This is the entity that needs a class action lawsuit brought upon them for endangering the public, that paid for this system, and denying the public's right to protect themselves and their families, in the very situation that this system was put into place for.
Nice find, Heart. I like the "N key" graphic. I mean I don't like it, but… you know.
There's an interesting tension between the article's raising awareness of potential Gov/Industry abuse of social media (very real) and the usual cluster of "like" buttons on the page. I'm temporarily paralyzed – "like" it and get put on another list, don't "like" it and remain silent while the monster grows.
There's a cluster of YT vids in a similar theme. My younger techie acquaintances love this stuff (the techie in me loves it too). The human in me is terrified by the implications – panopticon prisons mesh with it perfectly. Here's a sampling, first from fiction:
4,602 and growing! That's the current Facebook "likes" for enenews! Congrats, Admin, for the success and the growth!
Keep up the good work and thanks again for all your efforts to bring awareness to what is happening at Fukushima. I know it can be a tough job sometimes, but as they say, someone's got to do it, right?
Very interesting interview by Corbett Report with Joseph Trento of GRTV.
Since 1990 Global Research had been investigating the Japanese nuclear program. Gives very interesting account of the politics (and economic pressures) behind the US helping Japan, India, Pakistan and China develop nuclear weapons programs. In the case of China, as the US entered a recession political pressure came on to take a 10 billion dollar deal to put a plant in China. Points out the "atoms for peace" plan to put nuclear power stations around the world ended up being a training ground for specialists to produce nuclear weapons.
Describes the nuclear capability Japan has. Also describes how despite being told about this, the Japanese media refuse to cover it. Points out how given Japans weather and geology a continued nuclear program is fool hardy and could finish Japan as a nation. Very knowledgable and fascinating analysis.
Also points out that nuclear power is completely uneconomic and the only reason for it is to make nuclear weapons. Also says the mox fuel reprocessing plans are simply a cover for producing weapons since the plants can not only turn weapons into fuel, but fuel back into weapons.
Enough quotes and info in the video for Admin to run a series on it. Nuclear power is uneconomic, dangerous and the only reason we have it is to produce weapons.
Spread the word for Vermont anti-nuclear activists… Don't forget the big NRC Vermont Yankee meeting May 23, 2012. The pro-nuke forces will be there to use their scripted debate questions:
Excerpt: "Ask leading questions. The NRC tends to answer what is asked and does not try to resolve the underlying issues."
SP: Nice the pro-nukes have such little faith in the NRC for intelligence. Au contraire… The NEC have very astute folks.
The decision of a state's citizens to close Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant is a line in the sand. If a state can not determine its own destiny on deciding to close a toxin-producing industry to have a facility then states rights are totally lost. We are watching you Washington and we don't like what we have seen so far. Don't tread on me. You will find the American people love their country more than their leaders.
Power Reactor Event Number: 47940
Facility: RIVER BEND
Region: 4 State: LA
Unit: [1] [ ] [ ]
RX Type: [1] GE-6
NRC Notified By: GARY HUSTON
HQ OPS Officer: DONG HWA PARK Notification Date: 05/21/2012
Notification Time: 18:35 [ET]
Event Date: 05/21/2012
Event Time: 14:52 [CDT]
Last Update Date: 05/21/2012
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY
10 CFR Section:
50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) – RPS ACTUATION – CRITICAL
Person (Organization):
BLAIR SPITZBERG (R4DO)
PATRICK HILAND (NRR)
JEFFERY GRANT (IRD)
Unit SCRAM Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode Current PWR Current RX Mode
1 A/R Y 100 Power Operation 0 Hot Shutdown
Event Text
AUTOMATIC REACTOR SCRAM RESULTING FROM A LOW CONDENSER VACUUM-TURBINE TRIP
"At 1452 CDT on 5/21/2012 with the reactor at 100% power, River Bend Station experienced a reactor scram resulting from an RPS actuation. Following the scram, reactor water level briefly lowered below level 3. The reactor is stable with pressure and temperature being controlled by the feed water system and main steam bypass valves, respectfully. The cause of the scram was due to a turbine trip/low condenser vacuum. The low vacuum condition resulted from a loss of non-safety related 4160V switchgear that powers two of four circulating water pumps.
"A suspected spurious Division II isolation of Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC) was observed. Restoration of RCIC to standby is in progress.
"A report of a fire in a manhole was received shortly after the scram . Fire Brigade was dispatched and noted a small active fire in a cable tray. The fire was extinguished with fire extinguishers. Power cables are routed through this manhole.
"The plant is conducting causal investigations to fully understand the cause of the turbine trip. As information becomes available, River Bend Station will provide additional information."
