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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Anne's research on Plutonium Emitted

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

How to calculate radioactive "activity"

Full credit to
 http://nuclearcrimes.org/conversions.php

RADIOACTIVE-'ACTIVITY'
 To determine how radioactive something is:
 A* =
0.693 mNA
 
T1/2AFt
A* = activity of sample (in disintegrations per time)
m = mass of sample
A = atomic weight of radionuclide (easy: it's the number of the nuclide, like 89 for strontium-89)
T1/2 = half-life of radionuclide (in any unit of time)
Ft = conversion from one unit of time to the desired unit of time
NA = constant called Avogadro's number, or 6.022 x 10 23 atoms/mole
Does this formula really work?
Let's try it on radium.  We know that 1 curie represents the radioactivity of one gram of pure Radium-226 and we also know that 1 curie pumps out 3.700 x 1010 disintegrations per second.
So, to prove that 1 gram of radium pumps out 37 trillion disintegrations per second, let's assign the variables for radium.  Lets assign a mass of 1 (gram).  We know radium's half-life is about 1,603 years and its atomic weight is 226.0254 (radium 226).  For Ft we want to convert from years to seconds, or 31,536,000 seconds per year.
 A* =
(0.693) (1 gram) (6.022 x 10 23 atoms/mole)
= 3.65E10, or 3.65 x 1010 disintegrations per second
 
(1603 years)(226.0254 grams/mole) (525600 minutes/year)(60 seconds/minute)
Why did we come up short?  Any ideas??
 Example.  If 1 microgram of strontium-89 (which has a 50.6 day half-life) was deposited today in 1 meter by 1 meter area of a rice patty near Tokyo, what is its present activity?
 A* =
(0.693) (0.00001 grams) (6.022 x 10 23 atoms/mole)
= 6.43 x 1011 disintegrations per minute
 
(50.6 days)(89 grams/mole) (1440 minutes/day)
 Example.  If plutonium-238 depositions from Fukushima caused Namie soils to be 4 becquerels per square meter, what is the activity level?
First 4 becquerels (of pu238) is the same as 108 picocuries (of pu238). Second, one gram of pu238 is 17.44 curies, or (17.44 x 1 trillion) picocuries.  So, the 4 becquerels per square meter represents 108/(17.44 x 1 trillion) = 6.3 x 10-12 grams.
 A* =
(0.693) (6.3 x 10-12 grams) (6.022 x 10 23 atoms/mole)
= 238.8 disintegrations per minute
 
(88 years)(238 grams/mole) (525600 minutes/year)
Posted by Stock at 10:52 PM 0 comments

Japan admitted 5 deaths due to lethal (acute) radiation doses

So this was when R3 went prompt critical nuclear explosion.     A massive blast of neutrons and gamma.     


Posted by Stock at 10:45 PM 0 comments

Good Radiation Information Source

http://www.davistownmuseum.org/cbm/Rad5.html
Posted by Stock at 10:00 PM 0 comments

Education / Activist Materials from "chemfood"

chemfood
January 7, 2014 at 11:50 pm · Reply
Rad Chick (with Chris Busby)Signs and Symptoms of Rad Exposure
Children and women, of course more vulnerable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq9-YYEOCdA&list=PL18FB779C9C5710BC
To all visitors and the community of ENENews, the following Japan Radiation Citizen Memos are designed to be widely shared everywhere in your local and internet communities. All citizens need to know about Fukushima, especially those with children expecting to have children.
Find bulletin boards in your local area and post on social websites. Please, Tell the People.
Japan Radiation Memo to All Citizens PDF
http://tinyurl.com/Japan-Radiation-Citizens-Memo
Japan Radiation Memo in JPEG (for social media upload)
http://tinyurl.com/Japan-Radiation-Memo-JPEG
Vital1's Radiation Memo to Parents
http://technologypals.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lifesaver.pdf
Doesn't take much. A printer. Scissors. Thumbtacks. For some,
only a computer. And the simple motivation to share your care.
It is also requested that everyone who can, please "like" and "share" ENENews throughout your use of social media https://www.facebook.com/ENENEWS
To the Enenews community. As we all can't be everywhere at once, I humbly ask each and every one of you to book mark this comment and share either the link here or cut and paste the documents into your comments.
With great thanks to all. The citizens of the world must know, before the new generations are left to fend on their own.
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Fukushima Signature Plutonium detected in Lithuania

J Environ Radioact. 2012 Dec;114:71-80. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2011.12.004. Epub 2011 Dec 27.

Radionuclides from the Fukushima accident in the air over Lithuania: measurement and modelling approaches.

Lujanienė G, Byčenkienė S, Povinec PP, Gera M.

From

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22206700

 

Author information

Abstract

Analyses of (131)I, (137)Cs and (134)Cs in airborne aerosols were carried out in daily samples in Vilnius, Lithuania after the Fukushima accident during the period of March-April, 2011. The activity concentrations of (131)I and (137)Cs ranged from 12 μBq/m(3) and 1.4 μBq/m(3) to 3700 μBq/m(3) and 1040 μBq/m(3), respectively. The activity concentration of (239,240)Pu in one aerosol sample collected from 23 March to 15 April, 2011 was found to be 44.5 nBq/m(3). The two maxima found in radionuclide concentrations were related to complicated long-range air mass transport from Japan across the Pacific, the North America and the Atlantic Ocean to Central Europe as indicated by modelling. HYSPLIT backward trajectories and meteorological data were applied for interpretation of activity variations of measured radionuclides observed at the site of investigation. (7)Be and (212)Pb activity concentrations and their ratios were used as tracers of vertical transport of air masses. Fukushima data were compared with the data obtained during the Chernobyl accident and in the post Chernobyl period. The activity concentrations of (131)I and (137)Cs were found to be by 4 orders of magnitude lower as compared to the Chernobyl accident. The activity ratio of (134)Cs/(137)Cs was around 1 with small variations only. The activity ratio of (238)Pu/(239,240)Pu in the aerosol sample was 1.2, indicating a presence of the spent fuel of different origin than that of the Chernobyl accident.
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Fukuleaks Great Resource for Fukushima Research

http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?page_id=8597
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The Banana Debunk

I intend to do the Banana debunk here.

