Going Beyond Nuclear
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps briefs Thom on the massive releases of tritium water from the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant.
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| 0:47.2 | Well, the line with us is our old friend Kevin Camp, see is the radioactive waste specialist |
| 0:53.4 | that be on nuclear, be on nuclear.org is the website, be on nuclear is also the twitter or ex-handle. |
| 1:00.1 | And Kevin, welcome back to the program. |
| 1:02.4 | Let's start out with Fukushima here. |
| 1:04.4 | Fukushima Daiichi, you and I have been talking about this ever since that plant melted down or that series of plants melted down. |
| 1:10.4 | What's the status of the radioactivity there? |
| 1:13.6 | What's the status of the community around there? |
| 1:15.7 | And what's the status of the radioactive water that they were going to be releasing? |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, the big shoe that just dropped was the beginning of the oceanic dumping of 1.3 million tons, |
| 1:28.0 | which is more than 300 million gallons of highly radioactive waste water. |
| 1:33.3 | This has come from more than a decade of trying to keep those three melted down reactors cool. |
| 1:41.2 | So they use hundreds of tons of water per day to cool the melted cores. |
| 1:47.2 | And they capture a part of that. |
| 1:49.4 | Some of it is simply allowed to flow into the sea through the groundwater actually. |
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