Like a movie with the dialogue and action out of sync, official updates about the unfolding disaster at Fukushima Daiichi seem to trail at some distance behind the analysis provided by Vermont’s nuclear watchdog Arnie Gundersen.
Today, just as a new 6.6 aftershock rattled the stricken region, the evacuation zone around the ailing plant is finally being expanded beyond the initial 20-mile radius.
Continuing our practice of bringing Arnie’s valuable insights to the GMD community, we offer the following close look at the science undermining the integrity of the fuel rods:
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen demonstrates how Fukushima’s fuel rods melted and shattered from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
They’ve fallen to the bottom of reactor & in process of melting down?
rated 7.0-7.1 from other sources. After the last Fairewinds video showing how information is being withheld, it virtually disappeared.
So, if TEPCO isn’t releasing anything & NRC plus other industry insiders are blocking it, it can’t be good, and very likely much worse than we’ve been led to believe.
Thank you, Arnie, for presenting this not only in layman’s terms, but in an almost comforting fashion that makes it approachable and comprehensible in context. It’s hard to believe that these videos aren’t getting more play — it would seem the perfect way to help people understand what’s going on… but maybe that’s the problem: people better not “get” what’s going on, because their natural reaction to that realization would cause problems for those in power and those expecting to continue making money off of our gullibility.
Japan just announced that Fukushima Daichi has been bumped from level 5 to level 7. Level 7 is the most serious and deadly nuclear power ‘accident’, and only Chernobyl has reached that level.
I’ve been saying from the end of the first week that the previous level, level 5, was way too low, and I was right. Yay me. [shudder]
I wonder just what it would take for Monbiot to change his mind?