Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Very Interesting Interview


Exceptional interview with Dr. Gregory Jaczko by Alec Baldwin.  Dr. Jaczko was chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Fukushima disaster.

Pro-nuclear members of the NRC were outraged when Jaczko called for a 50 mile perimeter around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant during the early days of the disaster March 2011.

This 50 mile perimeter was problematic because most US reactors are located in or near urban areas and these urban centers could not be evacuated within a 50 mile radius in the event of meltdowns and spent fuel pool fires:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/htt-gregory-jaczko/#commentsForm

Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant in Arizona is a perfect example. Most of the approximately 4 million people living in Maricopa county could not evacuate if Palo Verde had a meltdown and/or spent fuel pool fires. There are only a couple of freeways and highways leading out of town and they would be entirely jammed in no time at all.

Palo Verde is located West of Phoenix. Most of the time, the winds move from west to east. That means that under ordinary weather conditions, radioactive contaminants from a fire or meltdown at Palo Verde would  blow east into the valley where the population is centered.

Physicists and engineers warned against locating nuclear power plants in populated areas in the late 1940s and early 1950s. However, these warnings were disregarded and sprawling suburbs have encroached on reactors that were once located more remotely.

TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi disaster will costs billions of (US) dollars and is producing heat that is visible on webcams. Many trucks and other petroleum fueled vehicles operate at the plant every day in a desperate effort to keep melted fuel cool and to prevent ongoing contamination of the aquifer and ocean.

Nuclear power is not clean. It is not carbon neutral. It is not cheap. And it is not safe.

Fukushima Daiichi August 10, 2016






3 comments:

  1. Frightening comments from enenenws. Make perfect sense though.
    from a distance
    August 9, 2016 at 10:22 am Log in to Reply
    Lonnie Clark, "Age of Fission" radio show, interviews Kay Drey of Beyond Nuclear

    http://www.ucy.tv/Default.aspx?PID=130&T=Age of Fission

    http://www.beyondnuclear.org



    from a distancefrom a distance
    August 9, 2016 at 10:54 am Log in to Reply
    A few interesting points from the interview:

    * the steam coming out of the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant has TRITIUM in it

    * a lot of TRITIUM is generated during nuclear process, and a lot is released into the water, lakes, oceans and ends up in DRINKING WATER

    * half-life of TRITIUM is 12.3 years, multiply that by 10 to know how long TRITIUM will continue giving off beta particles

    * TRITIUM is one of hundreds of radioactive poisons released into the environment from nuclear energy



    from a distancefrom a distance
    August 9, 2016 at 11:18 am Log in to Reply
    Lonnie said something very interesting ==>

    @ around 47:50 –

    " It's like I told Ron Wyden [Oregon Senator], he said he couldn't talk to us about Fukushima anymore because it has been deemed a national security thing, and so it's under the patriot act and they can't tell me about it. I said 'So you're telling me that you guys have deemed Fukushima to be a threat to our country but you can't talk to me about any of it. They said 'No ma'am we can't.' "


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  2. "Nuclear power is not clean. It is not carbon neutral. It is not cheap. And it is not safe." I am so tired of hearing about climate change and flooded cities.

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  3. So much about the american society is so fake. They actively have a riot in China to protest Nuclear Power and a nuclear repossessing plant in their city after Fukushima. many of the protestors talk about Fukushima according to nuclear-news.net.

    In the United States government officials say the will not talk about Fukushima because of the Patriot Act. America is directly in the jetstream downwind from the prompt criticality and two ongoing meltowns. The Pacific also flows this way from Japan. There was at least one fuel pool fire at Fukushima making the radionuclide fallout very high. There is ongoing contamination of the Pacific from continued meltdowns.

    Sen. Wyden says he cannot talk about Fukushima because, it is a national security issue. Bernie Sanders brought Fukushima front and center in his campaign for president.
    http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-protest-08082016125330.html

    Can anyone honestly say that the United States is more free than China? The American Nuclear Security State is far more monstrous and murderous than anything even George Orwell could have envisioned. In dilutes itself with phoney appeals to environmentalists. It enshrouds itself with iron fist propaganda and withholding of information as well as brain washing. It excuses itself with lies about standards of living and health while growing and expanding an ever present nuclear meat grinder.

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