Monday, October 19, 2015

Fukushima Is Here, This Month the EPA Shut Off The Beta Radiation Monitors Because Strontium 90 is Beta Type

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After reading this, you may be pissed. You may want to take action. Here is the guy in charge
Radiation Protection Division

Jonathan Edwards, Director
Phone: (202) 343-9290
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The whole article is here at the Wall Street Journal

http://www.wsj.com/articles/radiation-sensors-in-major-u-s-cities-turned-off-because-they-dont-work-1445276241

“We can confidently say that this system is fully capable now and fully operational now with the current monitors it has to detect fairly minute levels of radiation,” said Jonathan Edwards, director of the EPA’s radiation protection division.

stock here: Really Jonathan, even though it is half broke? Without the Beta detection? And we want near real time data....we refuse to rely on your promised "alternate" data, you stated as once a week reports from air filter samples---- that would also be hid when the strontium shows up. Indeed, we want it to be harder for you to lie, i.e. we want the real time data that you have the ability to deliver.

Good Readers---do want to call him? It's the best way, call him tomorrow, put it on your to do list

Radiation Protection Division
Jonathan Edwards, Director

Phone: (202) 343-9290
edwards.jonathan@epa.gov

So mr. Jonathon Edwards, in fact your own (EPA) report from 2012 indicated how important the Beta detectors are.

The 2012 EPA report also said gamma monitoring wasn’t sufficient to deal with the threat from strontium-90, which could “cause large-scale public health impacts.”

You want to learn about Strontium? It's a wicked 1-2 punch right to your red bone marrow. Read my article here:

Strontium - A Deadly One Two Punch (Leukemia)

But now the EPA has 74% of their monitoring just plan turned off

Environmental Protection Agency officials confirmed 99 of 135 beta-radiation sensors in its RadNet system—which monitors in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico—aren’t working and have been turned off. Officials blame electromagnetic interference from sources such as cellphone towers and said efforts to resolve the problem have been unsuccessful.

The EPA tried to shy away from admitted the strontium problem and instead blamed the shut down Beta monitors on

The EPA said the move was a cost-saving measure and that remaining radiological resources in Western states are sufficient to deal with emergencies.

Really? The task of radiation monitoring is very automated, for doing all the Gamma and Beta in the USA it is less than $2M per year. So for the Beta it's around $1M per year, or 0.3 cents per person.

Or look at it this way....to monitor all the Beta in the USA is 0.01% of their agency budget.

The annual cost of up to $2 million to operate the fixed monitoring system is a fraction of the EPA’s 2015 budget of $8.1 billion.

The EPA is outright failing us. They are no longer protecting us, they are captured.

In addition, the EPA last year discontinued a part of its RadNet system that tested milk from dairies for radiation. The agency said the task would be handled by the Food and Drug Administration, which for years has also had a milk-sampling program.

The agency can compensate for the lack of real-time beta data, officials said, by relying on each RadNet station’s gamma-radiation monitor, which hasn’t been affected by the interference. Almost all radionuclides that emit beta particles also emit gamma radiation, they said. Both types of radiation can cause cancer.

True that, but if the EPA doesn't like the test results from the once or twice a week airfilter data, they will just delete them. And the reality is that for normal people, aka citizen scientists, parsing through the EPA database is a nightmare.    It takes 2 minutes just to download a set of 400 data points, and those only cover like 2 weeks.    It would be a full time job to do this for all 135 sites. And then a complicated assembly process to put the data into excel and combine it, and graph it. In other words, the EPA has effectively made it impossible for anyone not operating under grant money to be able to make sense of the "publicly available data"

But they don't know that we have citizen scientists who are hawking this closely.

First, Nukepro (that's me) starting posting up all of the nationwide charts all in one easy to review, easy to scroll through web page.

See link below, this was on AUGUST 20,2015, I set up an easy way to scroll through ALL of the readings in Beta and Gamma at one page on my site.

3 days later they completely move all of the data sources around, scuttling my efforts and requiring a complete reprogramming.     Sorry, I did not have time to do the work over again.

This was a project that I have been trying to find the time to do for over 3 years. Then when I finally started the project....3 days later, they changed all their information source locations. I assume they started getting way too many hits and they realized they needed to shut down the easy dissemination of this Beta and Gamma Radiation graphs. Here is my post:

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/08/test-posting-of-madison-beta-and-gamma.html

They blame the problem not on the radiation monitors themselves, but on cell phone towers. Like there weren't cell phone towers when things were working pretty well prior to Fukushima.

Then a fellow citizen scientist, screen name pinksailmatt, who contributed a massive Excel sheet in which he has been downloading the EPA data for his location Corvalis Oregon, and compiling in the tedious way I mentioned.    Aiyaiyai!    He has caught the EPA at their game, but it is a bittersweet victory, since his formerly beautiful Oregon is being BLASTED with Beta and Gamma radiation.

Here is my original story using pinksailmatt's data
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/10/corvalis-oregon-is-getting-pelted-with.html

Email from pinksailmatt (citizen scientist/reporter)

Anything over 100 CPM is "Action Level" Dangerous

During this time, and on some of the later pool plume events...it appears that some of their measuring instruments might of had trouble handling the high radiation levels, as the graphs started looking pretty weird esp for the temperature. At times the complete data set just vanished. That was probably done on purpose...the bastards. But it does give some very important info if you look close at it. I put some notes on the data set describing what I saw that was relevant. I wonder how high a dose it takes to eff up a standard temperature probe? Clues!

