stock here, I have been harping on this for years. The lies about Global Warming, which then morphed into "fighting carbon", would be used to allow the nuclear cartel, on it's deathbed, to screw the ratepayers out of many Billions, for their profit.
Carol Browner, former climate and energy advisor to
President Barack Obama, said New York could serve as a "very
important example" to other states struggling with potential
nuclear plant shutdowns.
The industry hopes that if New York succeeds, it could
pressure other states to adopt similar subsidies.
New York's decision is "fundamentally the most important for
the nuclear industry as a whole, and for Exelon's nuclear
fleet," said Joe Dominguez, a government affairs official at the
company, which owns or operates about two dozen nuclear units
across the country. In Illinois, Exelon plans to shut two plants
unless the state legislature passes a clean energy standard this
year.
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I found this "Nuclear Shutdown" site while researching the New York debacle.
Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline of the nuclear power
industry in the US and beyond, and highlights the efforts of those who
are working to create a nuclear free future. Here is our June 2016
report.
Citizen science takes on Japan's nuclear establishment
Though the immediate threat of radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant has waned, interest in Safecast’s data has not. The
organization, which takes no position on nuclear power, is supported by
foundations, grants and individual donations.
Hillary Clinton Threw American's Under The Bus, Doubtless Costing Many Lives and Painful
Diseases. Clinton went to Japan in person to make a deal that could not be made "on paper" and that was to assure Japan that USA would buy any radioactive food from Japan, and not test it. Reminder, this is shortly after Fukushima while she was Secretary of State.
Her emails, and lack of emails proves this clearly.
Here is the breakdown:
Clinton was Secretary of State at the Time
She was clearly briefed on the dangers of Fukushima
She was getting several emails a day on Fukushima updates
People in government were pushing her hard to make a trip to Japan even though she was very tired and overworked
These same people were imploring her to "Go talk to Kissinger" about strategies for the Japan/Fukushima deal
Hillary went and got a strategy from Kissinger, and decided to make the trip to Japan to meet one on one with top officials.
Now, with a big trip to a world super power and close allie, after the worst industrial accident in history, you know that there would be a lot of emails to coordinate the trip.
But after that meeting with Kissinger there was not a single Japan or Fukushima related email in what she turned over. Not one. They were all disappeared. Under penalty of contempt of court, a jailable offense, or worse, she had all those emails purged. Why would anyone take a risk this large just to coverup a trip and discussion with one of our closest allies? 60 other top secret emails were released to the FBI (not disappeared), BUT the coverup of the Fukushima story was so important that Clinton and her group committed a felony by removing these from the record.
What is known and what is the most likely story that makes sense.
Arnie Gunderson reported in an interview that he has first hand information from contacts in the White House that Clinton made a deal with Japan that we would buy whatever food Japan sent us, WITHOUT testing it for radiation.
This buying the Japanese food is a very important economic shot in the arm for Japan at a critical time in their recovery from the disaster. Certainly Japan appreciated this very much
The big question is -- what did Hillary get in return either for herself or for the US Government? Of course she got something important in return.
For those who are not aware, Kissinger even at his advanced age, is one of the top, if not the top Bilderberg. Similar to Soros, they are still pulling important strings. What strategy did Kissinger give to his "minion" Hillary Clinton.
I can make some guesses, and most go beyond nuclear power, to nuclear weapons and Plutonium.
The breaking of that story--What did Hillary get, it potentially a world changing event.
But my story is very direct, very obvious, and here is the point.
In order to get something from Japan, either for Hillary's future run for president, or military positioning of assets, or getting Japan to start taking care of their own defense so USA doesn't get into a joint war with China. Whatever that deal was, maybe even more insidious that what I postulate, Hillary Clinton directly damaged US Citizens.
Hillary Clinton made a pact with Japan that USA would buy all the radioactive food that Japan wanted to send to us, WITHOUT TESTING. In fact at this time in 2011, Gina McCarthy, who was later promoted to the Top Position at the EPA, came up with the idea to shut off radiation monitors in the USA.