Here is one from Washington's Blog

But the EPA explains:
The human body is born with potassium-40 [the type of radiation found in bananas] in its tissues and it is the most common radionuclide in human tissues and in food. We evolved in the presence of potassium-40 and our bodies have well-developed repair mechanisms to respond to its effects. The concentration of potassium-40 in the human body is constant and not affected by concentrations in the environment.
Wikipedia notes:
The amount of potassium (and therefore of 40K) in the human body is fairly constant because of homeostatsis, so that any excess absorbed from food is quickly compensated by the elimination of an equal amount.
It follows that the additional radiation exposure due to eating a banana lasts only for a few hours after ingestion, namely the time it takes for the normal potassium contents of the body to be restored by the kidneys.
BoingBoing reports:
A lot of things you might not suspect of being radioactive are, including Brazil nuts, and your own body. And this fact is sometimes used to downplay the impact of exposure to radiation via medical treatments or accidental intake.
***
I contacted Geoff Meggitt—a retired health physicist, and former editor of the Journal of Radiological Protection—to find out more.
Meggitt worked for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and its later commercial offshoots for 25 years. He says there’s an enormous variation in the risks associated with swallowing the same amount of different radioactive materials—and even some difference between the same dose, of the same material, but in different chemical forms.
It all depends on two factors:
1) The physical characteristics of the radioactivity—i.e, What’s its half-life? Is the radiation emitted alpha, beta or gamma?
2) The way the the radioactivity travels around and is taken up by the body—i.e., How much is absorbed by the blood stream? What tissues does this specific isotope tend to accumulate in?
The Potassium-40 in bananas is a particularly poor model isotope to use, Meggitt says, because the potassium content of our bodies seems to be under homeostatic control. When you eat a banana, your body’s level of Potassium-40 doesn’t increase. You just get rid of some excess Potassium-40. The net dose of a banana is zero.
And that’s the difference between a useful educational tool and propaganda. (And I say this as somebody who is emphatically not against nuclear energy.) Bananas aren’t really going to give anyone “a more realistic assessment of actual risk”, they’re just going to further distort the picture


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All bananas contain potassium (element K). All potassium contains 93+ %
> Potassium 39, stable potassium, and a little bit of the isotope Potassium
> 41, perhaps 6+ %. But, all potassium also contains a tiny fraction of the
> radioactive isotope of potassium, Potassium 40 (K40).
>
> Potassium 40 undergoes three forms of decay, beta -, rarely beta+, and
> electron capture. The last step emits a gamma ray with an energy of 1461
> keV. It is this gamma ray that I detected.
>
> My calculations for the typical radioactivity of a banana:
>
> The number of Potassium (K) atoms per gram of potassium:
> (Avogadro's Number / Atomic Weight of K40) = 6.022 x10^23 / 39 = 1.544 ×
> 10^22 K Atoms/gram
>
> The amount of Potassium in a Banana (approx):
> grams of Potassium in a banana = 0.442 grams
>
> Natural abundance of K40 per normal Potassium (A): 0.000117
>
> Half life of Potassium: 3.9357×10^16 seconds (T 1/2).
>
> Calculation:
> ((Avogadro's Number) / (Atomic weight)) x (0.442 g) x (A) x (ln 2) /
> (T1/2)
> (((6.022*10^23 / 39)*0.442) x 0.000117) x ln2 / (3.9357×10^16)
> =14.0633 decays per second per banana
> = 14.0633 Bq Banana^-1
> =lol



Background information. Thinking about your body-potassium. So, roughly, you’d best have enough potassium in you to fill a block about an inch & two-thirds on edge, because it does all manner of wondrous things for us, including allowing our neurons to think. Now, a tiny, tiny (~one per ten-thousand) fraction of those potassium atoms are quite peculiar: not only are they stable enough to always be with us (only half vanish in a tenth the age of the universe), but quite-rarely, they triple-route decay (by either beta, gamma, or positron emission). They are radioactive! So, to visualize this portion, we have gone from a bit more than a golf-ball of comforting and quite vital potassium, to about as much terrifying p-40, as would fill a space roughly sized so you could think of it as half a rice-grain. Much of the disquietude which feeds our fears of radioactivity stems from the all but un-image-able tiny-ness of the atomic realm. Thus, the facts thus far mentioned, might lead one to surmise, that not much could be happening in that rice grain. The famous historian of the A-bomb, Richard Rhodes, analogized that each fissioning atom releases about the energy of an exploding popcorn kernel, but radioactivity is only a percent or two as powerful. How-some-ever, if you still had half of your p-40 left, or a quarter-rice grain, even should you live for a billion years, you might think not many kernels are a’popping, say, per hour. The fact is, 4,400 of your p-40s blow up each second! Potassium is a metal, and should we be able to hold our imaginary broken rice grain in our hand—its heat would surely be sensible to the touch. There is no easy way to sort out the rice isotopes from your potassium golf ball, thank Christ, but if there were, and if one could place it in a specific location in our bodies, it would rather magically transform itself from harmless “us”, into something similar to the ultra terrifying menace of inhaled plutonium. Well, not quite similar, because plutonium is an alpha emitter, but, the mechanism which makes microscopic plutonium dust-specs lethally carcinogenic, is their capacity to repeatedly bombard and damage the same adjacent cells in the human lung. This “magical” dimension to ionizing radiation is rather subtle, however. So, for example, one could lie on a bed of metallic plutonium, warmed by its decay without harm, because the alphas cannot penetrate a piece of paper, or your outer layers of un-living skin. Now, lets think about the 4,400 decays each second in a 154 pound, typical human, and try to relate this to Dr. Martini’s depiction of the Fukushima radiation enhancement in the Pacific. Simple divisions gives us a potassium shine of 29 disintegrations per second per pound. This is near to the decay rate of each gram of full potassium (31), and about double the dose in a banana, which is fifteen pops-per-second. THIS is our becquerel: One fifteenth of a banana’s p-40 decay rate. One atom-burst per second.
Posted by Stock at 6:34 PM 1 comments

