1800 TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE from California San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant still wait for a storage site - IT'S NOT CLIMATE CHANGE BUT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AND NUCLEAR WASTE that are the real and immediate threat to all life on Earth - How an EMP attack would result in multiple nuclear meltdowns

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• There is no such thing as "clean nuclear energy".  Government authorities and experts have been lying to us. 
• Nuclear power plants (NPP) age within a few decades, and their decommissioning is extremely expensive. 
• There is NO safe way to deal with the ever increasing amount of nuclear waste.  Piles of it are being temporarily stored in barely secured places, often leaking radiation and contaminating the environment.
• There are recurrent serious malfunctions at NPPs all over the USA.
• Near-disasters are routinely ignored  by the media and scientists, so powerful is the nuclear industry lobby. 
• Environmental activists and scientists go hysterical over CO2 and climate change, but they are suspiciously silent about the enormous and looming threats of nuclear meltdowns.
• NPPs are dangerous in several ways. 
• (1)  Serious local malfunctions that can lead to  meltdowns. 
• (2) Natural catastrophes such as earthquakes and tsunamis that can render a NPP helpless and a source of immediate environmental contamination (as in Japan's Fukushima, which is still spewing tons of radioactive waste into the ocean).
• (3)  Terror attacks. 
• (4)  The very real possibility (not if but WHEN) of a giant solar flare hitting the USA and frying the electric grid and all electronics.  Without electricity to run their machinery NPPs will go into meltdown.
• (5)  Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attack by detonation of one or more nuclear bombs in the USA atmosphere and producing the same effect as a giant solar flare, frying all electronic devices and the electric grid - leading to multiple NPP meltdowns.  
• In such a continental catastrophe, aside from radiation contaminating large swaths of North America and killing millions of people and animals, survivors would have to fight among themselves to stay alive with almost no resources. 
• The USA does not have the ability to repair a major failure of the nuclear grid. It would take years, probably decades, to bring the USA back from the stone age in some areas.  Areas near NPPs (such as the East Coast)would most likely remain too contaminated for hundreds, maybe thousands of years.   

An EMP attack by a jihadi, North Korea, or some other enemy nation, would bring chaos and catastrophe to the USA.  

The federal government has long known that electromagnetic pulses, or EMPs, pose a significant threat to America’s infrastructure, particularly the electrical grid. Yet federal agencies have done little to defend against this danger, as a congressional hearing last month shows.  EMPs are bursts of energy that can be caused by a nuclear detonation or a major solar storm. They induce massive voltage spikes in electronic devices and can irreparably damage all sorts of equipment—from large power transformers to household electronics.  An EMP produced by solar activity could cause extended blackouts for 40 million Americans and cost as much as $2.6 trillion, according to a 2013 study by Lloyd’s of London. In 2014 the executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security told Congress that EMPs pose “existential threats that could kill 9 of 10 Americans through starvation, disease, and societal collapse.”  Joe Colangelo, The Wall Street Journal 

The following article illustrates the folly of relying on nuclear power, while ignoring or outright lying about its dangers.  As you read it, remember how the USA, with the richest and most powerful government on the planet, was unable to help Americans during and after hurricane Katrina.  It took WEEKS to restore a minimum of normalcy and safety to the area, even though the city was within minutes from first responders and vital supplies. 

 

Your fearless leaders at state and federal level and other members of the elite are not too worried.  They count on state-of-the-art bunkers where they can survive for months and years in case of a major catastrophe affecting the nation.

 

CALIFORNIA SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT -  1800 TONS of Radioactive Waste has an Ocean View and Nowhere to Go.

Los Angeles Times - The massive, 150-ton turbines have stopped spinning. The mile-long cooling pipes that extend into the Pacific will likely become undersea relics. High voltage that once energized the homes of more than a million Californians is down to zero.

But the San Onofre nuclear power plant will loom for a long time as a landmark, its 1,800 tons of lethal radioactive waste stored on the edge of the Pacific and within sight of the busy 5 Freeway.

 

Across the site, deep pools of water and massive concrete casks confine high-power gamma radiation and other forms of radioactivity emitted by 890,000 spent fuel rods that nobody wants there.  And like the other 79,000 tons of spent fuel spread across the nation, San Onofre’s nuclear waste has nowhere to go.

 

The nation’s inability to find a permanent home for the dangerous byproduct of its 50-year-adventure in nuclear energy represents one of the biggest and longest running policy failures in federal government history.

 

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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.  

 

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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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US GOVERNMENT SECRETLY BURIED NUCLEAR WASTE NEAR ST. LOUIS COLDWATER CREEK PUBLIC PARK - Thousands now have cancer and have initiated class action lawsuit - Meanwhile smouldering landfill fire threatens ANOTHER RADIOACTIVE WASTE SITE at Bridgeton, outside St Louis

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The question is how many of these secret radioactive waste dumps are there in or around our cities?

 

 

A government contractor buried tens of thousands of barrels of nuclear waste in two sites around St. Louis that may have caused more than 2,700 cases of cancer, a lawsuit and CBS News are alleging.

 

In 1947, the Manhattan Project, which created the first atom bomb, chose about 22 acres of land north of Lambert Airport in St. Louis as its dumping grounds for radioactive waste.

 

Hundreds of thousands of tons of it, all owned by the government, were carelessly stored outside, allowing the holding containers to rust and spill uranium and other contaminants out onto the ground.

 

By the time contamination became a concern in 1962, the now-defunct Atomic Energy Commission began shopping for potential buyers for the waste.

 

In the following years, waste spilled out and polluted neighboring property while in transit, before even more waste was illegally dumped in the West Lake Landfill.

 

The dump was ruled to have been contaminated with 150,000 tons of radioactive waste by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1988, but the cleanup effort was never completed.

 

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“Within a six-house radius, I knew four people with brain cancer, one a child, one a young professor,” resident Jenelle Wright told CBS. “And I just thought, ‘This is really odd.'”

 

What is truly disturbing is that Wright and others only figured out that something was wrong when they got together on Facebook to plan a school reunion. When they started reconnecting, they noticed that a lot of people they knew had developed cancer.

 

“If we did not have social media, if Facebook did not exist, we would never have put these pieces together,” Wright said.

 

Continue reading, including recent news report of a fire approaching a radioactive landfill outside St. Louis.