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Nuclear Insecurity Today
By: AGelbert Date: November 7, 2013, 12:19 am
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U.S. Missile Officers Leave Blast Doors Open While Napping
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U.S. missileers are required to adhere to all nuclear security
and safety regulations at all times because even small missteps
have the potential to lead to catastrophe. Despite this, U.S.
Air Force officers responsible for launching land-based nuclear
missiles twice violated security policy by leaving blast doors
open while napping. Officials with personal knowledge of the
incidents say that similar transgressions have likely taken
place and not been discovered.
The Air Force released a statement assuring that security of the
ICBMs was not at risk following either incident "due to the
multiple safeguards and the protections in place." Two launch
crew commanders and two deputies received administrative
punishment for the breaches.
Only the latest in a string of embarrassments for the U.S.
land-based missile crews, the thawing of the Cold War has
apparently also thawed the rigid adherence to all nuclear safety
and security rules.
"U.S. Missileers Left Blast Doors Open in Security Breach,"
Global Security Newswire, October 23, 2013.
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Re: Nuclear Insecurity Today
By: AGelbert Date: November 7, 2013, 12:27 am
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U.S. Second-in-Command of Nuclear Weapons Relieved of Duty
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Navy Vice Admiral Tim Giardina was relieved of duty on October 3
over allegations that he used counterfeit gambling chips at a
casino in Iowa. Giardina was the second-in-command at U.S.
Strategic Command, which commands all U.S. nuclear forces.
Giardina's dismissal follows the removal of two other
high-profile nuclear weapon commanders in 2013. In August, Col.
David Lynch was relieved of duty at Malmstrom Air Force Base.
Earlier this year, Lt. Col. Randy Olson was relieved of duty at
Minot Air Force Base.
"U.S. Nuclear Commander Tim Giardina Fired Amid Gambling
Investigation," The Guardian, October 9, 2013.
:P ::)
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Pandora's Atomic Box Score: On the Nuclear Industry's Total Melt
down
By: AGelbert Date: November 11, 2013, 7:04 pm
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Panadora's NUCLEAR box (Not to be confused with the mendacious
pro-nuclear documentary propaganda pitch for more nukes called,
"Pandora's
Promise")
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[quote][size=14pt]Pandora's Atomic Box Score: On the Nuclear
Industry's Total Meltdown
Published on Monday, November 11, 2013 by Common Dreams
by Harvey Wasserman
The first prophetic sign to follow CNN's irrelevant Pandora's
Promise is this: the Dallas-based Luminant Power Company has
cancelled two mammoth reactors.
Pandora's box score for atomic America 2013 is five announced
early reactor closures, nine project cancellations and six
ditched uprates. Today, 100 U.S. reactors operate where 1,000
were once promised. New orders are zilch. [img width=100
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Even more critical: For decades the nuclear industry said zero
commercial reactors could explode.
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/>When Chernobyl blew, they blamed it on the Soviet design. Now,
three General Electric reactors have exploded at Fukushima.
Unfortunately, as they age and deteriorate, there may be more to
come. >:(
[move] [font=impact]"Atomic energy makes global warming worse.
Its truest promise is for ever more meltdowns—in health, the
ecology and economy."[/font][/move]
Here are some more numbers to tally. More than 1,300 fuel rods
sit in a damaged fuel pool 100 feet in the air at Fukushima 4.
They contain radioactive cesium equivalent to 14,000 times what
was released at the bombing of Hiroshima. There are some 6,000
rods in a common fuel pool nearby. There are some 11,000 rods
scattered around the site. The three melted cores from units
One, Two and Three are missing. There are roughly 1,000 tanks
holding billions of gallons of hot radioactive water that are
leaking and will collapse in the next big earthquake.
All 50 allegedly operable reactors in Japan remain shut. Germany
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Pandora's Promise was largely bankrolled by Microsoft
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/> whose buddy Bill Gates has bet big on the mythic "new
generation" reactors. >:([/quote]
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[move][font=impact][I]WHAT IF conscience free, predatory
capitalist ONE PERCENTERS could Convince Americans to Act
AGAINST Their RENEWABLE ENERGY and HEALTH BEST INTERESTS ON
BEHALF OF NUCLEAR Power plant PROFITS and POISON With a
Misleading, Mendacious and Fact Free Symbolic Image of a Nice
Clean BOX/CUBE Containing "UNLIMITED"
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/> energy ?[/I]
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Agelbert NOTE: Click below for further info about how images
prior to articles are used to convince you that a statement is
true (regardless of whether it is true or not! :o)
How Does a Photo Influence Perceived Veracity of a Statement?
