Published: August 26th, 2011 at 12:52 pm ET
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Idaho fire prompts evacuation of nuclear facility, Reuters by Laura Zuckerman, August 26, 2011:
Firefighters struggled on Thursday to control a fast-growing 28,000-acre wildfire raging within several miles of spent nuclear fuel stored at a U.S. Energy Department lab in the high desert of eastern Idaho.
The growth and intensity of the blaze, the nation’s largest active wildfire, prompted the Idaho National Laboratory to order a key facility on the 890-square-mile site evacuated of all nonessential personnel, lab officials said. [...]
Wildfire burns near spent nuclear fuel in Idaho, Reuters by Laura Zuckerman, August 25, 2011:
[T]he lab accepts spent radioactive fuel rods from power plants and other sources across the nation.
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Published: August 26th, 2011 at 12:52 pm ET
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COURAGE IS CONTAGOUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiJT2hf4jAs&feature=youtu.be
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and karma is a bitch.
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How can this be happening again? It seems every five minutes there is another nuclear crisis.
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I think it has been happening for a long time. Thanks to enenews, all these events are finally consolidated on one site for all the world to see….and thanks to devoted enenews readers and posters as well. The corporations can’t shut everybody up! At the enjoyable risk of sounding 60′s, “Power to the People!”
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@ PoorDaddy Greetings P.D. from southern Kalifornia, You are right, it has been happening all along. Just Google Idaho Falls Nuclear Accident for much info about a little known but well documented accident at this reactor site in 1961. Have A good Day
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Do you think the stuff being made airborne by the fire in Bitterroot Forest and/or the one by the Idaho National Laboratory could have made its way to southeastern WA? We have had strange symptoms all week that seem to be from breathing in some sort of irritant. Those fires are not that far from us at all, regardless of what the jet stream is doing.
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Anybody living in that area or who can travel there with a Geiger counter would be interesting to see what the readings are day to day.
The EPA only tracks CO2 nowdays so us citizens have got to do it.
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I would say ‘this stuff’ is becoming airborne and spreading and accumulating and… etc…
See my full “We are recreating Fuku all over” comment here: http://enenews.com/basically-recreating-fukushima-all-again-clouds-radiation-continue-across-pacific-northwest-video/comment-page-1#comment-122495
A Cesium SPREAD Map from NYT Aug, 1st :
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/08/01/world/asia/01radiation-graphic.html?ref=asia
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…and every disaster is near a nuclear facility because nuclear facilities are everywhere, having metasticized across the planet like the malignant cancers they both cause and are.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/ATR_Exterior.jpg
whats on fire?
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Chinese investments in an Idaho gold mine just one way the state hopes to revive its economy
Can a charismatic Taiwanese businessman, the entrepreneurial son of Russian immigrants and a North End couple who own a ghost town help revive the state’s economy? Butch Otter is counting on it.
… a professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and an expert on the Chinese Communist Party, said Idaho should encourage both Chinese investment and immigration. The stronger ties the state makes will improve its opportunities with a nation that will have a growing influence over all of our lives.
But he cautioned against giving China control over molybdenum, cobalt, titanium and even gold.
“There’s nothing to fear but much to welcome about Chinese investment in Idaho,” said Shambaugh, who just returned from a year-long sabbatical there. “But we have to be careful in national security areas like strategic minerals.”
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/08/08/1295770/digging-for-chinese-gold-in-idaho.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boise_County_Idaho_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Placerville_Highlighted.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placerville,_Idaho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:INL_Location_Graphic_2-1-.JPG
Idaho to be first Chinese state
31 May 2011 … Idaho to be first Chinese state: Governor Butch Otter, in league with notorious Marxist, B. Hussein Obama, have hatched a plan to make Idaho …
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-boise/idaho-to-be-first-chinese-state
A recent article described the goal of Project 60 in slightly less rosy terms. “Idaho, under the stewardship of Governor Butch Otter, has opened the door for a Chinese invasion….”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/7797-idaho-governor-selling-his-state-to-the-chinese
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Idaho fire prompts evacuation of nuclear facility
(Reuters) – Firefighters struggled on Thursday to control a fast-growing 28,000-acre wildfire raging within several miles of spent nuclear fuel stored at a U.S. Energy Department lab in the high desert of eastern Idaho.
The growth and intensity of the blaze, the nation’s largest active wildfire, prompted the Idaho National Laboratory to order a key facility on the 890-square-mile site evacuated of all nonessential personnel, lab officials said.
The Materials and Fuels Complex, about 38 miles from Idaho Falls, consists of facilities for handling, processing and examining spent nuclear fuel, irradiated materials and radioactive wastes, according to …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/26/us-wildfires-idaho-idUSTRE77O8ES20110826
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