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
Nuclear News & Fukushima Updates
Fukushima effects on U.S. coast n' catch updates here
October 30, 2012 - Regarding U.S. Reactors and
Superstorm Sandy
There are many stories about the Sandy-nuclear-aftermath
that are now being told, but there are other stories that
aren't being told and some that will never be told. There is the
story about the reactor scrams/trips that caused radioactive steam
releases not mentioned by the NRC; and only few activists pointed out. There
is also the story about America's stupid policy of not shutting down reactors *before* a storm
so these releases - or worse nuclear events - can't or don't happen. There is also the story about
the potential cooling failure of the spent fuel pools at Oyster Creek.
There is the story about flooding, intake pumps, river debris and
failed or submerged pumps in reactors
and what could happen in the next superstorm, or in the next few days.
Finally, there is the story about the hundreds of millions of Americans who think of
reactor dangers like the Chinese think of democracy (they don't).
We encourage you to visit our Facebook page
and Google the search phrases related to these stories to learn about them
or venture to 'break' the story yourself...because the Nuclear Energy
Institute is wrong in saying 'nuclear energy facilities in the path of Hurricane Sandy have responded well and safely to this powerful storm, demonstrating their resilience against severe natural forces.'That's bullshit and they know it ...and
the NRC, like the NEI, is not a credible institution and is not
going to help you, or in general 'people and the environment.' We encourage you to use this site, Nuclearcrimes.org, which has
abundant content about reactor releases (in chapter 11 and chapter 12 of
our e-book) and more.
September 18, 2012 - Tolerance, Temperatures and Trajectories: Discussing Recent Findings About Fukushima and the Environment
In our
recent Facebook post
titled
'In the Post-Fukushima Era, Are We Assuming Too Much About The Safety of Our Food Supply?',
we ask: if low level radiation
in our foods is similarly damaging as x-rays
but unlike x-rays doesn't provide
even indirect health benefits,
'why do we put up with radiation in our foods?'
Why do we tolerate things like California pistachios with nearly
10 becquerels per kilogram of cesium-137 that
was determined by a non-U.S. lab?
An abstract of a recent study discussed at
Enenews
notes that niobium-95 and ruthenium-103
detected hundreds of kilometers downwind of Fukushima
'show[s] that the reactor cores were exposed to
high temperature for a prolonged time.' This
has special meaning to NuclearCrimes.org
because we are among the very few who
talk about volatilization.
According to reference charts on
this site, niobium has a boiling point (B.P.)
of 4742C and ruthenium's B.P. is 3900C.
(Tin's B.P. is a low 2270C.)
No one is saying that if
the coriums during the meltdowns reached temperatures above
3,000 or even 4,000 degrees Celsius, and
sustained such temps for
'a prolonged time,' then more plutonium (B.P.: 3228C)
and plutonium oxide (B.P.: 2800C) than
anyone has suspected must have been
lofted downwind of Fukushima. Plutonium was found in Lithuania from
Fukushima. Where else was it found? And how much? Did we all get plutonium
from Fuku in our lungs!? Fukushima's coriums
are still quite hot: they are STILL vaporizing plutonium
and strontium, etc...This is never mentioned
and the world nuclear lobby is intent on keeping
this knowledge, which would be damning to their business, from the masses.
Another study discussed at Enenews
about
a first-ever study that using models and sampling data tracked the full global revolution
of Fukushima plume trajectories confirms what
we've said all along: that a nasty
set of cohesive plumes (that the group of scientists
call the 'North Branch') hit central Alaska hard
in mid-March 2011. This North Branch 'plume' was
responsible for the greatest-ever EPA RADNET gamma spike
that is still internationally ignored.
Whereas most models to date have shown that the March plumes predominantly crossed the contiguous
U.S., this new study shows that this 'North Branch' accounted for
62 percent of the total plume clusters
emanating from Fukushima using 'backward trajectory' analysis.
