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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The book discusses the Trinity test, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hydrogen bomb testing fallout,
U.S. experiments done on Marshall Islanders (Project 4.1), the Irene Allen trial, Cosmos 954, the Fukushima meltdowns,
Three Mile Island updates, and so much
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Introduction to 'Deception, Cover-up and Murder in the Nuclear Age'
The
preceding 'hypothetical conversation'
raises the disturbing point that the kind of brutality
that 'rogue nation' tyrants are often condemned for has also happened in democracies, and relatively recently
with a flair of even greater vulgarity. In
the United States, the government committed crimes against its own citizens via the negligent testing of WMDs
and neither the power of the people nor all of their democratic institutions
were of any help. None of the great tools of democracy meant to
prevent or repel government abuse were effective in helping America's radiologically poisoned and dying victims. The
victims were in the end fully neglected, left
unhelped...just as unfree peoples in other parts of the globe were after being exposed to chemical weapons by
command of their tyrannical leadership.
The first saga in the world's nuclear age, the 'Trinity' atom bomb test, is a perfect example. In
Chapter 1 (Trinity in New Mexico to Atomic Attack in Japan), we contrast how the
U.S. government helped its own scientists and employees to protect themselves from
the dangerous effects of radioactive fallout from the Trinity blast with what the
public was offered: nothing. The public was never given any warnings nor did they receive follow-up health advice, consultation or
medical screenings. They were lied to. They were fed propaganda by their
government. (But such crimes can only be repeated in democracies with the
consent - or apathy - of the people. The people played their part in the successive sagas.
When virtually no one independently investigated the possibility that the nuclear blast in
New Mexico's desert called 'Trinity' may have had ill-effects on animal or human health or the
environment (despite what their government alleged), it sealed the fate of successive groups of victims.)
Just over five years after Trinity, in
the Intermountain West, people started
noticing that their lambs were literally lambs to an atomic slaughter
as the U.S. government began testing nuclear bombs in the Nevada desert in
1951 that met with no protest. By 1953, sheep ranchers in Utah and Nevada began discovering that the health of their livestock was being damaged coinciding with
radiation routinely traveling from upwind in the Nevada desert.
This is noted in a report by a U.S. Congressional committee: a Congressional study group's report in 1979 stated that in the same year as two Nevada desert atomic bomb tests,
'11,710 sheep were grazing in an area from 40 miles north to 160 miles east of the test site. Of these sheep, 1,420 lambing ewes (12.1%) and 2,970 new lambs (25.4%) died during the spring and summer of
1953.' (p.3) The study committee concluded that exposure to radioactive fallout from a series of Nevada desert atomic bomb tests in 1953
'was, more likely than not, the cause of the 1953 sheep deaths in Utah and
Nevada...' (p.13)
The affected sheep were
grazing as far away as (and possibly farther than) 160 miles from the atomic bomb test site.
It wasn't until a few years later that
residents living within a similar and sometimes larger radius from the test site, all throughout the Intermountain West,
began realizing that their health too was being impacted by the fallout from the bomb tests.
As we chronicle in Chapter 2 (How Kodak film became more important than American lives),
the same thing happened as with Trinity. It was a repeat occurrence. One set of health standards
was used for government employees and a lesser standard applied to the general public. Although
citizens put up a fight later on, it was no match for the legal and legislative
obstacles set up by their own government. A multi-plaintiff lawsuit against the federal
government ended with democratic disgrace as the judicial branch
decreed - as kings once did - that government could do no harm. Citizens later
put their hope for remedy in the
legislative branch. Yet when Congress heard from a radiation compensation expert that
every American with cancer -
no matter their history - probably should be compensated with a federal monetary award
because all Americans were 'hit' with a bad dose of radiation from Nevada A-bomb test fallout
and the government was liable, they ran the other way. And when
government health institutions stalled and sullied dose
reconstruction studies, they kept looking the
other way. Congress did point out that the U.S. corporation named Kodak
was given warnings and fallout maps by the government that was never shared with the American people.
