Nuclear Waste - The Roy Process

2006-10-08T17:23:00.000-07:00

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Leuren Moret's GLOBAL RADIATION COVERUP SERIES:
"Atmospheric Testing, Nuclear Power Plants, Depleted
Uranium"

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Dear Leuren Moret:

I viewed your taped conversation, and you are right on the money. I don't know how to rectify what has happened, or how it even happened with the "oversight" of the AEC, DOE and NRC.

I know now that their was never any oversight and that the various Government oversight agencies were part of the problem, and never part of the solution.

I worked in the nuclear business for GE [ as a subcontractor employee ( slave) for the Naval Reactors Program] for thirty years. During 1982 I was promoted to manage all of the safety matters, at two Naval Reactors site [Saratoga Springs, NY - 4 reactors, and Windsor, CT- 1 reactor]. After I performed my first inspection of the sites I knew that the programs were several disasters waiting to happen. I did what I could to get voluntary compliance with the various government regulations for three years. I finally wrote an internal report which I distributed to the Government [DOE], GE, and IUE - 301 [Union].

The world fell in on me. I lasted for three years, until I was ushered of the site, where I worked, with an M-16 at my back. I have done and been plenty of places since my career ending inspection, as a Nuclear Physicist/Nuclear Engineer. So far not a single public official has dared to stand up to be counted. This includes Clinton, Schumer, my local Congressman, Senator John Glenn, my State and local officials. No one cares or everyone is too terrified to speak up.

The reactors being run on land, for training purposes, are full blown high power reactors being run w/o Containment Vessels, Emergency Core Cooling system, separate operating room facilities, or a local emergency plan. Additionally ships and subs are parked in dozens of shipyards around the world, also w/o these safety requirements mandated by the DOE/NRC for all land based nuclear reactors. What a mess if one or more of these plants were to meltdown. The Chaos, death and injuries cannot even be conceived at this point.

Thanks for your report it is both interesting and informative.

John P. Shannon
Nuclear Physicist/Nuclear Engineer
http://www.mindspring.com/~kapl/index.html
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2006-09-01T21:07:00.000-07:00

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WEAPONS USED, TARGETS HIT, BOMBING INTENSITY IN LEBANON

Research paper from 1963. Lyn Anspaugh worked at
LBNL, LLNL, and now he's at SAIC and the Univ. of
Utah. They have known about the diabetes-radiation link
forever:

http://www.utah.edu/radiobiology/people/Anspaugh.htm

L.R. Anspaugh, Chemical Elements in the Serum of Man
in Health and Diabetes Mellitus: X-Ray Emission
Spectrographic Determinations, Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, UCRL-10873 (1963)

Here is my latest article, please circulate:
http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2006/08/5490.shtml
https://israel.indymedia.org/newswire/display/5220/index.php

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Leuren Moret
LeurenMoret@yahoo.com
August 26, 2006
WEAPONS USED, TARGETS HIT, BOMBING INTENSITY IN LEBANON
BY THE ISRAELI MILITARY

by Leuren Moret
US Nuclear Weapons Lab Whistleblower
(BERKELEY) Here are two maps of Lebanon indicating
the amount of munitions used on targets, and what
parts of the infrastructure were destroyed in Lebanon,
by Israeli military attacks: http://maps.samidoun.org/

These are from an Italian journalist, Liliana
Bourgana, who sent them to me - the maps are official
Lebanese government data. You can go to the Lebanese
government website listed on the maps for updates.
The journalist will be interviewing me regarding the
weapons that were used. This information is from my
own observations in news coverage I saw on Italian TV
and the BBC while I was in Italy July 4-July 18, and
from Major Doug Rokke who was in charge of the
Depleted Uranium cleanup team in the Gulf after GW I:

- cluster bombs

- depleted uranium bombs - including an order during
the war, by Israel from the US, for 100 more GBU-28
5000 lb. Depleted uranium warhead bombs [Note: I was
in Italy July 4-18 and saw depleted uranium bombs on
Italian news and the BBC. Israeli military planes
bombed Beirut, the airport and southern Lebanon with
DU] - depleted uranium 105mm and 120mm tank rounds
[Info from Major Doug Rokke which he saw in the news]

- missiles (probably DU)

- white phosphorous weapons

- Baccilus globigii - bioweapon which makes people
throw up violently but does not kill. [Note: a
military source said this was determined from color
coding on the weapons] This was used in southern
Lebanon and reported that it suddenly caused people to
get sick. - Reports from MDs treating the wounded
describing new kinds of wounds never seen before which
may be laser weapons. The US has them (classified) on
the ABRAMS tanks. There were certainly Directed Energy
Weapons (DEW) used by Israel because shrunken bodies
and other types of indicators were reported by
Lebanese MDs, http://tinyurl.com/eqtpd descriptions
exactly like wounds etc. reported in Baghdad at the
airport in 2003 and since:
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1031

- Toxic chemicals

- Lebanese MDs working with the dead and wounded
reported horrific new types of wounds and causes of
death. In every war new weapons are tested and old
weapons are dumped.

I will continue to do interviews regarding the illegal
use of depleted uranium weaponry, a radioactive poison
gas weapon, which has now polluted the entire global
atmosphere and has been measured in the British
atmosphere within 7-9 days of its use on the
battlefields of Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan:

"THE QUEEN'S DEATH STAR"
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2006/DU-Europe-Moret26feb06.htm

"Depleted Uranium is WMD"
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0809-33.htm
Yes it travels... very rapidly at relatively low
altitude in the troposphere, and is carried by
westerlies, trade winds, convection cells, and air
currents, not to mention the sand and dust storms
which are characteristic of arid regions.

We are now in a global diabetes epidemic since 1991 as
a result of global contamination from depleted
uranium. India now has 39 million diabetics and
expects 50 million by 2010 (in third world countries
80% is undiagnosed.)

The US Centers for Disease Control reported in 1980
that there were 5.7 million diagnosed cases of
diabetes. That number increased by 1 million in a
decade, by 1990, to 6.7 million. Between 1990 and 2002
the number increased to 13.5 million, with the largest
increase of 2 million in a single year between
1996-97. That is an 18% increase from 1980 to 1990 and
a 136% increase from 1980 to 2002, the last year
numbers are available.

1996-97 was the period Clinton did heavy grid and
carpet bombing... now we know it was with massive
amounts of depleted uranium dirty bombs. This huge
increase in diabetes is consistent with Japanese
reported public health increases in diabetes and
cancer mortality, as well as other radiation related
illnesses, also increases in India, and the UK.

