Published: July 15th, 2011 at 1:20 pm ET
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Illegal immigrant working inside nuke plant arrested, KVOA, July 14, 2011:
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies arrested an illegal immigrant working inside the Palo Verde Nuclear Plant, the nation’s largest nuclear plant and one of the most closely monitored in the country. [...]
“To some extent,” Arpaio says, “security at this nuclear power plant worked. But still, an illegal immigrant was permitted to gain access to this facility. This raises the question: how safe is Palo Verde really if an illegal alien can gain access to this nation’s largest nuclear power facility? [...]
Two different people working in security at the power plant also told Sheriff’s officials that drivers of contractor’s vehicles can “vouch” for the passengers if no identification documents are on hand at the time of entry. [...]
Published: July 15th, 2011 at 1:20 pm ET
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That’s too bad – he might have been a WHISTLE BLOWER. (one can only hope we see more W.B’s)
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This raises the question: how safe is Palo Verde
Really wild Bill thats all ur coming up with? Im thinkin how much bad juice is now “legally being dumped” in that there facil r t
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Good thing Terrorists dont come from other countries…
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ROFL – u crack me up .. ^^
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Need to clean out trash like this the alien could have been here looking and also spying. If a person,is not Documented it puts our nation at risk,what would have been the agenda of a terrorist
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Risk to that nation of yours comes mainly from within.
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The best way to stop terrorism, is to stop engaging in it.
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Mark – you need to look behind your back. Sadly, after 9/11, all terrorist attacks were committed by the American citizens indoctrinated by the radical Islam. If you just look at the facts, and not emotions, the good ol’ USA is one of the highest terrorist risks.
The illegal Mexican amigo should’ve never been inside the nuclear plant, but they are here to make money, not to blow up Americans.
It is time for American to stop pointing fingers at others, and have a very good, and long look at the mirror. The enemy is within.
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White House ??
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An illegal working in a nuclear plant; meanwhile, with a degree, command of the language and experience I can’t get a job at the home depot.
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I’m finding the same, but I only have a B.A. in Math and Physics.
I have too much of a conscience to work for a nuke plant.
Then again, when I get homeless, maybe soon, I hear TEPCO picks up homeless people to work in safe, clean nuclear plants, paying top dollar.
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I’m impressed with your Degrees BOTH. No education here – but love hearing about those that DO have it. Sorry about the Job Hunt though. Try SOLAR yet? I hear it IS picking up.
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You’re telepathic Whoopie,
I’ve been dreaming of opening my own solar business!
☀
Yes, I also used to work in a hi tech cleanroom (Nortel, 2 years) but I just learned that there’s an unusually high incidence of cancer in those places:
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/toxics_in_the_clean_rooms_are_samsung_workers_at_risk/2414/
Maybe we should call you Petra, after that telepathic girl in The Chrysalids (post-apocalyptic novel about life among genetic mutants after a fallout):
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/wyndham/thechr10.html
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Solar is booming where in CA where I live. Due to Federal and State rebates 50% of the cost is paid by other tax payers. If you have the money make the investment – even if you don’t you can finance it over 20 years. I just contracted for a system. I feel GREEN!
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Boy PU…when I first read that, I thought it said YOUR PATHETIC WHOOPIE. (paranoid by trolls)
Are you serious? About SOLAR? I hope you DO IT! Biz really IS on the upswing from what I’ve been reading lately. No wonder.
1st husband worked in electronics field-40 years ago. I didn’t know that about cancer. Well what a bummer to have to change fields. Hope SOLAR ends up YOURS. Thanks for the links too.
NO TELEPATHY HERE that I know of.
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Didn’t I just read that Google is going into solar? They will put the installation up and then you pay for the power – guaranteed less than your electric company.
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Pu239
I hope that you go into Solar, too, I’m so happy that Whoopie brought it up! I bet your company would be very successful.
Also, you are such a great writer, which isn’t that common with Math and Physics majors (believe me, says the English professor). Have you thought about writing? You could freelance, especially in science/technical writing, while you build your company. You have such an interest in words, and we love reading your posts.
Maybe you could start your company in New Zealand, and end up with a bevy of illegal immigrants from enenews when we finally flee the fallout on the West Coast. We’ll work for cheap, you betcha!
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I have been thinking about it, too. So far my consulting business is good, but the brain cannot work in overdrive the whole life – so I am thinking about something better to do in old days.
My idea was to buy cheap house in Arizona, and then to buy some land near the house, to install the solar panels, and generate reasonable retirement cash flow. It is green, feel good business, and nearly risk free in Arizona, with all that sunshine.
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On one of the threads someone wanted us to brainstorm ways to *do something.* In that spirit I post this video of a photog who has the portable solar power in a backpack down pat. http://vimeo.com/20173304 Around minute 9 he shows how it unfolds and drapes over a backpack so you can be walking and swingin’ at the same time.
