RADIATION-CAUSED DEATHS IN ASTRONAUTS & OTHER NASA 'SECRETS'

ABOVE: Artist's rendering of the high-energy “donuts” of charged particles circling the Earth, trapped by its "dipole" magnetic field....the most intense being the Van Allen Radiation Belts.

Every spacecraft, whether Russian or American, with humans aboard, beginning in 1961 to the present, have all maintained altitudes of one thousand miles well below the Van Allen Radiation Belts.

The only American spacecraft to go through the 25,000 miles of those belts were ... the Apollo missions.

APOLLO... AND, NOW, THIS:


"Apollo astronauts dying of heart disease at 4-5X the rate of counterparts."

"Exposure of cells or tissues to ionizing radiation causes DNA damage, which has long been considered as the primary cause of cellular injury and cell death. "


ISN'T THAT WHAT SO MANY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO RECOGNIZE WHEN IT COMES TO ANY EXPOSURE TO IONIZING RADIATION, ANYWHERE,FROM ANY SOURCE, PERIOD?

AS I FOLLOWED THIS STORY THAT BROKE IN THE NEWS THE OTHER DAY, I CAME ACROSS SOME VERY ODD TIDBITS STRAIGHT FROM NASA'S OWN 'MOUTH', SOME WHICH I HAD HEARD 'RUMORED' DURING MY CHILDHOOD IN THE 1950s (AN UNCLE WORKED AT "REDSTONE ARSENAL" FOR OVER 30 YEARS), SOME I HEARD AS A TEEN AND YOUNG ADULT IN THE 1960s.

NOW, IT LOOKS LIKE THOSE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN RUMORS AT ALL, BUT FACTS...

FOR EXAMPLE, ALL DATA POINTED TO THE INABILITY OF HUMANS TO SURVIVE TRAVEL THROUGH THE VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELT...IT WAS SAID TO BE IMPOSSIBLE....AND NASA SEEMS TO AGREE!

[Original source video on official NASA channel - Orion: Trial By Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyZqSWWKmHQ ]

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS MADE IN THIS VIDEO AS THEY APPEAR TO STATE THAT THE ORION CAPSULE WILL GO WHERE NO ONE, NOTHING HAS GONE BEFORE, WHICH CAN'T BE TRUE IF NASA OR ANYONE PUT MEN ON THE MOON:
(0:30) "deeper into space than we have ever gone before"


To measure the (0:45) "extreme radiation" (0:55) "no astronauts will be aboard the Orion capsule..

AND PAY VERY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THIS STATEMENT:

(3:33) "We must solve these challenges before we send people through this region of space"

WHEN NASA PUT THE TWIN RBSP SATELLITES UP, IT MADE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS:

The hardy RBSP satellites will spend the next 2 years looping through every part of both Van Allen belts.

"By having two spacecraft in different regions of the belts at the same time, scientists FINALLY will be able to gather data from within the belts themselves, learning how they change over space and time.

Designers fortified RBSP with special protective plating and rugged electronics to operate and survive within this punishing region of space that other spacecraft avoid."



"FINALLY"?
NOTHING came of the moon shots through those Belts, NO data?

"RUGGED" electronics?
As compared to the fragile electronics aboard APOLLO?

"SURVIVE THE PUNISHING REGION"?
Does that mean NASA didn't expect those APOLLO astronauts to survive in their poor;y plated vessels?


"THAT OTHER SPACECRAFT AVOID"???
WHAT ABOUT THE APOLLO MISSIONS?
DID THEY ALSO AVOID THE VAN ALLEN BELTS?


BUT FIRST, BEFORE WE LOOK INTO RUMORS AND ODD FACTS, LET'S LOOK AT INCREASED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND DEATHS IN AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS (WONDERING IF RUSSIA HAS SIMILAR REPORTS)....

Deep Space Radiation Caused Heart Problems For Apollo Astronauts

"Deep-space radiation damages cardiovascular system"

"Apollo astronauts who have ventured out of the protective magnetosphere of mother Earth appear to be dying of cardiovascular disease at a far higher rate than their counterparts—both those that have stayed grounded and those that only flew in the shielding embrace of low-Earth orbit.

Though the data is slim—based on only 77 astronauts total—researchers speculate that potent ionizing radiation in deep space may be to blame.
That hypothesis was backed up in follow-up mouse studies that provided evidence that similar radiation exposure led to long-lasting damage to the rodents’ blood vessels.


All of the data was published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports.

“These data suggest that human travel into deep space may be more hazardous to cardiovascular health than previously estimated,” concluded the study authors, led by health researcher Michael Delp at Florida State University.


While NASA tries to minimize astronauts’ exposure to space radiation, it acknowledged that exposure was basically an unavoidable part of the job.

“Radiation-exposure risks to crewmen were assessed and balanced against mission gain,” NASA experts wrote in a 1973 report (PDF) on the Apollo experience.


“NASA is STILL seeking to develop technology to safeguard humans for spaceflight into radiation-laden space within and beyond the Van Allen Radiation belts, and the protection provided by our magnetosphere.”

In the new study, Delp and coauthors compared health data on 42 astronauts that had traveled into space—seven of which got past the magnetosphere and to the Moon—to the medical records of 35 astronauts that were grounded for their careers.

The death rate from cardiovascular disease among the Apollo lunar astronauts was a whopping 43 percent, which is around four to five times the rate seen in the non-fliers and low-fliers (nine and 11 percent, respectively).Delp and his colleagues are working with NASA on follow-up studies of astronauts’ health."

WELL, WE'VE SEEN THE SAME THING IN ONCOLOGY, AFTER/DURING RADIATION THERAPY....HEARTS DO FAIL.

WE SAW CURIE DIE FROM IT...APLASTIC ANEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED.

DEATHS AMONG THEIR OWN EARLY RESEARCHERS DIDN'T STOP THE MANHATTAN PROJECT SCIENTISTS ...

"Louis Alexander Slotin, Canadian physicist on the Manhattan Project, was the second person to die from a criticality accident, following the death of Harry Daghlian, who had been exposed to radiation by the same core that killed Slotin. Others in the room at the time included Raemer E. Schreiber, Alvin Cushman Graves, Stanley Allan Kline, Marion Edward Cieslicki, Dwight Smith Young, Theodore P. Perlman, and Pvt. Patrick J. Cleary. were injured and may have died from nuclear related exposure some years later.
Three of the observers eventually died of conditions that are KNOWN to be promoted by radiation:

Graves of a heart attack 20 years later at age 55, Cieslicki of acute myeloid leukemia at age 42; and Young of aplastic anemia and bacterial infection of the heart lining."


THEY KNEW BEFORE 1950 THAT IONIZING RADIATION KILLS.

IN THE BOOK 'THE GENERAL AND THE GENIUS', WE SEE THAT SCIENTISTS BEGAN SENDING MEMORANDUMS TO ONE ANOTHER IN 1940 SAYING THEY HAD DISCOVERED THE DEADLY EFFECTS OF WHAT THEY WERE DOING.

OPPENHEIMER RECEIVED A MEMO FROM LOUIS HEMPLEMANN IN 1944 WARNING HIM THAT DEATHS AND ILLNESSES FROM RADIATION WOULD COMES YEARS FROM INITIAL EXPOSURE. (PAGE 381)


Radiation-Induced Heart Disease - Circulation: Heart Failure

Radiation induced heart disease -- Heidenreich and Kapoor


TO BE HONEST, SURELY WE ARE AWARE THAT THERE ARE SOME WHO, EVEN IF THEY WERE TOLD THEY'D GROW TWO HEADS AND BOTH WOULD EXPLODE ON RE-ENTRY, WOULD STILL BLAST OFF INTO SPACE IF GIVEN THAT OPPORTUNITY.

