Fairewinds is a company in the business of providing help to those fighting nuclear power.
The video of fuel pool #3, if you could call it a “video”, shows no such thing.
In the real world: “TEPCO released an image of the No. 3 reactor’s spent fuel pool, where fuel rods were covered with debris from explosions in March that damaged the building’s roof and walls. But officials said the fuel rods, protected by a metal screen, are believed to be largely undamaged.”
It seems clear that storing fuel in ponds without the ability to provide minimal additional shielding is probably something to be corrected. It seems reasonable to conclude that some damage to fuel rods has allowed the release of some particles. But the fuel pond isn’t empty, the fuel was not “blown out”, and the Fairewinds folks will continue to say whatever helps their clients.
Arnie Gunderson used to work in the nuclear industry as a high level exec but I guess we have to dismiss his experience and training because he is no longer in the ‘pro nuke fold’ and therefore anything he says must be for some client? Ok...yeah I expected the pro nukers would say that.
Arnie isn’t the only one who suggests that pool 3 explosion sent spent fuel across the land. Japan’s Dr. Saji who is a former member of Japan’s Atomic Nuclear Safety commission. Dr. Saji’s email includes the following comments about the explosion in fuel pool 3:
“We were just lucky due to the favorable meteorological conditions during the entire development of the accident.”
SNIP
“We were very lucky even with a large release from 1F3 due to the most severe hydrogen explosion that could have induced a heavy land contamination. This resulted from the wind direction towards the sea at the time of the releases, although this must have resulted in wider ocean contamination far from Fukushima Daiichi”
People haven’t been able to explain the source of the radioactive material, including plutonium, uranium and by products, surrounding the area and dispersed as far as 80km north. There were explosions and video of #3 explosion shows big debris load. If not spent pool 3, how did radioactive material get so far from the plant? What’s your theory?