arnold Gundersen:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/04/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-japan-nuclear.html
http://enenews.com/

Nuclear Regulatory Commission daily reports (what's happening at nuclear plants near you):
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2011/index.html

Fukushima links (Fukushima Daiichi live and a youtube compressed version):
http://lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/lucaswebcamwatch.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/fuku1live
http://atmc.jp/fuku1/#v=C4Xfo23IBaM
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html

Weather (radiation flow) from Fukushima:
http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=glob_250

News and Updates:
http://nukefree.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/MsMilkytheclown?blend=1&ob=5
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/04_04.html
http://australiancannonball.com/
http://www.llrc.org/
http://www.scoop.it/t/nuclear-news-what-the-physics

SACE Bellefonte Nuclear Plant (Alabama, UNITED STATES, constructed/operated by Tennessee Valley Authority) Arnie Gundersen's Report of 08/09/2011 is available on: 
http://www.cleanenergy.org/index.php?/Reports-and-Publications.html
TVA's Board of Directors responsible for the plant's opening, operation and all current and future problems:
http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/board/
http://www.tva.gov/abouttva/board/members.htm
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (authorized completion of the plant after its being written off for scrap and rusting for two years, i.e., cannibalized):
http://www.nrc.gov/
(Notice on their website: Nuclear Regulatory Commission / Protecting People and the Environment)
Five current NRC Commissioners and their bios can be viewed on:
http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/organization/commfuncdesc.html
Plant designed -- 1968
Construction began -- 1974
Mothballed (at 80% completion) -- 1988
Cannibalized -- 2005
NRC approved completion of the construction of the plant (in spite of the virtual abandonment for two years) -- 2008
Plant will start operation -- 2018 (50-year old design; cars that old are considered antiques)

"Evidence of neutron leakage at the Fukushima nuclear plant from measurements of radioactive 35S in California:"
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/91461104/Evidence-of-neutron-leakage-at-the-Fukus...

US NRC / "Briefing on the Task Force Review of NRC Processes and Regulations Following the Events in Japan"
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/91462459/Briefing-on-the-Task-Force-Review-of-NRC...

Miscellaneous:
http://www.gdacs.org/index.asp
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php
http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2_us.shtml
http://www.weather.gov/view/states.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php#DISC...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfgYRIGjNkA
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25884
http://news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98cMHsBsks
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110815152027.htm
http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/eqmashup.html
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/#
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/anss/
http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/telemetry_data/map_sta_eq.shtml
http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/helicorder/heli.html
http://download.cnet.com/Earthquake-3D/3000-2054_4-10395116.html
http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/Map/index.php
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/maps-cartes/index-eng.php
http://www.fujigoko.tv/live/shotList.cgi
http://www.nps.gov/yell/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm
http://www.isthisthingon.org/Yellowstone/daythumbs.php
http://tux.wr.usgs.gov/
http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/BETTER/pnsn_staweb/index.html
http://www.showme.net/~fkeller/quake/maps.htm
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/netquakes/station/NQ079_NM_01/


[NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.] * Cesium-134 ~ 2 years * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days * Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.] * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days * Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.] * Uranium-234 ~ 246,000 years * Uranium-235 ~ 703.8 million years * Uranium-238 ~ 4.468 billion years (Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/MsMilkytheclown?blend=1&ob=5)