They all knew we were being pelted with radiation, and Hillary ensured that we would also get the radiation internally, in our food. What did Hillary get?
What did we the citizens get? A lot of risk, a lot of cancers, reduced immune system function, a lot of diseases. Many of these are still to come. There will be deaths.
Here is the chronology of events/emails to make it simple to see how the emails just STOPPED.
Here is a whitehouse petition to unredact all the Fukushima related emails, and to provide the rest of the emails.
Here is the official government source of the emails that I grinded through https://foia.state.gov/Learn/New.aspx
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1) She was well advised as to what the risks were, and what precautions should be taken.
2) These powers that be understand false arguments, how to spot them, and how to use them
3) In the emails released, most exchanges were pretty professional, after the Reactor 4 explosion it had gone too far, and they decided that the event just needed to be censored. After the initial emergency they focused their concern on economic impact and impact to the nuclear industry.
4) Around this time, researchers warned the powers that be that social media would lead to a reduction in their power if left unchecked and not monitored.
5) Hillary's crew responds back with "Heck Ya we are monitoring social media and twitter to make sure our communications are resulting in change we can believe."
6) Hillary's handlers pushed her to go to Japan with some goals in mind, and that it was PR, but would be very powerful. They pushed her even though all kind of other events were occurring and lots of travel and she was tired. That's why I call it her handlers.
7) Once that first and second email urging the trip happened....then a complete blackout on the emails related to a major trip to a major world power for 3 weeks at least, that's all I checked. No other issue got this blackout.
8) This blackout of the Fukushima related trip to Japan was so important, it required committing a crime to not provide these emails under subpoena. Of this $400B dollar a year industry (nuclear), how much do you think they funneled to Hillary or some Super-Pac?
I am dumping these screen captures of all the Fukushima emails that I reviewed. I have all the PDFs downloaded and stored and backed up.
But I want to get this out there now, so you can view.
First off, she knew of the dangers of Fukushima, and the precautions that should have been taken, the next 3 graphics are from 1 email, March 12, 2011
HIllary first press conference to address her illegal email methods. She starts lying about this at 2:55 in the video
Hillary lying for 13 minutes
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Americans, not just in the northwest, are unaware of being rained on
with Fukushima nuclear hot particles and eating Fukushima contaminated
food because the US government has deliberately minimized the
catastrophe, partially due to a pact Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
signed with Japan. Gundersen, with a team of other scientists, intends
to prove government statements about Fukushima are false.
“The United States came up with a decision to downplay Fukushima,”
said Gundersen who is awakening the public with information such as hot
particles in rain will continue falling in the U.S., not just in the
Pacific Northwest, for another year, and mentioning high-level fallout
in Oklahoma a few days ago.
Gundersen told SolarIMG
that high-level people he knows in the State Department said Hillary
Clinton signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing for the
United States to continue buying food from Japan, despite that food not
being properly tested for radioactive materials.“So we are not sampling the food coming into the United States,” he
said, repeating, “The US government has come up with a decision at the
highest levels of the State Department, as well as other departments who
made a decision to downplay Fukushima.”
In April, the month after the powerful tsunami and earthquake
crippled Japan including its nuclear power plant, “Hillary Clinton
signed a pact with Japan that she agreed there is no problem with
Japanese food supply and we will continue to buy them so we are not
sampling food coming in from Japan” according to Gundersen.
Apparently
the 50,000 messages Food & Water Watch supporters sent back in March wasn't
enough to keep the EPA from caving in to nuclear industry pressure. Now, the EPA is moving forward with
a guidance
to increase the amount of radiation allowed in your drinking water.
It's not just a slight increase they're proposing. We're talking the equivalent of 250
chest x-rays a year!
You can drop a comment to the EPA at the above blue link, today is the last day.
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I had this to say
I have a Masters Degree in Material
Science from the U of Michigan. My education includes 5 years of study and
research in radiation and heavy metals.
I am surprised and even shocked that an agency (that we
pay your salaries, remember) created to protect the people, is proposing a
standard that is effectively allowing an equivalent to 250 chest xrays a year. This is shameful for a modern and so called civilized
society to allow the people who pay your salary to protect them, to be exposed
to these massive levels of radiation. Of course, internal radiation is far far
worse than external radiation.
