1 THIS MONTH
http://kcpw.org/blog/local-news/2012-01-27/victims-of-nuclear-testing-radiation-
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3413882.htm Is the world facing a groundwater crisis?
of the week http://climaterealityproject.org/thin-ice/
EVENT
February 18 Hindsdale, Chicago American Association of University Women - nuclear disaster preparedness H.OB.aauw.reservations@gmail.com.
March 2012 is “March Against Nuclear Madness” and Beyond Nuclear has created a new March Against Nuclear Madness Facebook page.
Nuclear power and water – theme for February 2012
Too much water. It is a laugh that nuclear power is touted as a solution to global warming More likely, global warming is the death knell for nuclear power.
Very many nuclear reactors are located along coastlines, where they are vulnerable to storms, hurricanes, and tsunamis. With climate change and rising sea levels, these events are becoming more frequent and more extreme.
So far, we have considered water only as it relates to only the normal operations of nuclear reactors. Even then, nuclear reactors have leaks, especially as they age, allowing radioactive substances to disperse into water systems.
Uranium mines are vulnerable to flooding. When this happens, the disaster is an economic one, as well as environmental. Canada’s Cameco company and Energy Resources of Australia have found this out to their cost. Both uranium companies are still in financial plight due to the Cigar Lake (Canada) floods of 2006, and 2008, and the Ranger mine (Australia) floods of 2011.
But Fukushima has shown the world how a natural climate event can disrupt nuclear power. In the event of a nuclear accident the effects of nuclear power on water are hugely damaging, catastrophic.
Some figures and facts on nuclear/uranium and water.
URANIUM MINING Water use in a typical uranium mine is approximately 200 to 300 gallons per minute, In water-short Australia, BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine has been for years taking 35 million litres of water each day from the underground aquifer, at no cost whatever. When BHP digs its new biggest hole in the world, it will pay a small fixed price for removing even greater amounts, exceeding 42 million litres.
NUCLEAR REACTORS A typical 1000-megawatt pressurized-water reactor (with a cooling tower) takes in 20,000 gallons of river, lake or ocean water per minute for cooling, circulates it through a 50-mile maze of pipes, returns 5,000 gallons per minute to the same body of water, and releases the remainder to the atmosphere as vapor. A 1000-megawatt reactor without a cooling tower takes in even more water–as much as one-half million gallons per minute. The discharge water is contaminated with radioactive elements in amounts that are not precisely known or knowable, but are biologically active.
Some radioactive fission gases, stripped from the reactor cooling water, are contained in decay tanks for days before being released into the atmosphere through filtered rooftop vents. Some gases leak into the power plant buildings’ interiors and are released during periodic “purges” and “ventings.” These airborne gases contaminate not only the air, but also soil and water.
200 billion gallons of water withdrawn from America’s water supply each day for every terawatt of electricity produced by nuclear reactors,
At least 20 USA nuclear plants have admitted leakage of radioactive tritium into the groundwater.
Spills and leaks are common at In Situ Leach mines. The South Australian Department of Primary Industry and Resources lists 59 spills at Beverley mine from 1998 to 2007.
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1 THIS MONTH
http://kcpw.org/blog/local-news/2012-01-27/victims-of-nuclear-testing-radiation-
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3413882.htm Is the world facing a groundwater crisis?
of the week http://climaterealityproject.org/thin-ice/
EVENT
February 18 Hindsdale, Chicago American Association of University Women - nuclear disaster preparedness H.OB.aauw.reservations@gmail.com.
March 2012 is “March Against Nuclear Madness” and Beyond Nuclear has created a new March Against Nuclear Madness Facebook page.
Nuclear power and water – theme for February 2012
Too much water. It is a laugh that nuclear power is touted as a solution to global warming More likely, global warming is the death knell for nuclear power.
Very many nuclear reactors are located along coastlines, where they are vulnerable to storms, hurricanes, and tsunamis. With climate change and rising sea levels, these events are becoming more frequent and more extreme.
So far, we have considered water only as it relates to only the normal operations of nuclear reactors. Even then, nuclear reactors have leaks, especially as they age, allowing radioactive substances to disperse into water systems.
Uranium mines are vulnerable to flooding. When this happens, the disaster is an economic one, as well as environmental. Canada’s Cameco company and Energy Resources of Australia have found this out to their cost. Both uranium companies are still in financial plight due to the Cigar Lake (Canada) floods of 2006, and 2008, and the Ranger mine (Australia) floods of 2011.
But Fukushima has shown the world how a natural climate event can disrupt nuclear power. In the event of a nuclear accident the effects of nuclear power on water are hugely damaging, catastrophic.
Some figures and facts on nuclear/uranium and water.
