A.Gundersen: JP: Radioactive Steam Air & Ocean, Vermont Yankee Shutdown News [Democracy NOW!]

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Japan - Radioactive Steam in Air & Waste in Ocean - Democracy NOW!

** ALSO UPDATE ON VERMONT YANKEE PLANT

Arnie Gundersen interview, Democracy Now, April 19, 2011:

Transcript Excerpts

AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about TEPCO saying that they were optimistic that they could bring down radiation at the damaged plant and go to a cold shutdown of the facility in six to nine months? … Will radiation be leaking for the six to nine months?

ARNIE GUNDERSEN: Radiation is leaking every day now, both liquid into the ocean and also airborne. When you see those clouds of smoke coming out of the unit, that’s not steam, that’s radioactive steam. So, they’re releasing radioactivity as a airborne, and also, probably more important right now is Unit 2, the reactor has a hole in it, and the containment has a hole in it. So they’re pouring water in the top, and it’s running out the bottom. And it’s what’s causing all of this enormous amount of high-level radioactive waste. …