I don’t know what dosimeters or other detection equipment looks like. But it seems to me this setup could be used by folks needing do-it-yourself monitoring done anywhere on the planet. PU your business could be assembling the whole setup including dosimeter.
I was actually picturing the solar panel looking more like an umbrella, when they said “waterproof”. But then I don’t know if the electronics would be fouled by nuke fleas in the rain. I suppose they would. But it is a thought for places not directly under the jetstream.
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You do now:
Whoopie, Phd S.A.L
(sweet and lovable)
♥
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Education does not require a formal degree Whoopie and I think you demonstrate that….
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Now I’m blushing. Dont tell the TROLLS.
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I got to go WEEDEAT – see you guys later!
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Be honest u gonna clean out the nuke bilge pump when it gets clogged what no? hmmmm
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There is speculation about the person who disabled the water berm at Ft. Calhoun. That resulted in water up to the walls of the reactor. In Iowa and Nebraska many construction contractors use illegals instead of Americans. The damage to berm was done with a piece of construction equipment. Likely it and operator were provided by a contractor. There is no screening by employers, ID’s are not required to be checked. Anyone with a grudge could be operating heavy equipment at a nuke site.
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Excellent point. A saboteur.
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I think it was just an idiot with a piece of heavy machinery he couldn’t handle. There are much more efficient ways to sabotage Ft. Calhoun than punching a hole in an inner tube.
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Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Ask anyone who works in contracting whether similar mistakes happen in construction sites. Or ask someone who has hired a contractor.
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Oh Crap! Another word that strikes terror into my heart: WEEDEAT! Whoopie,…must you? Stay safe.
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You have to admit that a nuke provides a perfect opportunity for massive terrorism. Any one can walk across the border, use a stolen identity, and have access to critical parts of a reactor. Or in the case of Ft. Calhoun, the ability to cause flooding that may yet result in a melt down. So much for safety!
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I completely agree with your comments.
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I do not agree with you that ‘anyone’ can get into a nuclear plant. Clearance is fierce even in shipping ports.
But I love the name ‘leopard colony’.
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Anonymous VS Fukushima Live on the air 1:00
locallivehouston.com/?p=615
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anonymous live? they wont be anonymous much after that! like the topic!
i suppose there will be a you tube release but ill try the link, thanks…you know if anonymous did break the censorship it would be a pr sensation on a plate(for anonymous not the nuke lobby 
). should be interesting…merci taco!!
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Looking at your once great nation all airline passengers get zapped by radiation or genitals checked at airport while an illegal alien can gain access to nuclear facility. Something wrong here. Obamma threatens that he can’t pay social security while financing a number of foreign wars. Like me saying to wife “Honey you better let me borrow more money for my hot rod or we cant afford food for the kids” Not saying Canada any better, both countries silent on possible radiation hitting west coast and Japan a country set up with precious democracy by USA has Minister in charge of nuclear disaster same flunkie Minister in charge of consumer affairs and food safety. Not surprised atomic beef sold to Japanese.
Whats happening in Japan is whats happening in North America. Psycotic spin doctors…no let me rephrase that common crooks running things to suit themselves. If little old ladies diaper has to be searched and your ten year old girl groped at airport why not illegal alien working at nuke plant?
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CANADA way better sorry
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Toronto cops arrested people last year for walking across the street during the G20. And no, they weren’t even protesting. They were just going to their homes. They were ‘kettled’, then tossed into holding cells without food or water.
I was disgusted to read that the Pickering plant discharged radioactive water into Lake Ontario the day after Fukushima broke. They correctly figured that no one was paying attention even though they ‘announced’ it.
Canada does nasty things very, very quietly. But yes, it is better here…for now.
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I don’t know how it goes in Arizona but not even maintenance workers get to work in a nuke facility without a thorough background check.
Always remember that there is always someone in charge of bringing these workers here and keeping them here.
This story is disturbing because it just planted a seed of doubt should something go wrong there.
The nuke facility managers will do a racial divide story instead of admitting they didn’t follow code.
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Yep….”…everything was going fine til those illegal aliens got in the plant.”
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I agree with shaktasna999 and aldo. We all see what happens when you cut safety corners in a nuclear plant. There is no need to blame ‘illegal aliens’. That whole story sounds like a plant to me to distract the people from the real culprits.
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Heads Up
They’re going for the Big Kill today in California.
Huge growing prisoner hunger strike – til death – in protest.
Authorities there appear to be torturing prisoners to death.
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/15/protests_grow_in_solidarity_with_california
http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
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I’m from Venezuela, may I have a Homer Simpson plant voucher please?
I here to work for Banana public USA!