In view of this study's findings, in hindsight,
the poor radiation monitoring
and lack of health warnings or restrictions
on consumption of
contaminated wild game or catchment rainwater
in the far north by North American authorities
were acts of gross negligence
that violated the human rights
of indigenous and other peoples.
September 12, 2012 -
Chronic Health Problems Begin in Fukushima with Childhood Thyroid Cancer
Kyodo
News reported yesterday that the first thyroid cancer case was detected
- a child from Fukushima Pref. was the victim. I read
this morning in Alexey Yablokov's (et. al.) book about Chernobyl's health consequences that for every 1 thyroid
cancer there are about 1,000 other cases of thyroid malignancies.
I also learned that a recent U.S. study on 'downwinders'
noted that population thyroid exposures between 7.4 and 21.5 rads
results in a 60% excess occurrence rate above the background rate of thyroiditis, which is
a general category of thyroid organ inflammation that
is linked to a host of developmental and other problems.
As I note in my book's Chapter 6:
'...thyroid problems among the Rongelapese were rampant. A study of sixty-four islanders - including children born after the 1954 evacuation - found that roughly a third of the population had contracted
thyroid tumors through the end of 1974 (the study found 22 thyroid tumors, 3 of which were cancerous).'
Many of these islanders were flown to the U.S. to have their tumors removed, benign
and not. While they were there, they were experimented upon. They were
injected with radioisotopes to see what would happen. This was
immoral, illegal and of an atomic cruelty typical of that 'period.'
In recent months,
scientists have found high rates of nodule and
cyst growths in Fukushima children. This is a harbinger for bad things to come.
And it hurts to think about Japan's children and their future...a future that could
be brighter if Japan stopped their inhumane policy of keeping
people in Fukushima City and environs against the advice of scientists worldwide.
The exposed Rongelap community of 64 persons which was deliberately exposed (non-spared)
by radiation by the USG suffered by '1980...a cumulative total of 20 other deaths...whose causes of
death included heart disease, pneumonia, and uterine, cervix and ovarian cancer...'
The ability
is in each of us to free our minds and begin to
understand that this is not really about reactors - it's
about nuclear weapons and what they mean to our economic masters.
Reactors simply keep the warhead fuel handy. They are the supply depots for nuclear weapons
which are the military tools used by madmen to bully other countries.
We must begin to understand that these madmen are not like us. They are
so corrupted by power that they are no longer truly human. They
don't care about the children of Fukushima or any
radiation victim. Yet we elect them and allow them to rule us.
We must see the forest for the trees!
August 12, 2012 - U.S. Navy Got Frisky in Ishioka 11 Days After Earthquake - A FOIA document
released via Enformable.com
in August 2012 shows air monitoring data by the U.S. Navy in several areas of
Japan, including Ishioka (MAP centered on area), in parts of March 2011. The urban-based monitoring post at Ishioka, situated halfway between Tokyo and Fukushima, had measured tens of thousands of picocuries in air via a Frisk (dosimeter) during March
and a peak value in an isotopic analysis of an air sample on 3.21.11 @ 2200 (local time)
measuring 1.72E-09 uCi/mL of I131 or 1,720 pCi/m3 of I-131, which
was hundreds of times higher than values 'downwind' in Alaska - here's a selected image from the document. That same
air sample had 143 pCi/m3 of iodine-132, 116 pCi/m3 of cesium-134,
13.8 pCi/m3 of rare cesium-136, 146 pCi/m3 of cesium-137 and 207 pCi/m3 of tellurium-132. The corresponding
Ishioka iodine-131 dose is about 1/1,000 of the 1.49 Rem/hour thyroid dose from Iodine-131 gas experienced on March 15 at Yokosuka (read about that in footnote A here).