I also protest the "weasel words" of calling
this "non regulatory guidance". Those civic leaders who have no where
near the education and experience that I have, cannot possibly take this
"guidance" if passed, as anything other than a directive.
The EPA needs to fight back against the corporate and
nuclear cartel that is pulling the strings to loosen up the rules so this top
heavy and archaic "science" that we call Civilian nuclear power, can
have a chance at existing. Start representing us, again, and stop the puppet
like response to the $1.4 Billion per year that the nuclear cartel spends to
promote themselves and influence the EPA. Make us proud! Don't kill us. Don't
pre-plan and allow more tolerance for a nuclear disaster at our aging nuclear
plants that are averaging 2 emergency shutdowns per week.
Thank you, very much. Be real men and women, don't be a weasel.
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stock here--there are many curious things about this EPA comment period:
1) they removed the "opportunity" for people to leave their full name and credentials.
2) Comments went from 300 the day before to 35,000 after the close of the comment period
and more
By: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
The PAGs have been expanded to cover not just large accidents but any
release of radioactivity for which a protective action may be
considered. They cover the “intermediate phase” after “releases have
been brought under control” – an unspecified period that may last for
years. …
The new guidance would permit radiation exposures equivalent to 250
chest X-rays a year and, for some radionuclides, a person could receive a
lifetime dosage from a small glass of water. Despite public consternation about the plan, EPA has employed troubling hide-the-ball ploys, such as –
• Although it would set new concentrations for 110 radionuclides, EPA
has not disclosed what those new concentrations would be for all but
three of these. Yet, internal EPA documents obtained by PEER claim that
proposed concentrations "would exceed MCLs [Maximum Contaminant Limits
of the Safe Drinking Water Act] by a factor of 100, 1000, and in two
instances, 7 million."
• EPA removed from the electronic portal for comments
(regulations.gov) the boxes for commenters to include their names, an
extraordinary move that reduces specific public input from a range of
experts, cities and even states as coming from "anonymous" sources; and
• Taking the unexplained step of requiring all documents submitted to
be in full (no urls) but imposing a limit of ten megabytes per
attachment.
"This is a very creepy plan rolled out in an especially creepy
fashion," stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting that because
the public comments are concluded EPA can put the plan into effect at
any time. "It is unconscionable that full impacts of suspending drinking
water safeguards during long periods of nuclear fallout are hidden from
the public." …
Time for an overhaul. Ridiculous. You are not my representative, nor my environment or childrens.
You obviously represent the struggling, bankrupt, careless and planet poisoning nuclear industry.
That you would ever even propose such toxic nonsense in drinking water, no matter the circumstance, is very telling of who you work for.
Shame on you…and shame on Americans for letting things go this far.
Am I an angry citizen? Of course I am! You're so far in- you can't see out!
Your job is to protect the environment and children, not propose more of the most toxic substances known to man in their DRINKING water.
You have taken the responsibility of protecting our water and turned it into a green light for the nuclear industry to "spill" unprecedented amounts of their radioactive poisons into our drinking water- for our babies??
Useless and detrimental, you have become. I vote no and I vote to have you disbanded and tried for treason.
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RE: Proposed Change in EPA PAG Guidelines for radiological contamination of water
Please make your comment at the link here no later than today,
July 25, 2016
RE: EPA proposal to change PAG's for allowable radiological contamination in water during a radiological accident
July 25, 2016
Changing the PAG's for radiological content during a nuclear accident
will NOT protect the public. It is completely antithetical to logic to
increase allowable amounts of radiological contamination in water, and
state this is part of a "protective action."
It would appear the nuclear power industry has once again persuaded
the EPA to set aside its stated goals of protecting public health, and
instead is adopting PAG's which would favor the nuclear industry.
By raising PAG's for water and "alert levels" for radiological
contamination of air, the EPA gives at least the appearance of
abandoning public safety concerns.
(cont.)
