SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH OUR EARTH, SUN AND MOON

"Polar Vortex Ripped in Half by Anomalous Jet Stream, High Arctic Experiencing 32 Degrees F Above Average Temperatures Over Broad Region."

AND THAT'S JUST FOR STARTERS THIS WEEK.

HISTORICAL FLOODING, SNOW WHERE IT SHOULD BE WARM AND WARM WHERE IT SHOULD BE COLD, OUR WEATHER HAS GONE A BIT BONKERS.

WHILE MANY BLAME WHAT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER OUR PLANET, THE ODD WEATHER, THE RISE IN THE NUMBER OF SUBSTANTIAL VOLCANOES, RISING SEAS, FREAKY THINGS EVERYWHERE, ON "HUMAN-CAUSED CLIMATE CHANGE", THE TEA ROOM DOES NOT WHOLE-HEARTEDLY AGREE.

"CLIMATE CHANGE" IS A BAD CHOICE OF WORDS.
THE CLIMATE CHANGES EVERY BLOODY MINUTE.

"GLOBAL WARMING" IS TOO SWEEPING A GENERALITY.

MANY TIMES, MOST LIKELY, IN THE HISTORY OF PLANET EARTH, DEVASTATING CHANGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE...BEFORE INDUSTRY, BEFORE SMOG AND BILLIONS OF HUMANS SWARMING OVER ITS SURFACE.

FROM POLE SHIFTS TO MINUTE CHANGES OF OUR ORBIT, A WOBBLE IN OUR ROTATION, A SPIKE OR A LOW IN OUR MAGNETIC FIELD, SOLAR FLARES BLASTING THE LITTLE BLUE MARBLE, ASTEROID STRIKES, EXCESSIVE SEISMIC ACTIVITY, ENORMOUS TSUNAMIS, MIND-BLOWING ICE STORMS AND HURRICANES, ETC, THINGS SIMPLY HAPPEN.

WE WILL EITHER LIVE THROUGH IT, OR WE WON'T.

IT IS ALL VERY INTERESTING AS SOME OF THESE THINGS MAY HAVE NOT BEEN SEEN BEFORE SINCE HUMANS CRAWLED OUT OF CAVES, SO WE'LL HAVE A LOOK AT A FEW "HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS", THINGS NO ONE THINKS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE "IN RECORDED HISTORY".

SOME OF THE AUTHORS OF THE ARTICLES BELOW DEVOUTLY BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE ON HUMANS.
IGNORE THAT, IF YOU CAN, AND JUST READ WHAT'S HAPPENING? 


1~ THE ARCTIC WILL GET A "STORM OF THE CENTURY". 

THIS HUGE STORM IS ALREADY AFFECTING THE UNITED KINGDOM AS WELL.

THE STORM WILL CAUSE ARCTIC WARMING MORESO THAN BACK LAST YEAR WHEN WE SAW THE UNUSUAL WEATHER PATTERN SHOWN ABOVE.

IT IS QUITE AN UGLY THING....

http://i2.wp.com/www.geoengineeringwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/16.png

On Wednesday, the same storm system that last week spun up deadly tornadoes in the American southeast will burst into the far north, centering over Iceland.

It will bring strong winds and pressure as low as is typically seen during hurricanes.
That low pressure will suck air out of the planet’s middle latitudes and send it rushing to the Arctic.
And so on Wednesday, the North Pole will likely see temperatures of about 35 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2 degrees Celsius. That’s 50 degrees hotter than average: It’s usually 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero there at this time of year.
Winter temperatures have only snuck above freezing at the North Pole once before.

 Eric Holthaus, Slate’s meteorologist, could not find an Arctic expert who had witnessed above-freezing temperatures at the pole between December and early April.

As it departs North America this week, the storm will rapidly intensify over the northern reaches of the Gulf Stream and draw tremendous amounts of warm air northward from Spain and the Mediterranean Sea toward the Arctic. As the storm approaches Iceland, it will have strengthened to the equivalent of some of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in terms of atmospheric pressure. Intensely high pressure over western Russia, perhaps boosted by melting sea ice, will aid in setting up the tropics-to-pole atmospheric superhighway.

The storm will be strengthening over the exact spot that North Atlantic temperatures have been cooling over recent years, an effect that scientists have linked to a slowdown of the basin’s circulation triggered in part by melting sea ice—the same scenario that was highly dramatized in the movie The Day After Tomorrow.

This year, there’s been a notable increase in the sharp contrast between this cold patch and record warm ocean temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, an effect that leads to stronger ocean storms—like this one.

The remarkable storm will briefly boost temperatures in the Arctic basin to nearly 10 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal—and the North Pole itself will be pushed above the freezing point, with temperatures perhaps as warm as 40 degrees.

That’s absolutely terrifying and incredibly rare.
Keep in mind: It’s late December and dark 24 hours a day at the North Pole right now.

The typical average high temperature this time of year at the North Pole is about minus 15 to minus 20 degrees.
To create temperatures warm enough to melt ice to exist in the dead of winter—some 50 or 60 degrees warmer than normal—is unthinkable.

Looking closer at the weather data, it appears this event is in fact unprecedented during the time period from late December through late April.

On Wednesday, the North Pole will be warmer than Western Texas, Southern California, and parts of the Sahara.

[NOT ALL OF WEST TEXAS, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ALL THE SAHARA, SURELY. NOT IF IT ONLY MAKES IT TO 40 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.]

2015 is the warmest year ever recorded.
Thirteen of the top 14 warmest years on the books have happened this century.

And here in the United States, it has been a hot, strange month.
Many cities across the northeast smashed their Christmas and Christmas Eve temperature records not at midday, but at the stroke of midnight.
For the hundred-plus years that New York temperatures have been recorded, the city has never been warmer than 63 degrees Fahrenheit on a December 24.
Yet at 1 a.m. on Christmas Eve of this year, the thermometer measured 67 degrees.

Some of this North American heat is a regular feature of every El Niño.
(Indeed, I wrote about this El Niño-associated heat a few weeks ago.)

But in the Arctic, this level of warmth is unprecedented.

In order for this huge, hot storm to reach Iceland on Wednesday, it’s punching  right through the Jet Stream, the atmospheric “river” that brings temperate weather to Europe. Yet El Niño should typically reinforce this current, explains the climate writer Robert Scribbler—for the Jet Stream to weaken is a sign that something else is going on.

