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Showing posts with label Nuclear - Accidents. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 3, 2017

CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERICS DISTRACT US FROM FACING OUR LACK OF CONTINGENCY PLANS for nuclear power plants meltdowns, nuclear waste disposal, and EMPs or electromagnetic pulse catastrophes unleashed by nukes or giant solar flares, which would bring the USA back to the stone age

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The ongoing fixation with man-made climate change serves to divert attention from the real danger to all life on earth from the nuclear industry and from EMP events.  Well-meaning environmentalists have fallen for this ruse quite unaware of how they are being manipulated.    
  • Clean, safe  nuclear energy is nothing but a hoax. There is no safe way to dispose of highly toxic nuclear waste, as it continues to accumulate.   
  • Nuclear power plants have a relatively short life (a few decades at the most) and their decommissioning is extremely expensive. 
  • A number of catastrophes can certainly precipitate the meltdown of all nuclear power plants (NPP) in an affected area.  
  • For example, a major solar flare directed towards the USA and Canada would fry all electronics and destroy the electric grid.  It's not a matter of if, but when. 
  • NPPs need electric power to function.  Without it they would go into meltdown in a matter of days, contaminating large swathes of the country, killing millions of people, and leaving survivors to starve in a world reduced to the stone age.
  • A terror attack with one or more nuclear bombs strategically detonated in the atmosphere would have the same effect as a major solar flare. 
  • Those bombs would produce an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) that would destroy the grid, unleashing a chain of events bringing chaos, famine, and savagery. 
  • The real perpetrator (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) could give the technology to jihadis, manipulate them into claiming responsibility, and thus save itself from American retaliation. 
  • There is no plan for the short-term repair of a fried electric grid.  It is no exaggeration to say that it would result in the collapse of our civilization. 
  • Add to that natural catastrophes such as major earthquakes and tsunamis, that would render NPPs inoperable and vulnerable to meltdown.
  • The experiences with Katrina and other similar disasters prove that governments at all levels are incapable of dealing with major catastrophes, even when they claim to have plans in place.  
  • The United States has NO CONTINGENCY PLAN in place to deal with the loss of the electric grid, or the social chaos that would ensue.  None whatsoever, although the government knows that millions would die.
There have been a small number of politicians and activists trying to call attention to the danger of EMPs, but Congress has chosen not to act.  The majority would rather listen to climate change hysterics, in spite of proven scientific manipulation of data for political reasons, including by the much cited government agency NOAA.   
 
Climate does change naturally over the years, centuries, and millions of years.  The fascinating science of geology gives evidence of continuous environmental change, some gradual, some abrupt and disastrous - all of it natural.  However, infinitely worse than man-made CO2 is the creation of the nuclear industry, which could wipe out civilization in a matter of days.    
 
On this page read excerpts of articles explaining the danger of EMPs, nuclear industry pollution, and on how a whistleblower exposed blatant manipulation of scientific data to push the climate change danger agenda.  
 
How to bring the USA to its knees
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LIVE SCIENCE - One way to create a widespread and damaging electromagnetic pulse (EMP) would be to detonate a large nuclear weapon over the central United States, at an altitude of 25 miles to 500 miles (40 kilometers to 800 kilometers), according to the Commission to Assess the Threat to the U.S. from EMP Attack, in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee in July 2008.

At this height, a nuclear blast could interact with the ionosphere, the shell of electrons and electrically charged particles surrounding Earth, to create a series of electromagnetic pulses that could reach across a continent, according to the commission. Once a burst of atmospheric radiation hits the ground, it could induce strong currents in telephone and electrical cables, which can short out transformers, said Daniel Baker, a physicist at the University of Colorado.    

Transformers take high voltage current and "transform" it into low voltage current that can be used by households. But an EMP could derail this process, creating currents that overheat transformers and cause them to fail, Baker said.    An electromagnetic surge from a solar storm is a more likely threat for an EMP. 
 


