Flood Risks at USA Nuclear Plants Is At Dangerously Levels, the NRC Admits It, But Takes Little Action

And its not just risk from flooding, there is also risk from Dam failure.

So far, dam failures have not affected any U.S. nuclear power plants. But in July 2011 we learned that we may been luckier than we knew, as the NRC released a report stating that previous estimates of flood risk for many reactors were based on outdated information and would need to be revised upward.

http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/making-nuclear-power-safer/preventing-nuclear-accidents/flood-risk-at-nuclear-power-plants.html#.VZrcA_mgs8I




stock here: I put together this list of plants that are at risk from floods and dams
In Tennessee there maybe needs to be a reactor or 2 added

 http://www.newswise.com/articles/major-midwest-flood-risk-underestimated-by-as-much-as-five-feet-study-finds

Using the Criss equation, which gives more weight to modern river conditions, the present-day (2015) projected high water mark for a 100-year flood event on the St. Louis riverfront would be 51.5 feet, or more than 21 feet above flood stage.
For comparison, the official “100-year” flood levels at St. Louis would be only 46.1 feet according to USACE (2004), or 46.2 feet according to FEMA (2011).
“The official calculations for the ‘100-year’ flood level at St. Louis are about 5.5 feet too low, primarily because they neglect both the tendency for the flood levels to increase over time and the increased volatility we’re seeing with extreme weather swings,” Criss said.
While a miscalculation of a few feet may not seem like a problem, it can make a huge difference when it comes to the reliability of our existing flood control systems.

These Charts of Historical Word Usage Will Blow Your Mind

Nibiru and Jade Helm, Shocked to Find Them Linked in Conspiracy Theories

I am not a "big fan" of the Nibiru "conspiracy theory", although so many conspiracy theories are later proven 100% true.    But I started running down this rabbit hole based on a comment from obewanspeaks.    It was kind of fun.  

I have a very expensive telescope that I bought a few years back.   Being busy, we only got it set up 1 time for some moon viewing.   Now I am motivated to get it set up, and get some proficiency.    

It is an 8" Celestron C8 SGT XLT

A fantastically good telescope, able to hook up to a camera, and also able to hookup to a computer and be controlled by the computer ...."go to Orion Nebula" and it takes you right there.    It has its own GPS so it has a pretty good idea where it is in the world, then you just point it at any three bright sky objects, and it then knows automatically where everything is Exactly.    Pick any 3 bright objects and you don't even have to tell it what those objects are.

I'll let you know if I find Nibiru

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I do believe  that based on unprecedented, blatant, and unabashed greed and wealth transfer, that their could be a major event to happen to the earth.    And that the powers that be are simply boosting their war chest in a quest for their own survival.


obewanspeaks

July 5, 2015 at 12:30 pm

Code, did you see the KCRA video and what is the/your explanation since this looks like a planet that no one could identify.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HxsB4Lx5mU&feature=youtu.be
Maybe you know which two planets we are seeing in this video?
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irhologram

July 5, 2015 at 3:24 pm Log in to Reply

Obe's original post moved here.
"Well I hate rumors and if this thing is not out there then what is in these pictures. What are we seeing a hoax? If not a hoax then what planet is it? Anyone know? 3 locations?"
http://www.inquisitr.com/2182268/planet-nibiru-mysterious-sphere-over-california-arkansas-and-south-africa-sparks-planet-x-rumors-video/

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stock here:
 Some of the folks who put youtube up on Nibiru are just whacked out.    Not so credible.

Here is an actual image feed from Google Sky, showing what is  claimed was a previously blacked out area of space.    Now it shows a "winged" star.   Check it out for yourself.