This planet is enveloped in depleted uranium
radioactive poison dust, and with all the other
problems, it is causing the greatest mass extinction
in 65 million years since the dinosaurs went extinct.
Scientists predict that 50% of the worlds species will
be extinct within 100 years. Infertility in humans is
an increasing problem now, with only 15% of sperm in
men globally which is normal. It used to be 80% was
normal.

Britain and the US... and now Israel... have turned
this planet into the Auschwitz radioactive poison gas
chamber and we are all sitting in it increasing our
body burden of radiation with every breath we take.
There is no escape...

I received an email "Thank god Bush finally nuked
Israel... all we have to do is sit and wait now." As
bad as this sounds, the reality is that it is not a
joke. Israel has been contaminated from French
atmospheric testing in the Sahara, Dimona (their own
nuke program), depleted uranium used in
Iraq/Yugoslavia/Afghanistan and now... Lebanon.
This will contaminate the entire Mediterranean,
Europe, and beyond... wherever the winds take it, to
be rained and snowed out in our back yards.
[End]

Leuren Moret is a geoscientist and international
radiation specialist. By mapping disease she has been
able to expose the full impact of radiation exposure
on the global community from atmospheric testing,
nuclear power plants and depleted uranium weapons. By
using geoscience as a tool to understanding radiation,
she has established the link between the impact of
radiation on the health of the environment and global
public health.

Recommended Videos
"Connecting the Dots: 911 Four Years Later, From the
A-Bomb to Depleted Uranium and Beyond" Leuren Moret
http://www.art101.com/radiation/index.html

Leuren Moret's GLOBAL RADIATION COVERUP SERIES:
"Atmospheric Testing, Nuclear Power Plants, Depleted
Uranium"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3626298989248030643

Leuren Moret's GLOBAL RADIATION COVERUP SERIES:
"Global Diabetes Epidemic Caused by Depleted Uranium"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7451332617120640846
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2006-08-05T19:53:00.000-07:00

August 1, 2006 on X-Zone Radio with Leuren Moret
- Depleted Uranium (DU) & Diabetes

LEUREN MORET - The DU / Diabetes Connection - Leuren Moret is an independent international radiation specialist and works around the world on radiation issues related to atmospheric testing, nuclear power plants, and depleted uranium. She has a background in the geosciences, specifically atmospheric dust, and is an Environmental Commissioner in the City of Berkeley. She writes and travels widely. Recently she has appeared in three documentary films about depleted uranium - BEYOND TREASON, BAGDAD RAP, and BLOWIN' IN THE WIND. - leurenmoret@yahoo.com - http://traprockpeace.org/

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There is definitely a link between DU (heavy metal
uranium) and diabetes. The atomic and hydrogen
bombs had much more DU in them than plutonium... so
much of atmospheric testing pollution was DU.

Leuren
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United States: 215 atmospheric tests + 815 underground tests = 1,030
USSR: 219 atmospheric tests + 496 underground tests = 715
UK: 21 atmospheric tests + 24 underground tests = 45
France: 50 atmospheric tests + 160 underground tests = 210
China: 23 atmospheric tests + 22 underground tests = 45

The grand total of global atmospheric tests = 528

Source: Page 52, "Atomic Audit, the Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear
Weapons Since 1940," Stephen Schwartz, Editor, Brookings Institution Press,
Washington D.C., 1998.
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2006-07-22T20:20:00.000-07:00

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17422392&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=-the-gate-was-open--there-were-no-security-guards---i-walked-up-to-the-train-and-planted-my-bomb---name_page.html

21 July 2006
'THE GATE WAS OPEN, THERE WERE NO SECURITY GUARDS.. I WALKED UP TO THE TRAIN AND PLANTED MY BOMB'
NUKE WASTE TRAIN FIASCO THE MIRROR INVESTIGATES
By Tom Parry

IT looks like an ordinary freight train. Drab, workmanlike and uninteresting.
But it carries a lethal nuclear cargo that could cause untold deaths if targeted by terrorists. Once a week the diesel-powered locomotive goes unnoticed as it pulls four trailers hundreds of miles around our rail network.

Few are aware the train trundling from the Kent countryside to Cumbria carries radioactive flasks of spent uranium fuel rods.

After the July 7 terror bombings most would think such a vulnerable target would be under the tightest of security.

But a Daily Mirror investigation has revealed a series of astonishing flaws that will inspire horror and disbelief. Incredibly, I was able to place a device that could have been a bomb on the 12-ton cargo as the train sat in sidings at a North West London rail depot.

I approached in daylight after the wagons were left seemingly unattended for almost 10 minutes. The driver, who was taking a break nearby, even left the engine running while myself and a Mirror photographer stood beside the radioactive material.

For two months we had monitored the trains that carry waste from nuclear power stations to the Sellafield reprocessing plant.

We discovered the flasks are frequently open to a potential terror strike while the locomotives wait in a depot.

The vast North West London yard is just a short walk from a sports stadium, a large hospital and one of the capital's major roads. It is surrounded by housing estates. All in all, the perfect weak spot for a terror strike.

Nuclear transport expert Dr John Large has estimated an attack on containers of radioactive waste could kill 8,000 people in an instant.

Thousands more would become victims as a vast poisonous cloud of up to a hundred square miles drifted across Britain.

On Wednesday, the nuclear train pulled in to the depot on time at 7.54pm after leaving

Kent's Dungeness Power Station three hours earlier and travelling slowly through stations at Ashford, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and South London. On arrival the crew of one man and one woman climbed from the cab and walked to a hut 100 yards away.

Two private security guards initially patrolled the train while it stood waiting for a replacement crew for the next leg of the journey north. But they were only visible for 15 minutes before disappearing.

Suddenly there was no one to see us. As we approached the train the four flasks, each containing enriched fuel pins, were clearly indicated by their radioactive warning signs.

We were able to take photographs for several minutes. Anyone with a basic knowledge of driving trains could have hijacked it. By the time we walked past the front of the train the replacement driver was in position, but he did not challenge us. Minutes later he pulled out, heading through Milton Keynes, Rugby, Crewe and Warrington, before arriving at Sellafield.

My only identification as a legitimate rail worker was a fluorescent orange jacket and hard hat, on sale at any builders' merchants.

And this was not a one-off. It was the tenth time I had wandered freely into the depot.

Not once was the main entrance gate shut. The security booth, containing a bank of blank screens for CCTV cameras that never appeared to be functioning, was always empty. Drivers and track maintenance workers who saw us walking between the rails nodded or said hello. I was never asked for a security pass, supposedly obligatory in a fenced-off area. Other trains arrive from Suffolk's Sizewell A power station. Some get there in the middle of the night and wait for long periods in the virtually unlit yard.

A rail insider said: "Security is a joke. All you need to do is find the gate and you can wander at will. If you wear an orange jacket no one will ever ask what you are doing."

