Published: September 13th, 2011 at 6:36 pm ET
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Reactor at Savannah River Site SOURCE: NY Times
Reactor at Savannah River Site SOURCE: DC Bureau
The Bomb Plant, DC Bureau by Joseph Trento, September 12, 2011:
National Security News Service reporters spent the last two years investigating the most secretive institution in the federal government: the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its radioactive weapons facility – the Savannah River Site (SRS). [...]
Our investigation will take you to K Reactor, where the world’s surplus plutonium is being stored in a minimally-secured building located on top of the most dangerous earthquake fault in the South. [...]
TVA might use MOX fuels from SRS, Augusta Chronicle by Rob Pavey, June 10, 2009:
[...] The 600,000-square-foot complex [a $4.86 billion facility under construction at Savannah River Site is] scheduled to open in 2016, will dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus, weapons-grade plutonium [...] Clay Ramsey, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s MOX federal project director, said TVA [Tennessee Valley Authority] has expressed strong interest in using the fuels in some of its six existing commercial reactors. [...] “We’re very comfortable right now in the level of interest in our fuel,” Mr. Ramsey said Tuesday, adding that a second potential client — whose identity he could not disclose — has opened discussions about using the fuel. [...]
Published: September 13th, 2011 at 6:36 pm ET
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“”Located on top of region’s most dangerous fault line”"
…I’ve brought up the coincidence of nuclear reactors on Fault lines, because that’s where the water is.
Fault lines and water are turning out to be oxymorons when it comes to “safety” for nearby adjacent citizens.
red red wine
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The end of modern civilization because of solar flares likely to peak in 2013 causing Nuclears all to lose all their coolth:
http://www.naturalness.com/033564_solar_flares_nuclear_power_plants.html
It may help if all transformers feeding associated circuits go underground.
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Better still if all nuclears are shutdown simultaneously,starting now. Also simultaneously on a war footing cooling of nuclears after shutting down is by vapor absorption cooling by immediate retrofitting. Get together boys and prevent extinction by doing everything we can under the sun!
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See http://absorptionac.blogspot.com/
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The URL should be
http://www.naturalnews.com/033564_solar_flares_nuclear_power_plants.html
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Naturalnews ROCKS! He has some GREAT detox/supplement knowledge also.
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@ approx. 7:21 in the video:
“You’ll meet the true believers who look upon the poisoned land and the cancer deaths as a necessary sacrifice for our national defense…”
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I stopped reading Japanese bullchit after I stopped reading MSM.
These people care for nothing but $$.
Lives are disposable. So are we.. in case you have not noticed.
Welcome to the NWO – 101
I hope you are young, productive, pay your taxes to support the wars against humanity in the name of the FOL.. aka Friends of Libya.
What a joke.
No offence meant, I hope there is none taken.
But alot of well meaning people come here with their new founded ‘words of wisdom’ which ignoring this for months.
My patience runs thin today, I apologize if I was unduly mean… it is just that the injustice and SLOW genocide of humans is wearing very thin with me.
Again, no personal offence meant. It was the working that upset me.
Peace
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“Plutonium-238 has powered dozens of spacecraft, including the Voyager probes, the Galileo mission to Jupiter, and the Cassini spacecraft”. So is it crazy to think that the elite’ may have a space station to be powered with plutonium or a moon station? they sure need allot of plutonium and there are already more then enough nuclear weapons i think..
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@Lac sap>/b>
Iran just got theirs up an running recently. I Do not have a problem with Arab OIL countries that we/france/uk attack, in the name of FOL ( friends of Libya LOL)
Leave these peoples alone. We , in the US have alot of problems that need to be worked on.. like Zionist run Wall Street crooks, corrupt run/lobby run/ so called ‘representatives and senators/ even presidents.
Untill we can fix what is sorely amiss here, we have NO dam business killing and genociding other races strickly for OIL and acting like it is for ‘humanitarian purposes” while the US has nearly 23% unemployment ( realistically, as the only ones counted are the ones on the rolls collecting ) union busting corportrate Billionairs that don’t want to pay taxes, want to tax Senior with under 30,00 a year income, and Bail Outs for the corrupt and degenerate Wall Street/ Zionist ( not Jewish ) controllers of Isreal.
Japan is just following the ‘crowd’ and I hate them for it.