Anyway...give me a holler if you need me to explain anything on the sheets. I've spent a HELL of a long time on them...and have loved every second doing it. I'm updating it every day...usually multiple times when the rads are high, as they are right now. Today was another bitchin hot day here...219 CPM with 9 hours of no-show 400+ :-(

If you want his email direct, I can give it to you, but I will have to ask him first.

my email is, and its a working hyperlink

stock@hawaii.rr.com

If you think the EPA is the only "Captured" Regulatory agency, turn your gaze to the NRC, who is trying to protect the nuclear cartel by lowering their costs, by letting them release 100 times more radiation on us. I know it is hard to believe, but it is true, they have $400B a year industry at risk. That means a lot more to them than your life.

While all this is going on, the NRC is promoting an "enquiry" from a total of 3 people who have a very vested interest in using "radiation" to make themselves wealthy, for a disgusting promotion that "radiation is good for you" aka Hormesis. The regulatory agencies have been totally captured, we cannot trust them at all. They are taking public comments now, and in all likelihood this will turn this into a TRAGIC ruling to allow 100 times more radiation to the public.

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/08/nrc-is-proposing-to-increase-radiation.html

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/08/nrc-promoting-hormesis-which-is-lie.html

If you wish to write to the Authors of the Wall Street Journal Article, do so here

Write to John R. Emshwiller at john.emshwiller@wsj.com and Gary Fields at gary.fields@wsj.com
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And just today, the first published mass die off from Mexico. This other article details 61 pages of just HEADLINES showing the progression of damage to the Pacific post Fukushima.

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/09/61-pages-of-stories-of-death-of-pacific.html

USA Dropped 4 Atom Bombs on Spain in 1966, And Is Just Now Going to Clean Up It's Mess

stock here: Wow, kind of amazed this has never been on anyone's radar so to speak.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/19/us-to-clean-up-spanish-radioactive-site-49-years-after-palomares-plane-crash

The B-52 was carrying four hydrogen bombs more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Two were recovered intact from the sea but the others leaked radiation into the surrounding countryside when their plutonium-filled detonators went off, strewing 3kg of highly radioactive plutonium 239 around Palomares.

Secretary Kerry just signed a deal with Spain to bring plutonium contaminated soil and waste from Spain to the US. The contamination in Spain resulted from a US B52 bomber colliding during refueling in 1966 and dropping four nuclear bombs on Spain. The bombs did not detonate, but the plutonium waste is still widespread. It is past time to abolish nuclear weapons worldwide. 116 countries have already signed the pledge.

The Palomares clean-up deal is seen by many as a sweetener in exchange for Spain agreeing to Washington ramping up its military presence in the country. The number of marine personnel at the base in Morón in southern Spain is to be increased from 850 to 2,200, and to 3,000 in the event of a crisis.

There were 2 crashes actually, and just 2 years apart. In each case the local population participated in the cleanup, but had no protective gear and were not told about the risks. US military knew of the risks, and just "pretended" they didn't exist. A truly disgusting example of the cold war and cold sociopaths running our country. Real story in link below.

http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/archive/nucweapons/box7-3

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34569614

The accident occurred at the height of the Cold War when it was U.S. policy to keep nuclear-armed warplanes in the air constantly near the Soviet border.

The statement said that immediately following the accident both countries set about securing the area, removing contaminated soil and decontaminating the land. It said that they have since been monitoring and analyzing contamination levels

Germany's Electric Rate Has Dropped By 50% Since They Decided to Shutdown Nuclear

The pro-nuclear crowd, pulling out all the stops to save their dying industry, states that Germany is doing horribly under their "mistake" to invest in solar and shut down nuclear. What is reality.

Reality is that Germany's cost for electricity has dropped in half since Fukushima.

This first chart doesn't tell the whole story. Each Euro buys 1.15 USD. So if you take the average call it 39 Euro per MWH, and multiply by 1.15, you get 44.85 USD per MWH, or converting to kWH 4.48 cents per kWH.

BUT! and don't lose the importance of this, Look at the chart below, Since Fukushima the Euro has lost about 30% of its "value". IN 2011 the wholesale rate was 65 Eur/MWH and Eur/USD was 1.45, calculating to a cost of 9.42 cents per kWH.

Simply put....since Germany has decided to phase out nuclear power, their electric rate has dropped by half.

Funded by a $1.4B annual campaign to promote nuclear is the face of obvious headwinds, the propagandists for nuclear claim that Germany is paying higher costs because of the "mistake" to go solar.

Now contrast that lie with the the reality of costs association with "New Nuclear" in particular Vogtle in Georgia.   The people there pay around 8 cents per kWH retail rate.    Now review this article which uses the real cost data from Vogtle.     This indicates a minimum wholesale price of 15 cents per kWH, and you have to add transmission costs and overhead and profit to that figure.

That means that "Next Generation Nuclear" will double or triple the cost the rate payers are going to be saddled with.

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/08/what-is-real-kwh-cost-of-new-generation.html

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Free Pubmed Study on EXTERNAL Radiation Dose Modeling Shows Good Accuracy to Real Data Samples In The Aftermath of Fukushima

This is a great study, and provided freely.

I like how they emphasize "External Dose", and external dose of 10mSv might equate to an internal dose of 100mSv or 400 mSV. And if its Plutonium, all bets are off.

