http://du-deceptions.blogspot.com/
These guys been exposing the Nuke Fraud for quite some time, good work!
And here is an Indian Guy who does alot of work on Dams and gravity and earthquakes.
http://deathdealersnukes.blogspot.com/
Monday, March 19, 2012
The professionals.....hmmmm
 Mar12-11, 01:05 AM | Re: Japan Earthquake #3 |
| Posts: 210 | Is there any real chance at a meltdown or is that just the typical media hype? |
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| Mar12-11, 01:15 AM | Re: Japan Earthquake #4 |
  Posts: 19,066 | At the moment, I don't see a 'real' chance of a meltdown. It is a worst case scenario, which is what licensing space is all about. Some of the worst case scenarios involve extraordinary, and not necessarily physical real situations. It's a bit like crash testing a car by dropping it out of an airplane at several thousand feet, knowing full well that such a car would never be able to achieve such a velocity on level ground since the engine could not achieve the speed or the tires would blow out well before the speed could be achieved. Some in the media will sensationalize the situation in order to grab the audience in order to sell commercials for useless stuff. But I digress.  I'd like to keep the discussion here on the technical aspects - as soon as we learn from reliable sources. We have the earthquake thread in P&WA. __________________ Getting the 'right' answer is important, but understanding how to solve the problem (i.e. how you get the right answer) is just as important, if not more so. Peace on Earth, and Goodwill to all Peoples, each day, every day, ad infinitum.  - Joy to the World, Joy to You and Me. - Three Dog Night  The other 2005 Engineering Gurus: FredGarvin, Clausius2, Brewnog, Morbius, PerennialII, berkeman, arildno, Cliff_J, Geniere, minger Raspberry Jam Delta-V - Joe Satriani |
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Cash for Clunker Plants
Cash for Clunker Plants
These are plants that are old, breaking down. Some of these plants sell for as little as $100M although new plants cost over $14B to build, 140 times higher than the price of a Clunker!
Let's put that in perspective, lets say you can buy a decent new car for $20,000 but a clunker would sell for 140 times less, or $142. What kind of car do you think you would be getting for a whopping $142----a seriously bad clunker.
That is what these plants are. It costs ALOT of money to shut them down, so even though it doesn't make sense to keep them operating, it makes even less sense to shut them down....at least to a greedy Corporation. And that is all that Corporation are -- greed machines.
So what is the answer? Well we have to be practical. Greed will not do the right thing. We have to throw some tax dollars at this. We need a Gov sponsored Cash for Clunkers program were operators get a subsidy for doing the right thing, for shutting down the Clunker.
Plenty of Clunkers out there--
http://enformable.com/2012/03/vermont-yankee-future-in-question-again-as-nrc-asked-to-investigate-recent-pattern-of-failures-at-vermont-yankee/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/san-onofre-power-plant-safety_n_1353546.html
Both units were shut down Friday as officials conducted inspections. Manfre said it was too soon to know when the units would be working again or how much of the tubing needs to be replaced or repaired.
On Friday, a local newspaper reported a third incident involving a veteran worker at the plant who lost his balance while trying to retrieve a flashlight and tumbled into a reactor pool. The man reportedly did not suffer significant radiation exposure. Edison may review its procedures for working around the reactor pool, officials said.
Some critics saw the incidents as a sign of greater problems.
"To have this many failures is to have a real breakdown in quality assurance, maintenance and safety culture," said Dan Hirsch, president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, which follows the nuclear industry.
In 2008, the plant received a string of citations over such issues as failed emergency generators, improperly wired batteries and falsified fire safety data, records show.
Shut Them Down, Starting with the Clunkers
Here are some more Clunkers
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/02/cash-for-clunker-nuke-plants.html
These are plants that are old, breaking down. Some of these plants sell for as little as $100M although new plants cost over $14B to build, 140 times higher than the price of a Clunker!
Let's put that in perspective, lets say you can buy a decent new car for $20,000 but a clunker would sell for 140 times less, or $142. What kind of car do you think you would be getting for a whopping $142----a seriously bad clunker.
That is what these plants are. It costs ALOT of money to shut them down, so even though it doesn't make sense to keep them operating, it makes even less sense to shut them down....at least to a greedy Corporation. And that is all that Corporation are -- greed machines.
So what is the answer? Well we have to be practical. Greed will not do the right thing. We have to throw some tax dollars at this. We need a Gov sponsored Cash for Clunkers program were operators get a subsidy for doing the right thing, for shutting down the Clunker.