Last night nuclear experts and politicians said they were horrified by the Mirror's findings. Dr Large said: "I'm appalled. Every one of these trains would be a potential target for terrorists. If you had an incident in London, I estimate that 190,000 people would have to be evacuated. Those flasks were designed to counter accidents. But they weren't designed to counter the likes of al-Qaeda."

Lib Dem environment spokesman Chris Huhne said: "This is a shocking revelation."

A spokeswoman for Direct Rail Services initially claimed it would not have been possible to get close to the nuclear flasks while the train is stationary at Brent yard.

But after seeing our evidence she said: "The entire journey is protected by very stringent security. However, having seen these pictures we will speak with our security people. A full investigation will be carried out."

tom.parry@mirror.co.uk
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2006-06-04T17:32:00.000-07:00

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The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that federal
regulators must first consider the likelihood of a terrorist attack before
allowing PG&E to store three football fields of high-level radioactive
waste on California's fragile coast.

Hundreds of Central Coast residents supported the appeal of the San Luis
Obispo Mothers for Peace, Sierra Club and former Supervisor Peg Pinard and
raised $100,000 to prove that the NRC can no more be trusted to protect
our vulnerable coast than FEMA can be trusted to safely evacuate us in the
event there is a radioactive release at Diablo Canyon's aging reactors.
The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, many who were actively involved
in the 9th Circuit Appeal, will be using the court's decision and a
National Academy of Sciences Report on alternatives to the Indian Point
Nuclear Plant this month before the CPUC.

The Alliance has filed with the Sierra Club to oppose PG&E's request for
ratepayer funding for an in house license renewal study for Diablo Canyon.
The Alliance will present the court's ruling as evidence to convince the
CPUC to deny PG&E's request and to support the California Energy
Commission's (CEC) recommendation for and independent cost, benefit and
risk analysis of the state's continued dependence on California's nuclear
plants. The Alliance is also lobbying for legislation to support the
CEC's recommendation in Sacramento.

The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility is a statewide non-profit focusing
on prohibiting the continued production of highly radioactive waste on
California's coast past current license terms for Diablo Canyon and the
San Onofre Nuclear Plants.

Rochelle Becker
Executive Director
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
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"If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries
ago": Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military
service": Albert Einstein

"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have
acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence
of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for
evil to triumph": Haile Selassie

Molly Johnson
6290 Hawk Ridge Place
San Miguel, CA 93451
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2006-05-30T15:59:00.000-07:00

May 29, 2006 on The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Leuren Moret - DU & Diabetes

LEUREN MORET - The DU / Diabetes Connection - Leuren Moret is an independent international radiation specialist and works around the world on radiation issues related to atmospheric testing, nuclear power plants, and depleted uranium. She has a background in the geosciences, specifically atmospheric dust, and is an Environmental Commissioner in the City of Berkeley. She writes and travels widely. Recently she has appeared in three documentary films about depleted uranium - BEYOND TREASON, BAGDAD RAP, and BLOWIN' IN THE WIND. - leurenmoret@yahoo.com - http://traprockpeace.org/

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2006-04-30T13:19:00.000-07:00

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WARNING! Contains Graphic Pictures! Not For the Faint of Heart!
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The church bells in the Ukraine are ringing in remembrance of Chernobyl. I am trying to buy the award winning documentary "Chernobyl Heart" Why is it so hard to find ?
However, these pictures is all one needs to see. I ask you to PLEASE take the time..... and weep.

Every member of Congress should watch the following film before authorizing another nuclear power plant.

http://todayspictures.slate.com/inmotion/essay%5Fchernobyl/?GT1=8019

click play after the first few pictures.
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2006-04-19T12:12:00.000-07:00

Big Lie: Chernobyl 20 Years Later

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:szYesIJg_0AJ:www.rightlivelihood.org/salzburg2005/data/9%2520-%2520Chernobyl%252020%2520years%2520later.pdf

Joint initiative by Alla Yaroshinskaya and Rosalie Bertell on 20th anniversary of Chernobyl catastrophe

“And the third angel sounded; and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp_ and it fell upon the third part of the river, and upon the fountains of waters; and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter”. Revelations 8.

“Chernobylnik: a variety of absinthe (wormwood) with red-brown or deep purple stem”. S.Ozhegov.Dictionary of the Russian language.

The 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe (April 26, 2006) is an appropriate time to remind people and authorities world-wide and inform them about current facts involving the largest nuclear power plant catastrophe in human history and its planetary consequences. The impact is truly enormous – it equals at least 300 Hiroshima. 9, 000, 000 people still are living in the effected zones and now forgotten by society and authorities. They need immediate national and international attention so they may receive the help to survive. There are some facts on Chernobyl catastrophe:

- the USSR communist’s authorities 3 years lied that nothing happened in Chernobyl and millions people did not know that they leave and breath and eat in contaminated areas. The people in 16 region of the Russian Federation were known on that in 6 years after explosion!

- hundreds tons of contaminated meet were secretly send by authorities to people tables around of the country excepting Moscow and St.Petersburg.

- 12, 000 people were hospitalised during first 2 weeks after Chernobyl. But it was top secret. They all became suddenly “heath” because the authorities secretly made higher from 10 to 50 times the radioactive doze to people.

- 3, 000, 000 children received critical dozes of radiation for their health. - 148, 000 people in Ukraine were died only during first ten years after Chernobyl explosion.

- according to the data of the Committee of liquidators about 100, 000 of them already died. There were 800, 000 liquidators.

- according to the data published by Belarusian scientists in Swiss Medical Weekly the cancer increased for 40% between 1990 and 2000. In Gomel region it is even more higher – 52%. They compared the post Chernobyl period with rates before the accident on April 26, 1986.

- In 2000 the UN experts predicted that the worst was still to come for more than 7 million people affected by the disaster.

- The World Health Organisation researchers reported that the Chernobyl disaster will case 50, 000 new cases of thyroid cancer among young people living in the worst-effected regions.

New soviet’s secret documents I found and exclusively released in Salzburg for mass media and during my public meetings show that 75 million people of he former USSR were covered by Chernobyl’s radio nuclides (!).

Mr.Kofi Annan said “Chernobyl is a world we would all like to erase from our memory. …. More than 7 million of our fellow human beings do not have the luxury of getting. They are still suffering every day, as a result of what happened’. Mr. Annan said the exact number of victims may never be known, but that 3 millions of children require treatment and “many will die permanently”.

Who did response on that crime against millions people against humanity? These who cover up the truth on Chernobyl nuclear explosion must finally to response!

