A thermodynamic principle states that when transferring heat do it at the highest temperature. When rejecting heat do it at the lowest temperature. Rejecting heat is what the cooling towers and water heat sinks do. As the heat sink increases in temperature the nuclear cycle becomes more inefficient causing the reactors to increase their capacity to generate a given power.
"…Minor amputation after radiography incident
27 July 2012
A Peruvian radiographer has lost part of a finger after working with an unshielded iridium-192 source. The event is classified a 'serious incident' at Level 3 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES).
Details were made public this week by the International Atomic Energy Agency upon receiving the INES report from Peruvian authorities.
On 12 January the radiographer used a 31,995 GBq iridium-192 source to examine pipes, but was unaware that the radioactive source was unshielded. During the course of the job, the radiographer adjusted the collimator – which narrows the beta and gamma radiation emitted by the source – some 20-40 times. On ten occasions the radiographer directly touched the tip of the collimator, where the source was actually located.
The serious lapse in safety was only noticed at the end of the job, by which time the radiographer was beginning to experience nausea and vomiting that lasted several hours. Five days later the finger showed blistering, and part was later amputated at France's Percy military hospital.
Two assistants felt nauseous after the job and are currently under observation. The radiographer has returned to Peru, said the INES report, and is in good general health….."
hers some news from belgium
a bit slow but definate!!
Closure dates for Belgian units
23 July 2012
"..The Belgian government has announced the complete schedule for the forced closure of the country's nuclear power plants, claiming that the move will "create a favourable investment climate" to replace the 50% of domestic power supply that stands to be lost.
Political shutdown dates for four reactors were announced at the end of last week, complimenting those for three units announced on 4 July. Together they will see all the Belgian units close between 2015 and 2025, roughly in line with their 40th anniversaries, despite a previously determined policy that operation of older units to 50 years was in the country's best interests. Only one unit, Tihange 1, is permitted to operate to 50 years of age; an exception made specifically to avoid blackouts, said the government.
The government said that it had rewritten the 2003 law on nuclear energy so that its current stance could not be changed by decree, and therefore the timing of the phase-out "is now final." This certainty "should create a favourable investment climate which will allow us to gradually phase out nuclear power," it said.,,,"
This was brought up awhile back, but they actually introduced a legislative bill on this…
All hail the great legacy of nuclear, you may raise any limb that is functional…
America's Nuclear Sites Could Become National Parks
New legislation has been introduced to Congress that could make three sites that played a vital role in creating America's nuclear weapons program during World War II into national parks. If passed, the legislation would provide resources to preserve the sites and make them accessible to visitors for the first time.
The earliest vote on the legislation could come later this week. If the bill is eventually passed, and the locations do indeed become parks, the emphasis will be on their significance in American history and not the glorification of nuclear weapons. It is true that the Manhattan Project managed to create the world's first atomic bombs but perhaps more importantly it also helped to usher the U.S. onto the world stage as a post-war superpower.
I can see Mr. Teller turning to Mr. Einstein and saying,"And when we are all done destroying this area, in fifty years we can turn them into national parks, for the children to enjoy!"
I have a request to make.
You might have already heard about her but there is a lady in Aomori, Japan who is resisting to sell her house and land which is situated within the Ooma future NNP site. She is the only person, the last person who is digging her heel to stop the NPP from being operational. What a heroine she is!! If you can, I would like you to send her a postcard so that the road leading to her house will not be closed because postman has to travel there to deliver her mails.
Ms Asako Ogasawara's address is:-
Asako House, 396 Okkoppe, Oomamachi, Shimokitagun, Aomori, 039-4601, Japan
Please spread the word and if you can send her weekly, monthly postcard (or whenever you feel like), that would be great
@Heart: this should be brought to the attention of admin. Keep in mind, YAHOO is now owned by DISNEY/ABC. Next question (in this trail of tears), who owns them? Thanks Heart…
Pick any arbitrary branch. For example, here's one that caught my eye: "Eisner joins IAC/Interactive board. Michael Eisner, former head of Walt Disney Company, has been elected to the IAC/Interactive board of directors." which led to:
@aigeezer: you were precisely the individual, I was thinking would best be able to answer this question. But I didn't want to call of your excellent abilities. Which gets me to wondering, where's the nuclear connection? There has to be one…
Thanks, AS, but I think this one would take an army to probe thoroughly. Speaking of armies, one of the Disney links took me to "the US Department of Defense" – no idea what those implications are. It could be as simple as making training films. Please try the following. Seriously!
Good advice, AFTERSHOCK. When I query "ABC" with Muckety, I get (among other things) a list of people with the surname "Babcock" and some companies including "Babcock and Wilcox". I can't find how they are connected to ABC though – I see no obvious connection so I don't know why they appear in an "ABC" search. Anybody know?
This is either a total red herring or an easy catch (Babcock and Wilcox are big nuke players).
One Muckety chart suggests the link may be only that they have used the same law firm (lobby firm), "K&L Gates", whose clients include CBS, Halliburton, and Goldman Sachs among many other household names.
Nothing obvious – no link from ABC to nuke – but there is a ton of detail to wade through. It may be in front of my nose and I'm not seeing it or there may be nothing to find.
The directorship of Babcock and Wilcox shows major networking to Big Energy and the military – not surprising, but that's a story for another day.
"DALLAS (AP) — Flowserve Corp., which makes flow-control products for the oil and gas industries, said Monday that Michael S. Taff is its new chief financial officer and senior vice president.
Richard J. Guiltinan, the company's current senior vice president, finance and chief accounting officer, plans to retire next year.
Taff will formally join the company after completing consulting duties with his former employer by early next year. The 49-year-old executive, most recently served as senior vice president and chief financial officer for The Babcock & Wilcox Co."
going from the nuke industry to the oil industry.. thought they were competitors?
the main oil corporations have been well connected with the WPP group of companies.. mainly PR for governments with a hand in all media outlets that need advertising revenue to operate.. the income from advertising can be up to 100 percent of a papers/tv stations income..
ogikvy and maher are the main culprit and they have been using dentsu to make adverts and campaigns to eat radioactive food and distribute waste..
Yahoo Japan Shares Fall On E-Mail Privacy Inquiry: Tokyo Mover
By Shunichi Ozasa and Naoko Fujimura – Jun 25, 2012
Yahoo Japan will start using a program in August that automatically detects key words in e-mails, said Asuka Isayama, a spokeswoman for the Tokyo-based web-portal operator. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications plans to ask Yahoo Japan about the service, said Noriyuki Morisato, a deputy director at the telecommunications consumer policy division, confirming an earlier report by the Yomiuri newspaper.
“We’ve been notifying users of our plan to introduce the service since the end of May, and we will also offer an option to opt out,” Yahoo Japan’s Isayama said. “So we don’t think there’s a problem.”
Morisato declined to comment on whether the service violates privacy laws…"
and dentsu, part of WPP ogilvey maher group of companies
work with
"..The joint venture with Tokyo's Softbank Corporation was called Cyber Communications Inc., or CCI. CCI planned to buy and resell advertising space on the Internet and to help develop and deploy Internet technology in Japan…"
so ogilvey and maher who have japan today etc in their pockets also have japan yahoo inc…..
dont for get that japan is bringing draconian copyright legislation in to silence the alternative media in october.. anyone downloading ANY copyright material could find themselves in jail in japan.. and the download means "through the browser" too//
this network of companies should ensure a busy prison population.. takes propaganda to a new level…
so exskf is right to suspect dentsu but thats just the start of the trail… covered that trail here on enenews already, as you know..
no protests about the japanese change in copyright law? the japanese yahoo connection might also be the reason for yahoo usa wanting to break from yahoo japan.. as YJ is set to impress even the ghost of goebbels soon!
Internet giant Yahoo has been condemned over plans to snoop on emails in a 'blatant intrusion of privacy'.
The US company provides an email service for thousands of Britons, including children, who will assume that the system is completely private.
~>>>..*At the same time, the firm will also be able to spy on incoming emails from individuals and businesses without permission or warning.
The company has suggested that it is up to customers to warn family, friends, businesses and others who send them email that these may be viewed by Yahoo's computers.
"Against the Grain" informative interview today with Kristin Schrader-Frechett, scientist and author, (about 50 min).
Show notes: Frechett "contests those claims, (that nuclear is solution re carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases); she also discusses the financial costs of nuclear energy, the risks to human health it poses, the perils of industry-funded science, and the contours of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster."
The description of points she covers is much longer than the show notes indicate.
I think were being fed.
Blurd photos & video, non existent video, guns & shooting reactors, etc. I think the real story is the Mushrooms, Kelloggs, Sea food, yoi know the consumption of radioactive food. No containment has been addressed. Continuous increases in radiation increases, and no accurate reliable government agency has spoken.
Here's a bit of info, that might line up with someone else's findings…
Cracks discovered at Russian graphite-moderated nuclear plant
06 August 2012 by Laura Syrett
Malformations at Leningrad reactor lead to indefinite shutdown
A Russian nuclear facility shut down one of its reactors after swelling and cracks appeared in the graphite used to moderate the reactor, Swedish language daily Hufvudstadsbladet reported on Friday.
The defects at the No 1 reactor at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP), which is operated by Russia’s state nuclear energy company Rosenergoatom, were apparently discovered in May when it was switched off for routine maintenance.
But the plant’s problems have only just been reported in Russia’s state media, according to the Norwegian energy paper, Bellona.
some sleuthing from alex jones on al-quada and err some connections to the usa etc military!
"..Senior Council on Foreign Relations fellow Ed Husain has hailed the presence of Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria, praising their fighting prowess in aid of FSA rebels while also lauding the increasing number of successful bombings carried out by Al-Qaeda fighters.
In case you didn't get the memo — Al-Qaeda — the same group the United States accuses of carrying out the most devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history, is now our ally in Syria.
Terrorist attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda in Syria are inherently moral and good. Down is the new up…"
mentions radiation george monbiot and anne coulter in the same sentence…!
Cuba has nuclear armed missiles pointed at the United States right now. Want to read that again?
Russia supplied the nuclear weapons to Cuba recently(Cuba & Russia signed a military agreement) because Putin claims the U.S. has broken the START TREATY. Putin threatens to use these nuclear missiles on american soil if the U.S. gets involved in the Israel/Iran conflict. Russia has 2,700 NUCLEAR WARHEADS(that is reported; they may have more).Russia has proclaimed they will defend Iran which translates into they will fight the USA on american ground. They also have military ships and warplanes stationed near California as they have been preforming "joint" military excercises with the US.
The eastern war arena has expanded as India and China now have warships in the waters near Cyprus (where Israel has a new military base). India, China & Iran among others signed the Shangrala military agreement with Russia a few months ago.
Both people the americans have as choices for president have proclaimed they will support Israel in the upcoming conflict.
I suggest everyone build a bomb shelter, this is going to be the "big" one.
Did you check out the link that shows Moscow is completing 5,000 new bomb shelters to evacuate its citizens in a few minutes to be ready at the end of 2012?
And what is the US doing to protect people?
Experts believe North Korea has missiles that can hit the West Coast.
Experts are especially concerned about the possibility that Iran one day could launch ship-based nuclear missiles, said Brian Kennedy, president of The Claremont Institute's Ballistic Missile Defense Project.
"The West Coast of the U.S. has limited missile defense against a North Korean missile," Kennedy said. "And, unfortunately, we're almost completely vulnerable to a ship-launched ballistic missile attack."
Kennedy is also concerned a ship-launched nuclear missile detonated at a high altitude would create an electromagnetic pulse, possibly destroying electronic equipment and knocking out the nation's power grid – leaving the country with little or no communications and no ability to provide food and water to potentially hundreds of millions of people.
Congressional reports suggest such an attack could result in more than 100 million deaths in a year, said Sharon Packer, executive director of the American Civil Defense Association.
@Insight: if you were really concerned with the welfare of the American people, you'd dig a little deeper and let us know who's really behind this planned destruction of the United States. Those in the know, already are aware of these threats and have been since their inception. What's really important is why the American are being lined-up for the slaughter house. It's only when you know the cause that you can avoid the disease…
You are asking who the United States will be fighting? Ok, I will tell you what I believe will happen. I believe when the war starts with Israel, the South China Sea military confrontation(disputes over ownership of islands with oil rich reserves and the right of passage in South China Sea waters) will ignite. To ensure the U.S.’ maritime strength in the Asia-Pacific and to protect smaller countries that need free access to trade routes/resources in the sea, the US will be fighting China, Russia, Vietnam, North Korea and India. If the U.S. controls the sea lanes and energy lifelines, it will actually control the lifeline of China's sustainable economic development and control trade between India and Russia in that area as well. During this confrontation I believe North Korea/China will nuke Japan and the west coast of the USA. Because Okinawa is within the range of China, U.S. military forces have recently relocated 8,000 military men to Guam making them just out of range. This war will happen and the US is preparing for it. The U.S.’ west coast indigenous aircraft carriers(from San Diego) will be moved to the Asia-Pacific forefront.
The US is paving the road to its own catastrophes.
To support Israel,I think the US will be fighting Russia,China,India,Iran,Jordan,Iraq,Syria,Pakistan and eventually Turkey because they depend on Russia for energy and will see the US will probably not win this war against so many powerful nations.
I believe there will be a day when the US will not support or come to the aid of defending Israel.