WE CAN'T KNOW WHAT SORT OF WARNING NASA GIVES OR GAVE POTENTIAL ASTRONAUTS BUT WE CAN IMAGINE IT WOULDN'T STOP SOME FROM SIGNING UP.

THIS SAME ISSUE OF ASTRONAUT HEALTH WAS RAISED A YEAR AGO, IN THIS PEER-REVIEWED STUDY....

"Future long-distance space missions will be associated with significant exposures to ionizing radiation, and the health risks of these radiation exposures during manned missions need to be assessed.

Recent Earth-based epidemiological studies in survivors of atomic bombs and after occupational and medical low dose radiation exposures have indicated that the cardiovascular system may be more sensitive to ionizing radiation than was previously thought.

This has raised the concern of a cardiovascular disease risk from exposure to space radiation during long-distance space travel.


Characteristics of ionizing radiation

Exposure of living cells and tissues to ionizing radiation, forms of radiation that can remove electrons from the atoms in these cells or tissues, may result in molecular damage, which can eventually lead to early and late injury.

Exposure of cells or tissues to ionizing radiation causes DNA damage, which has long been considered as the primary cause of cellular injury and cell death.

However, additional mechanisms are now recognized as important in normal tissue radiation injury."
THAT PHRASE, "MAY RESULT IN MOLECULAR DAMAGE FOLLOWED BY "CAUSES DNA DAMAGE", ALWAYS ANGERS ME.

YES, IT DOES RESULT IN MOLECULAR DAMAGE, AND, NO, CELLS DO NOT "REGENERATE" IN SUCH CASES, BUT MAY SUCCUMB YEARS, DECADES LATER TO THE EFFECTS.

THE VERY SCIENTISTS WHO GAVE THE WORLD THE ATOMIC BOMB WARNED, IN WRITING, THAT ANY AND ALL EXPOSURE TO RADIATION CAN AND PROBABLY WILL CAUSE DEATH, EITHER SOON AFTER OR WITHIN YEARS OF EXPOSURE.

THEY SAID THEN THAT ALL RADIATION WAS UNSAFE, THAT THERE WAS NO SAFE LEVEL OF IONIZING RADIATION.

JAPANESE PHYSICIANS AND THE JAPANESE PEOPLE DISCOVERED THAT FACT "THE HARD WAY" AFTER HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. THOSE JAPANESE FINDINGS WERE SUPPRESSED FOR MANY YEARS.

[SEE ALSO: "The study provides a direct estimate of the association between protracted low dose exposure to ionising radiation and solid cancer mortality. Although high dose rate exposures are thought to be more dangerous than low dose rate exposures, the risk per unit of radiation dose for cancer among radiation workers was similar to estimates derived from studies of Japanese atomic bomb survivors. Quantifying the cancer risks associated with protracted radiation exposures can help strengthen the foundation for radiation protection standards. "]
"Dexter Masters, a writer and an editor, was one of the first to draw attention to the worldwide threat posed by the atomic bomb.
Masters and Dr. Katherine May edited a book titled ''One World or None'' in 1946.
1946!

In the book, many of the prominent scientists of the day, including Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, Harold Urey and many members of the Manhattan Project - the effort to produce the first atomic bomb - discussed the implications of a weapon that could destroy the world.

In 1955 Mr. Masters wrote a novel, ''The Accident,'' which detailed the last eight days in the life of an atomic scientist dying from radiation sickness. The book attracted international attention and was published in 13 other languages."

BOTTOM LINE...SPACE TRAVEL CAN AND HAS KILLED ASTRONAUTS AND OTHERS ARE DYING AND MAY YET DIE FROM THEIR "HIGH FLIGHT", BUT WE WOULD FIND FEW, IF ANY, WHO WOULD GO BACK IN TIME AND DECIDE NOT TO BLAST OFF.
THEY ARE A VERY RARE BREED.
WE SALUTE THEM, EVEN IF THEY APPEAR TO US TO BE 'BAT GUANO INSANE'.


BECAUSE THEY ARE SUCH A RARE BREED, SOME THINGS COME HARD TO THOSE MEN...THINGS LIKE LYING AND COVERING UP THINGS THAT WE, THE GENERAL PUBLIC, ARE DEEMED "TOO HYSTERICAL" OR TOO "EMOTIONAL" OR TOO "TERRIFIED OF THE UNKNOWN" TO HANDLE, SO WE AREN'T TOLD MANY THINGS.

IF ONE EXAMINES THE FACES AND THE BODY LANGUAGE AND THE REACTIONS BETWEEN THE ASTRONAUTS IN THE RATHER LONG VIDEO BELOW OF AN ACTUAL INTERVIEW OF OUR THREE APOLLO 11 ASTRONAUTS, ONE THING IS OBVIOUS, THEY DON'T REALLY, REALLY WANT TO SAY WHAT THEY'RE SAYING....

PLEASE NOTE: I WAS GOING TO LAUNCH INTO ALL THE RUMORS AND THE "LEAKED" INFORMATION, ETC, WHICH POINT TO PERHAPS SOME RUMORS ARE TRUE, THAT NASA HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN MORE THAN ONE LIE HERE IN THIS BLOG ENTRY, BUT THE MORE I DUG INTO OLD FILES AND OLD "STUDIES", THE MORE I REALIZED THIS NEEDS MORE ROOM TO EXPAND, SO, PLEASE, SEE THE NEXT BLOG ENTRY WHICH WILL BE TITLED "HAS NASA LIED?"

DID VON BRAUN 'ACCIDENTALLY' DISCOVER SOMETHING ABOUT SPACE FLIGHT THAT NASA IS STILL SHIELDING FROM PUBLIC SCRUTINY?



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DID TESLA REALLY PATENT AN "ANTI-GRAVITY MACHINE"?

YES, AS WE WILL SEE.

DID THE NAZI EXPERIMENT KNOWN AS "THE BELL", OR "DIE GLOCKE", ACTUALLY CREATE "ANTI-GRAVITY" OR WAS IT, AS SOME SAY, A TIME MACHINE WHICH CERN/THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER IS TRYING TO REPLICATE?

DID AMERICA EVEN LAND MEN ON THE MOON?

PERHAPS YOU SEE WHY I SAY ALL THESE THINGS REQUIRE MORE ROOM TO EXPAND?

I AM STILL UNCOVERING THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW, SO, PLEASE, BE PATIENT AS I COMPLETE THE NEXT BLOG ENTRY, SURELY TO BE POSTED LATER TONIGHT, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2016, CDST, FOR ANY WHO, LIKE ME, HAVE FOLLOWED NASA FOR YEARS.


THERE WAS NO NASA WHEN I BECAME ENTHRALLED WITH SPACE....AND WITH THOSE WHO HELPED PUT US "OUT THERE"....

I WISH THEY HAD NOT BECOME DEPENDENT ON CONGRESS FOR FUNDING.

HAD NASA BEEN PRIVATELY FUNDED, ABLE TO MAINTAIN ITSELF SANS GOVERNMENT, WE WOULD HAVE HAD A DIFFERENT OUTCOME ON "FULL DISCLOSURE", I THINK.

AND WE MUST HAVE THAT.
WE MUST HAVE FULL DISCLOSURE.





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THE FULL REPORT ON THE ASTRONAUT/RADIATION LINK:

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep29901

DONALD TRUMP COMMITS POLITICAL SUICIDE. CLINTON PULLS AHEAD.

[A HUMOROUS (?) CARICATURE OF TRUMP'S 'POLITICAL SUICIDE'.]


EVEN TRUMP SUPPORTERS CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT A THOROUGH JOB 'THE DONALD'  IS DOING IN KILLING HIS CHANCES FOR A NOVEMBER WIN.