Exactly for such a goal we establish together with Rosalie Bertell our joint initiatives. We would like to organise an international group of scientists, lawyers activists and victim of Chernobyl to prepare special appeal to European Court and to organise International ‘Chernobyl Nurenberg” for the former soviet authorities who cover up Chernobyl. There is no limited time for crime against humanity!
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2006-03-08T07:30:00.000-08:00

Letter to the Editor,

The aim of nuclear power is spent fuel rods (nuclear waste) from
which weapons are made. Atom bombs, easier are dirty bombs,
so-called depleted uranium ordinance, not electricity, That is why
40 sovereign countries have nuclear power.

Dr. John Gofman says there is no safe dose of man-made ionizing
radiation. We should not add to it with new nuclear power plants.
Nuclear power is the most dangerous form of electricity. It is the
heat which makes steam that powers electric generators. Albert
Einstein once said, "Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil
water".

Liability is paid by the tax payer under the Price/Anderson Act.
Electric rate payers subsidize nuclear power and waste disposal.
There is big money and political power in nuclear waste, in killing
people, in a toxic regime. Nuclear power pollutes the environment
and will not stop global warming according to studies.

Regards,
Dennis F. Nester
http://members.cox.net/theroyprocess
http://nuclearwaste-theroyprocess.blogspot.com/
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Nuclear Power Used Up More Energy
Than It Delivered To Society !

"At the end
of forty years of the US nuclear power program
by 1991, this energy- 381302 MW-yrs -delivered to
society is still less than the gross cumulative
energy invested in nuclear plant construction and
maintenance of 489174 MW-yrs! "

Energy audit of nuclear fuel cycles

By R. Ashok Kumar,
B.E,M.E(Power),Negentropist,Flat 1/13, Telec
Officers' CHS.,Ltd.,Plot 30, Sector 17, Vashi,
Navi Mumbai-400705. Tel:7896209.
rakumra@yahoo.com

It must be noted that a number of surprises
have caused retrofits and replacements like the
steam generator premature replacements and the
replaced radioactive steam generators enclosed in
costly sarcophages worldwide. These have
enormously increased the energy invested in these
white elephants.
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To all,
There are alternatives to nuclear power such as wind, solar, biomass,
geothermal, ocean wave, hot air etc.

Here is one cost effective alternative to nuclear power.
Wavemill ocean wave power technology can be configured
to make hydrogen fuel cells for worldwide distribution.

Wavemill Technology
http://www.wavemill.com/technology.htm

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The Wavemill® is the first practical, high-efficiency wave energy converter capable of being factory produced as a cost-effective, off-the-shelf unit, rather than having to be built on site.

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More Flexible than Tidal Energy

The Wavemill® is NOT a tidal energy device. Unlike those site-specific installations, which require highly unique conditions, the Wavemill® is designed for broad based site suitability and simple installation. Respected studies and reports have stated that because of its global distribution and highly concentrated nature, wave energy represents a logical choice as the most suitable alternative to traditional energy sources - once practical conversion technology becomes available. The Wavemill® provides that practical solution.

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New Solar Power
SA solar research eclipses rest of the world
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=116&art_id=vn20060211110132138C184427

http://cooltech.iafrica.com/features/508857.htm

http://www.nrf.ac.za/sajs/sm_jan98.stm

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/science/0,2172,91736,00.html
By Willem Steenkamp

In a scientific breakthrough that has stunned the world, a team of South African scientists has developed a revolutionary new, highly efficient solar power technology that will enable homes to obtain all their electricity from the sun.

This means high electricity bills and frequent power failures could soon be a thing of the past.

The unique South African-developed solar panels will make it possible for houses to become completely self-sufficient for energy supplies.

The panels are able to generate enough energy to run stoves, geysers, lights, TVs, fridges, computers - in short all the mod-cons of the modern house.

Nothing else comes close to the effectiveness of the SA invention

The new technology should be available in South Africa within a year and through a special converter, energy can be fed directly into the wiring of existing houses. New powerful storage units will allow energy storage to meet demands even in winter. The panels are so efficient they can operate through a Cape Town winter. while direct sunlight is ideal for high-energy generation, other daytime light also generates energy via the panels.

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2006-02-17T06:24:00.000-08:00

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 12:00 AM
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002808447_rockyflats16.html

U.S. facing $553.9 million payout for plutonium leaks

By Catherine Tsai
The Associated Press

DENVER — With a half-billion-dollar verdict hanging over its head, the Department of Energy was reviewing legal options Wednesday after a jury ruled that two DOE contractors allowed plutonium from the Rocky Flats weapons plant to contaminate nearby land.

A federal jury on Tuesday decided Dow Chemical and the former Rockwell International damaged land around the now-defunct plant through negligence that exposed thousands of property owners to plutonium and increased their risk of health problems.

Jurors awarded the plaintiffs $553.9 million in damages. The government already is facing an estimated $58 million in legal fees for the contractors.

State and federal laws likely will limit any verdict payout to $352 million, attorneys said, but taxpayers may have to foot the bill because the two companies' contracts called for the federal government to indemnify them.

Appeal planned

The companies were moving ahead with plans to appeal. Energy Department spokesman Mike Waldron said the agency and the contractors "are evaluating how best to proceed."

Dow Chemical operated Rocky Flats for the government from the 1950s until 1975; Rockwell ran it from 1975 until 1989, when it closed. The plant made plutonium triggers for nuclear warheads.

Dow Chemical spokesman Scot Wheeler said property values around Rocky Flats have continued to rise, and that several regulatory agencies have said the surrounding areas could be developed.

U.S. District Judge John Kane will review the verdict, said Louise Roselle, an attorney for some of the plaintiffs. The lawsuit was filed 16 years ago on behalf of 13,000 people.

Who pays

Generally, government contracts with companies that work for it require the Department of Energy to reimburse contractors that are ordered to pay penalties, Waldron said.

"The neighbors, the citizens of Colorado, have waited 16 years for the defense and the government to compensate them for the harm caused to them," Roselle said. "No amount of money will compensate them for what happened, but the government should stop spending money to fight the neighbors. They should spend money to settle and compensate neighbors."

The companies and their lawyers have cited several grounds to appeal, including jury instructions they say were too liberal. Defense attorney David Bernick has said the jury was allowed to award damages if it determined the companies were responsible for even one particle of plutonium on the plaintiffs' properties.

He has said the judge wrongly allowed jurors to consider certain testimony, including claims that the Energy Department was a conspirator.
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2006-02-06T09:53:00.000-08:00

http://www.sundayherald.com/53945
Sunday Herald - 05 February 2006

UK's secret nuclear sites exposed online
By Rob Edwards, Environment Editor

DOWNLOADING satellite images of top-secret nuclear weapons sites using a new piece of Google software could breach the government’s strict anti-terrorism laws, experts claim.
Over the past few months high- resolution aerial photographs of large areas of the Earth’s surface have become available to anyone with broadband and a computer. All they need is a copy of Google Earth, a remarkable global mapping programme being given away by the $129 billion internet company.