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Saturday, December 3, 2016

VIDEO - HOW CLOSE TO STORED NUCLEAR WEAPONS DO YOU LIVE? - SOME of the 15,600 nuclear weapons in the world are stored WITHIN CITIES or just a few Km away - Unfortunately VIDEO gives too much information regarding location and logistics, which could be misused by JIHADIS

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  • Please keep in mind the following:
  • This article does not address the existence of many aging nuclear power plants in Canada, the USA and Europe, which could go into meltdown.  Or the ticking bomb of nuclear waste storage itself. 
  • Image result for images nuclear explosionThrough a flawed agreement Obama has facilitated Iran's development of nuclear weapons, which will have a domino effect in the volatile Middle East. 
  • If Iran has them, so will Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other tinderbox nations.
  • The USA and Europe are importing millions of migrants from Muslim countries, while the population with European roots is shrinking rapidly
  • Those Middle Eastern and African populations are bound to replace whites in a few decades.
  • Through merit or affirmative action these populations with education and training are already being integrated into high level positions in government, the military, and other areas with access to nuclear materials and nuclear weapons.
  • If you have grandchildren envision for a moment the time when people with known anger management issues will be a majority and rule America and Europe, controlling thousands of nuclear weapons.  That's the future of humankind.
  • Incidentally, you don't have to wait that long for disaster.  Much detailed information on the location and transportation of nukes is given by the VIDEO on this Daily Mail article, saving jihadis a lot of research and effort.
There are no nuclear weapons in the Southern Hemisphere, but the countries in red are the ones where nukes are kept

DAILY MAIL - How close do you live to a NUKE? Fascinating maps and video reveal the exact locations where nuclear bombs are stored

  • Nuclear weapons are stored within a blast range of some major cities 
  • These include London, Glasgow and Brussels in Europe, and Denver and Seattle in the US 
  • Many bombs have been lost or accidentally deployed
  • Many of these were active at the time and could still explode if triggered  
  • The exact locations where nuclear weapons are stored have been pinpointed - and you have probably been closer to one than you may think.  

 Continue reading, see more maps, and WATCH VIDEO

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

LOST OLD NUKE FOUND OFF THE CANADIAN COAST BY DIVER - It was dumped into the ocean just before a plane crash in British Columbia in 1950 - ALLEGEDLY it did not contain plutonium, only TNT and lead

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Canadian army interested in old nuke that may have been found off Haida Gwaii in BC
 

The American Mark IV nuclear weapon, one step up from "Fat Man" bomb of Nagasaki fame. This is a copy on display at a Lost Nuke exhibit at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada in Winnipeg. PNG
  • Diver finds nuclear device that was dumped or exploded off the B.C. coast on Feb. 13, 1950, when an American B-36 bomber crashed while en route from Alaska to Texas.
  • Allegedly, it was packed with lead – not plutonium – and TNT.  (Would they tell us if it was a real nuke?)
  • None of the stories at the time of the crash detailed the payload the bomber had been carrying.
  • But eventually it was discovered that the bomber’s mission was to simulate a nuclear attack on San Francisco, and the plane had been carrying a Mark IV nuclear weapon.
  • The Mark IV was a giant bomb, weighing almost 11,000 pounds (4,900 kilograms).   It was similar to the atomic bomb that killed 39,000 to 80,000 people in Nagasaki, Japan. 
  • The pilot said the bomb aboard the B-36 had lead in its core instead of plutonium, so it wasn’t a functional atomic bomb. But the crew decided to jettison it over water before abandoning the plane.
  • Haida GwaiI was then called Queen Charlotte Islands, an idyllic, remote area.
 Continue reading the entire article and see vintage images of newspaper reporting at the time of the crash.  ALSO:  Watch Video

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

CHERNOBYL - WHAT PEOPLE LEFT BEHIND - Pictures on the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster - Former residents return to take a look

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 Photographer Alina Rudya is pictured on the terrace on the top of the Polissya restaurant. She said her father took her mother on a date here when she came to visit him for the first time

  • Photographer  Alina Rudya, who now lives in Berlin, Germany, was only one-year-old when she was forced to leave Prypyat following the meltdown, which spewed deadly clouds of atomic material into the atmosphere.
  • Her picture project, called Prypat mon Amour, shares emotional stories of evacuees and shows them revisiting the eerily empty town. 
  • Not all the pictures shown on this page are by Alina Rudya.  Some of them are from reporters visiting the area. 
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30 YEARS SINCE THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER - ANIMALS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY RECLAIMED THE RADIOACTIVE LANDS but the Ukrainian government wants to use the area as a nuclear waste dump - Meantime, have a glimpse of life after people. This is the way life would reclaim the planet if people were no longer around