Rudy Giuliani, GOP Leaders Plot Donald Trump Intervention

Is a Donald Trump intervention in the works by nervous GOP?

30 ways Trump is committing political suicide...

"Republicans working to elect Trump describe a bare-bones effort debilitated by infighting, a lack of staff to carry out basic functions, minimal coordination with allies and a message that’s prisoner to Trump's momentary whims.

"Bottom line, you can hire all the top people in the world, but to what end? Trump does what he wants," a source close to the campaign said."

Look at the following from The Washington Post:

Republican leaders who spent the past month reluctantly hitching their horses to Trump are realizing that he might be marching the party over a cliff after all. A growing number of GOP heavyweights fear that Trump's spate of hostile remarks towards and about minorities have imperiled his campaign, costing him a five-week head start on Clinton that they hoped would be used to build party unity ahead of the general election. ...

Concerns have increased as Trump continues to furiously peddle his assertion that the Latino judge overseeing the Trump University fraud case should recuse himself because of his "Mexican heritage."

He must either pull himself together and lead the Republican Party in a responsible manner, or else be prepared to have a major mutiny on his hands."


OH, IT'S A MUTINY ALRIGHT, AND THE NUMBERS JUMPING SHIP GROW EACH DAY.


ONE OF HIS PREVIOUS POSSIBLE VICE PRESIDENT CHOICES, NEWT GINGRICH, DID A FULL BAILOUT TODAY, SAYING TRUMP JUST WOULD NOT LISTEN TO REASON AND TRY TO SAVE THE CAMPAIGN.


Trump has "thrown a series of interceptions in the last week that really do not bode well for his campaign," Gingrich warned.

Gingrich then affirmed his support for McCain and Ryan, two of the party leaders Trump refused to endorse in an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday.

"THE DONALD'S" RUNNING MATE ALSO BROKE WITH HIM ON NOT ENDORSING PAUL RYAN'S RUN FOR ANOTHER ROUND IN THE SENATE, BUT FOLLOWED TRUMP'S LEAD AND DID NOT ENDORSE JOHN MCCAIN.

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (RNC) CHAIRMAN REINHOLD ("REINCE") PRIEBUS WAS SAID TO BE "APOPLECTIC" OVER THE DEVELOPMENTS THE PAST 3 OR 4 DAYS AS TRUMP CONTINUES TO EXHIBIT HIS "FOOT-IN-MOUTH" SYNDROME, PILING SCREW-UPS ATOP SCREW-UPS IN INTERVIEWS AND OFFHAND REMARKS TO THE PRESS.


TRUMPS UNCEASING BATTLE WITH THE FAMILY OF A FALLEN AMERICAN-MUSLIM SOLDIER IN THE MIDDLE EAST BARELY SHOWS SIGNS OF WEAKENING TODAY.
HIS STATEMENTS HAVE ANGERED MANY VETERANS AND CURRENTLY-SERVING MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY.


HIS CONTINUED TIRADES BAFFLE EVERY POLITICAL ANALYST WHO HAS ATTEMPTED TO MAKE SENSE OF THE WHOLE "TRUMP SUICIDE".

A NEUROSCIENTIST EVEN TRIED TO DIAGNOSE BOTH TRUMP'S PROBLEM AND THE PROBLEM OF HIS SUPPORTERS WHO SEEM TO IGNORE THE FACT THAT THE MAN HAS A PROBLEM.

SAYING THAT THERE WERE SEVERAL "POSSIBILITIES" INVOLVED, THE SCIENTIST WENT ON TO EXPLAIN:

"The Dunning-Kruger effect explains that the problem (with Trump's supporters) isn’t just that they are misinformed; it’s that they are completely unaware that they are misinformed.
This creates a double burden.
When Trump tells them that crime is skyrocketing in the United States, or that the economy is the worst it’s ever been, they simply take his word for it.

As psychologist David Dunning puts it in an op-ed for Politico, “The knowledge and intelligence that are required to be good at a task are often the same qualities needed to recognize that one is not good at that task — and if one lacks such knowledge and intelligence, one remains ignorant that one is not good at the task. This includes political judgment.”
Essentially, they’re not smart enough to realize they’re dumb.

THEY ARE MORE FEARFUL, MORE EASILY STARTLED.

A classic study in the journal Psychophysiology found that conservatives have a stronger physiological reaction to startling noises and graphic images compared to liberals.

A brain-imaging study published in Current Biology revealed that those who lean right politically tend to have a larger amygdala — a structure that is electrically active during states of fear and anxiety.

And a 2014 fMRI study found that it is possible to predict whether someone is a liberal or conservative simply by looking at their brain activity while they view threatening or disgusting images, such as mutilated bodies.

Specifically, the brains of self-identified conservatives generated more activity overall in response to the disturbing images.


So how does this help explain the unbridled loyalty of Trump supporters?
These brain responses are automatic, and not influenced by logic or reason.
As long as Trump continues his fear mongering by constantly portraying Muslims and Mexican immigrants as imminent dangers, many conservative brains will involuntarily light up like light bulbs being controlled by a switch.

Fear keeps his followers energized and focused on safety.


Terror Management Theory

A well-supported theory from social psychology, called Terror Management Theory, explains why Trump’s fear mongering is doubly effective.
Terror Management Theory predicts that when people are reminded of their own mortality, which happens with fear mongering, they will more strongly defend those who share their worldviews and national or ethnic identity, and act out more aggressively towards those who do not.

Hundreds of studies have confirmed this hypothesis, and some have specifically shown that triggering thoughts of death tends to shift people towards the right.

HE'S SIMPLY ENTERTAINMENT AND AMERICANS LOVE TO BE ENTERTAINED.

To some, it doesn’t matter what Trump actually says because he’s so amusing to watch. With Donald, you are always left wondering what outrageous thing he is going to say or do next. He keeps us on the edge of our seat, and for that reason, some Trump supporters will forgive anything he says.

They are happy as long as they are kept entertained.

Of course these explanations do not apply to all Trump supporters.
In fact, some are likely intelligent people who know better, but are supporting Trump to be rebellious or to introduce chaos into the system.

They may have such distaste for the establishment and Hillary Clinton that their vote for Trump is a symbolic middle finger directed at Washington.

So what can we do to potentially change the minds of Trump loyalists before voting day in November?

As a cognitive neuroscientist, it grieves me to say that there may be nothing we can do.
The overwhelming majority of these people may be beyond reach..."

WELL, THAT WAS AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY.
Even Trump himself seems to be astonished by this phenomenon. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.”

MAYBE OLD JOHN MCCAIN CAME CLOSER TO EXPLAINING THIS' THAN THE SCIENTISTS DID WITH HIS STATEMENT:
 “What he did was he fired up the crazies.”


PAUL RYAN, WHO HAD TO ENDORSE TRUMP, HINTS THAT THAT CAN CHANGE...

"[Ryan hinted] at a possible future reversal during the interview with Wisconsin's WTAQ.



"None of these things are ever blank checks that goes with any situation in any kind of race but right now I just think it's important that the voters…you know he won the delegates, he won the thing fair and square but it's just [not] that simple," Ryan said.



"We just came out of our convention, and yeah he had a pretty strange run since the convention.
You'd think we ought to be focusing on Hillary Clinton and all of her deficiencies, she is such weak candidate that one would think we would be on offense against Hillary Clinton and it is distressing that that's not what we are talking about these days," Ryan said.



MEANWHILE, HILLARY CLINTON HAS PULLED AHEAD OF TRUMP BY ALMOST 10 PERCENTAGE POINTS IN THE MOST RECENT POLLS.