The software enables online computer users anywhere to access and view graphic images from around the world. But nuclear specialists are worried that it could be used by terrorists to pinpoint potential targets at some of Britain’s most sensitive military sites.

Using Google Earth, the Sunday Herald was able zoom in on defunct nuclear submarines at Rosyth in Fife, and scour almost all the facilities at Faslane on the Clyde, home to the submarines that carry Trident warheads. The UK’s nuclear bomb bunkers and factories at Burghfield and Aldermaston in Berkshire were clearly visible.

“I’m astonished, to be honest,” said John Large, an independent nuclear consultant. “I think this would be a great aid to terrorists because it gives much more detail than you can get by buying a map or driving past.”

Large argued that if he referred clients to the Google Earth images of nuclear sites, he could be in breach of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, which made it a crime punishable by up to seven years in prison to disclose any information “which might prejudice the security of any nuclear site”.

He said: “You are not allowed to take photographs of military bases but now, with this software, you can peer straight into them. It’s incredible.”

The satellite photos clearly show the seven old nuclear submarines at Rosyth naval base as well as other shoreside facilities. Barracks, fuel depots and jetties are all visible at Faslane. The most sensitive parts of Britain’s two most secretive nuclear sites – Burghfield and Aldermaston – can be seen in great detail. From a few hundred feet up, users can view bomb storage bunkers and count cars outside buildings where bombs are made and refurbished.

As well as the military nuclear sites, Google Earth enables users to see civil nuclear power stations like Hunterston, Torness and Dounreay in Scotland. But the satellite pictures available are of a much lower resolution and become blurred below 20,000 feet.

But there is a crystal-clear photograph of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, scene of the United States’ most serious nuclear accident in 1979.

“If Osama bin Laden had broadband in his cave in Afghanistan he could be using Google Earth right now to plan a detailed attack on Faslane,” said Dr Richard Dixon, the director of WWF Scotland. “As the data on the site improves he will no doubt be interested to browse past Torness, Hunterston, Dounreay, Coulport and Chapelcross. This shows the vulnerability of our nuclear sites, with so much dangerous material concentrated in one spot.”

Dixon was opposed to any move to censor the information. “If it is not on Google Earth, it will almost certainly be available somewhere on the web,” he argued.

John Ainslie, co-ordinator of the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said the images’ unprecedented detail would be of value to anti-nuclear campaigners . “Unfortunately they could also be misused by anyone who was planning a terrorist attack,” he said. “The government’s approach to secrecy is all wrong. They keep secret political plans for the future of British nuclear weapons, while close-up aerial photos of Aldermaston are freely available.”

Google said the satellite images were available from many sources and had helped fight forest fires and provide relief from natural disasters. “We believe that the benefits of access to the information provided by Google Earth for such valuable purposes are greater than any negatives from potential abuse,” said a company spokeswoman.

“Google takes governmental concerns about Google Earth and Google Maps very seriously. We welcome dialogue with governments and authorities about any concerns they may have.”

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) insisted that it didn’t see Google Earth as a security risk. Some of the pictures were out of date and much of the information was available on maps.

“The MoD has no objection to sites being shown, and we have no control over satellite images,” said a spokes woman. “We don’t have a problem with it.”
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2006-01-17T06:25:00.000-08:00

‘Fiasco’ of secret nuclear waste tips

15 January 2006 UK Sunday Herald
By Rob Edwards, Environment Editor

http://www.sundayherald.com/53590

# Probe into Ayrshire dumps
# Questions over lost records
# Concerns of erosion due to global warming and rising seas

INVESTIGATIONS have been launched into the risks to public health and safety
posed by secret radioactive waste dumps on the North Ayrshire coast, the
Sunday Herald can reveal. Thousands of cubic metres of contaminated rubbish
from Hunterston nuclear power station have been dumped in five shoreline
pits accessible to the public. Yet official records of what the pits contain
have been destroyed.

Recent monitoring of the Ayrshire foreshore has uncovered unexpectedly high
levels of radioactivity, and there are mounting concerns that the pits could
be eroded or flooded by the rising sea levels caused by global warming.

The emerging story of the hitherto unknown waste pits has been described as
a “scandal” and a “fiasco” by critics, who are calling for urgent action to
clean up the mess. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) and
North Ayrshire Council have both stressed the importance of ensuring public
safety.

The five pits are on reclaimed land outside the perimeter fence of the
Hunterston A nuclear site, near West Kilbride. The two ageing reactors on
the site were closed down 16 years ago, though more modern reactors at the
adjoining Hunterston B site are still generating electricity.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the government agency which is now
overseeing the clean-up of Hunterston A, says the pits contain about 6500
cubic metres of low-level radioactive waste. This is thought to include
contaminated soil, rubble and concrete dumped between 1977 and 1982.

But according to the British Nuclear Group, the state-owned company that
runs Hunterston A, documents detailing the dumped material have been thrown
away. They had been damaged by water leaking into the room where they were
stored.

Now surveys for the company have detected “elevated contamination readings”
at the pits. A patch of soil on the surface of one of the pits was found to
contain traces of the radioactive isotope caesium-137.

The British Nuclear Group, which used to be known as British Nuclear Fuels
Limited, has commissioned a series of studies from consultants. Experts have
been probing the pits in an attempt to find out what they actually contain
and what needs to be done about them.

Another study is examining the condition of the foreshore and its
vulnerability to the long-term effects of climate change, which is predicted
to result in rougher and higher seas. As the Sunday Herald revealed in
November, this is a problem facing many coastal nuclear sites.

Information about the waste pits has emerged only because of persistent
questioning by Rita Holmes, who represents Fairlie Community Council on the
Hunterston Site Stakeholder Group.

“These revelations show just how badly the industry has behaved,” she said.

“It dumped contaminated waste on public land for years and then managed to
lose the records of what it had dumped. As a result, we now have no clear
idea of the threat that the pits pose to public health,” she added.

“This is a scandal, and it will shock people locally and across Scotland. I
fear that the pits are just the tip of the iceberg of the mess we face
cleaning up Hunterston A.”

Holmes thought that the new investigations might help but would not reveal
all the dangers. “The only way to be sure is for all 6500 cubic metres to be
examined,” she argued. “Then, if there is a real risk of erosion, flooding
and leakage, waste will need to be dug out and taken elsewhere. Goodness
knows what problems remain to be discovered.”

Chris Ballance MSP, the Greens’ speaker on nuclear issues, said: “All of
this shows how completely irresponsible and reprehensible the behaviour of
the nuclear industry has been.