Indeed, history proves that Kodak film did become more important than American lives.
The
topic of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is weaved into the end of Chapter 1 as
we investigate the litany of questions about the U.S.'s atomic attack on Japan that still don't have clear answers:
Are Hiroshima and Nagasaki still radioactive?
How much 'hot' debris landed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
If the fallout in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 'went with the winds,' where did it go?
If the U.S. government restricts access to the 'Trinity Site' (the still slightly radioactive place where the first atomic bomb was
tested... including prohibiting collection of 'Trinitite' radioactive glass), then how are hundreds of thousands of people living (apparently) healthy lives today in the cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki?
Why don't we hear about
Japanese downwinders?
In Chapter 3 (Global fallout from nuclear testing),
we look at the 500 pound gorilla in the room: that a
prolonged global cancer epidemic may be related to the fact that 'nuclear club' governments blew
up hydrogen bombs in remote areas of the Earth into air, sea and space, and no
one told the global public about the dangers. With nuclear bombs pumping atomic debris into the upper atmosphere where
storms would later 'tap' and rain down on Earth and its food supply, everyone on the
globe became downwinders. It is not difficult to conceive that this was effectively
a 'secret nuclear war.'
In Chapter 4 ('The U.S. nuclear weapons complex'), we take a
look at the main branches of the U.S. nuclear weapons 'machine' that carried out or enabled the U.S. atmospheric
nuclear testing program from 1945 to the mid 1960s.
We look at the nature of work and radioactive releases that happened there and are still happening there.
These entities, which are still advancing new nuclear weapons and still polluting the environment, remain
the key conspirators in the evolving cover-up of the 'secret nuclear war.'
Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 ('Military radiation research experiments'
and 'Rongelapese') discuss the tragic story of the
guinea pigs who were chosen, abused, abandoned, and forever forgotten by the nuclear weapons complex. Chapters
7 and 8 ('The History and Future of Nuclear Powered Spacecraft'
and 'Mighty Oak - Testing the Space-Based Nuclear Laser') carefully explore
the risks and the poisons we all have unwittingly been dealt as a result of America's fascination during the Cold War with
winning the nuclear weapons space race. The legacy of that era isn't over: re-entry and burn-up of nuclear powered spacecraft
is probably as great or greater a radiological problem as reactor meltdowns in our future.
Chapters 9 and 10
('Subcritical Tests and What Really is a Nuclear Explosion'
and 'The Real Scoop about Containment and Detection of Underground Nuclear Tests') address
another very poorly understood radiological threat of the future: plumes from leaked underground
nuclear tests, which will likely be provoked by a U.S. subcritical nuclear experiment
and negatively affect the health of everyone in an entire hemisphere.
Chapters 11 and 12 ('The 'Bad Science' Behind Nuclear Reactor Operations'
and 'Volatile Fukushima') focus on the physics of gaseous radioactive pollution. These two
chapters explain how reactors
pollute our air during routine operations and how the meltdowns at Fukushima
physically propelled radioisotopes up into the air and across the globe.
Chapters 13, 14 and 15 are part of a common theme titled 'Environmental Dangers from Cold War
Legacy Radiation' and employ case studies (a Utah wildfire, an Australian dust storm, and a greedy American
natural gas industry) to convey the point that pockets of contamination put on our planet are
not contained and threaten us daily. Chapter 16 is the final chapter
and builds on the technical knowledge gained from the book's case studies
and lessons to discuss advanced environmental radiation monitoring. Although environmental radiation monitoring
is one of the core recommendations made by other authors who have carefully examined
the toll of radiation disasters, we include it as a solution only to deal with the
symptoms of the problem. The conclusion of the book
examines the meaning of self-government
as a means of finally finding salvation from the biosphere's growing radioactive mess
and worsening human public
health tragedies that are symptomatic of the nuclear age.
We
conclude this introduction with a question: Why do people believe in the myth that radiation is so
weak a health threat that only very large quantities will do harm?