JMHO
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One of my brothers lives near Aiken which is very near the Savannah River Plant. The route I travel to visit him runs through the SRP. There are signs every few miles reminding you to maintain the speed limit set and to let you know that you may not stop for any reason other than an emergency. If you have an emergency, rest assured someone will locate you shortly.
Background radiation in SC is always high when I look at radnet. Could much of this be attributable to the SRP?
The construction of this plant is a travesty and should never have happened. The SRP is a major disaster.
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“Safety concerns raised about South Carolina nuke plant”
http://reportergary.com/2011/05/safety-concerns-raised-about-south-carolina-nuke-plant/
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Thanks, Mack. Here is a quote from this article:
“Although the plant’s operating license is still pending, the NRC finalized its safety assessment in December. Shaw Areva said it had spent $80 million developing safety analyses. The NRC said it had held 70 meetings, conducted 100 in-office reviews and submitted more than 600 questions to Shaw Areva for revised or more detailed safety strategies. The plant, both say, will operate safely.
Tedder and Murray are less confident.
‘We need congressional hearings on this,’ Tedder said. ‘The NRC review of MOX is not comprehensive. As a professional engineer, I find this position unacceptable and inconsistent with accepted engineering practices’….”
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“Savannah River MOX report 6 months overdue to Congress”
http://enformable.com/2011/09/savannah-river-mox-report-6-months-overdue-to-congress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=savannah-river-mox-report-6-months-overdue-to-congress&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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From the video: At the plant there are carbon steels tanks the size of basketball courts sitting in the ground – 49 tanks with 36 billion gallons of highly radioactive waste left to clean up !
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Savannah River is notorious for dumping radioactive waste into the River. It is one of the most dangerous nuclear plants in the country. There is also an actual nuclear bomb in the water just off Tybee Island in Savannah. What an idiotic idea it is to build another plant here. If someone wanted to do as much damage to the South as possible, this is the way to go about it.
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And the Savannah River polluted with Tritium.
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Ironic that there was just an earthquake in Birmingham just 300 miles away from SRS
Type: Earthquake
2 hours ago
Magnitude: 3
DateTime: Tuesday September 13 2011, 22:59:23 UTC
Region: Birmingham urban area, Alabama
Depth: 5 km
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Follow the link to the NYT article. Hilarious!!! if not soo terribly stupid and sad. unburying Plutonium, X-raying plutonium containing “barrels”, leaving barrels of depleted uranium out in the open, storing potential high-level transuranic wastes in KARST, I think at Karlsbad, NM. Another article full of holes meant to desensitize us to the absolute, bottom line unsustainability and outrageous criminality of the idiot nuclear power and weapons morons.
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Carlsbad, typo
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Top ten most radioactive places on earth http://brainz.org/ten-most-radioactive-places-earth/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
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maaa, Thanks very much for the link!!!
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I found another one. Ten most toxic places on Earth. Gives you a smile at the end. http://brainz.org/10-most-toxic-places-earth/
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maaa, thanks again! It really makes you want to cry. Also the end should be the motto for the Beyond Nuclear group.
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Selling future deaths by the metic tons far and near !
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Georgia
Earthquake History
The first earthquakes reported felt in Georgia were the great New Madrid series of 1811 – 1812. These shocks were felt over almost all of the eastern United States. In Georgia that series of shocks reportedly shook some bricks from chimneys.
The great Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake of 1886 caused severe shaking experienced in Georgia. On August 31 at 9:25 p.m., preceded by a low rumble, the shock waves reached Savannah. People had difficulty remaining standing. One woman …
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/georgia/history.php
Earthquakes that have struck Georgia
December 16, 1811 7.7 (est) earthquake centered in Northeast Arkansas, shakes the state of Georgia. Aftershocks reach 7.0. Today it is generally considered to be the first of the “New Madrid” earthquakes …
http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Earthquakes_that_have_struck_Georgia
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Earthquakes in Savannah? You Must Be Kidding…
28 Aug 2010 … Savannah has a higher risk exposure to earthquake activity than one might imagine. The U.S. Geological Service reports that Georgia has …
http://www.seacrestpartners.com/2010/08/28/earthquakes-in-savannah-you-must-be-kidding%E2%80%A6/
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Give that old nuclear bomb off of Tybee a real good shaking and it might just go off. It is leaking radiation, too.