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Solar energy storage breakthrough…
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=134716
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GREAT PLACE FOR A CHAT (hint hint)
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/
Just had a wonderful afternoon with 1st Babygirl! Went to the park, fed the ducks, whole time I’m thinking WHY AM I BRINGING HER OUTSIDE?!?! It’s getting to the point I don’t know what the hell to do. What do ANY of us do? Stop life as we know it…or (like Risa says) go to our garden’s? Nothing is STOPPING what’s come our way (ALREADY)…or what’s coming. No person, No Government, NO ONE. Protect oneself? How in God’s Green Earth do we do that NOW? Sure precautions are being taken – but to what recourse? It seems to me much of it will be for not. I could be wrong…I pray to God I am wrong.
The only thing I know to do is…continue my life and TRY to get the word out i/e spreading links ect.
What a great group who has gathered here at Enenews. Without you guys, with all your knowledge and resourcefulness, there isn’t a better place that I happened to Land-On. You and the Japanese Regulars at HP are my HOPE! (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
See you guys tomorrow.
No Replies Needed. TOMORROW IS A BRAND NEW DAY…I’m always better after a nights sleep.
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TY, Whoopie. Here’s a corner of mine.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12305112@N07/5903843744/in/photostream
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Nuclear’s Fatal Flaws: Summary
Nuclear power has made headlines recently as a possible player in the energy future of the U.S., after decades of decline. But how do claims by industry and government champions stack up against the unsolved problems and dangers nuclear energy poses?
Cost
Despite its promise more than 50 years ago of energy “too cheap to meter,” nuclear power continues to be dependent on taxpayer handouts to survive. From 1947 through 1999 the nuclear industry was given over $115 billion in direct taxpayer subsidies. Including Price Anderson limitations on nuclear liability, the federal subsidies reach $145.4 billion. To put this in perspective, federal government subsidies for wind and solar totaled $5.7 billion over the same period. The management of radioactive waste and the requirements for reactor decommissioning also require additional funds. Other aspects of nuclear power, such as the pollution from uranium mining, risks from nuclear weapons proliferation, dangers of reactor accidents, and the legacy of radioactive waste, are further hidden costs.
More Federal Subsidies
The high capital costs and long construction times of reactors make new reactors prohibitively expensive unless they are heavily subsidized by taxpayers. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 contains over $13 billion dollars in new subsidies and tax breaks, as well as other incentives, for the nuclear industry,1 including:
• Reauthorization of the Price-Anderson Act, which limits industry liability in case of a severe accident; the rest of the tab would be picked up by taxpayers – possibly over $500 billion
• More than $1 billion for research and development of new reactor designs and reprocessing technologies
• Authorization of $2 billion in “risk insurance” to pay the industry for delays in construction and operation licensing for 6 new reactors, including delays due to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or litigation.
• Authorization of more than $1.25 billion for the construction of a nuclear plant in Idaho
• Tax credits for electricity production, estimated to cost $5.7 billion by 20252
• Unlimited loan guarantees to back up to 80% of the cost of construction in case of default
Even with these incentives, Standard & Poor’s recently concluded that such subsidies “may not be enough to mitigate the risks associated with operating issues and high capital costs that could hinder credit quality.”3
Why is Cost Important?
With the limited amount of money available to spend on tackling global climate change, we need to obtain the greatest reduction in carbon emissions per dollar spent. The high cost of nuclear power means that resources wasted on nuclear power take away from faster, cheaper, and cleaner solutions to climate change.
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/article_redirect.cfm?ID=15422
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Waste, Uranium Mining and Processing, Waste from Reactors, Yucca Mountain
Nuclear power is not a clean energy source. In fact, it produces both low and high-level radioactive waste that remains dangerous for several hundred thousand years. Generated throughout all parts of the fuel cycle, this waste poses a serious danger to human health. Currently, over 2,000 metric tons of high-level radioactive waste and 12 million cubic feet of low level radioactive waste are produced annually by the 103 operating reactors in the United States.4 No country in the world has found a solution for this waste. Building new nuclear plants would mean the production of much more of this dangerous waste with no where for it to go.
Uranium Mining and Processing
Uranium must be mined and enriched to form fuel for nuclear reactors. Each of these procedures results in radioactive contamination of the environment and risks to public health. Most uranium mining in the U.S. takes place in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Wyoming – areas of the country that are suffering from its effects. Uranium is mined by physically removing uranium ore, or by extracting the uranium in a newer process known as in situ leaching. Conventional mining has caused dust and radon inhalation for workers – resulting in high rates of lung cancer and other respiratory diseases – and both types of mining have caused serious contamination of groundwater. When conventionally mined, uranium metal must be separated from the rock in a process called milling, which forms large radon-contaminated piles of material known as tailings. These tailings are often abandoned aboveground. Twelve million tons of tailings, for instance, are piled along the Colorado River near Moab, Utah, threatening communities downstream. In the case of in situ leaching, a solution is pumped into the ground to dissolve the uranium. When the mixture is returned to the surface, the uranium is separated and the remaining waste water evaporated in slurry pools. Following this separation, uranium is sent to a facility for enrichment – a process that concentrates the amount of fissile uranium. Enrichment produces toxic hydrogen fluoride gas and large amounts of depleted uranium. Depleted uranium poses a threat to public health and should be disposed of in a geologic repository.
