Engineer/Activist: California reactor could shake itself to bits and lead to meltdown if restarted — Bathtub worth of radioactive water a day was leaking at San Onofre (AUDIO)

Published: July 25th, 2012 at 11:16 am ET
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Interview with Ray Lutz
Nuclear Hotseat #58
July 24, 2012

Wikipedia for Raymond Lutz:

Raymond Lutz (born August 23, 1957) is a businessman, electronics engineer, activist, and the 2010 Democratic Candidate for Congress in California’s 52nd congressional district. Lutz was also a candidate in the 2008 election for the 77th Assembly District in California, but was defeated by Republican candidate Joel Anderson. [...] San Diego State University to receive his bachelor’s degree, followed by his Master’s of Science in Electronics Engineering. [...] Lutz began his career at the Naval Ocean Systems Center in San Diego working in the field of defense communication technology, followed by work at a number of private firms.

At 28:30 in

Lutz: The number 3 reactor… it’s the one that had this actual pinhole leak, they say it didn’t leak very much. Well, it leaked about 75 gallons a day, about as much as a bathtub of radioactive water — Which was emitted into the air, into the environment [...] If they restart it, it could shake itself to bits, even though they think it won’t, and then we could have a meltdown. So it’s very, very dangerous.

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11 comments to Engineer/Activist: California reactor could shake itself to bits and lead to meltdown if restarted — Bathtub worth of radioactive water a day was leaking at San Onofre (AUDIO)

  • The bathtub is now the engineering standard of unit of measure, replacing the outdated and awkward metric system.


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    • NoNukes NoNukes

      In 1985, Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, documented the consistent use of terms and objects from the domestic in the practice of torture world wide. Kitchen things, etc. become torture instruments, so the "domestic act of protecting becomes an act of hurting, and in hurting, the object becomes what it is not…"(41). Weapons are given names that domesticate them, like the "telephone."

      What is the most popular domestic object referenced in the practice of torture internationally?
      "…the contents of the room, its furnishings, are converted into weapons: the most common instance of this is the bathtub that figures prominently in reports from numerous countries…" (40)


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    • @Flapdoodle
      July 25, 2012 at 12:00 pm
      What excellent way of keeping our spirits in place and our conscience ticking in the midst of this extremely horrible world war.
      How wonderful if the nuclears are all stopped now and the wastes are isolated from the earth! What a monumental task-of what mettle are these pronukes made of?
      There is true knowledge,learn thou it is this: To see one changeless life in all the lives, in the separate, the inseparable! And the people are bound by action which do not return things taken from the earth. And modern civilization is full of such unscientific ways of living-uranium mining and creating things new to nature, without learning how to dispose them safely, not doing the energy audit of energy intensive programmes of trying to meet our needs…How foolish.
      There is no pure reason for the non harmonised;
      Nor for the non harmonised is there anything to relearn,
      The incorrigibles are restless,
      The restless are forever at loggerheads with the earth,
      There are unpeaceful and forever at war
      Unhappiness forever and extinction awaits such ways.
      Right now in India they are at their wits end
      Engineering nukes.
      The mighty are those who successfully return!


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  • weeman

    Look it's simple reconfigure the core to the way it was before you cramed more fuel in their, in fact close the facility down its old and most people around it don't want it to operate and are scared of this technology.

    Personnel plea to nuclear engineers and workers, governments, the 2 percent, etc.

    You know the dangers, you are educated, theirs other lines of work that you could find, does your conscience both you it should, do you wonder if you are exposing your family to hot particals, get a grip man it has to start somewhere, step up to the plate, whistleblow, stop investing in these companies that propagate nuclear.

    Nobody can operate a nuclear facility with absulote certainety that it will not fail and mankind at this time has no way to stop or clean up a accident that has the potential to kill all of us and all higher life forms it is ludicrous.
    Look at Fukushima and Chernobyl you know what it means.


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  • RichardPerry

    The builders and owners should be put on notice that if they start the plant that they will be held responsable for any thing that goes wrong.


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  • nedlifromvermont

    Go California Go! Stand up to Big Nuclear now, while you still have something to lose!!!

    You do not need this nuclear fraud!!!

    You have been Cali-fornicated … now is not the time to be nuclear-fornicated!!

    Tell the truth to Big Nuclear!! They are all liars and fraudsters.

    Spend some time on enenews to get the data you need to give the people the truths they need to know now!!!

    Saikado hantei!!! Oppose the restart!!!! Death to nuclear power!!! We'll let the pro-nuclear people live … cleaning up the radioactive mess and living in free housing, abandoned by the victims of this massive 20th century fraud.

    GE will provide soap and rags. They "bring good things to life." Remember? What cheap twaddle.

    peace …


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  • many moons

    You are so right Ned….If imagining fighting the nuke industry is a hard battle, imagine dealing with radiation everyday until it makes you sick and then fighting for your life against cancer!

    Fight for your life against the industry…it's an easier fight!

    1 in 3 DOESN'T get cancer in Japan…1 in 3 DIES from cancer in Japan…..
    http://www.jcancer.jp


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