Friday, May 31, 2013

5/31/2013 NASA Publishes Radiation Readings From Curiosity's Trip to Mars

Date: 5/31/2013
by: admin

Comparison of Some Radiation Exposures to Mars-Trip Level (credit NASA)

 A recent article published by NASA (5/30/2013) showed that Curiosity's RAD (radiation assessment detector) measured radiation on its trip to Mars to be 1.8 milliSieverts of GCR (galactic cosmic rays) per day while enclosed within the MSL (Mars Science Lab).  Converting to the commonly used  μSv/h scale (e.g. 1.8 * 1000/24) we get 75 μSv/h.  As an informal comparison I drilled down on the MEXT radiation station data from Fukushima prefecture in Japan to see what the highest reading was.  According to MEXT (Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science and Technology) data for their "Ottozawa three district meeting place" the reading as of 5/31/2013 CST was about 29.04 μSv/hr, or 407 times the normal background radiation level.
Reading from Ottozawa three distring meeting place, 5/31/2013 6:46 AM CST
Extrapolating then from our data (75/29.04 * 407) an astronaut riding within the MSL would receive an hourly radiation dose 1051 times higher than the level (according to MEXT of .037 μSv/hr) expected within Japan under normal conditions.

More comparisons can be garnered from the NASA article Data from NASA Rover's Voyage to Mars Aids Planning and also Wired Magazine's recent piece Radiation Risk for Mars Astronauts Will Be Dangerously High.

Saturday, May 25, 2013

5/24/2013 Arlit Uranium Mine and Agadez Military Barracks Attacked by Radical Islamic Terrorists

Source: Euronews
Date: 5/24/2013

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They are the first such attacks experienced by the country which is involved in a French-led offensive in neighbouring Mali against Islamist rebels.

At Agadez in the north, around 20 troops were killed and 16 others injured when the bombers attacked an army barracks. A French-run uranium mine at Arlit was also targeted.

The MUJWA, a West African offshoot of al Qaeda's North African wing has claimed responsibility. The group was among Islamist forces ousted from northern Mali earlier this year.

The Algerian commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar "supervised" the attacks, according to a Mauritanian news agency. In March the Chadian army said it had killed him but this was never confirmed.

Security had been stepped up at the uranium mine operated by the French nuclear group Areva. A car bomb there left one person dead and many injured.

The attacks are seen as evidence that the conflict in Mali is spilling over.

The French President Francois Hollande has vowed to protect his nation's interests and to support Niger in its "fight against terrorism".

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Editor's Note: Map of the Areva's Arlit Uranium mine and the town of Agadez (could not locate the

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

5/21/2013 Star Trek spoof shot inside San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station by senior execs

Source: ABC News 10 via Enformable
Date: 5/21/2013

Editor's Note: Map of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station below, which shows many of the past nuclear safety incidents with the nuclear power plant.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

5/18/2013 Hamburg ‘avoids radiation disaster’ as ship loaded with fissile material, explosives burns (VIDEO)

Source: Russia Today
Date: 5/18/2013
Image from youtube.com @DTV German
Image from youtube.com @DTV German
The German city of Hamburg likely avoided a major technological disaster on May 1, when a freighter ship caught fire. It had several tons of radioactive material and explosives among its cargo, it was revealed.

It took 200 firefighters working for several hours to douse the fires on the Atlantic Cartier. The ship’s most visible cargo was some 70 cars, 30 of which were damaged in the incident. But now it was revealed that the vessel also had highly dangerous substances on board as well, which posed the threat of radioactive contamination to the area.