URANIUM MINING Water use in a typical uranium mine is approximately 200 to 300 gallons per minute, In water-short Australia, BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine has been for years taking 35 million litres of water each day from the underground aquifer, at no cost whatever. When BHP digs its new biggest hole in the world, it will pay a small fixed price for removing even greater amounts, exceeding 42 million litres.
NUCLEAR REACTORS A typical 1000-megawatt pressurized-water reactor (with a cooling tower) takes in 20,000 gallons of river, lake or ocean water per minute for cooling, circulates it through a 50-mile maze of pipes, returns 5,000 gallons per minute to the same body of water, and releases the remainder to the atmosphere as vapor. A 1000-megawatt reactor without a cooling tower takes in even more water–as much as one-half million gallons per minute. The discharge water is contaminated with radioactive elements in amounts that are not precisely known or knowable, but are biologically active.
Some radioactive fission gases, stripped from the reactor cooling water, are contained in decay tanks for days before being released into the atmosphere through filtered rooftop vents. Some gases leak into the power plant buildings’ interiors and are released during periodic “purges” and “ventings.” These airborne gases contaminate not only the air, but also soil and water.
200 billion gallons of water withdrawn from America’s water supply each day for every terawatt of electricity produced by nuclear reactors,
At least 20 USA nuclear plants have admitted leakage of radioactive tritium into the groundwater.
Spills and leaks are common at In Situ Leach mines. The South Australian Department of Primary Industry and Resources lists 59 spills at Beverley mine from 1998 to 2007.
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Hi,
Great Blog, thanks for taking the time to express your truths. It is truly appreciated, by all ( at least by me). Thanks for your hard work, as a fellow blogger I know the daily grind of publishing new, interesting items. Thanks again for you hard work.
Peace,Shundahai( A Newe word which means “Peace and Harmony with All Creation) Gregor Gable
Nuclear and Indigenous
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Ever stop to think that you are spreading the hype and ignoring the facts – anyone who reposts Moret clearly has a lot of learning to do – where are my comments? Moret is a self-promoter and liar and she is a superb con artist – very good at selling herself and her ideas despite their complete lack of factual basis.
Roger
DUStory-owner@yahoogroups.com
1. I keep a watchful eye obn the facts – both the news, and the factual sources, e.g:
http://www.energyscience.org.au/ http://www.solcomhouse.com/nuclear.htm
I’m certainly not “spreading the hype” The hype is all about the supposed “nuclear renaissance” and the “irrationality” of antinuclear people.
As to Leuren Moret, yes, she is a controversial writer, and yes, her writings are to be taken with a good grain of salt. At the same time, there’s some truth in them.
Where are your comments, Roger Helbig? Well, they’re not published Here, are they?
Why not? Because none of my sites are to be a platform for the nuclear lobby. They have plenty of good platforms, with well-paid spruikers like Patrick Moore and Ziggy Switkowski.
They don’t need little unpaid amateurs like me to promote their (dying) cause.
Christina Macphseron
Thanks for linking to my article.
Hi. I agree with your sentiment here. Sorry, I may just be a little blind, but do you have an RSS feed? If so, could you please point me to it? I find it the best way to keep up to speed with the latest posts from a site.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you, Simon.
My problem is: that I am a complete amateur, and I do not understand what an RSS feed even is. I might have one, for all I know
It is people like you and your readers who keep us addicted to oil. You think you are helping the environment? You are helping the oil companies and you’re so blinded by the reflection of your egos in the mirror to notice it.
Reproducing the full text of copyrighted material online is not blogging and it is not honest advocacy. You are violating the rights of others who worked hard to produce high quality content. If you want to republish it, get permission.
Well, Ohadi Langis turns out to be Dan Yurman
Idaho Falls, ID, United States – proudly describing himself as:
” Serving nuclear energy markets since 1989. ”
I first thought that his righteous indignation was genuinely in support of the original writers, whose work I quote, (with full acknowledgment and link)
But no – Mr Yurman is a voice for th nuclear industry.
Funny that I rarely get criticism from the genuinely concerned writers, and often have been offered free use of their work
Thought you might like to have a look at my website http://www.no2nuclearpower.co.uk UK Daily Nuclear News Service available.
I recommend a good ecological and anti-nuclear site in Russia http://green.tomsk.ru/
Tomsk, a place the world’s largest testing ground for the injection of radioactive wastes in the ground.
Why you do not have e-newsletter?
I do not always manage to find such news.
I do, in fact, send out a news letter each week.
However, I send it only to people who have asked for it.
Why? My reason is simply pity for people who, like myself, receive heaps of emails, newsletters etc. It gets overwhelming. So, I send it only to those who have asked for it.
I’ll send you the next one, green, and thanks for your link.