SL-1 Reactor Explosion, and Cool Links Related to Fukushima Radiation

http://www.asrltd.com/japan/plume.php Note the almost gleeful method at which the commentator describes the accident and the cleanup The arrogance of it all
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ABC News: Officials stumped by high rate of birth defects near Hanford in Washington State

Is this for real? They can't figure it out?

I guess radiation makes people stupid

Severe birth defects are 800% higher than normal

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 http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19687592&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fenenews.com%2Fworrisome-spike-in-deadly-birth-defect-around-leaking-u-s-nuclear-site-officials-claim-it-could-be-a-complete-coincidence-all-media-reports-fail-to-mention-its-nearby-most-contaminatenuclear


Officials Stumped by High Rate of Birth Defects
By GILLIAN MOHNEY
Jul 17, 2013, 10:49 AM PHOTO:

Rise In Birth Defects A high rate of birth defects has confounded Washington health officials, who have been unable to identify a cause.

A report released Tuesday by the Washington State Department of Health said that, since 2010, the neighboring counties of Yakima, Benton and Franklin have an unusually high number pregnancies affected by the birth defect anencephaly, which results in a newborns' brains being severely underdeveloped. In the U.S., there are approximately one or two expected cases of anencephaly for every 10,000 annual births. However, in the three named Washington counties, with a total population of approximately 515,000, the health department found that there was an abnormally high number of cases reported from January 2010 to January 2013 with approximately eight cases of anencephaly for every 10,000 births. Anencephaly is a birth defect, almost always fatal, where the neural tubes in the fetus do not close properly. As a result, the forward part the fetus' brain is not developed and the other part of the brain is exposed to amniotic fluid, causing further damage. Most fetuses that develop the defect are stillborn. Those who survive to birth usually die shortly after being born.
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MOX and Experimental Fuel laying in the Fukushima Rubble

Best Lies of Nuclear

Exposing Some of the "Big Lies"

Plutonium Fuel Rods laying in the rubble!

Caught this from a TEPCO released sampling video.    Raw Uranium Pellets just lying in the rubble, very clear cut.   Maybe MOX too.   Maybe some experimental fuels too.    Very odd stuff these rods in the rubble.


You just have to wonder if they weren't doing some type of research at Fukushima, and of course this type of thing wouldn't be publicized.





Here is a link just found December 2011, which shows fuel pellets made in France that look exactly like those shown in the video.   Also keep in mind that the "official news" reported fuel pellets found over 2 miles from the plants.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=triga+reactor+fuel&view=detail&id=0B740F025EB257DEE54FD683A0DB8AD9B88C04C9&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR

And here is another link--
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Triga+Reactor&view=detail&id=E6641678B44CF7C80FBC454DF87F64AFDABE9F19&first=31&FORM=IDFRIR

Here is the video, around 4:20 in are these closeups


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgjHMUVOEY&feature=youtu.be






















The Heiness Lie of "RISK FACTOR"

By a series deceptive tricks, the PNPs have come up with a simple "Risk Factor" which then multiplies by Sv in order to create "Excess Death Due To Cancer".   The lies are myriad, and digging deep is difficult, but lets just say this is a fair assessment of how they understimate risk in order to promote their evil craft---its Bullshit.

Read this, its awesome, it makes me look tame.
http://www.box.com/s/srptsqb42tpt7zo3ldev


THE NEW LIES
The new ones will be:
1. to downplay the prospects for renewable energy and energy efficiency – lies about costs, about “base load” power.
2. to tout the safety of new nuclear technology, such as “small modular thorium nuclear reactors”.
3. More subtly than lies – the nuclear lobby uses OMISSIONS –   watch how in 2012 the topics of Fukushima, and nuclear waste, fade from mention in the media, even though they are still topics of critical importance.




THE LIE: You need to work at a nuclear power plant or else you don't know diddly

by VMF211 "Fighting against Liberalism everyday"
09:42 PM on 12/29/2011
Funny how almost every Liberal or anti nuke here has never been in or worked in a
Nuclear Power Plant and has never worked with radiation exposure and yet they try to tell us what's going on there and how it They work and what's wrong with them.
It just cracks me up.

You appear to be making the argument that unless you work in a nuclear plant, and unless you "work" with radiation as a full time employment scenario, that you can know nothing of value.