EPA data shows that around 3000 to 6000 pounds of Plutonium was ejected from Fukushima.

Check it out, especially the charts.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24018776

And here is a great in depth article on Fukushima, but they insist on collecting $36 from you to read it. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X12001695

EPA Hiding and Downplaying Important Radiation Data in USA

Summary from pinksailmatt, who lives in Cotvallis Oregon, and is exposing the lies and coverups of the EPA. Gina McCarthy was an assistnat at EPA who was in charge of shutting down the radnet sites after Fukushima. She was rewarded with the top position at the EPA. She is an antropolgist, not a real scientist.

She was unable to even ballpark the percent amount of CO2 in the atmosphere when questioned by Congress, yet she is spearheading 100's of Billions in cost to "fight CO2"

Honolulu Hawaii – Gamma Only
Anchorage Alaska – Beta & Gamma
Fairbanks Alaska – Beta & Gamma
Juneau Alaska – Gamma Only
Olympia Washington – Beta & Gamma
Richland Washington – Gamma Only
Seattle Washington – Gamma Only
Spokane Washington – Gamma Only
Portland Oregon – Gamma Only
Corvallis Oregon – Beta & Gamma
Anaheim California – Beta & Gamma
Bakersfield California – Gamma Only
Eureka California – Gamma Only
Fresno California – Gamma Only
L.A. California – Gamma Only
Riverside California – Gamma Only
Sacramento California – Gamma Only
San Bernardino California – Beta & Gamma
San Diego California – Offline…No Data
San Francisco California – Gamma Only
San Jose California – Gamma Only

Here is where you get the data from:
https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/query.do

Billions of Change, Free Electricity, and No Unintended Consequences, Great Video

Published on Oct 4, 2015 The world is facing some huge problems. There’s a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn’t reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doing. This film is the story about a group of doers, the elegantly simple inventions they have made to change the lives of billions of people, and the unconventional billionaire spearheading the project.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Questions for Gina McCarthy

Warren, you rock, I do find myself using your email 2 or 3 times a week.

I try to clean up my ranty demeanor and try to actually get a real response.    She will get one from
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Keep in mind, this "lady" turned off the radiation monitors after Fukushima, and was promoted for that.

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mccarthy.gina@epa.gov

Gina, you keep stating that in the new energy efficiency and pollution targets that states get to choose how they plan on getting to those targets.    But how can they plan on investments in solar PV or wind when they don't know whether federal tax credits will be around after 2016?     How can they plan when the federal government waits until the last minute to extend a program or not.

And why would anyone want to invest in nuclear, with the huge usually 10 year wait time between financing, design, and first criticality? Besides Voglte themselves say they need to pull $65B in revenue from the plant or it won't make sense. That means that the kWH cost to consumers is going to double and maybe triple.

How does that mesh with your statement that these new rules are only going to cost a family the equivalent of a gallon of milk a month?

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Radnet Monitoring, 9 Ranges of Gamma and Which Isotopes Are in Those Ranges

This is from pinksailmat who is doing great work at ENENEWS.

Citizen scientists are one place you can get truth. Grant whore scientists seem like they have trouble with the truth.

If I had to follow just one of the Gamma Ranges…I would pick Range 5, which picks up Cs-137,
Ba-137m & Cs-134.
FYI here are all the Gamma Ranges with a select few important Isotopes:
Range 2: Ba-140
Range 3: I-131
Range 4: Kr-85
Range 5: Cs-137, Ba-137m & Cs-134
Range 6: Ru-106
Range 7: Y-91
Range 8: K-40
Range 9: Na-24, Mn-56
Range 10: Sr-90

https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/query.do

The Lies Of Global Warming, It's Really Just a Wealth Transfer and Global Control of Energy Play/Ploy

Seen as comments at ENENEWS
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Nobel prize winner for physics in 1973 Dr. Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society in disgust over the group’s promotion of man-made global warming fears.
http://www.climatedepot.com/2011/09/14/exclusive-nobel-prizewinning-physicist-who-endorsed-obama-dissents-resigns-from-american-physical-society-over-groups-promotion-of-manmade-global-warming/#ixzz3ofQCBBPS
Lennart Bengtsson Resigns from Global Warming Policy Foundation, citing McCarthyism
http://www.thegwpf.org/lennart-bengtsson-resigns-gwpf-voices-shock-and-concern-at-the-extent-of-intolerance-within-the-climate-science-community/

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Professor Emeritus of physics Hal Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara resigns, saying global warming is a hoax perpetrated by corrupt scientists
“It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.”
http://iceagenow.info/2015/10/top-us-scientist-resigned-after-admitting-that-global-warming-was-a-big-scam/

Japan Wipes All Investigation and Proceedings Regarding Fukushima from the Public Record

The translation is always a bit rough to read, but you can get the gist of it if you try.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission is the secretariat of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is responsible for regulations for the safety of the nuclear power business, the predecessor of and the former Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, the past HP of the old Cabinet Office Nuclear Safety Commission, Commission It was found that all were removed from the HP. Tokyo Shimbun pointed out in the October 12 date. According to the newspaper reports, regulatory Agency, the day before the September 19 to be a round three years from the inauguration, it was to remove the HP of the past organization all at once. The deleted HP, standards of safety regulations and disaster prevention, such as the old NISA conference proceedings related to various examination, handouts, and recorded at the time of the Fukushima nuclear accident has been posted.

