Spent Fuel Pools Show Significant Damage

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 Saturday, August 27, 2011 - 19:23 Special to HNN Provided Courtesy Fairewinds Associates
Fairewinds Associates nuclear engineer, Arnie Gundersen, discusses the most recent radiation data from Japan's distressed Fukishima plant. As he explains,
New TEPCO data measured on August 19 & 20 shows severe damage to the spent fuel in Fukushima Daiichi Units 1, 2, and 3. The adjacent TEPCO table posted on the front page shows incredibly high levels of Cesium 137 and Cesium 134 in all three spent fuel pools of Units 1, 2, & 3. This TEPCO data clearly contradicts and refutes the July assertion by the NRC the Fukushima Daiichi spent fuel pools were not damaged in this tragic accident. Crytome (cry to me) has a new high resolution photo, also uploaded, that shows the extensive damage of the Unit 3 spent fuel pool and the reactor building