Secret Squirrel asks, "Are you told nuclear energy is safe?"Yes.You're told that, but is nuclear energy actually safe?..................No.We know so.We are lied to, constantly,by government, whenever it is convenient for it to carry out it's agenda and defend and protect itself,from truth honesty and justice, which, face it, occurs much more often than not,especially with respect to nuclear energy.It lies, government lies.
Yet another of the nuclear industry's dirty little secrets is now out. Spent nuclear fuel pools are for more lethal than the reactor core or a nuclear bomb and they do not have any containment what so ever.The government's say they're safe, and have been safe,but Japan is proving they are not,certainly and most decidedly not.Both the reactor and the fuel pond, are highly unstable,vulnerable,and seemingly unaccountably uncontrollable.The Japanese plant at present is generating a three year dose of radiation per /hour at the gate.
Here from the German, Speigel Online..."After the earthquake and tsunami in Japan followed by the ever-worsening stream of terrible news relating to the country's nuclear power facilities, even the last remaining advocates of the technology must realize that we can't go on like this. It is over. Done. Finished. Nuclear energy cannot be controlled by humans, no matter how good the arguments might be in its favour. The danger of disaster is real, and it can happen at any time – even in a super high-tech country such as Japan. And it could also happen here( in Germany). A sense of security when it comes to atomic reactors is no longer possible. Not anywhere."On December 12, 1952, the NRX reactor,Chalk River,Ottawa,Canada, suffered a partial meltdown,due to operator and mechanical error.
Ridiculously serious nuclear "accidents" occurred at Windscale in 1957, at Three Mile Island(mechanical and operator error) in 1979,and at Chernobyl(operator error) in 1986 are well known.Some remain to be described. Others such as the releases from the Hanford site in Washington State where eight reactors were built to produce military plutonium between 1943 and 1971 have been disclosed in the United States using Freedom of Information Act provisions.
In February 1986, 19,000 pages of documents were
released on the application of the Hanford Education Action League. They learned that clouds of radioactive iodine, ruthenium, caesium and other elements were released into the atmosphere contaminating people, animals, water and crops for hundreds of miles. Between 1944 and 1956, 530,000 curies of radioactive iodine was released. The Colombia River became grossly contaminated. In 1954, with six reactors on line, 8,000 curies of radioactive material was dumped into the river each day. By comparison, the radioactivity released at Three Mile Island was 15-24 curies of radioactive iodine. From Chernobyl 3 million curies of caesium 137 was released – a total comparable with the fallout from all nuclear weapons
tests to date. The estimate of all radionuclides released from Chernobyl is 50 million curies.During the Sizewell Public Inquiry it Other incidents, especially those that occurred during the Cold War, were not then made known to the public. Some remain to be described.
We were,and indeed we are, being lied to.Imagine, an explosion at a nuclear plant, by operator error, Chernobyl, explosion, radiation,cities,Chernobyl,Prypyat, evacuated, two cities populations irradiated,heavily,with nuclear radiation.Prypyat,the closest city was 3 kilometers away,none of the cities was evacuated immediately,and the cities still remain abandoned today as unsafe,25 years later.Soviet scientists reported that the Chernobyl Unit 4 reactor contained about 180–190 metric tons of uranium dioxide fuel and fission products. Estimates of the amount of this material that escaped range from 5 to 30 percent, but some liquidators, who have actually been inside the sarcophagus and the reactor
shell itself — e.g. Mr. Usatenko and Dr. Karpan — state that not more than 5–10% of the fuel remains inside; indeed, photographs of the reactor shell show that it is completely empty. Because of the intense heat of the fire, much of the ejected fuel was lofted high into the atmosphere (with no containment building to stop it), where it spread.Contamination from the Chernobyl disaster was not evenly spread across the surrounding countryside, but scattered irregularly depending on weather conditions. Reports from Soviet and Western scientists indicate that Belarus received about 60% of the contamination that fell on the former Soviet Union.
A large area in Russia south of Bryansk was also contaminated, as were parts of northwestern Ukraine.The explosion at the power station and subsequent fires inside the remains of the reactor provoked a radioactive cloud which drifted not only over Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, but also over the European part of Turkey, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Estonia, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, France (including Corsica, Canada and the United Kingdom (UK).The plume of radioactive debris has been said to be equal to the contamination of 400 Hiroshima bombs.That from the explosion of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant,a nuclear plant explosion and meltdown, whose radiation was detected as far away as Sweden.