Here is the Google translated page

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Frief-jp.org%2Fct13%2F55421

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Horrific that they treat their own citizens so disrespectfully. And it affects everyone else who took even a small dose from Fukushima, and that means pretty much everyone.

EPA Rots From the Head Down, Impeachment Proceedings Underway for Gina McCarthy

The EPA has been part of the Fukushima Coverup. They took the radiation readings after Fukushima when we needed them the most. They stopped testing milk for radiation. They have had so many station down for so long, it is almost laughable.

McCarthy doesn't even know what the CO2 percent in air is, but she throws down the whole playbook for the Globalists money transfer schemes using agreements and carbon credits.

This impeachment process is current, just be started now.

begins the impeachment process for Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after she committed perjury and made several false statements at multiple congressional hearings, and as a result, is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors:
“For far too long, Congress has allowed unelected bureaucrats and executive branch officials to slowly bend and break the laws of this country in order to further their own partisan political agendas. We have reached a breaking point where the American people have no faith in the fundamental checks and balances put in place by our founders to protect liberties and freedoms.
“On numerous occasions, Gina McCarthy not only broke the law by lying to Congress, but in doing so she also lied to the American people in order to force misguided and overreaching regulations, which have no scientific basis, down our throats. Her agencies new mandates will kill hundreds of thousands of jobs and cause untold economic harm to communities throughout the country. She must be held accountable for violating the rule of law and the only way for that to happen is through the impeachment process.”

------------------------------------------------ EPA Raised Limits Of 'Allowed' Man Made Radiation In Food And Water, Used ICRP Input To Make Decision, Meet Gina McCarthy Head Of EPA, Unconstitutional Taking Process Approved http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/07/epa-changing-rules-around-nuclear-wants.html

Corvalis Oregon Is Getting Pelted With Radiation, Is There Something Else in That "Blob" of Hot Water

Nice to know the EPA is still looking out for us, sheesh, this wasn't even on my radar.

Update on Federal Radiation Milk Sampling
November 3, 2014: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is no longer conducting RadNet milk sampling. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has the authority for food safety, including monitoring radiation in milk. Learn more about FDA’s Total Diet Study and Toxic Elements in Food and Foodware, and Radionuclides in Food programs.
EPA completed its final quarterly milk sample collection in April 2014 and the results from analyzing those samples, along with historical milk sampling results, will continue to be available on Envirofacts.

"We completed it" LOL

These are really dangerous levels of radiation in Oregon. 150 CPM on average. And a resident who keep a close watch on the Beta also has firm proof that the EPA fiddles with the data, so the reality is actually quite a bit worse.

You can get this data here, it is fairly clunky and time consuming.

http://www2.epa.gov/radnet/near-real-time-and-laboratory-data-state

If you want to know, is 150 CPM on average dangerous? Well one, keep in mind this is just Beta, the Gamma and Alpha are "not shown here"

Use my handy Geiger Counter Interpretation Simplified

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html

Pilgrim Nuclear Shutting Down, What is the Status of the Other 31 Dangerous GE Mark 1 Nuke Plants?

Quick summary of the dangerous Mark 1, and other plants shutting down.

Manmade Radiation is Far More Destructive Than Natural Radiation -- Dr. Alice Stewart

hat tip to Jebus from ENE

Over 20 years ago, a very intelligent woman, named Alice, peered into the rabbit hole again, and this is what she saw…

Low-Level Radiation

The Effects on Human and Non-Human Life

Dr. Alice Stewart, Great Britain. Medical doctor,
Professor for Social Medicine, expert on low-level
radiation, Alternative Nobel Prize.

You will find that the advocates of nuclear power are very fond of reminding us of two things:

1) The first is that from the very moment of conception to the moment when we die we are going to be exposed to natural background radiation.

2) And the second thing they like to remind us of is that actually even a small part of our tissue is radioactive, this, of course, referring to the fact that a fraction of an important chemical called potash has still a little residual radioactivity in it.

So their argument goes as follows: If we have this much exposure to natural radiation and, by implication nothing is happening — nothing bad is happening –, as a result of this, why are we making any fuss about other small doses of radiation?

Well let me tell ya little fella.....hop right down into this Rabbit Hole and ye shall see.....

http://www.ratical.org/radiation/WorldUraniumHearing/AliceStewart.html

Youtube Japanese Radition Expert -- What We Have Allowed to Happen to Our Children -- Public Emotional Breakdown

People who know, know how horrible it will be. Just this month the truth about kids in Fukushima having thyroid cancer at 555 times the normal rate of the overall population. Normally kids don't get thyroid cancer, or any cancers for that matter. But that is all changing.

Here is the thyroid cancer analysis

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And you can find the whole story about the thyroid awful truths in these 2 stories

Thyroid Test Results 155,000 Children

Additional Research--They picked Nagasaki the atomic bomb city as a "control group" wow

And in the USA this tragic tale of 2 twin babies born on the uranium contaminated Missouri river, and both have Leukemia

Twins With Leukemia

Tokyo University Professor Kosako Toshiso, a specialist on radiation safety, has resigned his position as Special Advisor to the Cabinet.