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

5/17/13 Fukushima Nuclear Update for the last 38 days

Source: MsMilkytheclown1
Date: 5/17/2013

Video Description
here's the list of topics covered and the times they are in the video.
Start: "little progress on nuclear decontamination" report date: 5/17/13
2:00 minutes: study off shore Fukushima in Pacific Ocean to see radioactive contamination effect 5/16/13
3:27 minutes: removal of the "tent" at nuclear reactor 1 5/12/13
4:23 min: probe into Fukushima Disaster 5/1/13
5:30 min: radioactive Tritium in Fukushima plant wells 5/2/13
6:07 min: TEPCO "opening doors" to lady Judge (research that creep of a person)
9:11 min: head of Monju fast breeder resigns because he didn't do over 9,000 safety checks just this Last Year 5/17/13
11:35 min: delay restart of Monju fast breeder nuclear reactor 5/15/13
12:53 min: ACTIVE FAULTS UNDER TSURUGA Nuclear Plant 5/15/13
15:53 min: scientists call for stronger measures against sure to come quakes 5/1/13
17:47 min: sea lions found malnourished (also found radioactive off california) 4/13/13
18:52 min: radiation proof police vehicles ordered and delivered 5/2/13
19:39 min: Fukushima farmers grow first rice since nuclear meltdown/explosion... (I'm still biting my tongue here) 4/12/13 Fuck the tongue biting. I'll just say it: they are known to mix radioactive rice in with "good" rice to reduce the concentration of radioactivity.
21:50 min: MOX fuel from France shipped to Japan 4/18/13
22:42 min: the Arctic is fucked 5/12/13
24:13 min: they are exploiting the Arctic 4/18/13
25:04 min: leukemia breakthrough... they break you and they sell you a fix 4/18/13
26:25 min: we're fucked even bigger time 5/1/13
31:15 min: UAE nuke deal 5/2/13
32:30 min: UAE "security" talks 5/2/13
33:25 min: the government of Japan doesn't know Shit about Safety 4/12/13
34:08 min: IAEA probes Fukushima 4/15/13
34:53 min: Tokyo governor visits NYC power plant 4/18/13

There ya go. I've been collecting these but haven't uploaded them due to the emotional atom bomb I felt after the last update I did when they were transferring Leaking radioactive water From leaking Pits TO LEAKING CONTAINERS. There was something about that last update that just Really Really upset me. http://youtu.be/ItoUz6thcpk
And by the way, Screaming at me does NOT Motivate me.

I suggest that you subscribe to the people I have on my recommended fukushima reporters on my youtube page for further updates. Hope you all are well.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

5/10/2013 St. Louis Is Burning

Source: Rolling Stone
Date: 5/10/2013
by: Steven Hsieh
A bulldozer pushes trash in a landfill.
There's a fire burning in Bridgeton, Missouri. It's invisible to area residents, buried deep beneath the ground in a North St. Louis County landfill. But the smoldering waste is an unavoidable presence in town, giving off a putrid odor that clouds the air miles away – an overwhelming stench described by one area woman as "rotten eggs mixed with skunk and fertilizer." Residents report smelling it at K-12 school buses, a TGI Fridays and even the operating room of a local hospital. "It smells like dead bodies," observes another local.
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Monday, May 6, 2013

5/5/2013 Palisades Nuclear Power Plant shuttered again for more repairs

Source: The Holland Sentinel
Date: 5/5/2013
Palisades Nuclear Power Plant near South Haven. Contributed
South Haven —
Operators of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Michigan removed it from service Sunday morning because of a water leak from a tank, which last year caused seepage into the control room.
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Editor Note: Map of Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in South Haven, MI shown below.

