Published: August 18th, 2012 at 5:40 pm ET
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Title: Nuclear fears over French Polynesia atoll collapse
Source: ABC Radio Australia
Date: 10 August 2012
A leaked report has raised new fears that Murorua Atoll, the site of French nuclear testing in the Pacific, is in danger of collapsing.
Murorua e Tatou says the issue was detailed in a leaked report from the Ministry of Defence to the French government dated March 2010.
The Nuclear Association’s president, Roland Oldham, told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat program that radioactive material could be released into the Pacific Ocean if the atoll were to collapse.
“Just in that little area there is over maybe twelve underground tests in that area and we have to remember that France have done altogether 193 nuclear test explosions in Murorua,” he said.
“In the soil of Muroroa, if something happens there is about 150 holes containing very dangerous radioactivity.”
The association says if the atoll were to collapse it could also trigger a 15 metre tsunami.
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Mr Oldham says if the atoll collapses there could be international ramifications.
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Oldham: “I think really it could happen anytime, we don’t know if it’s five years, ten years or maybe more.”
h/t Anonymous tips
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Published: August 18th, 2012 at 5:40 pm ET
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I was makin' sure you weren't hyperventilatin g ...
sending...
The future looks brighter day by day NOT !
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just spam that credit card
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Hi richard , actually , your suggestion reminded me to complete something i was fumbling with for a while now , a good thing , thx
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Stupid is as stupid does.
What the hell is so important about being able to bomb people anyways?
Wrong priorities in life.
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And all that testing…..look what we can do to you if we choose to….disgusting!
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I mean is it really important? We have to answer that question or else they will keep this destructive path, right? What about all the radiation releases involved with all that testing? They must be laughing at us… thinking we are all scared this crap will kill us, and the truth is if we only knew we have dosed far greater than minimum levels…..perversely perhaps making them believe there is nothing dangerous about their creations. Well I think a 15 meter tsunami unleashed upon the world is completely unacceptable outcome of all their *testing*.
They are not dumb but really reckless, cavalier and irresponsible people.
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Anthony,
You are right, there is much more that we are oblivious to…
So much more, and the past is catching up to reality…
Going Nuclear Over the Pacific
Just after 11 p.m. Honolulu time on July 9, the 1.45-megaton hydrogen bomb was detonated thirteen minutes after launch. Almost immediately, an electromagnetic pulse knocked out electrical service in Hawaii, nearly 1,000 miles away. Telephone service was disrupted, streetlights were down and burglar alarms were set off by a pulse that was much larger than scientists expected.
“To our great surprise and dismay, it developed that Starfish added significantly to the electrons in the Van Allen belts,” Atomic Energy Commission Glenn Seaborg wrote in his memoirs. “This result contravened all our predictions.”
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/08/going-nuclear-over-the-pacific/
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Great posts everyone. And, Jebus, the even scarier thing for me is that they were "surprised" by the results, which means that they quite eagerly conducted an experiment that had potentially harmful repercussions for all the earth just to see what would happen given that they had no idea what the outcome would be. These are the people who have hijacked the direction of humanities development. We must exert a better alternative.
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Sadly, I hope you never find out.
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How is this thing supposed to collapse?
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Earthslide probably, but there will be only a few 100 dead Polynesian people on the neighboring islands. Not important to international politics.
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That's pretty cold, Rod.
Does Atomfritz come from "nuclear chess" or Fritz Straussmann?
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Hi Jebus, I think he was being sarcastic. I hope.
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Clear sarcasm, retain sense of humor and use sarcasm as tool…and poetry and music are actually better.
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Jebus, for those of us who can't tell the players without a program… are you saying "Atomfritz" at Enenews is "Atomic Rod", the owner of the pro-nuke site http://atomicinsights.com/ or do I misunderstand?
Awkward question, I know, but there seems to be a lot at stake so I hope it is worth asking/answering/clarifying.