In the video below, you can adjust YouTube using 2 of the control buttons on the bottom in order to get English subtitles. Hit the CC button FIRST

Professor Kosako Toshiso, Nuclear Science Professor –
Tokyo University

"Ridiculously Dangerous"

"20mSv in the play environment of kids, will be equivalent to 220mSv or more when the radiation become internal to the kids bodies"

"Nuclear Plant workers usually get 1.5mSv per year"

Why should our kids get 200mSv, it is even more dangerous because they are kids, they are growing, their cells are replicating

Tokyo University Professor Kosako Toshiso, a specialist on radiation safety, has resigned his position as Special Advisor to the Cabinet. In the past, Kosako has supported Japanese government views on radiation in a variety of contexts. For example, from 2003 he testified on behalf of the state in an important court case in which victims of the atomic bombings sought to force an official broadening of the definition of “atomic bomb related illnesses”. He supported the government's assertions that many medical conditions of survivors should not be considered related to the atomic bombs. In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, Kosako was appointed as a Special Advisor to the Cabinet on radiation safety issues. According to his resignation statement, Kosako was confronted with a lack of government openness, poor cooperation with international organizations, and an ad hoc decision making process that he argues has put political and administrative convenience before public health. Castigating government irresponsibility, Kosako singles out the decision to permit 20 millisieverts of radiation exposure for Fukushima school children. 20 millisieverts, he argues is at the extreme high range for exposure in emergency situations. He wonders why this emergency standard for short term exposure in a crisis is being applied in areas where the school year for children, the part of the population most vulnerable to radiation, will proceed normally. As of April 29, 800 groups and 34,000 individuals have signed a petition calling for the Japanese government to significantly lower the 20 millisievert limit. The Mainichi reports calls to reconsider this standard from within Fukushima and at meetings of activists in Tokyo. Below is a translation Kosako’s resignation statement by Tanaka Izumi. Regarding my resignation as a Special Advisor to the Cabinet (Declaration of Resignation) Toshiso KOSAKO, Special Advisor to the Cabinet 29 April 2011 On 16 March 2011, I, Toshiso Kosako, was appointed as a Special Advisor to the Cabinet and, on the same day, started to participate in activities aimed at resolving this nuclear emergency [in Fukushima]. It is already a month and a half since the emergency started, and various measures have been taken so far for resolving the situation, I have decided to cease my activities as the Special Advisor to the Cabinet after 30 April and today I have been to see the Prime Minister to notify him of my intention. I have recorded my activities so far as the Special Advisor in a report "Regarding the measurements for the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant". I have already sent this document to the Prime Minister and to those who have been involved with the matter. My duty was "to provide information and to give advice to the Prime Minister". Since I do not want a repetition of what the government has already been doing, I have reviewed the activities of the Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters, Nuclear Safety Commission, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology one by one, and whenever I found any incomplete or inappropriate elements in their response, I have provided information and advice or proposals [to the Prime Minister]. Specifically, official measures in this nuclear emergency are being taken in two different areas, one to do with the nuclear power plant and the other to do with the environment, radiation and local residents, I, Kosako, have been mainly focusing on the latter, on areas of radiation protection. However, as the situation of the plant and the effects on the environment and residents are interconnected, I have cooperated with specialists in the fields of Reactor Systems Engineering and Nuclear Safety Technology to pursue my activities. Furthermore, as the overall affair is connected with judgments of the cabinet and politicians, I have cooperated with Tetsuro Fukuyama, the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, Goshi Hosono, the aide to the Prime Minister, and Seiki Soramoto, a member of the House of Representatives whom the Prime Minister has appointed directly. During this period, there have been numerous urgent matters that required prompt response, but measures for resolving the situation at the plant as well as for preventing harm to the environment and for informing residents [of risks] were not sufficient. Therefore, on 16 March, an "Advisory Team (Head of the Team being Seiki Soramoto, the member of the House of Representatives) " was established to support the Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters and United Response Headquarters. We have submitted each of our "proposals" to the Prime Minister's office and the Response Headquarters promptly. Some of [our recommendations] have been realized as actual measures. But there are some proposals that are being left out and areas where no official measures have been taken. I have considered many things in areas such as "what needs to be done based on law and justice?" and "what needs to be done based on international common sense and humanism?" and I will outline my views in the following paragraphs. Regarding some of the measures taken by the government, I wish to see them promptly reconsidered, followed by implementation of correct measures. 1. Any measures taken in this nuclear emergency need to be based on “Law and Justice” During the past month and a half, I have made various "proposals" [to the government], and I have considered the following especially important: Necessary measures during nuclear emergencies are similar to other emergencies in that necessary steps and actions written in associating laws regarding Nuclear Emergency Preparedness, as well as Guidelines and Manuals for Nuclear Emergency should be treated as a baseline for deciding on what measures are to be taken. However regarding this particular nuclear emergency, the cabinet and administrative institutions seemed to have had utter disregard for them, and they were instead being very short-sighted and took "flexible responses", which resulted in slowing down the process of resolving the problems. The Nuclear Safety Commission in particular is an institution that should be standing at the center of technical directions and advice when it comes to nuclear emergency measurements. However, I would like to note that when implementations of lawful procedures and judgments based on the basics of radiation protection are considered, they seemed to be insufficient to a