LDP wants Fukushima evac orders lifted early in some areas by end of fiscal 2016
A task force in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to ask the government to lift evacuation orders for areas with “relatively low” radiation around the meltdown-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant by the end of fiscal 2016.
The politicians want to speed up residents’ return to radiation-tainted areas and discussed measures, including lifting the evacuation orders, at a general meeting Thursday.
The Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant was heavily damaged by a triple meltdown after losing all power following submersion by tsunami spawned by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The resulting radiation contamination tainted wide swaths of Fukushima and other parts of east Japan.
The group now hopes the government will give evacuated residents the option of returning to risk doses as high as 50 millisieverts a year, by the end of March 2017.
Lifting the orders would give about 55,000 residents the option of recovering their homes.
According to the outline, the orders would be lifted no later than six years after the nuclear crisis began.
By setting a deadline, the LDP wants raise evacuees’ hopes of returning.
The LDP plans to discuss the idea with its coalition ally, Komeito, and submit it to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as a joint proposal by the end of this month.
The outline also calls for accelerating infrastructure recovery and decontamination in the areas. It says the government should instruct Tepco to duly consider providing financial compensation for psychological pain even if the evacuation orders are lifted earlier than the March 2017 deadline.
Source: Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/15/national/fukushima-evacuation-orders-lifted-low-radiation-areas-end-fiscal-2016-ldp/#.VVZNgZNZNBQ
Opponents of nuclear waste site hold symposium to counter gov’t forum on same day
Residents attend a symposium on opposition to a plan to build a radioactive waste site in Shioya, Tochigi Prefecture, on May 14, 2015. (Mainichi)
UTSUNOMIYA — While the Environment Ministry held a forum here on the night of May 14 on building disposal sites for radioactive waste and other debris caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, opponents of one candidate site held a large-scale symposium in Shioya.
The ministry held the forum in the prefectural capital in connection with plans to build disposal sites in Tochigi and four other prefectures. Meanwhile, the opponents held the symposium in Shioya, about 22 kilometers away from Utsunomiya, under the theme of local natural riches.
About 180 people attended the Environment Ministry’s forum, the second in a series that began in April in Sendai. Officials in charge of designated radioactive waste briefed the participants on the disposal scheme and sought their understanding for constructing a disposal site in the prefecture. Some of the participants made remarks such as, “If it’s so safe, build it in Tokyo,” and, “We can’t trust the central government because it covers up bad data.”
The Environment Ministry told the Mainichi Shimbun that it held the forum — designed to win understanding from Tochigi prefectural residents — in Utsunomiya rather than Shioya because transportation in the prefectural capital was more convenient, allowing more people to attend.
The symposium in Shioya, organized by a coalition of groups opposed to the proposed disposal site, drew about 1,100 people. Its venue, a high school gym, was packed with local residents and about 200 people watched the event on an outdoor screen. The participants confirmed their resolve to protect the local environment. A 72-year-old man said, “The Environment Ministry’s forum is an event only for convenient explanations. If we participate, we will be counted as supporters.”
Source: Mainichi
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150515p2a00m0na006000c.html
TEPCO starts prep work to take cover off damaged Fukushima reactor
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant began work on Friday morning to dismantle the cover of the No.1 reactor building.
The cover was installed after the March 2011 nuclear accident to prevent radioactive dust from dispersing. The reactor experienced a hydrogen explosion at the time of accident.
Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to remove the cover in order to clear away radioactive debris on the upper part of the building and remove spent nuclear fuel still stored inside. It is part of an effort to decommission the reactor.
For about one week, workers will spray chemicals over the debris inside the cover by using a remote-controlled crane to prevent radioactive dust from spreading.
They will proceed with the work to remove the cover over the period of about one year. Company officials say they will enhance monitoring of radiation levels during the procedure.
TEPCO says a preliminary test last year showed no scattering of radioactive materials when dismantling the cover.
