Hawaii's Whales Are Missing This Year -- GMI "Because Their Numbers Have Increased"

Seriously, they printed the drivel quoted below in green------ Normally there are 10,000 that trek from Alaska to Hawaii, this year they have only seen 10 so far.     They are well over a month late now.

Another theory is that the whales’ disappearance actually means their population has gotten larger and it is therefore taking the animals longer to compete for enough food to make the long journey to Hawaii.

http://time.com/4165551/hawaii-fewer-humpback-whales/

And of course, make sure they don't forget to blame global warming, and that close cousin, El Nino.

All this "information" trotted out there even though

Other Pacific whale species struggled in 2015: humpbacks and sperm whales became entangled in nets and stranded on beaches off California; 30 whales, including fin whales and humpbacks, died in an “unusual mortality event” off Alaska; and 337 sei whales were found dead on the Chilean coast, the largest whale stranding on record.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/02/humpback-whales-hawaii-mysterious-absence

Well time will tell.     I don't think the majority of whales died off in one year, but they could have taken a hit.

The Guardian article above is amazing....they state

 The plankton-eating animals are protected as an endangered species, and federal law prohibits approaching within 100 yards of them by boat. Fewer than 10% of humpbacks’ original population remains, according to the California-based Marine Mammal Center.

This is the quality of our journalistic force.      Humpbacks do not eat plankton, but they do eat fish type things.

Humpbacks are baleen whales which means they filter their food through baleen plates. They consume krill, anchovies, cod, sardines, mackerel, capelin, and others sorts of schooling fish.  

http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/nmml/education/cetaceans/humpback.php#eat

Biocentration is well known.   This one study on seals from 2002 shows a concentration factor of 34 to 130 and they call that "low", this is for seals.

The mean concentration in muscle samples for all animals was 0.23±0.045 Bq/kg f.w. ¹³⁷Cs concentrations in both liver and kidney samples were near detection limits (≈0.2 Bq/kg f.w.). The results are consistent with previous studies indicating low levels of radiocaesium in Arctic seals in response to a long term trend of decreasing levels of ¹³⁷Cs in the Barents Sea region. Bioconcentration factors (BCFs) estimated for seals from NE Svalbard are low, ranging from 34 to 130 

  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X02002552


 

Hawaii and the Arctic connection

 https://medium.com/our-arctic-nation/week-one-hawai%CA%BBi-744ad076ac56#.unw61ldem

Cancer -- Lies of the Nuclear Cartel

stock here: in 1900 about 6% of us got cancer.   Appreciate your comments, please add some.
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Now women get 50% cancer, men are 66%.   After Fukushima, WIPP, Beatty, and all the others, we are sure to see much more cancers, it's big business.   

And rather than blame the cancers on environmental pollution, including radiation, they try to blame it on "bad luck" or as this article states....Its your genes.

The overall findings are not a big surprise. They support earlier findings that show about a third of all cancer cases can be blamed on faulty genes. Most of the rest are due to so-called lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and exercise.

Note that radiation is never once mentioned.

And this study is confined to Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden

Starting in 1943, conveniently 2 years before the first atomic bomb.  

These countries also were hard hit by Chernobyl, some with Reindeer still massively radioactive.

 "They have been studied for an average of 32 years"    In other words MOST of those studied were born after the 1963 ban on atmospheric nuclear testing. 
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http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/just-how-much-cancer-due-genes-about-third-study-finds-n490731

What caused these bad genes, that was not present in 1900?

They blame it on diet.....as GMO labeling is "outlawed"

Debt, Bankruptcy are Rewards for Cancer Survivors

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/debt-bankruptcy-are-rewards-cancer-survivors-n490896

Beatty Nuclear Dump Fire and Explosion, 300 Page Report Exposes The Truth, Stock Summarizes It Here

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I was reviewing the 300 page report the Fire Marshal sent me, re Beatty Nuke Dump Explosion

It's a blow out folks….Trench 14 had not just highly reactive and flammable sodium in barrels, but also the largest amount of Plutonium and "special nuclear material" 35,000 kG of these "special nuclear materials" which include Plutonium, Uranium 233, or U233 enriched with U235.

Isn't that special?

But when they ran some gamma scans they didn't detect any Alpha radiation, imagine that?
They also detected strontium in the material analysis

For now I will publish in draft, some excerpts from the report.

