The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) held a special ACRS meeting Thursday May 26, 2011 on the current status of Fukushima.
Arnie Gundersen was invited to speak for 5 minutes concerning the lessons learned from the Fukushima accident as it pertains to the 23 Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactors (BWR's) in the US and containment integrity.
Mr. Gundersen was the first engineer to brief the NRC on the implication of Main Steam Isolation Valve (MSIV) Leakage in 1974, and he has been studying containment integrity since 1972. The NRC has constantly maintained in all of its calculations and reviews that there is zero probability of a containment leaking.
For more than six years, in testimony and in correspondence with the NRC, Mr. Gundersen has disputed the NRC's stand that containment systems simply do not and cannot leak. The events at Fukushima have proven that Gundersen was correct. The explosions at Fukushima show that Mark 1 containments will lose their integrity and release huge amounts of radiation, as Mr. Gundersen has been telling the NRC for many years.
Wow! What astounding discourtesy given to Mr. Gundersen. Obviously the ostriches on the NRC and ACRS panel have colluded with old political whores on the Warren Commission, and they have determined that a 'lone gunman' was responsible for the Fukushima folly. Case closed!
Sadily this reveals how greed has interwoven into NRC and ACRS personnel! What is really disturbing it reveals how these organizations who are federally funded do not truely care about our environment. When you have men and women that are not held accountable, just like our corrupt senators have become, this is just one example how there is no accountability what so ever. Those human beings in Japan will not have a long life, and will be full of cancer in a very short time line. And nobody will be put in prison for this situation. We have wolves guarding the hen house!
Im disgusted by the treatment of Mr Gundersen, not surprised, just disgusted.
Thats Government for you, and these clowns are in charge of our safety. Brutal