considerable degree. For example, radiation exposure doses of the residents (past and future) should be calculated using System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information(SPEEDI), but the SPEEDI was not being operated in the same way as established in the law and in associated guidelines. If one looks at the texts of our laws and/or guidelines, special clauses do exist to take into account special cases where there are difficulties in determining the source of radiation emissions. But such procedures were not taken, and the results that came out of the SPEEDI system were not utilized properly even though they were available at hand. Furthermore, the SPEEDI is working in a such a way so as to estimate promptly how much radiation exposure the public might be getting, but the results were not released immediately. Equivalent doses caused by radiation exposure of the thyroid that are based on data related to the submersion of the initial plume, especially those of children, should be made available to the public immediately without hiding anything, and the areas that should be covered here are not just vicinities of 20-30km spheres, but also the whole of Fukushima, Ibaragi, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures, as well as all other areas of Kanto and Tohoku. Furthermore, data from WSPEEDI system (the one which covers much wider spheres of several ten kilometers to several thousand kilometers) should not be hidden at all. It needs to be released to the public, covering equivalent as well as effective doses to the thyroid for the residents not only of Fukushima, Ibaragi, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures, but also of all other areas of Kanto and Tohoku. I would like to note that judgments and directions made at Office of Radiation Regulation of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology also disregarded legally mandated procedures. For example, the matter regarding the "limit" of emergency radiation exposure for occupationally exposed persons and whether to reflect the 2007 recommendation made by the International Commission on Radiological Protection into our domestic law has already been discussed for several years at the Office of Radiation Regulation. In the end, they stated their final conclusion in their "Interim Report of the Central Committee, Office of Radiation Regulation" at the end of January this year, which recommended setting the limit at either 500mSv or 1Sv. Naturally, one should stick to this when being asked for an opinion on this matter, that is the lawful procedure, but when Ministers of Economy, Trade and Industry or of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology inquired about whether the limit of 250mSv, which appears only in those 40 to 50 year-old-guidelines for locating and building of power plants, could be considered appropriate or not, they, as the Office of Radiation Regulation, answered that it was appropriate. However, reflecting the severe situation at Fukushima, they have started to discuss whether to increase the limit to 500mSv. To me, this can only be described as a "whack-a-mole" sort of attitude or a process of policy making in a very short-sighted manner, by the cabinet and administrative authorities. This administrative disregard of the decisions made at the Office of Radiation Regulation needs to be thoroughly explored. This way of hastily discussing the matter via email and then making forceful conclusions, as well as the whole reasoning behind setting up to 500mSv as acceptable exposure, I find to be tremendously dubious. In addition to that, when you have a very important matter such as this, which has been a subject of discussion for many years, I do not think it can be judged "appropriate" if it is in a completely different context. As for the names of who decided or participated in this kind of procedure which completely disregarded the previous decisions made at the Office of Radiation Regulation, they should be released openly to the public. I strongly advise this. 2. We need to stick to international common sense and humanism At times of emergency, we cannot do without exceptions to standard rules and we are indeed capable of setting them up, but in any case, international common sense ought to be respected. It is wrong to forcibly push through conclusions that happen to be convenient only for the administrative authorities but which are utterly unacceptable by international standards. Such conclusions are bound to draw criticism from the international community. This time, upon discussing the acceptable level of radiation exposure for playgrounds in primary schools in Fukushima, they have calculated, guided and determined a level of "3.8μSv per hour" on the basis of "20mSv per year". It is completely wrong to use such a standard for schools that are going to run a normal school curriculum, in which case a standard similar to usual radiation protection measurement (1mSv per year, or even in exceptional cases, 5mSv) ought to be applied, and not the one used in cases of exceptional or urgent circumstances (for two to three days, or at the most, one to two weeks). It is not impossible to use a standard, perhaps for a few months, of 10mSv per year at the maximum, if the public is rightly notified of the necessity of taking caution, and also if special measures are to be taken. But normally it is better to avoid such a thing. We have to note that it is very rare even among the occupationally exposed persons (84,000 in total) to be exposed to radiation of 20mSv per year. I cannot possibly accept such a level to be applied to babies, infants and primary school students, not only from my scholarly viewpoint but also from my humanistic beliefs. You rarely come across a level of 10mSv per year on the covering soil if you measure the leftover soil at a disposal site in any uranium mine (it would be about a few mSv per year at the most), so one needs to have utmost caution when using such a level. Therefore, I strongly protest the decision to use the standard of 20mSv per year for school playgrounds, and ask for revision. Also, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has sent its own investigative team to Japan regarding this nuclear emergency in Fukushima, and they have held four briefing sessions based on their investigations. But information regarding these briefing sessions were not given to the cabinet from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I take that as a disregard for international relations and for the IAEA. Also, we needed to strengthen our cooperation with the IAEA from an early stage, regarding the control of measuring nuclear substances, nuclear inspections, and protection of nuclear materials, but at the time when it was needed, the cabinet and administrative authorities were not aware of these matters, and that can be described as a dysfunction of nuclear diplomacy. I strongly demand a restoration of nuclear safety regulation based on a standard of international common sense. Translated by Tanaka Izumi

