Fukushima

Interview with Helen Caldicott

Title: Nicole Sandler speaks with Dr. Helen Caldicott
Source: The Nicole Sandler Show
Date: Sept. 30, 2013

At 5:30 in

Dr. Helen Caldicott, physician: We think probably several have produced a China Syndrome, which is a term the nuclear industry uses. Which is, if you lose your cooling water, a hundred tons of highly radioactive, extremely hot nuclear fuel melts […] through the concrete into the earth, and they think that that has happened at one or several of these reactor sites.

At 8:45 in

Caldicott: There’s no way they can contain it. This has never happened before, so it’s not in the textbooks. Nuclear engineers don’t know what to do. [...] No one knows what to do, there is nothing to do. I think they’ll never clean it up, never

 At 25:30 in
 

Dr. Helen Caldicott, physician: It’s worse, it’s much worse — Chernobyl was absolutely ghastly […] This is worse, because there are 3 reactors which melted down [...] Chernobyl stopped burning and it’s now sort of a radioactive mausoleum, it’s quiet. But these reactors are not quiet, and they are polluting millions of gallons of water. There’s no end in sight to this you see, there was an end in sight to Chernobyl. There’s not an end in sight for Fukushima. Nuclear engineers are saying that, and I predict they’ll never be able to fix it.