for our
forgot certainly be a nuclear dot org on
the line with us fault that first or
whatever the program
composed by understands that there
there are two
had seemingly contradictory bits of
information out there one is that their
is no substantial quantity of of
now plutonium in the spent fuel rods
stored up on the roof of the unit three
reactor
as we had been reporting on the
assumption that they were there because
the reactor is fueled with it
although i suppose all
nuclear waste all spent fuel contain
small amounts of plutonium hasn't
produced during the fishery action
as certain small amounts of peace and
they want
the other that the
contradictory part of that a review of
the other side of that
is that there is still tell him being
found scattered all around the area
or what if it's not on top of the
reactor worse to come in from
well uh...
start with
the fact that we by had identified on
your program that there was
uh... that the uh... unit three was a
plutonium oxide reactor in
and i think we all of whom did that that
meant that fuel transferred from the
reactor to
the if you'll put the rooftop pool there
would have been
this plutonium oxide or mixed oxide we
have then in touch with our colleagues
in japan and uh... who we spent ten
years fighting the fueling of the
uh... mattbeaton mixed oxide reactors
and and they have confirmed or at least
they have assured us
beyond that lazy that their opposition
to mixed oxide fuel
means uh... that unit three uh... does
not have
the mixed oxide but has the this
geranium enroute in rich uranium to
limit the mixed occupied is still in the
reactor baffle folk from four to five
percent of the reactor core
at
you know a date sheet three
very very carrier guards plutonium fuel
credibility at all deadly to come in
that
three what we are what we are
establishing now that they're still you
know hundredth of god like that i i i
think the appetite now at about nine or
ninety
kilograms of plutonium immature called
for three alone n
you know that there was a substantial
magyar right now that the
plutonium has been found and
broiled samples
that um... actually totally electric
power company took a week ago states who
week ago that there was put on a m
inappropriate both on the flight
and so if this is uh...
you know here during information
disclosures are not being made in family
matters and and they're still trying to
control information
where they can control these reactors
but that's uh... you know that i've been
still he should be a part of the carpool
has plutonium and in the fuel
of the irradiated fuel as a result of a
visioning uranium enriched uranium
lai dum medicare and unit three
plutonium oxide reactor every particle
crack increased pressure valve poll
and it's a clear nail that unit
two and three have failed containment
okay you've got failed of doubtful
uh... ruled a look at the fuel cladding
failed melt generate all this
radioactive gap of hydrogen in
particular
then the then the powerful failed until
you get radioactive water of standing in
the turbine building oven and and now
we've got a radioactive water in the a
transient that's just one hundred ninety
promotion it at the astronomical levels
it's obviously
radioactive water that has been in touch
leaking from the reactor core and now
breached containment breach you know
left the reactor building and now
filling a trench the two hundred ninety
feet from the
that the c
and
presumably inevitably will
it's going to get into the
solution
inherent it has already
that have already what we are narrow
worried about produce that world not
goods will go unchecked
we have the radiation field continued to
build now that
you know wider areas are contaminated
and more contaminated did radiation
fields will it
it is our concern
uh... then bar worker operations
pierce's short of suicide missions that
that uh... you know eventually lead to
the exactly wish in of i'm urgency
cruise
control room operators
and then the whole thing just continues
to deteriorate
and newt gingrich continue putting the
proposition that continually backing
away
and that
eventually means sailaja complete loss
of all six reactors
palsy
it did the radioactive plume is over the
united states it measured radioactive
iodine in massachusetts
presumably that means it's pretty much
everywhere in the united states
particularly anywhere to renew recently
endchar although looking at the maps it
seems like it swept over the southern
united states and went up the east coast
came across
southern california went up over the
rockies swept down south came up these
guys
maybe anne we don't know that's just
that's just the punitive to the pattern
the gulf stream it seems
or the weather being pushed by the
culture
place but dr
but and it's probably not much we can do
here in the united states
than just brace ourselves for a way of
of pyrite failures and
and and just general cancers from
everything else in addition to that
to the tirade from everything i'm
hearing
because it's quote low level in quotes
nobody does anything about it which
means that it just
one in three americans get cancer right
now in a one in five hundred cancer from
low-level radiation is going to be a few
more cancers
that's the airborne stuff
what we know about radiation it gets
into the sea
all settle on the bottom of the ocean
long before reaches the united states
or is water
you know so much more
uh... i don't know if this this is the
right word but you know if it's
completely different compound than air
it's a liquid
gas
is water more effectively carry
radiation long distances i mean the
there is a current an ocean current that
goes from
the
visit any realistic
there were several of them actually
great conveyor belt goes
south roller coasters
of
south africa up along these the east
coast of uh... south america and then
them in the united states has called the
gulfstream and and there are others to
cross the pacific ocean any idea what
what all that's going to mean that we
have left your poll
work you put a glass of water in the
middle of the room
and leave it over time eventually a
glass of water will disburse itself
uniformly over the entire room
in water molecules national integrates
hero preparation
radiation operated the radio activity
that's keeping from fukushima it's
basically doing the same thing right now
it's looking too
uniformly dispersed itself all over the
entire
biosphere
at the problem is that what we're
talking about atmospheric releases or
about releases to the ocean
there's also this other process in
nature called bioaccumulation and bio
magnification which means that
algae will take the radiation out of the
water and then they will accumulated in
there's limited victims to build
op in the fridge chain
and uh... so
you know you get this
bio accumulation process whereby
uh... the biology absorbs it and then
bio magnification as it goes up for
thursday night at mercury's
and some calls for
power plants be offended potentially
constipated you know a growing ripped
uh... to all life uh... ethnic accident
continued ball gunter beyond nuclear dot
org
keeping keep an eye on what's going on
princess bringing us up-to-date barbara
quick question if you live in tokyo
which of the country
of you know i don't like and i don't
know that there's a place to go home
staffing terribly program relevance is
the time hardman program has the other
ones
has started here simply don't fall thank
you very much for being with us richard