US might be to busy with other things, or maybe they will not want to get involved, or maybe not be able to get involved.
Hi WindorSolarPlease,
I think about this often and I feel that the USA will start out defending Israel but will be fighting in 2 arenas of war at the same time and will be "hard hit" especially when bombing occurs on american soil. The Obama adminstration has downsized the US military considerably. The american people are not prepared for survival in the midst of chaos. The average citizen would not have a clue as to what to do especially if the news media/internet is shut down. Many will demand to get out of "Israels War" and the US might try to back out or turn sides and actually fight Israel to end the war. I do not believe Russia and China will sign any Peace treaty with the US unless they are the victors. Russia and China are not best friends and are united only for the common cause of the destruction of the USA. Eventually they may clash with each other and with the united muslim nations over control when the US is brought down.
If the NWO ever takes place it will only survive for a "blink" of time because the various nations are so different in their beliefs and desire to control, nothing will hold them together very long.
@Insight: I can see from your response that you're genuinely concerned with these matters. What's missing from your analysis is why? You'd almost think that the world woke-up one day and decided to attack the US. It's only when you looked into the cause of the threat that you've any chance of avoiding it. Posting threat projections only serves to justify the actions of those who've brought about these dire conditions. It is imperative that you pull-back the curtain and determine – for yourself – who it is that's behind the destruction of the US. Those who are brandishing the swords are only foot soldiers. The real threat is from those who hide behind them…
@norbu: it was never 'our earth'. We're simply byproducts of this biosphere. What you need to worry more about is not that humans can destroy this planet (they can't) but that they'll develop the means to survive without it…
The above info is from the LA times article, Preparing for a 'nuclear event'
By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer
it includes….
"The county's efforts to inventory its bomb and fallout shelters follows the recent discovery of a 1975 book by the county's Emergency Preparedness Commission, "Los Angeles County & Cities Public Shelter Directory," which lists 6,200 fallout shelters with a capacity of 14.5 million people.
The shelters, including hundreds in the San Fernando Valley, include the basements and similarly protected areas in places such as hospitals, government buildings, courthouses, post offices, churches, movie studios, parking garages and tunnels. Many businesses are also listed, including McDonald's, J.C. Penney Co. and even a cellar at the Budweiser plant."
Hummm… I do not believe any site listed is prepped with food and water for large numbers of people for an extended time.
@Insight: that's your response? There are three reasons for not responding to my question: you don't understand it / you don't care to answer it / you're not informed enough to answer it.
@WSP: the US is being setup to take the fall for the all that's wrong with this world. The US is a conglomeration of people from every nation in the world. When moderated, that diversity was its greatest strength. If the NWO is to assume the mantle of righteousness with those they intend to rule, they'll need to distance themselves (politically and economically) from the nation that fueled globalism. At first glance, this may seem counter-intuitive. But if the NWO is to cement its authority over the planet, they need to yield-up a fall guy. The very forces that are compelling US militarism are the same parties that are behind the consolidation of the world's resources. Unfortunately, the American people have no idea they're to be offered-up as a blood-sacrifice. For reasons of propriety, the above disclosure is purposely truncated…wink…wink…say no more…
There has been times that the US has stuck its nose into things, that was non of their business. Maybe it was part of a plan for us to be disliked being the fall guy, who knows?
Personally, I think confrontations between the big guys, is mostly about profit, power, and ego.
For now, there's to many people in the world for a NWO to be totally set up. They did a bang up job with building monster plants, that could easily wipe out countries, including ours (that's if it hasn't already happened).
I was outside tonight and I could hardly breathe, the air smelled that bad. Outside air used to smell good.
Your question is a good one WindorSolar.
The US has NATO… NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is an alliance of 28 member countries roughly bordering the North Atlantic Ocean: Canada, U.S., Turkey and most members of the European Union. NATO's purpose is to protect the freedom of its members. As famously defined in Article 5, "…an armed attack upon one…shall be considered an attack upon them all."
Spain, Romania, Poland, Netherlands, Great Britian,Canada, France, Turkey, and Israel are among what I would call friends of the US but personally I think the only country that really cares about/loves the USA is Poland. The other countries tolerate the US for their own agendas. I believe Spain, Turkey and France will not support the US or Israel for very long in the upcoming war.
Thank you Insight. I think all the big wigs who run the world just tolerate each other.
I believe most people in all Countries just want peace.
Not sure why this is so hard to do, when we have put people on the moon.
Hi WindorSolar, You are concerned about being implanted with a chip and I would like to give you a viewpoint you may not have considered.
The "Mark" need not be literal at all, but instead simply an identifying symbolic mark upon the head or forehead to represent the mind, what you believe, your faith, how you think, and in the right hand to represent actions, works, what you do. There is nothing necessitating a physical and visible mark upon the forehead or right hand as in a microchip or tattoo or anything else that a people or government can physically place therein or upon you.
All they may require is an answer to where your allegiance is.
Not concerned, just won't do it.
Look down read what we wrote, we were just talking about computer chips that can make you smarter and so on. We went OT a little, but ended it with nuclear power.
I would not do it either WindorSolar!
I thought it was in reference to the NWO, global government,requirements that will be established at the end of the horrific nuclear global war that is going to start in the very near future.
Just read this morning that Britian and France are getting ready to send battleships to Syria after the Olympics are over. Russia,China,USA,Britian,and India would then all be in that area.
War is coming!
@norbu: "…we must work together to live in peace and harmony with her." Nice thought, but from a preponderance of evidence, an unlikely scenario. None-the-less, we'll keep working at it…
@WSP: that was a fun link. It was obvious that the producers of the video did – some – homework. Unfortunately (but fortunately for the 'movement') they still didn't get why this is happening. Like those before them, they interpret reality through the eyes of humans and attempt to twist its outcome to serve their particular agenda; which in their case is religious dogma. That's the biggest mistake on the part of humans. In fact, that's been the failure of humans as a whole. They thought the world was here for them ("…big cock in the sky said it was so!"), ergo, let's use it up boys! Now (fortunately for all life beyond this world), they've burnt the bridges that would've carried them to the stars. (only had to wait them out!) But fear not, we're here (behind the scenes) to take the remnants of their intelligence (art) to the stars. See…we'll have the time to do so. While they thought only of themselves and their finite existence in this world, they've run out of time. Had they been able to understand their true nature (good luck), they would've inherited the heavens. Instead, they morphed into a violent – selfish – species, that's lost it's right to the heavens. So, it is up to those of us who've never lost that vision, to wrest the poetry (art) from the ashes. A prayer will be said before moving on to the next world. Maybe those, at our next destination, will appreciate the value of their poets…
From what I have seen on YouTube besides putting computers in your brains they are also mixing Human DNA with Animal DNA. They are even changing our foods (genetic foods)
Science is becoming Frankenstein, and we are the guinea pigs. This has a potentially of being another Pandora box just as nuclear power.
They want to make a powerful military using these trans-humanism with nanotech weapons.
Who knows maybe they will turn on us? Good way to get NWO rolling. Maybe they will use them against us and say the aliens landed?
Other nations are experimenting and in the race of the know it all, being the first, and the most powerful, the experiments will keep going.
This is about mutating us, putting a computer chip in us and having the control switch, and the also are creating new species.
Maybe there would be some good in this with medical advances, but will the bad of it over power it? Example with Nuclear Power it creates energy which is great, however the bad side of Nuclear Power over rides the good of it.
@WSP: I appreciate your concern. And yes, THT (trans-human-technology) is used to augment the interest of a few and will challenge the biology of humans. The power-elite do see it as a means of ensuring their position. The self-interested will see it as means of securing their survival. For those very reasons, it is succeeding.
It will not be imposed on those who refuse the technology. Over time, those who refuse the integration of THT will simply be marginalized; ultimately becoming nothing more than 'curiosities of the past'.
Moral arguments against the growing proliferation of THT will be muted with the simple comparison of all that preceded its development. From brutality of slavery to global-wide environmental devastation, human history will be our closing argument.
Eventually, 'organics' will acknowledge that from the very-first fire that was built with their hands, transhumanism was their destiny…
Transhumanism..to survive..on what? ..planet completely contaminated and destroyed?
If this is what it is going to come to..
I'm glad to think..I am among the last of the "organics".
When the hand of Man overshadows the hand of the Creator..the world we know is over.
I don't want to live in such a world.
Maybe..I'm missing the point…LOL
I don't want to be mutated or augmented ..etc.
Just a simple "organic" here..looking for her hair brush and a cup of coffee…
Thanks for the response Insight .
Clearly the statement is 100 procent false.
"Whether the quotes attributed to Putin are accurate or not remains to be seen. They appear nowhere outside of the original Pravda piece."
DisasterID, you are wishing it is false. Unfortunately it is not."They appear nowhere outside of the original Pravda piece".Putin declared it in a press conference after the G20 meeting. Pravda is a very respected newspaper in Russia.
here is a link that supports this info. http://triblive.com/usworld/world/2289470-73/russia-moscow-military-cuba-bases-defense-putin-soviet-talks-access
First people need to know that the US has placed nuclear missiles facing Russia on the border in Poland. That upset and alarmed the Russians and was breaking the Start treaty that the US had with them. They could not understand why Russia would be targeted when the "war" problem is focused on Iran. In response to that action on the part of the US, the Russians have put nuclear missiles in Cuba facing the US and Putin said to the effect of… let the americans see what that feels like. But unlike the US, Putin has inferred that he will make a first strike if the USA gets involved with Iran! This is an intense threat to world peace that has been swept under the rug because if the news media focused on it all political platforms would have to address it. They are dropping this issue like a hot potatoe because there is no acceptable answer to the problem.
"Low levels of nuclear radiation from the Fukushima disaster were detected in bluefin tuna off the California coast in May of this year, suggesting that fish are carrying the contaminants across the Pacific Ocean faster than wind or water. US researchers carried out a study showing the tuna were responsible for transporting radionuclides from the 2011 Fukushima disaster across the entire North Pacific Ocean."
SP: Mighty speedy tuna and certainly Kamikaze Charlie Tuna is guilty as charged.
Can someone please direct me to a site where I can learn the basics of nuclear energy regarding power plants and dangers? I read the articles here and I don't understand the measurements/doses yet. I'm trying to figure all this out and obviously I don't have a clue as to the horrific details of all this but I want to know so I can have myself and family as prepared as possible for whatever lies down the road.
The basics of radiation, part one, addresses the basic concepts of radiation and an introduction to the subject. The following videos will discuss different types of radiation, as well as different uses and tools associated with and about radiation.
The current video line up should be as follows:
Part One – Introduction and Basic Concepts
Part Two – Alpha and Beta Decay
Part Three – Gamma and X-Ray
Part Four – Sources of Radiation (Cosmic, Man made, Natural)
Part Five – How to use a Geiger counter
this is antiprotons who has done some great videos on explaining the nature of radiation.. all for free! great guy imo
and when you get through them theres about 13 videos in english that were desicned to inform the residents of fukushima about radiation too.. this is a really good resource as well
Thanks for the link Arc. There is some good information on the vids I watched and would certainly be useful to gain a basic knowledge of radiation. But there are also some parts where the information could be better.
He has radiation source buttons which would be illegal for anyone to own that does not have a licence. So i assume he works or studies at a University with a nuclear program. If that is true he has mostly a theoretical base for his knowledge but very little practical experience. And that is what I see with the video about using a Geiger counter. Good information generally but not completely correct.
YOu can buy them for about $50 a piece from SpectrumTechniques.com. Both private folks, like me, and the government buy them.
The NRC allows you to own small amounts, legally, and without a license. I have spent many long hours on the phone and writing to the NRC to keep myself in good legal standing with them. I even thought about a license, but they told me (in writing) that I am square with them (they said it better).
If you want tiny check source, you can go buy one. The activities of the sources and VERY low and they are quite safe. Don't walk around with one in your pocket or sleep with one, etc, and your fine.
Remember: Your smoke alarm has 9/10 the radioactivity of one of my most powerful check sources… Do you own a smoke alarm?
(smoke alarm = 0.7 to 0.9 uCi vs. check sources from 0.1 to 1 uCi)
Kudankulam nuclear power plant – Russians want to avoid liability
"..Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is now querying the Department of Atomic Energy about liability and who will pay if there is a mishap at the Kudankulam NPP. It doesn’t help nuclear proponents that Prime Minister Singh is also India’s Minister for Atomic Energy.
Needless to say, everyone involved with the Kudankulam NPP has been furiously backpedaling from the issue of liability….. All of this loose talk about liability has officials at Atomstroieksport, the Russian Federation's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, increasingly worried. Its not like business is booming – in 2011 the company’s net losses doubled from their 2010 rate to $469 million. So, hardly surprisingly, Russian Atomstroieksport officials, who also built Iran’s controversial Bushehr NPP, have their fingers crossed that the Indian government will not saddle them with liability for the Kudankulam NPP, which could cause yet more oceans of red ink to wash across their books…."
UNR program helps those exposed to radiation testing in 1950s and 1960s,
"..The Nevada RESEP Program offers Nevadans exposed to radiation no cost
medical screenings. This screening program also provides education on
cancer and illnesses related to exposure to nuclear radiation.
In addition, the Nevada RESEP program assists individuals in applying
for compensation through the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation
Act. Under this act, eligible Nevadans who have had cancer or other
radiogenic illnesses may receive up to $75,000 in compensation.