Waste from Reactors
Over 54,000 metric tons of irradiated fuel has accumulated at the sites of commercial nuclear reactors in the United States. There are several proposals to manage this highly radioactive waste, but none of them would satisfactorily deal with the material.
Yucca Mountain
The Yucca Mountain project continues to be mired in controversy and may very well never open. Numerous unresolved problems remain with the geologic and hydrologic suitability of the proposed site, and serious questions have been raised about its ability to contain highly radioactive waste for the time required. In December 2004, the Department of Energy (DOE) missed its stated license application deadline for the project. DOE currently has no estimate of when it will submit its application. In July 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the time limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during which radiation in the groundwater at the site boundary must meet federal drinking water standards was inadequate and illegal. In August 2005, the EPA released a revised standard for the site. The proposed standard, however, still fails to safeguard public health, and would be the least protective radiation standard in the world.
Scientific fraud is also a longstanding problem in the research on the site. In March 2005, DOE and the U.S. Geological Survey revealed emails showing that USGS scientists falsified data related to quality assurance and modeling of water infiltration at the site. Quality assurance (QA) is extremely important to good science, because QA procedures are established to ensure that the data are generated, documented, and reported correctly. The data in question deals with how rapidly water can travel through the mountain, corrode waste containers, and release the material into the environment. There have been other issues in the past with the movement of water through Yucca Mountain.5
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/article_redirect.cfm?ID=15422
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Private Fuel Sorage, Reprocessing,Fast Reactors, and Transmutation
Private Fuel Storage (PFS) is a consortium of eight commercial nuclear utilities seeking to open an aboveground “interim” storage site for 40,000 metric tons of irradiated fuel on Goshute land in Utah. After an eight year struggle, NRC granted the consortium a license in September 2005, but the license still requires the approval of the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Three of the companies involved in the project have also recently withdrawn or decided to withhold funding from the consortium. If opened, PFS would not solve the waste problem, even temporarily. By transporting waste and storing it above ground in yet another part of the country, PFS will just make the existing waste problem worse. The “temporary” nature PFS is also questionable, because the project is completely dependent on the opening of Yucca Mountain. PFS raises serious environmental justice issues, because the lease with the Goshute Tribe on which PFS is based is mired in controversy and corruption.
Reprocessing,Fast Reactors, and Transmutation
Fast reactors, in combination with reprocessing and transmutation, have also been proposed by the Bush Administration as a way to deal with the waste produced by nuclear power. Specifically, fast neutron reactors – high temperature reactors that use separated plutonium and have an inert gas or liquid metal as a coolant – have been put forth as a way to reduce the radioactivity of the waste by converting long-lived radionuclides into shorter-lived radionuclides in a process known as transmutation. But fast neutron reactors have a terrible track record in safety and are incredibly expensive. These reactor designs also have many remaining technological problems, including the difficulties of using plutonium fuels in operating reactors, low rates of transmutation, unproven fuel fabrication systems, and dangers to workers making the fuel. Even if these problems were addressed, fast-neutron reactors would not eliminate the need for a repository.
Reprocessing, the chemical process of extracting uranium and plutonium from irradiated fuel after it is removed from a reactor, also has problems. Reprocessing technology, which is an essential component of the fast reactor cycle, is extremely expensive, poses a security threat, leads to environmental contamination, and also does not eliminate the need for a repository.
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/article_redirect.cfm?ID=15422
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Thanks Anne. Posted to HP…hitting the hay now. EXCELLENT LINK Info!
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Security
Nuclear plants currently operate at 64 sites in 31 states. Considering the devastation that could result from a successful terrorist attack on a nuclear plant, ensuring their protection should be a priority in a post-September 11 environment. However, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and nuclear industry are leaving plants vulnerable.
What Could Happen?
The 9/11 Commission noted in June 2004 that al Qaeda’s original plan for September 11 was to hijack 10 airplanes and crash two of them into nuclear plants.6 A September 2004 study by Dr. Ed Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, using the NRC’s own analysis method, found that a worst-case accident or attack at the Indian Point nuclear plant 35 miles north of New York City could cause up to 43,700 immediate fatalities and up to 518,000 long-term cancer deaths. Such a release could cost up to $2.1 trillion, and would force the permanent relocation of 11.1 million people.7
Security Tests Still Inadequate
Between 1991 and 2001 almost half the plants tested failed to prevent mock attackers from simulating damage that would result in significant core damage and risk of meltdown – even though guards were defending against a group of only three attackers. After being suspended and revised following September 11, 2001, the new tests have less than double that number, according to Time Magazine and other sources. That’s far fewer than the 19 we have already experienced.
