Why Fukushima Can Happen Here: What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Don't Want You to Know
The well-known safety flaws of Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactors have gained significant attention in the wake of the four reactor accidents at Fukushima, but a more insidious danger lurks.
In this video nuclear engineers Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum discuss how the US regulators and regulatory process have left Americans unprotected. They walk, step-by-step, through the events of the Japanese meltdowns and consider how the knowledge gained from Fukushima applies to the nuclear industry worldwide. They discuss "points of vulnerability" in American plants, some of which have been unaddressed by the NRC for three decades. Finally, they concluded that an accident with the consequences of Fukushima could happen in the US.
With more radioactive Cesium in the Pilgrim Nuclear Plant's spent fuel pool than was released by Fukushima, Chernobyl, and all nuclear bomb testing combined, Gundersen and Lockbaum ask why there is not a single procedure in place to deal with a crisis in the fuel pool? These and more safety questions are discussed in this forum presented by the C-10 Foundation at the Boston Public Library.
Special thanks to Herb Moyer for the excellent video and Geoff Sutton for the frame-by-frame graphics of the Unit 3 explosion.
Thank you very much to Mr Arnie Gundersen and Mr David Lochbaum for this very interesting and complete presentation. I live in France and I was wondering if and where we could find somewhere this presentation subtitled in French so that we could have it disseminated and shown in France ? Thank you anyway for all your action of information to the world about the dangers of nuclear energy. Best regards.
i don't know whether was taught differently, but the word Radiation screams DEATH! So instead of telling us to come down, whoever is responsible should be busy shutting down all nuc programs, in all nations, or else the Fukushima incident,...is just the beginning!