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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

So called expert to speak in Hawaii, runs Indian Point

Anyone in Hawaii want to "get some facts" or provide some point blank questions. If I go, this will get interesting. Impact on the US and the Future of Nuclear Energy in the US Thursday, July 12, 2012 12:00-1:30 Plaza Club 20th floor, Pioneer Plaza Building Price: $30 members, $40 non-members RSVP: Lisa Gibson via e-mail: kipekona@hawaii.rr.com no later than NOON on Wednesday before the meeting. No-shows may be charged. (Note: Ali’i Place and Harbor Court offer the best parking rates) Lawrence M. Coyle Lawrence M. Coyle is currently the General Manager of Plant Operations for Entergy’s Indian Point EnergyCenter in New York. Previous to joining Entergy, Mr. Coyle served as V.P. of Nuclear Operations at Exelon inIllinois. Mr. Coyle is a 30 year veteran of the nuclear industry beginning his career with Exelon at Dresden Nuclear Power Station as an engineer in 1982. He moved on to achieve the license of Senior Reactor Operator and held leadership positions of field supervisor, main control room supervisor and shift manager. He has also served as the mechanical maintenance manager and work management director at Dresden. During his tenure at Dresden, he served for one year as an operations peer evaluator for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations from 1995 to 1996. Following his work at Dresden, Mr. Coyle served as operations director at LaSalle Nuclear Power Station. He then accepted the position of maintenance director for Braidwood Nuclear Power Station. He was subsequently promoted to plant manager in 2007 where, under his leadership, the organization realized its best safety, human performance and collective radiation exposure results. In March of 2011, Mr. Coyle was one of the first U.S. Nuclear Utility Executives, to travel to Japan and support the effort for the Fukushima event. Mr. Coyle graduated from the Nuclear Engineering Program at Universityof Illinois (Urbana Champaign) and from the Graduate School of Business at University of Chicago. Hmmmm....this guy looks like hes been to hell and back. Maybe he made a deal down there.
Toxic link: the WHO and the IAEA A 50-year-old agreement with the IAEA has effectively gagged the WHO from telling the truth about the health risks of radiation Nicely summed up here. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/28/who-nuclear-power-chernobyl

Lies and Coverup hat tip Cisco at ENE

Cisco June 20, 2012 at 1:51 pm · Reply Yeah, more misinformation and cover-up Following are 2 must read articles for the uninitiated, and for those in the loop, too. Do not miss these articles to stay informed. 1. AP's Jeff Donn's investigative four part series covers the nuclear power generating industry from its inception to present day. The report uncovers the dangerous and cozy relationship with the regulators, the operators, the industry and government officials and politicians. Shocking industry practices and cover-ups are all part of this remarkably revealing report. Did you know that under NRC rules unannounced and unreported radioactive releases are permissible? The report flies in the face of the industry that promotes nuclear power as green and safe with a history of outstanding operational performance…all BS. "Aging Nukes" (Introduction): A four-part investigative series by Jeff Donn http://www.ap.org/company/awards/aging-nukes "PART I: AP IMPACT: US nuke regulators weaken safety rules" http://www.ap.org/company/awards/part-i-aging-nukes "PART II: AP IMPACT: Tritium leaks found at many nuke sites" http://www.ap.org/company/awards/part-ii-aging-nukes "PART III: AP IMPACT: Populations around US nuke plants soar" http://www.ap.org/company/awards/part-iii-aging-nukes "PART IV: AP IMPACT: NRC and industry rewrite nuke history" http://www.ap.org/company/awards/part-iv-aging-nukes

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Grass is Greener on the other side of the lie

Funny how this Iowa paper is pointing the finger at Michigan for a radioactive leak, when Iowa also has some type of MASSIVE radiation leak, spiking to 7000 CPM or higher, compared to normal 20 to 30 CPM.

The Owl reported a few days ago that several internet forum users were worried about a possible spike in radiation readings at several radiation monitoring stations. Those concerns were dismissed by some as mistaken readings from uncalibrated counters.

I see said the blind man....and so the uncalibrated counters all started detecting the same thing at the same time...LOL, I guess that means they were calibrated with each other.


http://www.iowacityowl.com/posts/396-Radiation-Spike-Follows-Nuclear-Reactor-Leak

Check this for the Iowa spike

http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/06/data-shows-highly-radioactive-field.html

 FROM THE REPORT
 We have reanalyzed  the data from the June 6-7th, 2012 airborne radioactive detection in South Bend, Indiana.

