November 5, 2013. SYMPOSIUM ON DECOMISSIONING THE SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. The videos from this symposium are worth listening to to hear the questions concerning citizens that apply to nuclear concerns worldwide. Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research raises obvious questions about the casks within which nuclear fuel is stored. San Onofre has been authorized to use fuel rods that run hotter and contain more radiation but they seem to have exceeded to NRC high burn limit of 62.5 gigawatts. What we know about spent fuel in dry storage is based entirely on experience with low-burn fuel. Why high-burn was authorized at San Onofre without knowing how it might affect storage is a huge concern. We need to press the NRC on high-burn research. Given the time period, we need to study casks more closely. The greatest risk during decommissioning is in maintaining pool storage and in dealing with dry casks that are good only for 20 years. We dont want to be transferring spent fuel from one cask to another if an assembly has been damaged. And in actual experience, there has never been a transfer from one dry cask to another under any circumstance. (end of Video 6) There are also reports that the sarcophagus around Chernobyl is falling apart due to the intense radiation it contains and that some new action will have to be taken in the near future to contain that radiation. VIDEO 1 -- youtu.be/uT5heW6v6Y4 VIDEO 2 -- youtu.be/W8FV2FlIliQ VIDEO 3 -- youtu.be/i0U1LsvFj64 VIDEO 4 -- youtu.be/FpydVEE7_54 VIDEO 5 -- youtu.be/E7xk_UWyb7w VIDEO 6 -- youtu.be/B8dCZ-w20wg via Cathy Iwane VIDEO 1 -- youtu.be/uT5heW6v6Y4
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:54:26 +0000
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