The change in concentration is often attributed to natural processes related to depleting ground water supplies.
Although one cannot discount the role of "natural processes" in causing elevated uranium levels in drinking water, few accounts address polluting human activities.
I don't believe this is an innocent omission. There is a clear pattern of denial of human-caused radioactive contamination, even in the most glaring of illustrations. For example:
A recent example from South Carolina illustrates the role of human pollution:
Fretwell, Sammy (24, July 2018). Radioactive pollution leaked through floor of SC nuclear fuel plant. The State. Available https://www.thestate.com/news/business/article215355955.html
Radioactive uranium has leaked through the floor at the Westinghouse fuel factory on Bluff Road, contaminating the soil in an area of Richland County with a nearly 35-year history of groundwater pollution from the plant.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the uranium, a toxic substance used to make nuclear fuel rods, seeped through a 3-inch hole in a concrete floor in part of the factory where an acid is used. The hole extends 6 feet into the ground, according to the NRC. The NRC learned of the leak July 12.How long do you think that hole in the floor (extending 6 feet into the ground) was known?
The article reports that government officials "have no reason to believe" the uranium contaminated public water supplies and/or the adjacent Congaree River Floodplain.
People need to remember that holes at industrial sites, particularly nuclear sites, NEVER contaminate drinking water.
Those holes are containment sites. They are kind of like black holes that never let go of any matter or energy sucked into their vortex.
Most all contaminants in drinking water are naturally occurring. Because they are naturally occurring, they pose little risks to biological health.
Fukushima Daiichi taught me these lessons well:
July 18 2018
Fukushima Diagram leaked by the Swiss Embassy in Japan:
Trumps has an answer for uranium leaking into the ground water, in the gacility in sc. Make just dump all uranium and waste into the hole in the floor, to contaminate ground water. Then they would allow less government scrutiny and blame it all on naturally occuring uranium. That is not even joking. It is what a dystopian nightmare we are in. The agents that say they are concerned about fukushima got trump elected and support the thing and its ilk whole heartedly. They support nuclear armament. Yhey support keeping reactors open. They support trucking the shit all over the nation. If the truth were told, all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle and weapons cycles will have killed more, caused more acute- chronic and and heritable illness, more genomic damage, more destruction of life on earth, more infertility, more birth defects and terrible cancer deaths than anything else in the world. How charmingly psychotic most of us are
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ReplyDeleteExtreme radionuclide exposure and extreme heat. Great combination for olympics.
Japans answer to reopening, decrepit-crapply old nuclear reactors. Reactors, that were damaged by the same 9.0 quake that caused Fukushima.
Their answer is to have have dumpy, little warships patrol areas by the coast and supposedly by the reactors to boost security. Hope they have good seismic equipment on board so they can leave quickly not get irradiadted to death like the USS Ronald Reagan. That is, when another one of their old clunker reactors, will explode from an earthquake. It will expose the true safety concern.
https://nuclear-news.net/2018/07/25/usas-nuclear-regulatory-commission-stifled-research-into-nuclear-radiations-effects-on-pregnancy/
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Thanks Weez. I wonder why they use Depleted Uranium. MAYBE just to get rid of it. They do not care. Most people do not care, till they or a loved one gets sick.
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It will happen. All the bullshit anywhere is wrong.
I have no influence over anything. I can look at the internet. I can amuse myself, by trying to find valid information, from multiple sources.
The truth of the matter is, something is always trying to change it. The ways they try now, are getting scary.
Th money power, the oligarchs, the corporations have the most say in things.
If there is a nuclear war, in a far off land, i know some of the fallout will come here.
Refugees will come. No matter how blacked out they may, make things, there will be fallout.
The global warming spectre is making nuclear much more dangerous
DeleteExpensive apocolyptic, reactors make it worse
https://nuclear-news.net/2018/07/27/frances-nuclear-power-stations-affected-by-extreme-heat-causing-restricted-output/
Reactors dangerous and catastrophic beyond comprehension especially with Global Warming
https://nuclear-news.net/2018/07/27/warming-sea-water-affecting-cooling-systems-in-finlands-nuclear-power-station/
People Dying in Tokyo from Heat Stroke
https://nuclear-news.net/2018/07/25/as-heatwave-engulfs-japan-climate-change-adds-to-the-nuclear-danger/
Hunziler: The Buning Planet
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/27/the-burning-planet/
Jet Streams Christina Macpherson
https://nuclear-news.net/2018/07/27/climate-change-ensures-that-therell-be-more-heat-waves/
No number of laws or regulations will work unless the persons involved are virtuous. Fear is limited in its operations. No amount of education will help much either. But what institution dwells on virtues? Certainly not the universities these days.
ReplyDeleteThe difference between medieval Europe and current America is not so great as appearances would suggest. We still have an aristocracy and a kind of peasant class; in between are those that serve the aristocrats.
A striking example of this class distinction took place in 2016 when a sailor trivially violates the Espionage Act & goes to prison for a year; a prominent political figure who has massively violated that Act is exonerated!
Thus the Aristocrats are generally above the law; the demos keep the prisons filled.
The Aristocrats are invested in the corporations that pollute--not the peasants. The Aristocrats set the social tone usually. How virtuous are they?
This is not the national review or fox news you asswhipe dweeb
DeleteNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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