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Adam Curry Exposes Robert Alvarez’s Fukushima Spent Fuel Pool Fable on No Agenda

ByRod Adams

…fire. The news at the time was full of these reports. “experts” Like Arnie Gunderson like to say stuff lke the West Coast was being bombarded with the “Hot Particals” that have been pertty soundly debunked by real science. The World Was Ending!!! It was Orders of Magnatude worse than Chernobyl! The Childern of California were Mutating as they died. Then the world did not end, it was orders of magnatude less severe than Chernobyl, The Childern of C…

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Irish people should ignore Arnie Gundersen because he’s wrong

ByRod Adams

…des’ demonstrating against the reactors, and their imported ‘experts’ like Gunderson, weren’t too worried about where the by-products from that many miners would go. ( Incidentally, unemployment in the Czech Republic trended down fairly sharply from when the reactors were commissioned till the 2008 financial crisis. CO2 emissions have also decreased much more than in most of the newer EU countries. ) BobinPgh Well, I am Irish and I ignore Arnie an…

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60 Minutes on coal ash – muted outrage, lots of smiles and nods

ByRod Adams

…s have been very good at it or effective in contrast. Caldicott is insane, Gunderson gets a lot of attention that isn’t merited (I think because he’s cultivated good relationships with media and there are relatively few people available to play this role), UCS in my view does a good job asking the right questions (and in no way precludes an adequate rebuttal or a convincing case in response, or approaching their effort as an opportunity), Greenpea…

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Buried pipes versus buried pipelines – hype versus hazard

ByRod Adams

…leaking well head casings). You should know better. The goal of the Arnie Gundersons, Ed Markeys, National Resource Defense Councils and Greenpeaces of the world is not to make industry operate more safely but to make industry stop operating. These people share cultural values: anti-capitalism, anti-growth, anti-consumerism and they would just as soon see every nuclear plant shuttered as they would see every steel mill or every combined cycle nat…

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Wired UK seems surprised that Japan’s Abe is considering new nuclear

ByRod Adams

…n Manchuria and oil in Indonesia. Steve As this is my go-to site for Arnie Gunderson debunking. I was interested to read what Cyril R said at 9.49 that if they had a flood-proof generator no one would have ever heard of Fukushima. Gunderson has said that isn’t true because even if there was electrical power, it would have been no use because the pumps were damaged by the flood, not just the generators. Anyone know if there’s any truth in that? (wo…

Arnie Gundersen has inflated his resume, yet frequently claims that Entergy cannot be trusted

ByRod Adams

…ense. Maybe I am getting too long in the tooth? 😉 Seriously, I think Mr. Gunderson needs to read up a little: he referred to LNT as a theory. Both the ICRP and the NAS refer to LNT as a hypothesis as there is no data showing cancer at doses below 10 rem as Mr. Gunderson implied. Rod Adams @R My comment is not focused on the age of Mr. Gundersen’s initial degrees, but rather on the resume that follows that initial good start. (He apparently did p…

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Disastrous consequences of LNT model at Fukushima Daiichi

ByRod Adams

…eless cavalcade of anti-nuke, hysteria mongers (Caldicott, Busby, Alverez, Gunderson, Kamps, et al) have had on this phenomenon of suicides, increased stress among the mothers of young, the elderly, etc. I cannot help but feel the increased fear they induce has led to some early deaths or worsening health issues. Any links to substantiate this? Rod Adams @EL Agreed. Neither the NAS BEIR VII nor the French academies represent scientific consensus b…

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Macfarlane is not qualified to be Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

ByRod Adams

…re certainly than Jaczko’s allegations implied in 2011. Lovins, Caldicott, Gunderson, POA, etc. What’s the worst thing I can say about them without being moderated? I say that. John Tucker “Yeah. Fukushima was impervious to seismic disaster too, according to you guys.” – specifically though that is an idiotic comment as it references a opinion and gross generalization that was and is not widely held. I would like to see that statement verified sin…

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Vermont Yankee: Clean Kilowatt Cow That Deserves Saving

ByRod Adams

…was looking at $200M replacement costs for a condenser. Interesting Arnie Gunderson was testifying before the VY legislature that NRC would hit VY with $40M in added compliance costs, even he couldn’t have dreamed it would turn out to be $500M. As of April 4, 2014 the VY decommissioning fund stood at $614 million, last year this time it was $540 million so the portfolio is well managed; suggestions are that it will take a $billion to get them to…

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Ted Rockwell shared knowledge to combat Fukushima fears

ByGuest Author

…I’m not after a distasteful argument, I came here trying to check out Arne Gunderson who does seem to be a bit of a charlatan it would seem – I know I will be labelled a conspiracy nutter (put it down to my post 911 scepticism i.e 47 story freefall collapse of WTC Building 7 without a plane strike ) but Jim Stone seems to have an angle on the Fukashima disaster that implicates state terrorism and not poor operation or design. I would be interested…

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NRC Professional Staff Brief – “Very Good News” Unit 4 Pool Never Dry

ByRod Adams

…een vindicated – I recall in the first couple of weeks of the incident, as Gunderson, et al., were proclaiming the fuel pools as drying up, you were pointing out that spent fuel that’s been out of the reactor for as long as that had could not possibly generate enough heat to evaporate off the large volume of water in the spent fuel pools unless it were left for a very long time. There was a question of whether the fuel pools had cracked/lost struc…

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Another update on “highly radioactive” water leaks at Fukushima

ByRod Adams

…vernment sternly warned us that an attack on Syria might vaporize a small (Gunderson-sized) educational nuclear reactor, filling the atmosphere with hot radioactive death. Does that Pooty-Poot know how to play us, or what? Bill Hannahan Or just drop it all in the global conveyor. 1,000 years later it comes back, tritium, cesium, strontium all fully decayed. Bas I’m getting tired of these leakage stories that continue now for more than 2 years. See…

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