The level of radiological contaminants in U.S. air has risen to the
point where airborne contaminant levels now exceed the former alert
threshold of 100CPM on a routine basis. The public is not warned,
nothing is done. Having raised PAG "allowable levels" of airborne
contaminants has placed U.S. citizens in the position of receiving
constant airborne doses of radiological contaminants without their
knowledge or consent. Even when the levels exceed the current alert
threshold of 350CPM, NOTHING is done to warn the public or help citizens
protect themselves from unsafe and unhealthy exposure levels.
EPA has proven itself irresponsible in protecting the public and
warning citizens of radiological hazards since well before many of the
air monitoring stations were shut down or failed during the Fukushima
Daichi plant meltdowns in 2011. The Agency has begun remediating this
situation, which is a very good thing. (See EPA Proposal for upgrading
the system dated 2012.)
Please do not change the allowable levels of water-borne radiological
contamination in the PAG's. This would be doing the public a great
disservice, and would be extremely harmful to human health.
EPA should not follow "Health Physics" guidelines in establishing
"safe" thresholds of radiation exposure, as it has been known for
decades there is no safe level of radiation exposure.
(cont.)
Please note I am a professional in the water purification industry
and operate a small scale water purification business which supplies
drinking water to the public in a retail location. I'm moderately well
versed in water quality and the nature of contamination in water.
It deeply saddens me to see Tritium levels in water are allowed and
called "safe" at 20,000 picocuries per liter. The presence of more than a
tiny amount of Tritium in drinking water is due to atmospheric weapons
testing and multiple nuclear accidents. I deeply regret I do not possess
the knowledge or ability to remove Tritium in our plant's facilities.
The thought of the public's being exposed to increasingly high levels of
radiological contaminants and calling this "allowable" during a nuclear
accident is absolutely abhorrent to me.
What could possibly cause EPA to consider making such a BAD decision?
Furthermore (and this was not part of my comment to EPA), by
stating the PAG's are for radiological incidents sort of guts the
protective aspect of the regulations, non? Does this mean EPA and/or its
regulating agency enforcing the PAG's would need do nothing if
contaminant levels rose above PAG guidelines, and a "radiological
incident" or nuclear accident was not involved?
I've just grown so wary of the sneaky weasel wording in these documetns, sometimes it's very upsetting.
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Have you heard about the Nuremberg Trials? After WW2, it was determined that scientists had a high moral responsibility to those they "protected" by using science, and the public's money to do that science. They found that scientists who had lied, misled, and otherwise abused their power and obligation to the public were guilty of a high crime.
Some were put to death. It didn't matter that they were "just following orders". It doesn't matter that you all are captured by the nuclear/industrial industries even if you don't know it. Social unrest is very high and we are at a tipping point (potentially) in which you may find an extreme backlash against government scientists who did not protect those who paid their salaries.
It is time to step back, look at the big picture. Nearly all of us are sick in some way, or the Big C Cancer.
Do your jobs. Turn on all the Beta and Gamma radiation stations in the USA. Fix them if need be. Data transmission via cell or WIFI is simplistic, that was used as an excuse for why some weren't worth operating.
What is "human"?
The world has changed, because we caused it to change, but WE haven’t
changed one bit. If anything, we’re stupider, dumber and less learned
then those who existed before us. We’re more callous, arrogant,
indifferent and out of touch with each other then ever before. We’re
better “informed”, but strangely, indifferent.
We understand almost nothing about the real world that exists outside
of our cubicles and our office chairs. Beyond the city limits is the
great unknown, that dirty, cold and brutal world we are desperately
trying to enslave and master for our own exclusive use. We’re surrounded
by shiny toys and distracting baubles to keep us from really thinking,
but we’re really only being diminished as being truly human.
We’re entirely dependent now upon this vast social and technological
infrastructure we have created, which makes us terribly vulnerable now
as a species. We’re in a very dangerous place, but the warnings are
being repeatedly ignored.
It is the lack of understanding the interconnections of all life
forms on earth to human populations that will ultimately, destroy our
species. If other forms of life cannot live here because of our
excessive ways, our arrogance and indifference, then neither can we.
