KTVI, Oct 24, 2015 (emphasis added): Brush fire at West Lake Landfill sparks concern — Smoke could be seen for miles as fire crews responded to a brush fire at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton Saturday… The fire was started by a faulty switch… inside the landfill’s perimeter. The switch overheated, causing hot metal to drop below and ignite a fire… Area residents and elected officials gathered near the scene of the fire Saturday to see if it would move into a restricted area where an underground fire is burning. Residents were concerned that the fire would reach area where radioactive waste is buried…
KTVI Transcript, Oct 24, 2015: You can see the smoke for miles… A big-time scare for residents out there tonight… Dawn Chapman, resident: “This fire came within feet of it, within feet of radioactive waste“…
CBS News, Oct 27, 2015: No one knows for sure what will happen if the fire comes into contact with it… some low-level radiation has moved into neighborhoods… But it’s not just the underground fire that is a concern – this weekend a grass fire erupted within some 75 yards of the radioactive waste. This region also sits near an earthquake fault line.
AP, Oct 26, 2015: On Saturday, a fire blamed on a faulty utility pole ignited brush on the West Lake Landfill’s grounds… [EPA official Mark] Hague said testing showed no immediate evidence residents were in peril.
St Louis Public Radio, Oct 27, 2015: Stoking many fears was [a] brush fire at the Bridgeton Landfill… which was first called in to the fire department by a resident. Some took that as a sign that the landfill’s owner, Republic Services, does not have an adequate handle on the site… [EPA] sent a letter reprimanding Republic Services for the incident.
St. Louis American, Oct 25, 2015: Saturday’s fire supposedly resulted from a malfunctioning electrical switch… EPA emergency response specialists were deployed to the site of the fire, according to the EPA’s statement. “Personnel will be in the field today taking samples from the surrounding area to confirm there is not a release of contaminants,” it stated… “Pattonville Fire District conducted air monitoring during the event.” The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR)… reviewed data from its monitors located near the landfills, “and the readings stayed consistent with background,” according to the EPA.
CBS St Louis, Oct 25, 2015: Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster [said] “the fire at the Bridgeton Landfill is ever changing”… Koster says Saturday’s fire is a reminder flames can surface in unexpected places without warning.
See report from earlier this month here: AP: Catastrophic event could release radioactive fallout over major U.S. metropolitan area — Gov’t issues emergency plan as fire burns near nuclear site — Senator: “What we have… could end up as Chernobyl” (VIDEO)
See last week’s reports from Las Vegas-area here: EPA data shows radiation spike in major US city soon after explosions at nuclear waste facility — AP: Drums of buried waste were blasted over site’s fence; Large crater reported (VIDEO)
Published: October 28th, 2015 at 11:19 pm ET
By ENENews
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stock stock
October 30, 2015 at 2:30 am Log in to Reply
Now they are blaming shark attacks in Hawaii on "global warming" and not on a decimated ecosystem
scroll down to the second video after the upper shark attack video for this balderdash.
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October 30, 2015 at 4:11 am Log in to Reply
any clues as to what Contaminates are presently being stored in the vicinity?
Would be happy to help mitigate a response plan based on the information present. Likely there is reason for concern; Where did this waste come from, and what actinides / isotopes are being stored?
Worst case would likely be dioxides and oxides taking high risk contaminates for a stroll through the city. I imagine that the response and incident are being taken as seriously as possible by the crews on site;
My main focus today was on the article posted prior to this one; Something with pandoras box something something end of the world ele. Bright red truck.
Been a tragic day and can't sleep so if you guys know the raw amount of materials on site, or have a spreadsheet listing the types of contaminates, I'd be happy to take a look on the wind speed and vicinity to suggest possible harbingers for the area citizens in the affected regions…
TG.
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Missouri Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal, Sep 17, 2015 (at 27:00 in): “There are references that are in the reports that the Attorney General did with independent scientists where they say that what we have under the ground could end up as Chernobyl. What I am concerned about are the 40,000 tons of uranium that have been spread all over the place… We’re talking about the most potent uranium in the world… We’re looking at the cancer clusters… We’re looking at the number of children who have double sets of teeth, children who have missing eyeballs, the number of children who have brain tumors. This is not consistent with a normal community whatsoever.” This is below the article at http://enenews.com/ap-catastrophic-event-could-release-radioactive-fallout-major-metropolitan-area-govt-issues-emergency-plan-fire-burns-nuclear-site-report-world-brink-nuclear-disaster-senator-could-chernobyl
October 30, 2015 at 4:21 am
Name that song
Moody Blues? or Cobalt 60 Blues?