Direct Link to Google Sky

https://www.google.com/sky/#latitude=22.61407353592708&longitude=-94.41178321838379&zoom=13&Spitzer=0.00&ChandraXO=0.00&Galex=0.00&IRAS=0.00&WMAP=0.00&Cassini=0.00&slide=1&mI=-1&oI=-1

 Apparently 78% of viewers who decided to take the poll thought that Nibiru is real

The original article is here
https://www.intellihub.com/planet-x-just-revealed-by-google-sky-black-swath-gone-winged-disk-visible/

This 8 page paper from Viale University in Italy attempts to calculate reasons for an aberration in the movement of the Earth's Moon.     They do not rule out a Nibiru type object causing that.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1102.0212v6.pdf

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There are plenty of conspiracy theories out there.
One I finally dove into this AM was Jade Helm 15 Nothing too "crazy" about Jade Helm.

It is simply an internal to America military operation that will help multiple government agencies establish command and communications systems that would help quell an internal unrest, say from a group of "insurgents" which could be terrorists, activists, or revolutionaries.

No I don't think that it is a rollout to martial law in the USA.

This PDF explains Jade Helm pretty clearly.

 http://american3rdposition.com/wp-content/uploads/Jade-Helm-Martial-Law-WW3-Prep-Document-1.pdf

Constitution of USA, Read It, Its simple

Links to the Constitution and Amendments and AoC

Happy 4th!

You can read all the docs below in less than 1 hour.   Misinformation is rampant concerning these basic laws of the US.   Read them, you will be really glad you did.  In fact these documents are so simple that a group of high school students, would be able to read and interpret them and apply them to real situations, maybe with just a little help by an older person to provide some historical context and explanation of an older version of English, however for the most part the language used is 97% exactly the same as today.


Constitution

Constitution of the United States



 Amendmentsto the Constitution, NOTE that the first 10 are collectively referred to as the "Bill of Rights",  The BOR was ratified on December 15, 1791

Amendments 1 to 27 First 10 are Bill of Rights

Presented below are text versions from the Articles of Confederation 1777
This is like the "Original Constitution"

Articles of Confederation
Print them, go get a sun tan and read them.   They really aren't that complicated.  Really, a 7th grader could understand them.

CodeShutdown -- Ponders a 90 to 95% drop in Fish and Bird Populations

CodeShutdown put together some "nice" links on species decline.   I pulled out a few of the quotes, I just feel like we are in some alternate universe reading some of these.    It looks the bleakest before a tipping point, but Holy Discredited Ecosystems Batman, this is getting downright insane.

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CodeShutdown

July 2, 2015 at 11:47 pm · Reply

where are the fish? You look at fishing regulatory agencies and it looks like everything is fine. Did we lose 95% of fish and nobody said anything? It MUST reflect in the fisheries. Wheres the real scoop on population numbers, its weird.

95% decline in migratory fish in North Atlantic
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/migratory-fish.html#cr

She said the study highlights the importance of a relatively new school of thought in the scientific community: ecosystem services.
"We want to put this in the context of the new way many ecologists are now thinking, to say that ecosystems have a value by themselves," Limburg said.

stock here: uh, you mean this is "new thinking" to consider that an ecosystem has value by themselves?    I mean, but what about Apple stock price, or Kardashian good will....sheesh the value their should be obvious, but to value an ecosystem, what kind of whack job thinking is that? lol <sarc>

‘Shocking’ 95% Decline of Fish Populations
http://news.scubatravel.co.uk/shocking-95-decline-of-fish-populations.html

Big-Fish Stocks Fall 90 Percent Since 1950, Study Says
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0515_030515_fishdecline.html



by the best guesses of scientists, the Pacific bluefin tuna population has declined by 96.4% since we began fishing it decades ago
http://science.time.com/2013/01/11/the-pacific-bluefin-tuna-is-almost-gone/

Sorry, the ocean died and nobody noticed, nobody cared.
http://johnreynolds.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/hutchings-reynolds-2004-bioscience1.pdf

Eels too, 95% gone
Eels in crisis after 95% decline in last 25 years
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/may/01/eel-fishing-europe-environment

Too many people on this little earth! Everything was killed and eaten! All the oceans fit in a water balloon 860 miles in diameter and we poisoned and bombed it and polluted it and fished it to extinction…or close to it. Good luck, oh ye mighty stewards of the world ….pffft

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stock here :The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a good website to search for nuclear information.