“This new and disturbing fiasco at Hunterston is yet another example of the
problems of dealing with a dirty and dangerous technology of the past. The
sooner we move on to sustainable energy for Scotland, the better.”
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2006-01-13T08:07:00.000-08:00

U.S.A. Federal Dirty Bomb Cleanup Policy

"A Nuclear Katrina in the Making"
Department of Homeland Security Issues Grossly Lax
Dirty Bomb Cleanup Guidance (01/04/06):
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:09 am
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Dirty Bomb Cleanup Guidance

US Department of Homeland Security Dirty Bomb Cleanup Guidance
published Jan 3, 2006 would allow radiation levels that will cause cancer
in 1 in every 3 to 4 people exposed for 30 years, using National Academy
of Sciences BEIR VII or EPA risk estimates.

NIRS Press Release. January 4, 2006.
http://www.nirs.org/radiation/radstds/radstdshome.htm/#dirtybomb
Quote:
The guidance permits radioactive contamination from a terrorist dirty bomb to remain in place, with no long-term cleanup measures required, at doses up to 10,000 millirems per year indefinitely. This is about a thousand times higher dose and risk than EPA Superfund guidance currently allows for cleanup of the nation's most contaminated sites.

"Some pro-nuclear government officials publicly claim that a radiological weapon couldn't cause any harm except fear," said Diane D'Arrigo of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a Washington, D.C. policy group. "Yet in DHS FEMA guidance, the government is quietly admitting that radiation from dirty bombs could cause one in four people to get cancer—and makes it potentially acceptable to leave that contamination long into the future while people live and work in the area." DHS's dirty bomb "cleanup" levels far exceed all previous US health guidance, regulations and risk levels.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0104-04.htm

http://www.nirs.org/

Mothersalert: http://www.mothersalert.org
http://www.mothersalert.org/moreinfo.html
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2005-12-27T18:19:00.000-08:00

Wave, wind, sun and tide is a powerful mix
Research at Oxford shows how renewables can plug Britain's energy gap, says Oliver Tickell

Thursday May 12, 2005

Guardian

For years, nuclear power has looked expensive, dangerous and dirty. That opinion may be about to change. Britain is facing a power gap of up to 2,000 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity — almost 40% of peak national demand — by 2020 as ageing, unreliable and inefficient nuclear and coal-fired power stations are shut. There is a growing consensus that only new nuclear power can plug that gap without contributing to global warming.
Renewable electricity technologies that harness wind, wave, tide and sun are all very well, the thinking goes, but their output is too variable and unpredictable to provide more than a small part of our electricity needs. Meeting the government's target of 20% renewables by 2020 could mean getting as much as 15% from wind and other intermittent sources, with the balance coming from "firm" renewables such as biomass and landfill gas. And that, say critics of renewables, is as much intermittency as the system can take. Any more and we will need huge reserves of expensive, polluting backup capacity, ready to cut in whenever the wind stops blowing.

Convinced? Think again. Research at Oxford University shows that intermittent renewables, combined with domestic combined heat and power (dCHP) could dependably provide the bulk of Britain's electricity. "By mixing between sites and mixing technologies, you can markedly reduce the variability of electricity supplied by renewables," says Graham Sinden, of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute. "And if you plan the right mix, renewable and intermittent technologies can even be made to match real-time electricity demand patterns. This reduces the need for backup, and makes renewables a serious alternative to conventional power sources." In particular, it puts renewables ahead of nuclear power, which runs at the same rate all the time regardless of fluctuations in demand.

Sinden initially looked at just three generation technologies: wind, solar and dCHP — in effect, hi-tech domestic boilers, which produce electricity as they heat water. He ran computer models of power output based on weather records going back up to 35 years, and found that electricity production could be optimised by creating a mixture of 65% wind, 25% dCHP, and 10% solar cells. The high proportion of wind is because the wind blows hardest in the winter, and in the evening — when demand is highest. The dCHP also produces more at peak times, when demand for hot water and heating is also strongest. Solar makes a smaller contribution, and produces nothing at night. But it is still important to have it in the mix as it kicks in when wind and dCHP production is lowest.

It is also essential to disperse the generators, whether wind turbines or rooftop solar cells, as widely as possible. By increasing the separation between sites, you can be sure that power is always being generated somewhere and so smooth out the supply curve. This goes against current practice, which is to put wind turbines where the wind is strongest.

Sinden's approach is remarkably effective in reducing the need for standby capacity. If offshore wind power alone were to provide an average 3,500MW of electricity — 10% of electricity demand in England and Wales — it would need to be backed up by an extra standby generating capacity of 3,135MW — 90% of average production. But using Sinden's proposed mix of technologies, only 400MW of new standby capacity would be needed — just 11%.

In his latest work, commissioned by the Carbon Trust, Sinden has been researching the roles for wave and tidal power. Wave power output is concentrated into autumn and winter, when demand is greatest: 75% of wave power is produced between October and March. Tidal power output is predictable, but variable: at any site it drops to zero four times a day on the turn of the tide; and output is three or four times greater on the spring tide than on the neap tide. "A marine-based renewable system works best when it includes both tide and wave," says Sinden. "The combination has lower variability, is better at meeting demand patterns, and makes better use of expensive transmission infrastructure."

Putting these figures together with estimates of Britain's available renewable resources, wind (onshore and offshore) could realistically provide some 35% of the UK's electricity, marine and dCHP each 10-15%, and solar cells 5-10%. In other words, more than half the UK's electricity could ultimately derive from intermittent renewables.

"In the next year or so, the UK is going to have to decide how to meet its electricity needs for the next half-century," says Sinden. "It's an incredible opportunity for renewables but my fear is that it may be missed."

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2005-12-26T12:11:00.000-08:00

Nuclear Adventures

By: Gideon Spiro
Hagada Hasmalit
14 December 2005

Translated from Hebrew by Mark Marshall

"Then, I fear, he will enter a state of atomic stress, and be
unable to resist the temptation, and will take a gamble on
the fate of all of us and initiate a grandiose military action
against Iran the consequences of which could be fraught
with disaster."
*****

The London Newspaper Sunday Times published a story according to which Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has already issued the order to the air force to prepare for the bombing of the Iranian nuclear reactor, to be carried out in the second half of the month of March, a few days before the election. The story fits in well with the ongoing media spin that has been taking place in the Israeli press regarding the "Iranian bomb" and which is preparing Israeli public opinion for the possibility that Israel will initiate a military attack, even though there have not been any dramatic developments in Iran recently.

I have no doubt that Sharon wants to imitate the late Prime Minister Menahem Begin who initiated the bombing of the Iraqi reactor in 1981 a short time before elections. That action played a decisive role in guaranteeing a second term for Begin. A similar action in Iran, if it goes well, will send Prime Minister Sharon's shares flying upwards and ensure his ultimate victory in the elections.