View Live Ustream Radiation Detectors in a larger map

Saturday, May 4, 2013

5/4/2013 Mystery of radioactive rain in Brazil; Chris Busby

Source: drdrwoland (Dr. Chris Busby's YouTube Channel)
Date: 5/4/2013
by: Dr. Christopher Busby

Video Description
Chris Busby says:
The decay of Radon, Rn-222 which involved gamma rays over the short term is as follows:
Rn-222 half life 3.8days , then Po-218 (3.05mins), Pb-214 (26.8mins), Bi-214 (19.9mins), Po-214 (164uSec), Pb210 (22.3y)
Of these only Ra-222 and Bi-214 give appreciable gamma radiation. The weighted contribution is about 60 Ra-222 to 80 Bi-214. The Brazil rain samples decay with an overall half life of about 37 minutes (16uSv/h to 1uSv/h in 150 min; Four half lives 16,8,4,2,1). If we assume that the radon was generated from radium a few hours before it was detected in the rain, that suggests Bismuth 214 as the origin of the signal. Bi-214 may have a higher concentration in the rain due to fractionation (since it is a solid and Ra222 a gas; it may form some kind of Bismuth hydroxide). The reason it is high in Brazil is there is a lot of Radium in Brazil. Of course, this means that rain can be a radon exposure hazard from external gamma and also drinking fresh rainwater. Not just in Brazil. I have not heard that anyone has realised this or that the official risk agencies have stated it anywhere. Look for diarrhea and flu like symptoms after heavy rain. Thanks to Samuel dal Pizzol and other radiation measurers for discovering this!

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4/22/2011Next Big FutureChina’s nuclear plans could resume by August
4/22/2011 10:06 AM JSTJapan TodayGov't seals off no-go zone around nuclear plant
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4/21/2011Alexander Higgins BlogJapan Nuclear Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 20 US Cities
4/21/2011Scientific AmericanThe Japan nuclear crisis at Fukushima: A video summary
4/21/2011Wired ScienceOp-Ed: Psychiatric Disorder Could Complicate Japan Quake Recovery
4/21/2011Washington's Blog"The Risk of a Nuclear Catastrophe ... Could Total Trillions of Dollars and Even BANKRUPT A COUNTRY"
4/21/2011The Japan TimesKan to make 20-km no-entry zone binding Holdout households face ouster; some evacuees may get short visits
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4/20/2011 07:10 AM JSTJapan TodayTsukuba demanded evacuees show radiation certificates
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4/18/2011Associated PressRadiation near Japan reactors too high for workers
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4/15/2011Japan TodayTEPCO to pay Y1 mil in provisional damages to 50,000 households
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4/14/2011The American DreamMuch Of Northern Japan Uninhabitable Due To Nuclear Radiation?
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4/11/2011Russia TodayRadioactive Japanese cars detained in Russia’s Far East
4/11/2011 3:50 PMEnergy NewsJapan raises Fukushima to Level 7, same as Chernobyl
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4/11/2011The Intel HubJapan Nuclear Radiation In Hawaii Milk At LEAST 600% Above Federal Drinking Water Limits
4/11/2011 10:02AM BSTThe TelegraphJapan earthquake: Fukushima nuclear plant evacuated following aftershock
4/9/2011ForbesRadiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk
4/9/2011The IndependentJapan to pump radioactive water into sea until Sunday
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4/7/2011ZeroHedgeWater Leak Found At Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
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4/6/2011Alexander Higgins BlogTrue Horrors Of Japan Nuclear Disaster Revealed In Confidential Leaked Government Document
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4/6/2011The Intel HubFukushima Daiichi Radioactive Seawater Model, Spent Fuel Rods DID Explode Into Atmosphere
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4/5/2011 14:02Activist PostAmerica and EU Agree: Raise Radiation Levels for Food
4/5/2011 14:02Financial TimesTepco seals leak at nuclear plant
4/5/2011The New York TimesU.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant
4/5/2011The Economic TimesImported food items from Japan banned due to radiation fears
4/5/2011 5:58 AMBusiness InsiderJapan Finds Toxic Fish, As Ocean Radiation Soars To 7.5 Million Times Legal Limit
4/5/2011Kyodo News11,500 TONS of radioctive water dumped in to ocean by TEPCO
4/4/2011Prisonplanet.comUNBELIEVABLE: Fukushima Workers Trying To Plug Radiation Leaks With Bits Of Newspaper, Garbage Bags, Diaper Like Material
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