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/article_redirect.cfm?ID=15422
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Safety
A 2002 survey of the NRC’s workforce, commissioned by the NRC’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and conducted by an independent contractor, revealed troubling facts about employees’ confidence in the agency’s ability to be an effective regulator.8 Many employees reported a concern that “NRC is becoming influenced by private industry and its power to regulate is diminishing.” Meanwhile, only slightly more than half of NRC employees reported feeling that it is “safe to speak up in the NRC”—a finding that does not instill confidence in the NRC’s ability to identify potential safety problems before they become serious.
At the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants in New Jersey, operated by PSEG Nuclear, serious mismanagement and a deficient safety culture in fact led to the deterioration of the physical condition of the plant – a situation brought to light by a whistleblower who had been fired from her job as a manager at the plant allegedly for voicing safety concerns. Three independent assessments of the situation confirmed the problems at the plant, and an NRC review found “weaknesses in corrective actions and management efforts to establish an environment where employees are consistently willing to raise safety concerns.” The NRC also found a general sentiment among employees of the plants that PSEG had emphasized production over safety.9
Case Study: Davis-Besse
Mismanagement by FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company and lax oversight by the NRC allowed severe degradation of the nuclear reactor vessel head at the Davis-Besse nuclear plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, to go unnoticed for years until it was finally discovered in March 2002 that a mere three-eighths of an inch of metal ladding was all that contained the essential coolant pressure boundary of the reactor vessel, a dire situation that could have easily led to a reactor breach, subsequent loss of coolant, and potential meltdown.
A December 2002 report by the NRC’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that the NRC’s decision to allow the continued operation of Davis-Besse “was driven in large part by a desire to lessen the financial impact on [FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company] that would result from an early shutdown.”
The OIG further concluded that the “NRC appears to have informally established an unreasonably high burden of requiring absolute proof of a safety problem, versus lack of reasonable assurance of maintaining public health and safety, before it will act to shut down a power plant.”10
Case Study: Tritium Leaks and Ground Water Contamination
The nuclear industry has also recently come under fire for leaking tritium – a radioactive isotope of hydrogen – into the groundwater of areas surrounding nuclear plants. Leaks have been reported at the Braidwood, Byron, and Dresden reactors in Illinois, the Palo Verde reactors in Arizona, and the Indian Point nuclear plant near New York City. Even worse, nuclear energy companies have kept the discoveries of these leaks from the public, sometimes for several years. Tritium is a byproduct of nuclear generation and can enter the body through ingestion, absorption or inhalation. Long-term exposure can increase the risk of cancer, birth defects and genetic damage. In June 2005, the most recent study from National Academies of Science (NAS) reaffirmed that there is no level of radiation exposure that is harmless or beneficial, and that even the smallest dose of ionizing radiation is capable of contributing to the development of cancer. Tritium takes about 250 years to decay to negligible levels, and is very difficult to remove from water. 4
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/article_redirect.cfm?ID=15422
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Proliferation, Climate Change
Proliferation
Nuclear power also increases the risks the nuclear weapons proliferation. As more reactors are built around the world, nuclear material becomes more vulnerable to theft and diversion. Power reactors have also historically led directly to nuclear weapons programs in many countries.
Sensitive nuclear technology such as uranium enrichment and spent nuclear fuel reprocessing are ostensibly employed to create fuel in power reactors, they may be easily adjusted or redirected to produce weapons-grade fissile material. Moreover, power reactors themselves produce plutonium, which may be used in bombs. In practice, there is no way to segregate nuclear technologies employed for “peaceful” purposes from technologies that may be employed in weapons—the former may be, and have been, transformed into the latter.
Climate Change
The vast majority of public interest and environmental groups are adamantly opposed to nuclear power because it creates dangerous waste, brings unnecessary risks, and cannot rescue us from climate change. Over 300 national, state, and local organizations have endorsed a statement clearly outlining their reasons for continuing to oppose to nuclear power as a solution to climate change,11 while not a single environmental group is advocating for more nuclear plants. Nuclear power is too slow, expensive, and inflexible a technology to address climate change, and would entail the building of thousands of new nuclear reactors. These reactors would result in intensified proliferation, waste, and safety problems. These reactors would also drain investment away from renewable technologies. According to a new analysis by Public Citizen based on the work of governments, universities and other organizations in the United States, Europe and Japan, it is technically and economically feasible for a diverse mix of existing renewable technologies to completely meet U.S. energy needs over the coming decades.12 Clean, safe renewable energy sources – such as wind, solar, advanced hydroelectric and some types of biomass and geothermal energy – can reliably generate as much energy as conventional fuels without significant carbon emissions, destructive mining or the production of radioactive waste.
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/article_redirect.cfm?ID=15422
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Oh No!!!
See this!??? Just came through a tweet!
