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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
One Year and Three Months Since Fukushima
June 11, 2012 (15 months after 3/11)
Before Fukushima, when this
site was called Idealist.ws, my philosophy was
that in order for Earth's peoples to go non-nuclear, we all need to
re-develop a natural fear for unseen nuclear radiation
in pollution and waste that permeates our living environment and bodies. There
was another reason I felt why people need to fear manmade radioactive chemicals: historical events even worse than Chernobyl and Fukushima have
created a massive global public health problem.
A few years before
Fukushima, I began investigating a thing called 'global fallout.'
Global fallout is the term used in scientific journals
to describe the actual nuclear fallout from historical open-air nuclear
blasts, or the roughly 400 atomic and hydrogen atmospheric
explosions in the 20th century by the 'nuclear powers'. The fallout
from 'global fallout' didn't
stay in one place. It went everywhere, and was pretty bad at times.
Several experts, both living and dead,
have calculated that the greatest number of people on the Earth harmed by anything beginning
with the term 'nuclear' were hurt by this 'global fallout.'
The death toll - related to this 'global
fallout' - is not perfectly quantified, but estimates
put it at from many tens to many hundreds of millions of premature
deaths, notably cancers, through the 20th and 21st centuries.
Agreeing
with this notion that nuclear testing caused a cancer epidemic
was hard for me for several reasons. One, I never knew
that so many nuclear tests transpired in history or that
the fallout went everywhere! What was also difficult in
agreeing with all of this is there is very
little evidence to prove cause-and-effect. There are no studies. There
has been nothing but denials and downplaying
by governments. And, more difficult,
fewer and fewer experts are speaking about this death toll.
In truth, nowadays, maybe there are 5 or 10 experts in the world who
believe this and have at one time or another aired
their beliefs.
So, when Fukushima happened, naturally, the
big question - to me - was 'what is the nature of the fallout in air?'
In terms of global public health, the worst type of nuclear meltdown is a Chernobyl-style fire
that lofts radionuclides high up into the atmosphere
where across the globe rains will pull them down into arable areas where
the food supply for millions and millions of persons will become contaminated.
It is very important to know that the 8 or 9-figure death toll
from global fallout largely didn't have to do with external exposures: it
had to do with eating, for years and years, food that
was contaminated - this led to the global health crisis.
Fukushima lofted
radionuclides, but not very high, and most of it resulted from
volatilization (more here). Wind currents brought
this fallout to other countries, but the fallout outside of Japan
was far less than anything experienced
during the global fallout years of the 1960s with some
exceptions. One, since there were basically
no radiation monitoring stations in the Arctic, and a huge radiation spike
in Fairbanks, Alaska, happened just 5 days after the earthquake
and first meltdown,
there may have been damaging fallout in the vulnerable
Arctic region - where bioaccumulation via the air-lichen-caribou-man chain
back in the 1960s caused massive body burdens of radiation in indigenous
populations. Two, outside of Japan there were hotspots.
But
the Fukushima event is morphing into a multi-pronged one. There
is airborne fallout - which will continue as long as the corium
still volatilizes in open containment (and dust is stirred by manmade
or natural forces). Another developing facet of Fukushima - which in the worst
case will have no historical rival - is the effects on oceans and seafood. Although most atmospheric nuclear tests
put their 'load' into the upper atmosphere, a few, like
one hydrogen bomb test in 1954, contaminated the ocean
greatly. As you will see below, the 'Bravo' nuclear test
of 1954 contaminated the entire West Pacific fish population.
It is clear as
day to me that Fukushima is as bad as or worse than this 1954 nuclear test.
While the Japanese government in 1954 had the wisdom to bury
their tainted tuna catches - hundreds of tons of them - as
nuclear waste, the U.S. and Canada and other Pacific Rim countries
are making a terrible mistake in not taking the tainted seafood
threat seriously. They are not monitoring the catches for radiation.
People are simply eating seafood that hasn't been tested
for radiation.
There will
be several million premature deaths in the long
run from Fukushima even if we responsibly and safely deal with
the ocean contamination problem. But if the billion (or more) people who depend on Pacific seafood
for their protein are chronically exposed to
really contaminated wild seafood without their knowing,
the bloodshed will be far, far worse. This is what
I believe. I also believe that the test of our generation - and
even our species' survival - is whether
or not we will stake our futures on a scientifically unproven belief about
chronic exposures and
whether or not we will challenge our governments that have lost their ability
to protect public safety from the menace of Fukushima's
ocean impacts.