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Yes i too think he was just being sarcastic playing the voice of the industry, @stockhawaii , at your command
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy_UmgjXGk8
I can't see, 'cause it's burning deep inside
Like gasoline, a fire running wild
No more fear 'cause I'm getting closer now
So unreal, but I like it anyhow
I go faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster
I can't live in a fairy tale of lies
And I can't hide from the feeling 'cause it's right
And I go faster and faster and faster and faster for life
I can't live in a fairy tale of lies
I can feel that you mesmerize my heart
I feel so free, I'm alive, I'm breaking out
I won't give in 'cause I'm proud of all my scars
And I can see I've been wasting too much time
I go faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster
And I can't life in a fairy tale of lies
And I can't hide from the feeling 'cause it's right
And I go faster and faster and faster and faster for life
I can't live in a fairy tale of lies
And I can't live in a fairy tale of lies
And I can't hide from the feeling 'cause it's right
And I go faster and faster and faster and faster for life
And I can't live in a fairy tale of lies
A fairy tale of lies
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Sourced the alias, seen the clues…
The question was on time, nothing but crickets…
Just read all the postings, you decide…
They can't help but be recognized from the tail…
It's part of the glory…
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nice to see you atomfritz
Secrecy and injustice regarding nuclear tests in Marshall Islands
"..more than 50 years after the last nuclear test was conducted in the Marshall Islands, that the US government has still not released fallout dose data for about 75% of those nuclear tests. So it’s extremely difficult for the Marshall Islands to have an understanding of what the actual exposure and impact of the test was and this relates to a lot of very big picture questions, such as the adequacy of US nuclear test compensation.
Pressure from Marshall Islands Government has pushed the United States to agree to review classified US nuclear test era reports…."
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/15/secrecy-and-injustice-regarding-nuclear-tests-in-marshall-islands/
nuclear secrecy means that you will NEVER know the true extent of any radiation catastrophe.. do you eat tuna perchance?
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@atomfritz
oh and some documentation for you to peruse at your leisure
free too!
from that caring sharing green action japan
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http://download.freshcurrents.org/
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I hear ya Arc, but it's difficult to be nice anymore, with the way the worlds nuclear industry operates.
I research a lot and my blood boils at the secrecy, lies, and hubris.
When events such as follows, come to mind, I only want the justice, that the truth deserves.
Not that Atomfritz is at fault, but the collateral damage of the continuation of the lies, causes the truth, to also have collateral damage.
We are all,
A thorn in their side
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Murrell
http://hildamurrell.org/history/
http://hildamurrell.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ordinary-view.pdf
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Hate the sin, love the sinner..eh?
but we are fighting back jebus
19 August 2012 Last updated at 16:21 Share this pageEmailPrint
Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch-hunt'
"The United States must pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful.
Mr Assange also said the United States was facing a choice between re-affirming the "revolutionary values it was founded on" or "dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world in which journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution and citizens must whisper in the dark".
and liked this bit
"The British government is likely to think that time is on their side. It's Julian Assange who is stuck in this embassy"
especially with this bit
"..with a high speed broadband connection…."
that last from another article on another website obviously
a different take there perhaps?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19310335
LOL!
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Why should any country that tests nuclear bombs not be held accountable and be required to report the damage they cause?
If the average world citizen did something like that in their own backyards they'd be arrested, let alone doing it in someone elses.
Hell, you can't even collect rain water these days without getting fined or grow veggies in your own yard.
Yet the US isn't being held accountable for the severe environmental and human damage it caused from these tests? Is it a matter of not wanting to compensate the victims? Is it government and the nuke industry acting together to protect their profits and "good names?"
Bleh, it's all a huge mess.
Wouldn't it be nice if just one nuclear viable country would go rogue and defame the nuclear industry and it's damages and at least stop the madness where they are able?
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Speaking of going rogue, there are reports that North Korea is able and going to be testing nuclear bombs in the next 2 weeks.
Here we go again with a new generation of testing fallout victims.
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This is actually worrying.
If Independent Korea continues testing at this pace, they won't have any more plutonium soon.
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@ arclight,
Freshcurrents is indeed a great project.
Thanks to all involved.
The nuketesting issue is a no-go in MSM.
And to be honest, do you believe the colonial powers give a sh!t about a few Polynesians whose corpses cannot even be found?.
Only panic-monging headlines seem to attract attention for a short time when news are scarce.
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EMP; Electromagnetic Pulse Effect And High Altitude Nuclear Bombs; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/emp-electromagnetic-pulse-effect-and.html
2400 Global Nuclear Atmospheric Bomb Tests 1945-1998; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/nuclear-atmospheric-bomb-testing-1945.html
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The 15m Tsunami will probably be pretty local, with the force dissipating quickly as it moves away from the source, as when a giant glassier breaks out… What's most worrying is the radiation and I wouldn't be surprised if it's already coming out from all the cracks in the reef, shown in one picture in the french media.
In fact the CRIIRAD, a French anti nuclear association specialized in measuring radioactivity has been repeatedly barred from coming on the island to do its deed.