Clinton now has 47 percent support among American voters, while Trump has 38 percent support, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted on Thursday showed.

Clinton Leading Trump in US Swing State of New Hampshire by 15 Points - Poll

Earlier this week, a Fox News poll showed that Clinton was ahead of Trump by ten points, having 49 percent support against Trump’s 39 percent.

The Fox News survey also revealed that sixty one percent of Americans think that Hillary Clinton is dishonest (sixty two think that Trump is dishonest).

A CBS poll revealed on Monday that Clinton was ahead of Trump with 46 percent against Trump’s 39. Last week, the same poll had Trump and Clinton tied at 42 percent.

SHE HAS HER OWN SET OF "CRAZIES".

PERHAPS, THIS ELECTION, MORE THAN ANY BEFORE IT, IT WILL SIMPLY BOIL DOWN TO "THE ONE WHO HAS THE MOST CRAZIES WINS".


THERE IS A PERSISTENT RUMOR THAT EITHER TRUMP IS GOING TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE OR THAT THE GOP WOULD TAKE MEASURES TO REPLACE HIM. 

Could Trump actually drop out of the race?

ABC News Drops Bombshell: Trump Might Drop Out

IN THE GAMBLING WORLD, SOME ARE EVEN TAKING BETS THAT TRUMP WILL DUMP THE GOP AND NOT RUN.

Here Are the Odds that Donald Trump Will Drop Out

OTHERS, INCLUDING JEB BUSH,  HAVE INSINUATED HE WAS A "CLINTON PLANT" ALL ALONG, SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE WHAT HE'S DONE TO MAKE SURE CLINTON WINS.

Jeb Bush tweets Trump-Clinton conspiracy theory.

Is Donald Trump a Democratic secret agent? - BBC News

AFTER ALL, TRUMP DID SAY HE FAR PREFERRED BILL CLINTON TO EITHER BUSH PRESIDENTS.

NO ONE IN THE BUSH FAMILY WILL SUPPORT HIM AND IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THE TWO FORMER PRESIDENTS, LIKE JEB BUSH HAS DONE, WILL LEAVE THE GOP.

Jeb Bush Leaves Behind Republican Party

AND TRUMP DID INVITE THE CLINTONS TO HIS WEDDING AND CONTRIBUTED TO HILLARY'S FIRST CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT.

NO MATTER WHO HAS TRIED TO INTERVENE WITH TRUMP, GET HIM TO REVERSE HIS ENGINES AND SHUT HIS MOUTH ABOUT THINGS THAT LOSE VOTES, HE REFUSES INTERVENTION.


HE'S A CRASS, LOUD-MOUTHED SHOWMAN AND HE HAS A CIRCUS TO RUN.

BUT HE'S RUNNING IT INTO THE GROUND. 


TODAY, TRUMP ANGERED MANY ON WALL STREET BY ADVISING AMERICANS TO "GET OUT OF THE STOCK MARKET NOW!", TELLING VIEWERS THAT HE HAS GOTTEN OUT AND THAT THE STOCK MARKET AND AMERICA'S ECONOMY ARE BOTH DESTINED TO COLLAPSE.


NO WONDER SO MANY LARGE PAST GOP CONTRIBUTORS HAVE PULLED OUT OF FUNDING THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
THE BIG NAMES ON WALL STREET DON'T LIKE SUCH TALK, TRUTH OR NOT.


NBC WON'T BE BRINGING TRUMP BACK AS STAR OF THE "REALITY SHOW", 'THE APPRENTICE'.
HE'S O-U-T.

MACY'S WON'T BE CARRYING THE TRUMP BRANDS IN ITS STORES ANYMORE.


BUT, ACTUALLY, MANY ECONOMIC ADVISORS AGREE WITH TRUMP....   

"But as far as the stock market is concerned, I am quite confident that Donald Trump will be vindicated.
And if you don’t want to believe Donald Trump, I would encourage you to consider what Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, has been saying. 

He has been right about the markets in recent years over and over again, and just a few days ago he publicly stated that “stocks should be down massively” and that now is the time to “sell everything“.

Trump’s comments come at a time when we are getting a whole host of bad news about the U.S. economy.  We just learned that U.S. GDP grew at a meager 1.2 percent annual rate during the second quarter, the rate of homeownership in the United States just hit an all-time record low, and corporate earnings have now been falling for five quarters in a row.

But perhaps most alarming of all is what is happening to the price of oil.
As I discussed yesterday, the price of oil has plunged well over 20 percent since June 8th, and it was down again on Tuesday. As I write this article, the price of U.S. oil is sitting at just $39.66. The psychologically-important 40 dollar barrier has been broken, but the price of oil doesn’t even have to go down another penny to do immense damage to the U.S. economy.

 If it just stays at this price, we are going to bleed more energy industry jobs, more energy companies are going to default on their debts, and more financial institutions that are exposed to the energy industry are going to get into serious trouble.

All the ingredients are there for a major financial crisis..."

ALL THE INGREDIENTS WERE THERE, TOO, FOR A HUGE GOP WIN IN NOVEMBER, BUT NOW?

THERE'S JUST NO WAY THE GOP CAN DO DAMAGE CONTROL TO FIX THIS.

TRUMP HAS ANGERED AND/OR INSULTED ALMOST EVERY ETHNIC GROUP IN AMERICA, VETERANS, THOSE SERVING IN THE MILITARY NOW, WOMEN VOTERS, COLLEGE STUDENTS, DISABLED AMERICANS, THE 47% TO 48% OF AMERICANS ON THE LOWEST ECONOMIC RUNGS OF THE "WEALTH LADDER", AND NOW WALL STREET.
HE  HAS MADE JUST ABOUT EVERYONE CRINGE WITH HIS "POLITICALLY INCORRECT" COMMENTS AND TWEETS....THOSE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF TWEETS.


THE KKK AND OTHER WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS ADORE HIM, THOUGH, AS DO OTHER OF LIKE MINDS.

WHILE HE RIDICULES "HICKS AND HILLBILLIES", HE HAS BOASTED THAT "THE POORLY EDUCATED LOVE ME".

"He thanked the coalition that carried him to victory: the young, the old, casino moguls, televangelists, highly educated and poorly educated voters.

"I love the poorly educated!" Trump enthused.

BUT IS HE "THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE"?


OBVIOUSLY NOT AMONG THE TOP NAMES IN THE GOP, NOT AS MANY IN THE MIDDLE CLASS "GRASSROOTS" MAYBE, NOT ANYMORE, OR SO IT SEEMS FROM "THE POLLS".


TRUMP HAS INDEED COMMITTED "POLITICAL SUICIDE".


WE CAN BUT WONDER WHY....

PEOPLE OF AMERICA, PREPARE TO SEE THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN PRESIDENT.


THE GOP IS IN RUIN....

UNKNOWN SEA CREATURE FOUND AT 5,000 FEET OFF CALIFORNIA COAST

THE NEVER BEFORE SEEN PURPLE ORB WAS SPOTTED BY THE EXPLORATION VESSEL (E/V) NAUTILUS OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO AT A DEPTH OF ABOUT 5,000 FEET. (5,301 feet, or 1,616 meters deep)  


SO WHAT DID THE "SCIENTISTS" ABOARD DECIDE TO DO?  

THEY SUCKED IT UP WITH A VACUUM AND KILLED IT.

DO LISTEN TO THE "SCIENTIFIC REASONING" IN THE ABOVE VIDEO FROM THE NAUTILUS TEAM.

I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THE PEOPLE WE HEAR ARE PART OF A NOAA  OCEAN EXPLORATION CREW....BUT THEN AGAIN, WE HAVE HEARD AND READ SIMILAR RESPONSES FROM NOAA PERSONNEL BEFORE.