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[quote]As it aired on CNN, a grassroots coalition presented more
than 150,000 signatures to the United Nations, requesting a
global takeover at the accursed Fukushima, where three reactors
cores are missing and radiation still pours into the ocean.
Meanwhile Tokyo Electric Power postponed its potentially
apocalyptic bring-down of the radioactive fuel rods at Unit
Four.
"More tests" were needed, they said. This week the U.S.
Department of Energy will meet on how to aid an untried
engineering exercise whose failure doom the planet. But if it
can be done at all, it will take the entire global community to
bring this beast under control.
[size=12pt]CNN dumped a ton of hype on Pandora's Promise, [img
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/>made no real attempt to hide its own pro-nuke bias. :P
Lead-up debates were heavily weighted toward the industry, whose
push for a new generation of reactors will ultimately go
nowhere.
The scenario is obvious: Gates and his fellow mega-rich will
pour into various theoretical atomic technologies a few hundred
million dollars. They'll write it all off their taxes. They'll
demand immunity for any accidents. It'll all run billions over
budget and years behind schedule.[ Then they'll leave yet
another radioactive mess for the rest of us to clean up.
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>:(
Atomic energy makes global warming worse. Its truest promise is
for ever more meltdowns—in health, the ecology and economy.
This movie maker needs to revisit Fukushima and report on those
fuel rods flying in the sky, the river of radiation pouring into
the oceans and the lethal long-lived poisons spewing into the
air we breathe. As Hesiod says, when the original Pandora opened
her forbidden box, "the Earth and sea were full of evils."
[color=green]But hope did remain, now in the form of the green
power revolution. The world of finance is on our side. So is the
insurance industry. [i]And, basic
sanity.
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On the 11th of every month, in commemoration of Fukushima, many
of us will fast in solidarity with the victims in hope of a
survivable outcome. You can help by signing our petitions. With
our grassroots organizing and escalated resistance, a
Solartopian world can be won.
Pandora's clear promise-call it a warning-is that our survival
depends on it.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share
Alike 3.0 License.
[I]Harvey Wasserman's Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show is
at www.progressiveradionetwork.com, and he edits
www.nukefree.org. Harvey Wasserman's History of the US and
Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth are at
www.harveywasserman.com along with Passions of the PotSmoking
Patriots by "Thomas Paine." He and Bob Fitrakis have
co-authored four books on election protection, including How the
GOP Stole America's 2004 Election, at www.freepress.org.
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On The Fukushima Beach
By: AGelbert Date: December 22, 2013, 11:50 pm
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Re: Nuclear Insecurity Today
By: AGelbert Date: January 8, 2014, 8:45 pm
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Nuclear Insanity
Congressman Supports Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Iran [img
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In a statement on C-Span, Republican congressman Duncan Hunter
of California said that if the U.S. had to hit Iran, "you don’t
do it with boots on the ground, you do it with tactical nuclear
devices." This remark goes a step further than those made by GOP
donor Sheldon Adelson in October, who said that a nuclear device
should be detonated in the desert of Iran to send a warning.
Hunter said that his opinion is formed by his own service spent
in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hunter’s statement had no lack of opponents. Kingston Reif of
the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation responded,
"The first use of nuclear weapons against Iran would guarantee a
mad Iranian dash to acquire nuclear weapons to deter future such
US attacks."
Ben Armbruster, "Congressman Says U.S. Should Use Nuclear
Weapons if it Attacks Iran," ThinkProgress, December 4, 2013.
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Re: Nuclear Insecurity Today
By: AGelbert Date: January 9, 2014, 6:25 pm
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300+ Groups Urge Climate Scientist Dr. Hansen to Rethink Support
of Nuclear Power
Civil Society Institute | January 9, 2014 9:43 am
A total of 311 U.S. and international environmental and clean
energy groups said yesterday that, while they respect the
climate change work of Dr. James Hansen and three of his
academic colleagues, they take strong exception to the notion
that nuclear power is the solution to global warming.
Instead of embracing nuclear power, we request that you join us
in supporting an electric grid dominated by energy efficiency,
renewable, distributed power and storage technologies.
Instead of embracing nuclear power, we request that you join us
in supporting an electric grid dominated by energy efficiency,
renewable, distributed power and storage technologies.