I would say that basic facts can be known by interested laypeople, and that perhaps the basic facts are the most important. For instance, one could know facts about the sealing ability of a large butterfly valve to stop the very slippery hydrogen from slipping by and/or bypassing a backdraft damper, and one could know the cost estimates for implementa­tion of completely separate vent stacks that would "improve" safety, and one could postulate about the dangerous effects of Boral plates in spent fuel pools degrading and possibly allowing a moderating effect that could result in a prompt chain reaction. One could look at a hundred little way in which  incrementa­l increases in safety could be achieved, OR

OR

One could look at the basic macro facts this this insanely dangerous technology to boil water blows up on a regular basis. See link

and one could look at the fact that every accident is attempted to be covered up to the maximum extent, until forced to partially fess up.

and one could look at the fact that the so called regulatory agencies are in fact, by their basic principles­, charged with promoting the expansion of nuclear in one of the most blatant and obvious conflicts of interest.

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THE LIE: "A Little Radiation in Your Food Won't Hurt"

The reality of analysis, a 3 page PDF, simple enough to follow, read it.
http://www.box.com/s/8hz7yr6mkvt646qfk5r6
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THE LIE: "Nuclear is Safe as Long as You Can Feed Power Into Them"/ Carrington Event

The current lie is a form of misdirection....a shell game of sorts.    By pretending that by increasing the current hours of backup power available at Nuke Plants from 4 hours to 8 hours, that in that case "Nuclear is Safe".   The answer is Heck No!   There are still many compelling reasons to eliminate nuclear power from our planet even if they made their backup power better than 4 hours.  And one of these MOST COMPELLING is the Carrington Event.

Mr. Carrington was a researcher who observed the sun with a telescope.   He noticed a pattern of sunspots /storms never seen before.   This created Aurora Borealis throughout the globe, even seen in Cuba.   It fried some of the few pipeline and telegraphs in use at the time, the time was 1869.  Supposedly, there was a similar event around 1600

Read this article from NASA stating how another Carrington Event could wipe out our current electronic and electrical grid.   I mean wipe it out for years.   Not the end of the human species, but are you ready for that?

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare/

 These effects are not so uncommon....seems like we get a big enough event every decade or so---from NASA
of the effects of solar geomagnetic storms on terrestrial communications when a huge solar flare on August 4, 1972, knocked out long-distance telephone communication across Illinois. That event, in fact, caused AT&T to redesign its power system for transatlantic cables. A similar flare on March 13, 1989, provoked geomagnetic storms that disrupted electric power transmission from the Hydro Québec generating station in Canada, blacking out most of the province and plunging 6 million people into darkness for 9 hours;
Lets says that big portions of the grid were knocked out.   Emergency response was difficult. And the 400 nuclear plants on the earth exceeded their 4 to 8 hours of backup capacity, and started melting down, and continued.    Indeed, that is what we have set ourselves up for.   Sad indeed, and we know that only emergencies get government and regulatory bodies off their duff, and even back in the day "they" used to be slow to react, now they seem to lash out with coverups, denials, and the exact opposite response of what is needed.  

What if 400 nuclear plants melted down?   What if it was only 40?

The answer is simple, this insane method of boiling water needs to come to an end.   Not tomorrow, and it might take 20 years, in which we are just HOPING that a Carrington or Mini-Carrington doesn't occur.

End nuclear now, it is too dangerous for humans, too dangerous for the planet. 

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THE LIE: "Background Radiation" is High, Therefore More Radiation Doesn't Matter Much

In some areas, Radon is not completely avoidable. Mostly it seeps into basements. Radon ventilation systems are very effective, they can reduce this amount at least 50% and maybe 80%, just depends how much air you want to move. So instead of a 37% of your exposure if you reduce that 80% it is 7.5%, plus 5% cosmic, and 3% soil, that is 15%. So by "so called 'natural sources" like med procedures, nuke medicine, those items are jacking up your dose like 400% to 700% from where is could be "naturally". the whole natural radiation lie, unravels as a complete joke... about half of us will contract cancer in our lives, and yet you can't prove that any one source caused it. Therefore by the "Scientific Method" radiation cannot be proven to be unsafe, therefore the PNPs Pro Nuke Pimps will state that "natural radiation" is proven to be safe, and therefore a little extra disaster radiation is OK too. Check the chart closely, the PNP lies immediately emerge.




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Nuclear energy:

1) It's not renewable. Mineable uranium won't last much longer than the planet's oil stocks. The available energy content for recoverabl­e oil and uranium is about the same. Moreover, uranium mining is terrible for the environmen­t, causing, among other things, horrific problems for local water tables.

2) It's not cost-effec­tive. It has never been able to compete with other forms of energy without the massive subsidies. It is by far the most expensive way to boil water.

3) It's not a green energy source. It produces some of the most toxic pollution there is (with no real solution on how to deal permanentl­y with it). The ONLY good thing is that it doesn't release as much carbon (however, it still does for the mining, enrichment and transporta­tion processes)­.

4) It has massive "asymmetry­­" in the risks versus benefits. A meltdown will swamp any economic benefit derived from the electricit­y that plant produced. And remember, it's not a question of if there will be more disasters - only when. To believe that an accident "can't happen" is the ultimate in statistica­l­ arrogance.

Of all of the forms of energy, the cheapest incrementa­l energy "source" by far is the so-called "negawatt"­­, or the watt of energy that can be saved and not wasted. Not only are most conservati­on solutions cheaper to implement than new nuclear power reactors, they leave us with the energy that we would have otherwise wasted, to be used at some point in the future.

And since the EU gets about 60% more GDP out of its total energy use than America, it's pretty clear that 1) there's room for improvemen­t in the US and 2) there's already a great example AND supporting technology to allow the US to pursue this. China has figured this out (as has most of the rest of the world), making the US less efficient than the rest of the world with each passing year. And MASSIVE subsidies doled out to oil, gas, coal and nuclear power suppliers is a BIG part of the reason behind this waste. America goes out of its way to make energy artificial­ly cheap when you buy it, since in America, nearly all of the "external costs" associated with energy usage side effects (pollution­­, risk of a meltdown, massive military costs in the Gulf, etc.) are paid for by the taxpayer and NOT the suppliers (or even the direct purchasers­­) of this energy.

