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
About NuclearCrimes.org
A key hindrance to the success of organizations laboring to prevent new
victims of 'abuse' is often
the failure of people to identify
themselves as abusees.
Over the past 67 years, our beloved republics have
created nuclear victims of us all through, primarily, nuclear weapons production and testing
pollution.
Yet we don't identify ourselves as 'nuclear victims' because
as a society we have no recollection or means of
analyzing our past experiences for instances
of abuse; these nuclear experiences in our culture are not incorporated
into our national consciousness and are summarily rejected
in discourse on serious topics ranging from public health to human rights.
In our dysfunctional way of coping, we
ignore the scars created by government-sponsored nuclear abuse,
and instead focus on would-be nuclear 'timebombs' and threats, organizing
around physical manifestations of these things (like nuclear arms, or reactors, or waste dumps).
Nuclearcrimes.org is dedicated to bringing to
light the abusiveness of an utterly unbelievable 'conspiracy
of silence' between government and science which
incapacitates our ability to identify ourselves as nuclear abusees.
Statement by the
founder: About NuclearCrimes.org
PART 1
My
name is Andrew Kishner and in a
nutshell I'm a thirtysomething American 'armchair warrior'-turned-activist.
The transition happened in Kanab, Utah, in April
2006 when I first learned on the evening news about the controversy surrounding
'Divine Strake,' which was to be an unusually large conventional
bomb explosion on the Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site. Like most
people who did not grow up in the American West, I had no clue about this place,
the Nevada Test Site. I quickly realized that learning about it was no easy
task. But time was of the essence: in a matter of weeks the Pentagon-sponsored 700-ton chemical
explosive experiment they were calling 'Divine Strake' and planning for June 2, 2006, would be
spewing radioactive soils from the test site into a mushroom cloud that would float downwind to Kanab and her
neighbors in Utah. Fear was in the air. Many people had
questions. And many questions had no answers.
Although reluctant to
share my views at first, I eventually decided
to place all of my research on these issues (Nevada Test Site, bunker busters,
past contamination, etc..) on www.StopDivineStrake.com. In addition to 'webmastering' the only internet site dedicated to the topic of
Divine Strake, I worked alongside grassroots groups and nonprofits in the Stop
Divine Strake Coalition. In the end, thanks to the efforts of many,
especially the citizens of Utah and veteran Salt Lake City television anchor
Terry Wood, that frightful saga in American history came to a somewhat pleasant
ending: the Pentagon appeased Utah's voluminous public outcry against Divine
Strake in a February 2007 press release that nearly everyone took to mean
'They cancelled Divine Strake.' I felt, however, that the Pentagon's cryptic press
release in 2007 kept the door open for them to conduct Divine Strake (albeit a
smaller test) outside of public view and knowledge (learn more about baby Divine Strakes planned for the test site here). I also felt that the downwind public wasn't
"in the clear" from other fallout-related issues.
I was thoroughly
hooked and in 2007 I set up a website at the at-the-time-non-awkward domain name Idealist.ws to initially host my
investigative reporting on a DOE radiation monitoring coverup during
a 2007 Utah wildfire and also to address
the 1996 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Nevada Test Site, which is a NEPA (National Environmental
Protection Act) document that is the best place to focus efforts on nipping
future Divine Strakes in the bud. Years and about two dozen research 'investigations' later, in the summer of 2011, Idealist.ws became NuclearCrimes.org but the transition was marked by
more than just a name change...and in January 2012, I began
the slow process of turning the site into a book (free, online)!
PART 2
The reader
might be curious to learn why, after Divine Strake was cancelled,
I was so gung-ho in circa 2007 to jump into a large
and continuing web-based research project.
