Marvin Resnikoff
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Marvin Resnikoff is Senior Associate at Radioactive Waste Management Associates and is an international consultant on radioactive waste management issues. He is Principal Manager at Associates and is Project Director for dose reconstruction and risk assessment studies of radioactive waste facilities and transportation of radioactive materials. Dr. Resnikoff has concentrated exclusively on radioactive waste issues since 1974. He has authored or co-authored four books on radioactive waste issues. In addition to dose reconstruction and land contamination cases, Dr. Resnikoff also works on the storage of nuclear fuel at reactors and, for the State of Nevada, the risk of transporting radioactive material. In June 2000, he was appointed to a Blue Ribbon Panel on Alternatives to Incineration by DOE Secretary Bill Richardson. In August 2010, he was an invited panelist before the President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Safety.

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Fukushima 2.0

Posted April 1, 2011 | 15:35:28 (EST)

Doomsday Scenario 2.0

With the decision to entomb four Fukushima reactors in concrete, Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) is moving the disaster into uncharted waters. The heat producing fuel rods cannot be turned off. Concrete will insulate the heat from the fuel rods, and cause the internal temperatures to climb. The nuclear...

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Conflicting Stories Surround Fukushima Fuel Pool #4

Posted March 18, 2011 | 17:15:50 (EST)

The tragedy at the Fukushima reactors and the misery in Japan continues to unfold. We can only feel sorrow for our brothers and sisters in Japan. The media frenzy in the U.S. is reaching new heights and has started to take leave of its senses. Consider the fuel pool at...

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Doomsday Scenario at Fukushima

Posted March 15, 2011 | 12:03:54 (EST)

The slow motion events occurring at Japan's (or GE's) Fukushima reactor cannot be sugar-coated. It is a doomsday scenario unfolding.

Nuclear reactors are not the same as coal/oil/gas electricity plants. Unlike conventional plants, they cannot be turned off. So while brave workers were tending to Units 1, 2 and 3...

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