As for the Tsunami, I'm not a geologist so who knows? Maybe the entire underwater mountain is ready to cave in, in which case the Tsunami would do much more than local damage…
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U.S. West coast is also in danger of a big one with tsunami.
But one or the other could be enough to create the next Fukushima or worst. But Americans are no better than Japanese and are suddenly becoming sheeps themself when it is time to talk about it.
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Time for talk is over, time for action is needed.
82 YO gramdmas rock!
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The story kinda sounds like another cover for whats really going on…
Remember when unit 3 blew sky-high? …anyone?
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Speak plainly, what do you mean, was there a subterfuge?
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someone shared this a while back, I keep wondering if the term "background radiation" is a euphemism for nuclear fallout from all these tests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk
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@atomfritz
do you like the world bank?
do you like new zealand?
Pacific islands Tonga and Tokelau moving to 100% solar energy
"…According to an ABC News report, the plant was originally going to be funded by Tonga Power and the Tongan Government, but the World Bank would not loan Tonga any more funds, so New Zealand stepped in to cover the $7.9 million cost.
Already it is paying off, with the government announcing a reduction in the price Tongans pay for electricity from August 1. And this could just be the beginning – Tonga’s Minister for Public Enterprises, William Clive Edwards, says the aim is to have 50 per cent of the country’s energy to come from renewable sources by 2018; including solar, wind and biomass…."
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/17/pacific-islands-tonga-and-tokelau-moving-to-100-solar-energy/
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Awesome, thanks for some good news !
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Given that there exists NO technology, atoll or dry cask, that will contain exploded or stored nuclear waste anywhere for more than 50 to 75 years, perhaps Morarua is just one example of what to expect in the coming decades. The next stage in the inevitable repercussion from the era of the nuclear planet destroyers may be upon us. Everyone, please remember to browse the enenews FORUM: Methods for combating radiation and its effects and pass this info along.
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VicFromOregon
August 19, 2012 at 6:12 pm
And JustmeAlso
August 20, 2012 at 2:06 pm · Reply
RIP Fernando Pereira
Now
http://enenews.com/abc-australia-nuclear-test-site-in-danger-of-collapsing-could-create-15-meter-tsunami-in-pacific-193-explosions-in-little-area-audio
By the nuclear effect of dams there may be a giant explosion:
Murorua Atoll, the site of French nuclear testing in the Pacific, is in danger of collapsing.
See http://glaringlacuna.blogspot.in/2012/01/nuclear-effect-in-causing-earthquakes.html
Pereira's efforts must be remembered and the French who do not mind which way you spell it out as long as you pronounce it frenchly : Stop nukes! Fukushame will occur in France one day.
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Regarding France:
Are France's heatwaves caused by their massive use of nuclear energy? I believe so.
France has more nuclear power plants than any other European country.
Is the release of Nuclear Radiation into the air and water causing some type of weather-anomaly?
Does this HOT radation get trapped into the atmosphere, causing it's own "greenhouse" effect?
A few examples:
In 2003, 14,000+ die from heatwave in France.
In 2011, France suffers heatwave.
In 2012, 3,000 die from heatwave in France.
The U.S. has seen record heat, storms and droughts since it was blanketed by radiation from Fukushima.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10068/255704
See Climate risks by radioactive krypton-85 from nuclear fission Atmospheric-electrical and air-chemical effects of ionizing radiation in the atmosphere
Abstract:The study shows that krypton-85 from nuclear fission enhances air ionization and, thus, interferes with the atmospheric-electrical system and the water balance of the earth atmosphere. This is reason for concern: There are unforeseeable effects for weather and climate if the krypton-85 content of the earth atmosphere continues to rise. There may be a krypton-specific greenhouse effect and a collapse of the natural atmospheric-electrical field. In addition, human well-being may be expected to be impaired as a result of the diminished atmospheric-electrical field. There is also the risk of radiochemical actions and effects caused-by krypton-85-containing plumes in other air-borne pollutants like the latters' transformation to aggressive oxidants. This implies radiation smog and more acid rain in the countries exposed. This study summarizes findings gained in these issues by various sciences, analyses them and elaborates hypotheses on the actions and effects of krypton-85 on the air, the atmosphere and the climate. (orig./HP) ;
The article is an excellent introduction to the details.
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See also
http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/campaign/nuclear/images/n0800206_en.pdf
But Anne has a number of references:
http://enenews.com/asahi-explosive-hydrogen-may-be-coming-from-melted-fuel-rods-and-accumulating-near-the-top-of-the-containment-vessel-without-being-driven-out/comment-page-1
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RIP Fernando Pereira
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