The joint letter from more than 300 groups—including 237 from 46
U.S. states and the District of Columbia and 74 from 44 other
nations around the globe, including those on the ground dealing
with the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster—is
being issued in response to a Nov. 3, 2013 statement from Dr.
James Hansen and three of his academic colleagues, Ken Caldeira,
Kerry Emanuel and Tom Wigley. In that statement Hansen and the
others voiced their advocacy for nuclear power, an industry
plagued by financial, technical and safety issues for more than
50 years.
In yesterday’s statement organized by the Civil Society
Institute (CSI) and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service
(NIRS), 311 organizations are urging Dr. Hansen and his
colleagues to publicly debate the question of climate change and
nuclear power.
The statement reads in part:
Instead of embracing nuclear power, we request that you join us
in supporting an electric grid dominated by energy efficiency,
renewable, distributed power and storage technologies. We ask
you to join us in supporting the phase-out of nuclear power as
Germany and other countries are pursuing. It is simply not
feasible for nuclear power to be a part of a sustainable, safe
and affordable future for humankind. We would be pleased to meet
with you directly to further discuss these issues, to bring the
relevant research on renewable energy and grid integration to a
dialog with you. Again, we thank you for your service and
contribution to our country’s understanding about climate
change.
The full text of yesterday’s statement is available online.
“We can admire the important work of Dr. Hansen on climate
change, which is his area of expertise, while disagreeing with
his advocacy of nuclear power,” said CSI Senior Energy Analyst
Grant Smith. “In the face of a clear need for swift action on
climate change, there is nothing about nuclear power that
resembles a solution that can be put into place quickly, much
less in a safe and affordable fashion.
“Indeed, Dr. Hansen and his colleagues tout so-called ‘advanced’
nuclear technology, which is nothing more than regurgitated
attempts by the industry to bring tried-and-failed alternative
designs such as expensive and dangerous breeder reactors to
commercialization. We have clean, affordable, safe, reliable and
proven solutions available to us. These safe and clean sources
can be brought to scale creating an electric grid that relies
much more heavily on increased energy efficiency, variable wind
and solar photovoltaic (PV), distributed power, demand response
and storage technologies. This energy path can reduce greenhouse
gas emissions much more quickly, cost-effectively and safely
than any nuclear option. The markets are responding and there is
clear evidence that they are catalyzing an unprecedented
technological revolution in the power sector.”
“What we are saying is that Dr. Hansen has things exactly half
right: We need to take action now to mitigate climate change,”
said NIRS President Michael Mariotte. “Where we are taking issue
is with the other half: the mistaken idea that nuclear power is
some kind of panacea for all that ails our climate. In fact,
nuclear power is the slowest, most expensive, and most dangerous
climate ‘solution’ available. Our sincere hope is that Dr.
Hansen will heed the input of literally hundreds of
knowledgeable energy and environmental groups around the world.
The joint letter puts it best with these words: ‘It is simply
not feasible for nuclear power to be a part of a sustainable,
safe and affordable future for humankind.’”
The Jan. 8 statement from the more than 300 signers reads in
part:
Nuclear power is not a financially viable option. Since its
inception it has required taxpayer subsidies and publicly
financed indemnity against accidents. New construction requires
billions in public subsidies to attract private capital and,
once under construction, severe cost overruns are all but
inevitable. As for operational safety, the history of nuclear
power plants in the U.S. is fraught with near misses, as
documented by the Union of Concerned Scientists, and creates
another financial and safety quagmire—high-level nuclear waste.
Internationally, we’ve experienced two catastrophic accidents
for a technology deemed to be virtually ‘fail safe’.
As for ‘advanced’ nuclear designs endorsed in your letter, they
have been tried and failed or are mere blueprints without
realistic hope, in the near term, if ever, to be commercialized.
The promise and potential impact you lend breeder reactor
technology in your letter is misplaced. Globally, $100 billion
over sixty years have been squandered to bring the technology to
commercialization without success. The liquid sodium-based
cooling system is highly dangerous as proven in Japan and the
U.S. And the technology has proven to be highly unreliable.
Equally detrimental in cost and environmental impact is
reprocessing of nuclear waste. In France, the poster child for
nuclear energy, reprocessing results in a marginal increase in
energetic use of uranium while largely increasing the volume of
all levels of radioactive waste. Indeed, the process generates
large volumes of radioactive liquid waste annually that is
dumped into the English Channel and has increased electric costs
to consumers significantly. Not to mention the well-recognized
proliferation risks of adopting a plutonium-based energy system.