Workers in white Hazmat’s
Never reaching cold shutdown end,
Plans not well written,
Disregarding Worlds end.
Commonsense they all missed
With greedy minds before,
Just what the truth is
No one dare say anymore.
(choirs)
'Cause they all lied to you,
Yes, lied to you,
Oh, how, they lied to you.
Workers in white Hazmat's,
Never reaching the Corium's end,
Nutty Professors letters written,
Never reaching the truths end.
Bullshit I'd not missed
With these truth eyes before,
"Kyodo
HAKODATE – Former Prime Ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Morihiro Hosokawa, who are now known as leading opponents of nuclear energy, will visit Hakodate in Hokkaido Thursday to lend a hand to its mayor’s campaign against the construction of a nearby atomic plant slated to use mixed oxide (MOX) fuel.
In April 2014, the Hakodate Municipal Government sued the central government as well as plant operator Electric Power Development Co. (J-Power), demanding construction be halted on the Oma nuclear plant, located in Aomori Prefecture across the Tsugaru Strait just 23 km away.
Hakodate Mayor Toshiki Kudo and many residents of the city believe a nuclear accident at the MOX plant could endanger their lives.
The lawsuit filed with the Tokyo District Court is a sign that municipalities at risk of being seriously affected by a nuclear crisis want a greater say in safety matters.
After holding talks with the mayor, Koizumi, who is still popular with the public, will give a lecture on Japan’s energy policy in Hakodate."
October 30, 2015 at 7:39 am
this is related re: OMA & others
COMMENTARY: Utilities running a shell game in relying on nuclear power over renewable energy
January 31, 2015
By TOSHIHIDE UEDA/ Senior Staff Writer
When regional utilities calculated how much electricity generated with renewable energy sources they can purchase from businesses and individuals, they resorted to gimmicks to continue to place an unrealistic reliance on nuclear power.
The new NRA is an easier sell,
some new faces, same old smell,
everyone still in Big Nuclears' graces,
deckchairs re-arranged as Titanic races
into places aging, de-populating,
saying "Nuclear is invigorating!"
Nobody wants their town to die,
hospitals closed, no schools High -
"Here you go Oma, Kaminoseki -
a nuclear plant with funding ready!
Higashidori, Tomari, Tsuruga, Shimane,
Here we come and we're shovelling money!
Your kids will have futures, power, economy -
we operate with complete autonomy!
Oppose us and we'll say you need a lobotomy!"
How come we don't have the same thing for industrial toxins like nuclear waste?
Or how about ozone cap and trade? Think of all the ozone depleting halides the nuclear cycle creates and releases into the atmosphere, from mining through the enrichment process?
But no, we go after one of the most abundant elements in the Universe, carbon.
Carbon neutral is a soothing term. How about poison neutral? Mutagenitically neutral?
No, we as a species are too clever and stupid for our own and the planet's good.
Nuclear energy is partially promoted by CARBON-freaks, folks who otherwise are "green."
In my mind, you can't have it both ways. You either reduce your overall industrial toxic footprint or you don't.
We don't even agree on what is sustainable energy.
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October 30, 2015 at 9:09 am Log in to Reply
Article on zerohedge. WHO has finally decided radiation is bad for you in any dose.
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chemfood chemfood
October 30, 2015 at 10:05 am Log in to Reply
What next before the lawsuits may come marching in?
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from a distance from a distance
October 30, 2015 at 11:05 am Log in to Reply
Very important:
"…there is no threshold below which there are no effects of radiation,” said Dr. Mousseau.
“A theory that has been batted around a lot over the last couple of decades is the idea that is there a threshold of exposure below which there are no negative consequences.
These data provide fairly strong evidence that there is no threshold — radiation effects are measurable as far down as you can go, given the statistical power you have at hand.” –Dr. Mousseau
from a distance from a distance
October 30, 2015 at 11:08 am Log in to Reply
Kudos to washingtonsblog — he did a great job writing and researching.
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October 30, 2015 at 11:40 am Log in to Reply
The amazing thing is if this statement is the case how can we still have any Nuclear Power Plants still operating on the surface of this Earth and more plants being built right now?