Plenty of Clunkers out there--
http://enformable.com/2012/03/vermont-yankee-future-in-question-again-as-nrc-asked-to-investigate-recent-pattern-of-failures-at-vermont-yankee/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/san-onofre-power-plant-safety_n_1353546.html
Both units were shut down Friday as officials conducted inspections. Manfre said it was too soon to know when the units would be working again or how much of the tubing needs to be replaced or repaired.
On Friday, a local newspaper reported a third incident involving a veteran worker at the plant who lost his balance while trying to retrieve a flashlight and tumbled into a reactor pool. The man reportedly did not suffer significant radiation exposure. Edison may review its procedures for working around the reactor pool, officials said.
Some critics saw the incidents as a sign of greater problems.
"To have this many failures is to have a real breakdown in quality assurance, maintenance and safety culture," said Dan Hirsch, president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, which follows the nuclear industry.
In 2008, the plant received a string of citations over such issues as failed emergency generators, improperly wired batteries and falsified fire safety data, records show.
Shut Them Down, Starting with the Clunkers
Here are some more Clunkers
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/02/cash-for-clunker-nuke-plants.html
Subsidies for Various Energies
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/energy-subsidy-showdown-fossil-fuels-nuclear-biofuels-vs-renewables/9113
Energy subsidy showdown: Fossil fuels, nuclear, biofuels vs. renewables
Renewable energy has snagged just a fraction of the federal subsidies that fossil fuels and nuclear received when they were emerging technologies, according to a new report from venture capital firm DBL Investors.The report probably isn’t surprising to renewable energy backers who have long argued that subsidies for fossil fuels make it impossible to compete. And it’s unlikely to settle the debate over ending subsidies for the oil and gas industry. But it does provide a valuable historical view of each energy source and helps explain why they’re so dominant today (check out the charts below).
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The Captain sayeth:
Right On! Faved, already fanned!
Solar (of all flavors) provides lots of ways to store Energy!
1. Pump water up hill think Hydro Power
2. Produce Hydrogen from water and then burn the Hydrogen to generate electricity
3. Molten Salt
http://is.gd/f4EFhl
4. New Wind:
http://is.gd/MceGpE
5. Area required for solar:
http://is.gd/oYgd5d
6. http://is.gd/CfpiUJ
Good thoughts, indeed, the storage issue must be solved bit by bit as the grid goes from 10% solar to 80% solar.
If only those smart nukers could get past abusing those poor little atoms, and turning matter into energy.....roh ruh, I think they got the god complex going on, and they ain't going to give it up.
Poor little delusion of grandeur nukers, we really can't save them from themselves, but we ought to save ourselves from themselves.
Right On! Faved, already fanned!
Solar (of all flavors) provides lots of ways to store Energy!
1. Pump water up hill think Hydro Power
2. Produce Hydrogen from water and then burn the Hydrogen to generate electricity
3. Molten Salt
http://is.gd/f4EFhl
4. New Wind:
http://is.gd/MceGpE
5. Area required for solar:
http://is.gd/oYgd5d
6. http://is.gd/CfpiUJ
Good thoughts, indeed, the storage issue must be solved bit by bit as the grid goes from 10% solar to 80% solar.
If only those smart nukers could get past abusing those poor little atoms, and turning matter into energy.....roh ruh, I think they got the god complex going on, and they ain't going to give it up.
Poor little delusion of grandeur nukers, we really can't save them from themselves, but we ought to save ourselves from themselves.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Cash for Clunker Nuke Plants
1 hour ago ( 9:58 PM)
LOL!Obviously, Detroit (Big Car) has conspired with the TV networks to flood their programming with car commercials. We see a blond babe in a convertible Corvette cruising the highway with her hair blowing in the wind. Of course we are tricked into thinking automobiles are safe and sexy....all in the name of Big Car profits.
Don't expect to get honest information about car safety from the NTSB or any other government agency since they are controlled by Big Car. Only organizations like enews are trustworthy.
When will we say enough is enough?
35 minutes ago (10:39 PM)
Right, Palisades, Indian, Kewaunee, and how many others.....new plants cost $14B yet old plants are sellilng for $180M
Talk about clunkers, that's like a $30,000 car selling for $1800....you know you bought a clunker.