All rods are inserted, and the plant is in a normal shutdown electrical lineup with the exception of NNS-Switchgear 2A being deenergized. Offsite assistance was not required to extinguish the fire.
The Canadian government's environmental presence has been gutted – most commenters seem to think it is to accommodate the interests of Big Oil, if not industry-at-large.
I posted this elsewhere a few days ago. Please forgive the duplication, but it seems useful as background to Pu's post:
Something our elite might be interested in, to escape in:
The ambitious plan to build Star Trek's USS Enterprise
One adventurous engineer makes a compelling case to boldly build what no man has built before. Could the crazy thing actually work?
SP: Saw this in my own local paper Sunday. Why not…the nuclear industry can do anything they want to do…they own the majority of the government. People who protest nuclear plants makes the military leaders, the Congressmen and the President unhappy also.
GE: We bring good politicians to light. We also pay no taxes.
But the bankers are getting worried… if Japan goes toes up…they will be cashing in their US bonds and real estate. The US government can't even pay them off without printing some more fake money. Down the tubes goes the world economy for a century.
So much so he stopped all postings several days ago. I submitted a post, but I guess even a a retired historian is too upsetting for his blog.
Anyway…his sidekick Will Davis disputes a poster about a spent fuel fire at Unit 4. Davis says it never happened. So I attempted in vain to post a followup. I didn't copy it, but it went something like this:
Does this video of Fuku1Live look like Unit 4 was on fire?
The Day the Buildings Disappeared (see the first and last 30 seconds):
"To say that corporate enterprise has abrogated your right to ask questions, to raise objections, or to expose malfeasance tells only half the story," she writes. "Corporations are not people. We are people, and until we learn to protest en masse, until we make it impossible for corporations to continue stripping the planet, they will hijack our earth, and make all living things expendable. That means you. That means us."
Japanese scientists say cooling water may be leaking from a second reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. They say the water level of the reactor's containment vessel is much shallower than previously thought.
"Don’t Bank on the Bomb
The Financing of Nuclear Weapons Producers
This is the first major global report on the financing of companies that manufacture, modernize and maintain nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicles. It identifies more than 300 banks, insurance companies, pension funds and asset managers from 30 countries that invest significantly in 20 major nuclear weapons producers."
The Higashidōri Nuclear Power Plant (東通原子力発電所 Higashidōri genshiryoku hatsudensho?, Higashidōri NPP) is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Higashidōri in eastern Aomori Prefecture, on the Shimokita Peninsula, facing the Pacific Ocean. It is unique in Japan in that at this four-unit site, two units are run by one company, the Tōhoku Electric Power Company and two units are run by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. The reactors are all of Toshiba design.
Construction of Tohoku Electric's Higashidori Unit-1 began in November 2000 and was completed in December 2005. The design was based on Tohoku Electric's Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant Unit-3, with improvements to the reactor vessel to allow for greater ease in inspection and maintenance. A separate building, apart from the containment structure, is dedicated specifically for the heat exchanger system based on seawater to provide primary coolant for the reactor.
It is well documented that Cesium is explosive under some conditions with Zirconium, possibly under high pressure as would occur inside a white hot fuel rod.
So it suggests we have another vector of explosive possibility. Naturally no suggestion is being made that you hermetically seal cesium inside a zirconium tube/rod and proceed to heat it up so that the cesium is pressurised against the white hot walls internally, or another combination of conditions where both are in volatilized divided state..
Have a look at it. I will continue pursuing the task of getting this information out to as many as possible.
Mad Max sez: "14 months… unabated. Speaks loudly."
SP: and speaking of that… Time to stock up on the 15-month aged cheddar cheese blocks at Sam's Club. I have 30 pounds now, but it is soon moving into Fuku time. Next up.. 24-month aged cheddar and older. The good thing is I have seen 13-year-old Wisconsin cheese for sale. Here is some pre-2008:
Is the cheese being shipped in lead containers?
What about airborne contamination flying i n the jet
stream or delivered by UPS and FEd ex on the ground?
Who really wants to think all this through to its logical
conclusions. If there is such heavy contamination loads
in the fall out, No one is telling us a thing. So easy
to live in denial…….food is radiation safe when it flies in
the sky? just some late night thoughts.
Correct me if I am wrong but I heard that most of the cesium is in whey so cheeses and butter contains surprisingly lower dose compared to milk shall I say. So I am assuming that Pu & Sr are alike in this case but of course there is a limit. If there was a huge fallout and even if cheese contained less contamination, it is still high for us.
I am banking on pre-311 Parmesan cheese because it takes 18 months to mature. You can freeze the vac packed cheeses. But as I am finding out, there were probably nuclear leaks all over the world even before 311 anyway. What a wonderful world.