The key findings are as follows:


  1. The termination edge of the Jet Stream was located over the radioactive detection area
  2. The high radioactive readings commenced after the 5 mph North wind dropped to zero mph.
  3. The high radioactive readings persisted for the entire 5 hours the wind was not blowing
  4. The high radioactive readings stopped when the wind picked up at 5 mph from the west. 
  5. Normal radioactive readings continued for 40 minutes after the surface wind resumption ended the event. 
  6. The bimodal "clipped" peak features and dropout shown in the 5 hour long radioactive detection are from a highly radioactive field saturating the detector's Geiger-Mueller tube.
  7. Hysteresis is evident on the saturation recovery condition side of the readings.
  8. A Weibull based radiation intensity distribution approximates both ends of the detection curve.
  9. High Beta radiation (electrons) likely tripped the reported Ground Fault Interrupt outlet.
  10. There is no simple power supply driven failure mode that can duplicate the above conditions.
  11. Higher airborne radioactive readings have been detected along the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream.

The key steps forward are as follows:
  1. Perform sample swipes in and around the specific area Geiger counter area
  2. Identify the specific detection location within at minimum a 5 mile area.
  3. Identify the specifics of the Geiger counter and associated setup.
  4. Attempt  to replicate the 5 hour long detection via a power supply / GFI failure
Possible conclusions:
  1. The airborne fallout was from a small  but very radioactive source near the detection location
  2. A near source scenario would likely be South-East of the location, or possibly North of the location.
  3. A far source scenario would be Jet Stream born



Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Near Misses at Nuke Plant are going Parabolic

In the stock trade industry they call it a "blow off top" let's hope that vernacular doesn't apply to our Home Planet

15 'Near-Misses' at U.S. Nuclear Plants in 2011
Many of these 15 "near misses" occurred because reactor owners either tolerated known safety problems or took inadequate measures to correct them.

 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0318/Nuclear-power-report-14-near-misses-at-US-plants-due-to-lax-oversight

 http://www.alternet.org/environment/154343/15_

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

500 Page Preppers Guide

https://www.box.com/s/a99b37ca798ed7ce8794

I just received this prepper guide.   It is outstanding.  500 pages.   

There are a number of ways our world can head to a "Bug out event"

Fuku 4, a Carrington, a Europe Meltdown (financial, not nuke), the 100th Monkey sick of constitutional shenanigans.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Poem (not funny)

Tumrgrwer
I'm thinking Roger Waters had it right. This species has amused itself to death.
We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We ohhed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death

New York Time Picking up on Spent Fuel Disaster! Yeah! Thats a win

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/world/asia/concerns-grow-about-spent-fuel-rods-at-damaged-nuclear-plant-in-japan.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2&pagewanted=all

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Sickputer on Majia blog

The GE-dominated culture running American government is a powerful force. Domestic economics be damned because guns have better profits than butter.

Picture a country that has 7% of the world's population trying to exert influence in virtually every country in the world. Massive navy, air force, and a secret nuclear weapons program still churning out weapons long after the threat of global nuclear war had peaked.

Charity begins at home, but the US government would rather pursue elusive enemies in faraway lands like there is a global world war to be won. There is no global war, just the Ugly American syndrome of protecting the financial interests of the big US businesses spread around the world.

Sorely needed domestic tax dollars that would go to health and education instead buys ill will in countries where we prolong civil wars.

As in Brave New World, enemies become friends and friends become enemies at the whim of Big Brother. Corruption by special interests makes public service a license to become a quick millionaire with a cushy pension.

While the average Joe Six Pack works 40 years for a $1200 a month Social Security check, the national legislators are far better taken care of under their retirement plan, being fully vested after only 5 years of public service. Ron Paul has refused to participate in the Congressional pension plan, labeling it "immoral".

The Greek crisis should be a lesson for countries to wake up, but instead countries like America continue the heedless path to financial ruin. Prosperity is not created by printing worthless money...it is a direct offshoot of producing desirable life-sustaining commodities.

America has lost its way in what made it the Sleeping Giant so feared by the Japanese military in 1941. After nearly 200 years of global dominance the American dynasty has run its course. The country that landed humans on the moon is still powerful, but no longer solvent. Corruption at the government level has robbed America of the title of global superpower. Make way for China as the next global cop on the block and next visitors to the moon. Americans have had a long ride to the top, but it will be bumpy on the way down.
Does anyone find it disgustingly hilarious that any committee in the world would name itself "blue ribbon".    The pimps immediately have to start the promotion process by pretending that they had won a Blue Ribbon.

Sure maybe Yucca is not the perfect solution.   there is no perfect solution to nuke.    But the solution of letting those used rods sit in pools for hundreds of years (hoping for continuous water flow, power, never a crack or leak, never a plane strike, never a bomb strike, never a careless employee), well that is nothing short of sadistic INSANITY! 
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Dabama wasting no time, one day after Jackzo "resigns",  i.e. is sacked under threats of you either quit of we find some child porn on your computer....