Either it's the truth or it is not! :) Can't be both!
Who is in charge?
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October 30, 2015 at 12:18 pm Log in to Reply
How can this research be accurate if we have had invisible, odorless and tasteless Manmade Radiation Contamination encircling the globe since 1945 and then which we started digging up around 1900 and used in manufacturing items?
Are we to assume that all these Nuclear Poisons since 1900 are not possibly hiding in everything else that is on this list is some form and/or fashion?
You bet! Nuclear Poison is now everywhere and in everything! Throw the dice quick!
Shut them all down! :)
Disaster Interpretation Disorder
October 30, 2015 at 1:57 pm
"..How can this research be accurate if we have had invisible, odorless and tasteless Manmade Radiation Contamination encircling the globe since 1945 and then which we started digging up around 1900 and used in manufacturing items?.."
Because its been cumulating/racing away from the average level..
In the foodchain..+ all the extra crap we add.. ?
The rest is just twisting/false focussing to benefit the nuclear industry..or its the only way the nuclear industry allow's them to say anything at all..
"Nuclear Spin"
Related study: Effect of low doses of ionising radiation in infancy on cognitive function in adulthood: Swedish population based cohort study. http://www.bmj.com/content/328/7430/19
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October 30, 2015 at 12:23 pm Log in to Reply
Conclusion: "Low doses of ionising radiation to the brain in infancy influence cognitive abilities in adulthood."
This is a serious matter as each successive generation will be less able to learn, creating a very low IQ society.
This might explain the recent push for robots.
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October 30, 2015 at 3:58 pm Log in to Reply
The art of dumbing down taken to the next level..
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obewanspeaks obewanspeaks
October 30, 2015 at 4:24 pm Log in to Reply
Yes, robotics are coming full steam..the gift of the organic Earth that we were all handed upon birth is in the process of dying.
Humans are in the process of killing/exterminating it all.. :(
melting mermaid melting mermaid
October 30, 2015 at 9:18 am Log in to Reply
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/30/poverty-overpopulation-and-eugenics/
Imagine what could've been…if we invested in peace instead of war, equality instead of plutocracy, the environment instead of empire, people instead of profit, education instead of mass incarceration, main street instead of wall st…it's such a shame.
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October 30, 2015 at 9:40 am Log in to Reply
The investment in war ..a scenic train trip to Slovenia or Croatia, etc.
DisasterInterpretationDissorder DisasterInterpretationDissorder
October 30, 2015 at 2:10 pm Log in to Reply
If a jacob rotschild looks at these pictures , i'm sure he does not feel anything at all..except a trained intiutif calculation of how much more of this before it will affect him negatively..and how to adapt to that..and the health of his stock portifolio..
Basically , how to profit even more..
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October 30, 2015 at 2:11 pm Log in to Reply
Hi Heart..
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October 30, 2015 at 2:58 pm Log in to Reply
Yes it is a big shame MM , if things continue like they are..our species is so deeply developed/specialised in the opposite of the good side of our potential..that we are managing to collectively die a horrible dead whilest taking everything in sight with us..and we KNOW the difference between right or wrong..we just don't know how to be happy with it i guess..
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October 30, 2015 at 9:44 am Log in to Reply
"Italian Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican tribunal that deals with the forgiveness of sins, issued the decree following a request from the Legion of Christ's new general director Eduardo Robles Gil."
AS IF THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DO SO.
October 30, 2015 at 10:50 am
The practice has gone on for thousands of years.. :(
October 30, 2015 at 12:51 pm Log in to Reply
It never ends..
Vatican bracing for new revelations of mismanagement
Oct 29 2015
man's nature is to rape, rob, and pillage. Man's nature is murder, greed, avarice, etc not to do good. Men do not need to be taught to do evil. They have to be taught to do the right thing.
Yes, taught to do the right things but when the slave control by a few is from the top down..few have the opportunity to actually learn what those right things are.
The nuke cartel is allowing and encouraging the K-40 debate and avoiding the tritium debate. Tritium is made naturally in the uppermost atmosphere…and by man-made nuclear events.
"Density of ionization suggests tritium exposure may have an increased risk of causing cancer."
"DENSITY OF IONIZATION"
Remember what Dr. John Gofman said about Tritium:
“Many people thinking about Tritium say ‘oh we don’t have to worry about tritium; the energy of the radiation is so low that we don’t even need to think about it.’ But that is a cardinal error!