The utility initially planned to start dismantling the cover on the No.1 reactor building in July of last year. But the work was delayed after the removal of debris from the No. 3 reactor in 2013 caused radioactive dust to spread, sparking fear among local residents. The death of workers at the plant also affected the plan.
Source: NHK
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20150515_08.html
Tokyo Electric Power Co. began preparations on May 15 to remove the cover around a damaged reactor building at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the first step in a lengthy process to extracting nuclear fuel inside it.
The work is part of a preparatory process that could take several years for the eventual removal of nuclear fuel from the spent fuel pool in the No. 1 reactor building.
On the first day of the work, TEPCO, the plant operator, sprayed a chemical agent in the reactor building to prevent radioactive dust in the building from being released into the air when the cover is removed.
On May 15, a large crane lifted a spraying machine to insert a thin, long nozzle into the building through holes created on the top cover to spray a glue-like chemical to contain dust and other materials generated by a hydrogen explosion triggered by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
The agent will be sprayed through the nozzle at 48 points. After it completes the spraying, TEPCO plans to begin retracting the roof cover on May 25 at the earliest to remove debris from the upper part of the building.
When the utility was removing debris from the No. 3 reactor building in the summer of 2013, a large amount of radioactive substances was released into the environment, fostering the public’s distrust in the process.
Subsequently, TEPCO has cautiously been proceeding with preparations for removing the cover around the No. 1 reactor building, such as testing anti-scattering agents in advance last October.
Because it is currently rice planting season around the Fukushima plant, TEPCO has pledged to suspend its work and inform surrounding local governments within 30 minutes when amounts of released dust and radiation exceed certain levels.
Source: Asahi Shimbun
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201505150060
No new Generation IV Nuclear design will be ready for build before 2050
NuClear News May 15 The Generation IV International Forum (GIF) is a co-operative international endeavour which was set up to carry out the research and development needed to establish the feasibility and performance capabilities of the next generation nuclear reactors.
Six reactor types have been selected for further development. These include: the Gas-cooled Fast Reactor (GFR), the Leadcooled Fast Reactor (LFR), the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR), the Supercritical Water-cooled Reactor (SCWR), the Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) and the Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR). (1)
The French Radiological Protection Agency (IRSN) has carried out a review of these systems from the point of view of safety and radiation protection. On the basis of its examination, IRSN considers the SFR system to be the only one of the six to have reached a degree of maturity compatible with the construction of a Generation IV reactor prototype during the first half of the 21st century.
Even then this will depend on further studies. (2) This is hardly a ringing endorsement, let alone anything like a quickly deployable climate solution – ie the SFR is the best possibility depending on further studies leading to a prototype before 2050!
DECC estimate in their 2013 Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap (3) that the first commercial Generation IV reactors should be operating by 2040. That is still years away considering the timescale for dealing with the climate change threat.
Yet pro-nuclear environmentalists still promote these new fast reactors as if they are just around the corner. (“It may take ten years for these reactors to prove their potential” according to Kirsty Gogan writing in Nuclear Engineering International.)(4) http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/nuclearnews/NuClearNewsNo74.pdf
From today, Taiwan is banning import of all foodstuffs from Japan
Taiwan to ban all food imports from Japan http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/05/taiwan-to-ban-all-food-imports-from-japan/ Iori Mochizuki From 5/15/2015, Taiwan is going to ban importing all kinds of food from Japan.
Since 311, Taiwan has been banning all the food imports from 5 prefectures around Fukushima and required radiation test on over 800 sorts of food imports. On 4/16/2015, Taiwan announced the further restriction on Japanese food imports, which practically bans all food imports from Japan.
Japanese Ministry Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries states the measures of Taiwan is not based on scientific facts and suggested the possibility to appeal to WTO (World Trade Organization).
http://www.maff.go.jp/mobile/press-conf/min/2015/1505/150512/150512_gaiyo05.html
http://news.2chblog.jp/archives/51840071.html
Costs rise with more delays at Georgia Nuclear Plant
Regulators: More Delays Possible for Georgia Nuclear Plant ATLANTA —abc news, May 13, 2015, By RAY HENRY Associated Press Regulators say there’s a “high probability” a nuclear plant under construction in Georgia will be delayed even longer than the three years already announced by its owners, according to an analysis obtained by The Associated Press.
Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power and its co-owners are building two more nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle in eastern Georgia. A project using the same reactor design, Westinghouse Electric Co.’s AP1000, is underway at the Summer nuclear station in South Carolina, which has seen similar delays……..
Time is money in the nuclear power industry. The longer building a power plant takes, the more utility companies must pay in construction and borrowing costs. Ultimately, electric customers will pay for the plant’s costs unless regulators intervene. A single day of delay will cost Georgia Power roughly $2 million, according to estimates from regulators…….http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/regulators-delays-georgia-nuclear-plant-31020059#.VVPN4Dd00rg.twitter
Safety limits relaxed at Sellafield nuclear facility
Trusting Sellafield to comply with the new operating rule to control waste stocks was like asking a fox to guard chickens,
Sellafield nuclear waste storage safety limit relaxed following accident, Guardian, Rob Edwards, 14 May 15 Amount of radioactive waste that can be kept in tanks allowed to breach legal limits to help cope with backlog caused by an accident in November 2013. Safety limits on the storage of some of the world’s most dangerous nuclear wastes at Sellafield in Cumbria have been relaxed after an accident knocked out a treatment plant.
The government’s safety watchdog, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), has permitted the private company that runs Sellafield to breach legal restrictions on the amount of hot, high-level radioactive waste that can be kept in tanks. The limits are likely to be exceeded by up to 350 tonnes between April 2014 and July 2016. Continue reading
Nuclear Non Proliferation Talks go on amidst accelerating weapons race
the generals warn that a cyberattack on the computerised detection or launch systems could produce a fake signal that would evoke a “cataclysmic” response.
If the nuclear states in the NPT are not addressing risks like these, never mind disarming as the treaty requires, some non-nuclear states could lose patience with their end of the bargain and go nuclear themselves.
North Korea missile test is the tip of world’s nuclear iceberg http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27519-north-korea-missile-test-is-the-tip-of-worlds-nuclear-iceberg.html#.VVUhbo6qpHw May 2015 by Debora MacKenzie Threatwatch is your early warning system for global dangers, from nuclear peril to deadly viral outbreaks. Debora MacKenzie highlights the threats to civilisation – and suggests solutions
Last week North Korea launched a ballistic missile from a submerged submarine. It didn’t travel far, but it achieved its goal: exiting the water cleanly. Observers were surprised by North Korea’s success.
The missile copies an old Soviet model that had a range of 2400 kilometres and carried three nuclear warheads. North Korea has exploded three nuclear devices in underground tests in the last decade; whether it can build the more compact nuclear device required in a missile is unknown. But Kim Jong-un is producing weapons-grade uranium and plutonium as if he plans to use it.
The missile test took place as the 190 countries that belong to the 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) were meeting in New York, in a regular, five-yearly review of its progress. Things aren’t looking good, and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are just the start.
The delegates in New York are meant to agree a joint statement by 22 May on what to do next. Reactions to a first draft last week suggest even that could be tough. Continue reading
Saudi Arabia prepared to set off new nuclear arms race
Saudi Arabia vows to set off new Middle East arms race and ‘match Iran’s nuclear capability’ The Independent ADAM WITHNALL 
THURSDAY 14 MAY 2015 Saudi Arabia has threatened to spark a new kind of nuclear arms race in the Middle East, setting out a bullish stance ahead of a rare, high-profile meeting of the US and its Gulf allies at Camp David.
President Barack Obama faces an almost impossible balancing act between making overtures to Iran that will allow it to pursue its nuclear programme for energy purposes, and appeasing the security fears of Sunni Arab leaders………..