HMMMMM...one day after, Orweliian madness I tell you
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MacFarlane, an associate professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., wrote a book in 2006 that raised technical questions about a proposed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who is the leading congressional opponent of the Yucca site, praised Macfarlane as someone who will make nuclear safety a top priority.

Macfarlane's education and experience, especially her service on the blue ribbon commission on nuclear waste, make her qualified to lead the NRC "for the foreseeable future," Reid said in a statement.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/obama-yucca-mountain-allison-macfarlane_n_1543924.html?ir=Green&ref=topbar

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

NOTE: company is cancelling a contract to buy fro this clunker nuke plant (where incidentally the employees were busted pounding beers at lunchtime) in order to produce lower cost electricity at newly installed clean emission coal plants.

Note to self, "too cheap to meter:"   hahahahhahhahhahahahhahahahhahahhahahha

 http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/business/151142425.html#!page=1&pageSize=10&sort=newestfirst

Earlier this year, the Madison utility announced it would no longer buy electricity from Kewaunee when its power purchase agreement expires next year. The savings will be used to offset higher costs ratepayers would have seen as WP&L adds environmental controls at coal-fired power plants.

Science Daily predicts a meltdown every 10 or 20 years

ScienceDaily (May 22, 2012) — Western Europe has the worldwide highest risk of radioactive contamination caused by major reactor accidents.

See Also: Matter & Energy Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the core meltdowns in Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed. Based on the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the number of nuclear meltdowns that have occurred, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz have calculated that such events may occur once every 10 to 20 years (based on the current number of reactors) -- some 200 times more often than estimated in the past.

The researchers also determined that, in the event of such a major accident, half of the radioactive caesium-137 would be spread over an area of more than 1,000 kilometres away from the nuclear reactor. Their results show that Western Europe is likely to be contaminated about once in 50 years by more than 40 kilobecquerel of caesium-137 per square meter.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, an area is defined as being contaminated with radiation from this amount onwards. In view of their findings, the researchers call for an in-depth analysis and reassessment of the risks associated with nuclear power plants.

BUT ------------------------   The reality is far worse than this scientific review.

They are assuming that nuke accidents will continue to be proportional during the past design life stage as opposed to the during design life phase.    

Reactors are designed for 30 to 40 years of life.    Almost all plants out there are now in the 30 and up category.

Any pro nuker who can't see that accidents will increase greatly, either lies or knows nothing of reality.  We know they lie through their teeth.    Anything to protect their precious pension from the nuke industry.   Instead we should retrain them in solar.    

Think if your car is designed for 100,000 miles.    What are the odds of problems going up after 100,000 miles?    Are the odds of problems going up still alot even if you take it in for an annual inspection?   OF COURSE!   Inspections cannot put quality into a machine.    And adding a few new parts can't either, anyone who has every lived in the real world knows that even though you just spent $3000 replacing a series of 5 breakdowns in your car, the thinking that "what else can go wrong, I should be all set for a few years" ---well that thinking is just completely wrong.     Of course, plenty more can go wrong.  

So get set for a good size nuke meltdown every 3 to 5 years.    Until we so poisoned that we can barely even fight back against the evil nukers.   Get set for this unless we win NOW.    Protest.   Write letters.

Common cancer types

Cancer TypeEstimated New CasesEstimated Deaths
Bladder73,51014,880
Breast (Female – Male)226,870 – 2,19039,510 – 410
Colon and Rectal (Combined)143,46051,690
Endometrial47,1308,010
Kidney (Renal Cell) Cancer59,58812,484
Leukemia (All Types)47,15023,540
Lung (Including Bronchus)226,160160,340
Melanoma76,2509,180
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma70,13018,940
Pancreatic43,92037,390
Prostate241,74028,170
Thyroid56,4601,780
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/commoncancers

Monday, May 21, 2012

Jackzo sacked

Jackzo has been sacked.

The captured NRC couldn't tolerate a lone voice of dissent, Jackzo was lately voting against new plant, UNLESS lessons learned from Fukushima were implemented as written law in their approval.

 The other 4 commissioners did not want to formalize new safety requirements.

Sheesh, at Vogtle, they couldn't even follow the steel rebar reinforcing drawings properly.

As a former government inspector for high security and top secret construction projects, including a 300,000 SF underground battle station, the importance of following engineered reinforcing steel placement is just he price of admission, a no-brainer.

So they sacked Jackzo, and EVERYONE knows what the deal is. Everyone knows the NRC is captured and is a promotion agency, and everyone knows that dirty trick, false accusations are the way it is played. Corruption is tolerated, to all of our detriment.

Shut them all day, human corruption can't be allowed to mix with the most dangerous thing on earth.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/gregory-jaczko-resigns-nrc-nuclear-regulatory-commission_n_1531805.html