Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 07:15PM Japanese Nuclear Crisis: How Does This End?
The fate of the badly damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant in Japan has been front-page news worldwide for weeks. But given the massive destruction at the power plant — with radiation leaking by air, ground, and sea — can the situation be contained? In this podcast, Dr. Theo Theofanous talks about the current state of Fukushima, with reactor cores in partial or total meltdown, and the options that the Japanese have for averting even greater disaster.
Theofanous is a professor of chemical and mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has decades of research experience in the design of nuclear reactors and of nuclear safety systems.
This podcast is the second of a series of three with Theofanous about the Japanese nuclear crisis and its implications for nuclear power all around the world.