From ENENEWS---someone who knows people from Beatty, NV

AirSepTech

January 4, 2016 at 5:10 pm · Reply

I should have known a bit more would come to light.
So our very close friends we dinner out with, will not be amused at all.
Born/raised in Beatty,NV.
She has thyroid, he has MS problems. In their late 30's.
3 of the 4 parents are gone.
Their kids have some troubles, behavior, they often say things aren't firing on all cylinders.
Downwinders we all are, forever.

There are lots of these commercial and governmental open pit "disposals" see map

stock here--so they basically mixed everything together in the same "trench", keep in mind these trenches were not like what you might envision when thinking about a trench.   They were 70 feet wide and hundreds of feet long, sometimes 70 feet deep, and then they fill them with waste up to the last 3 feet, and then a dirt crown on top (to shed water away from the waste, seriously, that was their plan from the get-go).



This includes plutonium and sodium metal....all thrown together in what would become a massive cesspool of nastiness.

Trench 14 was one of the biggest "trenches" at Beatty, some of these "trenches" would stay open for years as they filled them, exposing them to damage from the elements.    Exposing wildlife and insects to very hazardous chemical and radiation.

Beatty was busted several times, accepting full on tanks of liquid waste to dump directly above the towns aquifer.

We see down below, how much "special" stuff was put into Beatty, in particular, trench 14 received some of the most of the "precious".   Trench 14 is the one that blew up and burned.

They admit that they directly dumped plutonium into Beatty, 1975 was the biggest amount, enough to make 3 nuclear bombs, and some sources show 1975 as being the year that trench 14 was in use.

The overall AEC (now NRC) Table showing disposal quantities says that "special" nuclear material amounts are listed in kG.

The operator of Beatty later stated that 21 kG of Plutonium had been placed into Beatty, not 14 as per the above post.    So which is it guys?     A difference of 7kG is enough to make 2 nuclear bombs.

Strontium detected in below report.

The exact problem that happened at Beatty in 2015 was a well known and predicable and predicted problem.   Yet there was no action plan to mitigate the chances.

And then amazingly, this report, based on nothing, draws the conclusion that "It is unlikely, however, that significant off-site releases will occur."

They found Uranium, but threw out the test.    They commented on 5 other isotopes and were completely silent on Plutonium.

Yes, they were breaking the rules and laws all the time, and the worst that ever happened to the operator was a $10,000 fine.

Los Alamos National Lab -- A History of Dangerous Blunders

Major incidents marking Los Alamos National Laboratory’s management history

 

Loose kook says to add in these

 

Add the Slotin, Daghlian, Cecil Kelley criticality deaths from the 40s and 50s

Add the Slotin, Daghlian, Cecil Kelley criticality accidents from the 40s and 50s - See more at: http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2016/01/los-angelos-national-lab-history-of.html?showComment=1452091379030#c1777893975846896177

 https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/3m51k9/how_many_people_have_been_killed_by_nuclear/

 

Jan. 1, 1943: A secret national laboratory is set up in Los Alamos to design a nuclear bomb during World War II. The University of California is named the official lab manager and is paid $5 million for a one-year contract. The U.S. Department of Energy oversees the lab’s operations. J. Robert Oppenheimer is the lab’s director.
1945: An atomic bomb is tested at the Trinity Site in Southern New Mexico on July 16, ushering in the nuclear age.
Norris Bradbury replaces Oppenheimer as director.
1970: Harold Agnew becomes lab director.
1979: Donald M. Kerr becomes lab director.

October 1982: Human error and erroneous labeling caused 14 lab employees to be exposed to high levels of plutonium, one of them internally. A federal report recommends “improved training” and procedures.

1986: Plutonium expert Siegfried “Sig” Hecker is named lab director.

1988: A new federal law gives the Department of Energy more leverage over lab contractors. The University of California at Los Alamos National Laboratory is exempted from the law.

1989: Len Trimmer, a senior-level lab technician, tells lab management about rusting, leaking nuclear waste drums and other problems at Area G, where LANL stores nuclear waste. Trimmer says he’s harassed by lab management, goes on medical leave and files a whistleblower lawsuit against the lab four years later. The lab denies harassment.