The University of Nevada School of Medicine is the only institution to
offer free cancer screening clinics to Nevada residents exposed to
radiation from above ground nuclear testing and is able to do so
because of a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
grant, now in its seventh year. Under the direction of Thomas J. Hunt,
M.D., associate professor at the School of Medicine, screening and
diagnostic services facilitating early detection of cancers and other
health hazards associated with radiation are offered at the Family
Medicine Center in Las Vegas and at clinics periodically held in
various locations throughout Nevada….."
Dear Arclight,
Thank you so much for all your hard work
I found this today and welcome 'Downwinders' to ENENews.
Aloha.
"The big problem with the RECA Amendments bill is that it was introduced without a price tag on it. We calculated the downwinder portion alone would cost $57 billion and that doesn't include medical benefits – see how at footnote 40 here. Taking into account also the uranium and test site worker's benefits, the bill might cost U.S. taxpayers one or two hundred billion dollars! Considering how 99% of Americans have no idea what a 'downwinder' is and the state of our economy, it doesn't seem likely that our elected representatives will vote for such a large payout, no matter how badly it is deserved, anytime soon. So, Michelle Thomas is right. It is doubtful that a weapons ban or additional compensation is coming any time soon. How will Americans' representatives in their Congress appreciate the humanitarian value of this bill if they themselves are ignorant of their own history? How many of them really know the plight of U.S. downwinders, or even their own exposures or risk for genetic damage? Education is a very good suggestion in lieu of a bill that is weighed down by an invisible price tag."
con't:
Time restrictions under Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2010:
Claimants in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Utah need to prove they lived there 2 years between January 21, 1951, and ending on October 31, 1958 or in July 1962 [but what a 31 days it was!: chart]. Claimants in New Mexico need to prove they lived there 2 years between January 21, 1951, and ending on October 31, 1958, or in July 1962, or for the period beginning on June 30, 1945, and ending on July 31, 1945. Claimants in Guam need to prove they lived there for a period of at least 2 years between June 30, 1946, and ending on August 19, 1958 (August 18, 1958 was the last Pacific nuclear test ('Fig') conducted on Enewetak or Bikini Atoll since testing there begin in June 1946) or for the period beginning on April 25, 1962, and ending on November 5, 1962. (The 1962 timeframes corresponds with aboveground nuclear testing on Christmas and Johnston Islands that (after a hiatus from two nuclear 1958 tests) re-commenced on April 25, 1962 and ended on November 4, 1962). (Note that the Argus series over the South Atlantic Ocean was carried out on August 27 and 30 and September 6, 1958).
This was quite the terrifying video. Is the US trying to decimate the west? I met a few weeks ago, my first down-winder victim. She is from Southern Utah and she has absolutely horrible memory problems among other things.
How can the world have tested so many nuclear bombs in a 50 year span and not think there would be some residual effects?
I had no idea there have been so many tests.
Dear CBuck,
Yes, you are right. Although it is absolutely terrifying, this video visually drives this difficult truth 'home'. Please give my aloha to your 'Downwinder' friend and encourage him/her to read ENENews.
Learning you've been deceived is one of the most challenging human experiences. Keep reading and sharing ENENews.
Welcome
Radioactive Spent Fuel Containing Bomb-Grade Uranium Arriving at SRS
By Thomas Clements | Aug 09, 2012
A secretive shipment of radioactive spent research reactor fuel containing highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Germany is soon to arrive at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina, where it will be indefinitely stored. The shipment is likely to be transiting the Naval Weapons Station in Charleston, South Carolina.
The nuclear transport ship Oceanic Pintail departed the German port of Nordenham on July 25, believed to be carrying spent fuel from two German research reactors. The shipment of 25 assemblies from the FRG-1 reactor and 33 assemblies from the BER-2 reactor are reported by German media to be on the ship, with the casks in one shipping container. It has also been reported that a plutonium-beryllium radiation source from former East Germany is on board, though the purpose of this source and why it would be brought to the United States is unknown.
At SRS, the spent fuel would be taken to the old L-Reactor, where such research reactor fuel is stored in the pool, or basin, at the shuttered reactor.
Melvin R. (Mel) Buckner, North Augusta, S.C.
Letter: TVA should approve use of MOX fuel
Posted August 8, 2012 at 6:51 p.m.
Melvin R. (Mel) Buckner, North Augusta, S.C.
A U.S. Department of Energy facility to manufacture mixed oxide fuel (MOX) from weapons plutonium is under construction at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. This facility is being constructed to fulfill a U.S.-Russia disarmament agreement to dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus weapons plutonium in each country — an amount equal to 17,000 nuclear warheads, according to DOE. The Tennessee Valley Authority is considering the feasibility of using some of the MOX beginning in 2018 at two of its nuclear plants, Sequoyah near Chattanooga and Browns Ferry in northern Alabama.
Once plutonium is converted into MOX, it has limited use in making a weapon. MOX has proven to be safe and dependable…
The Obama administration is set this week to formally release a preliminary study into the anticipated ecological effects of operating two nuclear power plants using mixed-oxide fuel derived from nuclear-weapon plutonium, the Chattanooga Times-Free Press reported on Wednesday (see GSN, April 11, 2011).
The analysis, slated for publication in the Federal Register, reviews a proposal to by 2018 begin using MOX fuel to operate the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in Tennessee and the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama.
The News-Courier in Athens, Alabama
July 26, 2012
Browns Ferry could burn controversial fuel in 2018
— In six years, the reactors at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant could begin burning mixed-oxide pellets, a controversial fuel source that could save the Tennessee Valley Authority money while reducing the nation’s supply of weapons-grade plutonium.
TVA’s decision, however, may be determined by a mix of public comments and findings from an environmental impact statement being prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy. The EIS will appear as a draft this week in the Federal Register.
A 60-day written public comment period is expected to begin Friday, to be followed on Sept. 13 with a meeting at Calhoun Community College to gather public input. TVA spokesman Ray Golden said a link to public comment information would be posted to TVA’s website.
“We want to make sure people know (TVA) has made no decision on whether to use MOX. We’re just a cooperating agency in a DOE evaluation process,” he said, adding the fuel would not be used at the Browns Ferry or Sequoyah nuclear plants prior to 2018. “TVA would be willing to use the materials, provided it’s operationally and environmentally safe, economically beneficial to the customers and can be licensed by the NRC.”
TVA speculates the fully implemented use of MOX could supply low-cost fuel for two decades.
TVA has been discussing the possibility of using the fuel since 2009 and had public meetings on the idea in 2010…
Excellent point, Admin. Are the citizens of the United States suddenly motivated to support MOX fuel, or are these simply two examples of a nuclear industry that doesn't even try to hide itself:
Who is Melvin R. (Mel) Buckner, of North Augusta, S.C.?
Page 10 of the following PDF lists member of the "Nuclear Engineering Advisory Board" at the University of South Carolina:
"Nuclear Engineering Advisory Board
George Davis, Chairman, Retired Vice Admiral
Nick Liparulo, Vice President, Westinghouse Electric Company
Melvin Buckner, University Programs Coordinator, Westinghouse Savannah River Site
Michael Tuckman, Executive VP, Chief Nuclear Officer, Duke Energy"
DOE seeks input on Mox fuel
By Ed Marcum
Posted July 28, 2012 at 4 a.m.
The Department of Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority on Friday started a public input process on the proposed recycling of nuclear weapons into nuclear power plant fuel, and already there are objections.
The National Nuclear Security Administration, a part of the DOE, posted notice on the Federal Register that DOE will hold a 60-day public comment period on its Draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. The document analyzes the potential environmental impacts of different methods of disposing of plutonium from nuclear weapons.
Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Draft Environmental Document being Issued by Department of Energy; Meeting to be Held in N. Augusta on September 4
By Thomas Clements | Jul 26, 2012
Soaring costs of the plutonium disposition program and failure to identify reactors to use the MOX product have caused increased congressional oversight, including a cut by the House of Representatives of $169 million of the $888 million Fiscal Year 2013 budget request for plutonium disposition. The Senate is yet to act. While DOE refuses to reveal an overall life-cycle cost for the MOX program, ANA estimates that about $17.5 billion is yet to be spent on the MOX program and that the 34 metric tons of plutonium could be disposed of as waste at a far lower price tag.
A 60-day comment period on the draft document begins on July 27 and the dates for public meetings, which ANA urges citizens to participate in, are as follows:
August 21, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Holiday Inn Express, 60 Entrada Drive, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544
August 23, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe, 3347 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507
August 28, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Pecos River Village Conference Center, 711 Muscatel Drive, Carlsbad, NM 88220….(more)…
EPA Helpless to Stop Further Pollution at Major Superfund Site
By Joseph Trento, on July 13th, 2012
National Security News Service |
NNSA to Resume Plutonium Separation at the Savannah River Site’s H Canyon for MOX Fuel
Aiken, S.C. – Just as the Department of Energy touts the closing and capping of two nuclear waste storage tanks this summer in its brimming H Tank Farm – the result of hundreds of millions of dollars in Recovery Act funds – the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released a statement on July 11, 2012, that proposes to use the crumbling and problem-plagued 430,000-square-foot H Canyon to process tons of weapons grade plutonium, sending additional high level nuclear waste to the H Tank Farm that was supposed to be cleaned up and shuttered. This process will add to the tens of millions of gallons of highly radioactive liquid waste that have made the Savannah River Site, an EPA Superfund site, the most concentrated and dangerous radioactive site in the United States.
NNSA will take some of the tons of weapons grade plutonium stored in the old K Reactor at SRS and, according to SRS spokesman James Giusti, “it will prepare Pu oxide for use in MOX to its requirements.” The DOE is constructing a problem-plagued mixed oxide fuel plant, the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility, with the French-government-owned contractor Areva, to turn surplus weapons grade plutonium into a kind of high octane civilian nuclear reactor fuel. http://www.dcbureau…
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Often mistaken for nuclear waste, the spent fuel that's left in a power reactor after the production of electricity is valuable and plentiful. But in our blindness to the enormous energy potential of uranium and plutonium in the 70,000 tons of spent fuel that the Department of Energy says is stored at nuclear power plants in the United States — 1,500 tons in Tennessee alone — we are missing an opportunity to recycle nuclear materials into clean energy.
While the cost to produce nuclear-generated electricity, on average, is less than power from a natural gas or coal plant, it might be even cheaper if the reactor fuel were made from a combination of uranium and plutonium. Such is the case in a number of European and Asian countries that extract nuclear materials from spent fuel and chemically reprocess them to produce a so-called mixed-oxide fuel known as "MOX." The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration says that about 30 power reactors in countries like France, Belgium and Great Britain now make use of MOX to generate electricity.
Isn't any way of producing electricity that makes places on this beautiful planet uninhabitable and creates genetic transmutations(cancer/death) the worst scientific mistake ever?
Thanks Justme, I hope that many of us at Enenews can comment during the United States Department of Energy "public comment" period and attend their meetings (the list was cut off above–2 are in New Mexico):
A 60-day comment period on the draft document begins on July 27 and the dates for public meetings, which ANA urges citizens to participate in, are as follows:
August 21, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Holiday Inn Express, 60 Entrada Drive, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544
August 23, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe, 3347 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507
August 28, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Pecos River Village Conference Center, 711 Muscatel Drive, Carlsbad, NM 88220
September 4, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) North Augusta Municipal Center, 100 Georgia Avenue, North Augusta, South Carolina 29841
September 11, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Chattanooga Convention Center, 1150 Carter Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402
September 13, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Calhoun Community College, Decatur Campus, Aerospace Building, 6250 Highway 31 North, Tanner, AL 35671
Agency claims Monju can withstand monster quake
Jiji
FUKUI — The Japan Atomic Energy Agency believes its Monju fast-breeder reactor would be safe even if peak ground acceleration amid a huge quake exceeded original estimates by more than 1.86 times.
The agency provided the figure Tuesday at a meeting of experts assessing its proposal to check the reactor's safety in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, in light of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The unit, if not idled, would use highly enriched plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel.
It is now time to start talking about explosions and more importantly, evacuations. Everyone knows now that relocation will be required.
Should there be a central on and offline communication center/webpage to begin putting large numbers of evacuees together with willing individuals/corporations/embassies/etc?
How we will pay for it? Ad space?
How about counseling/anger management/riot control situations?
Also religious/nondenominational/spiritual support for the grieving?
Volunteer coordination/donation of medical services/skills sites
I know it sounds like a lot but there is going to be a panic and if we're ahead of the nonsense Enenews can help coordinate a focal point. Think Hurricane Katrina planning/coordination multiplied by a hundred thousand in terms of needs assessment.
(To HOTR I am very sorry. My temper is getting away with me again)
i think that the local ngo`s are already on the case.. likely VERY quietly so as to avoid the wrath of the government.. thats how things have been working in japan for the past year..
there are loads of issues, legaly, to overcome .. likely if anything further happens at daichi some emergency laws could be past.. but the government will not entertain evacuation, so no plans can be made..
however citizens are better prepared and safecast should give an immediate location of fallout allowing people time to decide whether to sit in place or move..
the people of fukushima and sorrounds are prepared better if something happens.. any ngo derived evacuation plans would be TOP SECRET, not to be discussed sort of thing.. hope they have done such a plan as that might be useful..
but you are right .. its a nightmare, worsened by government intransigence and we in the west may yet need to help with accomadation etc.. and enenews, exskf, fukushima diary, fairewinds, nuclear-news.net and all the blog newscasters will ensure word gets out if that need arises.. handy having an alternative press
as an aside red cross japan, christian aid, save the children and many others are working in japan (all be it under government close supervision) and have some vast resources they could pull on if the need arises and they were given permission to move as they would like..
hear you on the anger thing.. i use the anger to keep moving as an activist and do my little…
The international atomic energy Dr. Frankensteins determine the nuclear plant (not Fukushima) closest to the Great Eastern Earthquake came through the quake "remarkably undamaged"
SP: Little subnote also… "The IAEA mission's objective was to observe how safety structures, systems and components responded to the heavy shaking, which was not possible to study at Fukushima Daiichi because of the damage."