A CRAB SEEMS TO BE TRYING TO 'GUARD' THE ORB IN THE VIDEO.

HIS EFFORTS WERE FEATURED IN THE ABOVE-LINKED ARTICLE FROM THE GUARDIAN, UK.

AT LEAST THE CRAB DISAGREED WITH SUCKING IT UP AND CARTING IT OFF!

ONCE THEY'D RIPPED IT FROM ITS HIDING PLACE AND HAD IT ABOARD NAUTILUS:
“It revealed a foot and rhinophores, which are these ear-like structures, and you see a sort of proboscis come off the back of it,” she said. “That’s when it clearly became a gastropod of some kind.”

SO, GIVEN THEY HAVE THAT VERY HIGH-TECH, FLOOR-SCOURING ROBOT WITH ALL ITS CAMERAS AND ATTACHMENTS, THEY COULDN'T HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT BY MERELY OBSERVING THE CREATURE?

MAYBE THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO TURN IT ABOUT WITH A GENTLE PROD, BUT INSTEAD OF IT BEING WIPED OUT, IT MOST LIKELY WOULD HAVE SURVIVED A GENTLE PROBE....DARE WE IMAGINE?


HEAVEN HELP THE OCEAN IF THIS 'CREW' IS TYPICAL OF WHAT WE'RE SENDING OUT TO "EXPLORE" UNKNOWN REGIONS OF THE DEEP!


SO WHAT IF IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND?
SO WHAT IF IT MIGHT HAVE REPLICATED ITSELF?

LET'S JUST SUCK IT UP WITH THIS HOSE AND END ITS LIFE.


NO.

HOW "SCIENTIFIC" IS THAT?
HOW 'BRILLIANT', RIGHT?

DID, PERHAPS, SOME WILD BUNCH OF GIDDY HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY STUDENTS HIJACK THE NAUTILUS AND TAKE IT OUT FOR A 'JOY RIDE"?


"The odd little creature, which unfurled into two lobes once it was brought onboard the ship, is about 2 inches (5 centimeters) across.

It was found on July 18, during an E/V Nautilusexploration of Arguello Canyon, west of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary."

"MARINE SANCTUARY"?
BUT NOT OFF-LIMITS TO NOAA?


THE CREATURE'S  REMAINS WERE SENT TO A LABORATORY FOR "FURTHER TESTING".

CHECK BACK IN A FEW YEARS, SEE WHAT PROGRESS HAS NOT BEEN MADE IN IDENTIFYING IT, SEE IF ANY OTHER "SPECIMEN" HAS BEEN LOCATED AND ANNIHILATED BY "TEAM NAUTILUS".

COMMENTS AS TO WHAT IT MIGHT BE RANGED FROM AN EGG SAC OF SOME MARINE SPIDER TO ....WAIT FOR IT.... "A DISCO BALL".
SERIOUSLY, LISTEN TO THE VIDEO AND READ THE ARTICLES...

“It looks like a disco ball right now with the lasers next to it,” one scientist said.
Before long, the purple mystery was transferred from the depths to the waiting ship above."

ABOVE IS A SCREEN CAPTURE SO WE MAY ALL HAVE A PHOTO OF SOMETHING WE MAY NEVER SEE AGAIN....

"Researchers are so far stumped as to what the colorful, bumpy little ball might be. Their best guess is that it "might be a gastropod (a mollusk such as a snail or slug that belongs to the class Gastropoda) called a pleurobranch — and possibly a new species.

DOES THE ORB EVEN RESEMBLE THIS CREATURE? 

"None of the known species of California pleurobranch are purple," said Susan Poulton, a spokeswoman for the E/V Nautilus expeditions.


HERE'S A 'CLUE' FOR THE NOAA "SCOUTS"... SIMPLY COMPARE THE ABOVE PHOTO WITH THE ONE BELOW....

SEE THE DIFFERENCE?


[Gallery: See Images of the Mysterious Purple Orb]


IN CASE ANYONE WANTS TO WATCH THEM "SEEK AND DESTROY" OTHER MARINE LIFE, THEY HAVE A LIVE-FEED WEBSITE FOR THAT:
http://www.nautiluslive.org/


TWO OF THEIR LATEST TWEETS...

DIVE ALERT: We’re on Northeast Bank, a volcanic seamount with rich life like mushroom coral: https://t.co/Ajj54YYX2Q https://t.co/YcB4Cr05dn

1 hour 42 min ago

1 day 3 hours ago: A whale fall provides a rich meal for deep sea animals & was a treat for our science team:
https://t.co/5o67qOfOsB

https://t.co/bRuZ6AtSL5

A DEAD WHALE IS A "TREAT"?
SURE, IF NOAA SAYS SO....

The team sent a sample to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for DNA analysis.

Confirming a new species could take months, Poulton said.

Many pleurobranchids eat plankton and other microscopic life, and in general are less streamlined than their nudibranch cousins.

The photo archives of the Sea Slug Forum reveal a menagerie of spotted blobs, leopard-striped slugs and flabby organisms lined with spikes and ridges.


The E/V Nautilus has spent weeks along the west coast investigating undersea life, tectonic rifts and cracks in the sea floor where methane plumes out.

WHAT LESSON MAY WE TAKE AWAY FROM THIS INCREDIBLE "DISCOVERY", FROM A LOOK AT HOW "TEAM NAUTILUS" OPERATES?


STAY OUT OF THE OCEAN!
 OR YOU, TOO, MAY BE THE VICTIM OF A NOAA "SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION" .

RUN AWAY!
SWIM AWAY!
FLEE!

GOOD LUCK, MARINE LIFE... YOU'RE GOING TO NEED IT.

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WILDFIRE NEARS HANFORD NUCLEAR SITE, WASHINGTON STATE

WILDFIRE NEAR WHAT HAS BEEN CALLED "THE MOST RADIOACTIVE SITE ON EARTH", HANFORD NUCLEAR FACILITY.

The fire that began on the Yakima Training Center Saturday night and burned into Benton and Grant Counties over the weekend has ballooned to over 177,000 acres and is 10% contained, according to fire crews.

[Wednesday it was 60 percent contained.]

Smoke and charred hills surround most of the town. About 250 homes are in jeopardy in the current fire footprint. About 400 firefighters, three helicopters and 34 engines are fighting it.

Crews set a backfire Sunday night on Rattlesnake Mountain to keep the Range 12 fire from burning contaminated areas of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where plutonium was manufactured for World War II.

Firefighters on Monday were building a fire line on the eastern flank of the blaze, along Highway 240, to keep the fire from nearing the contaminated nuclear site.
Near the roadway, firefighters were using controlled burns, or “turning the grass into black,” as Rishe put it, to choke the fire of fuel and stop its spread.
AUGUST 3, 2016

Officials from the Hanford nuclear reservation and Energy Northwest have been meeting with fire managers in southeast Washington state Tuesday. The nearby Range 12 Fire has grown ...and high winds are predicted this evening.

Helicopters won't be able to fly if gusts reach 20-30 miles per hour as predicted.

Fire managers said they are confident in their dozer and hand line around the fire’s perimeter -- but the high winds will test crews putting out hot spots.

Fire crews say they’re optimistic they’ll have it out by Friday.

The Range 12 Fire is currently the largest wildfire on a list of active wildfires across the U.S. being managed by government agencies.

Hanford Fire's Operation Manager Lonnie Click says, "It's gonna run, it's gonna get big. We saw this on Monday."


Fire crews from Benton County, Walla Walla County, and even the Department of Fish and Wildlife came to help to fight the blaze. They were trying to protect the Hanford site. And so far, the Hanford nuclear site has been protected.

