Close approaches to planets: This comet made 11 close approaches
to Earth and 2 close approaches to Jupiter during the 20th century. It makes 1
close approach to Venus, 5 close approaches to Earth, and 1 close approach to
Jupiter during the first half of the 21st century. (From the orbital work of
Kazuo Kinoshita)
PhilipUpNorth posed an interesting question on ENENEWS. What is the decay heat for 3 reactor cores in BTU?
I have pondered pondering this question. And today I endeavored to stop pondering and start contributing.
Then as an added bonus, I shall divy up those BTUs across the volume of the Pacific and I can tell you how much the Pacific would heat up if all of those BTUs went into the Pacific.
OK Weighing in with the answer. Fukushima, no matter what reactor fuel or spent fuel may have got into the ocean , or transmitted it's decay heat into the ocean, will not matter a hill of beans in increasing the temperature of the ocean.
Two Cases:
1) If the radiation spreads evenly through the whole Pacific
2) What if the radiation stays in the top 200 feet and over a limited portion of north hemisphere Pacific Ocean? Still almost nothing.
Want to dig further, check the results? Here is my spreadsheet.
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Did Fukushima heat up the USA? This chart indicates not any immediate effect in 2011, but there a very unusual spike up in USA temps in 2012, which could very well indicate a Fukushima impact.
The standard deviation of temperature anomalies in the USA 1979 to 2014 is
This post is "in progress". I am hoping people can review, do additional research, and make contributions.
The basic premise is from "Obvious" at ENENEWS who postulated a link between Fukushima released Strontium, and low oxygen causing toxic blooms and also direct animal deaths, beachings, etc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Something I don't think about everyday, and maybe I should, is that is 2012 we passed through the galactic center, and are still passing through. I can't even wrap my head around all of the ramifications. But certainly some of them are: 1) More galactic masses, energy generators, 'cosmic ray' generators are lined up with each other to blast the earth. 2) These things can also affect the earth's magenetosphere, which is generally a protective shield, and influence all kind of things, one being cloud nucleation. 3) Other effects like gravitational, and the missing component I shall coin today as the "Volume Bungee" can certainly be influenced by galactic center and sun interaction with the earth. 4) These events could have an influence of the "floating land" which makes up what we call land, and the sea floor. Specifically volcanoism, earthquakes, ocean floor vents. 5) These things could have a massive effect on earth chemistry.
A quick note on the newly coined "Volume Bungee" which is the missing link in celestial physics. There is an elephant hiding right under our nose, and that will explain why small and fast moving things like comets, which would not significantly affect earth by gravitation, do in fact cause a statistically significant increase in large earthquakes. I did a comet study here, please review it. http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/06/comet-honda-approaches-to-earth-does.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
also, Stock, look up relationship between strontium and anoxic
events (my POV is Fukushima kicked off the anoxic event we are seeing
now and which scientists are so afraid to speak about in full).
There are no earthly mysteries, only mysterious scientists.
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Radioactive material was detected in a monitoring well in April at an
Exelon-owned nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania about 40 miles from
Baltimore, according to nuclear regulators. Exelon, the parent company
of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. and the largest owner of nuclear power
plants in the United States, notified the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission that it found dangerous levels of tritium, a radioactive
isotope of hydrogen, in a monitoring well at Peach Bottom Atomic Power
Station on the Susquehanna River in Delta, Pa.
The agency said the
contamination posed no danger. "I would say there's no cause for concern
for people who work at the plant or members of the public," said Neil
Sheehan, a spokesman for the NRC. "It's not used by members of the
public. We're talking about low levels" of contamination. Exelon found
tritium at 37,700 picocuries per liter, higher than the 20,000
picocuries per liter drinking water limit set by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Sheehan said regulators will examine ways to mitigate
the contamination in a forthcoming inspection.
It may be a concern in
the future if the tritium ends up leaching into the Susquehanna, he
said. Krista M. Connelly, a spokeswoman for the Peach Bottom power
plant, said the plant has been monitoring the issue closely. "The
affected groundwater is monitored, has not affected drinking water or
the river, and results of more recent tests have shown tritium levels
have returned to previous values," she said. "The groundwater stations
or wells are specifically designed to allow for early detection and
prompt mitigation." An advocacy group, Beyond Nuclear, criticized the
NRC for its oversight of the leak, saying regulators have been
monitoring and mitigating such leaks in a lax manner. The issue was
highlighted in a report issued Thursday by the group called "Leak First,
Fix Later: Uncontrolled and Unmonitored Radioactive Releases from
Nuclear Power Plants."
stock here: These are horrible numbers. Tritium allowed in drinking water is 1200 times higher than strontium. 2 reasons. First tritium doesn't bioaccumulate, so that is used as an excuse, however, should you receive a steady supply of tritium, it is just as dangerous! Second, they have no way to filter or treat for tritium water, so they allow lots of it.
Who knows what a pico-Curie is off the top of their head in terms of danger? Usually just the old school radiation cartel people. So this use this to throw people off, because most of the post Fukushima crowd knows mSv. Or Bq/L or Bq/M3.
1,369,000 Bq/M3 is what they found. But its no risk, at this time, trust us, we made the bad numbers go away before and we can do it again.
A few quick observations:
The associated press made 3 FOIA requests. They screwed up big time in asking only for the internal agency correspondence, meaning that all the correspondence between multiple agencies was not covered. There could be a lot more out there.
You can see the heavy redactions in my screen caps, but skim the doc and you can see often 3 or 4 pages blanked out completely.
There are mutliple repeats of same documents, this wastes people time and makes it hard to read.