I do not represent anyone but myself and I have just as much right to comment, particularly about lies and liars and Leuren Moret is one of the worst – she puts on one hell of a show, but it is all a show. She has no real education regarding any radiation matter. She has a BS in Geology; she was not a uranium geologist, she has never done any research in uranium. She worked at Lawrence Livermore in the computer lab for less than one year. She probably just quit, but she certainly was no whistleblower. She was a member of the nine member Community Environmental Advisory Commission until she was removed for failure to attend enough meetings. That does not make her the Environmental Commissioner of Berkeley. You owe your readers facts, not just your anti-nuclear scientifically ignorant dogma. You owe me the courtesy of addressing me directly off-line and not pigeon holing me because of what you believe to be true.
You have my e-mail and anyone can write me at DUStory-owner@yahoogroups.com
You state that Moret’s writings have a grain of truth in them – what exactly do you believe? Do you believe that atmospheric testing caused a drop in SAT scores? Do you believe that there is a world-wide epidemic of diabetes resulting from a DU dust cloud circling the globe? How about the Holocaust? Do you believe it happened? Moret associates with those who extoll what Hitler did and deny the existence of the Holocaust. Moret’s first big “starring role” was pushing a forged document on the alleged documentary “Beyond Treason” put on by David von Kleist and his wife Joyce Riley – David von Kleist is the master of ceremonies at this event – read the entire piece – you will get a completely different view of Moret and her pal Doug Rokke who speaks at this event – Neo Nazi American Free Press/The Barnes Review convention http://www.chairmanofnordwave.blogspot.com
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well I think Moret is a fantasist with some kind of personality disorder, and that’s my 5 cents. OK I may change my mind, but this is how I came to that conclusion. I watched 2 of her talks and at first she was convincing, then I noticed she was citing articles in newspapers as though they were genuine science references and gradually I thought “oh dear this is some kind of play pretend ego trip, she doesn’t actually have the science to back this up”. Or something like that. Having 2 science degrees I thought the aura of the hard-nosed scientist was wearing thin. As these are psychology-based, I’m pretty familiar with the weirdness of people and it started to bother me that she might just be, well, quite sick.
I got personally involved when she said her daughter was kidnapped and she couldn’t see her for 5 years. Why? Because this really happened to me, and it’s rare. I thought about emailing her, but wanted to find out more first if I could. What emerges is a clear picture that she repeats the same speech almost verbatim at every interview etc, so that explains the polished presentation. There are no more details, but what she describes (dark night of the soul) sounds kind of like a breakdown. I always wanted to be sure if by “kidnapped” she meant “my kid was taken into foster care” or something, because I wouldn’t waste any more time on it. And then I find she was only at livermore for 8 months in a computer lab and she only has a batchelor’s in geology? HOAXER. She’s obviously got a personality disorder and is havin’ it large at everyone’s expense. Go on. Prove me wrong. Please?
ok maybe she’s not just full of shit, found this http://www.springerlink.com/content/r75v88151407100k/ and this http://www.springerlink.com/content/v0q0217745017p13/ on google scholar, so she must have done some work on dust like she says.
I still need convincing about her claims of harassment, perhaps that’s unfair but I need more than just her say-so. Anything more than just the same statement repeated in every interview.
I want her to be sincere, at least, whether her views are right or wrong, she is very charismatic.
Moret did graduate research under Professor Ian Carmichael at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Thank you, for this link. I have been looking for papers where Moret got co-authorship credit. This paper has nothing to do with depleted uranium or radioactivity. After doing this graduate work, Moret dropped out of the UC Davis Geology doctoral program. Moret has claimed to be “abd”, all but dissertation, but she dropped out in the 80′s and is no longer a candidate for the degree.
The second link is to the article that grew out of Jonathan Stebbin’s ground breaking mineralogical research. Professor Stebbins has taught at Stanford University for years. In both cases, Moret was not the principal researcher, but a fellow graduate student who was given co-authorship credit.
Here is an article on Moret’s publicity stunt in Hawaii
http://www.archive.org/details/LeurenKMoretGammaScoutMeterNoDepletedUraniumInHawaiianAir
Leuren K Moret, Berkeley, California, activist, claimed on KITV that she measured above normal radiation using the Gamma Scout Meter and further claimed that this was proof that Army was actively using depleted uranium on that day in Hawaii. Blaine Howard, an expert in radiation instrumentation, analyzes the Gamma Scout Meter and discusses its ability to measure depleted uranium dust in air. He concludes that the meter is incapable of measuring DU dust in the air and that Moret’s performance on KITV was just that a performance, not factual reporting. KITV subsequently requested that YouTube remove the video. Moret, however, still the con artist and show woman, shows the video at public appearances and still falsely claims that she was measuring DU in the air that morning. If you see her video, you will note that she is not being pelted by falling rocks. This article will show you that this is the only way that the Gamma Scout Meter could have been measuring falling depleted uranium.
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