And always remember, utilities, oil majors, coal producers and nuclear power plant operators (just like ANY other business), will never be happy with any attempt at reducing demand for their product, since it will impact both the amount sold AND the price.

So they will ALWAYS resist conservati­on efforts. Always.




This from the BBC is an utter joke, and disinformation.  It says stop running from Nuclear Accidents.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12860842 

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TROLL JOUSTING

List of false argumentative methods

Truth is not the friend of nuclear.   The supporters of nuclear are forced to use various false argumentative techniques.    By understanding what a false argument is, and point it out, you can help others from falling into the trap of a false argument.

http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#weasel
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AGreenRoad, a Video on what really happened at Chernobyl

Posted by Stock at 12:48 PM 0 comments

High "Quality" Troll Invades ENENEWS Network to spread uncertainty and doubt, socref

I busted this troll out of the gate.   Drawing conclusions from limited data is important.   We don't have the "luxury" of relying on the scientific method which is burdensome.    We have to use our wits to get to the answers more quickly.

But what is important, is to know that when Big Nuke Industrial Complex
sends a "high quality" troll, that ENENEWS is hitting close to the mark.    Is making an impact.    These type of trolls are not going to work for less than $150,000 per year, maybe they even demand $250,000.    Shite, this troll is almost as good as I am....just on the other side.     But his lies are still pretty easy to spot.   Because when you are not on the side of truth, all you have is lies.  

Pro Nukers are arrogant brontosaurus who see their own extinction, lose their livelihood and social status at the same time.   He pretends that any Uranium and Plutonium detected in Hawaii was "always there", that it was part of the baseline.    But based upon EPA data we know for a fact that Uranium and Plutonium went up 2900% to 3500% compared to the residuals from the Atomic Bomb testing of the 1950's and 60's, i.e. background.

That link is here
 Plutonium Admission by EPA



You can visit the thread if you like.    Mack has done an excellent job of debunking the trolls debunks.    Join in.     There are ENENEWS people who would be confused by this level of troll.   Bring it to a stop.    Use it to harden our resolve.   

Gunderson confirmed my theory back in 2012, see his email here.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/gundersen-email-and-theories.html


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socref
January 6, 2014 at 4:22 pm · Reply
I read the email. There was no evidence of a prompt criticality back then. There would have been a massive neutron count (around 1e18 neutrons) for the total fissions over a microsecond. This is the standard average criticality accident yield as noted in LA-13638. A lot of people would have went to the hospital with acute radiation sickness if that really occured.
The Unit 3 criticality has been debunked.
MACK--It hasn't been debunked.
Arnie offered many reasons why he hypothesized it was prompt criticality:
1. The Upward vector of the explosion at unit 3
2. The red-color on right side of the building during explosion
3. Pieces of nuclear fuel rods were discovered 2 miles from the plant
4. Uranium was find in Hawaii and on the west coast
5. Plutonium was found on-site as a very fine dust
6. Americium was found in New England
7. Transuranics – indication that nuclear fuel was damaged and nuclear fuel was volatilized at Fukushima
8. The blackness of the cloud from Unit 3 indicates Uranium and Plutonium were volatized (turned into really fine aerosol which can travel far and was found in Hawaii, West Coast)
9. Large portion of building of Unit 3 is missing, especially on south side, yet infrared shows heat source still on south side
10. Rubble around Unit 3 of fuel rack, fuel rods, and pieces of uranium and plutonium
11. If it were just a hydrogen explosion, hydrogen and oxygen reaction would create water and would travel at speed of sound and is a deflagration which is what happened at unit 1
12. What caused the explosion in unit 3 was a detonation, further evidenced by the magnitude of the plume and the red flash on the side of building). A detonation gives a red flash.
13. Plausible reason, says Arnie, is that a hydrogen reaction started which then caused the shockwave to move and distort nuclear fuel in the pool which creates a prompt nuclear reaction which then blows rubble out of pool, up in the plume and creates the energy needed to create detonation
14. Arnie says there is a way to test his hypothesis, and that is to look at the types of isotopes in the smoke. Two Xenon isotopes depending on ratio can determine it; the evidence is there but not released by gov’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW5Z77-woCQ
apologies to Arnie if I misheard anything

And I like it that the Troll tries to take me down personally....another sign that I am hitting close to the mark.   In fact, on TARGET.   The troll concludes his obvious attack with "peace"

socref: You wont hurt my feelings when we disagree. Just dont hide behind a curtain and report me for my contributions. Censorship is a one way street. If you really believe that TEPCO is censoring information, that is one thing, but be the better person and not do the same to those that disagree with you. Ive seen some people stay on this site for a very short time because of their anti anti-nuclear stance. Its not that I am pronuclear or antinuclear I am just anti-fact faking. You have to ask yourself what have I done wrong here, but put my training and education on the line to say one thing – that Unit 3 did not explode as a nuclear explosion because the facts just dont stack up. Yes I guess I exposed a chink in stocks armor about his precious theory but at the end of the day even he admits its just a theory that hasnt stood the test of scientific method and validation. Its cost him some street cred and now there is a campaign to censor me? Cmon.
The fact of the matter was that there was an explosion. It was most likely hydrogen generated since the nuclear forensics are not there. Why cant stock just admit he is outclassed in this one particular area, and move on.
Peace.
The only "chink" in my theories armor, as the troll states, is that lots of neutrons weren't detected at the time that R3 blew sky high.     Uh, who would have the neutron detector?    And would the neutron stick around for quite some time?    Hilarious.   His assertion that because TEPCO didn't report neutrons, therefore all the other preponderance of evidence is thrown out.