It is true that the energy of each beta particle emitted by tritium is very low, BUT there’s another problem. When you have a very low energy beta particle interact with biological tissue to produce the damage to genes, the damage to chromosomes, and the risk of future cancers, the lower the energy of the radiation, the WORSE it is in terms of biological hazards.
Tritium is FIVE TIMES as hazardous as bomb radiation for the same total amount of energy delivered.
And that’s a general law, a rule of physics.
I don’t think any person who is reasonable at all can doubt that I have demonstrated THERE IS NO SAFE DOSE because I have shown with a multitude of studies that we get cancers down at the lowest doses.
Now that’s been resisted, but the United Nations scientific community in 1993 has come out and joined me in exactly the same kind of analysis.
P.S. – I learn all this good stuff from comments in Enenews older articles, which I recommend everyone should review now and again. :)
"…Uranium-233. Which is labeled a fifty quadrillion dollar discovery. …" Gofman
For those asking "Why?", there's your answer.
Interesting quote from Gofman; "the lower the energy of the radiation, the WORSE it is in terms of biological hazards.
Tritium is FIVE TIMES as hazardous as bomb radiation for the same total amount of energy delivered."
thanks from a distance…food for thought
one metric is the ionization density along a track of fission. High ionization, high energy, creates more damage. Im trying to figure out Gofman….the lower the energy, the worse it is? maybe this was not stated clearly. From a Distance, or anyone, please explain
As I see it, because to a complex biological life form it is better the cell dies and is assimilated rather than be sort of damaged, undetected, and reproduce broken…
It makes more sense in complete context…
"It is true that the energy of each beta particle emitted by tritium is very low, BUT there’s another problem. When you have a very low energy beta particle interact with biological tissue to produce the damage to genes, the damage to chromosomes, and the risk of future cancers, the lower the energy of the radiation, the WORSE it is in terms of biological hazards."
Yet high energy decay tracks produce more bystander effect…usually. Thats what I understand…
"…For every megaton of nuclear blast, roughly seven megacuries of tritium resulted. Despite an end to aboveground testing, leading to a peak in tritium production in 1963, bomb-made tritium lingers, decaying away over a half-life of 12 years. For tritium levels to reach under 1 percent of the original amount released by nuclear weapons testing will thus take seven half-lives, or 84 years.
…
Some evidence suggests the kind of radiation emitted by tritium—a so-called beta particle—is actually more effective at causing cancer than the high-energy radiation such as gamma rays, even though skin can block a beta particle. The theory is that the low-energy electron actually produces a greater impact because it doesn't have the energy to travel as far and spread its impact out. At the end of its atomic-scale trip it delivers most of its ionizing energy in one relatively confined track rather than shedding energy all along its path like a higher-energy particle. This is known as density of ionization, and has been shown with the similar form of radiation called an alpha particle. …"
when they talk about "safe" levels in water…you should understand that the "safe" level for tritium is 1200 times higher than for that other beta emitter, strontium.
1) They can't do anything about the tritium
2) They can use the excuse that "it doesnt stick around in the body"
Yes, Stock, all truths combined, that is perhaps the most important point. That, and the effects of such ever-increasing numbers.
If there were no dangers, then why are there fines and judgements?
Are office water coolers social Tritium Cancer producers?
"… …David Kocher of the Oak Ridge Center for Risk Analysis, who has evaluated health risks from tritium and spent 30 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The standard of 20,000 pCi/L of drinking water made compliance easy. "No drinking water anywhere was anywhere close, so it cost nothing to meet."
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Kocher…who is also a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement.
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The potential innocuousness raises the question of whether more stringent standards are really needed—which is the determination the EPA made the last time it revisited these standards at the end of the 20th century. "I think the levels of tritium in drinking water today are low enough that I wouldn't worry," Kocher says. "The good news about tritium is that: even if you inhale or ingest an awful lot, it is going to flush out of your body." He adds: "Just have a few beers and you're done.""
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But what about the density of the ionization? It's ability to do a significant or cummulative amount of damage in a shorter period of time and the trajectory route for which differs from other isotopes and elements? And the other unanswered questions that point to increased cancer risks? "Just have a few beers and you're done."?? Or how about have a few more and you're fired.
http://www.khq.com/story/30393291/us-commandos-heading-into-syria
And they're different from the private mercenaries we had there already how? Oh yeah, they're less expensive. We're all going to die. Psychopaths are in charge of our foreign policy. Our troops are scattered to winds. Trillions in debt, middle class eviscerated and most people don't even know we're an empire, much less a debacle of one.