While institutional science will take years, if not decades, to confirm a correlation between human-forced climate change and strong North Atlantic storms, Scribbler believes that Wednesday’s insane warmth at the pole resembles the southern incursions of the “polar vortex” that have been seen in recent winters. These changes are related to human-forced climate change, he writes: a sign that something in the atmosphere has gone “dreadfully wrong.”

WELL,THAT'S ALL VERY DRAMATIC AND MOSTLY FACTUAL, WORLDWIDE WEATHER IS WHACKED, AND THAT ANOMALY IN THE WEAKENED JET STREAM SHOULD BE FURTHER STUDIED, BUT WHY ELSE MIGHT IT HAPPEN OR WHAT ELSE COULD CAUSE IT?

2~ WE'VE RECENTLY LEARNED THAT EARTH HAS AN INNER-INNER CORE AND ITS POLARITY DOES NOT MATCH ANYTHING ELSE'S.




THAT MIGHT BE ANOTHER CAUSE OF A WEE PROBLEM WITH CLIMATE, ETC.

An international team of researchers has discovered one of Earth's deepest, darkest secrets: our planet's inner core -- once thought to be a ball of solid iron -- has a hidden inner core of its own. And this so-called "inner-inner core" seems to have some very peculiar properties.

“The fact that we have two regions that are distinctly different may tell us something about how the inner core has been evolving,” Dr. Xiaodong Song, a professor of geology at the University of Illinois and co-author of a new paper about the discovery, said in a written statement.

 “For example, over the history of the earth, the inner core might have had a very dramatic change in its deformation regime. It might hold the key to how the planet has evolved. We are right in the center -- literally, the center of the Earth.”

IT'S VERY STRANGE...
For their study, the Illinois researchers and their counterparts at China's Nanjing University measured how seismic waves resonated and traveled through the earth in the aftermath of earthquakes that occurred between 1992 and 2012. Analyzing an earthquake's coda (the train of seismic waves that follow that quake) offers clues about what's inside Earth.

“The basic idea of the method has been around for a while, and people have used it for other kinds of studies near the surface. But we are looking all the way through the center of the earth," Song said in the statement.

What did the researchers find?
The seismic wave data suggests that iron crystals in the innermost regions of the inner core point east-west, whereas iron crystals in the inner core's outer regions point north-south.
The researchers deduced that there must be a distinct inner-inner core that takes up about half the diameter of the whole inner core.

"People have noticed differences in the way seismic waves travel through the outer parts of the inner core and its innermost reaches before, but never before have they suggested that the alignment of crystalline iron that makes up this region is completely askew compared to the outermost parts," Dr. Simon Redfern, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge in England, who was not involved in this research, told BBC News.

 "If this is true, it would imply that something very substantial happened to flip the orientation of the core to turn the alignment of crystals in the inner core north-south as is seen today in its outer parts."

The study was published online in the journal Nature Geoscience on Feb. 9.

It turns out that Earth's interior is way more wild than you probably thought -- there's liquid metal, hidden oceans, and it's hotter than the surface of the sun.


3~ CHANGES IN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EARTH, MOON AND SUN.

An increasing number of people around the world have witnessed amazing changes in the location of the sun's rise and set positions in summer and winter.

The Tea Room mentioned this as regards the Indigenous People of the Arctic, who showed this fact to a documentary film crew.
THEIR SKY HAS CHANGED.


NASA officials said it might be atmospheric inversions causing it to merely LOOK like the sun was rising and setting differently.
The "experts" claimed it was "optical phenomenon unique to the extremely high horizon". TRANSLATION?
DON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES!  
AND DON'T BELIEVE A PEOPLE SO ATTUNEDTO THEIR ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY DON'T NEED A WEATHER MAN OR A CALENDAR. 

NOR A NASA EXPERT TO TELL THEM WHAT'S REAL AND WHAT ISN'T. 

THEIR VERY LIVES DEPEND ON SUCH THINGS AS SUN, MOON, WEATHER.They also showed photos of the later snowfall there, LESS snow and less ice. 


Thunder and lightning have been seen for the first time in their area of the Arctic.
It's a FACT that the permafrost is melting, causing the foundations of the community's buildings to shift and an inland lake to drain into the ocean. 

NASA WAS SILENT ABOUT THAT.

Others agree with these People of the Arctic, and say that, apparently, what so many are observing  all across our globe, as to the earth's relationship to the sun and moon, is being caused by the earth moving below the old ecliptic plane in summer and above it in winter.    

FOR EXAMPLE:
THE MOON HAS CHANGED.
Notice on the university chart below, how far the moon USED to travel (north and south) over the course of an entire year.

 

Look up and notice how far north and south it now swings in a single month, and how far north of the old maximum of 28.5 degrees north it rises and sets once a month.

DO WE BELIEVE WHAT WE SEE, OR WHAT WE'RE TOLD TO SEE?

SCIENTISTS HAVE ADMITTED THAT THE FACE OF THE MOON HAS SHIFTED "SLIGHTLY", THAT PHOTOS OF MAJOR CRATERS PROVE THIS...BUT,OH, WELL, SO WHAT?

[A PDF FILE, CORNELL UNIVERSITY  :  http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1102/1102.0212v6.pdf]

MAYBE VIDEOS LIKE THE ONE <HERE> CONVINCED THEM?
NO NEED FOR MELODRAMA, IT'S JUST A FACT, NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.

EITHER OUR ILLUSTRIOUS SCIENTISTS REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED , LIKE CORNELL'S TEAM STATED, OR, AS ALWAYS, NO ONE WANTS TO RISK PUBLIC ALARM SO FACTS ARE BURIED.

HAD SO MANY, MANY "CASUAL OBSERVERS" NOT NOTICED THE CHANGES IN THE FACE OF THE MOON, ITS NEW MORE EGGLIKE SHAPE, ITS CRAZY ORBIT NOWADAYS, CORNELL WOULD NOT HAVE DONE THE LITTLE THEY DID...WHICH IS NOTHING MORE THAN SAY, "WE DON'T KNOW, BUT, YEAH, IT'S A LITTLE OFF."
" In January 2011, people around the world reported that the moon looked "larger and egg shaped". [ Photographs and videos were all over social media and YouTube.]
 The moon was pictured in it's many phases from January until August."
THE SUN HAS ALSO CHANGED IN WAYS SCIENCE SAYS IT CAN'T EXPLAIN.
IS SOMETHING GOING TO HAPPEN TO OUR SUN SOON?
HAS SOMETHING HAPPENED ALREADY?

