Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Whistleblower Dr. Kate Brown Addresses Ongoing Nuclear Disaster in California



Nuclear Disasters in Process:
Brown, Kate (2019, November 19). California’s San Onofre Nuclear Plant is a Chernobyl waiting to happen. The Los Angeles Times, https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-11-19/san-onofre-nuclear-plant-waste-radioactive

Last month, the California Coastal Commission gave Southern California Edison permission to dismantle the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and move its 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste from wet to dry storage.Local activists cheered after the troubled San Onofre plant was permanently shut down in 2013 after a 75-gallon-a-day radioactive leak was discovered in a new steam generator. Closing it didn’t stop the threat...

...The lack of preventive measures at San Onofre is disturbing. There is no procedure in place to remove the 50-ton casks of highly radioactive waste from their vaults in response to changing environmental conditions such as erosion or rising sea levels. There is no budget to inspect the spent fuel, nor funds to transfer radioactive waste from thin-walled to sturdier thick-walled casks. In the event of corrosion and loss of containment, there are no procedures in place to repair or slow the leak of radioactive contaminants.


See also Kate Brown's excellent historical work on Chernobyl and this impactful interview:
Unreported Deaths, Child Cancer & Radioactive Meat: The Untold Story of Chernobyl StoryAugust 26, 2019. Democracy Now, Watch Full Show
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/26/kate_brown_chernobyl_manual_for_survival

Guests Kate Brown, professor of science, technology and society at MIT specializing in environmental and nuclear history.

Following a mysterious nuclear accident in Russia that left seven dead, we look back at the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. It sent a cloud of radioactive fallout into Russia, Belarus and over a large portion of Europe, but the death toll from Chernobyl remains unknown. 

Chernobyl is considered the worst nuclear accident in history, but Kate Brown, an MIT professor of science, technology and society, says much of what we understand about the disaster is inaccurate. Her new book, “Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future,” chronicles the devastating and underreported impact of radiation on tens of thousands in the Soviet Union that went unreported for decades. Brown says, “After about five years of research, I realized that much of what we know about Chernobyl is just either incomplete or fully incorrect.”



7 comments:

  1. 28,000  Dow
    -Donald fuko the clown and Nancy Pelosis Mitch McConnell-Dow Fake Lethal Nucleoape bubble


    -After space x announced it will push ahead with launching 55,000 rockets,  puting gigatons of the worst space junk and shit in orbit,  so that 5G  can fry everything that is left on earth
    -After fuko reboots a cold war that has caused a nuclear missile
    explosion in russia
    -To subsidize 96 shitty reactors ready to explode
    -After the bloody coup in bolivia pulled off with US help. Same for Brazil and ecuador.
    Nucleoape countries like China, Russia, and France, are shameless but, the USA takes the cake. Nuking the hell out of everything, mainly its own zombified moronic, citizens . Interference in Latin American  Countries benefit the wall street oil and mining co intereats and only them while sending more refugees streaming to radioactive-chemical, pesticide shithole america
    -3 trillion for a New ICBM nuclear missile systems and thousands of plutonium pits to upgrade the nuclear arsenal
    -Billions on bullshit SMRa for evil brain damaged, crackheads Bezos and Gates
    -Billions upon billions for Boeing . The company that purposely makes jets they know will crash. Refuses to cleanup santa susana.
    More tillions  for all the other MIC-Nuclear, whores in  radioactive shithole america while refusing to clean up santa susana or any of the most radioactive messes in the world in america
    -Billions to Trillions for Holtec a foreign SHITHOLE company to store hundreds of thousands of tons  the worst, dirty-bomb nuclear waste in ahoddy Cesium137, cobalt60, Strontium 90, Plutonium in 20 ton thin-skinned container,  parking lots across america.
    -Billions upon trillions to make Hanford, the Idaho National Atomic Laboratory, Los Alamos Worse


    Kissinger, Perry and fuko , pelosi, mcconnel  have stakes in Waste management solutions

    This fuker murdered millions in Cambodia Laos Vietnam. If its thousand reactor dream, had came to fruition everything would be dead before fukushima from all the nuclear waste and nuclear meltdowns yet the stupid evil fuks continue to push this shit


    https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2016/10/26948/

    Evil shit Dickey


    "Elsewhere, President Nixon called for the construction of 1,000 new nuclear plants in the United States by the year 1980, complete with federal funding of new initiatives, public-private partnerships with major energy industries, and regulatory reforms and exemptions to expedite the process of construction. Unfortunately, due to a failure to marshal significant public support for the nuclear side of the energy plan and the untimely occurrence of Watergate, the nuclear plans went largely unfulfilled after 1974."