It sets up the prospect of a new kind of arms race between the Middle East’s various parties – the implication being that if Iran is to be left to its nuclear programme, why shouldn’t Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE?……..http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-vows-to-set-off-new-middle-east-arms-race-and-match-irans-nuclear-capability-10250789.html
USA’s House of representatives passes bill for Congress to review Iran nuclear deal
House passes bill for Congress to review Iran nuclear deal Seattle Times, May 14, 2015 By DEB RIECHMANNT The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress on Thursday sent President Barack Obama a bill to give lawmakers the power to review and potentially reject a nuclear deal with Iran.
The House overwhelmingly passed the measure, 400-25, a reflection of lawmakers’ insistence on having a say in what could be a significant international accord to get Iran to curb its nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.Getting a deal would enhance Obama’s foreign policy record, and while the GOP-led Congress doesn’t want to see a nuclear-armed Iran, they are skeptical about Iranian compliance and have demanded time to review the fine points of any agreement the White House reaches with Tehran.
Presidential spokesman Josh Earnest said again Thursday that Obama would sign the bill into law.Negotiators from the U.S. and five other nations are rushing to reach a deal with Tehran by the end of June. As the House voted, Obama met at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland with Arab leaders in hopes of convincing them that U.S. overtures to Iran would not come at the expense of commitments to their security in the region.
The Iran nuclear legislation would bar Obama from waiving congressional sanctions for at least 30 days while lawmakers examine any final deal. The bill would stipulate that if senators disapprove of the deal, Obama would lose his current power to waive certain economic penalties Congress has imposed on Iran.The bill, which was passed last week by the Senate on a 98-1 vote, would require Congress to pass a resolution of disapproval to reject the deal, an action that Obama almost certainly would veto. Congress then would have to muster votes from two-thirds of each chamber to override the veto.
Even if Congress rejects his final nuclear deal with Tehran, however, Obama could use his executive pen to offer a hefty portion of sanctions relief on his own. He could take unilateral actions that — when coupled with European and U.N. sanctions relief — would allow a deal to be implemented………..http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/house-passes-bill-for-congress-to-review-iran-nuclear-deal/
Fukushima’s birds already showing mutations from nuclear radiation
Most organisms that we have examined showed significantly increased rates of genetic damage in direct proportion to the level of exposure… Many organisms showed increased rates of deformities, developmental abnormalities, eye cataracts, and even tumors and cancers.
Former Japan TV News Anchor: The mutations have begun in Fukushima; Birds found blind, unable to fly — Magazine: “Birds in tailspin 4 years after Fukushima… the proverbial canary in a coalmine” — Professor: Birds with mutations popping up all over in contaminated areas (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/former-japan-tv-news-anchor-mutations-begun-fukushima-birds-found-fly-magazine-birds-tailspin-4-years-after-fukushima-proverbial-canary-coalmine-professor-partial-albinos-popping-all-place-conta?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29
Japan Times, Mar 8, 2015 (emphasis added): Katsuhide Okada… didn’t worry much about the power plant: It was so safe, Tepco told the Futaba community… [T]he roses that Mr. Okada cultivated over a lifetime — more than 750 varieties, nearly 8,000 bushes — have perished. Still,Okada has returned to Futaba 10 times… he was interviewed on NHK appearing grim and heartbroken… Maya Moore, a former news anchor and journalist at NHK, happened to catch Okada’s interview… she collaborated with Okada and the group in putting together the book “The Rose Garden of Fukushima.” Continue reading
USA’s nuclear salesmen happy with Barack Obama’s trade deal with China
Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with China, quiet submarines and the South China Sea, SMH, May 11, 2015 Steven Mufson “……….The deal would allow Beijing to buy more US-designed reactors and pursue a facility or the technology to reprocess plutonium from spent fuel. China would also be able to buy reactor coolant technology that experts say could be adapted to make its submarines quieter and more difficult to detect.
The formal notice initially did not draw any headlines. Its unheralded release on April 21 reflected the administration’s anxiety that it might alarm members of Congress and non-proliferation experts who fear China’s growing naval power – and the possibility of nuclear technology falling into the hands of third parties with nefarious intentions.
