Tag: Radioactivity

Too Stupid To Scare

Gyro-Copter……..Gyro-Copter……….Gyro-Copter………..if we say it often maybe it will go away!  The MSM is so absolutely worthless!

FEAR….the magical word for foreign policy.  Every day we as news consumers are given something to be afraid of at our evening meal.  Hispanics sneak across the border carrying leprosy…..or someone is coming for your guns……..or one sick person is a pandemic that will end all mankind…….or every mosque is hiding an army of terrorists…….or……crap! just watch the tube and see which one it is today.

Most of these stories are bogus…..and then there are stories that do not catch fire for some reason or another…….some of these stories could be used to generate fear or concern…..but for unknown reason they are seldom reported……like this story from last week…….

Radioactive material has been stolen off a truck in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco, and Mexico has put four neighboring states and federal agencies on alert as it seeks to recover the iridium-192, which CBS News reports is capable of causing serious lesions and death within a day if it escapes its protective casing. The IAEA classifies iridium-192 as a Category 2 substance; it has medical applications and was in a secure container. Officials urge anyone who finds it to establish a perimeter at least 90 feet away and not attempt to handle it.

The incident is at least the second such theft in recent years, though cobalt-60 that went missing in late 2013 turned out to be accidentally grabbed by thieves who didn’t know what they’d taken; several people were later treated for radiation exposure.

Material that could be used for a dirty bomb and NO fear generation….why is that?

We allow the MSM to generate the fear with bogus stories….let’s be honest…lies….and yet something like this are not a concern…….the material is just across the border from the US and could be smuggled in for a terrorist act……but it is not worthy of comment….even from the fear mongers.

Sorry if I sound like an alarmist but I believe this should be more worrisome than a 0ne patient pandemic…….you?

France And Its Nukes

Many proponents of th nuclear energy have used France as an example of what can be accomplished.  The country gets a hign precentage of the power from nukes and is a shining example of what can be accomplished when we set out minds on safe clean energy.

A major uranium leak at the Tricastin nuclear facility has focused attention on a series of recent incidents in France’s nuclear industry, raising serious doubts about its safety precautions for its workers and the environment. The conflicting reports issued by state officials and representatives of France’s public nuclear energy conglomerate, Areva, heighten suspicions of a cover-up.

A decree passed on July 23, 2003 and a law passed on June 13, 2006, restricting publicly available information on nuclear facilities in the name of the fight against terrorism, limit what can be revealed about the incidents. The measures classify information relative to stocking, protection, accountancy and transport of nuclear material as top secret. They also apply to the preparation of nuclear safety exercises.

The enquiry on the July 7 incident also detected water table pollution, apparently linked to the storage of military nuclear waste at Pierrelatte. Due to the feelings provoked by the first incident, it was decided to test the water tables around all 58 French power plants. Citing the fact that that the initial Tricastin leak was at a fuel processing plant and not a power plant, Frederic Marillier, spokesman for nuclear questions at Greenpeace France, said in a July 17 press release: “this analysis must not stop at the nuclear plants but must be widened to all nuclear sites: to processing sites (such as Cadarache, Marcoule, or the Hague), to disused uranium mines (such as Bessines), to military sites (such as Valduc), and to waste-stocking centres, notably in the Manche region and at Soulaines.”

In the following weeks, there were other incidents, receiving less coverage: on July 11, at the Nogent-sur-Seine nuclear power plant; on July 12 at a plant at Gravelines; on July 18 at Saint-Albans-Saint-Maurice, and in the reactor at Tricastin on July 23. On July 17, another leak was detected at the FBFC factory at Romans-sur-Isère (also in the Drôme), caused by a pipe break dating back several years. In total, according to CRIIRAD figures quoted by the daily Le Monde, 126 workers were contaminated.

Recently the safe Naval nuclear energy has been found to be not so safe and now the shining light of the nuke eneregy lobby is starting to dim a bit.

There Has Never Been a US Naval Nuke Accident! (OOPS)

Water with trace amounts of radioactivity may have leaked for months from a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine as it traveled around the Pacific to ports in Guam, Japan and Hawaii, Navy officials told CNN on Friday.

The leak was found on the USS Houston, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, after it went to Hawaii for routine maintenance last month, Navy officials said.

The problem was discovered last month when a build-up of leaking water popped a covered valve and poured onto a sailor’s leg while the submarine was in dry dock.

An investigation found a valve was slowly dripping water from the sub’s nuclear power plant. The water had not been in direct contact with the nuclear reactor, Navy officials said

Officials with knowledge of the incident could not quantify the amount of radiation leaked but insisted it was “negligible” and an “extremely low level.” The total amount leaked while the sub was in port in Guam, Japan and Hawaii was less than a half of a microcurie (0.0000005 curies), or less than what is found in a 50-pound bag of lawn and garden fertilizer, the officials said

This is just ducky!  But the pro-nuke people point to the Navy as an example on how safe the energy source is—all they can say now is oops!