- Gundersen: Breaking news… Officials say U.S. nuclear plant operator “was going to do an experiment on the people of Southern California” — “That’s their words; they said it was an experiment” (AUDIO) (ENENews, May 16, 2013)
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, California, Global News, Government, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Society, Technology, U.S.
- Gundersen: Nuclear fuel pool started to heat up at New Jersey plant due to Sandy — They were bringing in fire pumps because of all the problems (AUDIO) (ENENews, Nov 5, 2012):
Fairewinds Podcast, Nov. 4, 2012:
Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: The NRC is not really telling too, too much […]
There’s something called a PNO out, a preliminary notice of occurrence, and the NRC has said that the normal shutdown cooling and the fuel pool cooling were both lost at Oyster Creek and also that there was a loss of offsite power.
So what that means is the nuclear fuel pool started to heat up and Oyster Creek started to bring in some diesel fire pumps, apparently they got the situation rectified before turning the pumps. They were in a position where they were bringing in diesel fire pumps in order to keep the nuclear fuel pool cool because of all the problems they were having as a result of Sandy.
Full Program Here
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Environment, Global News, Government, Hurricane, Hurricane Sandy, NRC, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Technology
- Gundersen Confirms: Fukushima Unit 4 is sinking unevenly — Building “may begin to be tilting” (AUDIO) (ENENews, Oct 21, 2012)
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Fukushima, Global News, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation
- How Citizen Scientists can Sample Radiation (Fairewinds, Oct 18, 2012):
How Citizen Scientists can Sample Radiation from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo.
About this video
Marco Kaltofen, PE explains how citizens scientists can properly, collect, document, package and ship radiation samples. In this video, he also demonstrates how he analyzes radioactive samples in his lab.
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Global News, Marco Kaltofen, Radiation, Science
- Global help urged to avert reactor 4 pool fire (Japan Times, Sep 7, 2012):
U.S. expert appalled by Tepco’s attitude over ‘sleeping dragon’ risk
KYOTO — The risk of a fire starting in reactor 4′s spent-fuel pool at the Fukushima No. 1 plant continues to alarm scientists and government officials around the world, prompting a leading U.S. nuclear expert to urge Japan to tap global expertise to avert a catastrophe.
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Science
- Fukushima plant “to keep contaminating the Pacific Ocean for the rest of time” if fuel can’t be removed — No good solution, must constantly pump out water from under buildings (VIDEO) (ENENews, Sep 3, 2012):
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 19:00 in
Caldicott: If you put concrete on it, you know it’s going to keep going down into the water table.
Gundersen: Right.
Caldicott: And you know it’s going to keep contaminating the Pacific Ocean for the rest of time.
Gundersen: Right. So the solution — there is no good solution — but the solution would be to bore holes underneath and constantly pull water out from under the buildings.
[...]
At 23:00 in
Caldicott: You are sacrificing the Pacific by leaving this stuff there for the rest of time, which will leak and drain consistently into the Pacific.
Gundersen: You’re right. It needs to be constantly pumped out
[...]
Listen to the report here
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Contamination, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Oceans, Radiation
See also:
- Plutonium-238 Detected At 10 Locations In Fukushima (Jiji Press, Aug 21, 2012)
- Gundersen: I think plutonium being reported around Fukushima is raw, unoxidized pieces of nuclear rods that were blown out from Unit 3′s spent fuel pool (ENENews, Aug 22, 2012):
Regarding the recent test results that detected plutonium at 10 locations in Fukushima, Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen writes to ENENews:
Pu came from the damaged fuel rods, obviously. The question is whether it was the damaged rods inside U1/2/3 reactors or whether it was the U3 spent fuel pool. Given U1/2/3 had a containment around the cores (even if damaged), this data leads me to continue to believe that the U3 SFP detonation is the most likely location for the release.
When asked if the plutonium could have been transported by smoke from the burning fuel rods inside the reactors, Gundersen replies:
Burning is oxidation, so U or Pu combines with oxygen to create U oxide… just like Carbon combines with oxygen to make CO2…. small micron size particles….. I think the Pu at Fuku is raw, unoxidized, blown out, not burned
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Contamination, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Plutonium, Radiation
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Fairewinds Associates was sent a leaked Southern California Edison email informing San Onofre employees it is against company policy to leak documents to Fairewinds.
- Leaked Email: Nuclear operator warns against leaking documents, specifically mentions Fairewinds Associates (ENENews, Aug 3, 2012):
Title: Shhh… don’t tell!
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Author: Patrick’s BlogFairewinds Associates was sent a leaked Southern California Edison email informing San Onofre employees it is against company policy to leak documents to Fairewinds.
Subject: Fw: CLARIFICATION REGARDING RECENT NEWS COVERAGE OF OUR PLANT STATUSSubject: CLARIFICATION REGARDING RECENT NEWS COVERAGE OF OUR PLANT STATUS
To: All SONGS Employees and Contractors
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds, Global News, NRC, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Technology, U.S.
- Gundersen: A ton of plutonium was in each Fukushima reactor — Host shocked (VIDEO) (ENENews, July 30, 2012)
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, 2012This 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 ~15:00 in
Arnold Gundersen, Nuclear Engineer: Unit 3 had 30 bundles of MOX fuel… All the reactors have plutonium in them… Uranium-238 becomes plutonium-239 when it absorbs a neutron… There was close to a ton of plutonium in each of the reactors… scattered throughout the fuel… A ton of plutonium in each reactor… you and I know how dangerous plutonium can be… makes the cleanup that much more difficult.
See also: Physician: “A millionth of a gram of plutonium, or less, can induce cancer, or will induce cancer”
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Plutonium, Radiation
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