[ RadSafe ] Fukushima Madness

Wed Nov 20 14:28:22 CST 2013

Spent fuel was removed from reactor #4 on 30 Nov 2010! - large number
of elements something like 1400 -

Brookhaven Report is

www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/6135335-5voofL/6135335.pdf

rushing out the door

Roger Helbig

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:25 PM, KARAM, PHILIP <PHILIP.KARAM at nypd.org> wrote:
> OK - a quick question. Does anyone know how much spent fuel is present, how old it is, what the fission product inventory is, etc.? I agree that these claims are ridiculous - but it would be great to have some solid data and calculations to go with that assertion. I've got to admit I don't know where to look for this information - can anyone help out?
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> Thanks!
>
> Andy
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> All:
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> Rebecca Terrell, a friend and colleague of mine, is researching an article
> for The New American magazine "to put into realistic perspective the current
> dangers posed by Japan's damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima and to dispel
> myths of pending global catastrophe."  Below is some of the lamestream
> media's garbage that is in serious need of refuting, and she would
> appreciate any help in doing so.
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> 1.      Nuclear power expert Arnie Gundersen says the fuel pool housing at
> reactor #4 must be stabilized because another earthquake (of 7.0 or larger)
> could collapse the structure, causing a chain reaction that would
> necessitate evacuation of Japan and considerable danger to residents of the
> West Coast of North America. http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=5620
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> 2.      Anti-nuclear physician Helen Caldicott says she will move from
> Boston, Massachusetts, to somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere if fuel pool
> #4 collapses. (Let's hope wherever she goes, there's no Internet access.)
> She and Gundersen have both recommended a Northern Hemisphere evacuation in
> the event of a Fukushima fuel pool collapse.
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> 3.      Quoting Japan's former ambassador to Switzerland, Mitsuhei Murata,
> international diplomat Akio Matsumura
> http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html  said a collapse of unit #4 would
> "certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never before experienced"
> and would "affect us all for centuries." Murata wrote in a letter to U.N.
> Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, "It is no exaggeration to say that the fate
> of Japan and the whole world depends on No. 4 reactor."
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> 4.      Matsumura also quoted Robert Alvarez, former senior policy advisor
> to the secretary and deputy assistant secretary for National Security and
> the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy, who wrote, "If an
> earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result
> in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of
> Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident." Alvarez then said that all of
> the spent fuel assemblies stored at Fukushima amount to ". roughly 85 times
> the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident," which Matsumura
> goes on to claim would "destroy the world environment and our civilization"
> if exposed. He calls it "an issue of human survival."
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> 5.      Chris Busby, scientific secretary of the European Committee on
> Radiation Risk, predicts
> http://rt.com/op-edge/chernobyl-fukushima-crisis-catastrophe-715/  that
> because of the original damage to the Fukushima reactors in 2011, "some
> 200,000 extra cancers in roughly 10 million population in the 200 km  radius
> of the site in the next 10 years, and 400,000 over 50 years." He claims
> there is already an "accelerating thyroid cancer epidemic, worse than and
> earlier than the Chernobyl thyroid cancer epidemic."
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> 6.      Concerning fuel pool #4, Busby says a collapse would mean, "Not
> quite Armageddon, but as far as Japan is concerned, almost. I bet they have
> contingency plans to evacuate the northern island to Korean, China,
> anywhere. A lot of this radiation will end up in the USA, a long way
> downwind, admittedly, but then there is an awful lot of radioactivity
> involved."
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> I'll forward any RadSafe comments to her or you can email her at
> rterrellmba at gmail.com.
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>
> Ed Hiserodt
>
> Controls & Power, Inc.
>
> Little Rock
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