Shut down all the CLUNKERS now. They all have a history of violations, fines, mistakes.
clunker for sale
http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2011/04/28/for-sale-kewaunee-nuclear-power-plant-042805.aspx
Denial
Never explain by conspiracy what can be more easily explained by ignorance and denial
Japan is a country in denial. While the government may be in league with TEPCO I am sure some of the nation’s leaders are just not willing to realize the magnitude of this situation. This whole scenario reminded me of an article I saved from Time magazine titled “Why we don’t prepare for disaster” It is worth the read. The Link is at the bottom of my entry. Here are some highlights: ["There are four stages of denial," says Eric Holdeman, director of emergency management for Seattle's King County, which faces a significant earthquake threat. "One is, it won't happen. Two is, if it does happen, it won't happen to me. Three: if it does happen to me, it won't be that bad. And four: if it happens to me and it's bad, there's nothing I can do to stop it anyway."]
[Because the real challenge in the U.S. today is not predicting catastrophes. That we can do. The challenge that apparently lies beyond our grasp is to prepare for them. Dennis Mileti ran the Natural Hazards Center for 10 years, and is the country's leading expert on how to warn people so that they will pay attention… "We know exactly--exactly--where the major disasters will occur," he told me later. "But individuals underperceive risk."]
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1229102-1,00.html
Saturday, February 25, 2012
G2 Solar Storm on it's way
Mild G2 Solar Storm on the Way, Sunday
These happen pretty often.
A G5 could wipe out entire grids. And you know what happens when nuke plants lose their power? They blow up, over 1% of all nuclear reactor have blown up.
And we leave ourselves open to a G5 Carrington Event that could wipe out continents. Only ignorance and greed can explain why we continue to live 100% at risk, so that we can get "cheap power" is the lie that was told to us in school.
In fact, Nuke is the most expensive power, we look at paying a long term cost of 60 to 92 cents per kWH, and lose our DNA, our genetic heritage, lose our lives or lose our humanity. Absurd to pay this price.
Solar is 3 cent per kWH, what part of no-brainer do you need clarification on.
Deadly and Expensive nuke
or Clean and Cheap Solar.
Solar backup proof here
http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/p/renewable-and-energy-efficiency.html
These happen pretty often.
A G5 could wipe out entire grids. And you know what happens when nuke plants lose their power? They blow up, over 1% of all nuclear reactor have blown up.
And we leave ourselves open to a G5 Carrington Event that could wipe out continents. Only ignorance and greed can explain why we continue to live 100% at risk, so that we can get "cheap power" is the lie that was told to us in school.
In fact, Nuke is the most expensive power, we look at paying a long term cost of 60 to 92 cents per kWH, and lose our DNA, our genetic heritage, lose our lives or lose our humanity. Absurd to pay this price.
Solar is 3 cent per kWH, what part of no-brainer do you need clarification on.
Deadly and Expensive nuke
or Clean and Cheap Solar.
Solar backup proof here
http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/p/renewable-and-energy-efficiency.html
Spent Fuel Rods are REALLY Deadly
I participate at Physics Forums and they do top notch analysis of nuclear stuff, although unfortunately, like any person or entity that stands to make a living from nuke, they are blind to the factors that would say Shut Them All Down.
But here is the point----One of the physics pros did a calculation and that if you had a pallet of spent fuel rod in one end zone of a football field, and a human started running at full speed from the other end zone, the human would drop dead around the 15 yard line.
And "we" store this stuff on top of the nuclear reactors, and then we put 6 of these all together, so that 1 blowing up makes it impossible to service the other ones, and thus they also blow up.
Insanity for energy junkies.
From comment on Huffpost - WeMustDoBetter09
But here is the point----One of the physics pros did a calculation and that if you had a pallet of spent fuel rod in one end zone of a football field, and a human started running at full speed from the other end zone, the human would drop dead around the 15 yard line.
And "we" store this stuff on top of the nuclear reactors, and then we put 6 of these all together, so that 1 blowing up makes it impossible to service the other ones, and thus they also blow up.
Insanity for energy junkies.
From comment on Huffpost - WeMustDoBetter09
This little illustration stays in my mind – offered by a guest on Dr. Caldicott's radio show – he said that IF a bicyclist rode fast about 6 ft. or less away from a bundle of those spent fuel rods, rode past them fast – he'd have gotten a LETHAL DOSE of radionuclides.
Other anecdote is the guy at Los Alamos in the early "Whee, this is fun!" years – he'd hold a mass close to another mass that would initiate a chain reaction. When it began, he'd pull back the mass he was holding – stopping Reaction. But it slipped out of his grasp, which he recovered immediately. It didn't save him - he was toast. He died horribly within a couple of weeks. As soon as it happened, he knew that was "all she wrote" for him personally. Others in the room got sick, depending on how close they were.