But, all non-essential Hanford employees were ordered to leave the site until further notice.
Fires have become common in the area

SIZE OF FIRE WAS UNDERESTIMATED

A large area had been burned on Rattlesnake Mountain and nearby land on the Hanford Reach National Monument to keep the fire from spreading to Benton City or the Hanford nuclear reservation.

Firefighters sacrificed the mountain, which is part of one of the last shrub steppe ecosystems in the Columbia Basin, to prevent a repeat of the 24 Command Fire in June 2000.

That wildfire burned the mountain and spread across Hanford, threatening radioactive waste storage areas, and destroyed 11 homes in Benton City.

Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article93243057.html#storylink=cpy

WHY IS THIS SUCH A THREAT?

BECAUSE THE SHEER VOLUME OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL IN AND AROUND HANFORD'S AGED SITE CANNOT BE COUNTED, CAN'T EVEN BE IMAGINED.

A FIRE THAT SWEPT INTO THAT 'FACILITY' WOULD RELEASE MORE RADIATION INTO THE ATMOSPHERE THAN FUKUSHIMA AND CHERNOBYL COMBINED

JUST SITTING THERE, WITHOUT NEARBY FIRES, THE ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT IS OFF THE CHARTS.

"There is a dangerous radiological threat to the West Coast of the United States that puts the health of millions of Americans at risk.

It includes dangers to public health, dangers to the food supply, and dangers to future generations from long-lived radionuclides, including some of the most toxic material in the world.

It is not Fukushima, it is Hanford.




While radiation from the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns is reaching the West Coast, carried across the ocean from Japan, the radiation from Hanford is already there, has been there for 70 years, and is in serious risk of catastrophe that could dwarf the effects of Fukushima on Japan.


USING AMERICAN CITIZENS AS GUINEA PIGS, KNOWING MANY WOULD DIE....

The Green Run
In December 1949 the United States deliberately released an immense amount of radiation into populated areas at the Hanford Site during the notorious Green Run. It was the largest intentional release of radiation conducted by the U.S. government.

[THERE WAS A SECOND 'GREEN RUN' THAT FEW ARE AWARE OF.]The resulting radiation dispersed throughout a vast area stretching across much of Washington State and into Southern Oregon.

Concentrations were found in valleys and lowlands as the radiation distributed irregularly.

Internalizing iodine-131 is a direct cause of thyroid cancer.

THE MAP BELOW SHOWS THE SPREAD OF THE PLUME.

The Tank Farms 

Few things pose as great a threat to public health at Hanford than the Tank Farms.

The Tank Farms are 177 single and double shelled waste storage tanks sited at two different locations on the Hanford complex.

In the early days at Hanford, when plutonium for nuclear weapons was separated from the spent nuclear fuel, the leftover uranium from the process was stored in these tanks.
Over the years a wide range of the highest level radioactive and chemical wastes were dumped into these tanks. According to the State of Washington the 177 tanks hold 53 million gallons of the highest level radioactive waste existing in the United States.


67 of the single shelled tanks have leaked over 1 million gallons of this highly radioactive waste which is migrating through the soil and groundwater into the Columbia River.

In 2011 the Department of Energy emptied the contents of many of the leaking single shelled tanks into double shelled tanks, however the design of the double shelled tanks was found to be flawed, resulting in further leaks.

DOES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CARE HOW MANY LIVES HANFORD'S CRUMBLING TANKS AND LEAKS WILL CAUSE?

OBVIOUSLY NOT!
BEING VERY BLUNT, THE FEDS WOULD RATHER SEE HUMAN LIVES JEOPARDIZED FOREVER THAN SPEND THE BILLIONS TO CLEAN UP HANFORD....BESIDES, THERE IS NO CLEANING UP HANFORD....IT JUST CAN'T BE DONE, EVER.


Two grim facts underlie all the sobering information about the actual and potential harm Hanford poses to the environment.

• Radioactive and chemical contamination has not and will not stay inside Hanford's boundaries.
• Contamination will remain for hundreds of thousands of years beyond any memory of a place called Hanford.

What are the present threats?

1) Water Contamination
At least one third of Hanford's 177 huge high-level nuclear waste tanks, many as big as the capitol dome in Olympia, have leaked. In some areas technology from the 1950s is still being used to detect leaks, probably underestimating the extent of contamination.

Almost all of the single-shell tanks are well beyond their design life, so more leaks are likely.
Radioactive contaminants have reached the groundwater 200 feet below the surface and are on their way or have already reached the Columbia River.


In the last free-flowing US stretch of the Columbia flowing through Hanford, now the Hanford Reach National Monument, 70% of the fall chinook spawn each year.

Over 300 miles of the Columbia River downstream from Hanford are threatened by the leaking tanks.

The WA Department of Ecology notes that "aside from the environmental damage and health risk, the perception of the river being contaminated could devastate the market for northwest agricultural products."1


2) Atmospheric Contamination
Newspaper headlines in 1999, "Nuclear Blob Grows at Hanford,2 described a bulge in the radioactive crust on one of the huge waste tanks caused by a buildup of dangerously explosive hydrogen.

While this threat was resolved, it is one of a variety of safety issues that have plagued Hanford tanks.
These include flammable gasses, nuclear materials, and explosive chemicals.

In 1957 in Siberia a high-level waste tank exploded, spreading a radioactive plume of 20 million curies 180 miles long, giving people estimated doses of .7 to 80 REM, and necessitating the relocation of well over 10,000 people.3
Collapsing tank domes or tank explosions that could spread radioactivity far beyond Hanford remain a genuine threat.


Fires at Hanford pose another real danger. In August 1984 and July 2000 raging sagebrush fires burned three-fifths of the Hanford area.

The July 2000 fire burned three radioactive waste sites and stopped just short of some major waste sites.4

Afterwards plutonium was detected in nearby communities.
Earthquakes are an additional concern.
Just a quarter mile from the Columbia River, two large swimming pool-like structures, the K-Basins, hold 80% of the DOE's stockpile of spent fuel rods.

These storage basins have leaked in the past. If earthquakes cracked these structures, draining off the cooling water, the spent rods could spontaneously ignite, seriously polluting the atmosphere.


EXPENDABLE LIVES, HANFORD WORKERS AND NEARBY RESIDENTS

Hanford employees who work maintaining the Tank Farms have suffered serious and unexplained health problems in recent years.

Each year numerous workers have been exposed to “vapors” and have become sick or lost consciousness and required hospitalization.

Many have suffered ongoing health problems as a result of these exposures. In 2014 over 40 workers suffered from such exposures including a two-week period in late March that saw 26 workers hospitalized.

According to KGW news in Portland, a 1997 study conducted by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory warned that workers exposed to vapors from specific tanks would have significantly increase risk of cancers and other serious diseases, but the conclusions of this report “were never made public, shared with Hanford workers or members of the federally chartered Hanford Advisory Board.”

On 29 September 1957 a [SINGLE] tank containing waste similar to the waste in the Hanford Tank Farms exploded at the Mayak plutonium production site in the former Soviet Union, known as the Kyshtym Disaster.

The cooling system for one of the tanks at the Mayak site failed and the temperature inside the tank rose eventually causing a chemical explosion that sent a radioactive cloud for over 350 km downwind and heavily contaminated an area near the plant with catastrophic levels of cesium-137 and strontium-90.

This was one of the worst radiological disasters in human history at the time, and remained so, along with the fire three weeks later inside a nuclear reactor core at the Windscale facility (now called Sellafield) in Cumbria in the United Kingdom, until the Chernobyl meltdown and explosion in 1987.

The Kyshtym Disaster, which a Soviet study concluded resulted directly in 8,000 deaths (not to mention illnesses) was the consequence of an explosion in ONE tank.

