Published: September 2nd, 2012 at 12:07 pm ET
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Title: Arnold Gundersen with another update on the unfolding effects of the Fukushima disaster
Source: KPFT Houston, If You Love This Planet Radio
Date: Aug 31, 2012
Description: This week, Dr. Caldicott brings on nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen [...]
At 18:00 in
Gundersen: They still have to inject nitrogen into the vessels all the time. So you will — as a matter of fact, just recently they put a little too much nitrogen in and they wound up with these puffs of radiation coming out.
If they put in too much, they’ll squeeze too much radiation out. so they’re trying to maintain the nitrogen without forcing more and more radiation out but the containments are leaking like sieves.
And again for 5 or 6 or 7 years they’re going to continue to create hydrogen, and the only way to prevent that from exploding again is to feed in nitrogen, which is inert.
Caldicott: Therefore, there’s still a risk of a hydrogen explosion in Units 1, 2 and 3?
Gundersen: Yes.
Caldicott: My God.
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Published: September 2nd, 2012 at 12:07 pm ET
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Listen to the message of the clip, not the way it is delivered…
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This is what nuclear is, on a bad day.
Is this worth it, for 364 nuclear "good" days?
No, because a nuclear bad day lasts forever…
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But TEPCO told the IAEA that only 0.01 Bq/hr is being released from the entire Daiichi site. So they must be catching those little puffs somehow. Anyone have pictures of Japanese puff traps?
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Puff Trap Picture:
Unfortunately -
http://tocancer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/c63.jpg
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Hey mr TEPKILL, the duct tape om your puff trap is not working…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLhb1W2lBm4
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Did Tepco really think 0.00 Bq/hr would be that much less believable?
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They obviously meant 0.01 curie/h, not Bq/h.
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Don't be negativistic.
A new bang shooting open the containment lid at Fuku would be good PR for a nuclear exit.
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Another explosion will shorten the length and quality of life for everyone on the planet. We don't need any more explosions for a nuclear exit.
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So, we are displacing the hydrogen / oxygen split from the water with nitrogen, to keep this combustable mix from building up inside the reactor. Where is it going when it does not puff out?
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How can this be-they are in cold shutdown? They are releasing practically nothing. They are getting ready to decommission all the reactors? Everything is under control!
Any more hydrogen explosions could of course be a huge threat. We have four reactor buildings that have been seriously damaged. What happens to those buildings and the fuel pools balanced 100 feet in the air with another hydrogen explosion?
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?Isn't this absurdly ridiculous? I mean, where do they go from here?
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It is very obvious Arnie does not want to state that fission is still happening directly, however he still makes that statement. When atoms collide the gamma and alpha bi-products are put into a radioactive state from a continually reacting fission explosion that is taking place at a slow burn. The attempts at stopping Fukushima from creating excess fission from happening are far beyond the scope of the accident and the time-frame that has passed. At this point the clock is less in humanities favor compared to 9 months ago. A massive mobilization of force did not take place due to complete lack of regulation and urgency. Now our tiny blue planet gets to bleed out as billions of isotopes are spread in the winds. Invisible and deadly to every cell they come into contact with. Radiation is here to stay.
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why not pull a slight negative pressure, pull the hydrogen gas out, run it through a high temperature
heater, to burn away any hydrogen, and filter the gas to try and capture the radiated particles.
probably easier to pull hydrogen out rather then keep Nitrogen in.
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patb: That would make way too much sense. Yes, and explosion-proof vacuum pump hooked into the system. Feel certain that they have had to reduce hydrogen in these vessels before. Wonder, wouldn't they have tried this approach previously?
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Mr Gundersen said in a past video (with Helen Caldicott again…) that the hydro-volcanic explosion can no longuer occur. This recent shift is so surprising.
How reliable are the informations he got?
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Alright. My appology. Hydrogen explosion… not Hydro-volcanic explosion… I mis-understood.
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A vid of a "puff" situation.
This does not account for the constant emissions..and recriticalities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvPGCYk6taQ&feature=relmfu
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Dear Heart of the Rose,
We are kidding ourselves, this extra gas must go somewhere, it's being produced. It's just part of the constant emissions where seeing, puff / no puff.
Then we have the profiteers.. is "Gundersen" one of them?
I'd say yes,
BOYD
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