Published: February 1st, 2012 at 9:29 am ET
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Title: Viktoria Mitlyng – Russian Gypsy Dancer Belly Dance Classes
Source: http://www.bellydancechicago.net/
Viktoria – Belly Dance Instructor and Performer
Viktoria is an inspired performer and instructor of Oriental Dance and Russian Gypsy Dance in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. She offers classes and workshops at her studio, the FireBird Dance Place, located in Naperville, IL. [...]
Viktoria Mitlyng [...]
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Title: Byron nuclear reactor shut down after power loss
Source: ABC 7 Chicago
Date: Jan 30, 2012
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While an art form, this is not exactly a “hobby” for her.
Russian American dance is a wonderful expression and the classical ballet as well. Belly dancing as a profession-for a nuclear regulator?
As the NRC spokesman, her qualifications and academic degree is in? Bachelors, Masters, PhD? In ???? Not knocking her dancing, but a spokesman/person should really have a good technical background and schooling in the subject matter. Which she very well may have, and years of nuclear engineering work/experience in her resume.
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Can you see Arnie opening a belly dancing studio? It’s the new rage amongst nuclear engineers. lol
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The way of nuke is a combination of strong arm behind the scenes corruption, and flim flam feel good statements, for method number two, why not a belly dancer, perfect.
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Tassels flying and hips a’shaking
Viktoria does the nuclear baking –
“Fresh from the oven of NRCs’ coven
bewitching sensation informs the nation!”
She’s got bejewelled reactors
that jiggle and bounce,
keep your eyes on her navel
and your worries she’ll trounce
and on nuclear physics
she gladly pronounce
as she gyrates and spins
at Nuclear House.
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Oh if if weren’t all true it would make a good movie…thanks for the laugh
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maybe because it is true it would make it an even better movie! a docu-drama…w/belly dancers! lol! STEP RIGHT UP! and do the nuclear bounce!
- Only in America!
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“keep your eyes on her navel and your worries she’ll trounce”
or-well, this was funny. Such a great metaphor for most of the MSM delivery system, and specifically for the nuclear news that is time-released out to us through controlled emissions (unfortunately the news emissions are better controlled and regulated than the radiation emissions from the plants). It’s such a nuclear bellydance with “tassels flyin’ and hips a shakin’”…
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Thanks admin…I thought this far too poignant to let pass
A good indicator that the Nuclear Industry is a Goddamn Three Ring Circus!!
Ah, the lighter side of politics!
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Meh… It’s a distraction.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN
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So you’re telling me they hired an actor to lie for them?
For shame!!
/sarcasm
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LOL!
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Hmm. belly dancing; nuclear energy
Sounds like Viktoria is about as qualified as the shills they’ve assigned to the Enenews account from time to time -
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Yes, James2, but she electrifies audiences…
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with her bejeweled reactors…
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She’s a very kinky girl,
The kind who likes to boi-yal wa-tuh
She will never let your spirits down ….
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I actually know a belly dancer who is a dynamite coder for scientific applications (FWIW). Still would like to know what actually happened there, though …
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I feel somewhat bad for having mentioned this. It’s an interesting, quirky piece of information, but I’m not sure it’s really relevant. I think most spokespeople are just PR people; they aren’t the actual “experts’ or “regulators,” and they don’t make any of the actual decisions. I personally could never be a spokesperson because such a person is required to spout whatever the “official” line is, and the official line is always calculated to protect/advance the interests of the organization. Spokespeople are not truth-tellers, and, given their job-description, they cannot be.
I find nothing wrong with being a dancer/artist. I find a lot wrong with being a mouthpiece that automatically goes into “reassure the public” mode before the data is even in about exactly how much was released and whether any other isotopes might have been in the mix.
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Don’t feel bad! It IS relevant, because
“…a mouthpiece that automatically goes into ‘reassure the public’ mode before the data is even in…” is relevant to how nuclear is spun by “hired gun” spinmeisters such as she.
“Spokespeople are not truth-tellers,” matters.
And by the way, I think belly-dancing is great.
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Yup. Nice focus, or-well. For some reason I’m in a mood for aphorisms today. The cumulative effect of nuke-world fantasy must be getting to me. Anyway:
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.” Otto von Bismarck
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aig, it gets to me too…that’s when I let or-well take over…gives ME deniability…:)
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Hi Orwell,
Belly dancing IS a great art form. Just had to crack a joke earlier. The coincidence is just too funny. I just get this mental picture of her dancing around a room letting guys shove dollar bills into her panties ….