IN this one, they take a very critical view of US Nuke safety.

Fukushima’s lessons, unlearned in America?

http://thebulletin.org/fukushima%E2%80%99s-lessons-unlearned-america7041

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On March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was struck by an earthquake more powerful than the one it was engineered to handle, and then flooded by a tsunami far higher than it was designed to withstand. In the aftermath of the triple core meltdown that followed, observers around the world pointed fingers at the plant’s operator, TEPCO, for not having prepared for such a disaster, citing Japan’s obvious seismic and tsunami risks. In the United States, a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), George Apostolakis, said that the accident was “not unthinkable,” implying that TEPCO and the Japanese government should have anticipated and planned for such a catastrophe. In a recent speech, Peter Sena III, the chief nuclear officer for FirstEnergy Corporation, expressed a similar view, faulting the Japanese and boasting that US plants, like the ones in his fleet, are required to meet higher safety standards for environmental disasters.

Nuclear Companies REstructure to Protect Profitable Business Segments and Isolate Them From Dying Nuclear Segments

stock here: this was very predictable and was in fact predicted.    You will see more and more of this.   And you can expect the captured "regulatory" agencies of NRC and DOE to give approvals when necessary.

The Nuke segments will hold the money losing assets, and the responsibility for "decommissioning" and of course those costs, will ultimately be born by the taxpayers.     The corporations are already looting the decommissioning funds even though those funds are only 25% of what is needed to get the task done.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/07/babcock_wilcox_nuke_and_fossil.html

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The 148-year-old Babcock & Wilcox Co., headquartered in Barberton from 1906 to 1978, and still employing about 2,000 here, has split into two independent companies.
No layoffs are planned, and B&W shareholders now own shares in both companies.
One company, now named Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. will continue to call itself Babcock & Wilcox and focus on B&W's traditional business constructing steam boilers fired by coal, gas and renewable fuels, including waste materials, and developing emission technologies for these power plants and other industries.
The other company will carry on with B&W's nuclear business, building, servicing and refueling reactors for the Navy, as well equipment and parts for commercial nuclear power plants. This company is now called BWX Technologies, Inc. and is headquartered in Lynchburg, Va.

Hilarious! Japan Tries to Convince It's Citizens That NUclear is Safe By Hiring A Nuke Promotion Agency the IAEA To "Inspect a Plant"

Oh wow, 11 days

The International Atomic Energy Agency began its 11-day evaluation on Tuesday and will report its findings to Japan’s watchdog, the Nuclear Regulation Authority, which has the final say on a plant’s safety. A restart would still need local government approval, which presents difficulties as the region’s governor remains a vociferous critic of Tepco.
Tepco expects to spend at least 270 billion yen ($2.2 billion) to bring Kashiwazaki back online, although it says the cost is a secondary consideration. What’s needed and what the IAEA brings is the “knowledge, ingenuity, and engineering capabilities to get there,” Takafumi Anegawa, Tepco’s chief nuclear officer, said at a press conference at the plant on Tuesday. “Randomly spending money doesn’t assure safety.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-01/tepco-seeks-foreign-seal-of-approval-to-restart-nuclear-plant

Hirohiko Izumida, three-term governor of Niigata prefecture where the plant is located, has said restarting Kashiwazaki shouldn’t even be considered until Tepco’s safety record and handling of Fukushima are properly reviewed.

stock here........Uh, Hirohiko, I think we know all we need to know about TEPCOs accuracy, capabilities, and truthfulness, as well as their willingness to put profit over safety.
The prime focus as reported in all articles is to allow TEPCO to make more money!

