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| Issue date: | 10/19/2013 |
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Joosten, Sandy From: Ace Hoffman <rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 1:52 AM
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Two events in California tomorrow (one in San Francisco, one in San Clemente)
Attachments: FukushimalsHere-page-002.pdf; TheGreatestDangerlsNow-AceHoffman2013.pdf; ATT00002.txt 10/18/2013
Dear Readers,
Tomorrow (Saturday, October 19th, 2013) is a busy day for Californians interested in nuclear issues!
In San Clemente there is the Citizen's Nuclear Waste Symposium. Attached is my brochure (in pdf form) for that symposium. Many thanks to Mary Fish and staff for help putting the brochure together. The symposium, featuring nuclear waste experts Arjun Makhijani and Marvin Resnikoff, will be webcast live, and also recorded for later rebroadcast. Go to SanOnofreSafety.org for more information about the San Clemente symposium.
Also tomorrow, in San Francisco, is a Fukushima Awareness conference, and more information on that is included below and in the second attached pdf. Speakers will include Dr. Robert Gould (Physicians for Social Responsibility) and Prof. Masaki Shimoji, who was jailed in Japan for protesting the burning of radioactive Fukushima rubbish.
I heard from a San Onofre whistleblower today, who told me he has learned that Unit 3 operated at higher pressures than Unit 2 -- the opposite of what we had thought! He also said the boiling in Unit 3 began at the very bottom of the steam generator, near the tube sheet (much lower than it should have). He noted that even today, he doesn't think anybody really knows why Unit 3 suffered Fluid Elastic Instability, and Unit 2 did not.
Ace Hoffman Carlsbad, CA The Truth and Reality of Fukushima I an Educational Conference:
Date and Time: Saturday October 19, 2013 2:00PM-6:00PM Place: San Francisco State University, Room BH1, 1600 Holloway Ave. SF 94132 Admission: Free Japan and the world continue to be threatened by the Fukushima meltdown and further contamination of the land and sea as well as a growing cancer epidemic of children, workers and the people of Japan.
The conference will challenge the information being propagated that we can overcome radiation and that Fukushima can be decontaminated.
Initial Speakers:
Dr. Robert Gould- Physicians for Social Responsibility, An expert on the medical effects of radiation Prof. Masaki Shimoji -Assistant Professor of Osaka Japan, Anti-nuclear activist in Osaka Japan who was imprisoned for organizing against the burning of nuclear rubble in Osaka 1
Possible speaker by Skype: Taro Yamamoto- Member of Parliament from Tokyo Film: How Nuclear Power Was Brought To Japan Music: Okinawan music A link is available here:
http://nonukesaction.wordpress.com/
Kirk Sorensen talking about spent fuel (201 0):
Kirk Sorensen talking about his spent fuel simulation at a Google tech talk in 2010. At the end of the talk Sorensen promotes spent fuel reprocessing, which I don't agree with, but nevertheless this is an excellent primer on the composition of spent fuel (about 20 minutes):
http://youtu. be/rv-mFSoZOkE This newsletter written by:
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FUKUSHIMA IS HERE its radiation is in our air, our soil, and our ocean, Mother of all life WE ARE HERE to tell the world that we, and the ocean, are not going down-not without a fight In March 2011 three reactors at the Fukushima Nuclear Station melted down completely, the location of their molten cores is a mystery. For 2.5 years they've been flooding the Pacific with contaminated water and the jetstream with radioactive particles. There's been no attempt to contain the disaster, only day to day crisis management, more and more water poured into the reactors, only to leak out into the ocean. Tepco's actions have only made things worse; their underground walls to retain the water are turning the ground into a swamp, increasing the chance of a building collapse, and another meltdown in a spent fuel pool. We need to stand up and demand that our leaders act in concert to save our ocean from total destruction, and stabilize the site before it's too late.
Without an international effort, at the very least, all marine life will be damaged by Tritium and other highly lethal radioisotopes.
BE HERE with us, at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, October 19, 2013 from 11 AM to 12, to create a human mural with our bodies, spelling "FUKUSHIMA IS HERE" Go to http://fukushimaishere.info to sign up/rsvp; and check in with John Bertucci at the beach. Bring water and a warm coat, just in case.
Go to http://fukushimaresponsebayarea.org for more Fukushima information.
No Nukes Action hosts a Fukushima Conference later that day, 2-6 pm, at SFSU, 1600 Holloway St. Room BH1 FREE!
Special guests from Japan! Details: nonukesaction.wordpress.com
Nuclear Waste: The greatest danger is now!
Spent fuel is hot stuff. It's thermally hot- about 400 degrees Fahrenheit. That's not residual heat from when the fuel was in the reactor, it's decay heat from fission products with short half-lives (from days or weeks to about 30 years for most isotopes of iodine, cesium, strontium, etc.).
There are 4,000 spent fuel assemblies at San Onofre.
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TRU0.7"/o Expanded and cracked fuel pellet after being irradiated in the reactor for 3 to 5 years.
The average composition of U.S. spent fuel Sagging tubes with fused pellets cause all the force of the pellets to be carried by the narrow areas between the pellets.
High bumup fuel is known to fuse tightly to the zirconium cladding.
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The Vulnerability of Nuclear Facilities After ~ 10 years, about 1% of the original amount of radioactivity that was occurring the day the fuel was removed from the reactor is still occurring.
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