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True, and very few reporters have a clue what they are reporting on either.
Is it no wonder the news is a complete sham most of the time.
The people creating the news want to manipulate it. The people giving the news to the reporters don’t know what they are talking about, the people receiving the news from them and reporting on it are just as clueless.
That’s why you have to see the original data in order to make your own assessment.
So far in this case every article says the radiation is “low level”.
But I haven’t seen a single piece of data that supports it. What are some measurements? What makes you think it’s “low level”, if we haven’t gotten the results yet? Why would “the non-nuclear” side of the cooling loop release radiation? In what form is the radiation being released? How far does the “low level” radiation travel? Where does it go?
It’s like the weatherman standing up there saying “the weather will be good tomorrow, and I don’t think it will get worse”. No charts, no temps, no weather diagrams…
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re: “What makes you think it’s “low level”, if we haven’t gotten the results yet? ”
Nothing–I don’t trust that it is.
I also would have liked info about how much was released and how far it was likely to travel, as I am currently about 200 miles downwind of the @#!# plant, and of course it was raining heavily last night when I had to go out.
re: “Why would “the non-nuclear” side of the cooling loop release radiation?”
–perhaps the more relevant question is why was this tritium “expected” if it was later attributed to “small leaks” in the piping? This either means that they knew the piping was leaking already or that it was not really expected, in which case the assurances that the levels were very low (before taking air samples) are called into question.
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Previously I posted something about nuclear scientists at Argonne National Labs and their off hours hobbies that I think applies to this story as well.
http://enenews.com/nuke-industry-report-explosions-fukushima-units-1-3-4-caused-additional-inventory-nuclear-rods-be-lost-spent-fuel-pools/comment-page-1#comment-154443
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I don’t think anybody would think twice about a hobbyist belly dancer. Nothing wrong with that.
But this lady doesn’t look like a hobbyist – she teaches classes in her studio – in what appears to be a full-time job. She also has a relatively strong foreign accent for an NRC spokesperson.
She could be a PhD nuclear physicist for all I know.
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She apparently was a journalist and interviewed some of the surviving Chernobyl liquidators (years later, I assume)–apparently she grew up in a part of Russia relatively close to the region. I posted a link to a story about it on one of the Byron-related discussions here yesterday:
Recalling Chernobyl
NRC’s Mitlyng looks back on covering USSR’s nuclear disaster
http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/2011/04/01/recalling-chernobyl/akqw7ix/
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Well, I guess she does have some experience in reporting.
I had to laugh when I read the part with her a bit angry about how little information was given to the people during Chernobyl and how virtuous the NRC is in comparison.
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Yes, that part caught my attention too, although my reaction was more one of dismay. I guess everything is relative: if you grew up under the Soviets, even the NRC looks good. If you believe the government has an obligation to be transparent and honest with its people (and even to respect the will of the people), the NRC is an undemocratic, thoroughly corrupt and untrustworthy agency.
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“Viktoria T. Mitlyng, an experienced international journalist and public affairs specialist, has joined the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III as a public affair officer. She replaces Pam Alloway-Mueller, who left the agency in January.
The regional office, located in Lisle, Illinois, covers eight states in the midwest.
For the past four years she has been a public relations consultant and account supervisor for two Chicago-based firms, the Millenson Collabrative and Public Communication, Inc., working with health, educational and arts organizations. Her work also included managing communications programs for such Chicago area institutions as the Shedd Aquarium, the Brookfield Zoo and the Morton Arboretum.
She was senior media advisor to the press attache at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia, in 1997-98. She previously was a reporter for the Moscow Times, an English-language daily in Moscow.
Between 1992 and 1994, she ran a journalism program for writers from nuclear and near-nuclear countries, coordinated coverage of international security issues and wrote about politics, the military and nuclear complexes in the former Soviet Union for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine.
Mitlyng has a master’s degree in French and Russian literature from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in French and Russian literature from Amherst College.”
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2002/02-025iii.html
always was pro military and pro nuke!
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Nice JT* arclight.
*Jackal Tracking
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never send a man to do a lemmings work! lol
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Public relations consultant = propaganda officer
But wouldn’t you think someone who lived anywhere near Chernobyl at the time of the accident and who met first hand with the liquidators whose lives and health were destroyed by it would be unwilling to serve as a nuke industry mouthpiece and put a happy face on its continued assault against public health and the environment?