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Is this how the world would look if humans disappeared? Camera traps show animals have reclaimed Chernobyl's radioactive wasteland 30 years after the disaster
  • Scientists monitored wildlife in the radioactive exclusion zone at Chernobyl using remote camera traps
  • They recorded 12 species of mammal, including bear, deer and wolves
  • Radiation levels in the area do not seem to be lowering animal numbers or life span
  • But the Ukrainian government is considering using this zone as a nuclear waste dump, which would definitely put an end to this second chance wildlife enjoys in a place without people - and add to the lethal toxicity of the area
Other research groups working within the area have found that endangered Przewalski's horses (pictured with camera trap by the TREE project) – released into the exclusion zone in the 1990s – may be breeding successfully



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Thursday, March 3, 2016

INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT HAS 65,000 % SPIKE IN RADIOACTIVE LEAK INTO GROUNDWATER USED FOR DRINKING BY MILLIONS OF NEW YORK STATE RESIDENTS

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  • The threat of nuclear power plants has been mostly hidden from us by a very effective nuclear industry propaganda machine. 
  • They have told us that they are "clean energy," without mentioning that to this day there is no safe way to store or dispose of nuclear waste, which keeps accumulating in dangerous amounts. 
  • They don't tell us that the life of a nuclear power plant is relatively short (just a few decades), and that the cost of decommissioning them is extremely high, and the process definitely not "clean".
  • And they don't tell us of the many close calls that NPPs suffer each year, threatening the lives of millions of people.
  • A natural disaster or a terror attack, such an EMP event (caused by a giant solar flare or a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere) would fry the electric grid, unleashing the meltdown of nuclear power plants which need electricity to run.
 
New York State Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant still leaking dangerous amounts of radioactive material into groundwater used as drinking water by millions of New York State residents
 
Who needs terrorists, when our worst enemy is our own ineptitude.
 
Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant on the Hudson river © wikipedia.org
An uncontrollable flow from the Indian Point nuclear power plant - 25 miles from New York City - continues to leak into groundwater, which leads to the Hudson River, the drinking water source for millions of people in the area. 
 
RT reports - Health and environment commissioners were ordered by Governor Andrew Cuomo to begin an investigation into the leak of “radioactive tritium-contaminated water” at the Indian Point nuclear power plant after the operator, Entergy Nuclear Operations, raised the alarm.
 
One of the three wells in question, according to Cuomo’s statement, had “radioactivity increasing nearly 65,000 percent,” while in total the company reported “alarming levels of radioactivity” at three monitoring wells.

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Friday, February 13, 2015

NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN CLOSED RUSSIAN CITY in Siberia - Authorities say there is no cause for concern

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The Siberian Times reports:
  • A small explosion at nuclear facility in a Siberian ‘closed city’ is being downplayed by the authorities, despite panic spreading among the population.
  • Formerly called Tomsk-7 and located on the Tom River, Seversk was established in 1949 to produce and process materials for the Soviet nuclear weapons programme. 
  • It was a secret city and did not appear on any maps until 1992 when then Russian President Boris Yeltsin said that these communities could revert back to their original historical names.
  • Despite also removing the official secret status, it remains a closed city to non-residents today and there are six checkpoints at which visitors must show necessary entry documents.



Operators of the Siberian Chemical Industrial Complex say a container housing depleted uranium lost pressure and ignited, seriously injuring a nearby worker.
 
Officials are reassuring the public there has been no radiation leak into the surrounding area in Seversk, Tomsk region, with the situation being monitored using special equipment.
 
But concerned local residents have called news channels and taken to social media sites to express their anxiety over the emergency at the sprawling site. Some fear being able to open their windows.
 
The city, which was not even marked on maps during Soviet times and is still closed off to visitors, is no stranger to major incidents. In 1993 an accident at the Tomsk-7 Reprocessing Complex released a cloud of radioactive gas into the air, in what became one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters.
 
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Monday, October 20, 2014

NATURE TAKING OVER RADIOACTIVE FUKUSHIMA EXCLUSION ZONE

ONCE pristine rice paddies overgrown into forests. Wild animals roaming the streets of eerie towns with an uncertain future.         

That’s the scene described by Australian teacher Jessica Hellamy who recently had the chance to see inside the 20km exclusion zone created after the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Dai’ichi powerplant in 2011.
 
