Gundersen: Recent hydrogen build up inside Fukushima reactor “worrisome” (VIDEO)

Published: May 20th, 2012 at 1:11 am ET
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Follow-up to: Hydrogen levels continue rising at Reactor No. 2 -- Now above .50%, highest in months -- Explosion risk at 4%

Dr. Helen Caldicott interviews Arnold Gundersen
If You Love This Planet Radio
May 8, 2012

At ~35:00 in

Gundersen: Slowly over the last couple of weeks the hydrogen has continued to build up inside the containments…

It’s coming from the bombardment of water from all the radiation that’s in the core. So a radioactive particle that’s just h20 splits to crank out the hydrogen.

It was incredibly low, now it’s up to about half a percent hydrogen.

So the trend is worrisome.

It has to get to 4% though… before it explodes.

So there’s still a margin to prevent an explosion.

So the trend, why is the hydrogen going up, is worrisome…

h/t Whoopie

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Published: May 20th, 2012 at 1:11 am ET
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34 comments to Gundersen: Recent hydrogen build up inside Fukushima reactor “worrisome” (VIDEO)

  • dharmasyd

    Okay, Whoopie! Real info here. Important.


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  • Sam

    Potrblog team reporting tonight radiation in America cows. It speaks for itself!
    Saturday, May 19, 2012
    "ALERT! Radioactive Fallout Identified In and On US Ground Beef
    The POTRBLOG team spent $1,100 dollars to have US ground beef tested by professional labs for radioactive contamination from Plutonium, Strontium, and Gamma producing radionuclides. The ground beef samples tested were from a grass fed cow which went to the butcher in July of 2011; the radioactive testing occurred during the first week of May 2012.

    The ground beef sample returned readings showing that the cow had ingested radioactive fallout. The sample also had readings which point to a recent nuclear fission and control rod fire occurring within the last few weeks. The results of that testing are presented in the video below."

    pissinontheroses.blog.com

    the corium activity last couple of weeks plus other fission activity at Fukushima is now
    showing up in the grass the cows feed on. no surprise. though quite upsetting.
    This also means more ongoing fall out on our food crops–the grain crops, the vegetables, the seed oil crops,
    The silence from those who should be doing the testing is criminal.
    Thank you POTRBLOC.


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

      Wait. "The sample also had readings which point to a recent nuclear fission and control rod fire occurring within the last few weeks."
      How could a beef sample from July 2011, which was hopefully stored in a freezer since then, show signs which point to a recent "control rod fire"?
      Errrm…sorry, no.


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      • Jebus Jebus

        You must have missed the part where he thinks that the 20 minutes out in the open air, when they divied it up into smaller portions, is when it became contaminated with the short half life radionuclides.


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        • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

          Morning Jebus, do you think that's plausible?


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          • Jebus Jebus

            I am certainly not professionally qualified to make that determination but, if the beef was laid out in the open and with condensation forming on the surface from thawing, (drawing moisture from the air), the likelihood of it drawing ionized radiation with it is great. My question is if the building that this took place in has that much floating around inside it, what would it be if it was outside for 20 minutes thawing?
            The other issue would be the fact that none of the prior steps were documented more than just dates. Should have been video documented right from the happy cow standing there chewing it's radioactive cud…


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    • Bobby1

      July 2011 was when beef and pork first caused me metal mouth. It got much worse after that…

      This testing was from an independent lab. I wonder what Arnie Gundersen thinks about this. I am assuming that he will cover this in his next video.


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  • Sam

    I am aware this post is off topic to the thread. Though there are related.
    Hydrogen build up comes from the descending corium blob interacting with the
    water now causing radioactive steam for last couple of weeks along with
    Gamma flashes from neutron release. All this nuclear activity is coming our way
    to no surprise and we are now getting measurements on the fall out
    ………Once the video is up at 1am cdt will know more
    details of the testing…….


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  • Sam

    Potrbolog video lost its sound some 4 minutes into it.
    I will tell from recollection what he said.

    Contamination from recent fuel rod fire at Fukushima
    Scary Thought

    Barium 140 with half life of 14 days and LA 120 (?) there in the ground beef
    Says this indicative of the April 30th radiological events at Fukushima.
    Gave a total figure of the bq/kg found in the ground beef. it was in the 1 billion range.

    then the video went silent and now stuck at some 4;53 minutes into it.
    lets see if there is censorship on if there is a video problem
    WAS THIS CENSORED ON NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS?
    no need for commentary at this moment. let it silently be for a moment.


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    • Jebus Jebus

      I listened to all of it and the US Government is complicit in a crime against it's own people by turning off public access to the radiation monitors thereby denying people the right to protect themselves and their families. There should be a FOIA request for the data, and if denied, the US Government should be taken to trial by it's people, for access to the data. Someone should be held responsible for this criminal act.


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  • Max1 Max1

    "There should be a FOIA request for the data"
    Best idea of the day!

    Calling Senator Wyden…


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  • bleep_hits_blades

    This interview with Caldicott and Gundersen is excellent, full of good info, some of which was new to me. It is so good that I am going to listen to the whole thing again tomorrow.

    I noticed that Whoopie tipped Admin. about this interview – good work, Whoopie. Great find. Caldicott is such an excellent interviewer – asks good questions.


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose

    Yes..he is….so we can all sit on our hands waiting on the "inevitable" ..with zero discussion of ongoing.


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  • Did we cover this? (will check)

    Tepco Data Reveals Nuclear Meltdown In Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool

    http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/16/tepco-date-reveals-nuclear-meltdown-reactor-4-spent-fuel-pool-133571/

    "That chart shows a highly level of radioactive iodine 131 was released from the reactor 4 spent fuel pool, which means there was a nuclear meltdown in the pool.

    Last year TEPCO downplayed the detection of cesium in the fuel pool by claiming the cesium detected in reactor 4 was only 1/100th of the mount detected in reactor 1, 2 and 3 hence concluding the detected cesium was likely ‘blown’ into reactor 4 from the other reactors.

    However, TEPCO hid the fact they detected a massive release of iodine radiation – which is a clear sign of a nuclear meltdown – in reactor 4 spent fuel pools."


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  • Spectrometising

    Here are some recent comments/discussion and high res imagery pertaining to this thread from the guys/gals at Phys-org.
    http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=480200&page=831


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  • Can hydrogen be requested to give away progressively by using such a method, similar to the disposal of teh hydrogen when charging?

    http://bater.pl/en/recombination-plug

    Anything to the atmosphere, you don't need to sit in the application of this method. Everything is in the reactor, and the hydrogen is not…


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