WELL, THE SUN HAS CHANGED WHERE IT RISES AND SETS, SO MAYBE THAT'S A CLUE THAT EITHER IT OR EARTH HAVE A SCREWED-UP ORBIT, OR SOMETHING HAS TILTED EARTH, OR WHAT?

AND ITS CORONA HAS CHANGED, SHOWING UP AS HUGE DARK AREAS CALLED CORONAL HOLES, AS IN THIS PHOTO FROM JANUARY OF THIS YEAR:

BUT BIGGER HOLES APPEARED, AND THEN SCIENTISTS TOLD US "SOMETHING FROM THE SUN IS CHANGING MATTER ON EARTH". 

THE MEDIA REPORTED UNUSUALLY AND UNEXPLAINABLE HIGHER TIDES. 


"There is a dawning realization among researchers that even these apparently tiny [SOLAR] variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate.

 A new report issued by the National Research Council (NRC), "The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate," lays out some of the surprisingly complex ways that solar activity can make itself felt on our planet."  

IN 2013, SCIENTISTS BECAME CONCERNED ABOUT "SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS IN THE PACIFIC CAUSING ANOMALIES IN CLIMATE". 
[PSSSST! TRY RADIATION AS A REASON!]

"The solar cycle signals are so strong in the Pacific, that Meehl and colleagues have begun to wonder if something in the Pacific climate system is acting to amplify them. "One of the mysteries regarding Earth’s climate system … is how the relatively small fluctuations of the 11-year solar cycle can produce the magnitude of the observed climate signals in the tropical Pacific." Using supercomputer models of climate, they show that not only "top-down" but also "bottom-up" mechanisms involving atmosphere-ocean interactions are required to amplify solar forcing at the surface of the Pacific."

Caspar Amman of NCAR noted in the report that "When Earth’s radiative balance is altered, as in the case of a change in solar cycle forcing, not all locations are affected equally. The equatorial central Pacific is generally cooler, the runoff from rivers in Peru is reduced, and drier conditions affect the western USA." Raymond Bradley of UMass, who has studied historical records of solar activity imprinted by radioisotopes in tree rings and ice cores, says that regional rainfall seems to be more affected than temperature. "If there is indeed a solar effect on climate, it is manifested by changes in general circulation rather than in a direct temperature signal."

Much has been made of the probable connection between the Maunder Minimum, a 70-year deficit of sunspots in the late 17th-early 18th century, and the coldest part of the Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America were subjected to bitterly cold winters. The mechanism for that regional cooling could have been a drop in the Sun’s EUV output....

AS YOU CAN SEE BELOW, IT BLOODY WELL LOOKS THAT WAY!

http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/atmospheric-solar-heat-amplifier-discovered

THINGS HAVE CHANGED...EARTH, SUN, MOON, AND THAT HAS TO ADD UP TO SOMETHING IS WRONG, BECAUSE SO MUCH SIMPLY IS WRONG.
4~ EARTHQUAKES MOVE ISLANDS, ALTER EARTH'S SPIN.  
  THE EARTHQUAKE OFF JAPAN THAT CAUSED THE TRAGEDY AT FUKUSHIMA MOVED THE EARTH'S CRUST ABOUT 8 FEET.
 CNN REPORTED THIS IN APRIL, 2011, BUT FEW TOOK NOTICE.

"At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (Geospatial Information Authority) in Japan showing the pattern of shift over a large area is consistent with about that much shift of the land mass," said Kenneth Hudnut, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). 


 Quake Moves Japan Closer to U.S. and Alters Earth’s Spin
"The magnitude-8.9 earthquake that struck northern Japan on Friday not only violently shook the ground and generated a devastating tsunami, it also moved the coastline and changed the balance of the planet.

Global positioning stations closest to the epicenter jumped eastward by up to 13 feet.

The earthquake also shifted the so-called figure axis of the Earth, which is the axis that the Earth’s mass is balanced around. 
Dr. Gross said his calculations indicated a shift of 6.5 inches in where the figure axis intersects the surface of the planet. 
That figure axis is near, but does not quite align with, the rotational axis that the Earth spins around.


"Earlier great earthquakes also changed the axis and shortened the day. The magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Chile last year shortened the day by 1.26 millionths of a second and moved the axis by about three inches, while the Sumatra earthquake in 2004 shortened the day by 6.8 millionths of a second," Dr. Gross said.

Meanwhile, NASA scientists calculated that the redistribution of mass by the earthquake might have shortened the day by a couple of millionths of a second and tilted the Earth’s axis slightly."


5~ OUR MAGNETIC FIELD, EARTH'S "DEFLECTOR" HAS CHANGED CONSIDERABLY.
OUR DEFLECTOR SYSTEM IS WEAKENING.  
THE SMITHSONIAN HAD A BIT TO SAY ON THAT IN MAY, 2014:

"It is the largest spinning model of the Earth’s interior ever built and resembles the Star Wars Death Star, only shinier. Geophysicist Daniel Lathrop wants, among other things, to use it to predict when the Earth’s magnetic field will next reverse.

Over the course of our planet’s history, the field has flipped hundreds of times: Magnetic north has slid toward the bottom of the planet while magnetic south has traveled north. Signatures in volcanic rocks reveal that the switch last happened 780,000 years ago, when human ancestors were just learning to make fire.

We’re still here, so we’ll probably survive the next reversal—but we don’t know what to expect.


During the reversal, a gradual event that takes about a thousand years, the field will weaken. 
Without the protection it offers, will our sun’s radiation bombard us?


Will migrating birds relying on the field become hopelessly confused?

And when will it happen?
Some estimates say “soon...” 


SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN NOTED IN SEPTEMBER, 2014:  
"The European Space Agency's satellite array dubbed “Swarm” revealed that Earth's magnetic field is weakening 10 times faster than previously thought, decreasing in strength about 5 percent a decade rather than 5 percent a century. A weakening magnetic field may indicate an impending reversal...
 Magnetic north itself appears to be moving toward Siberia." 

