1/13/2013 Repairs at Four Nuclear Reactors Are So Expensive That They Should Not Be Restarted

Source: Fairewinds Energy Education via MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 1/13/2013

Video Description

Repairs at Four Nuclear Reactors Are So Expensive That They Should Not Be Restarted

Fairewinds examines continuing problems at four US nuclear reactors, each of which have been shutdown for more than two years. Upstream dam failures continue to plague Ft. Calhoun, steam generator tube failures at San Onofre jeopardized Los Angeles. Crystal River's containment repairs burden Floridians with excessive costs. Finally, Arnie examines a new proposal by the Department of Energy to melt radioactive scrap metal and reuse it in consumer goods like knives and forks.
http://fairewinds.com/content/repairs-four-nuclear-reactors-are-so-expensive-...

Pipes are not where they should be in drawings and calculations not correct at Fort Calhoun in Missouri. Upstream dams could fail (old infrastructure) causing a cascading fail resulting in St. Ouuis being waist deep in water. More than 35 feet more water than the flood just 18 months ago causing an upstream fail flooding of BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS resulting in the loss of ultimate heat sink. The entire midwest would be in jeopardy. (an inland tsunami). Nuclear power plants are NOT designed to withstand a dam failure.

LINKS TO PODCAST ARTICLES HERE:
Tampa Bay Times: Rating agency thinks nuclear plant will be closed
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/rating-agency-thinks-nuclear-pla...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/guest-commentary-the-looming-missouri-da...

Radio interview with Dr. Shanks:
http://www.oneradionetwork2.com/mp3/environment/changes/06.22.11_shanks_berna...

Press release from Congressman Markey:
http://markey.house.gov/sites/markey.house.gov/files/documents/2013-01-11_DOE...

1/10/2013 Berkeley develops quick blood test to ID people exposed to ionizing radiation

Source: Gizmag
Date: 1/10/2013
by: Brian Dodson

Researchers have developed a simple blood test to determine a patient's exposure to ionizing radiation (Photo: Shutterstock)

Industrial and medical accidents have resulted in about 3,000 cases of acute radiation syndrome with over 100 deaths over the past 60 years. Far larger numbers are possible in the future from major reactor accidents or the use of dirty bombs. In the aftermath of a major incident, the radiation dosages of victims must be sorted out quickly, so that suitable treatment can begin as soon as possible. Medical researchers at the US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have now developed a simple blood test to determine the exposure of a patient to ionizing radiation, that can be carried out in the field with a hand-held analyzer.
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Read the rest here [including the dangers and mechanics of ionizing radiation]

1/10/2013 Cernavoda reactor shutdown again after failure of logic relay control system

Source: Enformable
Date: 1/10/2012

Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant

 One of the two operational nuclear power reactors of Cernavoda nuclear power plant, the only nuclear power plant in Romania, was automatically shutdown Wednesday night by emergency system, according to Nuclearelectrica who operates the facility.  The cause of the shutdown has not been determined yet.
“Unit Two shut down on Wednesday evening, reasons unknown,” said Dumitru Dina, head of Nuclearelectrica, but did admit that some problems were found in the cooling system for the electrical generators.  The utility also indicated some disturbances were caused by failure of the logic relay control system.   A similar incident occurred in November 2012.
Source: Pravda
Source: EVZ

1/2/2013 Iran to Citizens: Flee Isfahan

Source: The Washington Free Beacon
Date: January 2, 2013 12:26 pm
by:  Adam Kredo
Iranian officials tell citizens to vacate city located near nuke site

Iranian workers at the Uranium Conversion Facility near Isfahan, Iran / AP

Iranian officials have instructed residents of Isfahan to leave the city, renewing concerns that a nearby nuclear site could be leaking radioactive material.

An edict issued Wednesday by Iranian authorities orders Isfahan’s one-and-a-half million people to leave the city “because pollution has now reached emergency levels,” the BBC reported.
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Read the rest of this startling report here

Editor's Note:  Here is a map of the Isfahan Nuclear Technology center. The Uranium Conversion Facility at Isfahan converts yellowcake into uranium hexafluoride.
View Live Ustream Radiation Detectors in a larger map

1/1/2013 Dr. Chris Busby: Health Effects of US Nuclear Tests in the Marshall Islands

Source: drdrwoland (Dr. Chris Busby's) YouTube Channel
Date: 1/1/2012
by: Dr. Christopher Busby

Video Description

This is Dr Busby's contribution to a meeting organised by the American Association of Anthropologists at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 12th September 2012. The Chair was Prof Barbara Rose Johnston. The earlier part of the meeting will also be uploaded to youtube. The US nuclear tests created enormous contamination and serious health problems in the Marshall Islands but these have been systematically covered up. Most recently the US Health Physics Society published a dishonest series of reports maintaining that there were no serious health effects due to the radioactive fallout. Dr Busby's paper on the issue "The health effects of exposures to radioactivity from the us pacific nuclear tests in the Marshall is. Criticisms of the analysis of Simon et al 2010: Radiation doses and cancer risks in the Marshall islands associated with exposure to radioactive fallout from Bikini and Enewetak nuclear weapons tests and supporting documentation. Occasional paper 2012/6" is at the Green Audit website:

http://www.greenaudit.org/?page_id=104
and at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/111935078/22

His representation to the UNHCR on behalf of the AAA is at:

http://nuclearjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/UAJWritten-statements-Bu...

Dr Busby's main recommendations were adopted by the Special Rapporteur to the UNHCR in his report to the General Assembly. These were that there should be a fully independent study both of the remaining fallout in the Marshall Islands and also an independent Epidemiological study of the health of the inhabitants.

12/27/2012 Tokyo Almost As Irradiated As Fukushima

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 12/27/2012

Tepco – and West Coast of America – Slammed with Radiation

We’ve documented the spread of radiation from Fukushima to Tokyo for a year and a half.  See this, this, this, this, this and this. Unfortunately, as the following recent headlines from Ene News show, things are only getting worse:

• Tokyo area turned out to be as contaminated as Fukushima -Kyoto Professor

• Tokyo Bay cesium even higher than levels reported off Fukushima — Nearly entire sea floor contaminated by 2014

• Tokyo getting 5 times more radioactive fallout than prefectures closer to Fukushima

• Japan Times: Time bomb in Tokyo metropolitan area — Experts warn of accumulating Fukushima contamination — Potential disaster at Japan’s 2nd largest lake

• Tokyo soil so hot it should be sent to nuclear waste dump — Really severe releases hit city

• Japanese Legal Expert: “Even residents of Tokyo are evacuating” — More and more people fleeing Fukushima

• People from Tokyo area report thyroid cysts and nodules — Japanese doctors laughing at patients

• Japan Scientists: Radiation dose has been “significantly increased” around Tokyo metropolitan area after Fukushima

And we’ve previously noted that the radiation will spread worldwide (by water and air). For example:

• California Slammed With Fukushima Radiation

• “Absolutely Every One” – 15 Out of 15 – Bluefin Tuna Tested In California Waters Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation

• Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America

A new study says that the West Coast will get slammed with radioactive cesium starting in 2015