Published: June 28th, 2011 at 4:24 pm ET
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Wildfire near Los Alamos triggers air monitoring, AP, June 28, 2011:
[...] The New Mexico Environment Department is monitoring the air for radioactive particles and tritium using low-volume air pumps. [...]
As Obama Quietly Pushes for a Nuclear Weapons Renaissance, Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Nuclear Lab, Democracy Now, June 28, 2011:
Starts at 4:15 in
[...] GREG MELLO [Director of the Los Alamos Study Group]: Well, Los Alamos National Laboratory is the—in funding terms, it’s the main nuclear warhead facility of the United States. There is a lot of plutonium there. There’s tritium—actually, tritium very close to the fire, about half a mile from the fire. Part of the problem is there’s an information deficit, and there’s a serious trust deficit. You can’t really take anything that the laboratory says at face value. It’s kind of a minimum—you know, they’d be the last to tell you if there was a serious problem. So you have to piece it together from other information. And that’s—Los Alamos Lab is becoming the center of plutonium manufacture for the country. [...]
Published: June 28th, 2011 at 4:24 pm ET
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what happens when fire meets tritium?
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It would become an aerosol? Anyway our rivers are dosed with this from nuclear power plants. No worries.http://iicph.org/news_0601-tritium-in-water
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arnie is finally giving interview starts in less then 10 min aparently http://wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=section&id=1&Itemid=2
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In case you miss it
MSNBC Nightly News
Fire continues to threaten nuclear lab
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619//vp/43569968#43569968
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I’ll post this lame BS myself..
No weapons at Los Alamos ..Huh?
Listen to his tone and diction..he sounds like he is talking to children.
http://www.koat.com/video/28385706/detail.html
http://www.fpif.org/blog/Los_Alamos_Chemistry_and_Metallurgy_Research_Replacement_nuclear_pits
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For the most part he is.
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Good one. LMAO
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unbelievable.
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“eyes Roll”
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“That’s a Murderer in The White House, WHO will Say It?”
a cia assassin for the new coming order.
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No, just a tool of the TBTF banks and the Federal Reserve.
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The EPA says that tritium is one of the least dangerous radioactive substances. Why am I not reassured?
How does tritium affect people’s health?
As with all ionizing radiation, exposure to tritium increases the risk of developing cancer. However, because it emits very low energy radiation and leaves the body relatively quickly, for a given amount of activity ingested, tritium is one of the least dangerous radionuclides. Since tritium is almost always found as water, it goes directly into soft tissues and organs. The associated dose to these tissues are generally uniform and dependent on the tissues’ water content.
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclides/tritium.html#healtheffects
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The brain is mostly water. sigh…
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OK
Here is some more perspective on this “tone of voice” nonsense (for us).
I graduated from college in 1981.
My college girlfriend and a lot of her friends graduated in Journalism.
Which meant that they lived in a parallel universe of sorts, from mine. I was in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I was stuck studying Friday nights and all day Saturdays while they partied and played. They rarely had to deal with their studies on the weekends.
But to the point…
their primary focus for 4 years was to learn how to write so that the average 8th grader in the US could read the story and comprehend it, while at the same time not overwhelm the 8th grader and still make the story sound informative to a “normal” adult.
That was, I just now realize, 30 years ago. Back then there was still some sense of true journalism in the media.
That is essentially gone, as are roller skating waitresses and drive in diners.
Most of what used to be real journalism has been reduced to sound bites and what ever it is they do on Fox News.
Reminds me of rap and hip hop with respect to clueless white guys….it is not meant for you to understand it.
Like my very urban inner city girlfriend of the early 90s explained to me, (the clueless white guy from the suburbs)
“That’s the whole point!!!! They don’t want you to understand it! They are rapping about stuff that you do not understand, will never understand, that they already know you will never understand. Your a white guy. And you don’t understand that you don’t and never will understand.”
I hope that made sense.
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the media is deliberately dumbed down, all this behind the thick, confusing, artificial sludge of lies, half-truths, disinformation and industrial strength corporate propaganda.
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I just listened to Jeff Rense’s interview Fukushima: The End of the West as We Know It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUjJxTevy6k
I am very concerned about the language used by the person he interviewed to describe Fukushima’s future children as “mutants” and “degenerates.”
These children will be victims not mutants. The real degenerates are the people who allowed this to happen and stifled information about the dangers of nuclear power.
Please help resist this dangerous, eugenic vocabulary!
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Thanks for the tritium info.
Would be great to hear more about the invisible world and the effects on people’s health in the mainstream media/govt/industry. But it’s all about what’s happening logistically at the plants (and not much info. there, just a bunch of bloated talk). Or the health effects are presented in the form of disinformation (low doses, comparing to external radiation such as x-rays and cosmic radiation, from rock, eating bananas, etc.)
We don’t want the masses understanding the molecular world around them and how bad inhaling/ingesting/absorbing radionuclides really is.
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Just Tweeted:
TEPCO: Will Someone Turn Off the Lights?
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/06/tepco-will-someone-turn-lights/39364/
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Thanks Whoopie. A great in-depth article.
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I can’t believe that the chairman was actually re-elected!!!???
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The director of LANL spoke at a noon press conference today… very annoyed at being asked questions by reporters… extremely condescending in tone with his replies… it was embarassing to watch, actually. My aunt used to live up there- she said that many of the lab workers and thier spouses were ‘insufferable’.
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More, perhaps in a less condescending tone, YMMV. It’s what they WOULD say, but I want it to be true.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/LANL–No-radiation-released?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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“numerous barrels of stored radioactive waste at the Laboratory are surrounded by bare mineral soil or asphalt and there little chance that the fire could impinge on the barrels. The operations manager of the Lab said that if a wildfire does approach the radioactive materials they have equipment on site that will cover it with foam, further protecting it from fire.”
From http://wildfiretoday.com/
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