Touche Sam! I have reported how Chile apples were tested in Japan last summer with slight radioactive contamination. So transport is a contributor. Cheese sent by plane is more subject to gamma contamination than if it went by truck (my preferred method).
But still… Uranium and plutonium supposedly can't pass through a plastic cover and even more important… Ingested strontium and other particles by cows and goats will be lower in pre-Fuku cheese. Cows lap up strontium from fallout and it is a terrible bone-seeking poison. I think my dad died of strontium-induced illness in 1996.
Interesting trivia fact: goats concentrate more radioisotopes in their milk than cows.
I do try to eat pre Fuku of what little cheese I do eat. i did not know about the goats so
it does make sense. So would goat cheese from other countries be safer than from
West Coast? Sonoma and Humboldt county here has fantastic cheeses. Sad.
One last thought for the night. All along I knew that the government did not want
data to get out so as to not panic the public, not to cause boycotts of food and economic
harm to the agricultural economy of America. Independent people doing testing can be
threatening. It is truly a can of worms to do this and publish results. Potrblog is courageous
and perhaps not prepared for the legal storms to come his way. Perhaps if it unfortunately
gets into the courts who knows if we will ever find out the truth of the situation.
Clyde bases plagued by nuclear safety flaws, says the MoD
"The Clyde bases that host Britain’s nuclear bombs and submarines are plagued by widespread safety flaws, according to an internal Ministry of Defence (MoD) report obtained by the Sunday Herald.
Critics fear that the problems could trigger a major nuclear accident at Faslane or Coulport that would contaminate Glasgow with radioactivity. They say this would be “unspeakable” and are demanding an urgent investigation.
The MoD’s latest annual review of safety reveals that 11 of the bases’ 13 activities have been officially declared unsatisfactory after assessments by site managers and regulators. The review was released last week in response to a request under freedom of information legislation.
Nine safety activities were colour-coded yellow because they were “below standard” and suffered “some specific weaknesses”. These included categories headed “weapons safety”, “safety culture”, “maintenance”, “safety performance indicators”, “site safety case”, “nuclear safety event reporting” and “conventional health and safety including fire safety”.
Two activities were coded orange because they were “significantly below standard” with “flawed” practices or procedures. They were headed “organisational change” and “operator experience feedback”…"
"..Britain’s newest nuclear submarine is facing a delay coming to the Clyde because of a major safety hitch at the shipyard where it is under construction, according to a report by the government’s nuclear watchdog….."
Oh, just "loverly," as Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady would have said.
Thanks for sharing, Arc. Aren't you glad they actually found these substandard problems BEFORE they launched?
Time to get rid of ALL things nuclear. We've got enough radiation in our oceans as it is, thanks to past nuke dumping and now, the ongoing disaster of Fukushima.
Terrorists doing their stuff
"Uploaded by talkingsticktv on Nov 5, 2007
0800042 – Atomic Blasts- Operations Greenhouse Through Upshot-Knothole – 1951-1953 – 29:22 – Color – Silent – This video shows a compilation of early atomic blasts taken from individual short films of the tests. These formerly classified films have never before been seen by the public. The video shows close up footage of boiling, tumbling, rolling fireballs of great destructive force as the nuclear power from the splitting of nuclei of atoms is unleashed. The blinding fury released by these early atomic devices demonstrates the show of power that was used by the United States to end World War II and establish a power base for the Cold War to follow.
The term "atomic" designated them as fission devices, as opposed to the later much more powerful thermonuclear devices, which used a fission test to start a fusion process. Eventually, the word "atomic" was replaced by the term "nuclear." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pu_ZUl9YDM
It reminds me of the greenhouse effect and i often wonder how much heat nukes cause with respect to the meta-scientific mythology of global warming.
The again, do black roads absorb more heat than white roads…or the golden yellow brick roads?
If we had more data that was objective and not owned by corporations, then we might get a glimpse.
i had read that NPPs waste about 30% of their power simply by the heating of water. the water is then, generally, expelled into the river/lake/sea/ocean. so yes, there is a lot of heat from nukes (the clips above show that.. sheesh).
but instead of my laymans hear say, here is something more scientific (if you can read it all).
"The amount of cooling required by any steam-cycle power plant (of a given size) is determined by its thermal efficiency. It has essentially nothing to do with whether it is fuelled by coal, gas or uranium.
However, currently operating nuclear plants often do have slightly lower thermal efficiency than coal counterparts of similar age, and coal plants discharge some waste heat with combustion gases, whereas nuclear plants rely on water."
Water is precious and drinking water is getting scarce. Nuclear power plants in America use 25% of the public water supply. Agriculture uses 25% and the rest is used by residents and other businesses. See something wrong with that picture?
When nuclear plants get through using water it is frequently poisoned for human consumption, yet they dump it back into oceans, rivers, and lakes. Like air, water can't be replaced for human existence. We have met the enemy and his slogan should be "deaths too many to be easily metered".