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I’m sorry but that clinches it for me….I’ve been betwixed and bewildered all day about the reasons why Mitlyng was the NRC spokesperson for a high profile nuke accident, no one knowing how major or minor…that’s an impressive resume for a woman who currently hires herself out to dance at local Chicago hotspots…
While she may just love the culture and is all into the dance, she could also be compulsively seeking the sensual attention that every man five miles and closer wants to shower upon her. Mmm, there’s also the fact that Chicago is a big city, and one of the most corrupted in the nation (look at their financial scandals at the CME last year and oh, remember “mobsters”? They didn’t go away, they assimilated into government and corporate industries) so, could it be connections that brought her to the NRC??
Because French and Russian majors were not the intended sort to be hired by the NRC (UNLESS YOU JUST NEED TO MAKE COZY DEALS FOR FUEL RODS AND PERPETUATING THE IAEA LIES)…they were supposed to be atomic experts and citizen safety experts, representatives of the American public both civilian and military, with the good of its people its main constitutional objective!
While I admire her art form and her right to express herself off the clock, I want to hear about matters nuclear and safety from Viktoria about as much as I’d want to hear them from the drive-thru cashier at McDonalds!!!
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I’m sure Ms. Viktoria is a lovely person, and may have a degree in quantum physics for all I know. But NRC- really? A part time Belly Dancer?
Brings to mind Miss Elektra, one of the dancers in “Gypsy” in the number “You Gotta Have a Gimmick”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFRSawe33sA
I look forward to Ms. Viktoria putting on her electric light dance costume, and plugging into the Byron nuke grid when they announce safe restart.
We are truly living in an Age of Insanity.
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Gee..and all around performer..like the rest of the NRC..
NEAT…
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Preposterous, you say?
The below might be dismissed as preposterous by some, but still I would like to mention the fairly well known fact that many of the the elites are into some very bad things having to do with sex and drugs. Choirboys they ain’t. Many of them use coke & other recreational drugs & enjoy a, shall we say, active, uninhibited, & diverse amorous life. Many of them are hedonistic fast-lane types. Recall that many of them are sociopathic/ narcissistic. No consciences; exploitative; live for pleasure & power; etc. Can charm the birds out of the trees; world-class liars, Etc. In a word, totally AMORAL.
So here we have an NRC spokesperson all dolled up & posing seductively, suggestively, on her web page. Her ‘hobby’ or ‘avocation’ – why, nothing could be more innocent – attract young women into her sphere & teach them to do overtly sexual dances that seem akin to striptease.
Hellooo? Don’t a few cautionary alarm bells begin to sound? I myself am not so ready to put this into the ‘good clean fun & nothing wrong with it’ category.
Look up Bryce Taylor/Susan Ford online; Cathy O’Brien & Mark Phillips. Project Monarch; MK-ULTRA.
A very good book to check out is John deCamp’s THE FRANKLIN COVER-UP. (Your local public library probably has it.) I’d suggest reading that one first. Or go to You Tube – there was, probably still is, a video on deCamp & this info. DeCamp is an ex-Nebraska State legislator who discovered organized child sex and porn activities among Nebraska’s business & political elites. Boy’s Town was involved, as was a ‘teen drop-in center’. This is a super important subject to learn about if you don’t know about it already.
Once you check this out, you, like me, might not be QUITE so ready to dismiss as harmless good clean fun this belly dance avocation (recruitment operation?) on the part of this NRC spokesperson. Also recall that the NRC is just about as gangsterishly (neologism here) CORRUPT AS IT GETS.
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An NRC Cinderella story-
Ms. Viktoria performs at a NRC event, paid for by tax payer $.
She is approached by NRC mucky-muck dickhead….
“My dear, you are EXACTLY what we need as a PR rep in the greater Chicago area, kind of an anti-Erin Brokovich. Would you be interested in a career position? Why, yes, medical benefits. Of course, a fat 401K. You can start immediately? Perfect. Shall we retire to my hotel suite? I’d love to show you my etchings!”
and they lived happily ever after.
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I know nothing about the qualifications of Ms. Mitlyng, and agree that this doesn’t help the circus atmosphere. But belly-dancing is not necessarily a disqualification for intelligence and other job relevance.
My children’s godmother has a Master’s degree in Library Science and is an acquisitions manager for a very large, reputable library service. Evenings and weekends, she teaches belly-dancing. No connection. It’s an art form, and not (usually) lowbrow entertainment.