1991: The Department of Energy’s Complex-wide Tiger Team audits LANL and finds the lab is failing to properly monitor radioactive emissions into the air. “Management accountability and oversight are lacking,” the team finds. Another federal report finds the lab hasn’t tallied up all the hazardous materials on site and that the “Energy Department has neither the information nor the qualified staff to clean up nuclear weapons complex facilities.”
The New Mexican culminates a three-month investigation with a six-day series called “Fouling the Nest” that looks at contamination from more than 1,800 hazardous waste dump sites around Los Alamos from lab activities. Cost to clean up: an estimated $2 billion.
The newspaper’s publisher, Robert McKinney, defends the lab, fires a reporter and the managing editor, and allows LANL to publish a special supplement defending itself.
The Cold War ends, leading to the beginning of major mission changes for the lab.

1992: Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety sues the lab over federal air quality violations and eventually wins.

April 1994: Safety violations close the lab’s plutonium facility at Technical Area 55.

1995: More than 256 lab employees are laid off, nearly half of them Hispanic. Lab workers decry the layoffs, saying it violates University of California personnel policies and is racist. Employees form a new group, Citizens of LANL for Employee Rights. Chris Mechels is one of them. State lawmakers call for an investigation.

January 1996: Workman Efren Martinez is electrocuted while performing excavation work at a technical area. Martinez, left in a coma for several years, dies from his injuries in 2009. His family later settles a lawsuit with the Department of Energy for $13 million, and the department cites the lab for substandard electrical safety measures.
A later explosion occurs at LANL’s Chemical and Metallurgy Research facility, with no injuries reported.

1997: Congress appropriates $25 million to set up the LANL Foundation. The University of California and LANL give $3 million a year to the foundation, which provides grants to Northern New Mexico communities. Physicist John C. Browne replaces Hecker as lab director.

1998: The Department of Energy cites the University of California for ongoing safety problems and “numerous deficiencies.” The lab settles a lawsuit filed by 102 laid-off employees.

March 1999: A veteran 20-year Los Alamos scientist, Wen Ho Lee, is fired and then arrested months later on 59 charges that he illegally copied classified nuclear weapons files. He is suspected of sharing the documents with China but is never charged with espionage. Lee’s supporters say he was unfairly singled out because he is ethnic Chinese. The government later drops all but one charge against him.
More than two dozen other security violations are reported by the lab after Lee is fired. The lab stops publicly reporting computer security violations.

March 2000: The National Nuclear Security Administration, a branch of the Department of Energy, is opened to oversee maintenance of nuclear weapons stockpile and nuclear nonproliferation programs.

May 2000: The Cerro Grande Fire burns close to lab property, prompting state officials to push the lab to get thousands of containers of legacy hazardous waste off the Hill.

June 2000: Six top lab managers are placed on paid leave after two computer hard drives with classified nuclear information are reported missing. One of those placed on leave is Stephen Younger, who investigated Wen Ho Lee. The hard drives are later found stashed behind a copy machine. Lab managers are chastised by Congress for taking three weeks to tell the Department of Energy about the missing discs. Bill Richardson is secretary of the department.

Jan. 1, 2001: The LANL management contract is revised in response to the computer security problems. Richardson, on his last day as energy secretary under President Bill Clinton’s outgoing administration, says the University of California should retain the contract until 2005. One critic calls it “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”
The revised contract gives the Department of Energy the authority to remove any lab employee from work funded by the agency. President George W. Bush appoints Spencer Abraham as his energy secretary.
Richardson becomes governor of New Mexico.

August 2002: LANL hires Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company Halliburton, under a $145 million, five-year lab maintenance contract to handle waste removal, facility repairs, utility operations and custodial services.

November 2002: The Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General investigates allegations by a whistleblower that lab management turned a blind eye to $3 million in lab equipment that went missing from 1999 to 2001. The inspector general also investigates allegations of purchase-card fraud.

March 2003: U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici and Gov. Richardson continue to publicly support the University of California as the lab’s manager. Richardson says the university has taken “unprecedented, dramatic action” to “change the culture of the lab.” He urges against severing the lab’s ties to the university. Former lab director Hecker tells a congressional committee that the lab’s “system of governance is broken,” largely because there is no trust between the University of California and the feds.
Browne resigns and Pete Nanos is hired as interim director. He tells reporters he intends to “drain the swamp.”

April 2003: Nanos removes more than a dozen lab managers from their positions. Energy Secretary Abraham announces the LANL contract will go up for a competitive bid for the first time in the lab’s 60-year history. UC’s contract ends Sept. 30, 2005. Some 266 scientists ask to retire. A senior Energy Department official acknowledges “university failures, our failures and cultural failures as the three root causes” for problems at the lab.

