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What A Nuclear Power Plant REALLY IS
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 7, 2022, 6:49 pm
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October 25, 2013
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"I Want You to Know What a Nuclear Power Plant Is"[/center]
by Yasuo Akai
About 5 years ago, I was giving a lecture in Hokkaido. When I
said we must keep cooling down the waste for 50 years, and then
monitoring it for 300 years, a junior high school girl
interrupted me and cried, “who will do it? You say it will take
50 or 300 years. You adults cannot do it. It’s our generation
and the next generations who will do it. But we don’t want to do
it!” Which of us adults can find an answer for her?
Moreover, it is not just about 50, or 300 years. So long as
nuclear power plants are in operation,those years may never
come.
Nearby residents are exposed to radiation and discriminated
against.
The government and the industry have kept lying to us for
decades, saying that no radioactive materials have ever been
leaked by Japan’s nuclear power plants. They can no longer doso.
Radioactive materials are disgorged from the tall cooling towers
intentionally. Radioactive materials are spewed constantly, so
those nearby residents are constantly exposed to radiation.
A 23-year-old woman wrote to me, her letter appeared to be
smudged by tears. It went like this, “I began my career and met
a man in Tokyo. We were engaged, and our families met and
exchanged engagement gifts. But this man has suddenly broken our
engagement. He says that nothing is wrong with me and he wanted
to marry me, but his parents were worried because Ihad lived in
Tsuruga City for more than 10 years. As children near the
nuclear power plant tend to be born with leukemia, they were
afraid that they would have a grandchild with leukemia. His
parents do not agree with him. What’s wrong with me?” Of course,
there is nothing wrong with her. I sometimes hear these kinds of
stories.
This happened in Tokyo, but not in some of the areas near the
plants. Frankly, are you happy if your daughter marries a
nuclear power plant worker? Or, would you want to marry such a
worker? I know that it is insensitive to say this, that it is
discrimination. But I argue that we must talk about these kinds
of stories. Those standing opposed to nuclear power plants
should say that they are not only protesting because horrible
accidents can occur, but also because it causes discrimination.
These nuclear power plants are also destroying our minds.
Can I have a baby? I don’t care about electricity. I hate the
nuclear power plant.
I am going to talk about a story about what happened during my
lecture hosted by the Teachers Union in Kyowa Town, which was
located near the Tomari Nuclear Power Plant in Hokkaido. I ask
that you remember this sometime; you can forget the rest.
The meeting took place in the evening. Half of the audience were
parents, and the other half was made up of teachers, but some
high school and junior high school students also showed up. They
did not take a view such that nuclear power plants were only an
adult problem, butrather their problem as well.Finishing my
talk, I took some questions. An 8 grade girl, crying, spoke to
us, “you adults are liars, hypocrites. I came here to face you
all. I wanted to know who you are. You say you are against
pesticides, golf courses, and nuclear power plants. You say you
do so for your children. I’m sure you’re just pretending to act
against all this.
I live in Kyowa Town, near the Tomari nuclear power plant, and
I’ve been exposed to radiation. The ratio of babies with
leukemia is higher around nuclear facilities in Sellafield,
England, than in other places. I know this because I read a
book. I’m a girl, and I will probably marry someday. Is it ok
for me to have a baby?” No one had an answer for her.
“If a nuclear power plant is that horrible, why didn’t you all
go against it more seriously when they started building it? You
even allowed them to build a No. 2 reactor. I don’t care about
electricity. I hate the nuclear power plant.” The No. 2 reactor
of the Tomari Nuclear Power Planthad just been put into
operational testing.“For what reason are you meeting here? If I
was an adult and I had a baby, I’d use violence to stop it. I
wouldn’t hesitate to risk my own life.
“The radiation I’m exposed to is now doubled because of this
second reactor, but I won’t leave Hokkaido.”
I asked her if she had ever talked about her anxiety to her
mother or teacher. “My mother andteacher are here now, but I’ve
never brought this up before,” she said. “We girls always talk
about this. We can’t marry. We can’t have a baby.”
I was told that their teachers did not know that they thought
this way. An evacuation drill for residents living within 8 or
10-kilometer radius will not solve this anxiety. People 50, or
100 kilometres away from a nuclear power plant are also anxious.
You should know that adolescents react to this anxiety vividly.
As long as there are nuclear power plants, we do not feel safe.
Now you know what nuclear power plant is.