“Time had stopped. In the main part of the town the buildings are still collapsed from the earthquake. It’s kind of nuts. It was weird, like a time warp, everything is all overgrown,” she said.  “All of the rice fields are covered in forest and wild animals.”
An abandoned dog in Futaba, pictured in 2013. Pic: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images.
Abandoned dog in Futaba - 2013
 
She said the day of the earthquake schools were due to hold graduation ceremonies, with many of the preparations for celebrations still intact. 
 
“They literally evacuated that day and were told they had to get out of town completely and since then they haven’t been able to go back,” she said. 
 
“The kids themselves haven’t been back, adults have gone back on a daily pass to clear their house. Anyone that’s under 15 isn’t able to go on. So it’s pretty tough on them.”
 
It’s been nearly four years since the magnitude 9 earthquake struck 130 kilometres off Japan’s coast at 2.46pm in March 2011 triggering a tsunami that killed nearly 19,000 people and moved the entire country to the east.
Tsunami waves hit the coast of Minamisoma in Fukushima prefecture following massive earth
Quake and tsunami hit Fukushima Prefecture
While the earthquake itself and freak tsunami were devastating, it was events at Fukushima Dai’ichi powerplant that turned the city into a time warp and forced an estimated 160,000 people from their homes.
 
The disaster disrupted power supply and cooling to nuclear reactors at the plant, leading three of them to melt down within days. A fourth was also written off due to damage, the World Nuclear Association reports, causing the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
 
Since then, 160,000 people have been forced from their homes after Japan’s environment ministry labelled 11 municipalities “no-go zones”. They’ve been forced to live in temporary housing while authorities painstakingly decontaminate the area in order for them to return home.

Saturday, October 18, 2014

RUINS OF USSR ABANDONED NUCLEAR CITIES

By Zachary Slovic, Wired Magazine

Nadav Kander traveled to the steppes of Kazakhstan four years ago to see the “closed cities” of the Soviet nuclear testing area, a network of cities all but invisible to outsiders until the arrival of Google Earth.
 
The photographer ventured first to the town of Kurchatov—named for the physicist who developed the USSR’s first nuclear bomb—where he found a guard at a gate. Kander, with help from a local contact, convinced the guard to let him pass, checked into the town’s only guest house, and set about making photographs with his large plate camera.
 
His haunting images of an eerily beautiful landscape raise questions about secrecy, transparency, and the universal human attraction to ruins.

Polygon nuclear test site - Kazakhstan

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

CREW OF BRITISH SUBMARINE ALMOST DIED IN 140F WHEN AIR CONDITIONING MALFUNCTIONED - AC system got clogged with crabs and barnacles

This is a nuclear submarine. 

Daily Mail - Astonishing close shave revealed by retired Commander Ryan Ramsey.   He was sailing HMS Turbulent away from the United Arab Emirates in the Indian Ocean in 2011.
HMS Turbulent - Photo SWNS - Daily Mail

The astonishing near-miss was revealed three years on by retired Commander Ramsay, 44, who described it as the biggest crisis he faced in 25-years' service. 

'Walking around the boat I saw true fear in my crew's eyes', he says.  'People were crying - it was all about survival.'

The knock on effect of losing the air conditioning also meant other vital systems had begun to fail - but the boat was still able to dive.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

APRIL 26 - THE DAY OF THE CHERNOBYL MELTDOWN IN 1986 - PHOTOS - There was interest in a Soviet accident then. - Now Fukushima is many times worse, but world reaction is apathy.

Chernobyl then and now: 28 haunting images from nuclear disaster
 
Abandoned school - Daily Mail photo
Chernobyl was the first nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine, a flagship of the peaceful atomic energy program of the USSR. Just 3 kilometers from the plant, the city of Pripyat was built. 
 
 Its purpose was to house nuclear experts and workers servicing the plant, as well as security troops.  On the morning of April 26, 1986 a technical experiment went awry, sending Reactor No. 4 into meltdown.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

ANOTHER RADIATION LEAK FROM NEW MEXICO NUCLEAR WASTE SITE WIPP NEAR CARLSBAD

 
RT - March 19, 2014  - About one month after radiation leaks were reported at the United States’ first nuclear waste repository, a second release has been detected in the air by Department of Energy officials.