2004: More than a dozen companies and universities bid on the contract, among them top-contender University of Texas and Lockheed Martin. Gov. Richardson urges the University of California to bid as well. Sens. Pete Dominici and Jeff Bingaman also support UC retaining the contract.

Two computer discs with classified information are reported missing, and two scientists are fired. Director Nanos shuts down the lab for seven months, citing safety and security violations. Investigators find out the two discs never existed and were the result of an accounting error. One scientist is cleared by an arbitrator; the other dies before he is exonerated.

2005: Robert Kuckuck becomes lab director.

June 1, 2006: The LANL contract is awarded to Los Alamos National Security, a consortium that includes the University of California, Bechtel Corp., BWX Technologies and Washington Group International (now AECOM). Michael R. Anastasio is named lab director.

October 2006: Classified materials are found at the home of a contract employee during a drug raid. An employee takes home a computer containing hundreds of pages of classified documents; she is arrested.

2007: The lab produces a plutonium pit for a nuclear bomb core, the first since the 1989 closure of the Rocky Mountain Flats lab in Colorado. A plutonium accident contaminates a high-security nuclear area.

Linton Brooks, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, is told to resign by Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, in part over security breaches at LANL.

2008: A federal performance review for 2007 gives LANS excellent marks in weapons program and threat assurance, but it fails the contractor on leadership, management, environment and safety. LANS loses $15 million in performance fees.

2009: A scientist takes home a computer containing classified material, which is later stolen out of his house.

2011: The Las Conchas Fire burns thousands of acres around the lab. Gov. Susana Martinez urges the lab to move up its deadline to get remaining hazardous waste containers down to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad.

Workers are exposed to arsenic. The lab is fined. Nuclear physicist Charles F. McMillan replaces Anastasio as lab director.

2012: A worker is exposed to beryllium. The lab is fined. In addition, the Neutron Science Center and nine homes off lab property are contaminated after a worker opens a container of a highly dispersible radioactive powder, according to accident reports.

2013: A waste container at the lab is packaged with a volatile mix of nitrate salts and organic kitty litter and is shipped to WIPP.

Feb. 14, 2014: The container ruptures in the underground WIPP facility, leaking radiation. Several workers are exposed, although levels are not considered a health hazard. WIPP is closed indefinitely.

March-December 2014: Federal investigators issue scathing reports finding multiple problems with how waste is handled at the lab. One report finds workers who tried to alert supervisors to problems with waste containers were ignored.

December 2014: Eight workers are exposed to plutonium while working on a glovebox in the lab’s PF-4 facility. Exposure is not serious, according to the lab.

March 2015: A Los Alamos National Laboratory electrical worker is knocked off a ladder after accidentally touching a live wire in a ceiling at a radiological lab building.

May 2015: Nine workers are injured, one severely, by an electrical arc at a lab substation.

December 2015: The Department of Energy tells Congress it is putting the LANL contract back up for bid.

A Hilarious Review of USA Security Agencies

Saw this at ENENEWS

Silverlok

January 3, 2016 at 7:47 pm

"…pay very close attention…", well maybe not the CIA, directly, ( not enough ruffling of the drugs /guns to money laundering angle for the CIA to risk getting entangled in domestic action, they'd just buy the info from NSA or DHS, but if this had( and of course will ) happened in Afghanistan then you bet the CIA would have a site like this on the front burner)
…but the others probably yes…

though the 'modern' "intelligence communities" are collectively the largest group of narcissistic paranoid nihilistic alcoholics one will ever encounter.

FBI; pink handed , pale faced, college graduates that tend to have an elitist attitude when dealing with the general public. They tend to dress a little better than their compatriots: rating: lawyerly

CIA; always on the take, and always operate as if every day could be the last day of business; rating: used car salesmen/sketchy coke dealer

DHS; polyester pawns at the bottom teflon Dons at the top; your freedom of thought is their primary concern: rating ; mall cops with a L.T.C.

ATF; poor bastards learned the "undercover" concept from watching old seventies cop shows: rating: Hancock ( without the superpowers)

NSA; $10 billion a year for mostly a bunch of people sitting around reading your mail and sharing your nude selfies while paranoidly looking over their shoulder's: rating: Snowdenized

How Many Radiation Tragedies Do We Allow Nuclear to Make, Or Do We Let Them Kill Us Slowly?