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Believe me, I have respect for belly dancers. My ex danced for years and my daughter as well.
I have zero respect for lying NRC spokes belly dancers as they dance around the truth! Please watch the video of Ms. Mit-lying during her short interview. Watch body language….her eyes dart up, down and sideways as she tells us all how perfectly safe we are.
Belly Dancing = +1000
Lying = -1000
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JACKAL TRACKING – these SPOKESpersons help the wheels go round, these Communications Specialists are part of “the pack”, these Public Relations Officers fight from false fronts when they offer a snack instead of real meat, they’re part of an offense designed to beat off dissent and critical thinking when offering Kool Aid for all to be drinking STOP OR-WELL!
I’m trying to say they are worthy of scrutiny, no less than other “players”.
They are “fair game”. They made their choices to act as voices and make soothing noises for meek girls and boyzes…
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That ABC news 7 picture of her, eyebrows tweezed, carefully made up, hair all long, dyed blond, and sexy – is this the image of a top tier industry/business professional – to me it brings to mind another ‘profession.’
The original (and present) purpose, or one of them, of belly-dancing was/is obviously sexual titillation. It’s a bit indelicate to go into on these pages, but I read or was told, forget which, that the harem guys/’owners’ were too fat to do much but just sit there and that the belly dancers’ gyrations were designed to help them achieve ‘release’ if you get my drift.
Of course belly dancing has its good clean fun/good exercise/muscle toning aspect and no one would deny it. It can be toned down and tasteful. Nevertheless…
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I think the part of her website that got me was the part about tipping.
Tipping is accepted of course – you can either tuck, on the side, or shower her with money over her head…
I would think also an NRC spokesperson would need a security clearance. It said she emigrated from Russia 10 years ago. Surely they did a background screen on her and she’s not one of those “honey-pot” spies the russians like to plant in America…
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HistoryCultureWomenDance:see this
“Serpent of The Nile”
“Women and Dance in the Arab World”
by Wendy Buonaventura
Interlink Books
ISBN 9781566563000
Not inexpensive, try libraries.
If you want a deeper understanding…
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Beast Women Chicago?
“SEE VIKTORIA ROCK THE STAGE WITH BEAST WOMEN CHICAGO CABARET PERFORMERS DECEMBER 3 AND 17″
“See details on the ‘Performances’ page and at:http://beastwomenproductions.com/home.html ”
OK – ‘the Beast’ can be used in reference to Satan. (So what’s with calling your group ‘Beast women?’) And didn’t Aleister Crowley the satanist/black magician call himself ‘the Beast’?
Quite a few highly placed people in govt. & business are actually involved with satanism/the occult. (It is a great way of controlling your operatives. (very interesting book is THE ULTIMATE EVIL about the ‘Son of Sam’ killings – occult connections NOT followed up by local police – guaranteed a fascinating & enlightening read. Your library probably has it.)
So the use here – ‘Beast women’- is suspect of being a double entendre. The elites LOVE the double entendres. They delight in parading these big fat clues right before clueless us & have us be totally oblivious/out to lunch. It just proves to them how smart they are & how stupid we the masses are.
‘Beast Women’ do at times at least perform naked. (Strip tease & beyond…beyond, I would venture to suggest, wholesome family-style entertainment.)
Also, that main pic of Viktoria, as she stares seductively, suggestively into the camera, & into the viewer’s eyes, has her wearing a very heavy necklace-type body ornament, that has a strong resemblance to a collar, such as dogs wear.
Again, a lot of the elites are into s&m.
So… maybe this Viktoria is not as wholesome & girl-next-door as she & NRC would like us to believe.
One has to ask, why would the NRC choose a person with these connections & extra-curricular activities as an official spokesperson, when there must be many qualified people out there competing for the job?
One thought – could it be because she is ‘controllable?’ And more ‘deeply connected’ to ‘other activities’ of the ruling elites?
Could she even…
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One of the winter “beast women”
Pictured here:
http://beastwomenproductions.com/winterseriesbeasties.html
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I nominate “Tassels flying and hips a’shaking
Viktoria”,…(thanks or-well),…for the poster child for the whore of Babylon,…
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A spokesman for any industry needs expertise in communication, simply sticks to talking points, and evades all else. who cares that she has a dance studio… those are actually hard to manage and make money at. in other countries besides the USA dance is very serious, you would compare it to baseball here (except the little league is almost all young girls).
that being said, i know for a fact that local news stations just fudge credentials, call someone at the top to get an ok, and stick in a paid actor… sometimes even from the local soap opera film studios, many of the interviewed “residents” are almost always suspect as being associated with the news crews in some way…
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Me thinks daddyfixit doth protest too much.
