[ RadSafe ] Fukushima Madness

Wed Nov 20 14:35:13 CST 2013

Except for Busby, all of the others are spin offs of Gundersen claims
- see "Gundersen" in RADSAFE archives.

Roger

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spent fuel was removed from reactor #4 on 30 Nov 2010! - large number
> of elements something like 1400 -
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> Brookhaven Report is
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> www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/6135335-5voofL/6135335.pdf
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> rushing out the door
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> 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?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Hiserodt
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:36 AM
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>> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Fukushima Madness
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
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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."
>>
>>
>>
>> I'll forward any RadSafe comments to her or you can email her at
>> rterrellmba at gmail.com.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ed Hiserodt
>>
>> Controls & Power, Inc.
>>
>> Little Rock
>>
>>
>>
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