It seems like we have a "bubble" in nuclear radiation mishaps.    These are a handful that are are "full tilt insanely dangerous".   There are 517 in my database.    There are more insanely dangerous one that I have not detailed, you could easily do a master thesis on this issue.

• Beatty
• San Onofre
• Savanna River
• West Lake Landfill
• Cumbria
• Sellafield
• LANL
• NUMEC Pennsylvania
• WIPP New Mexico
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•  please send in traditional dump site via comment section or email. 

At San Onofre, they not only criminally lied about a like-for-like replacement that was nothing of the sort, and it almost caused a massive radiation release, and it DID shut down the plant for good.   But they also vastly polluted the ocean shoreline near their plant.    It's so bad the Navy doesn't even want the land.

 http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Portions-of-Land-at-San-Onofre-Nuclear-Plant-May-Be-Contaminated-363954811.html

Portions of Land at San Onofre Nuclear Plant "May Be Contaminated": Navy
Navy asking SCE for more information before land is taken back
By JW August

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 At Beatty Nuclear waste dump, they had a fire and explosion, with 55 gallon drums being blasted clean off the property itself.    But they say "no radiation released", I had a few questions I emailed them.....

sfm@dps.state.nv.us

Please ask Mr. Mulvhill to respond.

Sir, I am writing an article on waste dumps and would appreciate your take on the following—

http://knpr.org/headline/2016-01/nv-officials-look-ways-prevent-another-blast-beatty-waste-dump

In the linked article, it was stated that no radioactivity was detected.

1)      What device or devices was used to check for radioactivity?

It is stated that rainwater seeping into corroded barrels caused the explosion

2)      What is the suspected chemical or radiological reaction which would cause not just fire but also an explosive blast?

3)      May I also get a copy of the 55 page report via PDF preferred or US mail.

Thank you and have a Healthy New Year!!!

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At the Savanna River Site -- DOEs negligence in timely completion of their legally required tasks results in the DOE (read that US taxpayer) losing $1M per day.   This is a MOX and Plutonium boondoogle.

http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20151231/AIK0101/151239886
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 In St. Louis, at the West Lake Landfill, right by the airport, they have irresponsibly buried nuclear waste now confirmed as migrating off site.   It's been a superfund site for 25 years....but they still can't even decide on what to do, much less do it.

Just northwest of the St. Louis International Airport, the West Lake Landfill is a repository of nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project, the WW2 effort to create the atomic bomb. The area was declared an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site in 1990, but the federal government is still deciding how to clean up the waste.

https://www.rt.com/usa/327593-nuclear-waste-stlouis-runoff/
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Cumbria and Sellafield, classic disasters underway

http://www.theecologist.org/campaigning/2986745/cumbria_flooding_environment_agency_issues_alert_on_drigg_nuclear_waste_site.html

Following this month's intense rainfall in the north of England an Environment Agency alert has highlighted the flood risk to the crumbling nuclear waste dump adjoining Sellafield in Cumbria, writes Marianne Birkby - a dump which remains in use despite its condemnation by the EA in 2005

 

Nice way to run a radiation dump, eh, look at the picture.

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Sellafield - A massive risk run by a failing empire.   Hundreds of tons of radiation, subject to loss of water through structural collapse or terrorist attack.

A travesty we don't even wish to speak of.   Out of sight, out of mind.    Indeed it does seem that humans are out of their minds.    GMI Global Mass Insanity.

 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/29/sellafield-nuclear-radioactive-risk-storage-ponds-fears

The government is paying private companies £1.7bn a year to decommission ageing buildings at Sellafield.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/nuclearpower/11198831/Fears-over-decaying-power-stations-radioactive-threat.html

In a statement, Sellafield Ltd said: “These dated pictures do not present an accurate reflection of work across the Sellafield site today, but they are an indication of the scale of the challenge inherited by the NDA, Sellafield Ltd and Nuclear Management Partners to clean up the UK’s nuclear legacy.” 

The tanks are believed to have been abandoned for more than 40 years.

The Office of Nuclear Regulation (ONR), the statutory nuclear safety regulator, said: “The legacy ponds at Sellafield are old and as a result, do not meet the high engineering standards that would be required for modern nuclear facilities. These legacy ponds bring significant challenges, but we must focus our attention on improving the current situation. This does not mean that operations and activities on those facilities are unsafe.”







