[ RadSafe ] Gundersen's Latest Push - Claims about Plutonium andNew Video

[Olsson Mattias :MSO]

Gundersen says:

"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"

Apart from other strangeness, I wonder where the initial "unoxidized" Pu and U would be, since it originates from the uranium oxide matrix of the fuel.

Mattias Olsson

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Ämne: [ RadSafe ] Gundersen's Latest Push - Claims about Plutonium andNew Video

Arnold Gundersen will not give up with his false claims about plutonium and the Reactor #4 Spent Fuel Pool.  I wonder how much money he has gotten for trips to Japan, etc. out of this clever marketing scheme of his.  There are two Nuclear-News messages included in this - the first is Gundersen's latest claims that Plutonium near Fukushima is from damaged fuel rods scattered by explosions and the second is the video that he got a station in Vermont to do.  They apparently do work for fee in addition to being what appears to be a small PBS station.  Their contact point sent an automatic out-of-the office message; the interviewer is not listed as a member of their staff.

Roger Helbig

Christina MacPherson posted: "  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  August 22nd, 2012 Regarding the recent test results that detected plutonium at 10 location"

Sources of plutonium found around Fukushima

by Christina MacPherson

 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  August 22nd, 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

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