Except that Iran is not Iraq, and the gamble here could also end in a failure that is likely to lead to a military and political catastrophe.

Iran has spread its nuclear industry over various sites, and even if we assume that Israel has the capacity to bomb one or two sites (and there are those who have doubts about that), it will not lead to the elimination of the nuclear industry; on the contrary, the assessment is that such an action will spur Iran to double and triple its efforts at nuclear armament, not to speak of retaliatory actions that are likely to send the region on a course to conflict with weapons of mass destruction.

Not only are we threatened by the Iranian missiles that can reach anywhere in Israel, but also by hundreds and maybe thousands of Hizbullah Katyushas that can reach Haifa Bay and can hit the oil refineries and chemical industries and cause huge fires and environmental contamination that will necessitate the evacuation of Haifa and its periphery.

We must also take into consideration the fact that the Iranian missiles can reach the nuclear reactor in Dimona and cause devastation to the extent of covering the southern region with a radioactive cloud that would make it uninhabitable.

Sharon has already proved with the Lebanon war that he is a dangerous adventurer, and this quality is likely to manifest itself again, especially if his good showing in the opinion polls diminishes as the elections approach. Then, I fear, he will enter a state of atomic stress, and be unable to resist the temptation, and will take a gamble on the fate of all of us and initiate a grandiose military action against Iran the consequences of which could be fraught with disaster.

In that regard my advice to Sharon's opponents in the various parties, especially Amir Peretz, is to condition their refusal to support an alternative government composed of 61 Knesset members on a public promise by Sharon that he will not initiate any military action against Iran.
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2005-12-24T18:26:00.000-08:00

Iraq: Depleted Uranium aka Baghdad Boils?

jouna, iraq-war.ru
December 23, 2005

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NucNews/pending

There’s a possibility that the US Department of Defense (DoD) is hiding the US casualties under a disguise of 'Baghdad Boils’, a disease plaguing the US troops in Iraq, claimed to be caused by the sand fly bites, but possibly by depleted uranium (DU) radiation. To explore this issue I’ve forwarded the following article to DU experts in the world to have it checked and I’m now publishing it as a preliminary announcement here in iraq-war.ru. I’ll keep you updated on this as soon as I hear of them (if confirmed you can’t miss the fat mainstream headlining).

DEPLETED URANIUM

Recent evidence proves that depleted uranium (DU) is the definite cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Fourteen years after its introduction, DU has revealed as a death sentence, lately brought forth by Leuren Moret (cf. e.g. http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml and the sources to this article).

The biological particulate effect targets the Master Code in the DNA and causes numerous diseases difficult to define, but in effect devastating the human body for example with multiple malignancies and developing cancers. Out of 580,400 soldiers in first Gulf War, 11 thousand have died and already by 2000 there were 325,000 permanently disabled, the number increasing by 43,000 every year.

Besides, DU has internally contaminated their sexual partners, who have developed endometriosis and have been forced to have hysteroctomies due to health problems. 67 percent of a test group of 251 soldiers have had babies with severe birth defects (missing members, organs, immune system diseases).

The United States has deliberately developed the DU in order to utilize the deadly properties of the DU and contaminated not only 42 states in United States, Sinai in Yom Kippur war (1973), Yugoslavia, southern Iraq (and areas nearby) in the first Gulf War and from 2003 on again in Iraq.

One of the reasons that the US deploys it allies in the southern parts of the Iraq, because it does not want to expose its own troops to the deadly radiation there from the first Gulf War. Thus the British, and the other coalition troops have been generously given the responsibility of the southern Iraq.

BAGHDAD BOIL

In a story 'Skin ulcers plague men from N.C. unit’ (cf. http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/13454217.htm ) we are told:

"In addition to the combat casualties suffered during a tour of duty in Iraq last year, an N.C. National Guard brigade also had to medevac 13 men back to a U.S. hospital after volleyball games left them vulnerable to one of the Iraq war's most exotic hazards – an outbreak of skin ulcers that can grow for years. The victims, all men from the same small unit, contracted cutaneous leishmaniasis, characterized by weeping sores that refuse to heal, said Lt. Col Tim Mauldin, the brigade's top medical officer. The illness is nicknamed "Baghdad Boil." At the time the guardsmen contracted it last year, the only way to treat it was to fly them back to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for up to three weeks of intravenous treatments with a drug called Pentostam"

Using Pentostam in the treatment of sand fly bite is most curious for two main reasons:

(1) One is tempted to suspect the US diagnosis, because for leishmaniasis, phlebotomus argentipes (also known as Kala-azar), a disease indeed caused by the bite of sand fly, there is a new, oral drug (Miltefosine( is now available. The medicine is effective (cf. http://www.who.int/tdr/diseases/leish/press_release.htm ), which makes the US use of sodium stibogluconate (commercial names: Pentostam or Stibanate) instead very curious, until we read the comment of Lt. Col Tim Mauldin concerning the sores (rather: 'malignancies’) known as Baghdad Boils: "No matter what you do, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger.")

(2) Pentostam is administered into veins and "results in a greater than 50% decrease in parasite DNA, RNA protein and purine nucleoside triphosphate levels" (cf. http://emc.medicines.org.uk/emc/assets/c/html/displaydoc.asp?documentid=2182, section 5, Pharmacological properties ). It is not immediately obvious how the bites of tiny sandflies could cause changes in the Master Code in the DNA?

(3) Although the sand flies are unlikely cause for the Baghdad Boils, we can seek a different, more natural explanation for the disease is from the the unit itself, to which all thirteen man belong. The 30th Enhanced Heavy Separate Brigade (Mech), "Old Hickory", has one battalion of M-1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks and two battalions of M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles (cf. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/30in-bde.htm ).

The main weapon of the M1A1 is the M256 120mm smoothbore cannon, designed by the Rheinmetall Corporation of Germany. Engagement ranges approaching 4000 meters were successfully demonstrated during Operation Desert Storm. The primary armor-defeating ammunition of this weapon is the armor-piercing, fin-stabilized, discarding sabot (APDS-FS) round, which features a depleted uranium penetrators (cf. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m1.htm ). On the other hand, we know already from the first Gulf War that: "Soldiers who served in Bradley fighting vehicles, where it was common to sit on ammunition boxes where depleted uranium ammunition was stored, are now reporting that many have rectal cancer."

