Published: June 17th, 2011 at 6:04 pm ET
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Rising water, falling journalism, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Dawn Stover, June 16, 2011:
Virtually every article about the flooding mentions that the Fort Calhoun plant was shut down on April 9. On May 27, the Omaha World-Herald reported, “The Omaha Public Power District said its nuclear plant at Fort Calhoun, which is shut down for maintenance, is safe from flooding.” The implication is that being shut down makes a plant safe. But as the ongoing crisis in Fukushima demonstrates, nuclear fuel remains hot long after a reactor is shut down. When Fort Calhoun is shut down for maintenance and refueling, only one-third of the fuel in the reactor core is removed.
Published: June 17th, 2011 at 6:04 pm ET
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Thats what I like about enenews. All good news, all the time. If I wasn’t such a cynic and iconoclast I could get depressed. Now I just smile and shake my head, oh, and sip some hibiscus tea.
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Cossack55 Disappears into 7th Dimension After Drinking Hibiscus Tea
Hallucinatory Effects
Some people have experienced an hallucinogenic effect from drinking hibiscus tea or a sensation of feeling intoxicated. Take care when driving or using machinery if you are unfamiliar with the side effects of this tea.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/70513-side-effects-hibiscus-tea/#ixzz1PbmMZrz2
Note
Cancer
There are some early indications that hibiscus has an effect on cancerous cells in the brain and skin, based on research on medicinal plants from the Americas for the treatment of cancer and AIDS performed at the New York Botanical Garden, in coordination with the National Cancer Institute. Although this is good news, those taking anti-cancer drugs, undergoing radiation or chemotherapy should avoid the tea, due to possible interactions between it and their medications.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/70513-side-effects-hibiscus-tea/#ixzz1Pbn7z8pV
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Told you Homer Simpson was working there !!
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You were right!. He just asked if he should turn off his fire hose, five feet of water in the reactor building makes it hard to have lunch.
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This news is coming out so it will look like an oversight / poor communications / tragic misinformation for Senate Hearing Investigation !
No one knows whats in the pot cooking or anyone was cooking when the house burnt down !!
Everyone thought someone else was watching the pot !!
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Perhaps they’ll blame it on the ever popular ” faulty itell”.
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Maybe they can blame it on the ever-popular “faulty intell”. It worked for Bushco.
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Wonder if this thing blows would it help to the New Madras Fault to …. ?
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@xdrfox,
Are you aware, or anyone else posting, of the following
http://www.ufocasebook.com/chernobylufo.html
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Does’t look like a link I have seen !
What is it ??
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Gee – click the link. It is about a proported UFO that is thought to have kept Chernobyl from becoming an atomic explosion.
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Another (or the same) Chernobyl UFO here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhDiCC165G0
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didn’t click on till make sure no DBDL
So where is this again that we need them again ?
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NEW MADRID FAUL
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NEW MADRID FAULT
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My neighbor is an educated, 30 year old, working mom. I was going to casually talk to her today about Calhoun, and I introduced the topic by first mentioning Fukushima and what’s going on there.
She said, “What?”
I said, “Fukushima. You know, the nuclear plant in Japan.”
She said, “Oh yeah, I heard something about that.”
I changed the subject. Good grief.
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CaliMom, Don’t feel bad I get that all the time… sadly one day they will all wake and go O!!! That was what she was talking about……. Some people LOL just do your best to ready with what you got it’s all we can do.
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They are the Attack of the Zombee’s that the CDC has warned you about, when the sht hits the fan, they will be pounding on your door, FOOD, FOOD, FOOD !
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xdrfox:
They’ll be pounding on the door “water! water! water!” We can’t live without water or reduce our intake too much and be healthy. Humans CAN, on the hand, actually live on very small amounts of food (not that I have that much, just saying, we can lol)and actually live a lot longer, once after the age of 30, if they eat very little. It’s the children who have the double wammy of being vulnerable to contaminated water and contaminated food, the infants, the developing fetuses, have it the worst, 100′s of times worse with internalized/ingested low-level radiation.
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Water will be accessible even if unclean but food will become short clean or unclean I would believe !
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Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse
The following was originally posted on CDC Public Health Matters May 16th, 2011
There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.
A Brief History of Zombies
We’ve all seen at least one movie about flesh-eating zombies taking over…
>>> emergency.cdc.gov <<<
http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp
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This is the way it is. Sigh.