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Opt-Outs, Nukes and Spooks – Welcome to WebWorld Where Everything’s Connected
http://eon3emfblog.net/?p=4874
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HOTR, I swear I'm not stalking, you just post good stuff…
Environmental Dimensions Inc.
Start clicking on the connections.
http://www.muckety.com/Environmental-Dimensions-Inc/5095236.muckety
This is the entity that needs a class action lawsuit brought upon them for endangering the public, that paid for this system, and denying the public's right to protect themselves and their families, in the very situation that this system was put into place for.
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Notice Google weaved in there?
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Nice find, Heart. I like the "N key" graphic. I mean I don't like it, but… you know.
There's an interesting tension between the article's raising awareness of potential Gov/Industry abuse of social media (very real) and the usual cluster of "like" buttons on the page. I'm temporarily paralyzed – "like" it and get put on another list, don't "like" it and remain silent while the monster grows.
There's a cluster of YT vids in a similar theme. My younger techie acquaintances love this stuff (the techie in me loves it too). The human in me is terrified by the implications – panopticon prisons mesh with it perfectly. Here's a sampling, first from fiction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfpCkO1w9-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhq7-wo11h4
Then from a little closer to home, via social media:
http://futuresoldiercenter.tumblr.com/post/21338524004/new-training-videos-future-soldier-you-tube
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4,602 and growing! That's the current Facebook "likes" for enenews! Congrats, Admin, for the success and the growth!
Keep up the good work and thanks again for all your efforts to bring awareness to what is happening at Fukushima. I know it can be a tough job sometimes, but as they say, someone's got to do it, right?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hufcDj2wG4U&feature=relmfu
Very interesting interview by Corbett Report with Joseph Trento of GRTV.
Since 1990 Global Research had been investigating the Japanese nuclear program. Gives very interesting account of the politics (and economic pressures) behind the US helping Japan, India, Pakistan and China develop nuclear weapons programs. In the case of China, as the US entered a recession political pressure came on to take a 10 billion dollar deal to put a plant in China. Points out the "atoms for peace" plan to put nuclear power stations around the world ended up being a training ground for specialists to produce nuclear weapons.
Describes the nuclear capability Japan has. Also describes how despite being told about this, the Japanese media refuse to cover it. Points out how given Japans weather and geology a continued nuclear program is fool hardy and could finish Japan as a nation. Very knowledgable and fascinating analysis.
Also points out that nuclear power is completely uneconomic and the only reason for it is to make nuclear weapons. Also says the mox fuel reprocessing plans are simply a cover for producing weapons since the plants can not only turn weapons into fuel, but fuel back into weapons.
Enough quotes and info in the video for Admin to run a series on it. Nuclear power is uneconomic, dangerous and the only reason we have it is to produce weapons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hufcDj2wG4U&feature=relmfu
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Music:
We Don't Need No Radiation – Anti-Nuke Parody Song of "Another Brick In The Wall"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqrYLkL6cV4
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Music:
We Don't Need No Radiation – Anti-Nuke Parody Song of "Another Brick In The Wall"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqrYLkL6cV4
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Crikey, the music i just posted did not end up in the end of the thread.
If admin cleans this up, well and good. If not, well and good.
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Yes, I'm finding the same – for the last few days.
I'm using the latest Google Chrome on a Windows 7 laptop.
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The Parody of Radio-Active Annie (Carbon Austerity Tax V's Plutonium Austerity Tax?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99mb-2zNCEA
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a live stream over at ex-skf (right now)
protestors blocking huge, brand-new truck that carries disaster debris.
1630 viewers now, 46500 total
"The police are trying to remove the protesters including a pregnant woman."
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Spread the word for Vermont anti-nuclear activists… Don't forget the big NRC Vermont Yankee meeting May 23, 2012. The pro-nuke forces will be there to use their scripted debate questions:
http://yesvy.blogspot.com/2012/05/may-23-nrc-meeting-show-up-for-vermont.html?m=1
Excerpt: "Ask leading questions. The NRC tends to answer what is asked and does not try to resolve the underlying issues."
SP: Nice the pro-nukes have such little faith in the NRC for intelligence. Au contraire… The NEC have very astute folks.
The decision of a state's citizens to close Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant is a line in the sand. If a state can not determine its own destiny on deciding to close a toxin-producing industry to have a facility then states rights are totally lost. We are watching you Washington and we don't like what we have seen so far. Don't tread on me. You will find the American people love their country more than their leaders.
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Reactor scram in Louisiana…..