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Pilgrim Nuclear to Shut Down Permanently

Pilgrim is a GE mark 1 design, the most dangerous design.

They are shutting it down, we are not sure when, but by 2019 June 1 for sure. They refuel in spring of 2017, so that also may be the last fission date.

It is a hazard to Boston and Plymouth, and in reality to the northern hemisphere.

Management cited several reasons for the decision, including low current and forecast low wholesale energy prices that are expected to lead to annual losses of more than $40 million in revenue for Pilgrim.
The company also blamed state energy policy, which Mohl said "picks winners and losers."
"When we look at energy policies in Massachusetts we see a proposed clean energy standard that excludes nuclear, a preference for Canadian hydro power and the subsidization of gas pipeline capacity through electric ratepayers, and put that all together ... and it became clear to us that we needed to make the decision to retire Pilgrim," Mohl said.
The plant will remain under enhanced oversight by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission throughout the process, and Entergy expects to spend $45 million to $60 million at the plant during that time, he said.

stock here: the reality is that Pilgrim has been problematic for decades already. In Feb 2015 they were one step away from a massive radiation release. And the NRC was coming down on them hard for obstructing a recent investigation.

The plant will remain under enhanced oversight by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission throughout the process, and Entergy expects to spend $45 million to $60 million at the plant during that time, he said.

The decision by New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. comes about a month after federal inspectors downgraded the plant's safety rating to the lowest level and said they would increase oversight in the wake of a shutdown during a winter storm. The owners maintained that the plant in Plymouth remained safe, although it needed millions of dollars in upgrades.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cf3d8d3db5f24cd98f6408d6e9a9520f/massachusetts-nuclear-power-plant-close-2019

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So now is a good time to look at Coopers report, Renaissance in Reverse.
Was Pilgrim on the list of likely reactor shut downs? You bet.
Which reactor is next to fold?
https://will.illinois.edu/nfs/...
view it online
https://www.documentcloud.org/...
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Of the overall at-risk group, 12 reactors (in alphabetical order) were found to be at greatest risk of early retirement:

Clinton (selling into a tough market);
Davis-Besse (large number of risk factors);
Fitzpatrick(high cost but offset by high market clearing price);
Ft. Calhoun (outage, poor performance);
Ginna (single unit with negative margin, existing contract);
Indian Point (license extension, state opposition);
Millstone (tax issues);
Nine Mile Point (site size saves it, existing contract);
Oyster Creek (already set to retire early);
Palisades (repair impending, local opposition)
Pilgrim (large number of risk factors, local opposition); and
Vt. Yankee (tax issue and state opposition)."

http://www.prnewswire.com/news...

Economics says the CEO.
http://www.enterprisenews.com/...
The NRC says 646 million saved up is enough to decommission. But the costs may be more.
http://patch.com/massachusetts...
http://www.capecod.com/newscen...
"The decommissioning trust fund had a balance of approximately $870 million as of Sept. 30, Mohl said — $240 million more than the company is legally required to have at this time, but $380 million less than the estimated $1.25 billion cost to decommission Entergy’s Vermont Yankee plant."
https://www.bostonglobe.com/me...
And the cost over runs continue from construction to decommissioning.

"General Electric Mark I Reactors in the United States" (PDF). Nuclear Information and Resource Service.

"Massachusetts Nuclear Profile 2010". Energy Information Administration (EIA), United States Department of Energy (DOE). April 26, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2012.

Abel, David (October 13, 2015). "Pilgrim nuclear power plant to close in Plymouth". The Boston Globe.

"Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station — License Renewal Application". U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. March 29, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2012.

Adams, Steve (May 25, 2012). "NRC votes to renew Pilgrim nuclear power plant's license". The Patriot Ledger. Retrieved May 25, 2012.

"Nuclear power foes not stilled in N.E. [Correction 5/15/09] ; Approval nationwide higher than in region". highbeam.com.

"Security at nuke plant beefed up". 3 News NZ. April 16, 2013.

"Warming bay water threatens to shut down nuclear reactor - Metro - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.

"NRC Initiates Special Inspection at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant" (PDF). US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. February 2, 2015.

"Backgrounder on Emergency Preparedness at Nuclear Power Plants". US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. January 6, 2006. Archived from the original on October 2, 2006.

Dedman, Bill (April 14, 2011). "Nuclear neighbors: Population rises near US reactors". msnbc.com. Retrieved May 1, 2011.

"Transmittal of National Marine Fisheries Service Letter Concluding Section 7 Consultation for Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station" (PDF). June 19, 2012.

"Cooling Water Intakes" (PDF). epa.gov.

"Licensed to Kill: How the nuclear power industry destroys endangered marine wildlife and ocean habitat to save money" (PDF). Nuclear Information and Resource Service.

"The Recreational Fishery at Pilgrim Shorefront" (PDF). American Geophysical Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 20, 2014.

Dedman, Bill (March 17, 2011). "What are the odds? US nuke plants ranked by quake risk". msnbc.com. Retrieved April 19, 2011.

Hiland, Patrick (September 2, 2010). "Safety/Risk Assessment Results for Generic Issue 199, 'Implications of Updated Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Estimates in Central and Eastern United States on Existing Plants'" (PDF).

Pilgrim Nuclear Plant Is Being Shutdown -- Convicted of Illegal Obstruction, It's not Just "Cheap Gas"

I have been writing articles about Pilgrim en masse.

Were they a part of the Shutdown, I do believe so.

Here is the prior articles:
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/08/10-copper-pipe-shuts-down-pilgrim.html

FOR Instance Pilgrim Nuke in Boston, has an ever increasing string of problems and emergencies. In Jan 2015 they were one step away, one hail Mary away from releasing a massive blast of radiation direct from the reactor vessel. They had multiple failures, things that had failed just a year earlier and were not properly fixed and tested.

Last Saturday, Pilgrim shut down again. Was the problem some hack attempt, a Stuxnet type virus, major crack, giant earthquake, massive human error?

No, the problem was a 1/2" copper tube
- See more at: http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/08/10-copper-pipe-shuts-down-pilgrim.html#sthash.LM1dpj4R.dpuf

FOR Instance Pilgrim Nuke in Boston, has an ever increasing string of problems and emergencies. In Jan 2015 they were one step away, one hail Mary away from releasing a massive blast of radiation direct from the reactor vessel. They had multiple failures, things that had failed just a year earlier and were not properly fixed and tested.