Others have appreciate Nuke Pro busting this troll

Socref is a troll. Better than AtomsforPeace and even Michael Mann….but a troll none the less. Don't be confused.
No one who has a "real job" can put in the effort he is putting in.
zogerke
January 7, 2014 at 7:01 am · Reply
thank you for naming reality. foundations of socref's efforts are expertise in one area and deep denial in others. presentation method: mix of facts and sciencespeak with embedded assumptions and persuasive 'nukes are not so bad' opinions. absolutely not neutral. sources of his info appear to be deep and narrow, from one scientific perspective only. information shared has huge white-out about the health impact of releases, information he shares is not integrated with info about human health studies from other disciplines; plus assumptions that academic or in-house nuclear conferences present the entirety of available information on nuclear safety.. (not)..
someone named here that we need folks with this expertise to craft solutions. But how can solutions be crafted when there is such deep personal denial about health effects? As though the lack of formal reports of radiation and immune disorder illnesses, cancer rates, hospitalizations… in Japan…proves it is not there? in the face of all we know about censorship…really?
and basing your understanding of health effects on censored information when alternative info IS out there that has been vetted and published, about health effects of low level radiation releases? kind of blows my mind. but denial is a potent human coping mechanism….all I can do is witness it and name what i see. And yes, I have a perspective that is anti nuke, since tmi, which was about 37 years ago…..by the way, 5000 hours or…

Also seen on ENENEWS
rakingmuck
January 7, 2014 at 6:01 pm · Reply
We Not They Finally Here is belated Christmas present. nesimikilic@gmail.com
He is part of the IAEA TEAM that goes to Fukushima,a PHD and now confirmed liar.Tell him how you feel




Posted by Stock at 11:44 AM 6 comments

Monday, January 6, 2014

Artic Blast

The NRC is promoting how nothing has blown up yet, in the Artic Blast, aka Polar Vortex (just like a nuker...making things more complicated than it needs to be)

Drop in to the NRC blog and ask them a few questions....

http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2014/01/06/u-s-nuclear-power-plants-weather-the-polar-vortex/

Remember those frozen pipes at Fukushima.....

Posted by Stock at 1:58 PM 0 comments

Humor that only a Pro Nuke Shilll could love.....

From ENENEWS, I stop there thrice daily 

 http://enenews.com/harvard-website-media-blindly-reports-tepcos-false-radiation-levels-says-fukushima-official-press-wont-report-truth-its-still-scary-in-tokyo-people-move-away-due-to-hotspots-e#comments

Gasser
January 6, 2014 at 12:53 pm · Reply
One day a Nuclear fuel pellet assembly employee came in to work with both of his ears bandaged.
When his boss asked him what happened, he explained:
"Yesterday I was assembling a fuel rod when the phone rang
and I accidentally answered the fuel pellet container instead of the phone!"
"Well," the boss said, "that explains one ear, but what
about the other?" "They called back!"


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orsobubu
January 6, 2014 at 1:33 pm · Reply
News on Soviet newspaper: "Last night the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has met the requirements of energy production provided by the five-year plan in just 4 microseconds".
A boy asks his grandfather, "Grandpa, is it true that in 2011 there was an accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant?". "Yes, it is true," replied the grandfather stroking the child's head. "And it is true that there were no health consequences?». "Very true," replied the grandfather, caressing the other baby's head.
Posted by Stock at 12:20 PM 0 comments

MOX is not the Holy Grail, it is the biggest Nail in the Coffin of Nuclear Power, Radiation Cannon

I have been actively prompting this exact idea for almost 2 years, it will be nice when MSM picks up the idea and educates

It appears that Socref is a pronuker who is about up to my level of sophistication.   There is a good chance he is paid troll, but may just be a true believer.   

He is casting uncertainty and doubt, he tries to proclaim that the blow up mode is simply a statement of a mathematical singularity in which the equation blows up, like trying to divide by zero.  

But the blow up mode means far more, and in fact, this issue is the line in the sand for the pro-nukers. 

Succinctly:
To keep the industry going, they have to pretend they have a solution to the pollution problem.    Their solution has been MOX, plutonium enriched fuel.

All fuels can blow sky high in an uncontrolled reaction called a Moderated Prompt Criticality (MPC).   Uranium fuel needs just the right conditions.   But MOX fuel is 10 times more likely to enter the MPC and with 20 times the explosive result, all due to the plutonium being more likely to release neutrons more easily and more quickly.

So their "holy grail" has been shown to be a Holy Curse, as both Reactor 3 and the Equipment pool of Reactor 4 both had MOX and both blew and had extreme fires.    And now we have a poisoned Pacific Ocean.

MOX blows up in a Nuclear Criticality, Upward as in "Radiation Cannon", Hydrogen Explosions are a volume explosion, also pushing down and out.    This picture should make it clear, the whole video is on the links below.



So the Pro-Nukers took a risk and it blew up in all of our faces.   And now they have sent their best troops to squash the idea that MOX can blow up and turn reactors into Radiation Cannons (tm)

Here is what a Radiation Cannon looks like, just add Plutonium laced MOX fuel.



The proof is not just in posts at Nuke Pro, but these are permanent pages, see the tabs at the top.