These anecdotes help non-tech People to understand just how toxic are these fuel pellets and rods that have been scattered over the Fukushima landscape.
If that were our only problem it would be bad enough. But keep thnking about all that incineration of radioactive materials that is on-going….and that PLUTONIUM.
Anyone STILL think the human race knows what the hell it's DOING?
I know this Nuke Industry sure doesn't.
Stick a Fork in Me. I'm done.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN....
Pick a Plant, Any Plant
Palisades must be shut down.
Pick any plant, and research it. They all have a sordid history.
Palisades is a clunker, it could blow up and do hundreds of Billions in damage, not to mention death and disease.
http://www.mlive.com/opinion/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/02/nuclear_regulatory_commission.html
Pick any plant, and research it. They all have a sordid history.
Palisades is a clunker, it could blow up and do hundreds of Billions in damage, not to mention death and disease.
http://www.mlive.com/opinion/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/02/nuclear_regulatory_commission.html
Economic Hit Men
The US is "World Class" when it comes to Economic Hit Men. Google book on this subject. Very enlightening.
I summarize
Send "experts" to lie about the benefits of infrastructure
Corrupt and bribe the government officials to approve new infrastructure
Finance the new infrastructure
Build the new infrastructure and make billions
Exert influence by holding the huge debt over their heads
Take over assets or force them into more "investments" when economic realities come home to roost.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
This is even more evil when the infrastructure is nuclear
I summarize
Send "experts" to lie about the benefits of infrastructure
Corrupt and bribe the government officials to approve new infrastructure
Finance the new infrastructure
Build the new infrastructure and make billions
Exert influence by holding the huge debt over their heads
Take over assets or force them into more "investments" when economic realities come home to roost.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
This is even more evil when the infrastructure is nuclear
Reactor 3 MIA (links from A Green Road)
WHERE IS FUKUSHIMA REACTOR 3? – IT SEEMS TO BE MISSING?
http://youtu.be/0ZBYQ5opMLs
Analysis of #3 Explosion
http://youtu.be/1Q3ljfLvHww
Destroyed Spent Fuel Pool SFP3 of Reactor Unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi 8 May 2011
http://youtu.be/KugIrnThul0
UN agency’s report of 2nd explosion at Reactor 3 must have been made after consulting with RSMC Tokyo: EX-SKF
http://enenews.com/un-agencys-report-of-2nd-explosion-at-reactor-3-must-have-been-made-after-consulting-with-rsmc-tokyo-report
"Reactor No. 4 appeared badly damaged but Tepco officials blamed that on the force of the explosion at No. 3."
Well, after #3 exploded there was NO visible damage to unit 4 (scroll down to picture 9)
http://vansantos.com/2011/03/15/digitalglobes-satellite-imagery-of-fukushima-japan-nuclear-reactors/
Follow up for vaporized nuclear fuel after melt down
http://enenews.com/wheres-the-water-our-prediction-must-have-been-wrong-says-tepco-yet-camera-lens-covered-in-water-droplets-asahi/comment-page-1#comment-190403
1. Highest Yet: Iodine-131 in No. 3 spent fuel pool at over 1,000,000 times normal — “Generated during nuclear fission” (VIDEO) May 10, 2011
2. Japan Expert: It was a nuclear explosion at Reactor No. 3 — I believe fuel rods were blown out of spent fuel pool December 13, 2011
Worker at Reactor No. 3 says nuclear fuel gone from Spent Fuel Pool — “Great skepticism” that any pellets remain (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/breaking-man-who-worked-at-reactor-no-3-says-nuclear-fuel-gone-from-spent-fuel-pool-no-3-great-skepticism-that-any-pellets-remain-video
Friday, February 24, 2012
Frying Dutchman "Nails" Nuclear Power
This one from the Frying Dutchman, a Japanese musician.
19 minutes dialouge type musician rant on the street in Japan.
He really "nails it" with good subtitles. He hit on the whole farce and back room dealings involved with nuclear power.
The simple fact is---we do not need nuclear energy anyone.
Watch it and drop a comment or two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5p283KZGa8&feature=youtu.be
Yes he nailed it, another nail in the coffin of nuke, good riddance!
19 minutes dialouge type musician rant on the street in Japan.
He really "nails it" with good subtitles. He hit on the whole farce and back room dealings involved with nuclear power.
The simple fact is---we do not need nuclear energy anyone.