WELL, EVEN EINSTEIN SAID WE'D SURVIVE A POLE SHIFT, SO NO WORRIES, RIGHT?


BUT WHEN WE PUT IT ALL TOGETHER...
THE VERY UNUSUAL WEATHER CHANGES, THE CHANGES IN THE EARTH/SUN/MOON RELATIONSHIP, THE CONFLICTING POLARITY AT EARTH'S CORE, THE INCREASE IN HUGE EARTHQUAKES THAT MOVE EARTH'S SURFACE, THE WEAKENING MAGNETIC FIELD, THE INCREDIBLE MASS DIE-OFFS OF HUNDREDS OF EARTH'S SPECIES IN THE PAST 4 YEARS....

WHY CAN'T SCIENCE TELL US WHAT'S CAUSING ALL THIS SO SUDDENLY?

OR, WHY WON'T THEY?




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MANY INTERESTING ARTICLES <HERE>, AND SEVERAL RATHER ODD LINKS <HERE>. 

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION IS UNSTOPPABLE, JAPANESE AMBASSADOR

SINCE AT LEAST 2013 MANY HAVE BEEN SAYING THERE IS NO WAY TO STOP THE LEAKS AT THE CRIPPLED DAI'ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.

NOW, MAYBE, THE WORLD WILL LISTEN TO THOSE WHO ARE SAYING IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE REPAIRED?

Mitsuhei Murata, former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland:

IN A VIDEO INTERVIEW:
“It’s common knowledge Fukushima is not at all under control.”

 “The most important thing is to let the world know the situation in Fukushima is serious.

In order to obtain this result, the honorable retreat from Tokyo Olympics is urgently needed — and most effective.

I think the whole world needs this because, as you know, it is an unstoppable accident.

 Daily, huge amounts of radiation is coming from the Fukushima site — the Pacific Ocean — there is no prospect for solution.

So the situation of the Pacific Ocean is very serious.

That is why I’m asking for an honorable retreat, to cope with the shameful criticism that Japan is now harming the global environment.”

THE SHAME IS THAT IT IS TRUE, THAT JAPAN'S GOVERNMENT, IN COLLUSION WITH TEPCO AND THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR INDUSTRY, HAS DECIDED TO CONTAMINATE THE ENTIRE WORLD...AND THEY HAVE NO REMORSE FOR DOING SO.

THE SHAME IS , THOSE RESPONSIBLE FEEL NO SHAME.
SHAMEFULLY, THEY CAN WATCH THEIR OWN CITIZENS AND THE REST OF US DIE AND NOT BE ASHAMED.

MONEY, PROFITS, THE OLYMPIC GAMES ALL TRUMP PRICELESS HUMAN AND ANIMAL LIVES, TRUMP THE ENTIRE ENVIRONMENT OF PLANET EARTH.

AS 'COUNTERPUNCH' REPORTED TODAY (29 DECEMBER 2015)

 “It is not earthquakes or tsunami that are to blame for the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, but humans.
The report produced by the Japanese parliamentary committee investigating the disaster leaves no doubt about this.
The disaster could have been foreseen and prevented.

As in the Chernobyl case, it was a human, not technology, that was mainly responsible for the disaster,” Photographer and Filmmaker Arkadiusz Podniesinski Visits Fukushima, Axis of Logic, Dec. 27, 2015.

AN IMPORTANT TRUTH IS FINALLY SPOTLIGHTED!

Radiation is accumulative.

As a general rule, a person can only survive for one hour with exposure of 1 Sv/hour or 1,000 mSv/hour. The recommended lifetime human dosage of radiation should be less than 500 mSv. A chest x-ray produces 0.10 mSv.

The standard limit for nuclear workers worldwide is 20 mSv/year
(Source: Radiation Survival Cheat Sheet).

However, Fukushima, because of the emergency, allows workers to receive up to 100-mSv exposure before they must leave the site.

Within Fukushima, Orange Zones are designated as less contaminated but still uninhabitable because radiation levels run 20-50 mSv/y, but decontamination work is underway.
Residents are allowed to visit homes for short duration only during the daytime. However, as it happens, very few people are seen.
Most of the former residents do not want to go back and the wooden houses in many of the towns and villages are severely dilapidated.

The lowest radiation areas are designated the Green Zone (< 20 mSv/y), where decontamination work is complete and evacuation orders are to be lifted. 

LEAKING BAGS OF RADIATION AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE

Enormous black sealed bags filled with radioactive soil and all kinds of sizzling waste are stacked across the countryside, as approximately 20,000 workers thoroughly cleanse soil, rooftops, streets, and gutters. House-by-house, workers scrub rooftops and walls by hand.

[AND EVERY DAY, ALL DAY, NEW RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT SETTLES BACK ON THE LAND. NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THAT! IT ISN'T JUST FROM DAIICHI, BUT FROM HOW MANY SITES THAT ARE BURNING RADIOACTIVE DEBRIS WE ARE NOT TOLD. TEPCO WAS BUSTED BURNING DEBRIS ON AN OLD BARGE OUT IN THE HARBOR AT NIGHT NOT THAT LONG AGO!]

The radioactive-contained black bags are trucked outside of towns to the far outskirts where thousands upon thousands upon thousands of big black bags are stacked.

An aerial view of these temporary storage sites appears like gigantic quilts of rectangular shapes neatly, geometrically spread across the landscape for as far as the eye can see. The government claims the radioactive-contained black bags will be gone from the countryside within 30 years, but where to?


RECONTAMINATION FROM UNCLEANED AREAS
 The primary areas of decontamination surround homes, farmland, and 10-metre strips along roads. As such, forests, mountains and other terrain are left untouched, which may, in turn, eventually wash radioactive isotopes back onto the decontaminated areas because of heavy rainfall or forest fires carrying radioactive isotopes.
According to Podniesinski, that happened twice in Chernobyl within the past year alone.

The herculean cleanup of Fukushima Prefecture involves 105 cities, towns, and villages.

Unlike Chernobyl where authorities declared a 1,000 square mile no-habitation zone and resettlement of 350,000 people, thus allowing radiation to dissipate over decades-to-centuries, Japan is attempting to remake Fukushima back into its old self.

But, radioactive material collected in millions of black bags is a vexing problem for the ages.