Power Reactor Event Number: 47940
Facility: RIVER BEND
Region: 4 State: LA
Unit: [1] [ ] [ ]
RX Type: [1] GE-6
NRC Notified By: GARY HUSTON
HQ OPS Officer: DONG HWA PARK Notification Date: 05/21/2012
Notification Time: 18:35 [ET]
Event Date: 05/21/2012
Event Time: 14:52 [CDT]
Last Update Date: 05/21/2012
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY
10 CFR Section:
50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) – RPS ACTUATION – CRITICAL
Person (Organization):
BLAIR SPITZBERG (R4DO)
PATRICK HILAND (NRR)
JEFFERY GRANT (IRD)
Unit SCRAM Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode Current PWR Current RX Mode
1 A/R Y 100 Power Operation 0 Hot Shutdown
Event Text
AUTOMATIC REACTOR SCRAM RESULTING FROM A LOW CONDENSER VACUUM-TURBINE TRIP
"At 1452 CDT on 5/21/2012 with the reactor at 100% power, River Bend Station experienced a reactor scram resulting from an RPS actuation. Following the scram, reactor water level briefly lowered below level 3. The reactor is stable with pressure and temperature being controlled by the feed water system and main steam bypass valves, respectfully. The cause of the scram was due to a turbine trip/low condenser vacuum. The low vacuum condition resulted from a loss of non-safety related 4160V switchgear that powers two of four circulating water pumps.
"A suspected spurious Division II isolation of Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC) was observed. Restoration of RCIC to standby is in progress.
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(continued)
"A report of a fire in a manhole was received shortly after the scram . Fire Brigade was dispatched and noted a small active fire in a cable tray. The fire was extinguished with fire extinguishers. Power cables are routed through this manhole.
"The plant is conducting causal investigations to fully understand the cause of the turbine trip. As information becomes available, River Bend Station will provide additional information."
All rods are inserted, and the plant is in a normal shutdown electrical lineup with the exception of NNS-Switchgear 2A being deenergized. Offsite assistance was not required to extinguish the fire.
The licensee notified the NRC Resident Inspector.
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Some of these comments are not in chronological order. (?)
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Credit to Pu239 for the site link:
http://www.neimagazine.com/journals/Power/NEI/June_2012/attachments/ENGNEWS01_1335524954P.pdf
I thought the following info from this pdf were interesting….
-Radioactive materials and radioactively contaminated debris scattered due to the hydrogen explosion occurred at Unit 1, 3 and 4 R/Bs and other events
-Stably cooling SFP water with a circulation cooling system at Units 1 – 4 (Most spent fuels estimated to be undamaged)
-An underwater camera shot the inside of the Unit 4 SFP.
No deformation and damage of fuels were observed.
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The concern is the pumping of groundwater and the stability of the ground at the plant.
Fukushima worker concerns about ground settlement of Fukushima plants
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/05/fukushima-worker-concerns-about-ground-settlement-of-fukushima-plants/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
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Fierce protesting in Kitakyushu..
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/05/disaster-debris-standoff-in-kitakyushu.html
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Greg Palast solves the BP Gulf Disaster:
BP Coverup, Coverup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sgCG7H6U1E&feature=g-all-u
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First Arrest Made Linking Yakuza with Fukushima Nuclear Clean-Up Crews – Global – The Atlantic Wire: http://bit.ly/JviKT9
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We're not going to be getting any readings from Canada:
B.C. killer whale expert out of work as feds cut ocean-pollution monitoring positions
Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/killer+whale+expert+work+feds+ocean+pollution+monitoring+positions/6655853/story.html#ixzz1vduDwIlH
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/killer+whale+expert+work+feds+ocean+pollution+monitoring+positions/6655853/story.html
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That's an understatement, Pu.
The Canadian government's environmental presence has been gutted – most commenters seem to think it is to accommodate the interests of Big Oil, if not industry-at-large.
I posted this elsewhere a few days ago. Please forgive the duplication, but it seems useful as background to Pu's post:
http://uncloaked.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/an-open-letter-to-the-world-on-the-governmental-destruction-of-the-environment-in-canada/
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Something our elite might be interested in, to escape in:
The ambitious plan to build Star Trek's USS Enterprise
One adventurous engineer makes a compelling case to boldly build what no man has built before. Could the crazy thing actually work?
http://theweek.com/article/index/227989/the-ambitious-plan-to-build-star-treks-uss-enterprise
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@PU.
It will have to should we continue this debacle:)
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Outgoing NRC head visits SC plant under construction:
http://newsok.com/nrc-chairman-makes-trip-to-sc-nuclear-plant/article/feed/384640
SP: I guess the nuclear industry thinks they have this one in the bag. Got rid of the main thorn in their side.
We shall see…the fat lady ain't sung yet.