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I guess it’s progress…great progress in training the American people to be unthinking robots, produce consume produce consume don’t ask questions….why do Americans put up with the bullshit education they get? Opps that’s a question…..produce consume produce consume do american’s really like that lifestyle, aren’t you giving up a lot of just good ole fashion living….do you really need that super size me everything to be happy? Live with less but live! Boycott Nuclear energy…there is more of a future for you if you do!
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If you want to see a Zombie, ask a question about reality, … They can identify you also by doing so !
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Time to make smaller circles in my friends !
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xdrfox you’re very right. I lived for 36 years in Middle America. I currently live somewhere where it’s a bit better than that. Reality is very irritating to U.S. citizens, apparently. I’ve heard ALL the excuses for it; and mostly and ultimately, the excuses for reality avoidance, apathy, inaction, lack of revolution against the knuckle-heads running the status quo, are all cop-outs.
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http://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/ft-calhoun-spent-fuel-in-ground-pools-flooded-already/
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Oppenheimer thought all his pretty explosions could be a doom of humanity. He would have been shocked to realize it was the purification process that was the true threat.
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Well, the situation is better than Fukushima, since the fuel in the reactor has had over two months to cool. It’s still hot enough to melt, but not in the extremely short time that Fukushima Daiichi did.
There is still potential for disaster, though. It’s that ol’ spent fuel pool blues…
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I am looking out side in a thunderstorm and there are five of my neighbors in the rain, three young ones talking and playing around and two unloading a trailer from a truck hitch !
Whats wrong with this picture ?
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I think that’s known as the evolutionary selection process.
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There was a time that since people could not see germ’s and bacteria, they did not exist !
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More disinfo, lies, lies, and lies. The only way to know what is really going on is to own a geiger counter, and do daily testing. Join Radnet and Higgens.
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/Wichita-KS-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
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What is important to remember is just what the term “shut down” means in the mind of a nuclear psychotic.
Shut down in their world means shove all the control rods in to drop the fission efficiency to a very low level compared to full on energy production. There is not and never has been an “off” state for these systems.
Same as the Federal Reserve having anything to do with the US federal govt.
Sounds like it does, and that is how they plan on people to interpret the phrase.
Same as the view site advertised in an MLS listing where “the view” in reality is a crack in the tree limbs only in winter that lets you see the mountain in the distance if you know where to look.
Same as the green colored paper in our wallets with pictures of dead presidents that they infer is “money”.
Same as diet food labeled “lite” or “low fat”.
Same as milk fat % measured by weight vs total calories.
I offer this for the non-scientific amongst us who are trying to get up to speed on all of this.
How Twilight Zone it is that my Friday evening cultural experience is here on enenews with all of you as we do this self induced Clockwork Orange reality immersion.
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And now for something not completely different….
http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/?n=1
The pendulum has once again swung down for Reactor 1…so it has birthed some releases to let off the massive radioactive temperature…how high will it go in the next upswing?
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Unit 4 is awake again.
Either being attacked by a large raindrop, or egurgitating large amounts of steam.
16:10 on their digital clock
12:12 am PDT (just after midnight on the West Coast of N America)
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Fukushima Weather
19°C | °F
Current: Light Rain
Wind: S at 11 km/h
Humidity: 88%
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My latest video. A message to nuclear engineers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_y_UZGS0aY
http://www.youtube.com/user/AustralianCannonball
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Missisippi 8 x40years x100tons = only 320.000waste tons – is this the maximum?
All swiped into the HAARP-Katrina Gulf of Mexico?
Into the mess created with the hideously detonated oil rig platform hoax, and tankers unloading of mass murder poisons, death, destruction and harrassment?
320.000 tons of radioactive waste tsunamidumped into this pile? Oh how Adolph would be envious… see http://wp.me/pwIAV-19 (repost)
If it was me, you could already see earth moving equipment working on a new extra dam. Stopping, dismantling of all theses doubledecker G.E beach bombs downstream of the looming inland tsunami.
If it is obummer and his controllers with MSM popeye program, you will soon have hands on blister experience of the “change” – apocalypse now. See the folks behinhd all this; download for a shor period the Ed mond Pa ris’s book, The History of the J€§uits… as the previous link was taken down… this link is dynamite, copy and distriute as long as it is possible http://wp.me/pwIAV-1
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