Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Carlsbad New Mexico:5 types of plutonium were released;Caldicott:Inhaling a millionth of a gram of plutonium will induce lung cancer



Carlsbad New Mexico:5 types of plutonium were released;Caldicott:Inhaling a millionth of a gram of plutonium will induce lung cancer


 Weirder Than Roswell: Nuclear Waste in New Mexico
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But some New Mexico residents believe a more frightening story is playing out ... 285 in sleepy Carlsbad -- where the world's first deep nuclear waste entombment ... of the new Clinton-era DOE, purged of Cold War abuses under the leadership .... Bill Richardson from northern New Mexico prevailed, winning EPA oversight...........


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Radiation Expert: 5 types of plutonium were released from WIPP; Officials not informing public — Caldicott: “I predict that facility will never be able to be used again”; Inhaling a millionth of a gram of plutonium will induce lung cancer (AUDIO)

Published: March 25th, 2014 at 12:03 pm ET
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KUNM, Mar. 24, 2014: The director of an organization that evaluated the WIPP site for over 25 years said officials aren’t doing enough to inform New Mexicans. [...] “I just can’t stress the importance of DOE being available to respond to detailed questions that people have,” [Dr. Bob Neill] said. “There’s no substitute for direct communication.” Immediately after the leak was discovered, the public should have been given a detailed explanation of what was released, said Dr. Neill, who received his degree in radiological medicine. Americium 241 and plutonium 239 were mentioned. “But there are four other radio-isotopes of plutonium, namely the 238, 240, the beta and 241,” he said. “They’re all bone-seekers. So you want to be able to report all the values—how each one may have contributed. It’s just essential.” [...] “It’s so important to answer people’s questions—and not just people in Carlsbad, but throughout the state and elsewhere,” he said. As for the leak itself, he said all of the possible causes of the failure at WIPP must be considered, and a response system should be designed accordingly.
Interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott, March 2014 (at 37:30 in): One of the repositories for very, very dangerous radioactive waste plutonium, americium, etc. has just leaked radiation all around the area in Carlsbad, New Mexico. One microgram of plutonium, a millionth of a gram of plutonium, if inhaled will induce lung cancer. It’s extraordinarily radioactive. So they thought this would be safe storing radiation in salt mines, but something happened, one of the casks blew up or part of the ceiling fell on the casks, we do not know. But I predict that that facility will never be able to be used again, it will be so contaminated.
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Published: March 25th, 2014 at 12:03 pm ET
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  • Weirder Than Roswell: Nuclear Waste in New Mexico
    www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story52.html‎Traducir esta página
    But some New Mexico residents believe a more frightening story is playing out ... 285 in sleepy Carlsbad -- where the world's first deep nuclear waste entombment ... of the new Clinton-era DOE, purged of Cold War abuses under the leadership .... Bill Richardson from northern New Mexico prevailed, winning EPA oversight.

    Nuke Us: The Town That Wants America's Worst Atomic Waste ...

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    25/1/2012 - More amenities followed, too: In November Carlsbad inaugurated the Bob ... New Mexico, in agreeing to WIPP, required that Congress enshrine in law a ... Reactors (a project killed by Bill Clinton and John Kerry in 1994) are involved. ..... New Mexico's then Representative Bill Richardson (later governor) ...


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      hace 7 días - Carlsbad, N.M. (KRQE) – New air sampling data from the Department of Energy shows a major radiation increase in Carlsbad and around the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Six of the seven department's air monitoring stations ...
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      9/3/2014 - “Truly an operational nightmare” at WIPP — Radiation level doubles at location far from leak; Carlsbad monitor jumps around 40% — Residents plead for more info, concerns over safety (MAP) ...
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      18/3/2014 - ... Isolation Pilot Plant. Air monitoring results since last month's radiation leak appear to show the amount of radiation trending upward near Carlsbad, but Department of Energy officials say there is no proof it is related to the leak.
    haizedustrium-1234
    March 25, 2014 at 12:09 pm
    Some salts such as LiF-NaF-BeF2 is known for melting slightly above 310 deg C, where alpha radiation, electrolysis and fires will ignite any mixtures of methane with chlorine or fluorine and will also send hydrofluoric acid in the ooze for anything else than a depleted war head rupture and gloves. And fluoride will also be originating from any uranium-tetra-fluoride and uranium-hexafluoride as in decay.


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  • We Not They Finally
    March 25, 2014 at 12:19 pm
    The EPA radnet does not even publish alpha readings, and plutonium is alpha. Here in Albuquerque, the beta readings are run-for-your-life on a regular basis — though for Carlsbad, even that page is always left blank. And of course, there are no alpha readings given out for Carlsbad, or for anywhere else, for that matter.
    This is obviously VERY bad. It just gets harder to navigate when given so little to go on.


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    • stock stock
      March 25, 2014 at 1:41 pm
      Can you go to that town hall meeting I think there is one this Thursday? We will crowd source a list of 5 question sets with 1 or 2 leading questions to each.
      The last question of each set will be a mini jab
      And the final question of question 5 will be a no-brainer coup de grace.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_de_gr%C3%A2ce
      I like using the French version of this saying since those Frenchies are so pround of their overcompensating nuker plants.


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      • We Not They Finally
        March 25, 2014 at 2:13 pm
        Glad to help. Let us know (there are two of us — me and husband). Maybe people can just bring a page from ENE News to move around and identify others.
        Are you in this area?
        We're already going to be bringing a few EPA radnet print-outs which show BETA readings for Albuquerque for the last four months. (We can bring gamma too — just don't know how to read them.) We WANT alpha readings, but do not even know how to push for that.
        What interested us recently was at the Fukushima Solutions weekend just past in Texas, David Yurth (and yeah, we were unhappy about his pushing thorium, but he still had a lot of scientific expertise) was very specific about why/how storage casks (like those shipped to WIPP) decay radioactively and cannot be remediated. But I had no playback button for a live talk, and didn't catch it well enough to explain it back. I'd like to be able to bring it up if possible — if I can get even the basics myself. We're checking ongoing when his talk might be coming out on youtube.
        Us, we'll be thrilled if people come out swinging at that meeting this coming Thursday. Just hard to predict. Don Hancock (who has certainly been diligent, and apparently long-range) is a reasoned kind of a guy — not really a firebrand. And there have to be other speakers too — just don't know who.


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  • Nick
    March 25, 2014 at 12:20 pm
    "…the keys to WIPP’s success have been the area’s geological composition, sound science, transparency and citizen engagement.
    “WIPP has been vital to the nation and is responsible for major, significant economic impact to the community,” she said. “WIPP’s local support has never wavered.”
    http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2012/12/where-used-nuclear-fuel-is-wanted.html
    Yup, them locals are so in love with WIPP that they have developed special lung functions that are immune to Plutonium particles.


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