NRC Transcripts – Chuck Casto Re Fukushima Unit 4 – “For me, I’m evermore convinced that there’s nothing there. There’s major damage to that building. And I just have to stake my career on it.”

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE WEDNESDAY – MARCH 16, 2011 CHUCK CASTO: For me, I’m evermore convinced that there’s nothing there. There’s major damage to that building. And I just have to stake my career on it. But I don’t see that there’s any structural integrity there […]

March 5, 2012

NRC Transcripts – TEPCO video of Unit 4 SFP inconclusive – Japan claiming reflection of water but could be anything

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE WEDNESDAY – MARCH 16, 2011 CHUCK CASTO: I reviewed the video. Tony and Brook (phonetic) and I reviewed the video. You know, it’s not very clear. You’re talking about a helicopter that’s trying to do a lot of things at once in […]

March 5, 2012

NRC Transcripts – Fukushima Reactor 3 Spent Fuel Pool crack and possible loss of inventory

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE WEDNESDAY – MARCH 16, 2011 NRC CHAIRMAN JACZKO: Can you just give me kind of a basic rundown? Well, let me run through what I think the current status is. Units 1, 2, and 3 reactors are continuing to do seawater […]

March 5, 2012

NRC Transcript – TEPCO relayed information Unit 4 SFP Dry – Walls collapsed and incapable of holding inventory – Unit 3 “everything else gone” –

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ET AUDIO FILE WEDNESDAY – MARCH 16, 2011 NRC CHAIRMAN JACZKO: Hey, Chuck. Hey, can you just — and I don’t want you to interpret this in any way, questioning anything – I am just trying to confirm what the source of our information […]

March 5, 2012

Defining and classifying a nuclear disaster

Disaster A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard that has come to fruition, resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment, as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These risks are the product of a combination of both hazard/s and vulnerability. All disasters are the result of human failure […]

March 5, 2012

Fidel Castro – “Nuclear plants should not be built, because they are very dangerous objects”

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro took part in a gathering for Japanese atomic-bomb survivors organized by the Cuban government and a Japanese NGO on Thursday in Havana, criticizing the use of nuclear weapons and the current existence of 22,000 such devices globally. The Asahi Shimbun reports that Fidel Castro said he wants to visit Fukushima […]

March 5, 2012

Record 5.5 Trillion Yen Lawsuit Filed Against TEPCO

TEPCO shareholders have filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court against 27 utility executives. The plaintiffs are jointly seeking a record 5.5 trillion yen (S$85 billion) in compensation, claiming that the accident was caused by their negligence in ignoring safety measures, including building wave barriers, Kyodo said. A lawyer for the group says Japan’s […]

March 5, 2012

New Nuclear Reactor Consequences Analyses downplays risk of “unlikely” nuclear accident in United States

As the first anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster arrives, the cover-up involving nuclear power is more extensive than ever. The Big Lie was integral to the nuclear push from its start. Promoters of nuclear power discounted the seriousness of nuclear plant accidents, although government documents acknowledged the […]

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