---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Hallam Nuclear Flashpoints <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:10:34 +1100
USE 16/3/2011 PEOPLE FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT NUCLEAR FLASHPOINTS PROJECT FUKUSHIMA REACTOR DAMAGE UNDERPLAYED According to veteran antinuclear activist John Hallam, who analysed reactor safety for a 'couple of decades' from 1977 to 2000, damage to the Fukushima reactors 'seems to be being drastically underplayed'. According to Mr Hallam: "I remember all through the 1980s and 90's, the extent of concern amongst activists and independent experts about the vulnerability of reactors built in earthquake-prone areas, about the vulnerability of reactor cooling systems, and in particular about the vulnerability of older - design boiling-water reactors such as those at Fukushima.." 'In the light of all of this, it is astonishing that we are being told that there has been no breach of containment, and no meltdown. The simple presence of hydrogen at all is a clear indication of nuclear fuel damage, and the presence of the massive amounts of hydrogen that seem to have caused the explosions now in three reactors, are a clear indication that a core meltdown has indeed taken place - or rather that three core meltdowns have taken place." "A look at the U-tube videos of the explosions shows clearly, as do the satellite photos, not so much a breach of containment as the complete and utter destruction of the containment buildings of at least two reactors." "This is clearly an accident, if not on the scale of Chernobyl, at least, larger than the Three Mile Island accident that took place in 1979." Those investors who over the last couple of days, took their money out of shares in uranium, have showed good sense. They would show even better sense if they keep their money out of it. " "The Australian government should also have the good sense to phase out uranium mining as soon as it possibly can." Nuclear Technology has rightly been called a future technology whose time has passed. It is a technology that can never fulfil reasonable safety requirements, can never fulfil reasonable cost requirements, cannot deliver in reasonable timeframes and that therefore cannot play a part in a solution to the Greenhouse problem, which will require technologies that are cheap, safe, and can be deployed rapidly. Nuclear power has shown itself over and over again to be unsafe, costly, and incapable of delivering in reasonable timeframes. It therefore has no place in a low-carbon future." Enquiries: John Hallam M0516-500-793 (leave message) H9810-2598 (leave message) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
