Images show Iran’s Arak plant is operational
The Telegraph says Tehran operating Arak heavy-water production plant in effort to produce plutonium which can be used to make nuclear bomb. Plant protected by anti-aircraft missiles
The images show signs of activity at the Arak plant, located 150 miles south-west of Tehran, including a cloud of steam that indicates heavy-water production.
http://www.ynetnews.com/…./448335317801283408258no.jpg
Mark Fitzpatrick, a former US State Department official told the British newspaper that Arak [...]
Barack Obama now has this on his resume. Because of his anti Israel policies, he sat by and did nothing to stop Iran from successfully building nuclear weapons. They now have built the first of what will become hundreds of these weapons. Inevitably, they will be used on America and Americans around the world. Here are the details, complete with photos:
http://thedcpost.com/?p=23401
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Iran successfully has built a nuclear bomb with the help [...]
Iran has strongly condemned the US for carrying out a nuclear test in Nevada this week, saying the move threatens world peace and shows a hypocritical set of double standards set by Washington when it comes to nuclear research.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the Wednesday detonation proves that US foreign policy relies heavily on the use of nuclear weapons, disregarding UN calls for global disarmament, PressTV reports.
The experiment also drew [...]
If this is legit then Japan and the North American west coast are in deep shit.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/f1-np/camera/index-e.html
Live camera shows no explosions they would have to be looping the video which would not be so hard to do…
Again tepco has lied from the start so who knows until we see some live footage… Or a real report…
They will not be able to keep it quite if it is burning someone with a [...]
Surviving a Nuclear war, especially in the Northern Hemisphere will be very difficult. Not only do you have to deal with Fallout from the Nuclear detentations, but the vast stock piles of nuclear waste from existing and shutdown nuclear power plants. There is far more nuclear material stored in Spent fuel pools than all of the Nuclear bombs. A typical Bomb make contain a few dozen kilograms of plutonium or [...]
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[Tepco] said Wednesday record amounts of radiation had been detected in the basement of reactor No. 1, further hampering clean-up operations.
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Radiation levels above radioactive water in the basement reached up to 10,300 millisievert an hour, a dose that will kill humans within a short time after making them sick within minutes.
The annual allowed dose for workers at the stricken site is reached in only 20 seconds.
[...]
The Fukushima operator said that [...]
if YOU think it’s all hype, why do articles like this keep coming out…? Is it all due to Arnold Gundersen? Do you believe he has no credibility?
Mike
Fukushima: It’s much worse than you think
Scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/feature…
“Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told [...]
Washington’s Blog
April 15, 2012
Do You Know What the Fuel Pools Actually Look Like?
You already know that Fukushima’s fuel pool number 4 may be the single greatest threat, but that pool number 3 is very dangerous as well.
You’ve heard that unit 3?s fuel pool contains less radioactive material than unit 4 … but still a tremendous amount of radiation. Scientific American reported last year:
The pools at each reactor are thought to have contained the [...]
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Officials with the Idaho National Laboratory say at least 17 workers were exposed to low-level radiation from plutonium.
The employees were working inside the facility’s decommissioned Zero Power Physics Reactor Tuesday afternoon when a container holding plutonium was opened, exposing them to radiation.
Read more: http://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/article_fed27138-0a56-11e1-a080-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1dA3OcA2d
Handling plutonium
Image: DOE
Under special nuclear cooperation agreements, the United States sent 38,580 pounds of enriched uranium and plutonium to more than two-dozen foreign agencies and is unable to account for 36,000 pounds of the material.
The Government Accountability Office report says these 27 cooperation agreements, set up to facilitate cross border research, have no accountability and the U.S. has no way to enforce control.
Because there is [...]
By Washington’s Blog
The radioactive half life of cesium 137 is usually 30 years.
But scientists at the Savannah River National Laboratory say that the cesium at Chernobyl will persist in the environment between 5 and 10 times longer – between 180 and 320 years.
As Wired notes:
Cesium 137’s half-life — the time it takes for half of a given amount of material [...]
Very safe plutonium though.
http://www.naturalnews.com/032048_radiation_milk.html Fukushima radiation taints US milk supplies at levels 300% higher than EPA maximums
Monday, April 11, 2011
by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to release new data showing that various milk and water supply samples from across the US are testing increasingly high for radioactive elements such as Iodine-131, Cesium-134, and Cesium-137, all of which are being emitted [...]
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
http://www.NaturalNews.com/z032048_radiation_milk.html
(NaturalNews) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to release new data showing that various milk and water supply samples from across the US are testing increasingly high for radioactive elements such as Iodine-131, Cesium-134, and Cesium-137, all of which are being emitted from the ongoing Fukushima Daiichia nuclear fallout. As of April 10, 2011, 23 US water supplies have [...]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Slight amounts of strontium, a heavy radioactive metal that could lead to leukemia, have been detected in soil and plants near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan’s science and technology ministry said on Tuesday.
Japan has already detected radioactive elements including iodine, cesium and plutonium, in areas near the plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power after reactors there were crippled due to a loss [...]