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Evacs and drills pared near nuke plants.
http://photos.pasadenastarnews.com/2012/05/16/photos-evacs-and-drills-pared-near-nuke-plants/
SP: Saw this in my own local paper Sunday. Why not…the nuclear industry can do anything they want to do…they own the majority of the government. People who protest nuclear plants makes the military leaders, the Congressmen and the President unhappy also.
GE: We bring good politicians to light. We also pay no taxes.
But the bankers are getting worried… if Japan goes toes up…they will be cashing in their US bonds and real estate. The US government can't even pay them off without printing some more fake money. Down the tubes goes the world economy for a century.
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Atomic Rod Adams got a little nervous I guess at the hundreds of posters on his blog for the thread Debunking the Fukushima Spent Fuel Fable:
http://atomicinsights.com/2012/05/debunking-the-fukushima-spent-fuel-fable.html
So much so he stopped all postings several days ago. I submitted a post, but I guess even a a retired historian is too upsetting for his blog.
Anyway…his sidekick Will Davis disputes a poster about a spent fuel fire at Unit 4. Davis says it never happened. So I attempted in vain to post a followup. I didn't copy it, but it went something like this:
Does this video of Fuku1Live look like Unit 4 was on fire?
The Day the Buildings Disappeared (see the first and last 30 seconds):
http://www.youtube.com/fuku1live#p/search/9/dxzBKBKPLRg
the afternoon of June 10, 2011 in America (Japanese time was 3 to 4 AM June 11, 2011).
Then the next hour:
http://www.youtube.com/user/fuku1live#p/search/0/C0ZyT9FBkLw (Buildings still obscured)
Then the next hour: http://www.youtube.com/user/fuku1live#p/search/0/Ocusmf40rqY
finally in the last 5 seconds you can see the Reactor 4 spent fuel rod plume visible as it begins to let up.
Usually where there is smoke there is fire.
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Great news re. Atomic Rod SP. Nice way to start my day!
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yeah that guy really is a rod
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Fukushima Tour de Force: New Book Chronicles Nuclear Devil's Tango
[Posted: 05/22/2012 7:26 pm]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/cecile-pineda-devils-tango_b_1537742.html
"To say that corporate enterprise has abrogated your right to ask questions, to raise objections, or to expose malfeasance tells only half the story," she writes. "Corporations are not people. We are people, and until we learn to protest en masse, until we make it impossible for corporations to continue stripping the planet, they will hijack our earth, and make all living things expendable. That means you. That means us."
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Jaczko, fallout forecast, Kevin Blanch and other rad updates
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/nnn.html
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Nuke Accidents 200 times more likely:
http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.n-tv.de%2Fwissen%2FAKW-Unfall-eher-moeglich-als-gedacht-article6329856.html&act=url
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Fukushima reactor vessel may be leaking water
Japanese scientists say cooling water may be leaking from a second reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. They say the water level of the reactor's containment vessel is much shallower than previously thought.
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W.H.O. have a document about how much radiation got to the world, i havent read it all yet, over 200 pages i think….
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2012/9789241503662_eng.pdf
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http://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/
"Don’t Bank on the Bomb
The Financing of Nuclear Weapons Producers
This is the first major global report on the financing of companies that manufacture, modernize and maintain nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicles. It identifies more than 300 banks, insurance companies, pension funds and asset managers from 30 countries that invest significantly in 20 major nuclear weapons producers."
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Kitakyushu..Mothers V. City officials
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/05/kitakyushu-city-hall-on-may-23-mothers.html
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Anyone have a tsunami alert for the EQ that just happened?
Mag 6.1 [USGS] – only 38 miles offshore from the Higashidori Nuclear Plant. Depth 71km.
None showing here yet:
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/joho.html
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I hadn't received a text via cspan.
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They have 4 units there too:
The Higashidōri Nuclear Power Plant (東通原子力発電所 Higashidōri genshiryoku hatsudensho?, Higashidōri NPP) is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Higashidōri in eastern Aomori Prefecture, on the Shimokita Peninsula, facing the Pacific Ocean. It is unique in Japan in that at this four-unit site, two units are run by one company, the Tōhoku Electric Power Company and two units are run by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. The reactors are all of Toshiba design.
Construction of Tohoku Electric's Higashidori Unit-1 began in November 2000 and was completed in December 2005. The design was based on Tohoku Electric's Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant Unit-3, with improvements to the reactor vessel to allow for greater ease in inspection and maintenance. A separate building, apart from the containment structure, is dedicated specifically for the heat exchanger system based on seawater to provide primary coolant for the reactor.
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Hi Pu, the Japanese map shows "upper 5" only at one station, which is inland. No strong shocks along the coast, fortunately.
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Thanks B&B,
Just waiting for the aftershocks.