You might have heard of the horror of the Chernobyl Accident and
felt a little anxious. Yet, you may still think we still need
those nuclear power plants, that without them we would have
anelectricity shortage. It is especially those who live in
cities, distanced from these plants, whomight still view them as
a necessary evil.
However, that is because you were always told by the government
and the electric power companies about the “peaceful use of
nuclear power,” that it is “absolutely safe,” and that “Japan
has no natural resources.”
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/>They spend huge amount of money for this propaganda.
They hide, for example, the Monju Accident.
The nuclear power plants generate electricity, but the thing is
that they cannot work without exposing plant workers to
radiation. That is what I have seen and experienced for 20
years. Moreover, nuclear power plants destroy local communities.
When one is built, it divides the residents into two camps, and
when it is put into operation, it exposes those residents to
radiation and opens innocent people up to discrimination.
You may know that a nuclear power plant can cause a horrible
accident and still think that it is really safe, that everything
will be fine. You may agree with the possibility of peaceful
uses for nuclear power. But think about this: the workers are
dying of exposure and the residents are suffering—you cannot
call this peaceful use.
Even if it was safe, you could not feel safe. You can never feel
safe as long as it exists. Moreover at this moment, nuclear
power plants appear to generate electricity. However, in order
to manage radioactive waste for tens of thousands of years, it
needs much more electricity and oil. The energy needed to manage
that waste must be higher than the energy that the plants have
been generating. Additionally, it will be our children and
grandchildren who manage thewaste and the closed reactors.
How can you say that this is peaceful use of nuclear power? I
repeat. There is never a peaceful use.
Therefore I ask you; please look at the face of your children
and grandchildren every morning and ask yourself, why. Why is
only Japan still building nuclear power plants? There are
accidents, and earthquakes. If we do not act now, irreversible
damage will be done, you must see this.
So I am acting against these nuclear power plants. I am
absolutely against building new ones,and I argue that those
plants in operation must be stopped.
As long as those nuclear power plants exist, there is no peace.
A peaceful planet for children
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here:
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author Norio Hirai was an engineer specializing in plant
pipeline, and died in January, 1997. Translated by Yasuo Akai --
revised by Jayda Fogel [/I][/move]
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Re: What A Nuclear Power Plant REALLY IS
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 7, 2022, 6:55 pm
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October 29, 2013
[center]More Mutations in Fukushima Butterflies[/center]
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> More Mutations in Fukushima Butterflies - Researchers have
found an increase in butterflies with unusual wing shapes, legs,
and antennae than before the nuclear disaster.
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Source: International Science Times
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> Butterflies collected from sites near Fukushima 2 months after
the power plant leaked radiation into the environment showed
more than double the mutation rates of butterflies collected
from other sites in Japan. The researchers, who hail from
University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, reported their findings last
week (August 9) in Scientific Reports.
>
> Indeed, each subsequent generation arising from the first
radiation-affected butterflies had more severe physical
abnormalities than its parent generation. Part of this can be
explained by the passing down of damaged genes, but an
additional factor, the researchers say, was that butterflies ate
contaminated food in the area, which can be more damaging than
external exposure.
> “It has been believed that insects are very resistant to
radiation,” lead researcher Joji Otaki from the University of
the Ryukyus, Okinawa, told BBC News. “In that sense, our results
were unexpected.”
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Right! The negative stuff is ALWAYS "unexpected". Sure. NOT!
It's true that mammals are more affected because they have more
easily disrupted DNA but insects are considered just as
susceptible as mamals to increased mutations from generation to
generation. This has been conclusively proven for more than 70
YEARS! Drosphila melanogastor (the fruit fly) is one of
science's pet torture specimens.
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Drosophila melanogaster
They breed rapidly and genetic effects can be studied for
several generations in a brief time period. Scientists love to
experment with them. They are cheap and its easy to keep a
control group and monitor statistically valid populations for
peer review publication requirements.
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> For purposes of assessing the risks of environmental exposure
to radionuclide emissions, the genetic effects and in utero
developmental effects are the only health hazards other than
cancer that are addressed in this Background Information
Document (BID) ,
>
> 6.5.1 Types of Genetic Harm and Duration of Expression
>
> Genetic harm (or the genetic effects) of radiation exposure is
defined as stable, heritable changes induced in the germ cells
(eggs or sperm) of exposed individuals, which are transmitted to
and expressed only in their progeny and in future generations,
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> [size=12pt]Chromosomal damage and mutations have been
demonstrated in cells in culture, in plants, in insects, and in
mammals (UNSCEAR72,77,82), and in peripheral blood lymphocytes
sf persons exposed to radiation (UNSCEAR82, Ev79, Po78) ,
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> Early experiimental studies showed that x-radiation is
mutagenic, In 1927, R.J, Muller reported radiation-induced
genetic changes in animals, and in 1928, L-J. Stadler reported
such changes in piants (Ki62j.
