Stay out of the rain and be sure to do a heavy metal detox with zeolite to help cleanse radiation from your body, radiation is in the environment and will be for many years. When we get spikes like this it’s wise to take extra precautions, espcially children and youth whose cells are still multiplying.
[...] The main body of radioactive surface plume of which activity exceeded 10 Bq m−3 travelled along 40° N and reached the International Date Line on March 2012, one year after the accident. A distinct feature of the radioactive plume was that it stayed confined along 40° N when the plume reached the International Date Line. [...]
A distinct feature of the radioactive plume was that it stayed confined along 40 N when the plume reached the International Date Line, as stated in Sect. 3.2. The radioactive plume travelled 1800 km (from 160 E to 178 E) for 270 days (9 months) (Fig. 5); therefore, an average zonal speed (u) of the surface radioactive plume was calculated to be about 8 cm s−1 which was consistent with the speed of the reported surface current of 4–16 cm s−1 in the region (Maximenko et al., 2009). [...]
We can also assume that the Fukushima radioactive plume moved with surface water [...]
WITN: Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant Shut Down After Crack Discovered [...] A nuclear power plant which is 20 miles south of Raleigh has been shut down after a crack and corrosion was found in the reactor vessel. [...] The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the quarter inch crack was not all the way through the reactor wall and there’s no indication any radioactive material escaped.
NewsObserver: The repair will take place in a highly radioactive area and will require the use of robotics, said NRC spokesman Roger Hannah. He said repairs will involve scraping out corroded material and welding the area. [...] Water stress corrosion is a common form of degradation in nuclear plants, said David Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists. [...] “Impurities in the water can collect in tiny cracks formed in metal by stress,” he added. “These impurities, called corrosion, exacerbate stress factors accelerating the propagation of tiny cracks.”
WRAL (h/t Anonymous tips): According to information Duke filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Shearon Harris was taken offline last year for refueling, and ultrasonic tests of the reactor were taken at that time. A secondary review of those tests this week revealed the “primary water stress corrosion cracking” on a nozzle that overlaps a weld on the reactor head. “Initial evaluation indicates that the flaw is not through wall, and there is no evidence of leakage based on inspections performed on the top of the reactor vessel head during the spring 2012 refueling outage,” the NRC event report states.
Crack at U.S. nuclear plant caused radioactive leak — Workers searching for more breaches — Congressman ‘very concerned’ — Reactor shut down until further notice (VIDEO)
Published: May 14th, 2013 at 10:12 am ET
By ENENews
WMT: Congressman Fred Upton has just finished a tour of the troubled Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert. Rep. Upton says he’s very concerned about the safety at Palisades, especially after the latest incident. [...] Because it wasn’t a planned release, Palisades is under serious scrutiny at this time.
ABC57: Palisades Nuclear Plant shut down until further notice [...] Congressman Fred Upton is not sold on the safety at Palisades. [...] Congressman Upton did not say the plant will be shutting down. But he did say that all options are on the table. Palisades says they may look at replacing the tank that is cracked.
WOOD TV8: Authorities say they’ve found the crack that led to “slightly radioactive water” spilling from the Palisades nuclear power plant into Lake Michigan. [...] The leak was in a 300,000-gallon tank used to hold water that floods and cools the nuclear reactor during refueling and in the event of a problem. The problem was a half-inch crack in the welding around one of nine nozzles in the tank, authorities said Monday. Three of those have been replaced and every weld and every nozzle is now being checked. The entire bottom of the tank is also being checked. That leaky tank sits right above the plant’s main control room. [...]
After a freighter went up in flames at the start of the month while carrying radioactive material into Hamburg’s harbour, it has emerged that the German port city receives such hazardous cargo up to seven times a month.
Fire fighters said they had only narrowly been able to prevent a catastrophe on May 1st when the freighter “Atlantic Cartier” caught fire – complete with its radioactive load.
Tens of thousands of people were gathered just a few hundred metres away to celebrate the Evangelical church day when the ship went up in dramatic flames.
Fire fighters were able to quickly identify the containers which had the radioactive cargo and remove them before anything worse happened. The authorities confirmed that the ship had been carrying around nine tonnes of the dangerous uranium hexafluoride, a toxic chemical used in the nuclear industry, as well as four tonnes of explosives, the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported.