"The fact is that to disrupt the status quo, a belief in protecting humanity may not be enough. It will also require the efforts of self-interested groups who are fighting for their rights. That’s how successful social change has usually occurred: In anti-Vietnam war protests, the civil rights movement, and women’s struggle for equality, the sacrifices were rarely deemed too great to achieve the ends because the injustices were so keenly felt; the same is true of today’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement. Of course, for a movement to succeed, political leaders also need to see their interests served by policy changes that meet the demands of the disenfranchised. But without the self-interested drive of lots of ordinary people, calls for radical change will fail in the face of entrenched interests."
I don't care whether Aamer was actually guilty of anything (during 14 years of illegal detention they weren't able to charge him), and I don't care what his beliefs are. The point is that we're supposed to be the good guys; and oh, how hollow that now is.
And it's precisely why we have the ongoing travesty and disaster that is Fukushima.
Folks, I know we aren't supposed to fling political sh*t on this site, but….come on.
Maybe we all need to realize the political realm is FAR removed from any sense of real IT ty.
Those guy's say criminally stupid insulting zhit all the time to the electorate but if they get some of the same whine whine..what happend to the treat others as you wanne be treated..arent they Christian..? so they got what they wanted why cry..
Since April 1, 2015, a total of 11 cases of human plague have been reported in residents of six states: Arizona (two), California (one), Colorado (four), Georgia (one), New Mexico (two), and Oregon (one)
On another site, they postulate that it is a rocket body, because of it's density, without giving any hint as to how they estimated it's density.
Might be none, but the bottom line is that this was "lost" and on a strange orbit. They spin it as "good for research", as opposed to "for all we knows its 20 lbs of plutonium"
The status of "reporting" in this day an age is just abysmally defunct
I guess a real citizen reporter needs to pick up the phone and talk to real people involved on the front line…..sheesh, no time
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October 30, 2015 at 3:32 pm Log in to Reply
"..The status of "reporting" in this day an age is just abysmally defunct.."
So true stock , and i'm afraid we seen nothing yet..since the global coörporate powergrab is not completed..yet..
I think so…unless they are solar powered or something…even then, the timeframe is not limitless.
Shoulden't someone be calculating how much nuclear stuff is cirkling above us bound to come down someday then..? Or would it take away to much of the fun of creating artificial swords of Damocles..
They got a sense of humor, since it just popped up and they don't know what it is…..
WTF! At least they aren't sociopaths, hilarious!
Pattern spotter I am…..
Thats the name of unknown space stuff to flare across the atmosphere.
Ha , good catch stock.., i hope the reversed 911 is just coincidence then..
Sadie
They won't go because they will never be allowed back..and they know it. But there is good news, great news. Washington, DC lies in a DIRECT path due east 700 miles.
GOM, I don't think they care about ever going back.
"We are not financially able to uproot our lives, but we’re forced to,” said Tonii Morris, who lives up the street from Bridgeton landfill. “Staying here is not an option.”
Saturday, a fire broke out near an existing smoldering underground fire that is heading toward an old nuclear waste dump. A sewer pipe connecting Bridgeton Landfill to Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District treatment facilities overflowed, releasing thousands of gallons of sewage Tuesday. These come as churches in the same area are being burned. At least 20 families are no longer waiting for answers or repairs. They are refugees, among the first to be moving, or have moved."
Most there are already walking dead. It's the whole St.Louis area that's contaminated. Take a look. Click around the site. (Save it before it's gone) And when you learn about the Manhattan Legacy in this area, you will be stunned, like I was. Which led me to other areas where they hauled this stuff all over the US.
US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS.
