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

[franz.schoenhofer at chello.at]

Who is this Gunderson? One of these "eminent scientists" like Rosalie Bertell was called, charlatans like Chris Busby, McPherson and and and and......?   BTW none of these "eminent scientists" is known in my home country, not even by professional radiation protection people. You see how important the opinions and their "scientific writing" is. 

Är han svensk? Jag trodde, at svenskarna var klokare än österrikarna. 

Med vänlig hälsning,

Franz
 





---- "Olsson Mattias :MSO" <mso at forsmark.vattenfall.se> schrieb:
> 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
> 
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] För Roger Helbig
> Skickat: den 23 augusti 2012 06:48
> Till: RADSAFE
> Kopia: Meredith Angwin; Rod Adams
> 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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