Last Saturday, Pilgrim shut down again. Was the problem some hack attempt, a Stuxnet type virus, major crack, giant earthquake, massive human error?

No, the problem was a 1/2" copper tube

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/08/drug-testing-us-nuclear-plants-nuke-is.html

The USA's nuclear plants are owned by greedy corporations using druggies and alcoholics to run the nuclear plants.

Second reportable employee incident at Pilgrim nuclear plant in two weeks

http://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/article/20150804/NEWS/150808815

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/06/replacing-indian-point-nuclear-plant.html

First we look at the average annual energy Indian Point has generated 3,687,000,000 kWH/Yr
Then we look at how much solar PV would be need to exceed that 10 Million Panels, Exceeding Pilgrim Production at 3,850,000,000 kWH/Yr
Then we look at what that PV would cost $2,034,000,000
Then we look at what the cost per kWH would be to the PV owner. 1.79 cents per kWH

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/05/we-almost-lost-new-york-boston-and-lake.html

Pilgrim was very close to being forced to directly vent radioactive steam into the environment / neighborhood. They used every last line of defense they had, including dumping radioactive steam into the old BWR Torus aka Surge Tank.

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/02/pilgrim-nuclear-in-boston-came-very.html

If that last piece of equipment had failed it would have been a serious accident with radiation exposure to the public.

Pilgrim had the same types of equipment problems in the last 2 years, and FAILED to fix them, and the NRC failed on adequate follow up.

----------------------------------------------------these folks did and are doing a fine job
http://www.pilgrimwatch.org/

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Another UME Unexplained Mortality Event--Officials Ask for Public Help ---Seriously?

Stock here: radiation not considered

Kachemak sea otter deaths under investigation; Authorities seek public’s help

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/10/13/usfws-sealife-center-investigate-otter-deaths-ask-for-publics-help/

“And so I was able to get to one of them down below the rock wall along the spit road and that individual is in very bad shape,” Webber said. “It is in a somewhat depleted condition, but demonstrating something we’ve also seen a little bit of which is a set of neurological conditions where it was twitching.”

“Most recently what we’ve seen more of is animals in a healthier condition that seem to have been taking care of themselves well but have died acutely and that has become more common in the ones that we’ve been seeing in the last couple of months,” Goertz said said.

“Something is hitting them harder and faster, in addition to the disease that we’re familiar with seeing, something else seems to be involved,” Webber said. “That’s just speculation, we don’t have any evidence yet, but that’s what we’re seeing on the beach.”
Officials with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Alaska Sea Life Center say they’re waiting for lab tests to get back in the next few weeks.

Oh and this....they blame on "climate factors" berry harvests.....

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/10/13/study-alaskas-wild-berry-harvests-becoming-more-variable/

This year and last year, there were no blueberries; there were no low bush cranberries. And this year, there were a lot of low bush cranberries, so we got quite a bit of those,” says Beasley.
It turns out that Freda’s not alone when it comes to fruitless searches for blueberries recently.
“Almost 50 percent of the people that responded said [blueberries] had become more variable – there were bigger swings from one year to the next. That’s a fairly strong response. The number of people that responded that berries had become more variable was almost twice as high as any other response. So it suggests that, yeah, something may be going on there,” according to Research Wildlife Biologist Jerry Hupp with the U.S. Geologic Survey in Anchorage – one of the authors of the study.

stock here: Alaska was BLASTED with radiation from Fukushima, as much from 2000 miles away as from 3 direct atomic bomb explosions.

Checkout this story, confirming the Alaska allegation above.

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/01/further-analysis-on-2011-alaska.html

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Veteran's Today Not Doing Justice to Radiation Reporting

Sheesh! I had a long detailed response and lost it.

Simple version, Veterans today is presenting total gamma from very sensitive gamma detectors in a total of 8 ranges, this will always be higher than the CPM from a simple Geiger.

But there mistake is trying to compare the CPM from a Gamma Scint, to the CPM from a standard Geiger Counter. The only comparison that can be generally stated is that the Gamma Scint will be way higher.

The problem comes up when people try to compare a Gamma Scint to a "Safety Table" such as the one I produced.

They see 100 CPM as an action level using Geiger counter clicks, and then they freak out when they see 800 CPM from a Gamma Scint. Its like comparing jack rabbits to turtles.

It doesn't do any good to good excited over false facts or misunderstood facts, if you may.

Radiation network is private, using Geigers, the dark circle are pancakes, the others are tubes. Pancakes will always read higher than tubes in the same location.

http://www.radiationnetwork.com/index.htm

Here is the EPA, they effed everyone over in August when they totally change where and how they provided city by city gamma and beta.

overall site
http://www2.epa.gov/radnet/near-real-time-and-laboratory-data-state

Los Angeles GROSS GAMMA

http://www2.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-near-real-time-air-monitoring-results-los-angeles-ca
I cannot find the beta on the new EPA site, I emailed them to ask, yeah good luck in getting an answer.

Compare CPM near Los Angeles in link 1 to CPM in link 3

The Gross Gamma from a VERY expensive and sensitive Gamma Scintillation Detector generates far more Clicks per Minute CPM, than say a $600 Geiger Counter.

Here is another site NETC which shows USA radiation readings
http://www.netc.com/

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