4/25 ARNIE GUNDERSEN, nuclear engineer: What can we learn from Fukushima?

[flamingdem]

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Apr 25, 2011

Fairewinds Calls for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Delay Licensing Until Fukushima Lessons Are Evaluated

Gundersen implores Congress and NRC to think outside the box. Pause licensing of new nukes and 20-year-life extensions until the lessons learned from Fukushima are applied. Fairewinds Associates recommends that regulators look at the feasibility of emergency evacuation plans, containment leakage, and aging management plans for 40-year-old Fukushima model reactors.

[AtheistCrusader]

1. I'm pro-nuke

as a stopgap measure to get us off carbon fuel sources. But I endorse this message. It is completely reasonable, and I will contact my rep, and my senators, as Gunderson suggests.

Designs like Vermont Yankee and Browns Ferry and the other 15 or so GE Mark I reactors should not be extended another 20 years, based on real world performance of these reactors in Japan.

[flamingdem]

2. Please do. We need to turn away from nuclear

and push for alternatives, and wind etc is getting more affordable in relative terms.

[szatmar666]

3. If we were a rational society we would rather endure a few years of candle light oil lamps & horses

like we did in communist eastern europe until wind, solar and geothermal energy came online while we rebuilt the system. The National Grid was built in 1 decade. I lived throiugh 1 decade of energy shortages in Romania: it is a small price for the lives of future generations. The country of Belarus has an 80% contamination rate among its 20-25 year old generation. These are genetic diseases that will go on forever in every subsequent generation with no scientific data about how it will play out. Basically a whole country of 10 million people is doomed forever. I think many people in the West just don't understand the risks involved.

[flamingdem]

4. The pro-nuke people can't see the big picture

of the long term damage to genetic code and the environment.

I agree and think people would get behind it but it might take a disaster on our soil.

Meanwhile Germany is showing the way with wind, and perhaps the Japanese will be innovators.