Uploaded by AceHoffman on Mar 30, 2011 www.youtube.com Just hit the remix button! Dear Sleepy Public, We tried to warn you. We really did! We tried soooo hard to warn you about something like Fukushima Daiichi! But you didnt listen. Well — unless you live in Northern Japan — YOU get a second chance! Please [...]
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Fukushima Disaster TEPCO Report on Installation of Cover Reactor Unit 128 Oct. 11
A short documentary on the creation of the cover for reactor unit 1. Operation KIMONO is expected to start on the 27 June 2011. The 3 raw videos and multiple images supplied by TEPCO were badly corrupted so I have cut, re-edited and re-structured where possible. Information was gained from TEPCO reports and information sheets. [...]
Nuclear Fuel Rod Meltdown 101- Arnie Gundersen explains Fukushima
Zircaloy is one of the major reasons why the Fukushima crisis is scary. Fairewinds Associates chief nuclear engineer explains the dynamics of the damage in a nuclear reactor meltdown. Rods are made of zircaloy. He demonstrates how Fukushimas zircaloy fuel rods melted and shattered. *Zircaloy is a problem* Fuel rods in many types of nuclear [...]
Fukushima 3 month anniversary 6/11/11 ☢☢☢
Note this article from the Global Think Tank today The Fukushima Accident—Three Months In www.carnegieendowment.org obamas radiation report and current levels of I-131 in US www.youtube.com pbadupws.nrc.gov Nuclear Regulatory Commission Official Transcript of Proceedings Dated Thursday, May 26, 2011 Titled Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Subcommittee on Fukushima packed with juicy information. special thank you [...]
Arnie Gundersen Discusses The Reasons Why The Fukushima Reactor Accidents Occurred
Arnie lists three reasons why the accidents at Fukushima occurred: 1. Loss of onsite power 2. Overcrowded spent fuel storage pools 3. Diesel generator service water pump failures He states that there is more Cesium 137 in the spent fuel pools at the Pilgrim nuclear plant (Plymouth, MA) than in all the radiation released by [...]
Contributing Factors To Fukushima Accidents And Bad Or Missing NRC Procedures To Handle Accidents
David Lochbaum (UCS) Lists The primary cause of the accidents as loss of power. He explains why the diesel generators and the service water pumps failed, and the battery backups ran out of power at about 6 hours into the accident. David also explains that a contributing cause was the lack of any procedures the [...]

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