Japanese authorities have commissioned construction of a massive landfill just outside of the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant, expected to contain 16-to-22 million bags of debris, enough to fill 15 baseball stadiums.

Unfortunately, bags filled with radioactivity are more than a mere headache; they are more like a severe migraine.
A truck can carry 6-8 of the huge bags at a time, and with so many, it could take decades to move the material.

Adding to the lingering problem of transporting and storing radioactive waste, over time, the bags will likely deteriorate and need to be replaced with fresh bags. It is an endless cycle.

[NO, THE BAGS WILL SIMPLY BE ALLOWED TO DETERIORATE AND RADIATION WILL LEAK AFRESH, AS THE ABE ADMINISTRATION MUST INSTEAD HOLD AN OLYMPICS AND RESTORE JAPANESE MILITARY MIGHT AS THE TEA ROOM PREVIOUSLY REPORTED.]

WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN, NOW AND FUTURE GENERATIONS?
As for a lifetime of radiation misery, one only need visit one of a couple hundred homes for Chernobyl children hidden in the back woods of Belarus.

They all have physical if not mental defects or both. Because of one nuclear accident, 6,000 children are born every year in Ukraine with genetic heart defects; the country experiences a 250% increase in congenital birth deformities; 85% of Belarusian children carry “genetic markers” that could affect health at any time; UNICEF found children’s disease rates off the map, for example, a 63% increase in disorders of the bone, muscle and connective tissue; more than one million children still live in contaminated zones.

Belarusian doctors have seen a dramatic increase in cancers, including a 200% increase in breast cancer, a 100% increase in leukemia, and a 2,400% increase in incidence of thyroid cancer.

 All from only one nuclear disaster! (Source: Chernobyl Children International)


TECHNOLOGY DOES NOT EXIST TO STOP LEAKS
200-year wait faced at Fukushima —

Plant Chief: “No idea” how to decommission reactors… “the technology does not exist”;

“No viable method” to deal with melted fuel; “So many uncertainties… we don’t have accurate information” —

Engineers declared problems ‘insurmountable’

REPORTED FROM JAPAN ON 26 DECEMBER 2015 

ASAHI SHIMBUN NEWS

MORE MISTAKES AT DAIICHI PLANT, MORE HEADACHES, MORE RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION FOR EVERYONE.
To control groundwater levels, TEPCO planned to release the less contaminated groundwater from the five wells into sea after a purification process.

[RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS AS WELL AS OTHERS ALREADY POINTED OUT THAT JAPAN DOES NOT HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO "PURIFY" ANYTHING COMING OUT OF THAT PLANT! THEY WERE OFFERED BETTER TECHNOLOGY AND DID NOT TAKE IT.]

However, the water from four of the wells was discovered to have high levels of tritium--a radioactive substance that is hard to remove--at levels higher than 1,500 becquerels per liter, which means the water cannot be released into sea.
To compound the problem, the seaside walls have also significantly raised groundwater levels, forcing the utility to pump a lot more groundwater than it originally planned.

TEPCO has been forced to temporarily transfer large amounts of the groundwater into highly contaminated reactor buildings, where it could become contaminated to an even further degree by being exposed to melted nuclear fuel.
The utility said it suspects the high levels of radiation found in the groundwater from the wells is due to the water being exposed to highly contaminated soil near the plant’s coastal embankment.

Company officials admitted they are not sure when it can turn things around and reduce the amount of contaminated water at the Fukushima plant."

[NEVER...THEY CAN NEVER DO IT, BUT WON'T STAND ASIDE AND LET OTHERS TRY, MURDEROUS BASTARDS THAT THEY ARE.]

Researchers trying to unravel spread of cesium and its impact on ecosystem after Fukushima disaster 

ASAHI SHIMBUN NEWS 
December 22, 2015  

More than 90 percent of the fir trees in forests close to the site of Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster are showing signs of abnormality, and plant lice specimens collected in a town more than 30 kilometers from the crippled facility are missing legs or crooked.
Scientists are seeking answers to how radioactive cesium spread in forests and the soil after the accident, along with signs of mutation in plants and animals in areas close to the stricken nuclear plant.
Understanding how cesium and other radioactive particles spread after the disaster is key to putting the consequences of the nation’s worst nuclear accident into perspective.

 As forests were excluded from decontamination work, an undetermined amount of cesium is bound to remain in forests and lie buried in the ground for many years to come.
Mountainous forests cover 70 percent of the Fukushima Prefecture’s land space.

Cesium in the soil registered between 300,000 and 400,000 becquerels of radioactivity per square meter.

Scientists have reported on mutations and abnormalities among species varying from fir trees and plant lice to Japanese monkeys, carp and frogs.
[WHILE DOCTORS ARE FORBIDDEN FROM REPORTING MUTATED FETUSES, BIRTH DEFECTS, DEFORMED BABIES, THYROID CANCERS IN CHILDREN, DEATHS FROM RADIATION SICKNESS.]
The National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), a government-affiliated entity, said in late August that the trunks of fir trees are not growing vertically.
“We need to continue to monitor the environment for at least five or six more years,” Fukumoto said. “And at the same time, we should start analyzing the reported phenomena.”

LUDICROUS, SIMPLY LUDICROUS!

FROM 2013:  

"After a 29-month cover-up, the Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is now calling for international help [WHICH IT THEN TOTALLY REJECTED!] and has all but admitted Fukushima’s radiation leaks are spiraling out of control. In addition to the leaking water storage units that are unleashing hundreds of tons of radioactive water each day, Tepco now says 50% of its contaminated water filtration capability has been taken offline due to corrosion.
The result is that radiation leaks are escalating out of control and attempted remediation efforts are faltering.
This is in addition to the fact the Japanese government’s attempted brainwashing propaganda campaign has also been exposed.

It attempted to convince people that if they drank beer or smiled, they would be immune to radiation poisoning. (Yes, this is how desperate they’ve become…)

From day one, the Fukushima fiasco has been all about denial:

Deny the leaks, shut off the radiation sensors, black out the news and fudge the science. 

Yet more than two years later, the denials are colliding with the laws of physics, and Tepco’s cover stories are increasingly being blown wide open.


As Businessweek.com now reports, Japan seems to have no practical interest in solving this problem:
Russia’s nuclear company, Rosatom, of which Rosenergoatom is a unit, sent Japan a 5 kilogram (11 pound) sample of an absorbent that could be used at Fukushima almost three years ago, Asmolov said.
 It also formed working groups ready to help Japan on health effect assessment, decontamination, and fuel management, among others, Asmolov said.