I note that the Higashidori plant lost power due to 311, so is still in the line of fire from recent cluster activity:
http://enenews.com/wikipedia-15-reactors-were-in-areas-affected-by-311-quake-higashidori-nuclear-plant-lost-all-external-power-tokai-daini-took-4-days-to-achieve-cold-shutdown
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Righto, sent this quick message to Fairewinds & Associates.
In part
"Reactivity profile of Zirconium
"and cesium will react violently, even explosively, with an excess of zirconium powder [Ellern 1968. p. 249]."
http://cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/8183
It is well documented that Cesium is explosive under some conditions with Zirconium, possibly under high pressure as would occur inside a white hot fuel rod.
So it suggests we have another vector of explosive possibility. Naturally no suggestion is being made that you hermetically seal cesium inside a zirconium tube/rod and proceed to heat it up so that the cesium is pressurised against the white hot walls internally, or another combination of conditions where both are in volatilized divided state..
Have a look at it. I will continue pursuing the task of getting this information out to as many as possible.
Thanks for your work in advance."
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The shills seem to be out in force today:
Radiation from Fukushima nuclear disaster below cancer-causing level
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/radiation-from-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-below-cancer-causing-level/article2441285/
Bulk of Fukushima radiation did not pose cancer risk
Increases in radiation after nuclear meltdown were below cancer-causing levels in most of Japan: WHO
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/05/23/fukushima-radiation-who.html
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14 months… unabated.
Speaks loudly.
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Mad Max sez: "14 months… unabated. Speaks loudly."
SP: and speaking of that… Time to stock up on the 15-month aged cheddar cheese blocks at Sam's Club. I have 30 pounds now, but it is soon moving into Fuku time. Next up.. 24-month aged cheddar and older. The good thing is I have seen 13-year-old Wisconsin cheese for sale. Here is some pre-2008:
http://www.amazon.com/Cheddar-Cheese-Pound-Wisconsin-Mart/dp/B001KPDJ98/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1337499668&sr=8-12
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Is the cheese being shipped in lead containers?
What about airborne contamination flying i n the jet
stream or delivered by UPS and FEd ex on the ground?
Who really wants to think all this through to its logical
conclusions. If there is such heavy contamination loads
in the fall out, No one is telling us a thing. So easy
to live in denial…….food is radiation safe when it flies in
the sky? just some late night thoughts.
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Correct me if I am wrong but I heard that most of the cesium is in whey so cheeses and butter contains surprisingly lower dose compared to milk shall I say. So I am assuming that Pu & Sr are alike in this case but of course there is a limit. If there was a huge fallout and even if cheese contained less contamination, it is still high for us.
I am banking on pre-311 Parmesan cheese because it takes 18 months to mature. You can freeze the vac packed cheeses. But as I am finding out, there were probably nuclear leaks all over the world even before 311 anyway. What a wonderful world.
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Man cannot live on cheese alone…
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Touche Sam! I have reported how Chile apples were tested in Japan last summer with slight radioactive contamination. So transport is a contributor. Cheese sent by plane is more subject to gamma contamination than if it went by truck (my preferred method).
But still… Uranium and plutonium supposedly can't pass through a plastic cover and even more important… Ingested strontium and other particles by cows and goats will be lower in pre-Fuku cheese. Cows lap up strontium from fallout and it is a terrible bone-seeking poison. I think my dad died of strontium-induced illness in 1996.
Interesting trivia fact: goats concentrate more radioisotopes in their milk than cows.
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I do try to eat pre Fuku of what little cheese I do eat. i did not know about the goats so
it does make sense. So would goat cheese from other countries be safer than from
West Coast? Sonoma and Humboldt county here has fantastic cheeses. Sad.
One last thought for the night. All along I knew that the government did not want
data to get out so as to not panic the public, not to cause boycotts of food and economic
harm to the agricultural economy of America. Independent people doing testing can be
threatening. It is truly a can of worms to do this and publish results. Potrblog is courageous
and perhaps not prepared for the legal storms to come his way. Perhaps if it unfortunately
gets into the courts who knows if we will ever find out the truth of the situation.
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Re: goat milk more dangerous than cow milk when fresh fallout occurs.
SP: We all need to know this in our volatile times of The Fallout Age:
"Goat’s milk and sheep’s milk contain approximately 10 times the concentration of radioiodine found in cow’s milk. "
Page 8 from: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/iodine/docs/iodine131.pdf
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5 Nuclear Sites That Could Launch War With Iran
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/iran-nuclear-sites/?pid=1205&pageid=81035
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U.K. To Announce $550 Million In Nuclear Submarine Contracts
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-20/u-k-to-announce-550-million-in-nuclear-submarine-contracts.html
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NATO’s Missile Shield to Keep Nations’ Nuclear Weapons
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-20/nato-s-missile-shield-to-keep-nations-nuclear-weapons
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Clyde bases plagued by nuclear safety flaws, says the MoD
"The Clyde bases that host Britain’s nuclear bombs and submarines are plagued by widespread safety flaws, according to an internal Ministry of Defence (MoD) report obtained by the Sunday Herald.