Now, however, Congress is turning its attention to the agreement. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to hear from five Obama officials in a closed-door meeting on Monday to weigh the commercial, political and security implications of extending the accord. The private session will permit discussion of a classified addendum from the Director of National Intelligence analysing China’s nuclear export control system and what Mr Obama’s notification called its “interactions with other countries of proliferation concern”.
The White House’s willingness to push ahead with the nuclear accord with Beijing illustrates the evolving relationship between the world’s two largest powers, which, while eyeing each other with mutual suspicion and competitiveness, also view each other as vital economic and strategic global partners. The Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry trade group, argues that the new agreement will clear the way for US companies to sell dozens of nuclear reactors to China, the biggest nuclear power market in the world………..http://www.smh.com.au/world/barack-obamas-nuclear-deal-with-china-quiet-submarines-and-the-south-china-sea-20150511-ggyl25.html
Norh East Japan rocked by M6.8 earthquake
Powerful M6.8 quake rocks NE Japan — Strongest to hit nation since 2011 — Official warns of upcoming aftershocks & tsunami, says tectonic plate is subducting in Pacific — CBS: Scientists detect month-long shaking on seafloor that could foreshadow mega quake similar to 3/11 (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/powerful-m68-quake-rocks-ne-japan-strongest-hit-country-2011-cbs-scientists-recorded-shaking-seafloor-could-foreshadow-mega-quake-similar-311-official-warns-upcoming-aftershocks-tsunami-tecton?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29
Kyodo News, May 12, 2015 (emphasis added): A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked a wide area of Japan centering on the northeast early Wednesday [and] observed in areas ranging from Hokkaido in the north to Gifu Prefecture in central Japan.
UPI, May 12, 2015: According to NHK [it’s] the strongest earthquake to hit Japan since 2011.
NBC News, May 13, 2015: “We consider this morning’s earthquake to be an aftershock” [of the 3/11 quake] said Yohei Hasegawa, an official at the Japanese meteorological agency. The temblor, which struck just after 6 a.m. local time, was sparked by the Pacific tectonic plate “subducting,” or moving under, the main land plate, he added. Hasegawa warned that more tremors may be on the way. “It’s not just limited to this area alone.”
Japan Times, May 13, 2015: Moderate tremors were also felt in Tokyo… [Hasegawa] warned that another strong tremor could strike within a week, adding “if it happens (beneath) the sea, it could trigger a tsunami.”… a 78-year-old woman [said] “It reminded me of the disaster”… Kayoko Tamura [said] “It was the first time I felt such a strong earthquake here.”
NHK transcript, May 12, 2015: Officials… say it was the first strong earthquake to hit the region since July 2011 [and] aftershocks of a similar scale might come in the next week. >> Watch the broadcast here
CBS San Francisco, May 12, 2015 at 2:42pm: Earlier this week, scientists said they’ve recorded low frequency shaking on the ocean floor that may have been foreshadowing a larger earthquake similar towhat was released during the 2011 earthquake.
CBS San Francisco, May 12, 2015 at 12:42pm: Mega Quake Warning In Rumblings Off Japan’s Coast Alarms Scientists… [A] team of researchers says a similar pattern is emerging in a subduction zone where two tectonic plates are engaged… “Monitoring of offshore seismicity off southern Kyushu, Japan, recorded a complete episode of low-frequency tremor, lasting for 1 month”… These quakes moved in waves along the tectonic ridge and stopped abruptly… potentially increasing stress that could be released in a “mega thrust” earthquake.
Nuclear Shutdown News – Oyster Creek, Vermont Yankee, San Onofre
Nuclear Shutdown News – April 2015 – San Diego Fre Press 14 May 15 BY SOURCENuclear Shutdown News chronicles the continuing decline of the US nuclear power industry, and highlights the efforts of those who are creating a better energy future.
Here’s the April edition:
By Michael Steinberg / Black Rain Press Oyster Creek – oldest US nuke keeps shutting itself down
On April 28 patch.com ran “NRC Oyster Creek Nuclear Has Substantial Safety Problems.” Located in New Jersey, the Oyster Creek nuclear plant is the nation’s oldest (sometimes) operating nuke. It started up in late 1969, and is now 45 years old. US nuclear plants were designed to last only 40 years.
