When it comes to the truth about radiation and health effects,
there are no experts who are honest - not in government, not in science, not anywhere. Yet, people would rather
listen to liars than challenge their assumptions about the sources of the so-called truth and disregard the purveyors
of actual truth on this topic: the non-creditialed self-taught. - Andrew Kishner, May 18, 2013
'Deception, Cover-up and Murder in the Nuclear Age' is our six-year effort and free web-based book. Click to read the book here
What you can learn in the book: Every cancer and leukemia
since 1945 can be fractionally blamed on one thing: nuclear testing fallout. 'Chernobyl fallout' was 90-95% from Chernobyl and the rest from a covered-up U.S. nuclear release. There are dozens of nuclear reactors orbiting us - many have crashed on Earth. The U.S. may have replicated a 'Hiroshima' inferno on actual humans (in cages in Nevada). Your cremated remains mixed into water would be undrinkable per the EPA because of its strontium-90 levels.
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April 30, 2013 - While LaScram
LaSalle Falls Apart, Operator Asks NRC If They Can Put a Hemi
In It- Exelon is proceeding with a formal request to the NRC for a mega-power boost (aka
'uprate') at the LaSalle plant to increase thermal output by a whopping 12.5%. Also, it has
been learned that the culprit of the technical shutdown of LaSalle Unit 1 reactor on
April 27th was the same exact valve that failed
following a scram in February 2011 due to a welding defect. The recommended fix (buy a new one, duh!) was apparently not heeded;
Status: LaSalle 1 is being restarted (at 22%). LaSalle 2 is at 1% power.
April 29, 2013 - Map of eastern U.S. nuclear plants that
have no containment vent filters (which is a 'Fukushima lessons learned'
that 'wasn't implemented')- enlarge image
April 25-27, 2013 - April 25: LaSalle Unit 2 restart attempt results in a
scram - reason: condenser leak. April 26: NRC
announces 'Special Investigation'
into April 17th events; April 27: during Unit 1 startup process, operators
were forced to shut reactor down after leak was detected in the primary containment
April 17, 2013 - LaSalle County
Nuclear Generating Station is hit by lightning - both reactors scram - pressure
builds in containment - radioactive gases vented from containment - monitoring fails -
vents from Unit 2 not filtered - leaks and other problems not reported until days later - our initial report
and our analysis of the types of radioactive gases released
in unfiltered vent
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Chapter 10 - Underground Nuclear Tests
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There are
well over 200 different radioactive elements produced in any nuclear
detonation. This mixture of 'fission products', which
is called nuclear waste in reactors and fallout in nuclear detonations, varies
over time in the quantities of radioactive gases compared to radioactive solids.
In the first nanoseconds of a nuclear
blast, a very large percentage of the 'fission products' is in gaseous form. As time goes
by, the percentage of solids increases. In the arena
of atomic elements, solids form usually from the decay of radioactive noble gases. The 'decay' is
a energetic 'powerplay' that spews harmful rays called ionizing radiation.
When a nation hypothetically secretly conducts an underground
nuclear blast or openly conducts one but shares no details about the test, the easiest way to learn the technical
details of the blast is by detecting radioactive gases before they decay into solids.
Most - yes, most - undergroud nuclear explosions leak. They leak
for the same reason that radon, a naturally occuring radioactive gas, rises from the soil and through all forms of porous rock.1. Radioactive gases leaked by underground
tests can last up to decades before 'decaying' and can travel distances of hundreds or thousands of
miles away from the 'ground zero.' But, as time goes by, and this is the case
for all radioactive gases, bit by bit of
the gaseous radiation decays into solids.
After a suspected nuclear
blast, scientists across the globe search for what is called a 'gas signature'
of the atomic explosion. They test the air for two short-lived gaseous isotopes of
xenon gas (Xenon-133 and
Xenon-135). The snafu in this approach is that North American air has
a relatively constant 'mix' of these two radioactive gases that come from nuclear reactors and radiopharmaceutical plants.
These peacetime activities release radioactive xenon gases that, like greenhouse gases, mix together to create a homogenous 'blend' in
our atmosphere that
is constantly refortified by new radioactive pollution. The gases released by a nuclear detonation,
however, contain a slightly diifferent mix or blend of these two radioactive xenon gases.
This is why scientists look for a 'gas signature' (a blend of xenon gases that differs from 'normal' air) in pockets of 'fresh' contaminated air from the explosion. The problem is that xenon-135 gas transforms every
minute into a solid radio-chemical (called cesium-135) and this decay slowly 'brings down' the plume's unique 'blend' until it mimics that of normal air.
So, the challenge with detecting nuclear explosions is, firstly, finding an air pocket
from the leaked explosion and, secondly, finding it before two or three weeks have passed (beyond
that time the 'evidence' has decayed, or 'melted away.')
Nuclear physics experts and international organizations
responsible for nuclear weapons treaty verification have issued volumes of reports that detail elaborately complicated
schemes for facilitating this often impossible 'manhunt' for gaseous proof that a country blew up a nuke. But there is
a very, very easy solution to the detection problem: de-pollute our atmopshere and reduce to zero the atmospheric inventory of xenon-133 and xenon-135 gases
by phasing out nuclear reactors and radiopharmaceutical plants. This way
we would have near flawless ability, extending well beyond two weeks, to tell if a clandestine nuclear explosion
occurred anywhere around the world! Regrettably, nations of the globe don't
want to pay this price to gain a huge advantage in curbing nuclear proliferation.4
Following North Korea's second nuclear test in May 2009, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. conducted sampling of the air
downwind of the North Korean test site but North Korea knew how to stiffle their efforts - they closed the 'window of time' for detection by shooting off test missiles into the air
forcing the postponement of airplane 'sniffing' (radioactive gas sampling) efforts as xenon gases dispersed and decayed.
It worked. The U.S. and her allies tried to detect traces of radioactive xenon gases
from North Korea's test but they failed. Some speculated that North Korea
faked a test. Others believed the reclusive nation's weapons scientists succeeded in a rare 100% containment of the gases.
Containment
failure
Global non-proliferation organizations have put so much effort into detecting clandestine nuclear blasts yet they have done
little to warn the globe's populations of the dangers of the opposite problem, a 'containment failure' that
leaks so much radiation that it would be a repeat of the public health radiation crisis of the 1950s and 1960s. If
a North Korean nuclear test results in a containment failure that leads to significant venting, the
damaging global public health impacts could be significant. These such organizations even refuse to admit or inform citizens that a public danger exists
from late-time seeps from North Korea's, or Russia's, or America's, or France's, or India's,
or Pakistan's or China's plugged underground testing shafts, tunnels and cavities. These countries' subterranean test site areas perpetually bottle radioactive gases that could experience
ground-level leaks or 're-criticality' of closely-packed fissile materials
North
Korea's 2nd nuclear test in 2009 was similar in size (although no one knows what the
yield really was) to Baneberry. Baneberry was a U.S.
underground nuclear blast at the Nevada Test Site that shot up and
broke through the ground in 1970 and spewed fallout in no different a manner than a small nuclear attack on American soil.5 According to the book
'Killing Our Own', 'In all of the states where the
total radioactivity [from Baneberry's fallout] rose highest--Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Nevada, Washington,
Nebraska, and as far away as Minnesota and Maine--infant mortality also rose
sharply during the first three months after the test.' The book also
states that dangerously
high concentration of Iodine-131, a radiation byproduct, was found in the milk
of Utah and Nevada cows which had eaten vegetation exposed to Baneberry's
fallout.
