quantitatively or qualitatively new concern today? is that potentially a worse radiation source in terms of human exposure than what we ve already been worried about for the past few days? joining us now, arnold gunderson, an executive from the nuclear industry turned safety watchdog. he worked on clean number at three mile island and on the class action lawsuit resulting from that disaster in the 1990s. mr. gunderson, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. are these latest leaks associated with this number four reactor potentially more dangerous than the leaks from the other three shutdown reactors? are the radioactive particles released from a damaged spent fuel rod worse than what s released from damaged fuel rods in a reactor that s just been shut down? the damage from the fuel rods has long-lived isotopes. that fuel has been sitting around for a long time and the
spent fuel rods a quantitatively or qualitatively new concern today? is that potentially a worse radiation source in terms of human exposure than what we ve already been worried about the past few days? joining us now, arnold gunneder son, an executive from the nuclear industry turned safety watchdog. worked on three mile island cleanup and on the class action lawsuit resulting from that disaster in the 1990s. mr. gunneder son, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. are the leaks associated with this reactor potentially more dangerous than the leaks from the other three shut down reactors? are the radioactive particles released from a damaged spent fuel rod worse than what s released from damaged fuel rods and reactor that s been shut down? the damage from the fuel rods has long lived isotopes. that fuel has been sitting around a long time, and the
worked on three mile island cleanup and on the class action lawsuit resulting from that disaster in the 1990s. mr. gunneder son, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. are the leaks associated with this reactor potentially more dangerous than the leaks from the other three shut down reactors? are the radioactive particles released from a damaged spent fuel rod worse than what s released from damaged fuel rods and reactor that s been shut down? the damage from the fuel rods has long lived isotopes. that fuel has been sitting around a long time, and the short-lived isotopes like iodine are no longer there, so what is there is sees yum, stron see up, plutonium and other long lived isotopes. what s happening close to that reactor is probably really powerful gama rays, like an x-ray.