Recently, TEPCO and the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund (NDF) have decided to outline a comprehensive special business plan in which the beleaguered utility will be able to restart all of the seven reactors at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant by around fiscal 2016 to improve its earnings.

http://japandailypress.com/tepco-planning-to-restart-all-kashiwazaki-kariwa-nuclear-reactors-by-2016-0440459/

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) – operator of the disaster stricken Fukushima nuclear power facility – must give a more detailed account of the Fukushima disaster and address the long string of incidents where critical information was manipulated and mishandled before it will be permitted to restart the Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant, according the governor of the area. Niigata Prefecture Governor Hirohiko Izumida calls TEPCO’s process “institutionalized lying”, and he would like to see the company handle these issues before restarting from its mothballed state what is the world’s biggest nuclear complex, located on the Japan Sea coast, north-west of Tokyo. 

http://japandailypress.com/japanese-governor-calls-out-tepco-for-institutionalized-lying-2938686/

This institutional lying doesn't seem restricted to TEPCO, but includes the top leader of Japan.....

Stock here: looks like they are forgetting the old school ways......simply bribe the politicians, sheesh, see below.

or-well

July 2, 2015 at 4:02 pm · Reply

bo, you may find this interesting. Money buys nuclear acceptance.
In 1981 Takagi said no to a second reactor.
http://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/04/26/Nuke-leak-town-says-no-to-second-plant/4801357109200/
'The construction of a second nuclear reactor is out of the question,' said Takagi, referring to a request from the plant operators to expand operations at the facility, about 225 miles from Tokyo on the Sea of Japan.
A month later, it wasn't so bad.
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/16/world/for-the-japanese-sudden-misgivings-about-nuclear-power.html
"Mayor Koichi Takagi, no relation to Makoto Takagi, took the same view. ''This incident is a good thing,'' he said. ''It means the power company stops and checks all it does.''
What Mayor Takagi did not say, but what he meant, according to Takao Sugiyama, a reporter who has followed the affair, is that the town expects more handouts from officials and from the company, partly as compensation and partly to secure cooperation on the new plants."
Then in 1983 he made the speech you reference.
Well, Tsuruga-2 commenced operation in 1987.

bo

July 2, 2015 at 4:42 pm · Reply

Wow.. a month ( & some mo

JoyB and the Three Mile Island Meltdown, They Lied About TMI and They are Lying About Fukushima

JoyB a poster at ENENEWS was one of the original health physicists at Three Mile Island During the Meltdown, and says actual radiation released was 100s or thousands of times more than government report.

 http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/04/investigation-revelations-about-three-mile-island-disaster-raise-doubts-over-nuclear-plant-s

What the Thompsons say they found out during their time inside TMI suggests radiation releases from the plant were hundreds if not thousands of times higher than the government and industry have acknowledged -- high enough to cause the acute health effects documented in people living near the plant but that have been dismissed by the industry and the government as impossible given official radiation dose estimates.

The Thompsons tried to draw attention to their findings and provide health information for people living near the plant, but what they say happened next reads like a John Grisham thriller. They tell of how a stranger approached Randall Thompson in a grocery store parking lot in late April 1979 and warned him his life was at risk, leading the family to flee Pennsylvania.

How they ended up in New Mexico working on a book about their experiences with the help of Joy's brother Charles Busey, another nuclear Navy vet and a former worker at the Hatch nuclear power plant in Georgia. How one evening while driving home from the store Busey and Randall Thompson were run off the road, injuring Thompson and killing Busey. How a copy of the book manuscript they were working on was missing from the car's trunk after the accident. These allegations were detailed in several newspaper accounts back in 1981.

