Published: July 30th, 2012 at 5:40 pm ET
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Title: Arnold Gundersen with the latest on Fukushima: its effects on Japan, and the global risks posed by the No. 4 reactor
Source: If You Love This Planet Radio
Author: Dr. Helen Caldicott
Date: July 27, 2012
This week, Dr. Caldicott has a new conversation with nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen about the ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant and its effects on Japan and the rest of the world. [...]
At ~12:00 in
Arnold Gundersen, Nuclear Engineer: At Reactor 2… the conclusion is that fine pieces of nuclear fuel have escaped the containment and are lying as a powder on the bottom of the torus room.
At ~14:00 in
Gundersen: The particles escaped the torus… that’s what’s fascinating… these are outside containment… it’s quite clear that the junction between the torus and the dry part of the containment failed.
Published: July 30th, 2012 at 5:40 pm ET
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Normally, as long as you keep it underwater the nuclear poisons can't get airborne. On the other hand, the containment water is leaking into groundwater.
I think this is the first time I've heard that nuclear fuel from the reactor #2 is confirmed to be outside of containment because of high readings from the flooded torus room basement floor. Cooling water leaking from containment is one thing but nuclear fuel laying outside containment is something else.
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Agreed.
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WEll a whole bunch was blown sky high and aerosolized, EPA data, proof here, tens of tons of uranium and plutonium
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/uranium-aerosolized-into-atmosphere.html
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A fine powder..at the bottom of 2?
How is that?
That is not how uncontrolled nuclear material would react.
Why does Gundersen talk like this?
(Implied frustration!)
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He could have at least said..they had found xenon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WevOsY1dask&list=UUDc-g0J-d6uEeOmRx5TX3Ew&index=8&feature=plcp
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Xenon 133-135 found at reactor 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if9lo3odW4k&feature=related
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When they first went to the torus catwalk this was obvious, and I stated it here on ENE News. The dose rates will never lie about the situation. There is powdered flakes and particles of fuel laying all over the place. The torus is normally a low dose rate area. When they first found high dose rates at the door it could only be caused by one thing. The flakes and fuel particles are mostly lying under the water, and if it was drained the entire area would be unapproachable because of the dose they would emit.
When the fuel becomes overheated and the zirc fails then it becomes very easy for fuel particles, flakes and dust to go wherever the water goes. That is the situation in the torus in #2 and all over the site. The leaks into the ocean also contain fuel fragments. It has gone everywhere.
A number of times when I was at operating plants there would be the discovery of increased radioactivity in the primary water. This would almost always mean that there was a small pinhole leak in one fuel rod. They would go into a shut down if the leak appeared to be of significant size. When we would go in the building after it shut down it was not all that uncommon to find some of these small, but very radioactively hot fuel fragments out and about wherever primary water had traveled and leaked. And that was from a very small pinhole leak.
Multiply that by millions with complete fuel melting, very sad.
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good post chris…
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thanks
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Yet another disocveries of a coverup from IneptCO. The information will keep getting out. How about that former "Mysterious Black Dust??"… makes you wonder, doesn't it.
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Yet another discovery of information being suppressed from IneptCO. The information will keep getting out, in time. How about that former "Mysterious Black Dust??"… makes you wonder, doesn't it.
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