The assistance was never used, he said.

That’s because for Tepco to welcome any assistance, it would first have to admit it has a problem.
And that’s unacceptable in a business culture where egos run rampant and the idea of taking responsibility for your actions is considered abhorrent.

To save their own careers, Tepco experts would gladly sacrifice the health of millions of Japanese citizens.

TEPCO, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT WHICH OWNS HALF THE FACILITY, ANSWERS TO NO ONE.   
Tepco “…does not directly answer to any regulatory bodies, including the country’s nuclear watchdog,” reports CTV.


Trade Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told the international press, “We’ve allowed Tokyo Electric to deal with the contaminated water situation on its own and they’ve essentially turned it into a game of ‘Whack-a-Mole,'” reports Business Week.
When industry reaches a point of total bureaucratic failure resulting in a global disaster that threatens all life on the planet, everybody knows the obvious solution is to put the government in charge!

The government, you see, can simply pass a new law that says radiation is no longer considered dangerous.
In an instant, the entire problem is solved and Japan saves hundreds of billions of dollars in cleanup costs.

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED, IS HAPPENING, BOTH HERE IN THE U.S. AND IN JAPAN.

"ACCEPTABLE RADIATION LEVELS", AS ANYONE CAN FIND, HAVE NOW BEEN RAISED TO AN ALARMING LEVEL THAT MOST SERIOUSLY ENDANGERS
PREGNANT WOMEN, THEIR UNBORN BABIES, AND YOUNG CHILDREN, AS WELL AS THE ELDERLY AND INFIRM.   

Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) says water’s getting over and around “chemical walls.” It can’t be stopped.

Three Fukushima reactors suffered meltdowns. A fourth was badly damaged.
The worst fear remains.
Unit Four’s structural integrity was seriously undermined. It contains hundreds of tons of highly radioactive water.

If an earthquake or other natural disaster occurs, its fuel rods almost certainly will catch fire. Radioactive emissions will follow. They’ll compound what’s already disastrous.
Emissions will continue long term.
They’ll circle the planet. They cause catastrophic harm.

Cleanup IN 2013 was estimated to cost around half a trillion dollars...now the cost cannot be calculated.
THE ABE ADMINISTRATION, INSTEAD OF SPENDING MONEY TO STOP THIS MONSTER, ELECTED TO SPEND BILLIONS ON READYING JAPAN FOR THE OLYMPICS IN 2020.

IF THAT DOESN'T SHOW THE JAPANESE PEOPLE HOW EXPENDABLE THEY ARE, NOTHING WILL.  

In early July, 2013, Fukushima’s former chief operator, Masao Yoshida, died of esophogeal cancer.
He was 58. Tepco lied saying his death was unrelated to radiation exposure.

According to Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) president Arjun Makhijani:
“Fukushima continues to be an emergency without end – vast amounts of radioactivity, including strontium-90 in the groundwater, evidence of leaks into the sea, contaminated seafood.”
“Strontium-90, being a calcium analog, bioaccumulates in the food chain. It is likely to be a seaside nightmare for decades.”

STRONTIUM is much more dangerous than cesium 137 and 134.
 It’s at levels 30 times higher.

“So to give you an idea of the level of contamination, if somebody drank that water for a year, they would almost certainly get cancer.” 

"Some of it goes into the sediment, and some of it is taken up by the life in the sea.”

“And the unfortunate thing about strontium especially is that it bioaccumulates in algae. It bioaccumulates in fish.”
 If pregnant women ingest contaminated water, fish or other food, “the outcomes could be worse than cancer because then you’re talking about a much more compromised child in the sense of having a compromised immune system – it makes you more vulnerable to all kinds of diseases.”

Makhijani doesn’t know how Tepco can handle the problem.
 It’s uncontrollable.

“It’s very, very unclear to me how they are going to be able to get at this molten fuel, extract it from the bottoms of these highly damaged buildings and package it for safer or less dangerous storage or disposal.”

“This is an accident that’s shockingly not stopping.” It’s certain to worsen. It’s unchartered territory.

It affects the region. It’s humanity’s worst environmental nightmare. Nuclear rain affects North America and Europe.

“It targets the bone, because it’s like calcium. And so this is a problem. We don’t have measurements far out to sea.”


MARINE LIFE SWIMS IN IT, EATS FROM IT, BREATHES IT.
BUT WILL THE LIKES OF NOAA, THE EPA, ANY "PROTECTIVE AGENCY" ANYWHERE SAY THAT IT'S KILLING OCEAN LIFE, THAT IT WILL KILL US, TOO?


Karl Grossman:
"Avoiding potentially catastrophic accidents requires perfection and no 'acts of God'.
 Humans and technology aren’t perfect.
Natural and other disasters happen.
We can’t eliminate them.

But we can – and must – eliminate atomic energy. Otherwise it’ll eliminate us."
 Nuclear expert and pediatrician Helen Caldicott is clear and unequivocal, saying:
“As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction.”
“If present trends continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink will soon be contaminated with enough radioactive pollutants to pose a potential health hazard far greater than any plague humanity has ever experienced.”

It doesn’t get any clearer than that.


Back in 2011, German and other international nuclear experts told us all that if the nuclear cores left containment then Fukushima could never be stopped.

Dr. Sebastian Pflugbeil, the chairman of German Society of Radiation Protection says that if a so called  “China Syndrome” occurs there will be nothing that can stop the leaking.

“Nothing. There is no way to stop the nuclear fuel that has melted-through from leaking. All we could do is to pray for the fuel not to touch the underground water vein.
We must avoid internal exposure from contaminated food.  

Authorities are trying to make Japanese eat polluted food for their twisted patriotism, but on the other hand, citizens are setting up independent labs around Japan. This is very important. However, lab facility costs are huge. Maintenance, recording the data costs too. Now, the best thing Germans can do is to support those independent facilities financially.”….fukushima diary.com

June 17, 2014, the New York Times noted:

“Inside the complex, there are three wrecked reactor cores, twisted masses of hundreds of tons of highly radioactive uranium, plutonium, cesium and strontium. After the meltdown[s], which followed a tsunami and earthquake in 2011, most of the material in the reactors re-solidified, in difficult shapes and in confined spaces, wrapped around and through the structural parts of the reactors and the buildings. 

