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Update: 1/19/12, 11:30 A.M. - Radiation Alert from Taos
On
January 18th, at about 5:48 PM local time, the Nokaoi station in the
Taos area of New Mexico broadcast a Radiation Alert over the Network.
See the graph at right, depicting elevated readings averaging over 100 CPM
(Counts per Minute) for a sustained period of about 20 minutes, then
subsiding to near normal background levels of about 60 to 70 CPM.
For context, the station is operating the Inspector Geiger counter, which
is a high count rate model built around an ultra-sensitive pancake style
Geiger- Mueller tube. Between that high count rate, and the high
elevation of Taos at 7,300 feet, their background count of about 60 CPM is
therefore considered normal.
During the alert period, the station reports they were monitoring indoors
on the second floor of an adobe structure, with the instrument sitting on the
bed, monitoring the environment only - no specific materials were being
scanned at the time. A few minutes of outdoor monitoring preceded the
graphed activity shown above, which readings were also elevated. It was neither raining nor snowing at the
time, and the wind was still, against relatively clear skies,
although the station reported a "heavy orange cloud" on the western
horizon at dusk, reminiscent of an LA sunset that is color enhanced by smog.
So what was the cause? In short, we don't know, but the fact that
the elevated radiation levels were sustained for many minutes, versus a
momentary spike, and then fell back to normal levels, tends to rule out a false alert that our network occasionally
generates from an instrument glitch or the like. A jet stream
map from last evening located the flow too far north to be
a factor, its southern edge dipping down only as far as Colorado. Did the orange
cloud somehow relate to the elevated radiation levels? Was there a passing radioactive
"plume" from Japan? Or perhaps a downwind release from
Los Alamos National Lab to the west? These are speculative questions only.
A greater number of Monitoring Stations would provide a chance to corroborate readings,
so that must be the continuing mission of the Radiation Network.
I noted last month in connection with Tepco’s announcement of “cold shutdown” of the Fukushima reactors:
If the reactors are “cold”, it may be because most of the hot radioactive fuel has leaked out.
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The New York Times pointed out last month:
A former nuclear engineer with three decades of
experience at a major engineering firm … who has worked at all three
nuclear power complexes operated by Tokyo Electric [said] “If the fuel
is still inside the reactor core, that’s one thing” …. But if the fuel has been dispersed more widely, then we are far from any stable shutdown.”
Indeed, if the center of the reactors are in fact relatively “cold”,
it may be because most of the hot radioactive fuel has leaked out of the
containment vessels and escaped into areas where it can do damage to
the environment.
Source: Activist Post
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
by: Rady Ananda
Thyroid cancer cases have more than doubled since 1997 in the United
States, while deadly industrial practices that contaminate groundwater
with radiation and other carcinogens are also rising.
FRONTLINE travels to three continents to explore the debate about nuclear power: Is it safe? What are the alternatives? And could a Fukushima-style disaster happen in the U.S.?
Source: Natural News
Date: 1/16/2012
by: Mike Adams
Mike Adams hosts the Monday edition (1/16/2012) of Infowars Nightly News. Mike talks about his article on radioactive tissue holders -- manufactured with cobalt-60, used in radiation therapy-- and sold by Bed, Bath & Beyond.
INDIANAPOLIS – Thyroid cancer, which affects about 11 people per 100,000 each year, seems to be on the rise. It's a trend that baffles medical researchers.
... Read full article here
Before
1979, the U.S. strongly supported Iran's nuclear energy programs.
Mainstream media is helping sell another illegal war. The way they do
this is mainly by not reporting things or under-reporting things.
