Published: August 5th, 2012 at 4:05 pm ET
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Interview with Gordon Edwards
SolarIMG
May 7, 2012
Wikipedia: Gordon Edwards was born in Canada in 1940, and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1961 with a gold medal in Mathematics and Physics and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. In 1972, he obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Queen’s University. [...] Edwards has worked widely as a consultant on nuclear issues and has been qualified as a nuclear expert by courts in Canada and elsewhere.
Excerpts at 2:00 in and 13:00 in
- Gentilly reactor [in Quebec, Canada] releases 200 trillion becquerels of tritium every year
- Tritium is a chronic problem
- No way it can be filtered out of [drinking] water
- Becomes a part of all living things
- Beta particle goes ripping through nearby molecules
- Sometimes manifests itself as cancer
Published: August 5th, 2012 at 4:05 pm ET
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they are still getting around to testing the samples from last year
on the update section of the report
Assessment of IAEA Environment
Laboratories on Data from the Marine
Environment
provided by Japan
Update April 2012
"..108 1 L and seven 30 L water samples received from the KOK cruise in October 2011 for analysis on various radionuclides; part of these samples should be shared with Pavel Povinec (Bratislava) and Jürgen Sültenfuß (University Bremen) for tritium determination…."
"…TEPCO and MEXT carried out an intensive monitoring programme for sea water
sampling mainly designed for emergency measurements. Small samples volumes
were analyzed only for short measurement time resulting in rather limited
detection limit….."
then the IAEA shows results giving no detection for most of the sea except for just on the plant..
the levels of contaminated fish are on this pdf as is graphs from 2011 to 2012 showing the IAEA version of contamination..
no mention of the recent hotspot here??
the IAEA is rubbish at monitoring… WHO gave them the job????
http://meeting.helcom.fi/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=16324&folderId=1760045&name=DLFE-49941.pdf
just saying…..
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Dear Arclight,
Things being as they seem to be, I just can't help but think that some folks at these agencies have children and grandchildren and they're having issues with their consciences. What souls cannot hear the innocence of a laughing child …
Come clean people. The 'fog' is lifting.
Aloha.
P.S. Who does the performance evaluations for these folks and keeps paying them?!
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that would be this mob
OSART – Operational Safety Review Team
and here are the most recent missions
Most recent OSART mission in each country (sorted earliest to latest) Status of Apr.2012
http://www-ns.iaea.org/downloads/ni/s-reviews/osart/2012-04-table%20of%20countries.pdf
catternom, flamville etc not being evaluated till 2014
no planned visits to japan,, hmmm?
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and this link to the iaea osart etc website page
http://www-ns.iaea.org/reviews/op-safety-reviews.asp
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OSART might be reviewing them, but the public is paying them. As long as we continue to pay to be screwed, they will obliging continue to hire people to screw us. Buy green energy whenever and wherever possible.
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As long as the industry and nuclear regulators are not required to either consider or become aware of the research findings on low level radiation, they will be allowed to continue to make decisions and policies based upon purposeful ignorance, and substances that read straight off a nuclear elements chart will end up in our daily morning cup of coffee.
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I thought the "interview with Gordon Edwards" link above was broken, but it's not. After you click on it, burrow down to about page 10 to find the story. Lots of other interesting stuff along the way, especially if you are from Canada. Thanks, Admin – I had never seen the solarimg.org site before.
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Tritium easily crosses the placenta, which raises concern for spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, congenital malformations and diseases.
It is classified as a carcinogen (causes cancer), a mutagen (causes genetic mutations) and a teratogen (causes problems in the developing fetus resulting in birth defects).
When there are repeated (i.e., chronic) exposures to tritium, concentrations of OBT gradually increase in all biota. Humans accumulate OBT by consuming OBT in tritium-contaminated food and by drinking/eating, breathing and absorbing tritiated water (HTO). OBT is more problematic than HTO because of its much longer residence time and because OBT by its very nature is located near organic molecules (for example, DNA)
"At Three Mile Island it was decided to allow the tritium-contaminated water to evaporate, though that meant the tritium escaped as well."
"Tritium is essential to the construction of boosted-fission nuclear weapons. A boosted weapon contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium, the gases being heated and compressed by the detonation of a plutonium or uranium device.
