Published: August 27th, 2012 at 6:48 pm ET
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Title: Commentary: The charmed life of Katie, the radioactive goat
Source: MarketWatch (Wall St. Journal)
Author: Al Lewis
Date: Aug 15, 2012
Katie the goat died Sunday.Inoperable cancer. It was bound to happen eventually, grazing the way she did, downwind from a nuclear power plant.
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She was found as a stray wandering down a rural road [and] ended up as a pet on a sloping meadow in Waterford, Conn. And there, she ate the sweet grasses growing five miles north of the Millstone Nuclear Power Station.
Lab techs would come by and test Katie’s milk. In a 2001 report, Dominion Resources Inc. (US:D), owner of the Millstone plant, acknowledged Katie’s milk contained radioactive isotope strontium-90, among other frightening carcinogens.
[...] the plant, which generates about half of Connecticut’s electricity, denied it was the cause of this toxicity. Apparently the radiation in Katie’s milk must have come from somewhere else.
The state’s Department of Environmental Protection also concluded Dominion wasn’t to blame. The agency’s then-director, Regina McCarthy, eventually went on to become assistant administrator for air and radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama. So breathe that.
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At Dominion, there was no mourning for Katie the goat’s passing. “We have no comment,” said Ken Holt, spokesman for the Millstone Power Station.
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Published: August 27th, 2012 at 6:48 pm ET
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Where the hell do they think Katie's poisoning came from if it wasn't from their nuke plant? They are just making themselves look stupid by denying anything.
Poor goat probably died a really painful death.
That's what's in store for a lot of other life on the planet too.
What are they doing? Borrowing Tepco's playbook?
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"Katie’s milk contained radioactive isotope strontium-90, among other frightening carcinogens."
What can you say to proof like that.
“We have no comment,” said Ken Holt, spokesman for the Millstone Power Station.
Exactly how is it that the DEP found the Nuclear Plant not to blame? Then, who was? This must be answered one would think.
How does this 'crap' always seem to slide by.
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…always seem to slide by….?
(paraphrasing)
Regina McCarthy… (now)
assistant administrator for,
the E P A
under Obama.
Oh.
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Not good at all.
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More photos of Katie and her offspring:
http://www.katiethegoat.org/
http://www.katiethegoat.org/photos/
I owned goats when I had a ranch in the late 1990s and they were the sweetest animals. I had Spanish and pygmy goats…my favorite was a white goat named Snowball.
Animals can't tell you when they are sick, just like human babies.
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Just look at the birth defects in Katies offspring, heart, and organs.
http://www.katiethegoat.org/katies-tragedies/
I "hope" humans in Japan do not face the same deformations in their children. Hope is not scientific; Hope is a dream for a future.
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"Developing fetuses are most vulnerable to radiation exposure. Radiation causes cell mutations and birth defects, including digestive tract aberrations and heart defects. Following the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in 1986, so many babies were born in Ukraine and Belarus with a common, potentially fatal, heart defect that the condition became known as “Chernobyl heart.”"
Soon the world will know 'Fukushima Heart'.
Will Barack Obama tell his daughters not to have children, because of 'Fukushima Heart', or will he tell them nuclear power is fine and there is no problem with Fukushima? Will Mitt Romney? Because the next President of the US is going to have to either tell the truth, or tell his children a horrible lie.
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@Sickputer
I note that Katie's breakfast in the picture contained carrots. Carrots concentrate and remove heavy metals from the soil. But yes, we are looking at a similar future whether or not BO tells the truth.
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BO does not believe in telling the truth!
So don't hold your breath, except to avoid breathing in betas.
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A goat living 'downwind' from two operating NPPs, and any bio-accumulated fallout from the operation of the now-defunct Unit 1 NPP. This goat was absorbing radiation released during 'normal' operations. Katie the goat was approximately 14-15 years old, and died from massive cancer throughout her body.
The entire living biosphere is living 'downwind' from Fukushima, with three melted cores, three aerosolized SFPs, all including massive amounts of uranium and plutonium. Hundreds of thousands of becquerels of radiation being released – hourly – for thousands of years.
We can look at Katie and get a pretty good idea how long we're going to last. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
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So I wonder how many people also live in Kate's vicinity? I wonder if animals (grazers) outside of the five mile area have developed cancers as well?
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Highest cancer rate for women in CT:
http://www.mothballmillstone.org/news2006d.html#steinberg
http://www.mothballmillstone.org/index12.html
Or radiation rates in children's teeth (Millstone was part of the study):
http://www.familiesagainstcancer.org/?id=379
It kills the children first. Then us.
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This is going on all over the USA….
75% US Nuclear Plants Leaking Toxic Tritium Radiation Into Drinking Water Supply; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/75-us-nuclear-plants-leaking-toxic.html
Three Mile Island (TMI) Coverup; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/three-mile-island-coverups-exposed.html
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AGR…I've missed you. Good to see you again.
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More blatant lies from killers……the usual crap.
The "Nuclear Era" is going to end.
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"The "Nuclear Era" is going to end."
With a bang or a whimper?
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I'd prefer a grand celebration of NO MORE NUKES — with lots of champagne and some wild orgies of glee! It's great to dream.
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Youre not into partying much are ya dharm? JK LOL
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RT…Where's the next party, but I want to know only if this horror is over!!!
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Hopefully with a whimper Jebus…Ive had enough bangs, how about you?
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Stand way back and it becomes clear that the bang referred to, is instantaneous.
The whimper has no immediate threat to life, so they say…
With 2000 nuke missiles(with multiple warheads), "ready to go".
Being the reason, for nuclear radiation plants.
Something, you can never use.
The tone of the times.
I'd say, It's something that has to go away, to make the nuclear era, go away completely.
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A little talked about incident at Millstone was when "On December 13, 1977, two hydrogen explosions occurred at the Millstone
Nuclear Power Station Unit No. 1, a boiling water reactor (BWR). "
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/gen-comm/bulletins/1978/bl78003.html
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Interesting reading, thanks BMURR… "there have been 25 known hydrogen explosions in the outgas system of BWRs" – And why does that give me the feeling that alone in the 'western' world there has been at least one chernobyl/TMI no one has ever heard of. Evidence seem to suggest that not only are nuclear reactors a lot less failsafe than the industry claims, they are downright unstable!!
Regarding the article, i find the statements by the plant owners to be a prime example of cognitive dissonance. "The reason for the massive load of cancers in your goat is NOT the nuclear power plant just down the road.." YAH RIGHT!!!
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Also, a follow up on previous report of millstone unit 2 going down due to high water temps in Long Island Sound.
Unit 2 is apparently back in business at 100% power.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/conn-nuclear-power-plant-back-at-full-service-13-days-after-unit-closed-with-too-warm-water/2012/08/27/48123b1c-f03e-11e1-b74c-84ed55e0300b_story.html
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According to Wiki page on George Galatis, Millstone pays $500,000 a day for replacement power when the unit is down, and this is back in the 1960's. Imagine what it cost them these last few weeks…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galatis
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brilliant tongue-in-cheek on the part of WSJ! Maybe they're waking-up to the lie. I know…dream-on dreamer…
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