SP: Damage? No… I think you mean because Fukushima Daiichi is still too damn radioactive to examine! Try again in about 500 years.
Urged by concerned residents to put some power behind their position, Laguna Beach’s City Council Tuesday toughened up their wording and unanimously supported a resolution calling for shutting down the San Onofre Nuclear Power Station south of San Clemente. Council member Kelly Boyd was absent.
The decision preceded two mild earthquakes centered in Yorba Linda that shook south Orange County. The power plant sits near the Oceanside fault line and new quake studies are planned to begin in November, according to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which is conducting the study for the plant’s operator, Southern California Edison.
SP: I saw a butterfly today and thought how seldom I have seen any in the past 40 years. As a young child the butterflies were abundant. So what is the difference today? Man's toxic poisons in many forms. It has practically made butterflies extinct. We are next.
Pertinent section: "After the catch was unloaded, samples were taken to a nearby lab, to which the Guardian was granted rare access. Staff dressed in white overalls, masks, hats and gloves sliced octopus tentacles into chunks, then wrapped them in plastic to be taken into an adjoining room for testing.
On this occasion, as on every other day since fishing in Soma resumed at the end of June, the two radiation-measuring devices in the lab revealed not even the slightest trace of radioactive iodine-131, and caesium-134 and -137. In March, the government introduced stricter acceptable radiation levels in seafood, increased from 500 becquerels per kilo to 100 becquerels."
SP: There you have it! Everything perfect now according to the journalist. Not the slightest trace of radioactivity.
Dear Heart of the Rose,
"The following report has been distributed by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, as a result of renwewed interest in French nuclear testing in the South Pacific. It is an updated version of Chapter 9 from the book "Radioactive Heaven and Earth: the health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, in, on, and above the earth."(New York, Apex Press, 1991) It is one of the few published sources for information on this subject, and reveals that although only limited environmental impact reports have been conducted in French Polynesia,and despite restrictions imposed by the French, they still highlight the threat to the environment in the Pacific posed by the French nuclear testing programme."
Dear Heart of the Rose,
From the Greenpeace archives: "This led them to conclude that in its natural state the Atoll is as "leaky as a sieve". Moreover, they also point out that the thermal energy from nuclear detonations will also force circulation patterns tending to accelerate the movement of radionuclides upwards. On the further assumption that the nuclear tests had produced considerable fracturing of the atoll structure…"
'Nuclear Tests in French Polynesia: Could Hazards Arise?'
"The evaluation was also not to assess the radiation exposure of workers involved at the time in the execution of the nuclear weapon testing activities. It is not feasible to verify independently individual workers' exposures after the exposure has taken place. The IAEA can monitor individual occupational exposures but only if it is requested to do so prior to exposure. It should be noted, however, that the international practice is to assign the responsibility of monitoring occupational exposures to the employers…"
"The Study’s evaluation of residual radioactive materials with which people could come into contact found that radionuclide concentrations on the atoll’s surfaces and in the surrounding seas — with four exceptions — are similar to or below those found elsewhere in the region where no nuclear weapons testing took place. The four exceptions are listed below:
several kilograms of plutonium resulting from four early atmospheric tests remain in the lagoon sediments of each atoll…"
"This paper looks at seven cases in which nuclear energy and trade is an issue. These seven cases include: IRANNUKE, ARCTIC, MOCHO, JAPANSEA, JAPANPL, CHERNOBYL, and TEMELIN. These cases are similar in that they all consider the legal, commercial, environmental, and cultural implications of nuclear energy."
"The United States has also demonstrated its concern about France's nuclear testing in the MURUROA case but the countries most worried about these tests are South Pacific nations like Micronesia, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand which are located near the island of Mururoa."
"The MURUROA case, surprisingly, is the only case in which culture is viewed as a significant factor. In this case, culture is important because the testing may destroy culture. Culture may also be a factor in the dispute because the conflict may also be seen as a conflict of cultural perceptions."
"The MURUROA case involves trans-border issues because the testing will have implications far from the island of Mururoa."
Keep reading ENENews. It's not easy I know, but the comaderie here helps us all assimilate the lies, deception and dreadful state we are now in. My inconceivable meter …
In memory, honor, and reflection on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the website "unwelcome guests" broke this week with its usual economic study and investigation. It offers both its 1-hr (2 hrs total) audio files on nuclear weapons: (the people of the Marshall Islands featuring Holly Barker, and Nevada testing featuring M.T. Silvia). "Nuclear Victims in Peace and War" at http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/616.
I don't think I got around to posting earlier John Hersey's "Hiroshima" read aloud in a quality made-for-radio program, so here's the link: (about 50 min). http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/83091
hmm yummy!
the thread has just been renewed if you want to repost!!
for the ancient romans lead was the poison that destroyed their society ( no central heating for nearly 2000 years! OMG!)
"..Our Web site will undergo scheduled maintenance from 8pm ET on Sunday, August 19, 2012 to 6am ET on Monday, August 20, 2012. During this time, you may find that our web pages are slow to load or that certain applications are not working. We apologize for any inconvenience…"
i will try later but you should check to see if the article is still there and it is the same?
luv from a paranoid lemming
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For Nuclear Power This Summer, It's Too Darn Hot:
Excellent informative peace about drought effects on NPPs and their prospects in a changing climate
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10707-for-nuclear-power-this-summer-its-too-darn-hot
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A thermodynamic principle states that when transferring heat do it at the highest temperature. When rejecting heat do it at the lowest temperature. Rejecting heat is what the cooling towers and water heat sinks do. As the heat sink increases in temperature the nuclear cycle becomes more inefficient causing the reactors to increase their capacity to generate a given power.
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"…Minor amputation after radiography incident
27 July 2012
A Peruvian radiographer has lost part of a finger after working with an unshielded iridium-192 source. The event is classified a 'serious incident' at Level 3 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES).
Details were made public this week by the International Atomic Energy Agency upon receiving the INES report from Peruvian authorities.
On 12 January the radiographer used a 31,995 GBq iridium-192 source to examine pipes, but was unaware that the radioactive source was unshielded. During the course of the job, the radiographer adjusted the collimator – which narrows the beta and gamma radiation emitted by the source – some 20-40 times. On ten occasions the radiographer directly touched the tip of the collimator, where the source was actually located.
The serious lapse in safety was only noticed at the end of the job, by which time the radiographer was beginning to experience nausea and vomiting that lasted several hours. Five days later the finger showed blistering, and part was later amputated at France's Percy military hospital.
Two assistants felt nauseous after the job and are currently under observation. The radiographer has returned to Peru, said the INES report, and is in good general health….."
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Minor_amputation_after_radiography_incident_2707122.html
a pro nuke version
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hers some news from belgium
a bit slow but definate!!
Closure dates for Belgian units
23 July 2012
"..The Belgian government has announced the complete schedule for the forced closure of the country's nuclear power plants, claiming that the move will "create a favourable investment climate" to replace the 50% of domestic power supply that stands to be lost.
Political shutdown dates for four reactors were announced at the end of last week, complimenting those for three units announced on 4 July. Together they will see all the Belgian units close between 2015 and 2025, roughly in line with their 40th anniversaries, despite a previously determined policy that operation of older units to 50 years was in the country's best interests. Only one unit, Tihange 1, is permitted to operate to 50 years of age; an exception made specifically to avoid blackouts, said the government.
The government said that it had rewritten the 2003 law on nuclear energy so that its current stance could not be changed by decree, and therefore the timing of the phase-out "is now final." This certainty "should create a favourable investment climate which will allow us to gradually phase out nuclear power," it said.,,,"
list of shutdowns here…
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP_Closure_dates_for_Belgian_units_2307121.html
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Hiroshima marks 67th anniversary of A-bomb attack
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-08-05/japan-hiroshima/56813454/1
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor Testimony:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aduV5IiccTA
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This was brought up awhile back, but they actually introduced a legislative bill on this…
All hail the great legacy of nuclear, you may raise any limb that is functional…
America's Nuclear Sites Could Become National Parks
New legislation has been introduced to Congress that could make three sites that played a vital role in creating America's nuclear weapons program during World War II into national parks. If passed, the legislation would provide resources to preserve the sites and make them accessible to visitors for the first time.
The earliest vote on the legislation could come later this week. If the bill is eventually passed, and the locations do indeed become parks, the emphasis will be on their significance in American history and not the glorification of nuclear weapons. It is true that the Manhattan Project managed to create the world's first atomic bombs but perhaps more importantly it also helped to usher the U.S. onto the world stage as a post-war superpower.
http://www.gadling.com/2012/08/05/americas-nuclear-sites-could-become-national-parks/
I can see Mr. Teller turning to Mr. Einstein and saying,"And when we are all done destroying this area, in fifty years we can turn them into national parks, for the children to enjoy!"
precious plutonium…
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Making Nuclear Weapons The Savannah River Site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQx8oM4qEA4
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A little jump back in time about MOX and Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/greenpeace-protests-departure-of-mox-while-financial-terrorism-against-the-group-escalates
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Why listen to Greenpeace when we can have MOX? (and death)
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I have a request to make.
You might have already heard about her but there is a lady in Aomori, Japan who is resisting to sell her house and land which is situated within the Ooma future NNP site. She is the only person, the last person who is digging her heel to stop the NPP from being operational. What a heroine she is!! If you can, I would like you to send her a postcard so that the road leading to her house will not be closed because postman has to travel there to deliver her mails.
Ms Asako Ogasawara's address is:-
Asako House, 396 Okkoppe, Oomamachi, Shimokitagun, Aomori, 039-4601, Japan
Please spread the word and if you can send her weekly, monthly postcard (or whenever you feel like), that would be great
Many thanks
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Yahoo is Collaborating with the Ministry of the Environment to Promote Wide Area Disaster Debris Disposal
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/08/yahoo-japan-collaborating-with-ministry.html
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@Heart: this should be brought to the attention of admin. Keep in mind, YAHOO is now owned by DISNEY/ABC. Next question (in this trail of tears), who owns them? Thanks Heart…
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Very tricky question, AFTERSHOCK, and the trail is not for the faint of heart.
Start here:
http://www.muckety.com/Query?name=disney&prev=disney&SearchResult=5007802&SearchResult=5002035&SearchResult=5003007&SearchResult=5007963&SearchResult=5003369&SearchResult=5003194&graph=MucketyMap
Pick any arbitrary branch. For example, here's one that caught my eye: "Eisner joins IAC/Interactive board. Michael Eisner, former head of Walt Disney Company, has been elected to the IAC/Interactive board of directors." which led to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_%28company%29
which led to:
"IAC owns several companies and websites, among these are:
Aereo
Ask.com
Ask Kids
Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Reference.com
Life123
CityGrid Media
Mindspark Interactive Network
IWon
Retrogamer.com
Excite
MyFunCards
Card Boiled
Zwinky
GirlSense
DailyBurn
Match.com
Chemistry.com
People Media
OurTime.com
BlackPeopleMeet.com
SeniorPeopleMeet.com
SinglePeopleMeet.com
LoveandSeek.com
BBPeopleMeet.com
Singlesnet.com
OkCupid
ServiceMagic
CollegeHumor
Jest
Dorkly
Sportspickle.com
Notional
Newsweek / The Daily Beast
Electus
dumbdumb
DiGa
Pronto
Proust.com
Shoebuy.com
Bagsbuy.com
CozyBoots.com
Vimeo
Hatch Labs"
… and on and on.
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@aigeezer: you were precisely the individual, I was thinking would best be able to answer this question. But I didn't want to call of your excellent abilities. Which gets me to wondering, where's the nuclear connection? There has to be one…
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Thanks, AS, but I think this one would take an army to probe thoroughly. Speaking of armies, one of the Disney links took me to "the US Department of Defense" – no idea what those implications are. It could be as simple as making training films. Please try the following. Seriously!
1. Pick this starting point:
http://www.muckety.com/Query?name=disney&prev=disney&SearchResult=5007802&SearchResult=5002035&SearchResult=5003007&SearchResult=5007963&SearchResult=5003369&SearchResult=5003194&graph=MucketyMap
2. Double click on "American Forces Information Services" in the upper right hand area. The grid of connections will rearrange itself.
3. Double click on "US Department of Defense" in the middle left hand area of the new grid. The grid will rearrange itself again.
My head hurts.
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@aigeezer: doubtless, the connection's gonna be found through the ABC connection…
BTW. muckety's a cool site…
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Good advice, AFTERSHOCK. When I query "ABC" with Muckety, I get (among other things) a list of people with the surname "Babcock" and some companies including "Babcock and Wilcox". I can't find how they are connected to ABC though – I see no obvious connection so I don't know why they appear in an "ABC" search. Anybody know?