The cesium values for the California
orange are astonishing because the cesium-137 component is higher than
the average cesium-137 concentration found in West Coast citrus products during the height
of nuclear weapons testing fallout (in 1963) by the U.S. Public Health Service, which
was the predecessor to the EPA. The 1963 data show that oranges
grown in the U.S. Southwest (SW)
(i.e., California) had on average less cesium-137 than what
was found by the Japanese lab in 2012. Earlier this year, the lab detected the twin cesium isotopes also in
prunes and
almonds harvested in California in 2011. Learn more
in 'Japan Finds Radioactivity in More Foods from California: The California Radiation Report'.
July 31, 2012 - Which is More Toxic: A Post 3/11 Tokyo Flat or Mars if NASA's Curiosity Crashes?
Professor Christopher Busby recently
disclosed that he had found in 2011 a staggering quantity of uranium (240 and 3,000 becquerels of uranium-235 and uranium-238 per kilogram, respectively) in the filter of an apartment air-conditioner that ran only a short time in late 2011 in Tokyo (located over 200 kilometers from Fukushima). (The values are equivalent to 6,487 and 81,090 picocuries per kilogram.) 81,090 picocuries is about one-quarter of the amount
of first-generation uranium-238 dust that each Iraqi (and some coalition service personnel) has cumulatively inhaled
as the result of the use of over 4 million pounds of depleted uranium by U.S.-led forces since 1991.
Japan's science ministry
hasn't taken the threat of uranium, plutonium or strontium emitted from
Fukushima very seriously. The only extensive survey, which analyzed plutonium
and strontium in soils up to 80 kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi,
curiously neglected a swath of towns south of the reactors heading
towards Tokyo. Here's an excerpt
from Chapter 12 of 'U.S.A.: The Original Nuclear Miscreant':
Strontium-90 was detected in multiple locations on, and Strontium-89 detected in one location very near, the perimeter (79 km) of the survey area (to the north, west, and southwest), which should indicate that radiostronium depositions from Fukushima should be detectable at more distant locations, including Tokyo and beyond. (Note: strontium deposits were detected in Moscow and Hawaii last spring.) Curiously, the Ministry's survey area included no sampling stations along a 20-30 km section of coast beyond the the 30 kilometer zone around the nuclear complex extending towards Tokyo. In early October, the Ministry stated it has no plans to extend the survey area beyond the 79 km radius.
Dr. Busby has taken an acute interest
in uranium dispersal from the Fukushima disaster and in April 2011 plotted
a simple graph using the U.S. EPA's meager monitoring data of uranium-238 that
naturally shows how similarly heavy isotopes as 'depleted uranium' must have impacted
various islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii. Uranium has a boiling point of 3,818 degrees Celsius
and if uranium volatilized at Fukushima was found in huge quantities in apartments in Tokyo and EPA
filters in Hawaii, then plutonium, which has a lower boiling point (b.p.: 3,232 C),
must also have been present in these places. That plutonium flew into every Earthling's
neighborhood from Fukushima is a point
that the nuclear authorities - name one, it applies - dismiss
despite scientific findings that more or less prove it:
[a] paper published in 2012 by scientists in Lithuania demonstrated that some of the plutonium they detected with their radiation equipment in March to April 2011 was from Fukushima. How? They compared the ratio of rare and common plutonium isotopes - based on historical measurements - to those ratios in their March-April radiation data and concluded that 'the contribution of the Fukushima derived 239,240Pu [to be] 59% or 26.4 nBq/m3.'
Plutonium-239 and its more toxic
sister, plutonium-238, are extremely damaging to the lungs when inhaled. Plutonium-238 is
in each of our bodies thanks to the largest source polluting the environment to date: nuclear-powered
spacecraft that have re-entered our atmosphere. (Hardy & Bennett (1974, HASL) reported 42 picocuries per person (cumulative ingestion/inhalation) of plutonium through 1972.)