Sexually suggestive dancing is like baseball?
Dance studios are hard to make profit from? Then why have one? Unless there are other motives….
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You’re pretty sharp bleep! Methinks similarly!
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Ummm.. it’s… a… DUDE.
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"Victor"-Victoria"?!!LMFAO!
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As has been stated a Spokesperson is simply a parrot for the NRC. I do believe that a *one up for the NRC is that anyone questioning her qualifications will automatically be accused of being against her belly dancing. That would allow MSM to completely redirect everyone’s attention.
The spokesperson should be someone with degrees related to the industry they are reporting on.
In Canada citizens prevented a sneaky attempt by the Prime Minister to allow False & Misleading news.
~With that in mind is there a way to demand that by mandating it for the Nuclear industry as well as for other industries?
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TY Jill – the disturbing thing is that the ‘moral tone’ of our country is so low.
The elites at the top of the power heap (& NRC is close to the top of the power heap) are into pretty much all the things that organized crime, like the Mafia, are into, & this includes the sex industry. ‘Our’ political & corporate/banking leaders are into some activities that are deeply disturbing, including drug use & trafficking, & trauma-based mind control -’scientific’ torture the purpose of which is to create ‘operatives’ with multiple personalities & uses, & some of the uses are sexual.
It’s possible that Viktoria is involved with the shadowy ‘sex industry’ in some way; certainly this belly dance studio & involvement with ‘Beast Women’ could be the tip of an unsavory iceberg.
I’m a bit surprised that others do not find this pretty obvious, especially given the suggestiveness of the images on her website.
Putting it another way – what if the president of a women’s college ran a belly dancing studio in her spare time, & had upcoming performances scheduled with a naked dance troupe that calls itself ‘Beast Women’? What if your daughter’s soccer coach or Little League coach had that involvement? What if belly dancing were the passionately pursued hobby of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton? etc.
Belly dancing may have its innocent side – exercise, toning, etc, – I am sure it does. But it also obviously is ‘kissing cousin’ to ‘exotic dancing’ such as performed in mens’ clubs, for the explicit purpose of sexual titillation (and there the ‘dancing’ does shade into prostitution – and organized crime is involved).
I think the ?ability of this as an involvement for anyone in a responsible position in government should be obvious.
The possibility of links with underworld types & activities such as recruitment, even training, of women for the sex industry should be obvious.
The elites R bold. They take for granted the ‘eyes wide shut’…
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The elites take for granted the ‘eyes wide shut’ public.
Reference to the Kubrick film is deliberate. It hints at the involvement of many of the elites in the occult/satanic underworld.
Much has been written about this; not all of it is fringe/paranoid imaginings. Again I strongly recommend THE FRANKLIN COVER-UP, by John deCamp, and THE ULTIMATE EVIL, by Maury Terry – both available in most public library system collections.
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Information requests from NEIS: Were all IDNS radiation monitors in operation around the Byron station working on Jan. 30, 2012?
Did any of the monitors (onsite or offsite) detect radiation release from Byron on Jan. 30-31, 2012? Please provide the radiation levels measured.
If Exelon conducted releases beyond those dates, did any monitors (onsite or offsite) detect any radiation from Byron NPP from Feb. 1-2, 2012? Please provide the radiation levels measured.
If any radiation levels were detected, onsite or offsite, were local units of government within the 10 mi. EPZ notified? Were county officials notified? If so, which ones?
Please provide a copy of IDNS onsite inspector (Cliff Thompson) report on this incident of January 30, 2012 at Byron NPP.
See link for full requests/responses http://neis.org/?p=281
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NEIS was pleasantly surprised to receive a partial reply within two hours of filing the FOIA from IEMA spokesperson, Patti Thompson:
Although we don’t yet know the total amount of tritium contained in the steam released from the plant, Exelon provided maximum concentration of tritium present in the steam generator within the past few days. From this information and other data provided, we believe that the amount of tritium released was minimal and of no public health significance. Our monitoring systems are designed to detect radionuclides released from fuel damage during a nuclear power plant incident. Tritium is not a fission product and therefore our [IEMA/IDNS] systems are not designed to detect tritium. (emphasis ours) However, tritium is monitored through IEMA’s environmental monitoring program and is sampled and analyzed every quarter.