Once we have irradiated the soils, polluted the atmosphere and the
water, destroyed all forms of plant and animal life, all in the fools
quest to “have it all”…
GOM well said, but what shall you do now? Can you help tip it? Obewan seems to think we have 500 years before all is gone. Methinks it could be as short as 50 years.
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Keep in mind all this happening as the so called EPA is trying to raise "allowable" radiation in drinking water to be HUNDREDS of times higher than it is now.
And as Fisherman again begin plying the waters of Fukushima. But they say "we are testing everything and finding nothing". Ya right.
The only solution left to us is to change our behaviour, radically and
globally, on every level. In short, we urgently need to consume less. A
lot less. Radically less. And we need to conserve more. A lot more. To
accomplish such a radical change in behaviour would also need radical
government action. But as far as this kind of change is concerned,
politicians are currently part of the problem, not part of the solution,
because the decisions that need to be taken to implement significant
behaviour change inevitably make politicians very unpopular – as they
are all too aware.
stock here. The earth would be better off with less people. And the ones that are breeding like rabbits are effectively causing a "de-evolution". But we don't need "less of everything". We need to reign in all of the corrupt cartels, eliminate insane industries like nuclear.
And speaking of energy, we need more of it, not less. Energy improves lives. We have all the energy we need, from the sun, PV solar electric. Its a no-brainer, and its now cheap, maybe only Hydro is cheaper at this time. And speaking of Hydro, I created a saying "fuck the frogs". Sorry, we are damaging the environment in many ways, but stopping a Hydro project for some small and rare frog or toad species is stupid. Hydro is a great complement to solar. Power our houses and businesses with solar in the day, and don't run the Hydro....lets the water and pressure build up until the sun is down, then let it flow. --------------------------------------
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO COMMENT ON THE MONSTROUS EPA PROPOSAL
They are proposing that rate payers give an extra 7.8 Billion dollar to subsidize---
Fitzpatrick Nuclear, a single reactor at 838 MW, and annual generation of 6918 GWH
It's a 41 year old Boiling Water Reactor, similar to Fukushima. They already decided to shut this one down, but may now keep it if they can get ratepayer to pay them more.
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New York is planning to screw the ratepayers in order to hand money to the dying nuclear industry. To the tune of $7.8 Billion Dollars.
That works out to around 2.5 cents per kWH
But solar PV can be implemented at under 2.94 cents per kWH and that price stay fixed for 30 years of production.
The average wholesale price of electricity in New England is around 3 cents per kWH.
So why extract the money from the ratepayer and give it to nuclear. Nuclear is almost twice as expensive as other generation sources if they need 2.5 cents per kWH EXTRA to "be competitive"
The bottom line is that nuclear is NOT COMPETITIVE.
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Ginna, Annual generation of 4930 GWH, already getting subsidies and now proposed to get even more. Its very old at 46 years. They were convicted of defrauding the rate payers, and had to pay a $240M fine.
So why extract almost this same amount from ratepayer to give to nuclear. Why not just give that money to the ratepayers to put solar on their own roofs?
KAGOSHIMA -- Incoming Kagoshima Gov. Satoshi Mitazono said in an
interview with the Mainichi Shimbun on July 21 that he plans to request
Kyushu Electric Power Co. to suspend its Sendai Nuclear Power Plant and
conduct an inspection of the plant by the end of August at the earliest.
But oh joy....success in getting more people to live at least 5 years. That is called a success. Chemotherapy....extends life, while making life very shitty.
This one is interesting
because it shows the wholesale price of electricity falling below the
production price of coal and nuclear. By August 2015 the price was down
to 30 EU/MHw (top graph).
And this graph give some
insight into why. The top set of lines is from a day before there was
much solar installed in German and the bottom set on a sunny day after a
moderate amount was installed. The effect of just a little solar is to
knock out all the more expensive providers during the sunny hours and lower the
wholesale price of electricity to that of late night (low demand) hours.
Hope this is what you're
looking for. If not, let me know and I'll see what else I
have squirreled away.