Japan Government Quietly Raised Safety Levels On Drinking Water
http://houseoffoust.com/group/?p=1897
OMG!! These muthers flackers!! They are doing the very same as our own EPA!!
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They will tell you the new standards will have “no health effects” with a straight face — by which they will mean that any decline in the productivity of the population will be low enough that it cannot be clearly attributed to the adulterated radiation standard between now and *their* retirement date.
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Oh yeah. They will spin IT from here on out, whereby making it NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE to TIE ANY OF IT TO FUKUSHIMA. And not just the Japanese Government, our OWN GOV! They will spin it for DECADES TO COME. Oh the Horror! Brandon said it right. This is beyond CRIMINAL – it WILL WORK (eventually!!) Who will keep track of all the data on this shit? Bloggers? No one in the MSM seems to be helping any of this!
It will fucking work. God…Lord help us. I’m sorry. This is BEYOND THE PALE.
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Expect more of the same here folks as before !
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And what am I seeing all over TWEETS?
“Japan to scrap Nuclear!!”
Oh that makes me so angry!! Yeah, scrapping Nuclear NOW!?! Too LATE … it’s too DAMN late.
Shame on Japan – Shame on the US Gov!! THEY KNOW THE TRUTH but are REFUSING TO TELL IT!
Coverups from the get-go. From every frigging Gov on the PLANET. Are they all in cahoots? Must be.
This INFO should be all over the TWEETS. I saw 1. Lucky I caught it as tired as I am.
TY Risa.
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TOMORROW…I’m getting a Twitter acct. I’ve had enough! I’m getting out there with NEW NEWS CONSTANTLY!
HP tonight is DEAD. There is NO ONE AROUND…because we’re left with NOTHING. I’m pissed…and WILL take it to another LEVEL TOMORROW! Anyone can Tweet…so I’m joining too.
Night all. Sleep well…I know I wont.
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I was waiting for you to make that HP–>Twitter jump. You have a good mind. Tweet like heck. I’m going after google+ in case it turns out to be worth doing. Not yet — the Sparks” all seem to be MSM.
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Obama punishes whistleblowers
http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-going-transparent-colapinto/
RT News
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OMG. Posted to the only thread somewhat ALIVE at HP. Good God HELP US!!
Deader than a DOORNAIL
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/12/us-nuclear-plant-regulatory-commission_n_896675.html#comments
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“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
So Emma Lazarus got it right. That’s my America.
But today it seems it’s only true as long as they came through Ellis Island. As long as they came in the last century. There is no Statue of Liberty on our Southern border. Sad.
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ANYONE THAT WANTS DATA FROM TEPCO
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EXPLAIN WHY YOU NEED IT: AND HOW IT EFFECTS THEIR HEALTH TOO…
ITS OUR BEST SHOT FOR IMMEDIEATE PROGRESS…
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so is typing in all caps. i thought you had a insider from tepco?
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http://www.anonops.tk/
ANON DID RADIO ON JAPAN> MEMBERS NEED MORE PUSHING FROM PEOPLE
BUT
NYPA MEANS NOT YOUR PERSONAL ARMY.
SO EXPLAIN WHY IT MATTERS
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Tacomagroove visit here:
http://12160.info/groups
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I am uncertain as to why this is relevant? Can you explain what it is I am looking for?
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Dark Nights of the Zombie City Dwellers
Dear friends, and those of you that have some brain capabilities left to think with. What many people do not know is how radiation affects the human body, and more specifically, the brain.
This is a huge issue that must be explored and researched as well kept track of because we are seeing theses affects on the environment and people from all over in real time. More real reporting is needed from those who suffer and documentation of all the stories too. The word must go out to help people and solutions are what should be sought after in the long run.
We are all no doubt being slowly irradiated. It has been coming since March and before that, and still continues to come down in the entire northern hemisphere poisoning everything in its path. There are many evidences of this that have since been covered up by the EPA and other sorted crony govt stooges. The major efforts to conceal and cover up this radiation and it’s effects has turned into a cottage industry in the lame stream media. The babylonic govts do not want you to know that they are allowing you to slowly die.
What we are seeing and continue to get many reports of are the affects of the radiation from the testimonies of many people. There are a lot of people feeling fatigued, angry, suffering confusion, loss of memory, and angst all around. Cognitive problems in general.
http://www.cancer.net/patient/All+About+Cancer/Treating+Cancer/Managing+Side+Effects/Cognitive+Problems
After some checking around, we find indeed that there are links to all these symptoms with the exposure of radiation. What is most interesting are the many reports of people getting angry and being mean. This is because the spirit of the body knows it is being poisoned and killed off and is conflicting inside causing many people to be off kilter, or in the state of Tilt!