Sure, a huge
part of my motivation in the post-Divine Strake era was to do follow-through
to make sure DTRA wasn't going to sneak a baby Strake in sometime, somewhere. But
it was also something else. Divine Strake opened a Pandora's Box of questions
to someone like me who never heard of a 'downwinder' before and thought
U.S. nuclear testing occurred only in New Mexico. I was
unsatisfied with the answers I was finding
to questions that casually popped into my head as I lounged around
outside on lazy, sunny days in my red-color canyon landscape under crisp blue Utah skies. Were
the crusty, tan soils in Southern Utah still harboring radio-toxins from old nuclear
testing fallout? Was even the air safe? Were the occasional east-moving dust storms
that overwhelmed Kanab or the huge smoky plumes emanating from wildfires that
flickered like embers in the distance on the forested Kaibab Plateau containing
old fallout dust?
As someone who doesn't like to have
his curiosity in things dimmed simply because
the answers are out of reach, I wasn't content to
remain in Utah without at least trying to delve deeper into these
enigmatic questions.
This 'launch' into a research project came easy to me
because of my career at the time. Several months - as it would
turn out - before 9/11, during *the* crisis moment of the 'what color is my parachute'
phase, the temp agency called me up and offered me an opening that was altogether different
than the data entry or very-light accounting jobs I was
accustomed to. It was as a 'prospect researcher.'
A prospect researcher
is a back-office data-hound who 100% relies on publicly-available information
to aid those sharp-looking and smooth-talking
fundraisers at major and some minor nonprofit institutions
that approach donors with a solicitation (also called an 'ask') for an amount
of money much larger than you or I would ordinarily send in the mail
to a local charity. Prospect researchers are tasked ultimately
with determining that 'ask' amount.
I spent a number of years
in the fundraising departments of liberal colleges in Massachusetts
before going into freelancing, and the training and experience I gained over all of those
years was incredibly helpful to me as an activist.
Here's
some of the lessons one learns as a prospect researcher. One, never give up until you find
what you are looking for -
unless your boss, or your freelance budget, disallows, or
you are convinced that you can't find what you're looking for.
Two, researching requires taking breaks, sometimes long ones, to
let your subconscious piece facts and ideas together. Three,
a good researcher is one who knows their reference sources,
knows how to easily use and access them,
and knows which are the best and latest ones. Four,
and perhaps most important, researching a human being, especially
one who is adept at wealth-protection practices,
requires engaging your intuition. A researcher can't truly succeed in
most projects if he or she allows facts to dictate the journey. The reason
why is that someone or
something that's hiding the truth about their wealth (or misdeeds)
'wins' when people only believe what is 'seeable' or 'learnable.' Sometimes you
have to use your gut and follow a hunch in order to find that gem of a clue that wasn't
supposed to be found which reveals the pure, unaltered image of what
you're looking for.
So, I guess
what I'm saying is that after
Divine Strake was cancelled I wanted to watchdog DTRA, answer
some disturbing questions, but mostly I
had a bad feeling. I had a bad feeling that my government, which
had released documents in late 2006 contradicting their convincing
statements made months prior about the safety of Divine Strake, perhaps wasn't being honest
about a whole lot of things and here I was in Utah, living
in the atomic reality of other potentially huge, life-threatening lies.
There's more to the story. It involves relatives,
the reason why my partner-in-crime and I ultimately left Utah, and also one of those
'be careful what you wish for' dreams that directly impacted
my decision to drop out of freelancing and devote myself to research-based
activism. I'll tell the full scoop one day, I guess.
I'll finish with this.
If you want something hard enough, you have to give up something.
One of the lessons I learned from doing a whole lot of researching
people in my fundraising career is to not put
anything about yourself on the web. I was committed to that
practice until I realized that my anonymous web-based activism during Divine
Strake was problematic. I needed to start putting my name on stuff and that
idea completely drove me crazy. But I did it. I sacrificed my desire for anonymity - and many
other precious things - during this journey. It was also heartbreaking
to find out - when I realized the nature and enormity of the problem that I was trying
to resolve - that my sacrifices alone will never be enough to see progress. Many, many other
people will need to make sacrifices - and ideally working in harmony - before we start seeing true
and lasting change. This website is intended as a resource for concerned persons and
activists to facilitate the growth of this much-needed movement.