This is either a total red herring or an easy catch (Babcock and Wilcox are big nuke players).
One Muckety chart suggests the link may be only that they have used the same law firm (lobby firm), "K&L Gates", whose clients include CBS, Halliburton, and Goldman Sachs among many other household names.
http://www.klgates.com/aboutus/xpqGC.aspx?xpST=AboutUsGeneral&key=6da74838-24f7-4c6d-962d-9276d45a3e12&activeEntry=7ac14b3e-400e-4efc-be60-c7b7447809d0
http://www.muckety.com/Query?name=abc&prev=abc&SearchResult=5002218&graph=MucketyMap&SearchResult=5033434
Nothing obvious – no link from ABC to nuke – but there is a ton of detail to wade through. It may be in front of my nose and I'm not seeing it or there may be nothing to find.
The directorship of Babcock and Wilcox shows major networking to Big Energy and the military – not surprising, but that's a story for another day.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=236851&p=irol-govBoard
You give tough homework assignments, AFTERSHOCK.
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hi guys! found this…
"DALLAS (AP) — Flowserve Corp., which makes flow-control products for the oil and gas industries, said Monday that Michael S. Taff is its new chief financial officer and senior vice president.
Richard J. Guiltinan, the company's current senior vice president, finance and chief accounting officer, plans to retire next year.
Taff will formally join the company after completing consulting duties with his former employer by early next year. The 49-year-old executive, most recently served as senior vice president and chief financial officer for The Babcock & Wilcox Co."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/flowserve-names-cfo-151939608.html
and this
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Babcock-Wilcox-announced-last-theflyonthewall-156341842.html
going from the nuke industry to the oil industry.. thought they were competitors?
the main oil corporations have been well connected with the WPP group of companies.. mainly PR for governments with a hand in all media outlets that need advertising revenue to operate.. the income from advertising can be up to 100 percent of a papers/tv stations income..
ogikvy and maher are the main culprit and they have been using dentsu to make adverts and campaigns to eat radioactive food and distribute waste..
and OM are big with Japan today..
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/govt-claims-public-support-for-plan-to-distribute-tsunami-debris-throughout-japan
read comments!
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Yahoo Japan Shares Fall On E-Mail Privacy Inquiry: Tokyo Mover
By Shunichi Ozasa and Naoko Fujimura – Jun 25, 2012
Yahoo Japan will start using a program in August that automatically detects key words in e-mails, said Asuka Isayama, a spokeswoman for the Tokyo-based web-portal operator. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications plans to ask Yahoo Japan about the service, said Noriyuki Morisato, a deputy director at the telecommunications consumer policy division, confirming an earlier report by the Yomiuri newspaper.
“We’ve been notifying users of our plan to introduce the service since the end of May, and we will also offer an option to opt out,” Yahoo Japan’s Isayama said. “So we don’t think there’s a problem.”
Morisato declined to comment on whether the service violates privacy laws…"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-25/yahoo-japan-falls-on-report-of-e-mail-privacy-probe-tokyo-mover.html
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and dentsu, part of WPP ogilvey maher group of companies
work with
"..The joint venture with Tokyo's Softbank Corporation was called Cyber Communications Inc., or CCI. CCI planned to buy and resell advertising space on the Internet and to help develop and deploy Internet technology in Japan…"
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/dentsu-inc-history/
so ogilvey and maher who have japan today etc in their pockets also have japan yahoo inc…..
dont for get that japan is bringing draconian copyright legislation in to silence the alternative media in october.. anyone downloading ANY copyright material could find themselves in jail in japan.. and the download means "through the browser" too//
this network of companies should ensure a busy prison population.. takes propaganda to a new level…
so exskf is right to suspect dentsu but thats just the start of the trail… covered that trail here on enenews already, as you know..
no protests about the japanese change in copyright law? the japanese yahoo connection might also be the reason for yahoo usa wanting to break from yahoo japan.. as YJ is set to impress even the ghost of goebbels soon!
operation mindshare entering its final phase?
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Internet giant Yahoo has been condemned over plans to snoop on emails in a 'blatant intrusion of privacy'.
The US company provides an email service for thousands of Britons, including children, who will assume that the system is completely private.
~>>>..*At the same time, the firm will also be able to spy on incoming emails from individuals and businesses without permission or warning.
The company has suggested that it is up to customers to warn family, friends, businesses and others who send them email that these may be viewed by Yahoo's computers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2012013/Yahoo-condemned-plans-snoop-emails-behalf-advertisers.html
…spying on e-mails from different providers as long as you communicate with a yahoo e-mail account.
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"Against the Grain" informative interview today with Kristin Schrader-Frechett, scientist and author, (about 50 min).
Show notes: Frechett "contests those claims, (that nuclear is solution re carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases); she also discusses the financial costs of nuclear energy, the risks to human health it poses, the perils of industry-funded science, and the contours of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster."
The description of points she covers is much longer than the show notes indicate.
Interview at http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/586/coming-tues-80712. (Interview title = "Nuclear Clouds and Facts".
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hi maggie
this is a brilliant interview! i hope everyone listens to it! she really knows her stuff and is clear speaking.. wow!
many thanks for highlighting it!
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I think were being fed.
Blurd photos & video, non existent video, guns & shooting reactors, etc. I think the real story is the Mushrooms, Kelloggs, Sea food, yoi know the consumption of radioactive food. No containment has been addressed. Continuous increases in radiation increases, and no accurate reliable government agency has spoken.
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Typos on smart phone waiting on kids, screen got hot while charging.
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Here's a bit of info, that might line up with someone else's findings…
Cracks discovered at Russian graphite-moderated nuclear plant
06 August 2012 by Laura Syrett
Malformations at Leningrad reactor lead to indefinite shutdown
A Russian nuclear facility shut down one of its reactors after swelling and cracks appeared in the graphite used to moderate the reactor, Swedish language daily Hufvudstadsbladet reported on Friday.
The defects at the No 1 reactor at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP), which is operated by Russia’s state nuclear energy company Rosenergoatom, were apparently discovered in May when it was switched off for routine maintenance.
But the plant’s problems have only just been reported in Russia’s state media, according to the Norwegian energy paper, Bellona.
http://www.indmin.com/Article/3071616/Channel/19523/Cracks-discovered-at-Russian-graphite-moderated-nuclear-plant.html
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Design flaws at the two new Vogtle nuclear reactors under construction gets lukewarm response from the NRC:
http://m.chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-08-06/stronger-concrete-might-resolve-deficient-vogtle-rebar
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some sleuthing from alex jones on al-quada and err some connections to the usa etc military!
"..Senior Council on Foreign Relations fellow Ed Husain has hailed the presence of Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria, praising their fighting prowess in aid of FSA rebels while also lauding the increasing number of successful bombings carried out by Al-Qaeda fighters.
In case you didn't get the memo — Al-Qaeda — the same group the United States accuses of carrying out the most devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history, is now our ally in Syria.
Terrorist attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda in Syria are inherently moral and good. Down is the new up…"
mentions radiation george monbiot and anne coulter in the same sentence…!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVx3VbLag8k&feature=player_embedded#!
definitely reads enenews!
like!
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Cuba has nuclear armed missiles pointed at the United States right now. Want to read that again?
Russia supplied the nuclear weapons to Cuba recently(Cuba & Russia signed a military agreement) because Putin claims the U.S. has broken the START TREATY. Putin threatens to use these nuclear missiles on american soil if the U.S. gets involved in the Israel/Iran conflict. Russia has 2,700 NUCLEAR WARHEADS(that is reported; they may have more).Russia has proclaimed they will defend Iran which translates into they will fight the USA on american ground. They also have military ships and warplanes stationed near California as they have been preforming "joint" military excercises with the US.
The eastern war arena has expanded as India and China now have warships in the waters near Cyprus (where Israel has a new military base). India, China & Iran among others signed the Shangrala military agreement with Russia a few months ago.
Both people the americans have as choices for president have proclaimed they will support Israel in the upcoming conflict.
I suggest everyone build a bomb shelter, this is going to be the "big" one.
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Quote Insight "Cuba has nuclear armed missiles pointed at the United States right now"
Hi Insight ,
You got a link to backup that claim pls ?
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Hi DisasterInterperpretationDissorder…
I read it in a Russian newspaper, the Pravda.
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/01-08-2012/121804-russia_army_base-0/
Here is an informative link to the same info.
http://www.infowars.com/report-russia-moves-nuclear-missiles-to-cuba/
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Did you check out the link that shows Moscow is completing 5,000 new bomb shelters to evacuate its citizens in a few minutes to be ready at the end of 2012?
And what is the US doing to protect people?
Experts believe North Korea has missiles that can hit the West Coast.
Experts are especially concerned about the possibility that Iran one day could launch ship-based nuclear missiles, said Brian Kennedy, president of The Claremont Institute's Ballistic Missile Defense Project.
"The West Coast of the U.S. has limited missile defense against a North Korean missile," Kennedy said. "And, unfortunately, we're almost completely vulnerable to a ship-launched ballistic missile attack."
Kennedy is also concerned a ship-launched nuclear missile detonated at a high altitude would create an electromagnetic pulse, possibly destroying electronic equipment and knocking out the nation's power grid – leaving the country with little or no communications and no ability to provide food and water to potentially hundreds of millions of people.
Congressional reports suggest such an attack could result in more than 100 million deaths in a year, said Sharon Packer, executive director of the American Civil Defense Association.
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@Insight: if you were really concerned with the welfare of the American people, you'd dig a little deeper and let us know who's really behind this planned destruction of the United States. Those in the know, already are aware of these threats and have been since their inception. What's really important is why the American are being lined-up for the slaughter house. It's only when you know the cause that you can avoid the disease…
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You are asking who the United States will be fighting? Ok, I will tell you what I believe will happen. I believe when the war starts with Israel, the South China Sea military confrontation(disputes over ownership of islands with oil rich reserves and the right of passage in South China Sea waters) will ignite. To ensure the U.S.’ maritime strength in the Asia-Pacific and to protect smaller countries that need free access to trade routes/resources in the sea, the US will be fighting China, Russia, Vietnam, North Korea and India. If the U.S. controls the sea lanes and energy lifelines, it will actually control the lifeline of China's sustainable economic development and control trade between India and Russia in that area as well. During this confrontation I believe North Korea/China will nuke Japan and the west coast of the USA. Because Okinawa is within the range of China, U.S. military forces have recently relocated 8,000 military men to Guam making them just out of range. This war will happen and the US is preparing for it. The U.S.’ west coast indigenous aircraft carriers(from San Diego) will be moved to the Asia-Pacific forefront.
The US is paving the road to its own catastrophes.
To support Israel,I think the US will be fighting Russia,China,India,Iran,Jordan,Iraq,Syria,Pakistan and eventually Turkey because they depend on Russia for energy and will see the US will probably not win this war against so many powerful nations.
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Hi Insight
I believe there will be a day when the US will not support or come to the aid of defending Israel.
US might be to busy with other things, or maybe they will not want to get involved, or maybe not be able to get involved.
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Or they might not agree with them.(how could I forget that one)
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Hi WindorSolarPlease,
I think about this often and I feel that the USA will start out defending Israel but will be fighting in 2 arenas of war at the same time and will be "hard hit" especially when bombing occurs on american soil. The Obama adminstration has downsized the US military considerably. The american people are not prepared for survival in the midst of chaos. The average citizen would not have a clue as to what to do especially if the news media/internet is shut down. Many will demand to get out of "Israels War" and the US might try to back out or turn sides and actually fight Israel to end the war. I do not believe Russia and China will sign any Peace treaty with the US unless they are the victors. Russia and China are not best friends and are united only for the common cause of the destruction of the USA. Eventually they may clash with each other and with the united muslim nations over control when the US is brought down.
If the NWO ever takes place it will only survive for a "blink" of time because the various nations are so different in their beliefs and desire to control, nothing will hold them together very long.
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@Insight: I can see from your response that you're genuinely concerned with these matters. What's missing from your analysis is why? You'd almost think that the world woke-up one day and decided to attack the US. It's only when you looked into the cause of the threat that you've any chance of avoiding it. Posting threat projections only serves to justify the actions of those who've brought about these dire conditions. It is imperative that you pull-back the curtain and determine – for yourself – who it is that's behind the destruction of the US. Those who are brandishing the swords are only foot soldiers. The real threat is from those who hide behind them…
…have fun!
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We must pull down those curtain's to expose those who wish to destroy our earth.
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@norbu: it was never 'our earth'. We're simply byproducts of this biosphere. What you need to worry more about is not that humans can destroy this planet (they can't) but that they'll develop the means to survive without it…
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The above info is from the LA times article, Preparing for a 'nuclear event'
By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer
it includes….
"The county's efforts to inventory its bomb and fallout shelters follows the recent discovery of a 1975 book by the county's Emergency Preparedness Commission, "Los Angeles County & Cities Public Shelter Directory," which lists 6,200 fallout shelters with a capacity of 14.5 million people.
The shelters, including hundreds in the San Fernando Valley, include the basements and similarly protected areas in places such as hospitals, government buildings, courthouses, post offices, churches, movie studios, parking garages and tunnels. Many businesses are also listed, including McDonald's, J.C. Penney Co. and even a cellar at the Budweiser plant."
Hummm… I do not believe any site listed is prepped with food and water for large numbers of people for an extended time.