Speaking of nuclear-powered
spacecraft, in the first week of August 2012,
the Mars rover 'Curiosity' is expected to descend on the red planet and a
crash landing spilling 58,700 curies or over 10 pounds of plutonium-238
could leave a lasting 'sign of non-intelligent life' on our planetary neighbor. (58,700
curies is the same as 58.7 thousand-trillion picocuries!) It should be obvious that we aren't really searching for new life on Mars
if our nuclear spacecraft being sent to its surface could easily crash and
kill many forms of new life there. So why was a huge plutonium-battery chosen to power the Mars craft over the safer
and more ecologically friendly solar option? Simply put: propaganda. The
U.S. wants to dominate space. To dominate space, it needs nuclear power. To
put nuclear power in space, it needs public acceptance. (Unnecessarily) putting plutonium battery sources in NASA planetary exploratory spacecraft
is a ploy to get Americans to gleefully accept a future of progressive
deployment of nuclear power modules in space for the
purposes of global-strike weaponry and planetary
mining and mineral extraction.
This bold
space-pioneering plan by the silent military backers of the NASA space program
puts all of us at great risk.
We were lucky that a launch accident on Florida's Space Coast or a late boost-stage re-entry and burn-up
didn't happen when the rocket carrying Curiosity blasted off on November 26, 2011.
NASA took a gamble with all human life on Earth with that launch. The late radiobiology expert John Gofman, in his book "Radiation and Human Health," argued that 950,000 global fatal lung-cancers will result from Earthlings' exposure to a myriad of plutonium isotopes (through the early 1970s) from global nuclear testing fallout. The Curiosity payload - in 'Curies' - represents about one-fifth of the radioactivity of those plutonium isotopes estimated in the global fallout. If NASA's Curiosity mission experienced a worst-case re-entry, would we have faced nearly 200,000 fatal lung cancers? Since Gofman's calculations pertained to a time when the global population was roughly 50% the size of ours (there are twice as many pairs of lungs now as then), perhaps that number would've been nearly 400,000 fatal lung cancers.
It turns
out the resident of that Tokyo apartment actually evacuated upon learning of the
nuclear accident at Fukushima and returned seven months later (to lesser quantities
of lingering plutonium and uranium dust volatilized from Fukushima). Tens of millions
of Japanese weren't so lucky.
July 26, 2010 - Simulated
Underground Nuclear Test in Nevada Involving Real Radioactivity Carried Out
The U.S. Energy Department conducted on July 24, 2012 a 'Source Physics Experiment' - or a tiny, 'simulated' underground nuclear blast in Nevada - that a 2010 government 'white paper' noted would involve the direct release of radioisotopes into the environment to mimic the accidental venting of a low-yield underground nuclear detonation.
Although the Energy Department press release announcing this treaty-verification experiment - the third since May 2011 - didn't mention the release of radioactive gasses or particles, the 2010 white paper stated that, concurrent with the second or third Source Physics Experiment, a 'release of short-lived isotopes (e.g., via shallow underground chemical explosion, direct spraying, or other controlled release) will be used for high-fidelity radiometric measurements at the surface with no permanent contamination introduced to the site. Radioactive debris will decay to below background levels within 1 year.... Isotopes under consideration include a combination of treaty-relevant nuclides and other short-lived species that can be conveniently produced.' The press release noted that four more of these experiments are planned.
Because gaseous radioactive isotopes will drift offsite regardless of meteorological conditions and radioactive particulates can easily drift offsite, it is unacceptable that the DOE has carried out these tests without providing warning to off-site communities. It is also unacceptable that there has been no NEPA environmental assessment of Source Physics Experiments.
Sometime in 2012, the Energy Department plans to conduct a weapons-grade-plutonium-fueled 'scaled' subcritical nuclear experiment, which is the closest the U.S. will come to conducting a nuclear test since 1992. No environmental assessment of this new activity has been completed either.
More about the Department of Energy's disappointing environmental review in 2011-2012 of proposed activities at the 'NNSS' test site in Nevada through circa 2020 here.