Environmental monitoring personnel from IEMA collected water and vegetation samples from several locations around the Byron station today. Those samples will be returned to our Springfield radiochemistry laboratory for analysis, and we expect those results within the next few days. We will make those results available to the public once they are available.
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Karli
Does anyone believe Exelon?
Why would they tell the truth, ever?
They probably routinely fabricate readings…
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The IEMA press release explained the nature of the testing. Results should be available the week of February 6th. NEIS will make those available when we receive them.
NEIS’ requests for information to the federal NRC Region III office were less than fruitful:
[NRC] got your message and wanted to get back to you. At this time the plant remains safely shutdown. The NRC continues to closely follow the situation. Here is a link to the press release we issued yesterday http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2012/12-004.iii.pdf
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Here is NEIS’s reply:
Thanks for getting back to me. Hope all is well with you. The specific questions I need answers to are:
how much tritium was released, under what circumstances (i.e., weather conditions, etc) and
did the offsite monitors operated by IDNS pick up any radiation readings
also — are the releases continuing today? or are they finished? If continuing, for how much longer?
These are not only of interest to me, but to the press who have been calling here. One account stated that an NRC official stated that these measure would not be available until
some unspecified quarterly report. This would not be acceptable to us. We’d like to save the grief of a FOIA here.
I’d appreciate what answers to these questions you can share. Thanks in advance.
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No further information has come from NRC about the tritium venting.
However, the IDNS admission that their equipment is not capable of detecting tritium seems to undercut the assertions of NRC Public Affairs Officer Viktoria Mitlyng, who stated to the press on Monday:
“[NRC’s] Mitlyng said officials can’t yet calculate how much tritium was released. They know the amounts were small because monitors around the plant didn’t show increased levels of radiation, she said.” (source: AP story, 1/30/12; Chicago Tribune, 1/31/12)
If the monitors cannot detect tritium, there is no basis in fact for Ms. Mitlyng’s assertion that the releases were small,” says NEIS Director, Dave Kraft. NRC does not have a separate set of detection monitors around reactors.
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Oh, and they assured everybody it was a safe amount – you mean they can’t even measure whether it was or not?
I’m shocked I tell you!
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Response 2-7: I just got some answer from NRC to the following questions I sent them last week:
The specific questions I need answers to are:
how much tritium was released, under what circumstances (i.e., weather conditions, etc) and
did the offsite monitors operated by IDNS pick up any radiation readings
also — are the releases continuing today? or are they finished? If continuing, for how much longer?
Answers follow…
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NRC’s answers to your questions.
1. The tritium level in the steam released from Byron can be determined from the level of tritium in secondary system water of Byron Unit 2. Secondary system water is regularly sampled and analyzed for radioactivity. According to this data, the tritium level at the beginning of the unusual event was 2.75 E-5 microcuries/milliliter. The plant is not required and does not provide real-time information about tritium levels in the secondary loop but provided this information to the NRC in response to our request due to high public interest. All radioactive releases from the plant must be reported to the NRC in the annual radioactive effluent report.
The NRC’s radiation limits are expressed in terms of dose to a human body from radionuclides such as tritium. Radiation dose from this particular release will be calculated using the known concentration of tritium in secondary loop water – 2.75 E-5 microcuries/milliliter – and the volume of water from the secondary loop that turned into steam during the release and other parameters that are prescribed by NRC guidance and regulations. NRC inspectors will independently verify the plant’s data and document the results of the calculations in the special inspection report as well as the plant’s annual radioactive effluent report required by the NRC. Both reports will be publically available.
Preliminary information on the Byron steam release during the unusual event will be verified by NRC inspectors but we expect the dose from the tritium released during the Byron event to be comparable to the dose that resulted from the Braidwood release which was less than .001 percent of the NRC annual limit.
2. I believe the Illinois Emergency Management Agency put out a statement last week on their sampling. I cannot speak for the State of Illinois but suggest checking with them for the exact information.
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@Karli – Thank you very much for this information.
Notice in their answer they were so responsive because of “high public interest.”
That’s the key!
Good job!
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(continued) NRC’s answers to your questions.
3. The release stopped the following day early in the morning.
Now having posted this, if someone can translate if anything was actually said I’d appreciate it.