So nuclear energy is safe? That's what they tell us. Look at it all and what can and does happen.Look at Japan.A nuclear power plant is most certainly not safe.
Cables obtained by Wikileaks show warning to Japan of danger posed by powerful quakes, official negligence, and accusations of nuclear accident cover-ups.Taro Kono, a high-profile member of Japan's lower house, told U.S. diplomats in October 2008 that the government was "covering up" nuclear accidents and ignoring alternatives.Japan was warned more than two years ago by the international nuclear watchdog that its nuclear power plants were not capable of withstanding powerful earthquakes, leaked diplomatic cables reveal.And now the United States on Wednesday advised Americans in Japan to evacuate to a greater distance from a damaged nuclear power plant than the Japanese government is advising. White House officials warn that the situation in Japan is deteriorating.U.S. authorities are recommending that Americans stay 80 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was badly damaged in last week’s earthquake and tsunami.
Japanese officials have advised people to move 32 kilometers away from the facility.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that the advice comes from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, whose chairman met with President Barack Obama earlier in the day. "Advice the Japanese government is giving, based on the information it has, is different from the advice that we would be giving, if this incident were happening in the United States of America," he said.
Japan has had other accidents,basically glossed over......Tokaimura was the site of Japan's worst nuclear plant incident in 1997, when 35 workers were contaminated by radiation after a fire at a processing plant was not extinguished properly and caused an explosion.
A series of incidents at Japanese nuclear power stations in recent years has undermined confidence in the safety of this form of energy production, says BBC Tokyo correspondent Juliet Hindell.In July, cooling water leaked from a pipe in the building that houses the reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in northern Japan It took Japan Atomic Power, the company that operates the plant, 14 hours to shut down operations after the leak was discovered.Executives in charge of the reactor said radiation from the leak was 11,500 times the safety limit.The earlier figure given was 250 times the limit, and the change has sparked accusations of a cover-up.
Nuclear energy is safe?So THEY say, but t'is a lie, says I. One is reminded of Sir Walter Ralegh's poem on lies, appropriately entitled.......
The Lie.
Sir Walter Ralegh
c. 1592
Go, soul, the body's guest,
Upon a thankless errand;
Fear not to touch the best;
The truth shall be thy warrant:
Go, since I needs must die,
And give the world the lie.
Say to the court it glows
And shines like rotten wood,
Say to the church it shows
What's good, and doth no good:
If church and court reply,
Then give them both the lie.
Tell potentates, they live
Acting, by others' action;
Not lov'd unless they give;
Not strong, but by affection.
If potentates reply,
Give potentates the lie.
Tell men of high condition,
That manage the estate,
Their purpose is ambition;
Their practice only hate.
And if they once reply,
Then give them all the lie.
Tell them that brave it most,
They beg for more by spending,
Who in their greatest cost
Like nothing but commending.
And if they make reply,
Then give them all the lie.
Tell zeal it wants devotion;
Tell love it is but lust;
Tell time it meets but motion;
Tell flesh it is but dust:
And wish them not reply,
For thou must give the lie.
Tell age it daily wasteth;
Tell honour how it alters;
Tell beauty how she blasteth;
Tell favour how it falters:
And as they shall reply,
Give every one the lie.
Tell wit how much it wrangles
In fickle points of niceness;
Tell wisdom she entangles
Herself in over-wiseness:
And when they do reply,
Straight give them both the lie.
Tell physic of her boldness;
Tell skill it is prevention;
Tell charity of coldness;
Tell law it is contention:
And as they do reply,
So give them still the lie.
Tell fortune of her blindness;
Tell nature of decay;
Tell friendship of unkindness;
Tell justice of delay:
And if they will reply,
Then give them all the lie.
Tell arts they have no soundness,
But vary by esteeming;
Tell schools they want profoundness,
And stand too much on seeming.
If arts and schools reply,
Give arts and schools the lie.
Tell faith it's fled the city;
Tell how the country erreth;
Tell manhood, shakes off pity;
Tell virtue, least preferred.
And if they do reply,
Spare not to give the lie.
So when thou hast, as I
Commanded thee, done blabbing;
Because to give the lie
Deserves no less than stabbing:
Stab at thee, he that will,
No stab thy soul can kill!
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