Russian Expert Tells PM Putin Fukushima Will Not Become New Chernobyl
Sergey Kiriyenko (robertamsterdam.com)
Russian nuclear chief, the man who was a supervisor of most of the former Soviet Union nuclear facilities told on Tuesday Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that the worst case scenario for the Japanese stricken nuclear plant at Fukushima is for all the six reactor to melt down.
Sergey Kiriyenko called this catastrophe the worst such accident since Chernobyl in 1986, in Ukraine, when a nuclear plant reactor exploded creating a disaster that still shows effects to this day.
Fukushima Explosion, Reaction 1 (insideireland.ie)
Kiriyenko briefed the Russian PM at his residence in Moscow and told him that even though the reactors melt all that still doesn’t mean that would lead to an explosion of the rector.
He said that the gas released from the damaged reactors increased the level of radiation, while the water used for the cooling of the reactor core may affect the water table for a long time.
The expert said that it was the failure of the Japanese government to cool the core that led to overheat and to sparking of a fire at reactor no. 4.
He said that the temperature was also increasing at the reactors no 5 and 6 and that even so the chances of a devastating explosion the likes of the one in Chernobyl are very slim.
Sergey Kiriyenko complained that Russian experts had to make out these realities from data they received, and that these were mainly out of date or patched.
Russian authorities began evacuation in the Kurile Islands and Vladivostok region as situation gets worse in Japan after a reactor at Fukushima collapsed.