The Green party forced the information into the open with a written question to the city government, local radio station NDR 90.3 reported.
“Hamburg just managed to scrape past a catastrophe on May 1st,” Anjes Tjarks, Green spokesman for harbour policy told the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
“It is a monstrosity that the government did not inform the public about this near-catastrophe of its own initiative. One has to speak of a cover-up attempt.”
Yet Frank Reschreiter, spokesman for Hamburg’s interior authority, said the dangerous cargo was known about – which was why the fire fighters knew to remove the relevant containers. Nothing dangerous leaked, he said.
Now the city government has admitted that radioactive material had been brought into the harbour on Atlantic Container Line ships 21 times in the past three months.
Concrete information about which ships were being used to take the radioactive substances, and which route they were taking, would not be revealed, Hamburg’s government said.
Most of the shipments were due for a uranium-enriching facility in Lingen, Lower Saxony, NDR 90.3 reported on Friday.
Things are getting very precarious with nuclear reactors, power plants in many locations are having some pretty strange problems…rats, goldfish being smuggled in, employees failing drug tests etc. etc. etc. IMO, if you live near a reactor it’s high time to get involved with your local anti-nuclear / environmental groups, or if there aren’t any local groups then YOU need start one by uniting your community to take action against nuclear power. Then connect with groups in other areas, do flashmob email campaigns, get creative! Remember, the UCC filings have great tools to get their attention with ~ large groups throwing flaming arrows is always quite effective.
You can also research successful measures groups have used in the past, start by writing your Senators, Governor, Congressman, NRC and anyone else who’s politically or financially connected to the power industry. Just DO something to take your power, your environment and your health back from radioactive contamination. And don’t believe it can’t be done…
In 1979 we ~ The Sunbelt Alliance ~ prevented a power plant from being built outside Tulsa, OK; by showing up in great numbers, two summer’s in a row. Attorneys like Daniel Sheehan (Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, Karen Silkwood) worked on the case, we got the media involved and we raised enough hell until we won. Now, 35 years later community’s all over the nation have SERIOUS problems brewing with outdated plants that need to be decommissioned NOW.
Hello0oo, these power plants are designed and built to produce the materials needed for nuclear weapons. Now, isn’t it clever how they’ve got you footing the bill, every month the hard earned money you give to the electric company pays for bombs that kill, maime and destroy! Think about…
Global Radiation Update for United We Strike Radio Marathon May 11th, 2013
From fires to mysterious radioactive goldfish, nuke plants in the US & Europe have had some bizarre problems in the past few weeks. So the NRC is putting together a panel to determine the events leading to the death of 2 goldfish at Perry NPP on Ohio, while Fukushima continues to contaminate and decimate the Pacific Ocean endlessly.
CNBC: Nuclear power has taken a beating — Engulfed by ‘cauldron of events‘ — Staggering change from just a few years ago — Not many had forecast it would “all go wrong at once”: http://enenews.com/cnbc-nuclear-power…
When BP happened, a drastic effort was undertaken by scientists to form 5 panels and come up with 5 different plans for sealing the well. Too bad no one thought to do this for Fukushima. Maybe they are waiting for the reactors to start sinking from 100′s of tons of groundwater being pumped out of the reactor basements every day, or reactor 4 to fall apart, or an unstoppable fission chain reaction event, or…something.
Or maybe the international community wants to be able to place the blame squarely on Japan and Japan only, when things really get bad. Problem is, it’s the whole world’s problem, not just Japans.
Slide correction: Tepco JNN cam is from April 2013, not 2012
Seal video courtesy of John Hutchinson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu0cT5… BP footage from BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and is the reason for the restricted commons :/ Feel free to copy and upload to your channel with Camtasia, ScreenCastOMatic, etc
Website: FukushimaFacts.com Facebook: RadChick Radiation Research & Mitigation Twitter: RadChick4Cast Radio: Nuked Radio with RadChick on UCY.TV
*United We Strike is a a worldwide marathon radio show which airs the second Saturday of every month.
Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to Skyrocket Following Radiological Incidents
by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
The White House has given final approval for dramatically raising permissible radioactive levels in drinking water and soil following “radiological incidents,” such as nuclear power-plant accidents and dirty bombs. The final version, slated for Federal Register publication as soon as today, is a win for the nuclear industry which seeks what its proponents call a “new normal” for radiation exposure among the U.S population, according Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
Issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, the radiation guides (called Protective Action Guides or PAGs) allow cleanup many times more lax than anything EPA has ever before accepted. These guides govern evacuations, shelter-in-place orders, food restrictions and other actions following a wide range of “radiological emergencies.” The Obama administration blocked a version of these PAGs from going into effect during its first days in office. The version given approval late last Friday is substantially similar to those proposed under Bush but duck some of the most controversial aspects:
In soil, the PAGs allow long-term public exposure to radiation in amounts as high as 2,000 millirems. This would, in effect, increase a longstanding 1 in 10,000 person cancer rate to a rate of 1 in 23 persons exposed over a 30-year period;
In water, the PAGs punt on an exact new standard and EPA “continues to seek input on this.” But the thrust of the PAGs is to give on-site authorities much greater “flexibility” in setting aside established limits; and
Resolves an internal fight inside EPA between nuclear versus public health specialists in favor of the former. The PAGs are the product of Gina McCarthy, the assistant administrator for air and radiation whose nomination to serve as EPA Administrator is taken up this week by the Senate.
Despite the years-long internal fight, this is the first public official display of these guides. This takes place as Japan grapples with these same issues in the two years following its Fukushima nuclear disaster.
“This is a public health policy only Dr. Strangelove could embrace. If this typifies the environmental leadership we can expect from Ms. McCarthy, then EPA is in for a long, dirty slog,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting that the EPA package lacks a cogent rationale, is largely impenetrable and hinges on a series of euphemistic “weasel words.”
“No compelling justification is offered for increasing the cancer deaths of Americans innocently exposed to corporate miscalculations several hundred-fold.”
Reportedly, the PAGs had been approved last fall but their publication was held until after the presidential election. The rationale for timing their release right before McCarthy’s confirmation hearing is unclear.
Since the PAGs guide agency decision-making and do not formally set standards or repeal statutory requirements, such as the Safe Drinking Water Act and Superfund, they will go into full effect following a short public comment period. Nonetheless, the PAGs will likely determine what actions take place on the ground in the days, weeks, months and, in some cases, years following a radiological emergency.
The Hanford Nuclear Salute – UP YOURS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ARqqA…
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Hanford Dumped Billions of Gallons of Radioactive Waste in the 50s & 60s on the ground
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The Hanford Site is a mostly decommissioned nuclear production complex on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, operated by the United States federal government. The site has been known by many names, including Hanford Project, Hanford Works, Hanford Engineer Works or HEW and Hanford Nuclear Reservation or HNR. Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project in the town of Hanford in south-central Washington, the site was home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear bomb, tested at the Trinity site, and in Fat Man, the bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.
Sunday Spin: Helping to understand Hanford http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/spinco… for full article and 58 minute video. [... Hanford's] tanks are big. The largest are the size of a basketball court with a 75-foot wall around it. Inside the tanks are a “stew of different materials” that form a radioactive sludge, from which the liquid was supposed to have been pumped out years ago. [...]
67 tanks are ‘suspected leakers’ at U.S. nuclear site — “The stuff inside melts the instruments… eats rubber and plastic” (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/67-suspected-leake… Of the 177 tanks, 149 only have a single wall, or shell, and 67 of those were “suspected leakers”, but the rest were thought to be secure. Thought to be is a relative term, because in a container that big, a drop of even a fraction of an inch can represent many gallons of waste. You can’t just drop a giant dipstick into the tank. As [Jane Hedges of Washington's Department of Ecology] explained, there’s no easy way to get an extremely accurate measurement because lowering cameras or instruments into the tanks isn’t practical. The stuff inside melts the instruments, and eats rubber and plastic. [...]
Getting the liquid out of the tanks is a problem. First, there’s no good place to put it right now, because the more secure double-shelled tanks are also pretty full. Second, there’s the danger of triggering evaporation of the liquid, which would cause a tank to heat up and create a deflagration. (AKA an EXPLOSION)
The latest news of 6 leaking tanks at Hanford
Hanford Watch president Paige Knight, Feb. 23, 2013
Study Slams Nuclear Waste Practices at Hanford
New York Times, Feb. 5, 2013 http://www.hanfordwatch.org/
CBS News: Mind-boggling mistakes at leaking U.S. nuclear site — “The chances of a catastrophic event are real” -Former Governor (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/cbs-news-mind-bogg…
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