"Introduction
of nuclear power will both provide for the growing needs of Iran's
economy and free remaining oil reserves for export or conversion to
petrochemicals" - Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State for President Ford
☀ Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East
"Howard
Friel and Richard Falk reveal the persistent ways the New York Times
has ignored principles of international law in order to shield its
readers from Israel's lawlessness." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844671097/ref=nosim/representativ-20
FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Action Alert
NYT Misleads Readers on Iran Crisis
Paper disappears some inaccurate reporting http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4454
Youtuber
tantzer sent me this info: In a Congressional hearing early in 2011,
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, replying to Senator
Carl Levin, confirmed that as of 2011, the American intelligence
community has a high level of confidence that Iran has not made a
decision as of this point to restart its nuclear weapons program.
This
testimony reflects the contents of the 2011 National Intelligence
Estimate. Its texts has not been released, but from the Congressional
testimony, it's clear that it repeats the conclusions of the 2007 that
since 2003 Iran has not pursued military applications of nuclear
technology. The text of the 2007 NIE was published during the Bush
presidency.
Sanger of the New York Times has often relayed
misinformation from anonymous U.S. officials to the effect that the 2011
NIE would reverse that of 2007. On 6/8/10, he wrote that the new NIE
"is using new evidence to revise and in some cases reverse conclusions
from that [2007] estimate," and that the U.S. "is gradually backing away
from a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate." On 6/15/10, he wrote that
the new estimate "is likely to back away from some of the conclusions in
the earlier document." On 3/27/10, he wrote that the 2007 NIE's key
conclusion "is also being rewritten." On 1/2/10, he wrote, "Mr. Obama's
top advisers say they no longer believe the key finding of a much
disputed National Intelligence Estimate about Iran." As of today, the
New York Times has not corrected such misinformation or tried to explain
it.
As for the 2007 NIE: the NYT's reporting gives exhaustive
coverage to criticisms of the 2007 NIE and information that seems to
contradict it. Sanger rarely referred to the NIE estimate without the
adjective "much-disputed"-- not pointing out that within the United
States, it's politicians and media pundits who dispute it quite
predictably, not U.S. intelligence organizations that voted for it 16-0
and reconfirmed it in 2011.
As late as November 6, 2011, Sanger
has sentences like this: "the report has been widely criticized as
flawed." Note the absence of any reference to the 2011 NIE as recently
as last November in a context where it should have been mentioned! And
in this story from a month ago he put the emphasis on its being "widely
criticized as flawed" rather than its having been re-affirmed.
Source: RT News
Date: 1/12/2012 upload date
by: Liz Wahl
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was assassinated Wednesday when two men on a
motorcycle stuck a magnet bomb to his vehicle and rode off. According to
reports, Roshan is the fifth Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated in
the last two years. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has publicly
denied American involvement and no one has come forward claiming
responsibility for the murder. Jamal Abdi, policy director for the
National Iranian American Council, helps us analyze who could be
responsible and will this cause greater tension between Iran and the US.
[Editor's Note: This is an excellent news report which importantly points out that the Iranians do not yet have a nuclear weapons program, as stated by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta himself. Rather, what the Iranians are actually doing (based on factual evidence) is developing nuclear capability [to boil water] and that it is up to present or future Iranian leaders to decide whether or not to go forwards with a real nuclear weapons program.
There is speculation that the Mossad and MEK (formerly classified by the United States government as a terrorist group) may have been responsible for killing the director of the Iran's uranium enrichment program Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan. Or, as Liz Wahl's guest Jamal Abdi, policy director for the National Iranian American Council, speculates it could have been some other group or hardliners within the Iranian government itself who do not want Iran to be peacefully incorporated in to the international community. We do not know for sure who is responsible.
I hope that we the public are more vigilant this time and do not get suckered in to believing another lie similar to the WMD/yellowcake deception which was used as an excuse to invade Iraq with catastrophic consequences both in loss of life and economically.]
On
January 18th, at about 5:48 PM local time, the Nokaoi station in the
Taos area of New Mexico broadcast a Radiation Alert over the Network.
See the graph at right, depicting elevated readings averaging over 100 CPM
(Counts per Minute) for a sustained period of about 20 minutes, then
subsiding to near normal background levels of about 60 to 70 CPM.