At 10:19 PM 4/6/2012, Mark Goldes wrote:
Former UN advisor: If No. 4 pool collapses Ive
been told during 50 years, you cannot contain
Nuclear Expert: Fukushima spent fuel has 85
times more cesium than released at Chernobyl
It would destroy the world environment and our civilization
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http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html
Japanese TV program (It says to Turn on English CC) and transcript
Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 4: An earthquake before
spent fuel rods are moved to safe storage would be the end
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http://www.youtube.com/v/eJi-o4F8eOo?version=3&hl=en_US
The reporter is Mr. Toru TAMAKAWA. The expert is
Dr. Hiroaki KOIDE, Research Associate at the
Research Reactor Institute of Kyoto University.
eg ...
I asked him Why cant we simply transfer them to
another pool? Now, lets look at how the
transfer is normally done. [3:20] As shown here,
nuclear fuel rods are initially in the reactor.
When they are spent, they are transferred to the
spent fuel pool here.[3:28] What they do first is
lower this giant container into the water. [3:34]
Then the fuel rods are transferred into this
container in the water. All of them. [3:42] Then
they close the lid with water inside, and hoist
the container outside. [3:48] But now, because of
the earthquake, the crane to hoist them is not
working any more. [3:53] Then, how are they going to transfer the fuel rods?
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