Video showing how fuel can blow up in an out of control criticality--
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/videos-moderated-prompt-criticality.html

Arnie Gundersen confirming and enhancing my theory
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/gundersen-email-and-theories.html

And when you see that probably at least 100,000 lbs of Uranium and Plutonium was aerosolized into the atmosphere, you know for sure that it wasn't just a hydrogen explosion which blows from the top down and blows out the walls.     It was a "Radiation Cannon" with the explosive force coming from below and within the mixture of fuel, causing it to be launched up and out.   Remember the videos of Reactor 3, and when Reactor 4 also blew and had a big fire and side meltout, they covered up the video of Reactor 4.    They were loading MOX Plutonium into Reactor 4, and MOX Plutonium was stored in the Equipment pool (opposite from the spent fuel pool).

That proof of aerosolization is here, using EPA data.  Realistically, somewhere between 50 tons to 200 tons of uranium and plutonium were aerosolized over the Pacific and drifted over USA

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/uranium-aerosolized-into-atmosphere.html

And here is a post, proving Fukushima was a Nuclear Explosion, combining many of the above ideas

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2013/12/fukushima-was-nuclear-explosion-here-is.html

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MORE BACKGROUND FROM ANOTHER SITE “…….Mystery of MOX super-fuel A Mainichi Shimbun editorial mentions in passing that the Reactor 4 pool contains 202 fresh fuel assemblies.
(3) The presence of new fuel rods was confirmed in the TEPCO press release, which described the first assembly lifted into the transfer cask as an “un-irradiated fuel rod.”

Why were new rods being stored inside a spent-fuel pool, which is designed to hold expended rods?

What threat of criticality do these fresh rods pose if the steel frame collapses or if crane operators drop one by accident onto other assemblies, as opposed to a spent rod? Against the official silence and disinformation, a few whistleblowers have come forward with clues to answer these questions. Former GE nuclear worker Kei Sugaoka disclosed in a video interview that a joint team from Hitachi and General Electric was inside Reactor 4 at the time of the March 11, 2011 earthquake. By that fateful afternoon, the GE contractors were finishing the job of installing a new shroud, the heat-resistant metal shield lining the reactor interior.(4) TEPCO inadvertently admitted to the presence of foreign contractors at Fukushima No.1 up until March 12, 2012, when the management ordered their evacuation in event of a massive explosion during the rapid meltdown of Reactor 2. So far, leaks indicate the presence of the GE team and of a Israeli nuclear security team with Magna BSP, a company based in Dimona.(5) Another break came in April 2012, when a Japanese humor magazine published a brief interview of a Fukushima worker who disclosed that radioactive pieces of a broken shroud were left inside a device-storage pool at rooftop level behind the Reactor 4 spent-fuel pool.(6) This undoubtedly is the used shroud removed by the GE-H workers in February-March 2011. A curious point here is that the previous shroud had been in use for only 15 months. Why would TEPCO and the Japanese government expend an enormous sum on a new lining when the existing one was still good for many years of service? Obviously, the installation of a new shroud was not a mere replacement of a worn predecessor. It was an upgrade. The refit of Reactor 4 was, therefore, similar to the 2010 conversion of Reactor 3 to pluthermal or MOX fuel. The same model of GE Mark 1 reactor was being revamped to burn MOX fuel (mixed oxide of uranium and plutonium). The un-irradiated rods inside the Unit 4 spent-fuel pool are, in all probability, made of a new type of MOX fuel containing highly enriched plutonium. If the frame collapses, triggering fire or explosion inside the spent-fuel pool, the plutonium would pulse powerful neutron bursts that may well possibly ignite distant nuclear power plants, starting with the Fukushima No.2 plant, 10 kilometers to the south….. The upgrade of the Reactor 4 shroud may well have involved the test-fitting of some MOX rods, which abandoned on the floor next to the reactor when the tsunami reached shore. In other words, in early March 2011 crane operators completely filled space inside the spent-fuel pool with new MOX rods and then simply left casks of assemblies on the roof and lowered more into the basement. That is the simplest explanation for the damage to the structural integrity of the reactor building.

GE is not about to disclose its role in this disaster……….

http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-tepco-is-risking-the-removal-of-fukushima-fuel-rods-the-dangers-of-uncontrolled-global-nuclear-radiation/5359188…..
http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-tepco-is-risking-the-removal-of-fukushima-fuel-rods-the-dangers-of-uncontrolled-global-nuclear-radiation/535918 

 Confirmation of Shroud Replacement
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201203080066
Posted by Stock at 11:36 AM 2 comments

Saturday, January 4, 2014

The Daily Messenger: Fukushima WAS a Nuclear Explosion, Here Is The Pro...

The Daily Messenger: Fukushima WAS a Nuclear Explosion, Here Is The Pro...
Posted by Stock at 8:54 PM 0 comments

Another Asteroid Enters Earth with no Warning to Public! Asteroid / Nuclear Bomb Calculator FREE Download



Did you know that on Jan 3, 2014 an asteroid snook into our atmosphere with less than 24 hour notice?     It blew up over the ocean.

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-asteroid.html


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Nuke Pro made this handy calculator in Excel, that quickly helps those with inquiring minds to figure out the mass and energy in equivalent Atom Bombs.

This is what it looks like
and here is your FREE download.   
https://app.box.com/s/ocdlggvieo93cxmw304i

Did you know that in 2013 a Planet Killing Asteroid Buzzed the Earth, and the egg head scientists did not even figure that out until the following month? 

Asteroid TV135 is massive at 450M diameter, and would explode or impact with a force of 4440 atomic bombs.    But dont worry, the egg heads say it only has a one in 63,000 chance of hitting Earth next time around.     Trouble is, the egg heads are tracking 11,000 near earth objects that they consider hazardous, yet how many more do we not even know about.

Ruh Roh, then NASA increased the odds of TV135 hitting to 1 in 10,000.    

