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WDEV/Radio Vermont's Mark Johnson interviews Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds. Johnson and Gundersen discuss the situation now at Fukushima Daiichi and the lingering disaster at its Unit 4 spent fuel pool.
A leak discovered earlier this year in a steam generator pipe at the San Onofre nuclear plant has lead to two unanimous City Council decisions to send letters of concern to the NRC. Fairewind's Arnie Gundersen presented at both council meetings. In this video Gundersen talks with KPBS's Peggy Pico about the steam generator leak, the city council decisions and the licensing status of San Onofre.
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Libbe HaLevy, host of the blog/radio show Nuclear Hotseatm interviews Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen regarding the ongoing steam generator issues at Southern California Edison’s San Onofre nuclear power reactor. How and when did the problems with the steam generators begin? What are the potential dangers of restarting the plant this summer, as Edison would like to do, which would be prior to the completion of a full root cause analysis?
Al Stahler hosts Arnie Gundersen on his KVMR-FM, Nevada City, CA radio show Soundings for a technical review of the San Onofre Steam Generator Failures.
Why are the recently installed and newly designed steam generators at Southern California Edison’s San Onofre nuclear power plant failing? What impact did design engineering changes made to the steam generators have upon the widespread tube failures? Why are the same failures happening at Units 2 and 3? Al questions why the old generators at San Onofre lasted for 28-years of operation while the newly installed generators are failing in less than 2-years. Arnie details the significant design and fabrication changes made to the new steam generators rather than the like-for-like replacement Edison claimed. Arnie concludes that steam generators failed due to the interior alterations designed and fabricated in the new generators.
Alex Smith, of Radio Ecoshock, interviews nuclear industry expert Arnie Gundersen, of Fairewinds Associates. Smith notes that the nuclear accident at Fukushima Japan is far from over as three reactors continue to meltdown. Smith adds that now there is a storm of international worry about nuclear fuel pools tottering in blown up buildings putting the whole Northern Hemisphere at risk. According to Smith, “Arnie Gundersen, a year ago, warned us here on Radio Ecoshock, and to anybody who would listen, that a world-scale catastrophe was lurking in the nuclear fuel storage pools of both reactors Three and Four, at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. Why is this story finally getting wider attention, a year later?”
Linda and Arnie discuss the triple meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and Japan’s energy future. They discuss the Japanese government's attempts to dilute the Daiichi contaminated waste from the Fukushima prefecture by mixing it with everyday trash, burning it, and then dumping it into Tokyo Bay and other locations around Japan.
Read MoreRick at SolarIMG hosted this interview with Arnie for an update on the situation at Fukushima Daiichi. Rick and Arnie discuss the recent discovery of incredibly high decay rates in the containment area of reactor 2 and resulting bioaccumulation, the mainstream media failures regarding this event, the lack of testing of imported products, leukemia rates in our children and grandchildren, and the debris and ocean contamination. This interview with SolarIMG is a MUST listen.
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This Wednesday, Vermont Yankee will have operated for 40 years. Unlike with people, 40 years old is not middle age for a nuclear power plant. Original documents submitted to the Vermont Public Service Board during the Yankee up-rate hearings showed the plant was designed for 40 years of operation, not 60 years as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is promoting, and not the new 80-year dream the commission is contemplating for implementation on older reactors.
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