nuclear-news

http://science.energy.gov/~/media/ber/berac/powerpoint/Bertsch.ppt

Click to access S0960-9822(15)00988-4.pdf

“The Savannah River Site was constructed during the early 1950s to produce the basic materials used in the fabrication of nuclear weapons, primarily tritium and plutonium-239,… Five reactors were built to produce these materials. Also built were a number of support facilities including two chemical separations plants, a heavy water extraction plant, a nuclear fuel and target fabrication facility, a tritium extraction facility and waste management facilities.”
http://www.srs.gov/general/about/history1.htm It continues to make tritium to upkeep nuclear weapons, recovers helium 3, and apparently is becoming a dumping ground for world nuclear waste: https://nuclear-news.net/2015/01/02/savannah-river-site-secretly-becoming-worlds-nuclear-dumping-ground/ http://nukewatch.org/activemap/NWC-SRS.html http://www.srs.gov/general/news/factsheets/tf.pdf

The above so-called Chernobyl “study”, which recently made news isn’t really even a study, but a short 3 page “correspondance” with more authors than pages (7 authors), which could lead to a light-bulb joke. It is misleading, and the researcher-research funding is so tainted, that one could imagine that…