Slow down and get ‘Zen-like’ is the new philosophy as we take slow purposeful steps going about the day. No hurry to die is the thinking now and material things are not as important as spiritual warrior words, deeds, and actions on the daily path.
http://www.aboutcancer.com/brain_side_effects.htm
http://www.research.chop.edu/web/research/faculty/radiation/index.html
Cancer is often the result and the damage it does to the brain results in a lot of the same symptoms people all over and more especially on the west coast are reporting. Could it be possible that people are suffering from the beginnings of the slow term kill-off already? Does anyone think there is truth in the medical industry around this?
From this link: http://www.livestrong.com/article/219129-lifetime-effects-of-brain-cancer/
“Some of these changes may be subtle, with the patient seeming “off” to their loved ones. In other cases, brain cancer patients may become quick to anger and display extreme personality changes. Since the brain damage as a result of cancer growth is very difficult to repair, these personality disruptions may persist long after the cancer has been treated, leading to lifelong personality changes.”
The radiation is getting deeper into the food systems world wide. There is no escape from the fact that this is happening. What is escaping is the truth about the real overall effects on everything and everyone planet wide. People, you better start thinking as One Specie instead of divided dis-eased sheeple because you are about to be wiped out! This is a good story and source of information from Japan with helpful hyperlinks:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/high-level-of-plutonium-rumored-to-have.html
Here is a very interesting older report about airborne radiation. This is more about mobile phone radiation, but there are some correlating similarities and questions can be raised about the fact that all this mobile radiation runs rampant in the big cities and it just hit this writer that the modem is putting out the electromagnetic energies from there too. Answer-> all electromagnetic devices are off at night to sleep well.
But oh, so you have towers, cell phones, modems, radios, computers, and TV’s, and all sorts of radiation emitting devices and then the fallout from leaking reactors in the US, and to top all that, the Fukushima catastrophe all hitting the country now?:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/airborn_radiation_olle_johansson%5B1%5D.pdf
So, if radiation is causing stress, and that results in conflict within and without, then it stands to reason that this also has a devastating effect on our systems:
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2008/01/09/34154.aspx
We all now know the brain is affected by radiation and some of the causes. Taking brain supplements like Ginkgo Biloba and Detoxing to stay as clear as you can is good. Anyone with better advice is invited to do so and add to this post. Here are a few more links to get you started on a healthy learning pattern. All we can do, is all we can do.
http://www.natural-health-home-remedies.com/radiation.html
http://doctorapsley.com/RadiationTherapy.aspx
http://thehealingfrequency.com/radiation-safety-guide-protection-from-radiation-hazards/
There are other things we can do to protect ourselves also. What we do not know is what the slow continued build up will exactly cause and how long it will take until either people fall over from sheer stupidity, or they tear each other apart in anger and confusion. You add some food shortages into those big city equations and well, we may be looking at the Night of the Zombie City Dwellers coming to a theater near you soon!
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I know of three men in their early thirties with gliomas caused by cell phone exposure. One of my cousins died a few years ago from a brain tumor.
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I caught Sam @ the computer again…
I think he is pissed about this whole nuclear flea thing…
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/laf/2496837558.html
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Palo Verde water spills investigated
Feds probe tritium levels at nuclear plants
Billy House and Ken Alltucker
The Arizona Republic
Mar. 23, 2006 12:00 AM
ROCKVILLE, Md. – Prompted by a string of accidental radioactive discharges, federal monitors said Wednesday that they have formed a task force to investigate the spills at several power plants across the country, including one at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Wintersburg.
“It does appear that it’s bang, bang, bang, one right after the other,” Steve Klementowicz, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission senior health physicist, said of discharges of radioactive tritium-laced water at nuclear plants in Arizona, Illinois and New York.
Tritium, a byproduct of nuclear power generation, is a relatively weak source of radiation. But long-term exposure can increase the risks of cancer, miscarriages and birth defects. It can be ingested or absorbed in human tissue.
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Klementowicz and other NRC officials said at a hearing here that the task force of experts will evaluate the health effects of what has happened at at least five plants since December and possibly earlier incidents. But they emphasized that the latest reports from all the sites, including Palo Verde, do not indicate any immediate public hazards.
At the Palo Verde plant about 50 miles west of downtown Phoenix, the largest nuclear generating site in the country, an NRC health inspector has been working during the past week with officials from Arizona Public Service and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to pinpoint the source and amount of the contamination.
APS, which operates the plant on behalf of itself and six other owners, first notified the state on March 2 that it found tritium in a maze of underground pipes. Water samples taken a day before had turned up levels 3½ times those considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water.
State, federal and APS officials said Wednesday that, so far, there is no evidence Palo Verde-generated tritium has migrated beyond the boundary of the plant or seeped into aquifers about 70 feet to 200 feet underground that supply water for the area.
NRC officials said the task force is to be made up of 11 experts from the commission around the country and one nuclear safety official from Illinois. The group will review the effects on public health, how well incidents of such discharges are communicated to the public and authorities, gauge the nuclear industry’s remediation efforts and evaluate their own agency’s oversight of the issue.