And Arnie Gundersen has weighed in on the same TMI issues


Here is the conclusion from an independent analysis.

pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/tmi.html

Proof that cancers went way up

JoyB also chimed in with this oyB June 30, 2015 at 9:04 pm Log in to Reply

All of the iodine-131 from TMI2 was gone within 3 months. All of the xenon-133 was gone within 20 years. That was the vast bulk of it (with a few lesser others). The heavy elements that went out as particulates fell close to the facility (3-5 miles per the actual weather pattern at the time). Those have worked their way over decades along natural drainage pathways that all end up in the river and go with it to the Chesapeake. Some no doubt still buried in the soil, to be churned up annually by plows and washed along those same pathways over time. Not much relative to Fukushima or Chernobyl. I was there. I assure you that I wouldn't have been there if I couldn't have protected myself from what was present. The releases were outrageous and harmed many who did NOT know how to protect themselves. The toll ran into thousands, and it's still not over. They simply diluted the population harmed with a few million extra people who were never exposed, so it looks miniscule. Evil to the [MIA] core. Accident releases (short of uncontained corium/chunks of fuel/rods) don't increase in radioactivity over a quarter million years, as the bulk of long-lived crap remains contained if a river isn't running through it (like at Fuku). Shine is the big problem there, you put a cap on it. Spent fuel waste does increase like that. They've still got no place to put thousands of tons' worth of that all over the damned place. A serious danger to us all.

JoyB

June 30, 2015 at 3:03 pm Log in to Reply

I can tell you that the 20+ tons of MIA core went out the vent stack and main steam dump valves into the atmosphere, not the discharge piping into the river. Sure, the vaporized fuel did end up deposited on land and water beneath the plume (and in people's lungs, and on their sandwiches, and…). What went into the river ended up in the Chesapeake years ago. That was regular old melting nuke crap that had been released to coolant water that escaped the reactor, a portion of the core that WAS accounted for in the end. It is not the cause of intersex fish inhabiting rivers and lakes in PA, since that's present all over the country and coincides with approaching extinction of many amphibious species (frogs, salamanders, etc.).
Scientists always claim to be "baffled" when there's a gag imposed on actual/most likely causes. USGS assigns most likely cause to endocrine disrupting agricultural chemicals. Other researchers suspect the presence in sewage discharge of a common diabetic drug. Cancerous fish lesions have been known for decades to be caused by dioxins dumped into rivers and streams and marshes as waste from a number of prevalent industries. Causes can be complex (many pollutants overwhelming biosystems), but there's always something that pushes things over the line.

or-well

June 30, 2015 at 11:47 am Log in to Reply

"Like ice cream in the sun"
T  hey
M elted
I   t
http://i.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/24/978871/-Like-Ice-Cream-in-the-Sun
"They didn't say much about that void in the center of the core to the public, of course, as they were quite stunned to find that 20 tons of reactor fuel and the rods that once contained it had gone missing completely – they never found it, anywhere. Just gone, as if it had never been there at all."

moonshellblue

June 30, 2015 at 1:58 pm Log in to Reply

Yes and please excuse the redundancy but to this day I wonder if my dx of MS was caused by TMI was outdoors in Harrisburg during that nuclear fiasco and ten years later was diagnosed with MS Also no one in my family has this disease. Another gift from the nuclear industry as I was dx'd on my 30th b-day Such is life living near the nasty nukes

sayonara kitty

June 30, 2015 at 3:30 pm Log in to Reply

moonshellblue, me too, i was outside and the first one in my family with rheumatoid arthritis. i was about 15 then. we had 3 radiation days off of school. we were told there was nothing to worry about.
2 years later, we used to skip school when i was a senior and go to the susquehanna river and cover our bodies with iodine and baby oil to get a tan, then have to explain how we got so sunburnt at school to our parents! lol

We Not They Finally

June 30, 2015 at 4:38 pm Log in to Reply

Even scarier is that "a mere 20 tons" of nuclear fuel at TMI looks like "nothing" compared to Fukushima.

sayonara kitty

June 30, 2015 at 6:51 pm Log in to Reply

we not they finally, i agree, that is what upsets me the most, the amount of hours or days and longer in pain, that shell and i have spent in agony from our autoimmune diseases probably brought on by the nuclear cabal is nothing to what the Japanese children are being exposed to. they had nothing at all to do with this. totally innocent. and they get to look forward to lifetimes of pain.

bo

June 30, 2015 at 1:23 pm Log in to Reply

Three Eyed Island.. ouch.

