Nuclear Expert on the High Frequency and Increasing Severity of Nuclear Accidents and the Truth about Fukushima

28th October 2014

Posted by miningawareness

Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer, safety expert, whistleblower, spoke at a conference this August, in which he clearly explained the risks of nuclear energy and what really happened at Fukushima, as rarely heard. (There have been many more accidents than even described by Arnie Gundersen:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and_radioac...) As nuclear executive turned whistleblower, Arnie was harassed with nighttime telephone calls: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/12/nyregion/paying-the-price-for-blo... Now he calls himself a veteran in nuclear power.

From his speech:
“Today I’d like to talk to you about my observations from the data that’s come out of the Fukushima Daiichi accident. Basically, radiation knows no borders. But there’ll be four topics I’d like to cover real quickly. The first is that accidents happen frequently; nuclear accidents happen frequently. The second is that the accidents are getting worse with time, not better. The third is, as bad as Fukushima Daiichi really was and continues to be, it could have been much worse. And finally, radiation knows no borders.

Mining awareness plus.