 Or at least, that is what the engineers think. Nobody really knows, because nobody has yet examined many of the most important parts of the wreckage. Though three and a half years have passed, it is still too dangerous to climb inside for a look, and sending in a camera would risk more leaks.”  

Radioactive cesium-137 levels in Pacific albacore tuna have tripled since the triple meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan, according to a study published in Environmental Science and Technology.

Delvan Neville, lead author of the study and a graduate research assistant in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics at Oregon State University, told the Statesman Journal Apr. 28, “You can’t say there is absolutely zero risk because any radiation is assumed to carry at least some small risk.”   


SOMETHING TOO FEW HAVE TALKED ABOUT

Dr. Steve Starr, Director of Clinical Laboratory Science Program, University of Missouri-Columbia, noted in a recent lecture, “Cesium 137 tends to bio-accumulate in plants and animals, which means it cannot be excreted faster than it is being ingested. Thus, as it accumulates, it increases in its concentration in the plants or animals that are routinely ingesting it. Cesium-137 also tends to bio-magnify as it moves up the food chain. This means it becomes progressively more concentrated in predator species.”

AS LONG AS IT LEAKS, LEVELS WILL CLIMB HIGHER IN OUR ENVIRONMENT (SOIL, WATER), OUR FOOD SUPPLY, OUR OWN BODIES...PERIOD...THE END.


NBC  NEWS: As US Agency Hushed-up Dangers to US Reactors; Fukushima Owners Under-reported Radiation Exposures

NBC News reported March 10, 2014,  that internal emails by staff at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission prove the agency deliberately down-played known earthquake and tsunami vulnerabilities at aging US reactors in the early days of the Fukushima catastrophe. NBC said the emails, “show that the campaign to reassure the public about America’s nuclear industry came as the agency’s [NRC’s] own experts were questioning US safety standards and scrambling to determine whether new rules were needed to ensure that the meltdown[s] occurring at the Japanese [site] could not occur here.”

NBC said the emails reveal the NRC’s “efforts to protect the industry it is supposed to regulate.”

The news network went as far as to say, “Dating back to the Three Mile Island nuclear crisis in 1979, many nuclear watchdogs and critics have said that the NRC acts first to protect the industry, and its own reputation.”

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was helped in misleading the public by Tepco, which repeatedly underestimated internal radiation exposures of its workers involved in immediate emergency response, according to Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, Asahi Shimbun reported.

Last July, the Ministry reviewed exposure data on around workers and revealed that reported exposure levels for 452 out of 1,300 workers surveyed were too low. After that announcement, the Ministry looked at records of the remaining 6,200 workers, and in late March it announced 142 additional cases of underreporting.

TEPCO did not have whole-body radiation counters when the radiation disaster began, so true contamination measurements were not possible.


TEPCO NEVER SPENT MONEY ON REAL SAFETY...THAT CUT INTO PROFITS.

AND THIS IS THE ONLY THING WEIGHING ON ABE'S MIND....

Tokyo Olympics to Boost Japan by as Much as 30 Trillion Yen

Bloomberg · 1 day ago

The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics will boost the Japanese economy as much as 30 trillion yen ($249 billion) by 2020.

WILL IT BE ENOUGH TO REBUILD JAPAN'S MILITARY?



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FULL INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR MURATA CAN BE FOUND AT... 
http://nuclearhotseat.com/2015/12/16/nuclear-hotseat-234-honorable-retreat-ftokyo-olympics-ambassador-murata/

BODY FOUND AT WIPP NUCLEAR WASTE FACILITY IN NEW MEXICO

THE BODY OF A 62-YEAR-OLD EMPLOYEE WAS DISCOVERED ONSITE AT THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT (WIPP) NEAR CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO, DECEMBER 28, 2015.

LOCAL SHERIFF IS INVESTIGATING.

FACILITY BASICALLY PARALYZED AND ISOLATED DUE TO ICE AND SNOW...ROADS ALMOST IMPASSABLE INTO FACILITY.
CAN EMPLOYEES GET IN OR OUT?  

WIPP ASKS FOR STATE HELP, ISSUES LEVEL 1 EMERGENCY ACTIVATION.
"Robert Staffel was a quality assurance employee.
 Phil Breidenbach, NWP president and project manager [said] “We will continue to support the investigation into Mr. Staffel’s death.”

SEVERAL ARTICLES IN NEW MEXICO'S MEDIA HAVE REPORTED ON WIPP'S FAULTY DESIGN, LACK OF PROPER AIRFLOW UNDERGROUND, THE HASTY "FIX" THAT WASN'T A FIX, BUT NO MENTION OF VENTILATION PROBLEMS AT OLD WIPP WHEN A MAN IS FOUND DEAD...



WIPP was a DOE disaster from the start(SCROLL DOWN TO THE ABOVE HEADLINE ON THAT WEBSITE)

THE WIPP FACILITY has insufficient air flow in the underground mine.


This problem has its origin in an unconscionable decision by Department of Energy managers several decades ago.During the WIPP construction, DOE headquarters proposed eliminating the air supply shaft as a supposed cost-saving measure.

Managers in the DOE Albuquerque field office mindlessly concurred, despite strong objections raised by an internal engineering review.
The DOE executives then awarded themselves cash bonuses for this bogus cost savings.
After WIPP was built, the underground airflow – not surprisingly – was found to be inadequate.

An air supply shaft was then constructed at significantly higher cost than the original concept.
But the underground configuration was such that the resulting air flow rate was necessarily lower than it would have been with the original design.


The WIPP ventilation debacle is but one of an endless series of costly fiascoes demonstrating that DOE is intellectually and morally bankrupt.


THAT SAME FAULTY VENTILATION SYSTEM WAS DUE TO BE OVERHAULED YET AGAIN THIS PAST OCTOBER. 
WAS IT?

"The IVS consists of two fans that draw air from out of the underground and of High Efficiency Particulate Air filter units that filter the air in the underground before it is released into the environment.
Duct work also needs to be installed to connect the IVS to the existing ventilation system at the site.

The IVS will be used with already existing HEPA filters and fans at the facility, "significantly increasing the overall amount of airflow in the underground."