60% of this is Bureau Speak conversations on responsibility and scheduling, who is doing what, where is funding.
I highlighted in yellow so you can take away the main points in a 3 minute skim
First a good contrast enhanced view of Reactor 3 Explosions, there were 3 blasts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc4KZoevt10
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Did reactor 4 equipment pool have both a "blast out" followed by a corium ooze? It appears so.
My kingdom for the video of Fuku 4 blowing up
The $64,000 question, in the lower picture of the reactor cap, why are some of the bolts popped up, this was from a micro helicopter fly by?
Here are some various pictures, with annotations on occasion.
And here a video on criticality by AntiProtons who does great work
And the SL-1 Criticality Accident, one man impaled on the ceiling. True story, this is $7500 recreation
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the Demon Core
After Fukushima, for one full year, all the common house flies went away in Hawaii. For the full year. I lived there that year.
Think about that. And I have 2 dogs, so there is of course, poop. But still no flies. That is amazing. When the flies came back, I also started to feel better.
Researching this matter I found anecdotal evidence from Three Mile Island in which the same effect was noticed. No flies, even on a farm.
I wonder if anyone can weigh in from Fukushima and nearby areas?
Certainly radiation can be used to sterilize insects:
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That whole summer [1979] ’til about August there were no flies, no mosquitoes, no nothing. You’d be outside eating and there would be no flies. We got other cats and we had, you know our other dog.
There were just no flies around, and there was no flies, no mosquitoes, no bugs! [Laughter] It was unreal. Like 4th of July, you’d be eating and there were no flies. You have a barbecue...there were no flies. They came back about August. And there were no birds at the time either. I mean none.
I’ve lived here all these years, I don’t need them kind of statistics. All I know is that I don’t like it
And there were sheep farms with dead sheep and no 'effin flies within 15 miles of TMI.
If you think this shit is safe, build one in your back yard.
The worst part of TMI, the part you seem to gloss over; is that it was preventable. It was operator error.
And that is supposed to make me feel better how?
The best engineers at that time, designed a plant that when you threw
a switch, you got a light that said the switch was moved, but did not
confirm the action the switch controlled happened. (no positive
feedback) WTF!
Temp sensors were designed to read temps in the normal operating
range of the reactor, but when things went to shit , they either
malfunctioned or gave a readout of out of range.
Do you think engineers can eliminate all operator errors?
May I store several million tons of waste in your basement?
"As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together, we make a mighty fist"
Watanka Tatanka (Sitting Bull)
There
has NEVER been a US commercial nuclear power plant which has "blown
up" that is a fact which you cannot deny. Please stop spreading this
obviously false information..
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Uh, Three Mile Island Or perhaps....let me do your response for you....
It DID not blow up, it melted down, and not even through containment,
and it only took 20 years to clean up, unlike Fukushima that will take 50 years.
AND
there was no immediate health effects either, even though all the
flies were killed in a 30 mile radius even on cow farms, but we chalk
that up as a net positive effect of nuclear, no flies on us.
Prior to the bomb test: The test servicemen had an extra unpleasantness to contend with: a
plague of flies and mosquitoes attracted by the insanitary conditions. during
the trials a daily flight by a light plane coasted Christmas Island with DDT in
an effort to keep the pests at bay.
Cox set to work on his first set of
gamma ray monitors and slowly progressed across ground zero towards the RAF's
bomb radar marker. He had no uncanny sense that something was not quite right
about the place: 'I said to my army helper: 'What the hell is wrong and what the
hell are we doing here?' We both had a strange feeling; we noticed no flies, no
movement of lizards and no booby birds. We found several burnt and dead birds
and in the distance we heard one of the three wild pigs but we didn't dare
approach too close to it. It was badly burnt and was going around in circles,
blind. I said 'This bloody place is contaminated, and what the hell are we doing
here?' We went back to the camp area and by late evening two decontamination
showers had been erected and so I went and had a good shower. Next day back up
the island again and in the evening I went for another shower which was very
welcome. I had just taken off my shorts etc. When a chap came in with a monitor.
he ran it over me and to my amazement I had a reading of 3.80R and another chap
with me had a reading of 4.20R. The health physics chaps said: 'What the hell
could it have been yesterday? We would like to have known. "This was a
contaminated area and we should have been issued with protective clothing.'
What
I remember most about this show is that on each episode, they would
read a chosen letter or two from viewers. This one thing stands out in
my mind:
During the Three Mile Island meltdown, they read a
letter from a farmer in the area who lived in a spot designated "safe"
by the authorities. But in the person's letter to Real People the farmer
said that there was something that was really bothering them. Usually
on the farm, there would be a number of flies that are normal for a
farm.
The writer said that there were no flies on the farm during the radiation leak, anywhere.
Does anyone know what episode that is, and if there is a clip anywhere of the show broadcasting the letter?
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I was in school around Gettysburg PA, not too far from Millersville, two friends in my immediate group of fifteen or so, developed testicular cancer shortly after Three Mile Island. Neither was able to have children, one died a couple of years ago at age fifty of lung cancer. Some of us stayed through the summers, we noticed the year after that there were no flies.
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Swallows eat a lot of insects. They are super maneuverable with their split tail feather design.
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Cornelia Hesse-Honegger is a
scientific illustrator and artist known for her pioneering bug work:
She has collected more than 16,000 insects near nuclear plants and
fallout sites, searching for signs that they’ve been affected by
low-level radiation. Her watercolors are beautiful, but also carry a
frightening message; as Hesse-Honegger notes below, “we the humans
dictate in the end how nature should look like.”
