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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Appendix 16 - Fukushima and environmental monitoring
The EPA is Asleep in the Control
Tower (written 3.25.11)
'When Elevated Radioactivity Levels
are Detected or Anticipated' is the title of a subsection of a 2005 EPA draft
document that discusses protocol relating to fixed EPA RADNET air monitoring
stations. It reads:
'If the
near-real-time gamma ROI or gross beta count rate data are higher than
expected or increase suddenly, NAREL staff will remotely connect with one or
more monitoring stations to initiate transfer of the full gamma spectrum file,
then perform a quantitative gamma spectrometric analysis to determine the
isotopic concentration in air... Upload and analysis of the gamma spectra
files may also be done without waiting for detection of unusual readings,
based on other indications that a radiological incident has occurred or is
anticipated. Depending on circumstances, NAREL may
also perform any or all of the following laboratory analyses on individual air
filters:
Of the items on this list of
laboratory analyses that the EPA *may* perform depending on circumstances, the
EPA has only moved forward on the first one. The EPA has not conducted the
second analysis - alpha spectroscopy for plutonium-239 in air.
Apparently, the EPA believes that plutonium from Japan's reactor accident
somehow disappeared from the Earth and only gamma-emitting radioactive solids
(radioiodines, radiocesiums and radiotelluriums) have arrived in U.S. air
masses.
EPA has also not conducted the
sixth analysis on the list. Strontium-89 and -90 are pure beta-emitting
radioisotopes that are lighter than cesium-137. Assuming also that these
radiostrontiums do not mysteriously vanish with plutonium from the Earth,
because they are relatively light in weight they are likely to be carried
across the Pacific Ocean in greater quantities than radioiodines and
radiocesiums. If radiostroniums are present in U.S. air, we don't
know about it because the EPA has chosen to not test for it.
The EPA has placed no priority on
performing a full suite of laboratory analyses on the air that is affecting
Americans - and also our friends in U.S. territories. There is no excuse
for this. The first detected levels of non-gaseous fission products from
the plumes from Fukushima were found on filters removed from RADNET stations on
March 18 and it appears that if the EPA wanted to run all analyses on the above
list on those filters we would have
that data by now: 'Turnaround times for alpha-particle spectrometry, and
liquid scintillation counting may be as short as one or two days in an
emergency. Strontium-90 analysis requires more time, because a delay of several
days is needed to allow the decay product Y-90 to build up before counting
begins.' [p.71]
Radiostrontiums and plutonium
isotopes are very poisonous substances and pose greater long-term health dangers than
cesium-137. Strontium-89, a pure beta emitter, is likely be present in
dairy products in Japan and the U.S. If the EPA has already conducted the
various analyses mentioned, why don't they make this data available? Are they
withholding this data?
It should also be noted that the EPA
made the decision to not upgrade its RADNET air monitoring network to include
onsite-spectroscopy for analysis of alpha and beta radiation or continuous alpha
and beta spectrometry. We are paying for that poor decision right now. This
capability, which is in use by the CTBTO, means that monitoring stations can run
the isotope analyses (1-6) remotely and relatively quickly.
Deployables
The 2005 EPA draft document also discusses
mobile air monitoring units in the section '5.1.2 Deployable Monitoring Stations,'
which states:
'In general, these monitors are only expected to be deployed
in response to a radiological incident or emergency. However, they may
occasionally be pre-deployed to provide monitoring capability at a location
where there is no operable fixed monitoring station.'
Note that the country of
Belgium can drive through the gaps in RADNET monitors in southern Oregon.
There is no fixed monitoring station in southern Oregon. In addition, over
the past few days, there has been no operable beta counter in Hawaii. Also, only
the inoperable fixed RADNET stations, to our knowledge, in California have been
'replaced' with deployables by EPA - the deployables in California are only
being used to stand in place for malfunctioning equipment.
The EPA regards deployable monitors
as a reliable means to 'develop [a] local or regional impact picture' during an
'incident' - these mobile units would be pre-deployed to areas perceived to have
'increased threat potential.' The EPA clearly thinks that the U.S. West
Coast, therefore, has zero increased threat potential. No deployable
monitors have been sent to Washington, Oregon or California, yet our analysis
below suggests that California milk supplies may now be slightly tainted with
radioactive iodines and strontiums in some areas. Ironically, the mobile
units are fitted with better capability to represent the iodine-131 threat in
air. These deployables are equipped with carbon air filters, which trap
radioactive iodine-131 in its gaseous form - at present, the EPA is only
representing American's iodine-131 levels in air based on lab analyses of paper
filters - at its fixed stations - that only capture air-deposited liquid
radioiodine. The EPA is not even competent at painting the full picture
for Iodine-131 in U.S. air.
The EPA is doing very little to help
officials at all levels of government and media understand the complexity of the radiological
dangers posed by the Fukushima releases to Americans. The 'picture'
is complex. For example, the EPA has in its possession
noble gas monitoring equipment, but it is not using them. Radioactive
noble gases, such as xenon-133 or krypton-85, pose health threats at some level
but the American people will never know if they have reached that level.
The EPA bases its judgments about these things on models which are based on
data, and the data either stinks or doesn't exist.
The EPA has also
failed to use equipment in its possession to determine levels of Carbon-14 in
air. For thousands of years Fukushima-originated Carbon-14, and
radioactive carbon dioxide, will permeate our biosphere. Don't we want to
know more about this now, when the levels are at the maximum?
The EPA is also ignoring the threat
from rainouts. Rainouts, as many scientists would expect, may worsen the
bioaccumulation factor of iodine-131 and radiostrontiums in foodstuffs,
especially milk. The EPA's predecessor, the Public Health Service, tested
for strontium-89 and strontium-90 and iodine-131 in milk when it was asked to
and even when it wasn't asked to do these analyses. The EPA needs to do
its job and test all environmental 'media' for alpha, beta and gamma
contaminants.
Time to get
angry
As unknown quanitities of largely
unknown radioactive substances migrate across North America from the Fukushima
releases, the EPA is responding by dragging its feet, downplaying radiation
risks, obfuscating beta and alpha particle concerns, and demonstrating utter
lack of concern for public health. The EPA is pretending that the
contaminated air masses from Japan will simply blow right past the U.S. and will
not harm a thing or incorporate into a single life form. The fact of the
matter is the EPA is alone and sleeping in the air traffic control tower of
America's environment. This is our only environment and our environment is
inextricably bound to our livelihoods and our lifestyles. When we are left to
fly blindly, we are a nation in crisis. As we learn to resourcefully navigate
our way without the help of our missing-in-action environmental agency, we must
realize that the power loaned to the government was loaned by us, and we have
the tools to heal or amputate the diseased institutions of our elected
democracy.
Read the EPA 2005 Draft document
here: "Expansion and Upgrade of the RadNet Air Monitoring
Network", Vol.
1 & Vol.
2