The patch article reported:
“The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) plans additional inspections after discovering past problems with electromagnetic relief valves that help keep the reactor fuel covered and cool during a plant shutdown.
“Two components that can play an important role during shutdown experienced material failures that could have prevented them from performing their function when needed.”
The Patch story also reported that Oyster Creek is already under additional NRC oversight “because of four unplanned shutdowns from 2013 and 2014.”
The fourth unplanned shutdown was on 6-11-14. Oyster Creek is owned and operated by Chicago based Exelon. Exelon is currently lobbying the Illinois legislature to bail it out with taxpayers’ money because a number of its old nukes can’t make money in the marketplace anymore. Source: patch.com
Tales of Two Shutdown Nuke Plants – San Onofre and Vermont Yankee The two most recently shutdown US nuke plants are San Onofre in Southern California and Vermont Yankee in New England. San Onofre shut down in June 2013, Vermont Yankee at the end of last year.
Here’s what’s been happening with them lately………..
What to do with all that nuclear waste? – San Onofre
What to do with all the high level nuclear waste sitting in these shutdown nukes a continent apart? And how long will it take to do anything? Some of this “spent fuel’ will be lethal for thousands of years.
Plant owners and residents of surrounding communities have sharply different opinions.
The Orange County (CA) Register published a story on April 15 titled “Watchdog: Is San Onofre Waste Plan a Bomb in Your Backyard?”
The article profiles a local resident, Rita Conn, who followed an Edison employee’s truck into a San Onofre nuke plant parking lot. From there it’s easy to gaze at the twin domes of the shut down reactors, and the hovering spent fuel pools full of 1600 metric tons of high level radioactive waste above.
This devil’s brew awaits transfer to the bluffs at the end of the beach into “a concrete monolith,” the Register reported.
The federal government’s plan for a permanent nukewaste disposal site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada has been discredited and there is no other solution in sight.
“It is terrifying,.” said Audrey Prosser of Laguna Beach, the Register reported. “It’s like having a nuclear bomb in your backyard. We want it out of there..”
The Register reported the cost of dismantling the plant and managing its radwaste as $1.27 billion.
Southern California Edison plans to transfer all the liquid waste into a dry cask Holec STORMMAX underground system. Or is that under bluff?
But critic Dana Gilmore of sanonofresafety.org says:
“The Holtec system cannot be inspected, repaired or maintained, is subject to corrosion cracking within 30 years, and has no monitoring system.
“We will only know the that thin steel canisters have failed after they leak radiation into the environment.”
Did we mention that all this is happening right on the shores of the Pacific Ocean?
Nuclear waste at Vermont Yankee
Meanwhile, on the shores of the Connecticut River in southern Vermont, this is what’s been happening……..http://sandiegofreepress.org/2015/05/nuclear-shutdown-news-april-2015/
Mysterious deaths of India’s nuclear scientists
India’s Nuclear Scientists Are Dying Mysteriously And Nobody Seems To Be Worried http://www.scoopwhoop.com/news/nuclear-scientists-mysterious-deaths/ Safwat Zargar May 11 , 2015 This might come as a surprise, but many Indian nuclear scientists since 2009 have died ‘mysteriously’ and what perturbs a common mind is the police’s careless attitude terming these deaths as ‘suicides’ and ‘unexplained’.
Between 2009 and 2013 at least 10 employees from the department of atomic energy (DAE) have lost their lives mysteriously, a News Minute report notes.
In fact, nearly 50 years after the death of the ‘father of Indian nuclear programme’ Homi J Bhabha in a controversial plane crash in France, nothing substantial explaining the cause of crash has been brought before public.
According to the report, Dr. Bhabha had died in an air crash after he publicly said India could produce a nuclear device in a short time. The crash had reportedly taken place in the Swiss Alps near Mt. Blanc and no debris was ever found. – VIDEO
Is there a reason that connects the deaths of all these scientists?
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