At Hanford there are currently 177 such tanks, each containing similar disastrous potential, and located beside one another.

Contaminations and Dangers

The EPA has identified between 1,500-1,200 specific sites on the Hanford grounds where toxic or radioactive chemicals have been dumped.

The ambiguity of that number speaks volumes about the lack of record keeping and functional data for addressing these problems.

Furthermore, the impacts from Hanford are not only what may happen, but what has already happened.

GENERATIONS OF CANCER VICTIMS, CEMETERIES FULL OF THE DEAD...

Hanford downwinders have suffered generations of cancers and other diseases across a wide area of Eastern Washington and beyond. There is a legacy of death and illness that spans generations downwind from Hanford, and the source of those diseases percolates away in the tanks and waste sites that sit along the Columbia River, spreading deeper into the surrounding ecosystem. The radiation from Fukushima may slowly seep across the vast Pacific, while at Hanford we have the threat of a radiological explosion or terrorist act that could release volumes more radiation than was released by Fukushima
Stand up for Hanford whistleblowers.

Demand transparency on waste management practices and plans at Hanford.

Stand up for the health of Hanford workers who are being exposed to dangerous vapors in their workplace.

And demand support and compensation for the downwind families and workers whose health and wellbeing has been devastated by the most radioactive site in the United States."

DOES ANYONE STILL THINK WE NEED NUCLEAR ENERGY?
IF SO, WILL YOU TRADE PLACES WITH THOSE WHO WORK IN OR LIVE NEAR HANFORD?
WOULD YOU?





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1. WA Department of Ecology, Protecting the Columbia River, 1999, p. 18.
2. "Nuclear Blob Grows at Hanford", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 27, 1999.
3. "A Cloud of Secrecy", Spokane Spokesman-Review, 1992.
4. "Fire cleanup begins," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 30, 2000.
5. "Availability of Radioisotopes Produced in North America," The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 41 (9), Sept. 2000.
6. Isotopes for Medicine and the Life Sciences, Institute of Medicine, 1995, p. 51-2.

AUSTRALIA, THE NEXT NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP AS SOUTH KOREA SEEKS A NATION TO DUMP IN

HEADS UP, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, LIFE AS YOU KNEW IT, MAY BE DRAWING TO A CLOSE AS YOU HAVE BEEN TARGETED FOR FIVE (5) NEW NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS, WILL HAVE TO DREDGE AND DEEPEN YOUR SOUTHERN HARBORS TO RECEIVE WASTE SHIPMENTS FOR AT LEAST SEVENTY (70) AND UP TO ONE HUNDRED (100) YEARS AND YOU WILL ACCEPT "HIGH-LEVEL" NUCLEAR WASTE INTO YOUR ENVIRONMENT....UNLESS YOU STOP IT...


FROM  Antinuclear, Australian news, and some related international items.
     [EMPHASIS ADDED BY THE TEA ROOM]

The Nuclear Royal Commission recommended SOUTH AUSTRALIA (SA) pursue nuclear waste storage and disposal “as soon as possible” – requiring five waste dumps and a high level nuclear waste encapsulation processing facility.

 The Final Report Ch.5 “nuclear waste” and the Findings Report (p.16-20) are reliant on a consultancy “Radioactive waste storage and disposal facilities in SA” by Jacobs MCM, summarised in Appendix J.

SA is targeted for above ground high level nuclear waste storage, without a capacity to dispose of wastes, exposing our society to the risk of profound adverse impacts, potential terrorism and ongoing liabilities.

 The State government is in denial on the importance of nuclear waste dump siting by claiming social consent could be granted before we know what’s involved in siting up to five nuclear dumps across SA.

 Affected regions and waste transport routes are fundamental pre-requisites to transparency and to an informed public debate on potential consent to take any further steps in this nuclear waste agenda.

First: a dedicated new deep sea Nuclear port is to receive waste ships every 24 to 30 days for decades, to store high level waste on site following each shipment, and to operate for up to 70 years.

The coastal region south of Whyalla and north of Tumby Bay is the likely location for this Nuclear port.

 South Australia (SA) is targeted for a globally unprecedented scale of high level nuclear waste shipments.
Some 400 waste shipments totaling 90 000 tonnes of high level waste and requiring 9 000 transport casks are to be brought into SA in the first 30 year period of proposed Nuclear port operations.

This is in excess of the global total of 80 000 tonnes of high level nuclear waste shipped around the world in the 45 year period from 1971 to 2015, according to the World Nuclear Association report “Transport of Radioactive Materials” (Sept 2015) and the Jacobs MCM consultancy (Feb 2016, p.152).

 Second: an above ground nuclear waste Storage facility is to take on approx. 50 000 tonnes high level waste before a Disposal facility could first start to operate in Project Year 28 (Jacobs p.5 Fig.3).

 SA is proposed to import high level waste at 3 000 tonnes a year, twice the claimed rate of waste disposal (Jacobs p.114), with storage to increase to 70 000 tonnes. The Store is to operate for up to 100 years.

 The Nuclear Commission budgeted to locate the waste Storage facility 5 to 10 km from the Nuclear port.

 The Nuclear port and above ground waste Storage facility are to be approved in Project Year 5, ahead of pre-commitment contracts for 15 500 tonnes high level waste in Year 6 and waste imports in Year 11.

South Australia needs to know the proposed region for siting the Nuclear port AND whether the nuclear waste Store is to be adjacent to the port (likely on Eyre Peninsula) or sited in the north of SA.

 Third: a Low Level Waste Repository for burial of radioactive wastes derived from all operations including final decommissioning of all nuclear facilities is proposed to be located in north SA.
This Repository has a nominal waste burial capacity of 80 000 m3 of radioactive wastes (Jacobs p.144).

This is some eight times the total scale of the proposed National Radioactive Waste Repository.

AS COLLINS OF MINING AWARENESS + COMMENTED:

"This can’t work simply because of fire hazard and hazard to aquifers. If you don’t live in Australia and look at the google map during a drought year, it looks ideal. If you look on the ground at fire hazard, importance of aquifers, it can’t work at all. It’s totally bizarre that anyone within Australia could think this plan could work!
The US is trying to set up open air spent fuel storage in Texas and Utah, not even a building. Also burying the waste.
But, there is plenty of nuclear waste to go around and plenty of countries like South Korea, Switzerland and Germany who want someone else to take their nuclear waste. Only South Korea was honest enough to say so. Same thing between the states and even within states, in the US. Idaho does research promoting nuclear with high paying jobs and low population in an arid, cool climate with granite, but they think that someone else wants their nuclear waste! Bernie Sanders is anti-nuclear but was fine with west Texas taking Vermont nuclear waste for burial. Not even a peep did he utter that burial was wrong."


TRULY, YOU FOLKS IN AUSTRALIA MAY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS WILL DO TO YOU AND YOUR BEAUTIFUL LAND SINCE DUMP SITES THERE ARE SLATED TO INCREASE DRASTICALLY....

ASK MANY 'AMERICAN INDIANS' WHOSE TRIBES HAVE LONG ENDURED BEING DUMPED ON, DECIMATED BY THIS NUCLEAR GARBAGE.

ASK THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE DOWNWIND AND DOWNSTREAM FROM THE HANFORD 'SUPER-FACILITY' IN WASHINGTON STATE, WHERE "HIGHLY ABNORMAL" BIRTH DEFECTS ARE 'COMMON' NOW, WHERE PEOPLE ARE DYING FROM CANCERS THEY CONTRACTED 'IN UTERO'....

