Comments by "Eric Astier" (@ericastier1646) on "DW News" channel.

No, you are spreading false information. It was not the spent nuclear fuel cooling pools of each reactor that caused the hydrogen-air explosions at Fukushima neither was it the central cooling pool, it was reactors 1-3 overheating that caused the zirconium cladding around the cores to oxidize from overheated steam and produced large quantities of pressurized hydrogen. That hydrogen was then automatically vented by design to the upper part of the reactors (no longer in the core itself) where once it reached critical volume exploded with oxygen in the ambient air producing water vapor ( H2 + O2 --> H20 + explosion) and there are metallic plates meant specifically to be blown off the top of the reactors buildings in that situation. Used fuel are initially stored for at least 18 months in the pools adjacent to their reactors STILL SHIELDED. it's only after that period of time where their reaction has decayed that they are moved to the central cooling pool when they generate much less heat. Also the reactor rods didn't "dry out" and cause the explosion, the steam escaped after the explosion. It's not the reactor's drying out that caused the explosion because industrial uranium used for generating power is not enriched at a level that can cause a nuclear explosion, only military nuclear bombs use highly enriched uranium. This is misinforming the public about how safe nuclear power is like in France. After the hydrogen-air explosion the steam was gone and the reactor cores melted down into a liquid lump from the energy of forced decay and almost pierced the bottom concrete walls. but not quite, apparently. The whole fiasco was due to GE (General Electric) United Statian design of the plant that put the secondary generators powering the cooling pumps and the switching electrical station below the reactors in the basement where they got flooded by the tsunami and stopped functioning. This was a known risk and violation before the disaster. There were extra power generators housed above the reactors (non flooded) to remedy that regulations violation but valve in the pipes to use them still required electrical power and the power switching station was also in the flooded basement. Actually the valves could have been manually operated by hand without electricity but the staff failed or did not know how to do that in that situation of emergency. the Fukushima four reactors each had a different cooling system method, and in case of an emergency this complicated the task of operators. It was poorly designed by GE and build in Japan. So in conclusion, NO this video did not missed anything. The unshielded main cooling pool cannot explode and the cores CAN sustain military shells. In worst case, water in the main cooling pool can escape and spend rods there dry out and slowly start melting down but those are not freshly used rods which are kept 18 month after usage inside the shielded reactors. They wil not explode and will leak radioactivity in the ground only if they pierce the concrete floor that is build to avoid that.
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That journalist does not have quite the caliber for interviewing Reinhold Messner but it's never easy to interview your own country's living legend.
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@philliplamoureux9489 While that is true there is a huge difference in the initial radioactivity decay of spent rods over time. In the first 18 months after being retired, spent rods are kept inside the shielded in an adjunct shielded pool as I said, where they can decay safely. Once moved to a main pool outside the reactor they pose a much lesser risk, and will not produce hydrogen as fast if left uncooled. I repeat, your statement was false, Fukushima's reactors reactor units didn't explode because of cooling pools but because of main active rods overheating. You're already in a dishonest posturing trying to over extend your already false statement. You need to back off your error before trying to bring something more in the discourse.
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@gavinchurch6109 That's not really the problem of desalination at all, it's that it requires tremendous amount of energy and energy production is pollution since nobody wants nuclear which remains the cleanest and safest. Fuckushima could have been easily avoidable, it was a trivial design mistake and they could built a fuckushima nuclear plant right now by the ocean that would withstand the same tsunami or bigger. Tchernobyl was an old post WWII era plant from the communist system. There are many brilliant nuclear plants that delivered decades of power safely. For example in France Fessenheim: And 70% of France energy is nuclear since WW2. Zero accidents.
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@pamilerinluwoye9104 Yes Japan is guilty for failing to finish the job they started with the Hans because of excessive fascism. They should have dominated china and broken it into pieces.
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@philliplamoureux9489 I am an engineer, not a nuclear engineer, it's reasonably easy for me to understand nuclear power plants design and operation especially on the electrical side. What i am telling you is publicly available information on the Fukushima disaster which you apparently did not read. The issue again was that the cooling systems stopped operating when power was lost after being submerged. In that situation the active fuel inside the reactors are the most active and will overheat first (not the spent fuel pools) in a matter of hours and cause a meltdown. If you had read carefully, the hydrogen gas produced by the zirconium tubes from lack of cooling was vented out of the reactor pressure vessel (valve) where it mixed with the ambient air to an upper chamber where steel plates are designed to blow off. This is the lesser evil because you do not want the reactor vessel itself containing the radioactive fuel to explode into million of pieces and spread over kilometers. The reactor did not "self breech" and it is not "designed to self breech". Less than a day after the hydrogen explosion the reactor cores melted down and almost pierced the bottom concrete walls. Imagine that without venting out the gas you would have melted radioactive fuel and steam pressure so high the concrete walls would have cracked and be blown away from steam pressure alone in a much bigger explosion than the hydrogen explosion with molten radioactive cesium being in the explosion. Instead the molten fuel simply cooled down into a solid lump. The venting of Hydrogen did release radioactive steam into the atmosphere so here is the answer to "Is water in a nuclear reactor radioactive?" from Quora : "Elements dissolved in the water may (depending on what the element is) become activated by the free neutrons produced by fission. This could result in very high radiation levels if the water isn't extremely pure. With that said, the water in a nuclear reactor is extremely pure, with only a few chemicals (that won't become activated) used to control corrosion. Then of course, there is Nitrogen-16, which is produced when the Oxygen in the water becomes activated. This is incredibly radioactive, but has a half-life of just over 7 seconds - so a couple minutes after the reactor is shutdown it is back to being mostly harmless. Then there is the water itself. The Hydrogen in water exposed to neutrons will absorb some of the Neutrons and become deuterium, or even tritium. Tritium is radioactive, and the water in a reactor may have many times as much tritium as naturally occurring water. So clean, pure water from a reactor that has been shut down for more than a few minutes is going to be somewhat more radioactive than the water you drink - which you probably didn't realize was radioactive in the first place." The much bigger concern from the Fukushima disaster is that the crew released tons of nuclear byproduct waste into the sea. People tend to be mislead by the word explosion but in that case the hydrogen explosion was the least significant part of this catastrophy.
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Now the Hoover Damn ! name makes sense.
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The outsourcing to china was coerced on western economies by wall street bank Sters and they financed China too. The Lesson is they need to be dismantled.
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Germans act like united statians buttlers. Is there any self respect left in Germany ?
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You're wrong, we had plenty of rain actually more than other summers this year on the east coast.
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Just want to say we have wonderful rainy and normal temperature summer in Eastern and Central american continent but it's good planet earth is striking back against the abuse from bankers and speculators who want every curve to go up. Guess what the earth has a limited area and sustainable living is only a necessity and only the start of what humanity needs to move toward. The curves must be flat not up otherwise they'll go down. Of course that means handling the overpopulation problem, starting with china's refusal to limit its huge load on the planet.
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I want to say in the eastern coast of america we had a wonderful summer with normal temperature and plenty of rain (in fact more rain than usual) and no heat wave. This summer is totally normal even mild.
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