Fukushima Fuel Pools: Impending Disaster, Solutions, Greed & Inaction (A. Gundersen on Ecoshock)
Channel: rumorecurioso
Date: 2012-04-11

Arnie Gundersen/Fairewinds Associates:
http://www.fairewinds.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/fairewindsenergy
in Japanese: http://www.fairewinds.com/ja

http://www.ecoshock.org/

Radio Ecoshock: The Worst Problems In The World
Alex Smith, of Radio Ecoshock, interviews nuclear industry expert Arnie Gundersen, of Fairewinds Associates.  Smith notes that the nuclear accident at Fukushima Japan is far from over as three reactors continue to meltdown.  Smith adds that now there is a storm of international worry about nuclear fuel pools tottering in blown up buildings putting the whole Northern Hemisphere at risk.

Gundersen says it is unlikely there would be an explosion if the #4 Fuel pool collapses. But dangerous "hot" particles would still be sent around the world, because within two days of the collapse, the Zirconium and radioactive metals (like Cesium and Plutonium) would burn at a very high temperature, sending particles high into the air. The result would be an everlasting disaster for Japan. Arnie thinks it could create a no-man's land 50 miles across the country, perhaps destabilizing the government.

According to Smith, "Arnie Gundersen, a year ago, warned us here on Radio Ecoshock, and to anybody who would listen, that a world-scale catastrophe was lurking in the nuclear fuel storage pools of both reactors Three and Four, at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan.  Why is this story finally getting wider attention, a year later?"

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See also:
People & Power - Danger Zone: Ageing Nuclear Reactors 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1hEM7KwSRc

NRC GRANTS DESIGN CERTIFICATION TO WESTINGHOUSE AP1000®
http://www.multivu.com/mnr/53908-nrc-grants-design-certification-to-westingho...

Arnie Gundersen's video analyzing design flaws in the AP1000 reactors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iowvm3LHSk4

Nuclear Regulatory Commission daily reports (what's happening at nuclear plants near you):
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2012/