Garden report from Midwest

 I noted the comments below at ENENEWS

I also have an organic vegetable garden in Zone 5A.    
I have a TON more weeds than last year.   Including a boat load of nasty thistle.

Plants in the greenhouse sprouted well, the second time, after I gave up on my ammonia batch of "potting soil" which was compost that overwintered outside, and then I added fertilizer which just massively turned in ammonia.

I amended the garden with 10 yards of concrete sand, and 15 yards of 3 year old compost from the local government.

90% failure on all direct plant seeds, this was very odd as the soil seemed just great.   We did have some wet and cold spells.    Very disappointing as I wanted to skip a step of container planting.     I quickly batched out the whole greenhouse again and much of that is now ready to go the garden.

I bought a soil test kit, and spent about 2 hours feeling like I was back in high school chemistry.   I wasn't convinced of results but definitely my method became better with practice.    I will compare my results to some samples sent to UW Madison for real lab tests.

2.5 weeks ago, say June 10, none of the transplanted plants in the garden seemed to be "taking".    I did an application of fish emulsion fertilizer, and continued to fight the enormous amount of weeds.

We also had noticed "flea beetles" right out of the gate.    These affect small plants the most and with many plants not "getting their legs" so quickly, they were small and some took damage.   I did not see any flea beetles last year that I noticed anyway.   I wonder why there was a bumper crop this year.    

Finally last week, June 23 and 24 I mulched the whole garden, mulching directly over weeds after pulling the worst of them.    3 days later everything starting looking great.    Prior to the mulching, lots of lettuce type things has already bolted, I didn't recall that from last year, until maybe late July.   

I get a professional grade mulch almost for free, 2 tons for $5 but I have to pick it up in imagine that, a big pickup truck.    You can't mulch too early on as mulching is 3 to 4 inches deep to be effective, and when the plants are small you may just crush them or lose them.    But it is clear that mulching needs to be a procedure every year.      

The mulch from last year all "broke down" self composted and was tilled in.    So the mulch becomes future fertilizer.     Last fall I did not till in fall, but will probably try that this year.    Towards the end of last season, we stopped fighting weeds and these weeds just died in place.   I also left a big pile of Zucchini, eggplant, Okra, Swiss chard and other pulled plants in a pile in the garden, probably a mistake as this help some bugs or molds/diseases to "overwinter" meaning survive the winter.    As the mulch starts to breaks down it absorbs nitrogen from the soil, and then as it really breaks down, you get all that nitrogen back in addition to the nitrogen that was in the mulch itself.     So the trick is to apply some slow release nitrogen just prior to the mulch, in other words, chicken manure, I used a processed type bought at a big box store.    It would be nice to find a chicken farmer, and we do know one so I will ask.

I also did quite a bit of property improvement at 2 flower gardens that really needed help, and at one "tangle" just a huge mess of stuff that when removed, we foudn there was nothing there at all.    It is a neat area right at the entry to the property.  Highly shaded by a willow, cool, and good moisture, so that is now the "Willow Grotto", trying a ground cover, Shasta Daisy, and for now, lettuce and mint.

The "prairie" areas were overrun with weeds, and a lot of good plants look like weeds so it was very difficult to decide what to kill/remove.    Now the earliest flowers are showing and I am making a leaf "book" to identify.    I did not cut down the wildflower areas last year but will this year.    I did harvest maybe 20,000 coneflower seeds but have not planted them at this time, other priorities.

I did not get to plant the orchard this year.     1 have 1 apple, 1 pear, 1 peach.    The peach was put in last summer and immediately started to fruit, it is 4' tall and lots of new growth just last 2 weeks, but no flowers or signs of buds.    It is a Gerogia Belle and maybe it needs a companion to fertilize?    There are no other peaches in the nearby areas, and I mean miles.