FUSRAP:
GOM, I am in SW TN, just 40 miles from the Miss State line. I downloaded this link & started reading it & got a sick feeling way deep down, our city/county cancer rate is one of the highest in W TN & I have talked with many who lost Love Ones to cancer, heart desease or other strage illnesses, one friend lost his Da to cancer & his wife also lost her Dad to cancer. I worked as a water & waste treatment plant "B license" & going for my A, I had a death in the family & I saw that Mom & Dad needed me at home. This small town I was sure I could get a job at the water treatment plant, I had all the right papers, I had served a tour in the Air Force, aNam vet, but I got passed over to a kid out of high school who was caught passed out at one of the Wells he was to be looking after, also I had bought Mom a water filters for their entire house, the chemical smeels were not right. I attented town hall meetings & got no where, like I said this all came from a friend & I was told by the smae doctors this small county had more people dying from cancer that all counties in W TN, them at at a town hall the old man who had the 18 high school boy hired instead of me or two others came down with cancer. This city is run by a collage with ties tro the Bush's & church of Christ. This meeting had reports of the State's reports of the worse water quality of W TN, also the highest cancer rates & childhood illnesses, the State said if the county did not upgrade the water & sewage plants & a…
"Tens of thousands of barrels of nuclear waste, many open to the elements, contaminated the soil at the sites and the nearby creek.
"What you see is an environmental health disaster unfolding slowly over decades," said county health director Dr. Faisal Kahn.
Khan said identifying a true cancer cluster is very difficult, but that what's happening in North County needs long-term study.
"The rates of appendix cancer, for instance, which is relatively rare — we see about 800 cases across the nation per year," Kahn said. "To find seven or eight cases in one zip code or one small geographic area is rather unusual."
Sadie
Everything that is said about Westlake is a friggin lie. I provided a link for you above. Arm yourself with the truth. And that truth is a nightmare. If that thing erupts, it will on par with Bhopal initially. Then Fukushima.
I am directly under St Louis 3 states away..750 miles. I am currently studying the new jet stream patterns and getting myself mobile. I self evacuated with the BP fiasco. Now this..
All I see is the Common Folk running around trying to save their own asses. The 'haves' don't worry about shit. And that's getting old..real old. Know what I mean?
US ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS-St. Louis district.
FUSRAP:
There is NOTHING that can be done here except immediate evac. Only when you take the time to research the truth (on this site) you will understand my growing fear. Fukushima ani't got nothing on this unfolding nightmare. We are talking uncontrolled burning of chemical and atomic weapons, atiomic scrap, uranium (121,000t tons) thorium, waste products, residual waste and on and on. Thrown all over, thrown on trucks, and trains. With no radiological oversight!
Get this, IN 1976, GAMMA RADIATION WAS IN 'ILLEGAL'LIMITS'. In 1976!
I can only suggest that you concern yourself with this deteriorating situation.
SELL. SELL. SELL.
I have two personal Big Island lots coming up for sale…one in Hawaiian Paradise Park off grid solar powered 105K and one in Volcano Hawaiian I'lli Estates on grid 90K for those that want to escape the USA's high CMP
Daiichi Bucky Ball's are out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know they'll contaminate us somehow
Somehow, somehow
And somehow they'll return again to us.
The Actinide mist is drifting slowly
I can see the plume way ahead
And left behind the empty streets
That once inspired my life.
And the strength of our enenews emotions
Is like thunder in the cyber air
'Cos the false promise that NRC made to the world
Haunts us to the end.
I know Radiations out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know Isotopes are out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear our concerned voice's.
I know you'll contaminate us somehow
Somehow, somehow
I know we'll inhale Plutonium somehow
And somehow It'll return again to us.
The secret of Daiichi's ugly Atomic beauty
And the mortality of our souls
I've been searching for truth in everyone I meet
And at the times I've been Shill mislead.
It's impossible to say
As the mutated grass is growing
Underneath our feet
I know the plume is out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere.
I know Cesiums out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear our protest voice's
I know Americium will find us somehow
Somehow, somehow.
I know It'll find us some place
And somehow It'll return again to us
From the Nuclear warnings that I remember
From my childhood still are true.
That there's sheeple so blind
As those Pro Nukes who will not see
And to those pussies who lack the courage
And say it's not dangerous to try.
Well they just don't F—ing know
That false eternal love will be denied
I know radiation's out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere.
I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear our pissed off voice's
I know you'll find our lungs somehow
Somehow, somehow.
I know Tritium will find us somehow
And somehow It'll return to us again
Yes I know it's going to happen
I can see Gamma ray's getting near.
And soon we'll be all frying
To the spewing fountain of Fukushima's meltdown
And if you wake up delirious wondering
In the darkness Plutonium will be there.
Our hands will close around Geiger counter's
That falsely protect us without truth
I know Cesium out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere.
