Gundersen on New Video Exposé: We now have the evidence that Fairewinds was right — “Containments can blow-up” (AUDIO)

More Lessons From the Fukushima Daiichi Accident: Containment Failures and the Loss of the Ultimate Heat Sink

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In this Monday's video, Fairewinds investigates a recently released report from Tokyo Electric. Arnie Gundersen discusses TEPCO's latest analysis that, almost two years after the accident, fully substantiates Fairewinds long held position that the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 was the result of a detonation shock wave.

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Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: What’s really important is the words at the bottom of slide number 19 by Tokyo Electric. Tokyo Electric acknowledges that this was a detonation.

Now if you’ll recall a detonation is a shock wave that travels faster than the speed of sound and no one is designing containments to withstand a detonation shock wave.

So I’m pleased actually that Tokyo Electric has finally agreed with me. That his was a detonation shock wave and not a deflagration like in Unit 1.

So I think the first important thing for the NRC to admit is that containments leak. The second thing is they can explode with a detonation shock wave.

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Gundersen: Top of containment believed to have opened up after Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 exploded

When asked if he thought the detonation shock wave at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 destroyed the containment vessel, Fairewinds chief engineer Arnie Gundersen replied to ENENews:

A detonation shock wave destroyed the U3 reactor building and critical supports surrounding the reactor’s containment…. after the detonation, steam clouds could be seen emanating from where the top of the containment should have been.
After being asked it that means the top of the containment vessel was missing, he said:

I think the top of containment was ajar, but not missing

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