Once released, much of the tritium becomes part of the water cycle. Falling to earth as radioactive rain and snow, it accumulates in the environment. Freezing, melting, evaporating, and raining down again, it seeps into groundwater and flows into streams, lakes, rivers, aquifers, and oceans. It is also taken up by all living organisms.
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Radioactive tritium became a perfect marker for tracking ocean water §. Scientists sampling North Atlantic water found that tritium released into the atmosphere before the 1962 nuclear test ban treaty, mixed downward by 1973. By 1980, the same tritium had moved into deep areas off Florida. The water had taken about 20 years to travel 3000 miles (4800 km) through the sea at an average speed of less than half a mile a day, about half the speed of a snail §.
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_currents_3.html
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"The water had taken about 20 years to travel 3000 miles (4800 km) through the sea at an average speed of less than half a mile a day, about half the speed of a snail"
SP: Have to disagree with their snail speed estimate (1 mile a day). A common snail takes about 130 hours to travel a mile:
"Well, the fastest snail that I've ever had covered a two foot course, which is a standard course for a snail race … in some three minutes flat. Now any mathematicians listening to the program will realize straight away that works out at 132 hours to travel a full mile." http://hypertextbook.com/facts/AngieYee.shtml
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It's criminal to allow these plants to operate. All of them.
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Ontario could export high-demand tritium to US 2011
http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/general/ontario-could-export-high-demand-tritium-to-us-19634
"Any tritium imported to the U.S. will increase the plutonium in The U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile," he insists. Echoing his views is Dr. Frank von Hippel, past Chairman of the Federation of American Scientists, who calculates that Ontario Hydro's first year tritium supply alone could add enough plutonium to the U.S. arsenal for "on the order of 100 nuclear warheads."
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In 1987 It sells for $15 million per kilogram — over 1000 times the price of gold!
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Dear MaidenHeaven,
As difficult as your information is to assimilate (because of it's insidious nature) please tell me …are we absolutely doomed?
It seems there is no end to the great lengths this industry will go to persue whatever their goals are. Right now I'm in a spin with my inconceivable meter!
Aloha.
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We are doomed if we do not stop this insanity.
No Fate But What We Make
The question is can we awaken and save ourselves quickly enough?
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Dear Majia,
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You are a very brilliant and inspired poster here on ENENews and highly regarded by all. Thank you for your dedication and for inspiring so many persons, like me
I'm afraid the healthcare industry (yes, the folks you trust) possibly is hiding in the most irresponsible way. I'm near tears over this realization because it breaks my heart most despicably. Completely shameful. Absolutely worthy of outrage! (But don't admit that to your medical person as they deftly input your every word into a sharable database that is yours forever).
Arclight tells of learned engineers leaving the nuke industry because it's 'too wierd'.
Our esteemed, eloquent WHO reports: "Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates a shortage of 4.3 million physicians, nurses and other health workers worldwide,[3]" I would like to propose this is possibly directly related to the intrusion of big business over the past 20-30 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_supply
'No Fate But What We Make!' I accept this challenge, especially as it comes from you. Folks, keep coming to ENENews!
Aloha.
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Here is what John Goffman, PhD, MD wrote in 1979: "…neither the nuclear industry nor the governmetal agencies have the foggiest notion of how well or poorly they are doing at their containment task.
One point is absolutely certain: their measurement ability falls far, far short of what it would take to know that they could prevent more than one part in every 100,000 parts from escaping into the environment…Of course, not having the evidence has never impeded such agencies as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from making extravagant claims about how well they are going to contain radioactivity in the future." He goes on to call their reports akin to Grimm fairy tales. pp103-104, Irrevy: An Irreverent, Illustrated View of Nuclear Power.
Why can't every US politician learn from this man instead of the paid parrots they have listened to? What he said in that book in 1979 is as true then as it is now.
Get this: the Dept of Energy Office of COnsumer Affairs, May 25, 1978 asked for citizens help finding old radioactive dump and test sites, since many of the records of these areas had somehow gotten destroyed. (ibid, pg 103)
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For those who have not seen this yet:
75% US Nuclear Plants Leaking Toxic Tritium Radiation Into Drinking Water Supply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo1Kqez3fUU
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All nuke plants routinely release radiation into the environment.
http://www.reirs.com/effluent/
http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q3710.html
http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/routineradioactivereleases.htm
What makes it so immoral is that it is apparent from their constant prevaricating that nukers simply don't care about environmental or human exposure.
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Not only Tritium, but also Deuterium is problematic.
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