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 11 - The 'bad science' behind nuclear reactors
Case study: Millstone
Located in southeastern Connecticut is the Millstone Power Station,
home of three reactors only two of which are now operating. Unit 1, which
was shut down in 1998, has the distinction of having released the highest ever
recorded amounts of airborne radioactivity in the history of nuclear energy
until the Three Mile Island disaster. In 1974, the total airborne
radioactive releases from all U.S. reactors was about 6.5 million Curies.
Yet, in 1975, Millstone's Unit 1 released about 3 million airborne curies of 'Fission Activation Gases'
containing thirteen 'species' of radio-krypton and -xenon gases. That was half of the national nuclear power total.
It was also about one-quarter of the gaseous release of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident
(TMI released at
least 13 million Curies of radioactive noble gases similar in nature to those
gases released at Millstone).
The book Nuclear Witnesses tells
of the astounding origin, in the words of Dr.
Sternglass, behind this grandiose nuclear waste dumping over Connecticut: it
originated in the Nixon administration - "All attempts to enforce tighter
regulations were turned aside and sabotaged, so that nuclear reactors were able
to release the highest amounts of radioactivity ever recorded in the history of
nuclear energy in 1974 and 1975 at the Millstone Plant."
Both TMI and Millstone released
similar levels of harmful Iodine-131, which accumulates in local food chains and
eventually pools into a person's thyroid where cancer may be
induced. In 1975 Millstone released 9.79 Curies of Iodine-131
and 17.2 Curies of Tritium. (About 820,000 of the curies released at
Millstone in 1975 consisted of xenon-133, which is a beta-emitter and has a
half-life of 5.24 days.)
Millstone Point
Unit 1
Airborne
releases
1973
1974
1975
1976
Total
noble gases (Curies)
78,900
912,000
2,970,000
507,000
Source: Summary of Radioactivity Released in
Effluents from Nuclear Power Plants From 1973 to 1976, December 1977, U.S.
EPA-520/3-7-012
Case study: Tokai-mura
On Sept. 30, 1999, the JCO Company Ltd.
uranium-conversion facility in the Japanese town of Tokai-mura experienced a
criticality accident. A 2000 study on the incident noted: "An
appreciable amount of 137Cs was found in samples collected near the exhaust (Table
1)....137Cs originating from global fallout already exists in the
Japanese environment, with levels of fallout 137Cs in vegetation normally less
than 0.14 Bq kg~1 (wet wt) around Tokai-mura (Ibaraki, 1998). Therefore, the
137Cs found in the plant samples collected from the above-mentioned points is
thought to be the contamination from the JCO accident. Similarly to 140Ba,
137Cs is a daughter of a noble gas produced in the fission event. The
precursor of 137Cs is 137Xe (half-life: 3.82 m). The 137Xe released to the
atmosphere decayed to 137Cs which was expected to be deposited on the ground
(vegetation) near the exhaust" - Levels of radionuclides in plant
samples collected around the uranium conversion facility following the
criticality accident in Tokai-mura,
Journal of Environmental
Radioactivity, (50) 2000
Case study: Vermont Yankee
Located in southeastern Vermont on the banks of the
Connecticut River (which empties into Long Island Sound in southern
Connecticut), 'Vermont Yankee' consists of a single BWR (boiling water
reactor) nuclear plant. The plant began operations in 1972 and has had a
long history of problems including spills, leaks, a 2004 transformer fire and
a 2007 cooling tower fan cell collapse.
In January 2010, Entergy found
radioactive tritium in an onsite monitoring well near the
Connecticut River and initiated a soil excavation project.
On February 12, they discovered a steam
leak and standing water in a pipe tunnel leading to an 'Advanced
Off-Gas' building.
Later, it was learned that Entergy originally told state legislators
the underground PVC drain pipes didn't exist.
On February 14,
Energy said they isolated a steam leak that was causing the tritium
contamination in the soils, which were found to contain extremely high levels of
the radioactive water molecule.
On February 24, Entergy say they found public above-normal levels of Cesium-137 detected
near the underground pipes at the 15-foot depth. Officials at Entergy
initially claimed the radiocesium was "consistent with what would be found
in soil" from weapons testing or Chernobyl fallout. The
Vermont Health Department even perpetuated the loony theory in a March 30th
update-analysis on their 'Tritium
Investigation Archive' page titled 'Soil Analysis Confirms
Leakage Pathway, Finds Cesium-137.' The Health Department
noted that Entergy officials had told them that 'water
from the systems that leaked into the AOG pipe tunnel are not contaminated with
Cs-137' and the 'reactor process water and condensate have not indicated Cs-137
content for many years.' Their website states: 'Given
these [abovementioned] points, it may be that the Cs-137 found in the soil
samples came from surface contamination within the AOG pipe tunnel. This surface
contamination may have been washed from the AOG pipe tunnel walls, floor and
piping surfaces by the leaking steam and water from the damaged AOG hydrogen
recombiner steam trap drain lines.'
On February 28, the
Vermont Health department noted that the crack "represents a
significant pathway for radioactive water from the AOG pipe tunnel into the
environment in the recent past.'
The Health Department
had explained the
how and why of the leak: "A pair of steam pipes inside
the Advanced Off-Gas (AOG) pipe tunnel were found to be badly corroded and
leaking nuclear steam. The floor drain of this concrete tunnel was clogged
with debris and mud. As a result, the condensate from the steam pipes pooled
inside the tunnel and leaked out at a failed joint in the tunnel." See very
confusing diagram. (The AOG
building is where noncondensable gases are 'processed' or 'held up' and
then released into our environment. In case
the pipe leaks, its housing, a concrete
tunnel, drains into a
pit and a sump-pump pushes the water into a Rad Waste Building for
reprocessing.)
In March 2010, the VT Department of Health
noted in March 2010 that the leaked tritium has migrated several
hundred feet east to the Connecticut River but said that was not the case with
other radionuclides.
On April 3, Entergy reversed their position, admitting the
cesium-137 resulted from an unidentified fuel rod failure
within the reactor.
At the beginning of April 2010, cesium concentrations were found up to 10,260 picoCuries per
gram, about 60,000 to 100,000 times normal 'background levels.' (Jeff Hardy, chemistry manager for
Entergy Nuclear, told the Rutland Herald that the 'background level of
cesium-137 at the Vermont Yankee site' was 0.15 picoCuries per gram. William Irwin, radiological health chief for the
Department of Health, told the Herald that background levels in Vermont for
Cesium-137 'from Chernobyl and weapons testing ranged from' 0.1 to 0.15 picocuries
per gram.
The actual timeframe of the when
the leaked cesium-137 showed up in the underground soil is also unknown.
Some speculated that the cesium-137 leaked during the 1970s or 1980s when Yankee
had persistent fuel rod failures. Others speculated it leaked during a nuclear
fuel failure episode in 2001-2002 and even others believed the cause was a new
leak.
Although Entergy maintains the leakage
in the soils is limited to a small confined area, there may be other contaminated
areas. Because precursor gases of cesium-137 and strontium-90
must have leaked out over decades, they probably bubbled
up through the porous soil and precipitated down as cesium-137 and strontium-90 on Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire homes, schools, farms
and parks.
Leak Number 1: Leaks from past or
current fuel rod failures led to radioactive gases and solids entering the
primary water cooling system. Leak Number 2: a leaky nuclear steam pipe
leaked radioactive materials into the drain pipe. Leak Number 3: the PVC
pipe had a leak that drained into the concrete tunnel. Leak Number 4:
the water in tunnel pooled because of a clog and leaked out of a crack in the
concrete duct (tunnel) into the soil.