>
> Although genetic studies were carried out in the 1930s, mostly
in plants and fruit flies (Drosophila), the studies on mammals
started after the use of nuclear weapons in World War II
(UNSCEAR58).
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Gamma radiation is more powerful than x-rays so it was a
nobrainer even BEFORE the bomb that radionuclides would be
multigenerationally mutagenic.
I hate it when scientists play dumb. >:(
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> In 1927, H.J. Muller described x-rayinduced mutations in
animals (in the insect, Drosophila), and in 1928, L.J, Stadler
reported a similar finding in plants (Ki62).
>
> At about the same time, radiation effects on the developing
human embryo were observed. Case reports in 1929 showed a high
rate of microcephaly (small head size) and central nervous
system disturbance and one case of skeletal defects in children
irradiated in utero (UNSCEAR69).
>
> These effects, at unrecorded but high exposures and at
generally unrecorded gestational ages, appeared to produce
central nervous system and eye defects similar to those reported
in rats as early as 1922 (Xu50)-
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[center]Unexpected?
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THIS is what a human MUTATION Caused by Chernobyl cesium-137
looks like:
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 7, 2022, 6:58 pm
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November 23, 2013
[center]THIS is what a human MUTATION Caused by Chernobyl
cesium-137 looks like:[/center]
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[move][I]And Fukushima will bring MORE and MORE because it takes
about 300 YEARS for ALL the cesium-137 to spread all over the
planet since they started the atomic explosions to "HELP EVOLVE"
our species.[/I][/move]
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"Spent" Nuclear Fuel Pools
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 7, 2022, 7:04 pm
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Jul 29, 2021
[center]Spent
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/>Nuclear Fuel ☠️ Pools[/center]
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Facing Future 20.2K subscribers
We have no good solution to the problem of storing nuclear
waste. It must be cooled in spent fuel pools for 5-10 years
before it can be moved to dry cask storage. During that time,
it is still dangerous. #PaulBlanch investigated what can happen
in various scenarios, and warns of inadequate protection of this
potentially explosive 💣 material.
This conversation recorded in April 2021.
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"It’s a demonstration of one of the alternatives for the
acronym for the NRC—Nuclear Rubberstamp Commission."
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 23, 2022, 12:10 pm
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[move]The key motivation, he said, behind the nuclear industry’s
push to significantly weaken safety standards is that the line
of smaller nuclear power plants the nuclear industry is now
pushing—including what it calls the “small modular nuclear
reactor”—is that they are going to be “much more expensive” than
the existing light-water nuclear power plants, the most common
type of nuclear power plant which are large and are cooled by
plain water. Thus, he said, these “advanced” ::) nuclear plants
would be more costly to operate than using energy alternatives,
“certainly wind and solar.”
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COUNTERPUNCH
NOVEMBER 22, 2022 BY KARL GROSSMAN
[center]Nuclear Guinea Pigs: NRC’s
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/>Licensing of Experimental 💣👀😬 Nuclear
Plants
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SNIPPET:
The lone NRC vote against the change came from Commissioner
Jeffery Baran
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/>who in casting his ‘no’ vote wrote “Multiple, independent
layers
of protection against potential radiological exposure are
necessary because we do not have perfect knowledge of new
reactor technologies and their unique potential accident
scenarios….Unlike light-water reactors, new advanced reactor
designs do not have decades of operating experience; in many
cases, the new designs have never been built or operated
before.”
He noted a NRC “criteria” document which declared that the
agency “has a longstanding policy of siting nuclear reactors
away from densely populated centers and preferring areas of low
population density.”
But, said Baran, under the new policy, a “reactor could be sited
[bwithin a town of 25,000 people and right next to a large
city[/b]. For reactor designs that have not been deployed before
and do not have operating experience, that approach may be
insufficiently protective of public health and safety…And it
would not maintain the key defense-in-depth principle of having
prudent siting limitations regardless of the features of a
particular reactor design—a principle that has been a bedrock of
nuclear safety.”
That is just one of the many reductions proposed in safety
standards.
Full article:
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