Reports have been kept guarded; he has seen the report.
Exact Areva report quote: “We are witnessing greatest disaster of modern times.”
Video link in blue with my summary of his presentation:
April 6th Video of Arnie Gundersen, of Fairewinds Energy.
Closing Ranks: The NRC, the Nuclear Industry, and TEPCO are Limiting the Flow of Information
Gundersen says No 1 and No 2 are in deep trouble, plutonium was ejected from [...]
Fukushima Dai-ichi status and prognosis
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7722
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Future course and consequences
Notwithstanding the successful filling of the spent fuel ponds with water…things are getting worse…the site is slowly but surely becoming too hazardous for operations…raising the specter of further melt down and fires.
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What we think we know for sure?
1) The Japanese government have warned of a grave nuclear incident on a number of occasions.
2) The status of [...]
by SteveW
Quote:
KITAKAMI, Japan | Plutonium found in soil around Japan’s disabled nuclear power plant panicked the public and media Monday, but scientists insisted the trace amounts discovered are harmless to humans.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/28/japans-plutonium-levels-called-not-harmful/
Quote:
The level of plutonium was similar to that detected in Japan after neighbouring countries such as North Korea and China conducted nuclear experiments, the spokesman said.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/plutonium-in-soil-at-japanese-nuke-plant-20110329-1cdmm.html
Seems that the properties of plutonium are now being revised as [...]
via BBC News:
The BBC’s Mark Worthington says many people in Japan are becoming increasingly concerned about what is going to happen in the future
Highly radioactive water has been found for the first time outside one of the reactor buildings at Japan’s quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, officials say.
The leak in a tunnel linked to the No 2 reactor has raised fears of radioactive liquid seeping [...]
by ZH
Per the IAEA:
After taking soil samples at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japanese authorities today confirmed finding traces of plutonium that most likely resulted from the nuclear accident there. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told the IAEA that the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had found concentrations of plutonium in two of five soil samples.
Traces of plutonium are not uncommon in [...]
TOKYO, March 29, Kyodo
Plutonium has been detected in soil at five locations at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday.
The operator of the nuclear complex said that the plutonium is believed to have been discharged from nuclear fuel at the plant, which was damaged by the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
While noting that the concentration level does not pose [...]
by ZH
From Kyodo:
Plutonium has been detected in soil at five locations at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday.
The operator of the nuclear complex said that the plutonium is believed to have been discharged from nuclear fuel at the plant, which was damaged by the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
While noting that the concentration level does not [...]
Nuclear situation ‘grave’ Japan PM warns
“”It is possible that the pressure vessel containing the fuel rods in the reactor is damaged,” a spokesman from Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) told the AFP news agency.
Radioactive leaks
Japan’s nuclear safety agency said radioactive substances had leaked to places “far from the reactor”.
“As far as the data show, we believe there is a certain level of containment ability but it’s highly [...]
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/teachers/03.pdf
IMPORTANT PDF: http://econtent.unm.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/nuceng&CISOPTR=33&filename=51.pdf
Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Daiichi Reactor Design http://www.anengineerindc.com/2011/03/daiichi-reactor-design.html
Fukushima Daiichi 1 http://nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/Fukushimafactsheet.pdf
Reactor / Design / Size / Commercial / Date of Operation
Fukushima I-1 General Electric Mark I BWR 439MW March 1971
Fukushima I –2 General Electric Mark I BWR 760 MW July 1974
Fukushima I – 3 General Electric Mark I BWR 760 MW March 1976 – PLUTONIUM
Fukushima I – 4 General Electric Mark I BWR [...]
Japan Raises Possibility of Breach in Reactor Vessel
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/world/…
TOKYO — Japans effort to contain the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a setback, an official said on Friday, citing evidence that the reactor vessel of the No. 3 unit may have been damaged.
The development, described at a news conference by Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, raises [...]
Japan Worries of Breached Reactor
Japan Raises Possibility of Breach in Reactor VesselBy DAVID JOLLY and HIROKO TABUCHIPublished: March 25, 2011 TOKYO — Japan’s effort to contain the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a setback, an official said on Friday, citing evidence that the reactor vessel of the No. 3 unit may have been damaged.
The development, described at a news conference by [...]
by Ident
Breaking news on NHK at 7pm ET: Smoke/steam rising from all 4 reactor units — Workers evacuated (VIDEO)
NEWS ADVISORY: Repair work halted at reactor No. 2 — Temp rising at No. 1
Spike in radiation levels for West Coast? “Abnormal” readings on 8 of 18 EPA monitors for California, Oregon, Washington — Devices now “undergoing quality review”
Is Fukushima radiation plume highly dispersed before it [...]
by Chris Martenson
One important distinction is that receiving enough ionizing radiation, whether in the form of alpha, beta, or gamma particles, or in the form of X-rays or other electromagetic irradiance, to become severely ill or worse, is a very difficult thing to do.
Ingesting a contaminant, such as a microscopic particle of plutonium, on the other hand, can be a lethal event even though the amount of radiation give off [...]
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