ASK THE JAPANESE PEOPLE WHO WILL SUFFER THE LEAKS AT FUKUSHIMA'S DAI'ICHI FACILITY FOR MAYBE ANOTHER 100 YEARS BEFORE 'TECHNOLOGY' IS INVENTED TO STOP THOSE LEAKS, WHERE EVEN THE GOVERNMENT HELPS COVER UP THE BLUNDERS AND DATA EVERY DAY AND REFUSES TO TAKE EXTREME MEASURES TO SAVE THEM.

LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THEIR RIVERS AND AQUIFERS!


LOOK AT THE CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL!


DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN IN AUSTRALIA!

IF YOU CARE, ACT, DO WHAT MUST BE DONE TO STOP IT.
IT'S YOUR COUNTRY AND THE CITIZENS OF AUSTRALIA  SHOULD MAKE SUCH DECISIONS.

 MEANWHILE, BACK IN SOUTH KOREA.....



AS FOR SOUTH KOREA, AS COLLINS OF MINING AWARENESS +  PUT IT SO WELL, "WHO GIVES A FUKUSHIMA WHAT SOUTH KOREA WANTS?"


BUT THEY DO ADMIT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A NUCLEAR DUMP SITE, JUST NOT ON SOUTH KOREAN SOIL.


WHICH NATION WILL PLAY VICTIM, GET ALL THAT RADIOACTIVE GARBAGE FROM GOOD OLD SOUTH KOREA?

ANY OF OUR NATIONS COULD BE THE TARGET, UNLESS WE MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR WE WILL NOT ACCEPT IT.

IT'S WAY PAST TIME WE, THE PEOPLE, JUST SAID, "HELL NO! NO MORE! SHOVE YOUR NUCLEAR WASTE WHERE THE SUN WON'T SHINE ON IT!"


I BOW TO COLLINS' TAKE ON SOUTH KOREA (but added a bit of emphasis):



"South Korea has decided that they may want to give someone else their nuclear waste, according to Reuters (July 25, 2016). Well doesn’t almost everyone?

Why would anyone give a flying Fukushima about what South Korea wants anyway? Let North Korea have them. Or China. China would still be smaller than Russia.

At least South Korea was honest enough to say so, however, and people can be on guard, instead of sneaking it out the backdoor like Germany’s trying to do with its high level Pebble Bed radioactive waste, and like Switzerland did with its old Swiss made, useless, plutonium.

Swiss plutonium will be “diluted” and buried at WIPP as so-called GAP plutonium (aka foreign plutonium that foreign countries didn’t want).

A long list of other countries have dumped their nuclear waste upon America, since treasonous US government officials (e.g. Obama; Tom D’Agostino) offered to take foreign nuclear waste to destroy America, while pretending it was about non-proliferation.

Many countries did ocean dumping in the past, and some zig-zagging ships carrying nuclear waste have raised a concern in a skeptical mind or two that they are still doing it.

[My note: Several ships were busted for doing so off the coast of Sudan.]

“SOUTH KOREA TO PICK SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL SITE BY 2028, EYES OVERSEAS STORAGE"
Mon Jul 25, 2016 5:28am EDT SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea plans to select a site for permanent storage of its high level radioactive waste by 2028, and will also consider looking to store spent nuclear fuel overseas, the government said on Monday.”
http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/FAKUSSMlNqE/us-nuclear-southkorea-idUSKCN1050K1

There is a good chance that if South Korea is allowed to continue to (legally) steal America’s uranium from Public Lands due to the 1872 Mining Law, that they will use that as an excuse to dump the nuclear waste so created back upon America’s shores:

https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/attempt-by-canadian-miner-to-expand-uranium-mine-on-us-public-land-near-natural-bridges-national-monument-comment-deadline-monday-1st-august/

https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/expanding-energyfuels-uranium-mine-impact-by-41-8-acres-is-unnecessary-degradation-of-us-public-lands-health-environmental-hazard-comment-to-blm-deadline-monday/
(The legality of some of these mining permits is being challenged on the basis of inadequate environmental and cultural impact considerations; studies).

This is how WCS proposed to the US NRC to store high level spent nuclear fuel in West Texas [above ground] – not even a cover!

[MY NOTE: SEE COLLINS' SITE FOR MANY PHOTOS OF THE HANDY-DANDY OUTDOOR, TOPLESS STORAGE METHOD. AND DO UNDERTAND THAT YOUR FRIENDLY, CARING "REGULATORY" AND "PROTECTION" AGAENCIES ARE ALLOWING CRAP LIKE THIS.]

Or, South Korea may hit upon Australia to dump their nuclear waste, if Australia lets them:

This won’t work out due to Australia’s fires. Australia needs to stop mining uranium too, thus cutting its nuclear fuel chains.

South Korea plans to keep on making nuclear waste and they want to make even more by building additional reactors. But, they don’t want any of that nasty radioactive waste!
“South Korea has a relatively smaller number of generating stations, only four, but each station houses four or more units, and three sites have more reactors planned. Thus Korea’s nuclear power production is slightly more centralized than most nuclear power nations. Housing multiple units at each site allows more efficient maintenance and lower costs, but reduces grid efficiencies. Four of the six Wolsong reactors are Canadian-designed CANDU pressurized heavy-water reactors (PHWR).

In 2013, in response to a petition from local fishermen, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) renamed its Yonggwang as the Hanbit plant, and its Ulchin plant in North Gyeongsang province was renamed as the Hanul plant.

In 2014, an agreement was signed to allow construction of two additional APR-1400 reactors at Hanul (as Shin Hanul-3 and -4; construction to start no earlier than 2017) and two as-yet unnamed units in Yeongdeok County (construction may start by 2022”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_South_Korea

South Korea’s also building a nuclear power station for the UAE, with US funding – read Middle Eastern Nuclear Bombs in the making:



Why doesn’t the US just let China and North Korea have South Korea? What’s to lose other than for missionaries? Crappy defective Korean washing machines?

They can take Japan too for lagniappe. Who the Fukushima cares? Most Veterans of the Korean war will be dead soon anyway. That way Japan won’t be able to send the US radioactive food and defective or radioactive cars and car parts.

Cut them all lose. Let China, Japan and Korea work their own problems out and let them hunt for uranium in their own land, if they must have it. "

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HEAR, HEAR, COLLINS!

WE DO NOT NEED NUCLEAR POWER TO SURVIVE ON THIS PLANET.
IN FACT, WE NEED TO RID THE WORLD OF NUKES SO WE CAN SURVIVE! 

NUCLEAR ANYTHING CREATES RADIATION THAT SEEPS INTO EVERYTHING AROUND IT, DOWNWIND AND DOWNSTREAM FROM IT, UNDERNEATH  IT, CONSTANT, UNENDING, CANCER-CAUSING, LIFE-DESTROYING IONIZING RADIATION.

NOT IN 100 GENERATIONS WILL WE BE FREE FROM THE EFFECTS OF DAMNABLE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.
THEIR WASTE WILL LIVE ON AND ON, FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS, BUT, BYALLTHEGODS, WE CAN REDUCE THAT!

WE CAN ... EACH OF US ADDED TO THE REST OF US WHO HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS.
ONE VOICE MAY SEEM BUT A WHISPER, BUT A MILLION VOICES WOULD BE A ROAR, AND TEN MILLION?

WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THINGS.
I ASSURE YOU, WE DO!

ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS TAKE A STAND AND NEVER WAIVER UNTIL WE'RE ALL NUKE FREE.
IF WE DON'T, HOW CAN WE FACE OUT CHILDREN, OR THEIR CHILDREN?

[ABOVE, JUST ANOTHER NORMAL DAY OF LEAKING RADIATION, RADIOACTIVE PLUMES RISING AT HANFORD, "COLUMBIA GENERATING FACILITY", GENERATING DEATH SINCE WORLD WAR II.]