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Chances-of-Asteroid-TV135-Hitting-Us-in-2032-Are-Getting-Bigger-394152.shtml

This is what the Nuke Pro Asteroid Calculator says about TV135







Posted by Stock at 5:42 PM 2 comments

Asteroid Math -- January 3rd we had a Earth Entry, with nearly no warning

Kinetic Energy in a meteor


Note: I will use the carat symbol ^ to represent raising a number to a power. Thus, 100 = 10 squared = 10^2. Similarly, a million is 10^6.
Let's assume that the meteor is travelling at 30 km/sec = 30 x10^3 meters/sec = 3 x10^4 meters/sec.



(Where did I get this number? I pick it because it is the velocity of the Earth around the sun, and meteors are also going around the sun, so their velocity is similar.
How do I know this is the Earth's velocity around the sun. Either I can look it up, or calculate it by remembering that the distance from the earth to the sun is 93 million miles = 150 million km = 150 billion meters. The distance around the circular orbit is this number times 2 pi = (150 x10^9)x(6.28) = 942 x10^9 meters = (approximately) 1000 x10^9 meters = 10^12 meters.
The Earth takes a year to go around. To find the number of seconds in a year, take 365 days x 24 hours/day x 60 minutes/hour x 60 seconds/minute = 31600000 seconds = (approx) 3 x10^7 seconds.
Now divide the distance around by this many seconds, to get
velocity = (10^12 meters)/(3 x10^7) = 30000 m/sec (approximately)
The kinetic energy is given by
E = (1/2) m v^2



Let's calculate the energy of a 1 gram meteor. We must use mks units. So we set m = (1/1000) kg = 0.001 kg. v = 30 km/sec = 30,000 meters/sec. Plug into the equation:
E = (1/2) (.001) (30000)^2
= 450000 joules
To convert this to calories, divide by 4.18
= 100000 calories (approximately)
=100 Calories
CONCLUSION: A meteor has 100 times as much energy per gram as does TNT!
This is an amazing, surprising, yet simple result to remember.

Suppose the meteor were larger, and weighed a ton? What would its kinetic energy be? Every gram would have the energy of 100 grams of TNT.

So a ton of meteor would have the energy of 100 tons of TNT.

Suppose we had an asteroid that weighed a million tons? 

Then the kinetic energy would be equal to 100 million tons of TNT, or about 100 hydrogen bombs.
How heavy would an asteroid be if it were the size of San Francisco? 

Lets estimate 10 km x 10 km x 10 km = (10,000)^3 = 10^12 cubic meters. A cubic meter weighs about a ton, so the mass would be 10^12 tons = 10^6 megatons. The kinetic energy would be 100 times larger, or 10 million megatons = 10 million hydrogen bombs. 

The US and Russia together had about 10,000 hydrogen bombs.

Asteroids come in groups, a debrid field so to speak.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2013/02/debris-field-in-front-of-asteroids.html
 
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Deep Water Whale strands itself in the Shark Kill Zone of Maui


Radiation effect, for sure.

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Necropsy Reveals Dwarf Sperm Whale was Pregnant, Diseased

Photo courtesy: Todd Pusser, NOAA permit #932-1905.
Photo courtesy: Todd Pusser, NOAA permit #932-1905.
By Wendy Osher
A dwarf sperm whale that beached itself along the Kīhei shoreline in South Maui on Christmas Day was a pregnant female that likely suffered from infectious disease, according to a necropsy conducted by  Hawaiʻi Pacific University.
HPU Assistant Professor of Biology Kristi West said the animal, which measured 7-feet in length, was “very ill” with a number of medical problems.
“Blood work from the whale indicated an immuno-suppressed individual,” said West, who noted that “lung abnormalities” also suggested that the animal was suffering from pneumonia.
According to West, the medical problems likely represent an animal suffering from infectious disease.  “A large number of ulcers were apparent in the esophagus and the stomach. A large blood clot in a major blood vessel returning to the heart was also noted,” she said.
The necropsy examination also indicated that the whale was pregnant and had a fetus measuring 22 cm long.
Researchers say the investigation into the death of this whale will continue in the coming weeks to months as HPU’s Marine Mammal Stranding Program conducts follow-up laboratory analysis.  “This will include testing for specific viral and bacterial diseases known to cause the types of medical problems and overall ill health observed in this whale,” said West.
Authorities say the animal was found “weak and stuck in the surf zone,” at around 2:30 p.m. on Christmas Day.
“Volunteers held the animal in low water in surf zone for some time and then built a small sand pit at the mid-tide mark and kept the animal protected from wave wash. Cultural practitioners were contacted immediately and consulted,” according to information compiled by HPU.
“This is a deep-diving whale that typically does not come to shore unless injured or sick. The animal was severely emaciated and in a weakened state,” according to information released by HPU.
Following an evaluation by a NOAA contract veterinarian, the whale was sedated, given IV euthanasia solution, and expired at around 7 p.m. on Dec. 25.   The whale carcass was flown to Oʻahu in the afternoon on Dec. 26 for a necropsy examination at HPU that continued into the early morning hours of Dec. 27, officials said.
According to researchers at HPU, dwarf sperm whales strand in the main Hawaiian Islands once every year or two, however, “they are found only in deep waters, usually in close to 5,000-feet of water, and only on the calmest of days.”
West described the species as “very elusive in the wild,” making them very difficult to study at sea.
“Dwarf sperm whales often exhibit a strange behavior when approached, where they release a cloud of ink made up of dark fecal liquid stored in the rectum, and then they vanish. Therefore almost everything we know of this species comes from what we are able to learn from stranded whales,” said West.
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