I talked with IEMA spokesperson, Patti Thompson, the day after the event. She noted that they couldn’t measure the tritium because it was on beta, and their monitors only measured for alpha (I believe that is for plutonium). They were sending people to take samples the day after and have labs that can take finite reads. Still, she emphasized that there was no public safety concern.
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I have a friend who has just produced a book on tritium. Tritium is usually not monitored by the EPA except for its accumulation in drinking water.
That is, tritium is not routinely tested in air by the EPA.
Convenient, isn’t it, especially since tritium escapes from plants all the time…
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Tried to talk to the Governor’s office, the next morning,and was routed through several departments. They accidentally sent me to public health; that fellow didn’t seemed to care at all and did his best to transfer me to the IEPA dept as fast as he could. The gal at the IEPA wasn’t aware of the situation and wasn’t sure if her boss was or not. She said, “Oh, here’s a report on that. I’ll make sure he knows about it.” Then she told me that they didn’t handle the NPP issues as it was transferred to the IEMA. She said she’d transfer me to Patti Thompson, head of PR. Right! PR spin was not what I was looking for.
Patti maintained that the levels weren’t a concern. When I asked her about the other 11 or so NPP in IL, safety questions were deferred to the NRC. I asked about the back up systems in place as I’d read that a couple of the plants didn’t have adequate water cooling systems. Asked about systems to handle solar flare blackouts. She said she was sure this was handled as the NRC has strict regulations, and referred me to them.
Patti did proudly note that folks from all over the world come to IL to see how we do it (NPPs). Nothing that I’m proud of as someone from IL.
Living within 100 miles SE of Byron, I didn’t hear about the incident until the 10 p.m. news. Didn’t see it online, missed 5 p.m. news. Nothing like getting info out in a timely manner. Was very disappointed in the info I was, and wasn’t, given. Oh, the IEMA is a neutral part of the IL govnmt. No other State has an independent monitoring agency. No other State has 11 NPP plus Fermi Lab and Argonne Labs.
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I'm at I-55 & Harlem Ave. Midway Airport myself,and within the red zones of nearly all 11 commercial NPP's and 5-10 minutes from Argonne Labs. I'm also ashamed of IL being the site of the beginnings of the Manhattan Project at Red Gate Woods,Cook Co. Forest Preserve Dist.-where a slab of graphite fell off the back of an Army truck transporting whatever items weren't chucked into a hole and buried in concrete that can still be seen and a bronze plaque marks the spot where Einstein,Fermi,etc. once walked & conducted the work they'd later come to regret! Now I must admit that I thought it was a mistake or coincidence that the newly named "Nuke-Girl-in charge" was also of the same name as a very busy Russian belly dancer who "still"(?) somehow has the time to continue her activities that raise at least a little bit of concern-except for the guys following the logic of their "little,"OTHER" heads" and being tactfully distracted from their items of concern?!!~I have to wonder what the "exact" details of her appointment and especially the conditions & location of her first contact & "interview" for a sensitive nuke job that has implications for the public's safety if her credentials truly are only her "aesthetic" qualities!I'm glad I read this forum though!~I found some stuff posted by my fellow ENENews cohorts that had me laughing my ass off while reflecting on the serious points being made at the same time!! I needed that! Thanks for all of you spotting &…
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@majia – this was the info given by the Emergency Management Agency. They can’t monitor tritium either.
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Also called a Senator’s office, and the fellow I talked to said he didn’t think the office was aware of the Byron incident. He said he’d make sure the office knew. He said he didn’t know anything (personally) about NNPs, but would pass my STOP and DESIST message on.
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I’d be curious what IEMA monitoring results were for March/April 2011 since they’re monitoring for alpha.
ALPHA EMITTERS:
Plutonium-239 and 236
Thorium-232 and 229
Uranium-238
Americium-241
Polonium-210
Radium-226
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Help me remember – I’m getting the Illinois and the California problems mixed up. What caused the release at Byron – was it only a problem with the secondary loop?
Or was their a problem with the primary loop which mixed water with the secondary loop?
If so, just using the measurement from the secondary loop is inadequate.
You also have enough information to file a federal lawsuit against the NRC – and in fact releasing incorrect information by them is a felony – according to their regulations – good luck getting the feds to act on it, though.
The information they released was that it wasn’t enough to cause a health problem – but you now know they haven’t measured the release – only estimated and furthermore they have no way to measure it.
Playing hardball is dangerous with these folks, but it’s the only way to get it stopped.
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