Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen on Japan's nuclear crisis...

this could become chernobyl on steroids



Japan is on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe after a third explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was heavily damaged by Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami. The blast seriously damaged the plant’s Number Two reactor’s steel containment structure, causing nearby radiation levels to rise to eight times the legal limit for exposure in a year. Plant workers “were manually opening valves into these containments to keep the pressure from building up,” says our guest Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer. “I would suspect that a lot of those efforts have been abandoned because of the high radiation levels.”

people talk about japan like it's on another planet. earth is not that large and it isn't compartmentalized like national boundaries are in our denial based brains.

we are on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe.
we.
not they.


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