I will plant the Orchard this fall.    Plum, Cherry, Persimmons, another apple such as Honey Crisp, maybe another pear, and possibly others.   I missed the pre-emergment oil this spring as I was highly distracted by business interests in Hawaii and just not around.   Apple

Status of Garden June 29, 2015.     After a very worrisome start, things are looking great, especially after the mulch.   It just seems like the plants were a ton happier after the mulch, maybe there is something weird like weed pheromones that upset the vegetables?    There are a number of areas of failed direct seed that are waiting for greenhouse plants to be popped in.    

I never knew what peas in a pod were supposed to taste like, now I do.    Now it will be impossible to ever eat that "pea type product" they label in a can, LOL.

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Checkmate

June 27, 2015 at 12:50 pm · Reply

Food Update: South central Wis. about organic food effected by Cesium. The asparagus mentioned previously, first cutting were unreasonably full of fibers and inedible (90% bad). The strings got wrapped around the teeth and also upon swallowing just a little- felt like it wrapped around internal throat flap or tonsils. The second cutting was about half as bad- probably due to a short exposure in the field. Last week first turnip pickings: noticed the turnip greens had same as mentioned above. All turnips had like a l/8th inch shell around it of very heavy fiber. The second pickings still had 100% bad greens but the turnip didn't have as much fiber in the shell only about 1/16 inch, but it was still there. The Napa cabbage was totally fiber and inedible- a total disaster. Will keep you informed of the continuing season as things are picked. This all from an organic certified farm.
Previously, I had mentioned about the asparagus coming from South America being bad. Also the string beans from Guat. being bad and loaded with this fiber.
It isn't GMO doing this as I know the organic farmer and I have organic asparagus growing wild and it is happening to that. These products have unbelievable fiber and I don't know if they are healthy to eat or swallow as they wrap around your teeth (and maybe your internal organs?)…I appreciate any input…
Fuku is really starting to take effect in changing and destroying the Midwest vegetable crops. Farmers and careful eyes see it.

• alasanon

  June 29, 2015 at 11:35 am · Reply

  Wow…Those are interesting reports!!.. After watching over these years, recorded measurements from rain & snow up there did seem to indicate that some of the Midwest was getting hit hard by fallout.. especially, anecdotal evidence from Michigan!!…I couldn't believe their readings and stories of exposed people/severe symptoms–!? It must have something to do with Wind/Jet stream currents & precipitation patterns…
  i think a few of the local organic farmers' market goods seem a little different on the East Coast, too?…maybe smaller or larger?…more insect holes?..dunno. One of my garden plants has several crooked or bent stems, but that may be its susceptibility to the severe storms we've had out here nearly every few days this year… (I just remember this flower being so straight before–could be the storms though) My other plants are growing intensely, but are not "funny looking" or bent at all. I dunno.
  You can get paranoid. To be honest, I have not noticed any bad reaction to eating the local stuff after washing. I have noticed something when forced to eat W. coast origin food-? (I detox & try to reduce risk, so that helps.)
  Remember after Chernobyl, one of the proven best authorized cooking methods to reduce Cesium was BOILING foods, including meats. It reduced 80% of the radioisotope deposits in tests…plus, good for taters!
  Need more enterprising greenhouses, filtered hydroponics!!
  We need to get into indoor home…
  
  

  • alasanon

    June 29, 2015 at 11:38 am · Reply

    (cont.) gardening/Greenhouses!!! *Climate proof!! This weather has been crazy, too…
    
    

Checkmate

June 27, 2015 at 12:58 pm · Reply

Also the first spinach crop was good, probably because the growing time is shorter and it was in the field less time…