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@Insight: that's your response? There are three reasons for not responding to my question: you don't understand it / you don't care to answer it / you're not informed enough to answer it.
One more chance to reveal what you know…
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Hi AFTERSHOCK
Does anyone like the US? I sure hope so.
Not proud enough to say..I am learning and asking dumb questions.
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@WSP: the US is being setup to take the fall for the all that's wrong with this world. The US is a conglomeration of people from every nation in the world. When moderated, that diversity was its greatest strength. If the NWO is to assume the mantle of righteousness with those they intend to rule, they'll need to distance themselves (politically and economically) from the nation that fueled globalism. At first glance, this may seem counter-intuitive. But if the NWO is to cement its authority over the planet, they need to yield-up a fall guy. The very forces that are compelling US militarism are the same parties that are behind the consolidation of the world's resources. Unfortunately, the American people have no idea they're to be offered-up as a blood-sacrifice. For reasons of propriety, the above disclosure is purposely truncated…wink…wink…say no more…
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Hi AFTERSHOCK
There has been times that the US has stuck its nose into things, that was non of their business. Maybe it was part of a plan for us to be disliked being the fall guy, who knows?
Personally, I think confrontations between the big guys, is mostly about profit, power, and ego.
For now, there's to many people in the world for a NWO to be totally set up. They did a bang up job with building monster plants, that could easily wipe out countries, including ours (that's if it hasn't already happened).
I was outside tonight and I could hardly breathe, the air smelled that bad. Outside air used to smell good.
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Your question is a good one WindorSolar.
The US has NATO… NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is an alliance of 28 member countries roughly bordering the North Atlantic Ocean: Canada, U.S., Turkey and most members of the European Union. NATO's purpose is to protect the freedom of its members. As famously defined in Article 5, "…an armed attack upon one…shall be considered an attack upon them all."
Spain, Romania, Poland, Netherlands, Great Britian,Canada, France, Turkey, and Israel are among what I would call friends of the US but personally I think the only country that really cares about/loves the USA is Poland. The other countries tolerate the US for their own agendas. I believe Spain, Turkey and France will not support the US or Israel for very long in the upcoming war.
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Hi Insight
Thank you Insight. I think all the big wigs who run the world just tolerate each other.
I believe most people in all Countries just want peace.
Not sure why this is so hard to do, when we have put people on the moon.
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Hi WindorSolar, You are concerned about being implanted with a chip and I would like to give you a viewpoint you may not have considered.
The "Mark" need not be literal at all, but instead simply an identifying symbolic mark upon the head or forehead to represent the mind, what you believe, your faith, how you think, and in the right hand to represent actions, works, what you do. There is nothing necessitating a physical and visible mark upon the forehead or right hand as in a microchip or tattoo or anything else that a people or government can physically place therein or upon you.
All they may require is an answer to where your allegiance is.
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Hi Insight
Not concerned, just won't do it.
Look down read what we wrote, we were just talking about computer chips that can make you smarter and so on. We went OT a little, but ended it with nuclear power.
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I would not do it either WindorSolar!
I thought it was in reference to the NWO, global government,requirements that will be established at the end of the horrific nuclear global war that is going to start in the very near future.
Just read this morning that Britian and France are getting ready to send battleships to Syria after the Olympics are over. Russia,China,USA,Britian,and India would then all be in that area.
War is coming!
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@aftershock-It is our home, we do not own it you are write. But we are here so we must work together to live in peace and harmony with her.
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@norbu: "…we must work together to live in peace and harmony with her." Nice thought, but from a preponderance of evidence, an unlikely scenario. None-the-less, we'll keep working at it…
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That is all we can do, make a effort everyday.
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Adaptation to the environment is a prerequisite to the survival of a species.
Here is where ..humans are failing..and failing terribly.
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@Heart: "…and failing terribly." is why I support the goals of trans-humanism…
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Hi AFTERSHOCK
I don't want or willing to have a mark or anything in my forehead, or a mark or anything in my hands. No matter how good it sounds.
I looked up trans-humanism not sure if this is correct.
If this is correct..No thank you.
CLICK>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_-sBNQKcQ
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@WSP: that was a fun link. It was obvious that the producers of the video did – some – homework. Unfortunately (but fortunately for the 'movement') they still didn't get why this is happening. Like those before them, they interpret reality through the eyes of humans and attempt to twist its outcome to serve their particular agenda; which in their case is religious dogma. That's the biggest mistake on the part of humans. In fact, that's been the failure of humans as a whole. They thought the world was here for them ("…big cock in the sky said it was so!"), ergo, let's use it up boys! Now (fortunately for all life beyond this world), they've burnt the bridges that would've carried them to the stars. (only had to wait them out!) But fear not, we're here (behind the scenes) to take the remnants of their intelligence (art) to the stars. See…we'll have the time to do so. While they thought only of themselves and their finite existence in this world, they've run out of time. Had they been able to understand their true nature (good luck), they would've inherited the heavens. Instead, they morphed into a violent – selfish – species, that's lost it's right to the heavens. So, it is up to those of us who've never lost that vision, to wrest the poetry (art) from the ashes. A prayer will be said before moving on to the next world. Maybe those, at our next destination, will appreciate the value of their poets…
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From what I have seen on YouTube besides putting computers in your brains they are also mixing Human DNA with Animal DNA. They are even changing our foods (genetic foods)
Science is becoming Frankenstein, and we are the guinea pigs. This has a potentially of being another Pandora box just as nuclear power.
They want to make a powerful military using these trans-humanism with nanotech weapons.
Who knows maybe they will turn on us? Good way to get NWO rolling. Maybe they will use them against us and say the aliens landed?
Other nations are experimenting and in the race of the know it all, being the first, and the most powerful, the experiments will keep going.
This is about mutating us, putting a computer chip in us and having the control switch, and the also are creating new species.
Maybe there would be some good in this with medical advances, but will the bad of it over power it? Example with Nuclear Power it creates energy which is great, however the bad side of Nuclear Power over rides the good of it.
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@WSP: I appreciate your concern. And yes, THT (trans-human-technology) is used to augment the interest of a few and will challenge the biology of humans. The power-elite do see it as a means of ensuring their position. The self-interested will see it as means of securing their survival. For those very reasons, it is succeeding.
It will not be imposed on those who refuse the technology. Over time, those who refuse the integration of THT will simply be marginalized; ultimately becoming nothing more than 'curiosities of the past'.
Moral arguments against the growing proliferation of THT will be muted with the simple comparison of all that preceded its development. From brutality of slavery to global-wide environmental devastation, human history will be our closing argument.
Eventually, 'organics' will acknowledge that from the very-first fire that was built with their hands, transhumanism was their destiny…
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Transhumanism..to survive..on what? ..planet completely contaminated and destroyed?
If this is what it is going to come to..
I'm glad to think..I am among the last of the "organics".
When the hand of Man overshadows the hand of the Creator..the world we know is over.
I don't want to live in such a world.
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@Heart: again, you're thinking from the finite perspective of what you are; not what you will be…
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Maybe..I'm missing the point…LOL
I don't want to be mutated or augmented ..etc.
Just a simple "organic" here..looking for her hair brush and a cup of coffee…
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Thanks for the response Insight .
Clearly the statement is 100 procent false.
"Whether the quotes attributed to Putin are accurate or not remains to be seen. They appear nowhere outside of the original Pravda piece."
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DisasterID, you are wishing it is false. Unfortunately it is not."They appear nowhere outside of the original Pravda piece".Putin declared it in a press conference after the G20 meeting. Pravda is a very respected newspaper in Russia.
here is a link that supports this info.
http://triblive.com/usworld/world/2289470-73/russia-moscow-military-cuba-bases-defense-putin-soviet-talks-access
First people need to know that the US has placed nuclear missiles facing Russia on the border in Poland. That upset and alarmed the Russians and was breaking the Start treaty that the US had with them. They could not understand why Russia would be targeted when the "war" problem is focused on Iran. In response to that action on the part of the US, the Russians have put nuclear missiles in Cuba facing the US and Putin said to the effect of… let the americans see what that feels like. But unlike the US, Putin has inferred that he will make a first strike if the USA gets involved with Iran! This is an intense threat to world peace that has been swept under the rug because if the news media focused on it all political platforms would have to address it. They are dropping this issue like a hot potatoe because there is no acceptable answer to the problem.
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proceed "at their own risk." These nuc numb nuts must be crazy.
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numb nuts may get you in trouble with the censoring here jackassrig.
to get around this we like to say,instead of numb nuts,
" Harry Big Potatoes "
P.S. These numb nuts ARE crazy….
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Many pardons. I almost went ballistic when read that.
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The European Gazette weighs in on radiation in fish:
Title: Radioactive cesium found in Japan’s fish, seawater
http://eu.theigazette.com/?p=8187
Quotable quotes:
"Low levels of nuclear radiation from the Fukushima disaster were detected in bluefin tuna off the California coast in May of this year, suggesting that fish are carrying the contaminants across the Pacific Ocean faster than wind or water. US researchers carried out a study showing the tuna were responsible for transporting radionuclides from the 2011 Fukushima disaster across the entire North Pacific Ocean."
SP: Mighty speedy tuna and certainly Kamikaze Charlie Tuna is guilty as charged.
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This report was purged from Atlanta news sources, but still available in a couple of places:
http://www2.wsls.com/news/2012/aug/08/ex-pm-slams-utility-over-japan-nuke-crisis-video-ar-2117286/
Summary: ex-prime minister Kan excoriates Tepco for their hack job on his 20-minute speech in videos released.
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Censored U.S. Military Film on the Medical Effects of the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki emerges.
WARNING: Do not watch if you are squeamish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aobGUblXiMw
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Can someone please direct me to a site where I can learn the basics of nuclear energy regarding power plants and dangers? I read the articles here and I don't understand the measurements/doses yet. I'm trying to figure all this out and obviously I don't have a clue as to the horrific details of all this but I want to know so I can have myself and family as prepared as possible for whatever lies down the road.
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@cbuck
The Basics of Radiation — Part One ☢
The basics of radiation, part one, addresses the basic concepts of radiation and an introduction to the subject. The following videos will discuss different types of radiation, as well as different uses and tools associated with and about radiation.
The current video line up should be as follows:
Part One – Introduction and Basic Concepts
Part Two – Alpha and Beta Decay
Part Three – Gamma and X-Ray
Part Four – Sources of Radiation (Cosmic, Man made, Natural)
Part Five – How to use a Geiger counter
Pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XnUe-jQiZI
Pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peIsSIgSxqI&feature=channel&list=UL
Pt3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5faAMppzdY&feature=channel&list=UL
Pt4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcv49JbgZAI&feature=channel&list=UL
Pt5
no video for this think it was covered in part 4..
this is antiprotons who has done some great videos on explaining the nature of radiation.. all for free! great guy imo
and when you get through them theres about 13 videos in english that were desicned to inform the residents of fukushima about radiation too.. this is a really good resource as well
have fun
peace
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@cbuck oops!
13 english videos link here bu CRIIRAD france
http://www.youtube.com/user/criirad?feature=results_main
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Thanks for the link Arc. There is some good information on the vids I watched and would certainly be useful to gain a basic knowledge of radiation. But there are also some parts where the information could be better.
He has radiation source buttons which would be illegal for anyone to own that does not have a licence. So i assume he works or studies at a University with a nuclear program. If that is true he has mostly a theoretical base for his knowledge but very little practical experience. And that is what I see with the video about using a Geiger counter. Good information generally but not completely correct.
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Check source are not illegal.
YOu can buy them for about $50 a piece from SpectrumTechniques.com. Both private folks, like me, and the government buy them.
The NRC allows you to own small amounts, legally, and without a license. I have spent many long hours on the phone and writing to the NRC to keep myself in good legal standing with them. I even thought about a license, but they told me (in writing) that I am square with them (they said it better).
If you want tiny check source, you can go buy one. The activities of the sources and VERY low and they are quite safe. Don't walk around with one in your pocket or sleep with one, etc, and your fine.
Remember: Your smoke alarm has 9/10 the radioactivity of one of my most powerful check sources… Do you own a smoke alarm?
(smoke alarm = 0.7 to 0.9 uCi vs. check sources from 0.1 to 1 uCi)
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Thank you
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Thank you Arclight.
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Hi CBuck,
here is a site you might find helpful:
http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/radiation.html
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Thanks JustmeAlso.
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Kudankulam nuclear power plant – Russians want to avoid liability
"..Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is now querying the Department of Atomic Energy about liability and who will pay if there is a mishap at the Kudankulam NPP. It doesn’t help nuclear proponents that Prime Minister Singh is also India’s Minister for Atomic Energy.
Needless to say, everyone involved with the Kudankulam NPP has been furiously backpedaling from the issue of liability….. All of this loose talk about liability has officials at Atomstroieksport, the Russian Federation's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, increasingly worried. Its not like business is booming – in 2011 the company’s net losses doubled from their 2010 rate to $469 million. So, hardly surprisingly, Russian Atomstroieksport officials, who also built Iran’s controversial Bushehr NPP, have their fingers crossed that the Indian government will not saddle them with liability for the Kudankulam NPP, which could cause yet more oceans of red ink to wash across their books…."
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/08/kudankulam-nuclear-power-plant-russians-want-to-avoid-liability/
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UNR program helps those exposed to radiation testing in 1950s and 1960s,
"..The Nevada RESEP Program offers Nevadans exposed to radiation no cost
medical screenings. This screening program also provides education on
cancer and illnesses related to exposure to nuclear radiation.