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The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. During a practice exercise the B-47 bomber carrying it collided in midair with an F-86 fighter plane. To prevent a detonation in the event of a crash and to save the aircrew, the bomb was jettisoned. Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision
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South Carolina
Earthquake History
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/south_carolina/history.php
Johns Island Earthquake Risk Grade
http://www.homefacts.com/earthquakes/South-Carolina/Charleston-County/Johns-Island.html
Mt. Pleasant Earthquake Risk Grade
http://www.homefacts.com/earthquakes/South-Carolina/Charleston-County/Mt.-Pleasant.html
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Let me guess, the British are installing it….
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No, France – AREVA.
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But the U.S. taxpayers get to pay for it.
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“Although the plant’s operating license is still pending, the NRC finalized its safety assessment in December.
reminds me of “casino”, the film:
“you dont need a licence, it is enough to apply for one, they have a ten years backlog on giving licences out”……
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Have a look at this documentary:
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl
We need more people to see and understand what nuclear technology means to our world.
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The office walls of everyone involved in the perpetuation of nuclear power and weapons ought to be lined with the photos of these Chernobyl children so that they could keep them in mind every day.
I have seen similar children in institutions operated by the state here in the U.S.
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It is the same method an insect exterminator uses: first spray all the exposed adults, then poison the food and water supply.
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Excellent 30 minute video from the ABC
http://australiancannonball.com/2011/09/13/the-fukushima-syndrome/
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AC
I have found a great respect for you and the media in Australia.
If there ever was a topic starter, this should be at the top.
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I live in Georgia, in what is considered to be the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) and I can tell you that the Savannah River Site (SRS) is very secretive. All I knew about it prior to this was that it was a bomb factory during the cold war. Also, the CEO recently resigned and there have been at least a thousand people laid off this year. I am so grateful for this information. I’m pretty sure that the public has no clue. With regard to the high radiation readings, there is also a nuclear energy facility – Plant Vogle just across the river on the GA side, so I do not wonder about the readings. Any suggestions as to what I can do to spread this information locally?
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If someone with a Geiger counter could go to the dumping site of the dredging of the Savannah River they have been doing may yield some valuable information !
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Well, I’m someone and I do have a Geiger counter!
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I don’t know if I could get anywhere near enough though. The perimeter is pretty tightly controlled. I do know someone who used to work there, though. I’ll talk to him about it and see if he can help.
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Good going and good luck on the project.
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Looks like Dracula’s FREAKIN’ Castle!
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Am I crazy, or does this look like chernobyl?
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Folks, one thing I cannot stand about the video – just an obsession of mine I guess.
Anybody that cannot pronounce the word NUCLEAR and instead says NUKULAR instantly appears to be a rube to me…
The announcer in this video does it right from the beginning. Harkens me back to the first time I heard “the decider” say it that way and I almost fell off the couch.
Also, tell the guy if he’s going to produce a series of them to get a sound booth, or at least a cardboard box lined with foam and put the mike in there while he is recording the video – so it doesn’t sound like he recorded it in a tin can.
Those two things will discredit this as an amateur production. I haven’t watched the whole thing but it looks like there is some good information.
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“Anybody that cannot pronounce the word NUCLEAR and instead says NUKULAR instantly appears to be a rube to me…”
YES!!!!!! I’m glad I’m not the only one who is seriously irked by this.
It’s particularly annoying when presidents say this (e.g. G. W. Bush)–they’ve got their finger on the button, and they don’t even know how to pronounce the name of the weapon that they are one click away from destroying the planet with.
If a politician doesn’t even know how to pronounce the word, one wonders how much else he/she doesn’t understand about it.
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It was a year long investigation. The video is full of information. Well worth watching/listening to.
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I just want to point out that while this article presents the industry’s current talking points regarding plutonium reprocessing, that position is a COMPLETE REVERSAL from earlier ways of understanding the relation between reprocessing and non-proliferation efforts. The article says:
“The concept of mixing plutonium with traditional uranium oxide reactor fuel is part of an international nonproliferation plan. The plutonium to be used at the MOX plant comes from dismantled warheads, and its conversion to commercial fuel prevents its use in nuclear weapons.”
In fact, prior to the 1980s, nuclear fuel reprocessing was seen as dangerous precisely because it might FACILITATE nuclear proliferation.