Checkmate

June 28, 2015 at 10:03 am · Reply

Organic broccoli after cooking- noticed the lower part of small stalks of small broccoli heads getting about 10% of fiber creeping up the stems on about 20% of the bunch.
Last year noticed that about 80% of a cabbage head purchased from a store imported from Michigan was inedible. Since it was not organic, I attributed it to GMOs or the spider gene put in the plant. But if it is happening here, where I know nothing is altered, than it is definitely being caused by Cesium in the soil, which has accumulated so much that it is rending vegetables totally inedible. Which means in this case that the only thing left to do in the coming future will be to juice all vegetables and toss all the collected fiber away left in the juicer. It is a matter of time- I give it at the most 2 years before the Midwest vegetable crops (and probably the entire world crop) are completely inedible and everyone is juicing whether organic or not…
And the Jap radiation won't stop as it has been increasing year after year and the soil is collecting more and more untold amounts of Cesium fallout from the rain as the Jap Fuku keeps smoking and screwing up the world with the untold college Nuke experts and genius sitting on their thumbs, saying we didn't know this would happen. Kind of like buying a car and not expecting ever dent the fenders or get in an accident. The China Sy. movie should have been the wake-up call and these jerks should have thought about that- certainly the guy that wrote it did!!

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from Dud, a link on fertilizers

http://www.growinganything.com/organic-garden-fertilizers.html

Pacific Seals Dying Enmasse -- Charts to Bring It Home

From this source

http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/patients/released-deceased-patients/#Deceased

At least they aren't giving them radioactive names this year.

I used a feature of Excel called pivot tables to quickly bring these tables and charts out of the data

Please review and comment

First Table is important, causes of stranding

 These are the ones that didn't make it

 By age and cause of death

 This has to be a gruesome task for those poor marine biologists making half of what the Whores and Woods Hole make

Where are they from?

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And this comment found on Majia's blog
Majia did an article on Japan's Open Society At Risk
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/japans-open-society-in-crisis.html

Reading Crisis Without End: Corrupted science and its likewise corrupted offspring' technology--thus in the USA the Federal Agencies have as their prime goal to facilitate and augment corporate profits. Food contaminated with radiation does not serve that purpose, so simply ignore that whole area or lie about it or raise acceptable standards . . . avoid scrupling when people are concerned. Clearly the powers on the planet have given up on their citizenry. Too many of them anyway. Shed the excess. Americans now are like the passenger pigeon. Or the buffalo. This is so beyond grasp that one is stopped in mid thought. It is an invisible silent total war. But, though with little satisfaction, it proves my point that atomic energy among many areas discovered by science has given the world things that the world is too immature to handle properly. Why we do not give matches to small children or loaded guns! The real threat? Russia? Hardly. Isis? Absurd. Obviously nuclear power plants could have been made and run much more safely; or ideally not at all. The USA forced Russia into a nuclear contest. Lied to about the Soviet Unions desire to destroy America. Needed the power plants for bomb making material, etc. Is it too late? By the time the people wake up how many more accidents and meltdowns? Maybe there is enough radiation now to gradually destroy animal life via mutations. I prefer to ignore the Christian right wing and their preoccupation with Satan--but this whole Mess is hard to account for. Don't scientist and engineers have children, grandchildren and friends? How much cancer are we looking at already? Golden retrievers used to live about 16 or 18 years (1972) but now are down to 8 or 9 and then die of cancer usually.

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And this contributed by a reader in the comments below

http://flaglerlive.com/74587/nukes-last-tango/

Illinois may be nuclear’s short-term ground zero. Exelon operates nukes at six sites in the state and acknowledged that three – the two-reactor complexes at Quad Cities and Byron, and the Clinton single reactor site – may have priced themselves out of the market. Closure of the three could mean 7,800 job losses at the plants and related industries, according to Exelon’s spokesman Paul Adams. A report earlier this month by several Illinois state agencies cited a smaller job-loss figure, 2,500, but added that the state could add 9,600 jobs in the next four years through energy efficiency and a renewable energy standard.

Another Exelon nuke, the Ginna plant near Rochester, New York, is on the brink. Facing a deadline on power purchases from the 45 year-old plant’s biggest buyer, Rochester Gas & Electric, Ginna will close without a rate hike, according to Exelon. The plant’s license doesn’t expire till 2029

 From ENENEWS

All the water in all the oceans of the world is really not that much when you wrap them all up into one big water balloon as depicted in the picture.    It becomes easier to see how we can actually pollute and destroy all of it.