With increased airflow in the WIPP underground it will increase the amount of work that can be down in the underground at once, as well as allow more diesel-fueled equipment to be used."

HAD WIPP GOTTEN AROUND TO THAT YET, OR WAS IT STILL INSUFFICIENT FLOW WHEN THIS MAN DIED?

KNOWING THAT IT WAS UP FOR REPAIRS YET AGAIN, SHOUDN'T WE WONDER IF THIS MAN WAS BELOW GROUND LEVEL WHEN HE DIED, AND IF HE HAD SUFFICIENT AIRFLOW DOWN THERE, OR NOT? 

IF HE WAS MY RELATIVE, I'D BLOODY WELL WANT TO KNOW.

WIPP HAD BEEN CLOSED FOR TWO DAYS

WHY?
DOESN'T THE DOE MANDATE FACILITIES TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR ALL POSSIBLE NATURAL DISASTERS, EMERGENCIES?
IF WIPP WAS READY FOR INCLEMENT WEATHER, IT WOULDN'T NEED TO CLOSE!
Officials at an underground nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico say they have activated their emergency operations center in response to the severe weather that has hit much of New Mexico. 

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant has been closed for the past couple of days due to the inclement weather.

[WIPP IS A DEEP UNDERGROUND FACILITY.
DOES SNOW AFFECT THE UNDERGROUND SALT CAVERNS WHERE ALL THAT WASTE IS STORED?

IF EMPLOYEES WERE THERE WHEN THE 'INCLEMENT WEATHER' BEGAN, AREN'T THEY STILL THERE?
IF THEY LEFT AND THEIR REPLACEMENTS DIDN'T SHOW UP, WHO'S RUNNING THINGS?

WAS THIS MAN SCHEDULED TO LEAVE THE FACILITY AND DID NOT AND THAT IS WHAT PROMPTED HIS FAMILY TO SEARCH FOR HIS WHEREABOUTS?

MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.]

The emergency operations center was activated Tuesday on a limited basis so resources could be coordinated to clear roads in the area so employees could return to work.
Officials say the roads were snow packed and icy.

ICE AND SNOW SLOWED ARRIVAL OF RESCUE SQUAD AND SHERIFF
The Eddy County Sheriff's Office said a man who was found unconscious at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant on Sunday is dead.
Emergency service responders were dispatched to WIPP at around 9:45 p.m. when the employee was found unresponsive at the facility located about 23 miles from Carlsbad.

The snow storm that blew through Southeast New Mexico and dumped 15 inches of snow in Carlsbad was in full force at that hour.

Chief Deputy Mark Cage said in a news release that the man was pronounced dead at the scene. 
The cause of death is unknown and the sheriff's office is actively investigating the incident, said Sgt. Matt Hutchinson.
Hutchinson could not confirm whether the weekend snow storm was a factor in the man's death. 

However, Hutchinson said because of the icy road conditions, it took emergency responders longer to reach the WIPP site.
"Snow is going to be a factor but only because of the time it took to get to them," Hutchinson said. "It took detectives, at a maximum speed of 20 miles per hour because of the weather, some time to respond too."

 It was also not [initially] known what the man's job at the facility was." 
TODAY, WIPP ANNOUNCED A LEVEL 1 EMERGENCY ACTIVATION

"...to support coordination of resources needed to safely restore normal operations at WIPP due to the recent severe snow storm in southeast New Mexico.

The icy and snow packed road conditions have made road conditions difficult for the workforce to

commute to the WIPP site.
Resources are being requested, both locally and from the state of New Mexico, to mobilize snow removal equipment to clear the north and south access roads and the WIPP parking lot.

A Level 1 EOC activation allows monitoring and coordination of resources by key emergency management and Department of Energy personnel.

 

Level 1 is the least severe of all EOC activation levels."

AND GREATER THAN LEVEL 1 WOULD PANIC THE POPULACE, RIGHT?

WIPP SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN OPENED...EXPERTS WARNED THE DOE MANY YERARS AGO.

NOW THAT IT'S FALLING DOWN, LEAKING LIKE A SIEVE, HOW CAN ANYONE ACTUALLY CLOSE IT?

IS THERE ANY WAY TO CLOSE IT SAFELY?
YOU MAY BE UNAWARE THAT IN OCTOBER THIS YEAR, AN OLD NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP EXPLODED IN THE NEVADA DESERT.


On Sunday of last week [October 18, 2015] a long closed radioactive waste dump ~100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada burned and exploded from "heavily corroded" 55-gallon drums of supposedly "low level" radioactive waste.

This waste is purportedly a step below the "medium-level" bomb and fuel slurry wastes that more recently has gone for long-term sequestration in the "troubled" (as in "exploding") and still closed deep salt mine WIPP facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico.  

State officials said this week they didn't immediately know what blew up.  

Federal records document 4.7 million cubic feet of radioactive materials were buried before the company lost its license and the facility was closed.   
There is a 40-second cell phone video of white smoke and big explosions available here [please watch]. Note the size of the buildings in the background to the right of the burning/exploding trench for some perspective on how big these explosions were. A 20' x 30' crater was created, debris was scattered nearly 200 feet around and two drums of radioactive waste were blown outside the fence line of the 40 acre dump site.
Another 40 acre hazardous waste dump site next to this one is still operated by US Ecology and disposes of industrial PCB [polychlorinated biphenyls] waste. The company was fined nearly $500,000 by the EPA in 2008 when inspectors found leaking containers and operations logs documenting improperly vented smoke emissions contaminated with hazardous wastes.

Former US Senator Richard Bryan recalled hearings about what was going into the site when he was NV Attorney General

More on the Nevada fire:
Tests underway after fire put out at radioactive waste site
[Note: The fire was not "put out," it was allowed to burn itself out because responders had no idea what was burning and the explosions were big.]"

IF ANY READERS ARE RESIDENTS OF THAT AREA, WERE ANY EVACUATION SUGGESTIONS MADE, ANY DOOR-TO-DOOR NOTIFICATIONS?

I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT.

NOR WERE RESIDENTS DOWNWIND FROM WIPP INFORMED, NOT WHEN THE FIRST 'ACCIDENT' HAPPENED, NOT NOW THAT THE FACILITY HAD TO CLOSE AND IS ASKING FOR STATE HELP, NOT EVER..

WE ARE ON OUR OWN, AMERICANS.