LANL Nuclear Site....polluted, incompetent, and one of the richest places in the Country.

And they are about to lose their cushy $2B a year contract due to incompetence.    What that means is arrogance and stupidity.

http://www.lamonitor.com/content/change-lanl-contract-could-affect-taxes

Federal officials recently confirmed that the $2 billion contract now held by a consortium that includes the University of California, Bechtel Corp. and other for-profit companies will be put out for bid due to repeated failures over the past four years to meet performance goals.
Just this month, the lab managers were warned they would be docked nearly $8 million in incentive fees for potential contamination stemming from the handling of highly enriched uranium at a Nevada facility and for an incident that left one worker with burns over 30 percent of his body.
That followed losses the previous year that stemmed from lab failures that resulted in a radiation leak and the indefinite closure of the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository.

 http://newsok.com/lanl-a-history-of-innovation-and-dysfunction/article/feed/943981

Facing new scrutiny from the Department of Energy, more allegations of mishandled documents and millions of dollars worth of missing equipment, the University of California hired Glen Walp, former chief of the Arizona Capitol Police and a state police officer, and another longtime security expert, Steve Doran, to investigate. Within months, they were fired after finding evidence that misappropriated lab funds were used to buy everything from personal computers to a sporty $30,000 Ford Mustang.

“When I went there, it was right after 9/11, and I thought I was joining the ranks of the elite,” Walp said. “To the converse, not the scientists, but the operators and administration were highly dysfunctional. They tried to cover up everything. They didn’t really deny that.”

“UC lab administrators played the game that they didn’t know what was going on,” said Walp, who received $930,000 in a settlement from the Department of Energy after he was fired. “There is no way they didn’t know what was going on. They knew there was classified material that was in jeopardy.”

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Armstrong County Nuke Dump

Finding incompetently "designed" dumps and then incompetently managed dumps is like shooting fish in a barrel.

$350M to clean this one up....that sounds like A LOT of money.  It is 10 times more than they originally thought.    They started a cleanup in 2007, but had to stop when they unearthed plutonium and uranium and the contractor wasn't capable of handling those.   


http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/12/30/feds-commit-to-350-million-plan-to-clean-up-armstrong-co-nuke-dump-site/

Patty Ameno was the primary activist that made this happen.    Good on you Patty!

 Here is Patty's story.   I sent her a congrats via Linkedin

http://www.iup.edu/magazine/2015-spring/cleanup-crusade/default.aspx

Numec was subsequently bought by Babcock & Wilcox Co., an energy products and services provider. A B&W spokesman declined to comment.
The Corps, after years of planning, began excavating one of 10 known waste trenches at the site in the summer of 2011. Digging abruptly halted several weeks later and hasn’t resumed.

Previously

• Nuclear Report Raises Questions on Pennsylvania Dump Cleanup (March 13, 2014)
• One Town’s Atomic Legacy: A $500 Million Cleanup (Nov. 22, 2013)
• Cleanup Effort Leaves Questions Lingering at Scores of Old Sites (Oct. 30, 2013)

Corps officials said a contractor had violated safety protocols and that an unexpectedly large amount of “complex material” had been found. The officials declined to be more specific. Subsequently, federal officials classified certain information about the dump site, citing a security rule regarding “special nuclear material,” a designation that includes plutonium and uranium isotopes usable in atomic weapons.

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Quick Link to my article on WIPP Nuclear Dump / Mine in New Mexico

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/03/wipp-nuclear-disaster-in-2014-in-new.html

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And a newish dump in "West Texas" run by a billionaire under the name of Waste Control Specialists.

Here is the Complaint
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2011/04/01/texas-billionaire-builds-giant-nuclear-waste-dump/

Here is the billionaire rebuttal

http://www.texasobserver.org/problems-with-a-west-texas-radioactive-waste-dump-get-buried/
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Did you know there is a very widespread dump for nuclear fuel processing waste?   It is called the municipal water systems of the USA, and the villain is flouride.

Flouride is a product of uranium and plutonium refinement.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-02/new-research-suggests-fluoridating-water-dramatically-misguided
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boJanuary 3, 2016 at 7:55 PM

 

My recent 'favorite' dump ..

