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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNuclear Engineer: Fukushima is worst industrial cataclysm in history of world
http://enenews.com/nuclear-engineer-fukushima-is-worst-industrial-cataclysm-in-the-history-of-the-world-its-about-as-close-to-hell-as-i-could-imagine-the-nuclear-cores-have-disappeared-contamiNuclear Engineer: Fukushima is worst industrial cataclysm in history of world As close to hell as I can imagine Melted fuel disappeared Contamination will go on for hundreds of thousands of years No one knows when itll end Govt perpetrating ongoing cover-up
Arnie Gundersen, former nuclear engineer, Mar 11, 2017 (emphasis added): The scientific impact of the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi is an ongoing disaster that was never envisioned by the engineers who created and designed these atomic reactors and countries who built them no country in the world with nuclear power reactors was prepared for the explosive radioactive contamination of Fukushima Daiichi. Over and over, people ask me about what happened inside the plants and what is still happening inside with robots fried by radiation, corium that cant be found, and massive amounts of radioactivity migrating to sensitive estuaries, aquifers, contaminating all the ground water, and polluting the Pacific Ocean No one has discovered where the nuclear cores have disappeared to. The $400,000,000 ice wall continues to leak Moreover, the cover-up continues, with the health effects from radiation being camouflaged as stress related illnesses I decided to share the photographs I took last year in Japan these photos cannot adequately convey the scientific and human impact of the worst industrial cataclysm in the history of the world [R]adioactive isotopes will be extreme hazards for 250,000 years, of course no one knows when it will end.
BBC Newsday interview with nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen, Feb 28, 2017: As they get in [the containment vessel at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2], theyre finding that combination of hot steam these are not just radioactive chemicals, but its a toxic mix of chemicals that are going to react with the steel. So theres rust and hunks of nuclear fuel lying around, and steam, and its raining all the time because of the condensation. I think its about as close to hell as I could imagine.
Arjun Makhijani, nuclear engineer, Feb 17, 2017: Yes, so the bottom of the reactor under the reactor there is a grating and then under the grating theres the concrete floor, and what this robot discovered the grating was deformed and broken. So, now it appears that some of the molten fuel may have gone through the grating [H]igh radiation turns into heat, so the whole environment around the molten fuel is thermally very hot, and so whether it is going through the concrete, whether it is under the concrete, I dont know that we have a good grip on that issue Fukushima is possibly the longest running, continuous industrial disaster in history. It has not stopped because the risks are still there.
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)And unfortunately recommend
WhiteTara
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)That it's just the equivalent of sunny rainbows being blown up my ass. Now I don't know who to believe.
malaise
(267,819 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)They should be here any minute now. I do remember one staunch proponent of nuclear power here though who I had a very respectful dialog with, mostly through PM. He didn't whitewash Fukushima when it happened. He still believed in nuclear power's abstract potential, but knew it was a real disaster what happened there. He was coming to believe that humans are too flawed to manage it, no matter how robust the protections might be that are designed for use.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Saboburns
(2,807 posts)Many points here:
First one being enenews IS NOT A CREDIBLE SOURCE OF NEWS.
Next, Posting stories from untrustworthy sites such as this one actually hurts the cause of anti-nuclear power.
Yes, what happened at Fukushimi was serious and very scary. And continues to be a major problem that will last a looooooong time.
Not one death. Not one sickness.
No I dont shill for nuclear power companies. Nor am a fan of such.
An industrial accident that didnt kill nor sicken a single person is not the worst in the history of the world. This is my point.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)I'm just guessing here, but it seems likely they will emerge out the gilded kiester of the republican Draft-&-Tax Dodger-in-Chief and his kinky cabal of russian-republican cronies.
We best all stay on the lookout.
Orrex
(63,085 posts)Trump's only been in office for 2 months.