In addition, the Nevada RESEP program assists individuals in applying
for compensation through the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation
Act. Under this act, eligible Nevadans who have had cancer or other
radiogenic illnesses may receive up to $75,000 in compensation.
The University of Nevada School of Medicine is the only institution to
offer free cancer screening clinics to Nevada residents exposed to
radiation from above ground nuclear testing and is able to do so
because of a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
grant, now in its seventh year. Under the direction of Thomas J. Hunt,
M.D., associate professor at the School of Medicine, screening and
diagnostic services facilitating early detection of cancers and other
health hazards associated with radiation are offered at the Family
Medicine Center in Las Vegas and at clinics periodically held in
various locations throughout Nevada….."
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/08/unr-program-helps-those-exposed-to-radiation-testing-in-1950s-and-1960s/
free healthcare! wow!
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Dear Arclight,
Thank you so much for all your hard work
I found this today and welcome 'Downwinders' to ENENews.
Aloha.
"The big problem with the RECA Amendments bill is that it was introduced without a price tag on it. We calculated the downwinder portion alone would cost $57 billion and that doesn't include medical benefits – see how at footnote 40 here. Taking into account also the uranium and test site worker's benefits, the bill might cost U.S. taxpayers one or two hundred billion dollars! Considering how 99% of Americans have no idea what a 'downwinder' is and the state of our economy, it doesn't seem likely that our elected representatives will vote for such a large payout, no matter how badly it is deserved, anytime soon. So, Michelle Thomas is right. It is doubtful that a weapons ban or additional compensation is coming any time soon. How will Americans' representatives in their Congress appreciate the humanitarian value of this bill if they themselves are ignorant of their own history? How many of them really know the plight of U.S. downwinders, or even their own exposures or risk for genetic damage? Education is a very good suggestion in lieu of a bill that is weighed down by an invisible price tag."
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con't:
Time restrictions under Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2010:
Claimants in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Utah need to prove they lived there 2 years between January 21, 1951, and ending on October 31, 1958 or in July 1962 [but what a 31 days it was!: chart]. Claimants in New Mexico need to prove they lived there 2 years between January 21, 1951, and ending on October 31, 1958, or in July 1962, or for the period beginning on June 30, 1945, and ending on July 31, 1945. Claimants in Guam need to prove they lived there for a period of at least 2 years between June 30, 1946, and ending on August 19, 1958 (August 18, 1958 was the last Pacific nuclear test ('Fig') conducted on Enewetak or Bikini Atoll since testing there begin in June 1946) or for the period beginning on April 25, 1962, and ending on November 5, 1962. (The 1962 timeframes corresponds with aboveground nuclear testing on Christmas and Johnston Islands that (after a hiatus from two nuclear 1958 tests) re-commenced on April 25, 1962 and ended on November 4, 1962). (Note that the Argus series over the South Atlantic Ocean was carried out on August 27 and 30 and September 6, 1958).
http://www.nuclearcrimes.org/downwinderday.php
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Dear Folks,
'A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 -by
Isao Hashimoto' (14:25min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
Aloha & Peace.
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great posts andagi
peace
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This was quite the terrifying video. Is the US trying to decimate the west? I met a few weeks ago, my first down-winder victim. She is from Southern Utah and she has absolutely horrible memory problems among other things.
How can the world have tested so many nuclear bombs in a 50 year span and not think there would be some residual effects?
I had no idea there have been so many tests.
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Dear CBuck,
Yes, you are right. Although it is absolutely terrifying, this video visually drives this difficult truth 'home'. Please give my aloha to your 'Downwinder' friend and encourage him/her to read ENENews.
Learning you've been deceived is one of the most challenging human experiences. Keep reading and sharing ENENews.
Welcome
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Radioactive Spent Fuel Containing Bomb-Grade Uranium Arriving at SRS
By Thomas Clements | Aug 09, 2012
A secretive shipment of radioactive spent research reactor fuel containing highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Germany is soon to arrive at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina, where it will be indefinitely stored. The shipment is likely to be transiting the Naval Weapons Station in Charleston, South Carolina.
The nuclear transport ship Oceanic Pintail departed the German port of Nordenham on July 25, believed to be carrying spent fuel from two German research reactors. The shipment of 25 assemblies from the FRG-1 reactor and 33 assemblies from the BER-2 reactor are reported by German media to be on the ship, with the casks in one shipping container. It has also been reported that a plutonium-beryllium radiation source from former East Germany is on board, though the purpose of this source and why it would be brought to the United States is unknown.
At SRS, the spent fuel would be taken to the old L-Reactor, where such research reactor fuel is stored in the pool, or basin, at the shuttered reactor.
http://aikenleader.villagesoup.com/blog/blogpost/radioactive-spent-fuel-containing-bomb-grade-uranium-arriving-at-srs/881381
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Melvin R. (Mel) Buckner, North Augusta, S.C.
Letter: TVA should approve use of MOX fuel
Posted August 8, 2012 at 6:51 p.m.
Melvin R. (Mel) Buckner, North Augusta, S.C.
A U.S. Department of Energy facility to manufacture mixed oxide fuel (MOX) from weapons plutonium is under construction at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. This facility is being constructed to fulfill a U.S.-Russia disarmament agreement to dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus weapons plutonium in each country — an amount equal to 17,000 nuclear warheads, according to DOE. The Tennessee Valley Authority is considering the feasibility of using some of the MOX beginning in 2018 at two of its nuclear plants, Sequoyah near Chattanooga and Browns Ferry in northern Alabama.
Once plutonium is converted into MOX, it has limited use in making a weapon. MOX has proven to be safe and dependable…
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/aug/08/letter-tva-should-approve-use-mox-fuel/
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Nice find NoNukes
Looks similar to this letter from today: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-08-19/opinion/os-ed-nuclear-energy-plutonium-081912-20120817_1_weapons-plutonium-nuclear-plants-conventional-uranium-fuel
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This issue was posted days ago here…
Study Probes Effects of U.S. MOX Fuel Plan
July 25, 2012
The Obama administration is set this week to formally release a preliminary study into the anticipated ecological effects of operating two nuclear power plants using mixed-oxide fuel derived from nuclear-weapon plutonium, the Chattanooga Times-Free Press reported on Wednesday (see GSN, April 11, 2011).
The analysis, slated for publication in the Federal Register, reviews a proposal to by 2018 begin using MOX fuel to operate the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in Tennessee and the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama.
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/initial-mox-fuel-plan-study-set-release/
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The News-Courier in Athens, Alabama
July 26, 2012
Browns Ferry could burn controversial fuel in 2018
— In six years, the reactors at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant could begin burning mixed-oxide pellets, a controversial fuel source that could save the Tennessee Valley Authority money while reducing the nation’s supply of weapons-grade plutonium.
TVA’s decision, however, may be determined by a mix of public comments and findings from an environmental impact statement being prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy. The EIS will appear as a draft this week in the Federal Register.
A 60-day written public comment period is expected to begin Friday, to be followed on Sept. 13 with a meeting at Calhoun Community College to gather public input. TVA spokesman Ray Golden said a link to public comment information would be posted to TVA’s website.
“We want to make sure people know (TVA) has made no decision on whether to use MOX. We’re just a cooperating agency in a DOE evaluation process,” he said, adding the fuel would not be used at the Browns Ferry or Sequoyah nuclear plants prior to 2018. “TVA would be willing to use the materials, provided it’s operationally and environmentally safe, economically beneficial to the customers and can be licensed by the NRC.”
TVA speculates the fully implemented use of MOX could supply low-cost fuel for two decades.
TVA has been discussing the possibility of using the fuel since 2009 and had public meetings on the idea in 2010…
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Excellent point, Admin. Are the citizens of the United States suddenly motivated to support MOX fuel, or are these simply two examples of a nuclear industry that doesn't even try to hide itself:
Who is Melvin R. (Mel) Buckner, of North Augusta, S.C.?
Page 10 of the following PDF lists member of the "Nuclear Engineering Advisory Board" at the University of South Carolina:
"Nuclear Engineering Advisory Board
George Davis, Chairman, Retired Vice Admiral
Nick Liparulo, Vice President, Westinghouse Electric Company
Melvin Buckner, University Programs Coordinator, Westinghouse Savannah River Site
Michael Tuckman, Executive VP, Chief Nuclear Officer, Duke Energy"
[PDF]
University of South Carolina, Nuclear … – Office of Nuclear Energy
http://www.ne.doe.gov/neac/neacPDFs/whiteSep02NERAC.pdfFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat -
What about the guest column by Lynn E. Weaver?
Turns out that he has been the "director for the School of Nuclear Engineer and Health Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology"
http://www.fit.edu/president/past.php
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Nice digging, NoNukes. They sure leave a trail – you'd think even the msm would sniff it out – but they never do.
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that was some great digging! nice one no nukes!
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Opinion: MOX fuel derived from weapons-grade plutonium is more sensible than it sounds
Published: Friday, July 13, 2012, 7:01 AM
By James McGovern
At first glance, the idea that fuel derived from weapons-grade plutonium could be used to produce clean energy might seem crazy.
An atomic bomb with a plutonium warhead is not just another weapon; one obliterated the Japanese city of Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II.
Yet, plutonium possesses enormous energy that can play a decisive role in an all-out effort to achieve energy independence and battle climate change.
http://www.nj.com/times-opinion/index.ssf/2012/07/opinion_mox_fuel_derived_from.html
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"James McGovern is an energy consultant to government and industry."
No kidding.
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DOE seeks input on Mox fuel
By Ed Marcum
Posted July 28, 2012 at 4 a.m.
The Department of Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority on Friday started a public input process on the proposed recycling of nuclear weapons into nuclear power plant fuel, and already there are objections.
The National Nuclear Security Administration, a part of the DOE, posted notice on the Federal Register that DOE will hold a 60-day public comment period on its Draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. The document analyzes the potential environmental impacts of different methods of disposing of plutonium from nuclear weapons.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/jul/28/doe-seeks-input-on-mox-fuel/
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Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Draft Environmental Document being Issued by Department of Energy; Meeting to be Held in N. Augusta on September 4
By Thomas Clements | Jul 26, 2012
Soaring costs of the plutonium disposition program and failure to identify reactors to use the MOX product have caused increased congressional oversight, including a cut by the House of Representatives of $169 million of the $888 million Fiscal Year 2013 budget request for plutonium disposition. The Senate is yet to act. While DOE refuses to reveal an overall life-cycle cost for the MOX program, ANA estimates that about $17.5 billion is yet to be spent on the MOX program and that the 34 metric tons of plutonium could be disposed of as waste at a far lower price tag.
A 60-day comment period on the draft document begins on July 27 and the dates for public meetings, which ANA urges citizens to participate in, are as follows:
August 21, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Holiday Inn Express, 60 Entrada Drive, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544
August 23, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe, 3347 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507
August 28, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Pecos River Village Conference Center, 711 Muscatel Drive, Carlsbad, NM 88220….(more)…
http://aikenleader.villagesoup.com/blog/blogpost/plutonium-fuel-mox-draft-environmental-document-being-issued-by-department-of-energy-meeting-to-b/872701
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MOX!
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf29.html
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EPA Helpless to Stop Further Pollution at Major Superfund Site
By Joseph Trento, on July 13th, 2012
National Security News Service |
NNSA to Resume Plutonium Separation at the Savannah River Site’s H Canyon for MOX Fuel
Aiken, S.C. – Just as the Department of Energy touts the closing and capping of two nuclear waste storage tanks this summer in its brimming H Tank Farm – the result of hundreds of millions of dollars in Recovery Act funds – the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released a statement on July 11, 2012, that proposes to use the crumbling and problem-plagued 430,000-square-foot H Canyon to process tons of weapons grade plutonium, sending additional high level nuclear waste to the H Tank Farm that was supposed to be cleaned up and shuttered. This process will add to the tens of millions of gallons of highly radioactive liquid waste that have made the Savannah River Site, an EPA Superfund site, the most concentrated and dangerous radioactive site in the United States.
NNSA will take some of the tons of weapons grade plutonium stored in the old K Reactor at SRS and, according to SRS spokesman James Giusti, “it will prepare Pu oxide for use in MOX to its requirements.” The DOE is constructing a problem-plagued mixed oxide fuel plant, the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility, with the French-government-owned contractor Areva, to turn surplus weapons grade plutonium into a kind of high octane civilian nuclear reactor fuel.
http://www.dcbureau…
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http://www.dcbureau.org/201207137454/national-security-news-service/epa-helpless-to-stop-further-pollution-at-major-superfund-site-nnsa-to-resume-plutonium-separation-at-the-savannah-river-sites-h-canyon-for-mox-fuel.html
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Often mistaken for nuclear waste, the spent fuel that's left in a power reactor after the production of electricity is valuable and plentiful. But in our blindness to the enormous energy potential of uranium and plutonium in the 70,000 tons of spent fuel that the Department of Energy says is stored at nuclear power plants in the United States — 1,500 tons in Tennessee alone — we are missing an opportunity to recycle nuclear materials into clean energy.