As to the issue of what represents the best path forward to deal
with climate change, the Jan. 8 statement notes:
We disagree with your assessment of renewable power and energy
efficiency. They can and are being brought to scale globally.
Moreover, they can be deployed much more quickly than nuclear
power. For instance, in the U.S. from 2002 to 2012 over 50,000
megawatts of wind were deployed. Not one megawatt of power from
new nuclear reactors was deployed, despite subsidies estimated
to be worth more than the value of the power new reactors would
have produced. Similarly, it took 40 years globally to deploy
50,000 megawatts of solar PV and, recently, only two and a half
years to deploy an equal amount. By some estimates, another
100,000 MW will be built by the end of 2015. Already, renewables
and distributed power have overtaken nuclear power in terms of
megawatt hour generation worldwide.
The fact of the matter is, many Wall Street analysts predict
that solar PV and wind will have reached grid parity by the end
of the decade. Wind in certain parts of the Midwest is already
cheaper than natural gas on the wholesale level. Energy
efficiency continues to outperform all technologies on a cost
basis. While the cost of these technologies continues to decline
and enjoy further technological advancement, the cost of nuclear
power continues to increase and construction timeframes remain
excessive. And we emphasize again that no technological
breakthrough to reduce its costs or enhance its operation will
occur in the foreseeable future.
Visit EcoWatch’s NUCLEAR page for more related news on this
topic.
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Re: Nuclear Insecurity Today
By: AGelbert Date: January 13, 2014, 12:10 am
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Cesium-137 is a threat to human health
The human body thinks Cesium-137 that it finds in food you eat
is POTASSIUM. So if you NEED POTASSIUM at the time you eat that
food, you will incorporate a future cancer into your tissues. If
you do not need it, you MIGHT be able to excrete it before it
becomes part of you. California is considering fertilizing large
vegetable crop areas that are becoming increasingly contaminated
with ce-137 with Potassium Cholride (KCl). The reason for this
is that plants supposedly will take up the KCL instead of the
ce-137. We'll see.
Over the long term, the big threat to human health is
cesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years.
At that rate of disintegration, John Emsley wrote in “Nature’s
Building Blocks” (Oxford, 2001), “it takes over 200 years to
reduce it to 1 percent of its former level.”
It is cesium-137 that still contaminates much of the land in
Ukraine around the Chernobyl reactor.
Cesium-137 mixes easily with water and is chemically similar to
potassium. It thus mimics how potassium gets metabolized in the
body and can enter through many foods, including milk.
The Environmental Protection Agency says that … once dispersed
in the environment … cesium-137 “is impossible to avoid.”
Cesium-137 is light enough to be carried by the wind a
substantial distance. And it is being carried by ocean currents
towards the West Coast of North America.
Fortunately – while little-known in the medical community –
other harmless minerals can help “saturate” our bodies so as to
minimize the uptake of other harmful types of radiation.
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Army Medical Department Center
and School explained in its book Medical Consequences of
Radiological and Nuclear Weapons (Chapter 4):
[quote]One of the keys to a successful treatment outcome is to
reduce or eliminate the uptake of internalized radionuclides
before they can reach the critical organ.
The terms “blocking” or “diluting” agent can, in most cases, be
used interchangeably. These compounds reduce the uptake of a
radionuclide by saturating binding sites with a stable,
nonradioactive element, thereby diluting the deleterious effect
of the radioisotope.
For example, potassium iodide is the FDA-recommended treatment
to prevent radioactive iodine from being sequestered in the
thyroid…. Nonradioactive strontium compounds may also be used to
block the uptake of radioactive strontium.
In addition, elements with chemical properties similar to the
internalized radio-nuclide are often used as blocking agents.
For example, calcium, and to a lesser extent phosphorus, can be
used to block uptake of radioactive strontium.
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Agelbert NOTE: I don't trust the U.S. Army's DEFINITION of
"successful" treatment against radiation. Do you?
I agree there ARE blocking agents and they CAN limit our
exposure somewhat. We are Guinea pigs and will have to find out
the hard way how much we can block these radioactive poisons.
The USA was contaminated with Ce-137 during the above ground
nuclear explosion period of several decades.
Deposition maps were made. They are OUT OF DATE as of Chernobyl,
never mind Fukushima! We need new maps. Don't hold your breath
waiting for out gooberment to have them made...
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, © 2014
Fact Sheet on Fallout Report and Related Maps
States containing counties with the highest Cs-137 deposition
include:
Arkansas
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