“On April 7, 1977 , President Jimmy Carter banned the reprocessing of commercial reactor spent nuclear fuel. The key issue driving this policy was the serious threat of nuclear weapons proliferation by diversion of plutonium from the civilian fuel cycle, and to encourage other nations to follow the USA lead.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
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The claim that plutonium reprocessing is about non-proliferation is a lie. Here’s more likely scenario: The DOE has vast amounts of plutonium on hand. It costs a lot to dispose of plutonium in ways considered safe, and it is also politically very difficult to dispose of it because most people don’t want the stuff dumped in their state–BUT if they sell it to nuke plants, they not only don’t have to pay the high costs of disposal, they might even be able to make a profit off the stuff. And thus the cycle goes on and one and on. Incidentally, Obama
“Obama’s dirtiest, deadly secret exposed: Plutonium ‘Bomb Plant,’ ‘Green future’”
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/obama-s-dirtiest-deadly-secret-exposed-plutonium-bomb-plant-green-future
“Obama and Works of Death”
http://ncronline.org/blogs/road-peace/obama-and-works-death
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Sorry–didn’t finish my last sentence:
Obama has approved the building of a plant to create MORE plutonium and plutonium-based weapons.
So while one part of the government is trying to get rid of its existing plutonium (and claiming it is in the interests of non-proliferation), our government is builiding a facility to produce still MORE of the stuff.
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Iam, I’m very happy that others are onto this.
Did you see the comment several weeks ago in the article about closing the Sellafield MOX plant.
They said they had to keep reprocessing the plutonium into MOX, because of the finances.
I don’t remember the exact wording, but it indicated that they had taken all of the stockpiles of used plutonium warheads and instead of counting them as a liability that needed to be cleaned up they had already put them back into the books as an asset.
In other words, they’ve already sold the material back to the public. And they’ve taken the money that was budgeted for disposal and spent it elsewhere.
That explains why the government shills have been here trying to block all this information from getting out.
Obama – and the Federal government has literally bet our financial future on MOX fuel – while at the same time selling our health down the river.
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I didn’t see the Sellafield article. Was it posted here?
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The House rejected Obama’s request to build a Plutonium-238 plant. This would have fuelled interplanetary space missions.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/the-15-million-budget-battle-that-may-end-outer-solar-system-exploration/244925/
Pu-238 is 270 times as radioactive than the better known Pu-239. The idea was to launch this stuff into space and hope it doesn’t blow up in the atmosphere, like what happened in 1964.
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Looks like they ARE continuing to fund the preparation of plans for it, as well as “initial construction”
“While professing to favor postponing construction of the actual new plutonium facility itself until it is 90% designed . . . the SAC [Senate Appropriations Comm.] would also provide $40 million (M) for initial construction, which could start as early as next month, and another $40 M for the purchase of specialized equipment (e.g. plutonium vault doors, specialized nuclear air-handling equipment).”
http://www.lasg.org/ActionAlerts/Bulletin128.html
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Re: “Looks like they ARE continuing to fund . . .”
More precisely, looks like it s still “on the table”; the relevant Senate committee is still considering it.
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“Senate committee OKs boost in nuke weapons funding”:
“The Senate proposal recommended . . . $240 million for the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement facility, a multibillion dollar project that includes a hazardous-plutonium handling and storage building. The recommendation represented a $60 million cut from the administration’s request and echoed a $100 million reduction in the House version of the energy and water bill from earlier this year.
A Senate staffer said that the FY12 funds for the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement facility were intended for completion of design and engineering.”
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Senate-committee-OKs-boost-in-nuke-weapons-funding
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“Senate funders would (re-)start construction of $6 billion plutonium fortress in Los Alamos but cut back next year’s budget somewhat”
“The recommendation will support the full request for design activities, but does not provide the additional funding to support early construction. The NNSA is not prepared to award that project milestone since it must first resolve major seismic issues with its design, complete its work to revalidate which capabilities are needed, and make a decision on its contracting and acquisition strategies.”
http://www.lasg.org/ActionAlerts/Bulletin128.html
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Sorry–pasted wrong heading over this one–this quote is apparently from a report by House Republicans.
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Xdrfox, they know perfectly well where that Savannah bomb is. It was found while I was still living in Savannah. But the military said it was ‘best not to move it’. Uh, why? Well, it’s LEAKING, that’s why, and moving it might make it cranky.
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The only reasons they are pushing Mox fuel are that they don’t want to pay to dispose of it in a safer way AND they know that they don’t really even have a truly viable solution for safely disposing of it in the long-term.
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need to clarify/correct Savannah is in Georgia not S. Carolina
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Yes, but the Savannah River Site, which is 310 square miles, is located in southeastern South Carolina. It’s bordered to the west by George and the Savannah River.
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