Watch it and drop a comment or two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5p283KZGa8&feature=youtu.be
Yes he nailed it, another nail in the coffin of nuke, good riddance!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Fight them Financially, you are the taxpayer, Don't be a Putz
TELL SECRETARY CHU: STOP DOE LOANS FOR NEW GEORGIA REACTORS!
Dear Friends,
Two years ago, President Obama personally announced approval of a conditional taxpayer loan for new nuclear reactors in Georgia. Much has happened in those two years that make this conditional loan questionable at best, and more likely an $8 Billion+ loss to taxpayers. Indeed, two years later, President Obama's new budget asks for no new loan money for nuclear reactors--a dramatic shift from the past and one that reflects the reality of 2012. The DOE should now rescind this conditional loan for new reactors in Georgia, before the losses pile up.
Tell Secretary Chu to stop these loans now.
While the NRC has granted a construction/operating license to these reactors--the condition that was to spark the taxpayer loan, several environmental groups, including NIRS, have filed suit in federal court charging that the granting of this license was illegal. Clearly, taxpayer loans must not be granted before the outcome of this suit is known.
The conditional loan guarantee was granted under the presumption that the reactors would be built on time and on budget. Today, even before real construction has begun, these reactors are already behind schedule and over budget, according to the Georgia Public Service Commission's own watchdog. The original Vogtle reactors were 1200% over budget when completed. The potential for taxpayer losses that would dwarf the Solyndra debacle is extraordinarily high. After all, this loan would be 15 times larger than the Solyndra loan, and is probably 50 times riskier.
At the time the conditional loan was granted, there was a belief that there might be a nuclear power "renaissance" in the U.S. After Fukushima, that is clearly not happening. Even Standard & Poor's last week found the prospects of such a "renaissance" to be "faint." The Georgia reactors have not been required to meet post-Fukushima regulatory guidelines, and will not inspire construction of other new reactors. There is simply no justification to continue with these loans.
Tell Secretary Chu to stop these loans now.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Radioactive Sheep
http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/chernobyl-still-affects-norway/
Norwegian Sheep Still at 2000 Bq/Kg. From Chernobyl.
Spending lots of money and effort on measuring radiation and controlling it prior to point of sale.
Nuke is killing us, little by little.
Shut Them All Down, shut em down.
Norwegian Sheep Still at 2000 Bq/Kg. From Chernobyl.
Spending lots of money and effort on measuring radiation and controlling it prior to point of sale.
Nuke is killing us, little by little.
Shut Them All Down, shut em down.
NEI protect us, no matter the cause, yeah right.
7 hours ago ( 9:17 PM)
Operators of the 104 nuclear reactors in the United States have agreed to purchase additional equipment to respond to emergencieThe equipment will help ensure that every U.S. commercial nuclear energy facility can respond safely to extreme events, no matter what the cause, NEI said in a statemen
Ensure it eh? Ensure the safety, eh?
Any how about a large solar magnetic storm? The sun giveth and the sun taketh away.....
In 1865 a large solar storm, a Carrington event. Lucky that there were very few pipelines and wires, because it fried the few that were around.
A sesquicentennial later... the world is different. the human race can survive ANOTHER Carrington, but not if nukes are still running, not if spent fuel is still in water pools with REQUIRED circulation, because the nukers not just stuffed them full, but the NUKERS decided to "re-engineer" the storage to be even tighter, even more dangerous, having even LESS leeway on power loss before these spent fuel pool erupt in a fury of radioactive FIRE!.
We are living on borrowed time. We need to stop all nuke and dry casks all old fuel. It will cost less than 1 years bonuses to Wallstreet. Seriously.
We got a Russian Roulette gun spinning. Which year will it be....
March is Buy Your Girl a Geiger Month!!! Spread the LOVE!
http://www.gqelectronicsllc.com/comersus/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=4542
Stylish and cheap at $160 on sale.
Sheesh, why not have a restaurant ready Geiger.
No Geiger? Poor thing.
Buy one for your girl, Geiger shows the love almost as much as Diamonds (not!), but its way cheaper!
Stylish and cheap at $160 on sale.
Sheesh, why not have a restaurant ready Geiger.
No Geiger? Poor thing.
Buy one for your girl, Geiger shows the love almost as much as Diamonds (not!), but its way cheaper!
More Unit 3 Data from Goddards
Wow, these guys come up within animations and more.
Supportive of the unit 3 moderated criticality
http://iangoddard.com/fukushima01.html
Supportive of the unit 3 moderated criticality
http://iangoddard.com/fukushima01.html
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