A written report summarizing the findings is due by Aug. 31.
In only one case so far, at the Braidwood Nuclear Power Station near Braceville close to Chicago, has contaminated water been found to have seeped outside the plant’s property.
But there are questions about how diligently some plant operators have been reporting such discharges, as required by federal law.
Last week in Illinois, state and local officials filed suit against Braidwood’s operators alleging they failed to report earlier discharges before announcing another leak in December. The operators did so only after state officials became aware of already existing groundwater damage and contamination of at least one nearby private drinking-water well. One such spill in 1998 is believed to have dumped about 3 million gallons of water that remains in the ground.
“Companies are suddenly deciding to report these discharges more openly now because they’ve got their covers pulled off; spills have gotten into people’s yards,” said Paul Gunter, a member of the Takoma Park, Md.-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a watchdog group.
Among groups that have been calling for an NRC investigation of the leaks is the Nuclear Safety Project for the Union of Concerned Scientists.
In Arizona, although APS has not pinpointed the source of the tritium contamination in water found at Palo Verde, company officials said more and more evidence suggests that rainfall, rather than a cracked or leaking pipe, could be a source.
Adding to this “washout” theory, they said, is that recent rainfall samples collected from a roof vent found tritium levels similar to the samples found in the contaminated water.
“This is what we believe is going on,” said Craig Seaman, Palo Verde’s general manager of regulatory affairs. “We’re certainly not willing to hang our hat on this yet and say this is the absolute answer.”
Palo Verde vents tritium into the air as a normal byproduct of nuclear power generation. Other nuclear power plants typically dispose of the chemical in streams or lakes where it quickly dissipates, Seaman said.
Seaman said APS officials believe rainfall captured the tritium released from the plant and washed it into the soil there.
He said APS believes it is a “localized phenomenon” restricted to Palo Verde, so it is unlikely rainfall outside the plant would carry heavier tritium samples.
State environmental officials who also are working with APS to determine the source of the tritium said rainfall would be more problematic than a leaking pipe.
“If that is their conclusion, that tritium is being released into the air and coming down to earth with the rain, that raises a heck of a lot more questions in my mind than it answers,” said Steve Owens, director of the DEQ.
Residents who live near Palo Verde say the federal government’s effort to step up oversight of contaminated water at nuclear power plants is a good move.
“I think it’s important,” said Charlotte Brafford, a Tonopah resident who lives near Palo Verde. “It is not a normal element or chemical that we hear about. So it’s a concern.”
Brafford splits her time between her Tonapah home and a second home by the Perry nuclear power plant near Cleveland, so she is concerned about the safety and environmental impacts of nuclear plants on surrounding communities.
“When the news broke about Palo Verde, we weren’t told much, so it was a question of whether we were being kept in the dark,” Brafford said.
Yet Brafford and other residents seem satisfied that APS and state officials have done a sufficient job of keeping nearby residents informed.
Within a week of discovering the tritium, APS and state environmental officials notified a Palo Verde community advisory panel of its findings. The contamination at Palo Verde also was the main topic discussed Tuesday at the Tonopah Valley Community Council.
“They gave us a very thorough briefing on this,” said Judith Shaw, a Tonopah resident active in two community groups. “From what I can gather, they are right on top of it.”
Owens said Arizona’s strict aquifer protection laws require an immediate report of such releases. “APS must disclose these releases,” Owens said. “It is a pretty stark contrast to situations in other states, where releases have been occurring.”
Because of the lax reporting standards at other nuclear power plants, Owens said, the review by the NRC “is long overdue.”
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0323nuke-taskforce0323.html
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33 Cuban Illegal Aliens Break Into Florida Nuclear Power Plant
Nov. 27th 2009
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=869_1259453747
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NRC puts Ariz. Palo Verde nuclear plant on watch
Feb 22, 2007
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/02/22/utilities-pinnaclewest-paloverde-idUKN2242142220070222
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Estrella Mountain, Arizona – Lights And Fire At The Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant
February 8, 2005
http://www.rense.com/general63/ezx.htm
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Palo Verde Nuclear Unit 1 Shut Down for Repairs
Friday June 18, 2010 – 16:01 PM EDT
SUGAR LAND–June 21, 2010–Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)–The 1,311-megawatt (MW) Unit 1 of Palo Verde Nuclear Station (Tonopah, Arizona), which is owned by Arizona Public Service Company (Phoenix, Arizona), a subsidiary of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (NYSE:PNW) (Phoenix), tripped offline on the morning of June 17 because of an issue with an electrical transformer.
Read more: http://finance.bnet.com/bnet/news/read?GUID=13515104#ixzz1SFDRoI00
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School yard radiation. Just made this video now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQEMv7Hedww
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I’m shocked! do they really want Americans to pick up brushes and clean those (Scrap)dangerous(Scrap) dirty reactors!!! shame on US!!! GWBush couldn’t have done it better!!!
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