Concord Massachussetts - Radioactive Nightmare→20 TIMES more depleted uranium than used in Persian Gulf War buried in Concord, Massachusetts..
Today, atop and buried beneath a low hill above a cranberry bog lie more than 3,800 barrels of radioactive and toxic waste..
soil more than a mile from the nuclear dump is radioactive..
1993 epidemiological study found the town's residents suffered higher rates of cancer than the state average. 

http://t.co/YgEtTbG6XQ

boJanuary 3, 2016 at 7:55 PM

My recent 'favorite' dump ..
Concord Massachussetts - Radioactive Nightmare→20 TIMES more depleted uranium than used in Persian Gulf War buried in Concord, Massachusetts..
Today, atop and buried beneath a low hill above a cranberry bog lie more than 3,800 barrels of radioactive and toxic waste..
soil more than a mile from the nuclear dump is radioactive..
1993 epidemiological study found the town's residents suffered higher rates of cancer than the state average. http://t.co/YgEtTbG6XQ

- See more at: http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-many-radiation-tragedies-do-we.html#comment-form

boJanuary 3, 2016 at 7:55 PM

My recent 'favorite' dump ..
Concord Massachussetts - Radioactive Nightmare→20 TIMES more depleted uranium than used in Persian Gulf War buried in Concord, Massachusetts..
Today, atop and buried beneath a low hill above a cranberry bog lie more than 3,800 barrels of radioactive and toxic waste..
soil more than a mile from the nuclear dump is radioactive..
1993 epidemiological study found the town's residents suffered higher rates of cancer than the state average. http://t.co/YgEtTbG6XQ

- See more at: http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-many-radiation-tragedies-do-we.html#comment-form

Chicken Little Radiation Reporting Hurts the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Although Bob Nichols does an important service in bringing to light many of the radiation tragedies playing out in real time now, set up by 70 years of arrogance, shielding from the public eye, and just plain incompetence, and the ubiquitous  excuse of "we are at war, we have to save lives, we are in a cold war" that makes any irresponsible act seem permissible.


http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-liberal/2015/12/fukushima-update-your-radiation-this-week-dec-19-to-dec-26-2015-2519688.html?currentSplittedPage=0

That said Mr. Nichols does a disservice to the community and the message and activism by a broad mis-truth of comparing apples to oranges.    And here it is quickly and succinctly.  

He is using Clicks Per Minute (CPM) from a Gamma Scintillator (high numbers) and comparing it to Clicks Per Minute from a conventional Geiger Counter which measures all 3 types of radiation, but with much less precision than a Gamma Scintillator (low numbers, say like 25 CPM).

So no, we are not living in the USA in cities that have 200 times normal radiation.    This is not constructive, damages the message, gets fringe activists talking about the wrong thing and discredits the anti-radiation movement.

Nichols also states (see screen capture) that "normal radiation" is 5 to 20 CPM.     This may have been true in 1900, but it is extremely rare to get any measurements of less than 20.    25 to 35 is normal in most places in USA.  

Nichols knows the difference between Beta and Gamma, between Gamma Scintillators and Geiger Counters.   Maybe he doesn't know enough.   Maybe he just wants to get people excited and talking to their elected representatives about radiation.   Maybe he just wants more clicks to his site.    I will take him to task on this in the near future, directly.    It hurts the anti-radiation anti-nuclear movement.

As the nuclear industry spend over $1.4B per year to send out propaganda to promote itself and distribute lies about how good it is....we can't afford to damage our own grassroots movement.

Here is a previous review I did on this "Chicken Little" or the Bob that Cried Wolf too often.

 http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/10/veterans-today-not-doing-justice-to.html

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Another guy who has done some good research in the past (which I do not always agree with, but often do), is Ian Goddard.


Please review his video on the LNT radiation model, a very important (although flawed in a fundamental way, which does not incidentally take away from it's usefulness in protecting your safety)


http://beforeitsnews.com/japan-earthquake/2016/01/radiation-risk-lnt-model-tested-video-2447156.html

By Ian Goddard

Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, the focus of nuclear advocacy has been to prevent private property owners from holding nuclear utilities liable for damages incurred by future nuclear disasters. Toward that goal, nuclear advocates have set their sights on the linear no-threshold (LNT) risk model.

According to the LNT, even the lowest doses of radiation increase risk of cancer. So the LNT informs the rationale for nuclear liability from disasters that spread radioactive fallout across the landscape.

In 2006, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences endorsed the LNT risk model in their BEIR VII report. But has radiation epidemiology since 2006 continued to support BEIR VII? That was the question I set out to answer at the National Library of Medicine, and what I found is presented in this video: