What in the
world is really going on at Los Alamos, Ft. Calhoun and Fukushima?
There are millions of Americans that would like the truth about
what is happening at these nuclear facilities, but the mainstream
media has been strangely quiet. Instead, the mainstream media is
running headlines such as "10 Dirtiest U.S. Beaches Named" and "Pole
Dance Stops Times Square Cold". Yes, those are actually headlines
that appeared on the front pages of major mainstream news websites
in the United States today. Sadly, you really have to dig to find
anything about the problems that are currently happening at nuclear
facilities in the United States, and the mainstream media seems
to have gotten really tired of talking about Fukushima. It is almost
as if the mainstream media actually prefers to talk about mindless
things rather than focus on the truly important events that are
happening all around us.
Look, most
of us are not nuclear experts, but when one of our nuclear plants
is completely surrounded by flood waters and another one is being
seriously threatened by a raging wildfire we have a right to be
concerned.
Sadly, the
coverage by the mainstream media has been so sparse that the majority
of Americans don't even know that there are problems at Los Alamos
and Ft. Calhoun. Most Americans also don't understand how serious
the Fukushima disaster really is.
Let's take
a closer look at what has been happening at Los Alamos, Ft. Calhoun
and Fukushima lately....
Los
Alamos
A 93-square-mile
wildfire has approached the perimeter of the Los Alamos nuclear
lab in New Mexico. Authorities are warning that this wildfire could
soon double or triple in size and an all-out effort is being
made to fight it.
Right now the
major concern is that the raging wildfire could threaten a dump
site where an estimated 20,000 55-gallon drums of nuclear waste
are being stored.
Instead of
being stored securely, these 20,000 drums of nuclear waste are being
stored in above-ground tents.
Authorities
are telling the public that the wildfire has gotten to within a
few miles of the dump site.
However, it
has also been reported that the wildfire is now within 50
feet of the Los Alamos facility itself, and there was even one
report that flames were "just
across the road" from the southern edge of the famous lab where
the very first nuclear bomb was developed during World War II.
Authorities
at Los Alamos continue to insist that there is nothing to be concerned
about.
But that is
also what they said about Fukushima at first.
Joni Arends,
the executive director of the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety,
says that if the wildfires reach the nuclear waste it
could be a total nightmare....
"The
concern is that these drums will get so hot that they’ll burst.
That would put this toxic material into the plume. It’s a concern
for everybody."
But the dump
site is not the only concern.
According to
a
recent Reuters article, there is quite a bit of plutonium at
the Los Alamos facility....
John
Witham, a spokesman for the anti-nuclear group Nuclear Watch New
Mexico, said it is the only place in the country that produces
plutonium pits that are carried in the core of nuclear bombs.
Three
metric tons of highly radioactive weapons-grade plutonium is stored
in concrete and steel vaults in the basement floor of a building
near the center of the complex, with an air-containment system
surrounding it, Witham said.
So in light
of all of this information, don't you think that the mainstream
media should be keeping us better informed about what is really
going on out there?
Ft.
Calhoun
As you read
this, the Ft. Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska is completely
surrounded by water, and there has been some minor leakage into
some of the buildings.
On Sunday,
the swelling Missouri River surged past a 2000 foot inflatable berm.
Approximately 2 feet of water rapidly surrounded all of the buildings
at the facility.
The Nuclear
Regulatory Commission insists that there is nothing to worry about,
but it is also being reported that flood waters are literally "at
the door" of the primary buildings.
Yes, this is
not going to be another Fukushima, but it is a very, very serious
situation. The American people deserve to be told about what is
happening.
In a
recent article about the Ft. Calhoun disaster, Michael Wolf
raised some very interesting questions about what is going on at
Ft. Calhoun....
The government
is telling us not to panic. All is under control, just like in
Japan. But here are a few troubling inconsistencies. One, the
Red Cross shelter next to the Fort Calhoun plant has been closed.
They claim it was due to “decreased need.” During a flood? Now
there is a no-fly zone around the plant. Then there is the disturbing
news that the spent fuel rod pool was so full that they store
the surplus fuel rods in a dry storage area outside the safety
of the pool. How long will that area stay dry and what happens
if it gets wet? One reporter claims the dry storage bunker is
now half-submerged. One of the intake structures is prone to flooding
that could affect the water pumps. Non-functional water pumps?
Does that sound familiar?
The few news
reports that we have gotten out of the area have been more than
a little alarming....
Sadly, most
Americans don't know anything about Ft. Calhoun because the mainstream
media has been largely ignoring this story.
Fukushima
Of course the
ongoing saga at Fukushima is one of the biggest news stories of
this century. Most analysts are finally acknowledging that this
is the worst nuclear disaster in history. The disaster at Fukushima
will be seriously affecting our environment and the health of millions
of people for decades to come.
More bad news
is continually pouring out of the region. For example, did you know
that large numbers of people living in northern Japan now have radioactive
urine?
It's true.
More than 3
millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of
people living 30 to 40 kilometers away from Fukushima.
How would you
feel if that happened to you?
Very, very
high radiation levels continue to be detected all around Fukushima.
For example, check out what an
article in the Telegraph recently had to say about the
level of radiation that was found in the water in one trench near
the facility....
The water
seeping into a trench outside the Number two reactor at Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan had a radiation level
of more than 1,000 millisieverts per hour.
Such
a high level can cause temporary radiation sickness including
nausea and vomiting and far exceeds the 100 millisievert per hour
which is generally regarded the lowest amount at which cancer
risks are apparent.
How many people
in Japan (and around the world) are going to end up developing cancer
as a result of this disaster? The truth is that we will probably
never know the full health toll.
The way that
the Japanese authorities have handled Fukushima has been a complete
and total nightmare. We may never know the full truth about what
has been going on.
But what we
do know is that Fukushima is now the worst nuclear disaster in history.
Just check out the following excerpt from a
recent article by Stephen C. Jones....
By way
of comparison, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occured in
1986 in the Ukraine, Russia- heretofore the worst nuclear disaster
on record- burned for 10 days and cumulatively killed an estimated
1 million people worldwide. The Fukushima, Japan nuclear disaster
has 5 nuclear reactors burning, 2 in partial meltdown and 3 in
full meltdown- and they've ALL been uncontrollably burning since
March 11th. Its been over 3 months and this nuclear disaster remains
completely out of control. In fact, some industry estimates cite
the possibility that these meltdowns will be contained (optimistically)
in 1-3 years, at the very earliest.
Sadly, our
politicians and those that control the media apparently believe
that it is better for us "not to panic" than to receive the truth.