I know Plutonium's out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear enenews voice's
I know we'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow .
I know we'll educate everyone somehow
And somehow we'll all post to you
To the enenews bitter F'ing end
October 28, 2015, 6:46 PM|Mothers from the North Saint Louis county carried petitions to environmental officials Wed., demanding that the governor declare a state of emergency. This comes after thousands of gallons of tainted water spilled into the Bridgeton landfill last night http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/st-louis-residents-up-in-arms-over-nuclear-waste-fears/
"Beware of the Intellectual Elite…Eisenhower not only warned us about the dangers of the military industrial complex, he also warned us of the danger of the intellectual elite, which have the potential to massively corrupt and influence governmental policies."
"Today, city sewer lines run right to the factories, allowing them to dump their waste into the city's sewage treatment plants. This is now a standard part of our infrastructure, and it saves industries of all kinds a ton of money — billions of dollars — because once a regulated chemical or waste enters the sewer line, they're suddenly exempt from EPA regulation! "
Massive Nuclear Cleanup Hobbled by Funding Shortfall
Budget woes hit Energy Department operation to clean up contamination from nuclear-weapons program
Nov 1 2015
"On 5 August 2014, Doel 4 was unexpectedly taken offline due to a loss of lubrication in the steam turbine. Sabotage by a worker at the reactor could not be excluded and investigations are ongoing.[2] The unplanned automatic shutdown caused significant damage to the turbines and it is not clear when the reactor will be restarted although GDF Suez hopes to do so in mid-September.[3][4][5] Based on the first investigations, Electrabel did not expect that the reactor could be restarted before January 2015.[6]"
"A mother near St. Louis puts her oven timer on for 15 minutes as she lets her children play in her backyard.
When it goes off, she steps outside to smell the air and make sure it’s not full of smoke and chemicals. If it’s not too bad, she’ll go back inside and set the timer for another 15 minutes. She repeats the process until her kids have tired or until she can smell the smoke from the burning landfill next to where she lives. Then she knows — it’s time for her kids to come inside, whether or not they’re ready.
It may sound like a scene from Erin Brockovich, but it’s the reality for many people in the small St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton, according to Lois Gibbs, executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice."
And getting worse..
Estimated Cost of Decommissioning a nuclear plant
Per plant $300 million to $500 million—includes estimated radiological, used fuel ($100 million) and site restoration costs (about $300 million).
Between 2002 and 2008, cost estimates for new nuclear plant construction rose from between $2 billion and $4 billion per unit to $9 billion per unit, according to a 2009 UCS report.
Nuclear power has failed to attract private-sector financing—so the industry has looked to government for subsidies,
including loan guarantees, tax credits, and other forms of public support. And these subsidies have not been small:
according to a 2011 UCS report, by some estimates THEY HAVE COST TAXPAYERS MORE THAN THE MARKET VALUE OF THE POWER THEY HELPED GENERATE. the industry has responded to escalating costs with escalating demands for government support. A 2009 UCS report estimated that taxpayers could be on the hook for anywhere from $360 billion to $1.6 trillion according to 2009 proposals for nuclear expansion.
Unfortunately, some operating nuclear plants are using their de-commission funds to build more on site nuclear waste storage.
This is why the US should consider building Plasma Gasification plants. With plasma gasification being touted as holding inherent advantages over conventional incineration, landfill and/or burying methods and is being employed internationally, why isn't there one single commercial-scale plasma gasification facility operating in the United States?
"The main reason is because with any new technology you generally cannot get it financed," says Jeff Surma, president and chief executive officer of InEnTec Chemical LLC, adding that it typically costs about $1 million to $300 million to implement.
However, October 2007, Florida Power & Light (“FPL”) announced a range of overnight costs
(i.e., no escalation or financing costs) for its two proposed nuclear power plants (total of
2200MW) as being between $3,108/kW and $4,540/kW. FPL also estimated the total cost
of the project (including escalation and financing costs) as being between $5,492/kW and
$8,081/kW. These estimated costs translated into a projected total cost of $12.1 billion to $17.8 billion, for just two 1100 MW plants.4
Other recently announced nuclear power plant costs estimates are in the same range as Florida Power & Light. For example, Progress Energy has projected a cost of about $10.5 billion for two new nuclear units with financing costs bringing the total up to about $13-14 billion.