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  2. They use surveilance from the Patriot act and its trillion dollar totalitarian spy complex to harrass and spy on Pipeline and Antinuclear activists. Cops Use it on a local level on law abiding citizens. The United states is the worlds largeat arms producer and seller. Fuko even brags about how much arms he has sold on behalf of Raytheon, Martin Boeing etc all subsidized and payed for vy americas tax dollars
    Then there are the ongping wars. The quadrupling of useless nuclear arms and icbm production

    2019/11/19/handing-trump-terrifying-authoritarian-surveillance-powers-house-democrats-include?fbclid=IwAR2QqFhHygVHhQWFmAzt0sHitigfR6wPnkLHdc–j6UZlXwOMKUmcQ_MGSA

    They reauthorize it because there is the multibiollion dollar NSA monitoring centrer in Draper Utah. They reauthorize it, because old demented evil, pig millionaires like Nancy Pelosi and Mtch McConnell, have significant investhments in it and in ATT -Verizon. It is a 100 billion dollar a year, boondogle. It is called National Socialism.

    The NSA and intelligence spooks, in mureca are into everything. Into everyones business. 4 million in prisons in the imperialist-fascist, plutocratic,nuclear shithole state.
    Wally ODell, the Old NSA spook established the massive networks of flipable electronic voting machines under Bush , starting in 2000.

    28,000 Dow Gorged On Nuclear Death
    -Donald fuko the clown and Nancy Pelosis -Dow Fake Lethal Nucleoape bubble

    -After the bloody coup in bolivia pulled off by the CIA . It benefitted the wall street oil and mining co interests and only them
    -After space x announced it will push ahead with launching 55,000 rockets, puting gigatons of the worst space junk and shit in orbit, so that 5G can fry everything that is left on earth
    -After fuko reboots a cold war that has caused a nuclear missile
    explosion in russia
    -To subsidize 96 shitty reactors ready to explode
    -3 trillion for a New ICBM nuclear missile systems and thousands of plutonium pits to upgrade the nuclear arsenal
    -Billions on bullshit SMRs for evil brain damaged, crackheads Bezos and Gates
    -Billions upon billions for Boeing . The company that purposely makes jets they know will crash. Refuses to cleanup santa susana.
    More trillions for all the other MIC-Nuclear, whores in radioactive shithole america . They refuseto clean up santa susana or any of the most radioactive messes in the world, in america
    -Billions to Trillions for Holtec a foreign SHITHOLE company to store hundreds of thousands of tons the worst, dirty-bomb nuclear waste in shoddy Cesium137, cobalt60, Strontium 90, Plutonium in 20 ton thin-skinned container, parking lots across america.
    -Billions upon trillions to make Hanford, the Idaho National Atomic Laboratory, Los Alamos Worse

    Kissinger, Perry and fuko , pelosi, mcconnell have stakes in Waste management solutions and holtec


    They spend Billions upon billions to Fund Nuclear Weapons production And Development Research at Major Univeristies and so called private Universities that have fake charters against such evil.

    https://nuclear-news.net/2019/11/21/john-nhopkins-university-prominent-in-helping-the-nuclear-weapons-industry/

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  3. Kate Brown goes through harrassment, like all of us do. Like Dr. Busby. Like Dr Caldicott. Like Arnie. It is sad. I hope she will be OK. Most people are not getting it. NH is broadcast all over the USA now. That is good. The people that ignore it and, blatently deny it now are in peril. They will be very sad if they or someone gets sick and, they realize what is going on.

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    1. I was in a VA hospital. There was the token picture on the bottom floor. It looked like a Rabid Weaael on Meth, showing it's teeth. Not human. Like a sick cartoon. That is what the picture of Fuko the clown looks like in VA hospitals, across the USA

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    2. Ohio: the nuclear industry’s violent assault on democracy

      Ohio’s Pro-Nuke Assault Threatens American Democracy with Violence & More, by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, NOVEMBER 22, 2019,The nuclear industry’s violent assault on democracy in Ohio has taken a surreal leap. It could seriously impact whether Donald Trump will carry this swing state—-and the nation—-in 2020.
      Ohio’s GOP secretary of state has now asked the Ohio Supreme Court NOT to provide a federal judge with answers about key procedural questions surrounding the state’s referendum process.

      The short-term issue is about a billion-dollar bailout for two nuke reactors and two coal burners.

      Long-term it asks whether targeted violence perpetrated by paid thugs will now define our election process. And whether the public referendum will remain a workable part of our democracy.

      The battle starts with House Bill 6, the now-infamous billion-dollar nuke bailout approved by the corrupt, gerrymandered Ohio legislature in late July.

      HB6 forces all Ohio ratepayers to subsidize two crumbling nukes on Lake Erie, along with two decrepit coal burners, one of them in Indiana. It helps underwrite ten small solar farms, but undercuts much larger subsidies for other wind and solar facilities.

      The Perry reactor east of Cleveland, and Davis-Besse near Toledo, are among the world’s most dangerous, decrepit reactors. Both were set to shut because they cannot compete with wind and solar, as well as fracked gas.

      But Akron-based FirstEnergy spent millions to “persuade” the legislature to hand them a billion dollars to keep their uncompetitive, uninsured and essentially unregulated reactors on line.

      Reprinted with authors permission
      https://nuclear-news.net/2019/11/23/ohio-the-nuclear-industrys-violent-assault-on-democracy/

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    3. When the bailout passed, a statewide group called Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts turned in a petition for a repeal referendum on the 2020 ballot. The law allows 90 days for referendum sponsors to gather signatures to get on the ballot. In this case 265,711 would be required.

      Ohio’s Attorney General David Yost sat on the request for 19 days, then rejected it. OACB filed a second application, which the AG sat on for another 19 days before approving it.

      That left the petitioners just 52 days to gather signatures.

      But signature gatherers were immediately attacked with violent threats and bribery offers. In the field, they (and potential signatories) were physically assaulted by “blockers” hired by the nuclear industry. Sworn testimony about these attacks was filmed at a public gathering in Columbus and can be seen here:

      https://freepress.org/article/free-press-second-saturday-petition-blockers-threaten-our-democracy

      Bailout opponents then went to federal court to ask that the 38 days consumed by the AG be restored to the petition campaign, which came up short at the 90-day deadline. A federal judge asked for guidance from the Ohio Supreme Court and submitted five questions for the Justices to answer.

      And here things have leapt to another level. Frank LaRose, the Ohio Secretary of State, has now asked the Ohio Supreme Court NOT to respond to the federal judge’s queries.

      In other words: the Republican attorney general killed nearly half the allotted signature gathering time for the repeal of this bailout. A federal judge has asked to hear from the state Supreme Court. And now Ohio’s Republican secretary of state has asked that Court NOT to comply, in a direct attempt to prevent Ohioans from voting on whether they’re to be forced to pay a billion dollar subsidy for two lethal, money losing atomic reactors.

      This shocking combination of overt threats, bribery and outright physical violence, combined with judicial stall tactics by elected Ohio officials, breaks new ground in the assault on democracy itself in the American heartland.

      The issue cuts to the core of the 2020 election. Donald Trump has met personally with at least one principal lobbyist for FirstEnergy, the prime beneficiary of the bailout. At least one of his associates lobbied at least five legislators in its behalf.

      But a statewide referendum for repeal could be catastrophic for the GOP. Polls show more than 60% of Ohioans opposed. That includes much of the normally corporate statewide media. Many big industrial organizations have joined the fossil fuel industry here in fighting it.

      If the referendum does get on the 2020 ballot, it will clearly energize a strong progressive voter turnout. Outraged ratepayers could very easily make the difference in a closely divided swing state. So for Trump and his minions, killing a vote on this billion-dollar rip-off is vital.

      Their assault must be seen as part of a larger attack on democracy itself. The right to referendum has been established in numerous states for a century or more. That physical violence, choreographed bribery and official legal manipulation would now be used to kill it bodes badly for our future.

      From the rise in violent white supremacist bigotry, to unaccountable police murders, to Charlottesville, to the recent attack on Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin to the concerted Republican assault on paper ballots and fair, inclusive voting practices, it’s clear the GOP intends to gut democracy in 2020 and beyond.

      This all-out utility and official attack on the referendum process in Ohio has put a billion-dollar price tag on two nukes capable of doing trillions in damage to human health and the eco-systems of the Great Lakes region.

      But it also signals a broader war against both democracy and truth, one we must all take very, very seriously.

      —————-

      Attorney Bob Fitrakis, Ph.D., is publisher of the Columbus Free Press. He’s co-author

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  4. NIRS
    @nirsnet
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    Nov 22
    NRC has abjectly refused to upgrade EPZ regs based on lessons learned from real-world nuclear disasters #Fukushima #Chernobyl #ThreeMileIsland NIRS + 37 other groups proposed a new regulation in 2012 ... but NRC rejected it https://nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/reactorwatch/emergency/epzpressrelease4914.pdf…
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    Edwin Lyman
    @NucSafetyUCS
    · Nov 22
    A new @NRCgov document highlights its differences with the Federal Emergency Management Agency over the last several years, including emergency planning zone (EPZ) size for advanced reactors and "the timing of reactor startups following hurricanes." https://nrc.gov/docs/ML1921/ML19218A277.pdf

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