Critics fear that the problems could trigger a major nuclear accident at Faslane or Coulport that would contaminate Glasgow with radioactivity. They say this would be “unspeakable” and are demanding an urgent investigation.
The MoD’s latest annual review of safety reveals that 11 of the bases’ 13 activities have been officially declared unsatisfactory after assessments by site managers and regulators. The review was released last week in response to a request under freedom of information legislation.
Nine safety activities were colour-coded yellow because they were “below standard” and suffered “some specific weaknesses”. These included categories headed “weapons safety”, “safety culture”, “maintenance”, “safety performance indicators”, “site safety case”, “nuclear safety event reporting” and “conventional health and safety including fire safety”.
Two activities were coded orange because they were “significantly below standard” with “flawed” practices or procedures. They were headed “organisational change” and “operator experience feedback”…"
http://www.robedwards.com/2012/02/clyde-bases-plagued-by-nuclear-safety-flaws-says-the-mod.html
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New nuclear submarine held up by safety problems
from Sunday Herald, 19 February 2012
"..Britain’s newest nuclear submarine is facing a delay coming to the Clyde because of a major safety hitch at the shipyard where it is under construction, according to a report by the government’s nuclear watchdog….."
http://www.robedwards.com/2012/02/new-nuclear-submarine-held-up-by-safety-problems.html
see below for details on the safety issues
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(Apologies if posted. Btw, I am hitting "Reply" to post in this thread.)
Japan May Own 76% of Tepco After Converting Non-Voting Stock
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-21/japan-may-own-76-percent-of-tepco-after-converting-non-voting-stock
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Oh, just "loverly," as Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady would have said.
Thanks for sharing, Arc. Aren't you glad they actually found these substandard problems BEFORE they launched?
Time to get rid of ALL things nuclear. We've got enough radiation in our oceans as it is, thanks to past nuke dumping and now, the ongoing disaster of Fukushima.
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Terrorists doing their stuff
"Uploaded by talkingsticktv on Nov 5, 2007
0800042 – Atomic Blasts- Operations Greenhouse Through Upshot-Knothole – 1951-1953 – 29:22 – Color – Silent – This video shows a compilation of early atomic blasts taken from individual short films of the tests. These formerly classified films have never before been seen by the public. The video shows close up footage of boiling, tumbling, rolling fireballs of great destructive force as the nuclear power from the splitting of nuclei of atoms is unleashed. The blinding fury released by these early atomic devices demonstrates the show of power that was used by the United States to end World War II and establish a power base for the Cold War to follow.
The term "atomic" designated them as fission devices, as opposed to the later much more powerful thermonuclear devices, which used a fission test to start a fusion process. Eventually, the word "atomic" was replaced by the term "nuclear."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pu_ZUl9YDM
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It reminds me of the greenhouse effect and i often wonder how much heat nukes cause with respect to the meta-scientific mythology of global warming.
The again, do black roads absorb more heat than white roads…or the golden yellow brick roads?
If we had more data that was objective and not owned by corporations, then we might get a glimpse.
Is the sun more powerful than CO2 and all that.
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thanks for the clips above .. intense.
i had read that NPPs waste about 30% of their power simply by the heating of water. the water is then, generally, expelled into the river/lake/sea/ocean. so yes, there is a lot of heat from nukes (the clips above show that.. sheesh).
but instead of my laymans hear say, here is something more scientific (if you can read it all).
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/cooling_power_plants_inf121.html
"The amount of cooling required by any steam-cycle power plant (of a given size) is determined by its thermal efficiency. It has essentially nothing to do with whether it is fuelled by coal, gas or uranium.
However, currently operating nuclear plants often do have slightly lower thermal efficiency than coal counterparts of similar age, and coal plants discharge some waste heat with combustion gases, whereas nuclear plants rely on water."
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Water is precious and drinking water is getting scarce. Nuclear power plants in America use 25% of the public water supply. Agriculture uses 25% and the rest is used by residents and other businesses. See something wrong with that picture?
When nuclear plants get through using water it is frequently poisoned for human consumption, yet they dump it back into oceans, rivers, and lakes. Like air, water can't be replaced for human existence. We have met the enemy and his slogan should be "deaths too many to be easily metered".
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Thanks richard, i am a layman too. Together we are associates i guess
Checking it out.
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You'd be amazed. I hardly eat anything and I'm still standing.
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+100 for black humor
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Add to your list.. Fracking now damaging ground water supplies across the country.
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