While the cost to produce nuclear-generated electricity, on average, is less than power from a natural gas or coal plant, it might be even cheaper if the reactor fuel were made from a combination of uranium and plutonium. Such is the case in a number of European and Asian countries that extract nuclear materials from spent fuel and chemically reprocess them to produce a so-called mixed-oxide fuel known as "MOX." The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration says that about 30 power reactors in countries like France, Belgium and Great Britain now make use of MOX to generate electricity.
http://www.power-eng.com/news/2012/08/03/energy-of-the-future-is-here.html
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I Fight MOX and all who support it!
MOX is a degenerate way of making fuel from waste and calling it intelligent.
http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/basicmoxinfo.htm
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Isn't any way of producing electricity that makes places on this beautiful planet uninhabitable and creates genetic transmutations(cancer/death) the worst scientific mistake ever?
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Call it safe and smile!
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Thanks Justme, I hope that many of us at Enenews can comment during the United States Department of Energy "public comment" period and attend their meetings (the list was cut off above–2 are in New Mexico):
A 60-day comment period on the draft document begins on July 27 and the dates for public meetings, which ANA urges citizens to participate in, are as follows:
August 21, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Holiday Inn Express, 60 Entrada Drive, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544
August 23, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe, 3347 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507
August 28, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Pecos River Village Conference Center, 711 Muscatel Drive, Carlsbad, NM 88220
September 4, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) North Augusta Municipal Center, 100 Georgia Avenue, North Augusta, South Carolina 29841
September 11, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Chattanooga Convention Center, 1150 Carter Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402
September 13, 2012 (5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.) Calhoun Community College, Decatur Campus, Aerospace Building, 6250 Highway 31 North, Tanner, AL 35671
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Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012
Agency claims Monju can withstand monster quake
Jiji
FUKUI — The Japan Atomic Energy Agency believes its Monju fast-breeder reactor would be safe even if peak ground acceleration amid a huge quake exceeded original estimates by more than 1.86 times.
The agency provided the figure Tuesday at a meeting of experts assessing its proposal to check the reactor's safety in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, in light of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The unit, if not idled, would use highly enriched plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120802b1.html
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It is now time to start talking about explosions and more importantly, evacuations. Everyone knows now that relocation will be required.
Should there be a central on and offline communication center/webpage to begin putting large numbers of evacuees together with willing individuals/corporations/embassies/etc?
How we will pay for it? Ad space?
How about counseling/anger management/riot control situations?
Also religious/nondenominational/spiritual support for the grieving?
Volunteer coordination/donation of medical services/skills sites
I know it sounds like a lot but there is going to be a panic and if we're ahead of the nonsense Enenews can help coordinate a focal point. Think Hurricane Katrina planning/coordination multiplied by a hundred thousand in terms of needs assessment.
(To HOTR I am very sorry. My temper is getting away with me again)
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hi kalidances
i think that the local ngo`s are already on the case.. likely VERY quietly so as to avoid the wrath of the government.. thats how things have been working in japan for the past year..
there are loads of issues, legaly, to overcome .. likely if anything further happens at daichi some emergency laws could be past.. but the government will not entertain evacuation, so no plans can be made..
however citizens are better prepared and safecast should give an immediate location of fallout allowing people time to decide whether to sit in place or move..
the people of fukushima and sorrounds are prepared better if something happens.. any ngo derived evacuation plans would be TOP SECRET, not to be discussed sort of thing.. hope they have done such a plan as that might be useful..
but you are right .. its a nightmare, worsened by government intransigence and we in the west may yet need to help with accomadation etc.. and enenews, exskf, fukushima diary, fairewinds, nuclear-news.net and all the blog newscasters will ensure word gets out if that need arises.. handy having an alternative press
as an aside red cross japan, christian aid, save the children and many others are working in japan (all be it under government close supervision) and have some vast resources they could pull on if the need arises and they were given permission to move as they would like..
hear you on the anger thing.. i use the anger to keep moving as an activist and do my little…
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…bit.
peace
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@admin
a really nicely delivered enenews news report with summary
Radiation Fukushima Report, Aug. 9, 2012
Published on Aug 9, 2012 by pinksapphiret
Radiation Fukushima Report, Aug. 9, 2012…
WEBSITE: ENENEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foK5Z4LhUmo
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Corporations Are Bribing Foreign Government Officials, and More
video
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10810-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-corporations-are-bribing-foreign-government-officials-and-more
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Sorry…phone madness…
http://fukushimaupdate.com/entry-ban-lifted-in-a-town-in-fukushima/
SP: The nucleocrats in Japan still displaying their genicidal insanity.
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The international atomic energy Dr. Frankensteins determine the nuclear plant (not Fukushima) closest to the Great Eastern Earthquake came through the quake "remarkably undamaged"
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42664&Cr=iaea&Cr1=
SP: Little subnote also… "The IAEA mission's objective was to observe how safety structures, systems and components responded to the heavy shaking, which was not possible to study at Fukushima Daiichi because of the damage."
SP: Damage? No… I think you mean because Fukushima Daiichi is still too damn radioactive to examine! Try again in about 500 years.
Madness at the UN…
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go this link at nuclear-news.net
reactor 4 explosion video from india..
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/can-anyone-explain-what-really-happened-at-fukushima-reactor-number-4/
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On CoasttoCoastam.c radio tonight, Scott Portzline, discussing San Onofre shutdown and other issues:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
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Laguna Punches Up Its Stance Against San Onofre
Urged by concerned residents to put some power behind their position, Laguna Beach’s City Council Tuesday toughened up their wording and unanimously supported a resolution calling for shutting down the San Onofre Nuclear Power Station south of San Clemente. Council member Kelly Boyd was absent.
The decision preceded two mild earthquakes centered in Yorba Linda that shook south Orange County. The power plant sits near the Oceanside fault line and new quake studies are planned to begin in November, according to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which is conducting the study for the plant’s operator, Southern California Edison.
http://www.printfriendly.com/print/new?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lagunabeachindependent.com%2F2012%2F08%2F10%2Flaguna-punches-stance-san-onofre%2F
http://www.lagunabeachindependent.com/2012/08/10/laguna-punches-stance-san-onofre/
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More than 10,000 earthworms found dead in a parking lot of 250m2 North Japan
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/more-than-10000-earthworms-found-dead-in-a-parking-lot-of-250m2-north-japan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
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"Radioactive fallout from Fukushima nuclear meltdowns caused abnormalities in Japan's butterflies"
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120812a2.html
SP: I saw a butterfly today and thought how seldom I have seen any in the past 40 years. As a young child the butterflies were abundant. So what is the difference today? Man's toxic poisons in many forms. It has practically made butterflies extinct. We are next.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Health is handing out potassium iodide tablets to people who live near nuclear power plants. Specifically, Limerick.
http://www.wfmz.com/news/Pills-distributed-to-people-living-near-nuclear-plants-in-Pa/-/121458/16044200/-/thm5dqz/-/index.html
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Now that seems IMPORTANT! Yet odd at the same time?
This is the FIRST TIME I have ever heard of a Dept. Of Health handing out (free) iodine pills.
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Remember the Enenews story a few days ago about the octopus supposedly shipped from Soma to Tokyo?
http://enenews.com/fukushima-seafood-goes-on-sale-in-tokyo-proces-20-higher-than-usual-im-so-relieved-that-octopuses-from-fukushima-have-finally-become-available-video
Strangely the August 1 NHK article referenced is no longer available:
エラー
ページを表示できませんでした。
The page you requested could not be accessed.
But I have discovered another article about the event: UK article August 9, 2012
http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/sl3Fh5Msf5Kh0XkxrBkdEvQ/view.m?id=15&gid=environment/2012/aug/09/fukushima-fishermen-crippled-industry&cat=world
Pertinent section: "After the catch was unloaded, samples were taken to a nearby lab, to which the Guardian was granted rare access. Staff dressed in white overalls, masks, hats and gloves sliced octopus tentacles into chunks, then wrapped them in plastic to be taken into an adjoining room for testing.
On this occasion, as on every other day since fishing in Soma resumed at the end of June, the two radiation-measuring devices in the lab revealed not even the slightest trace of radioactive iodine-131, and caesium-134 and -137. In March, the government introduced stricter acceptable radiation levels in seafood, increased from 500 becquerels per kilo to 100 becquerels."
SP: There you have it! Everything perfect now according to the journalist. Not the slightest trace of radioactivity.
The tragedy is many people do believe…
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Radioactive Pacific: Murorua Atoll, the Site of French Nuclear Testing Is in Danger Of Collapsing, Says the Nuclear Association of French Polynesia.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/08/radioactive-pacific-murorua-atoll-site.html
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Dear Heart of the Rose,
"The following report has been distributed by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, as a result of renwewed interest in French nuclear testing in the South Pacific. It is an updated version of Chapter 9 from the book "Radioactive Heaven and Earth: the health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, in, on, and above the earth."(New York, Apex Press, 1991) It is one of the few published sources for information on this subject, and reveals that although only limited environmental impact reports have been conducted in French Polynesia,and despite restrictions imposed by the French, they still highlight the threat to the environment in the Pacific posed by the French nuclear testing programme."
http://cyberplace.org.nz/peace/nukenviro.html
Aloha.
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Polynesia…they blew a hole in paradise…
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Dear Heart of the Rose,
From the Greenpeace archives: "This led them to conclude that in its natural state the Atoll is as "leaky as a sieve". Moreover, they also point out that the thermal energy from nuclear detonations will also force circulation patterns tending to accelerate the movement of radionuclides upwards. On the further assumption that the nuclear tests had produced considerable fracturing of the atoll structure…"
http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/rw/sci.html
Aloha.
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@andagi..thanks for this..
Aloha.
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Dear Heart of the Rose,
Avec plaisir
'Nuclear Tests in French Polynesia: Could Hazards Arise?'
"The evaluation was also not to assess the radiation exposure of workers involved at the time in the execution of the nuclear weapon testing activities. It is not feasible to verify independently individual workers' exposures after the exposure has taken place. The IAEA can monitor individual occupational exposures but only if it is requested to do so prior to exposure. It should be noted, however, that the international practice is to assign the responsibility of monitoring occupational exposures to the employers…"
"The Study’s evaluation of residual radioactive materials with which people could come into contact found that radionuclide concentrations on the atoll’s surfaces and in the surrounding seas — with four exceptions — are similar to or below those found elsewhere in the region where no nuclear weapons testing took place. The four exceptions are listed below:
several kilograms of plutonium resulting from four early atmospheric tests remain in the lagoon sediments of each atoll…"
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/mururoabook.html
Aloha.
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Dear Folks,
"This paper looks at seven cases in which nuclear energy and trade is an issue. These seven cases include: IRANNUKE, ARCTIC, MOCHO, JAPANSEA, JAPANPL, CHERNOBYL, and TEMELIN. These cases are similar in that they all consider the legal, commercial, environmental, and cultural implications of nuclear energy."
"The United States has also demonstrated its concern about France's nuclear testing in the MURUROA case but the countries most worried about these tests are South Pacific nations like Micronesia, Chile, Australia, and New Zealand which are located near the island of Mururoa."
"The MURUROA case, surprisingly, is the only case in which culture is viewed as a significant factor. In this case, culture is important because the testing may destroy culture. Culture may also be a factor in the dispute because the conflict may also be seen as a conflict of cultural perceptions."
"The MURUROA case involves trans-border issues because the testing will have implications far from the island of Mururoa."
http://www1.american.edu/ted/projects/tedcross/xnucler5.htm
Aloha.
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Dear Folks,
Keep reading ENENews. It's not easy I know, but the comaderie here helps us all assimilate the lies, deception and dreadful state we are now in. My inconceivable meter …
Aloha, Peace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wgNy7eByGY
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Nuclear Event..Watts Bar Npp
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_summary&edis_id=NC-20120812-36142-USA
An ammonia leak?
Employee evacuation….?
No worries..it's all good
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In memory, honor, and reflection on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the website "unwelcome guests" broke this week with its usual economic study and investigation. It offers both its 1-hr (2 hrs total) audio files on nuclear weapons: (the people of the Marshall Islands featuring Holly Barker, and Nevada testing featuring M.T. Silvia). "Nuclear Victims in Peace and War" at http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/616.
I don't think I got around to posting earlier John Hersey's "Hiroshima" read aloud in a quality made-for-radio program, so here's the link: (about 50 min). http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/83091
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Here, have a little MOX on your wheaties this morning.
DOE Announces Issuance of Draft Supplemental Environmental Study on Plutonium Disposition
http://www.wipp.energy.gov/pr/2012/Pu%20SEIS%20Advisory%2007272012.pdf
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Make sure you WIPP it good first, it's kinda salty…
http://www.wipp.energy.gov/
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hmm yummy!
the thread has just been renewed if you want to repost!!
for the ancient romans lead was the poison that destroyed their society ( no central heating for nearly 2000 years! OMG!)
wonder what plutonium will do for us?
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We already know what plutonium does to us…
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And here's a joke to go with those wheaties…
US Environmental Protection Agency
Radiation Protection
http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/wipp/
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@jebus.. what did you do to the site!!??
"..Our Web site will undergo scheduled maintenance from 8pm ET on Sunday, August 19, 2012 to 6am ET on Monday, August 20, 2012. During this time, you may find that our web pages are slow to load or that certain applications are not working. We apologize for any inconvenience…"
i will try later but you should check to see if the article is still there and it is the same?
luv from a paranoid lemming
peace
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It was Sam, he was walkin around the room and leaving his mark…
It's still there, although a little damp…
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