CONSEQUENCES:

Having recognized the previous facts we are left with the following consequences:

(1) Depleted uranium explains the changes in the Master Code in the DNA caused by Baghdad Boils much better than the 'sand flies’ (if the sand flies are not simply considered as an army code word for 'uranium particles’ or alike). In fact, the diagnosis of Baghdad Boils as 'leishmaniasis’ put forth in several connections by Dr. Roger Bate is itself highly suspicious as Dr. Bate is a visiting fellow at American Enterprise Institute, a front for international armed looting around the world.

(2) As the United States treats the cancer developing multiple malignancies of its tank crews with Pentostam (and not Miltefosine), this shows that the US Armed Forces and the Pentagon are indeed aware of the effects of the depleted uranium, which again shows that they are lying in their denials of its cancer-producing effect, thus giving a direct answer to "QUESTION 11. WHAT DOES THE U.S. GOVT. KNOW ABOUT DU?" in http://traprockpeaceorg/moret_25nov03.pdf. They know everything, even how to slow down the mutations caused by DU.

(3) More than 2000 U.S. service members have officially contracted the disease since the Iraq War began in early 2003, most of them in Iraq (though some also in Afghanistan). When these 'walking dead’ are added to the current DoD casualty figure (2160) as soon to be dead, the US death toll tops 4,000 with a single jump. The entire US colonial expeditionary force, the 300,000 having served in Iraq are soon to be counted as US Casualties, either dead or disabled by DU.

(4) As the depleted uranium penetrators are the main rounds of the US M1A1 tanks, and the extra rounds for the tanks are carried in the M2 Bradleys, there is no doubt, that after 1000 days of war, the entire US armored equipment in Iraq is totally contaminated making these vehicles literarily dead man’s chests. Actually the US tank crews are more safe outside than inside of them, despite the current conditions in Iraq.

(5) As the US Armed Forces in Iraq are actually living dead, a zombie army soon to follow the destiny of the previous army in the First Gulf War and their Armored Vehiles hopelessly contaminated by DU, the US army actually has no troops nor tanks. This means that its fate is sealed. The United States has lost the war in Iraq as soon as the troops get the information of how they are and have been deceived by an enemy worse than that they face in Iraq, the US government.

(6) Despite of this we may have even more to worry: in her recent articles Leuren Moret tell that the US has used more DU since 1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 40,000 Nagasagi Bombs, making four nuclear wars together. This, according to her may be enough for a death sentence for all of us, who will die in silent ways. To prevent this from happening we must not listen to Mr. Bush, who claims that the future generations will be grateful for sacrifices in Iraq (cf. http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_3331907 ). The current deception of the US solders themselves by the US Government could not make the issue more clear: no matter whether you are friend or foe, there is nobody the Government of the United States wouldn’t betray. To stop them all you have to do is pass this story to the US combat troops in Iraq. Explaining them what exactly stepping into US tanks means, will leave them unmanned. This in turn will stop the armoured brigades, which in turn stops the US divisions and armies – and in the end the US government war. As soon as the war is stopped, the entire human kind must step in and help the Iraqi people to clean the country from the depleted uranium.

I’m most thankful for your assistance in this already.

jouna, iraq-war.ru

Section I: Depleted Uranium
(more sources from articles themselves)

1. Depleted uranium: "Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets: A death sentence here and abroad"
LINK: http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml

2. Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War
LINK: http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm

3. QUESTION 11. WHAT DOES THE U.S. GOVT. KNOW ABOUT DU?
LINK: http://traprockpeace.org/moret_25nov03.pdf

4. A Monumental War Crime ... DU
http://www.iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/74185

5. Leuren Moret Speaking on Depleted Uranium
LINK: http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/DU-Leuren-Moret21apr03.htm

6. Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD
LINK: http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html

7. Marin Depleted Uranium Resolution Heats Up GI's Will Come Home To A Slow Death
LINK: http://www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01.htm

8. The United States is Actively Engaged in War Crimes and Polluting with Deadly Nuclear Materials
LINK: http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1205/HRA_141205.htm

9. New Information on Iraq
LINK: http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1205/du_141205.htm

10. The UNITED STATES of MONSTERS: DEPLETED URANIUM
LINK: http://uruknet.info/?p=18218&hd=0&size=1&l=x

11. Iranian president calls for war crimes charges on US
LINK: http://www.iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/71438

12. Squeezed To Death
LINK: http://uruknet.info/?p=18640&hd=0&size=1&l=x

13. World Uranium Weapons Conference 2003
LINK: http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm

14. International Criminal Tribunal For Afghanistan at Tokyo
LINK: http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm

15. Leuren Moret: Depleted Uranium Is WMD
LINK: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00138.htm

16. Discounted casualties – the human cost of depleted uranium
LINK: http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html

17. Heads roll at Veterans Administration
Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed
LINK: http://wwwsfbayview.com/012605/headsroll012605.shtml

18. Casualties in Iraq
LINK: http://democracyrising.us/content/view/46/74/

19. Pentagon Brass Suppresses Truth About Toxic Weapons
LINK: http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pentagon_brass.html

Section II: Baghdad Boil
(some samples, google yourself for more hits):

Baghdad Boil to Return? (by Dr. Roger Bate, 05/13/2004)
LINK: http://www.techcentralstation.com/051304C.html

Topic: BAGHDAD BOIL: parasites infect many U.S. troops
LINK: http://knoxville.wate.com/sound_off/index.php/topic,132.0.html

Baghdad Boil' Afflicting U.S. Troops
LINK: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Baghdad_boil_041804.htm

Soldiers, Civilians Returning from Middle East: Be Aware of "Baghdad Boil"
LINK: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=27577

RELIEF FROM BAGHDAD BOILS
LINK. http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/1346/44/
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2005-12-21T14:00:00.000-08:00

John Busby - Australian News Opinion Reply

Nuclear power: no solution to climate change
By Jim Green - posted Tuesday, 6 December 2005
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3906
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There is no "nuclear option", because the world is running out of economically-mined uranium and the secondary supplies of ex-weapons highly enriched uranium (HEU), re-worked mine tailings, inventories and a modicum of MOX are expected to be exhausted in ten years or so.

This is so much a crisis for the nuclear industry that it has anguished over it in the last three annual symposiums of the World Nuclear Association in London. Many nuclear stations will run out of fuel once the 40% of the world's supply from secondary sources declines.

Primary mining supplies provide only 60% of the demand and even this level of supply requires a constant location and opening of new mines as the production in the existing mines reaches its "Hubbert" peak and then declines.

There could be no better illustration of this dilemma than the proposals to expand Olympic Dam mine in South Australia by digging a hole 3km x 3km x 1km to extract copper, gold and uranium. BHP Billiton has initiated a feasibility study, but have already stated that without the copper, the grade of uranium ore at only 0.04% is insufficiently high to warrant a go-ahead without the revenue from the copper.

Uranium is mined for the energy it produces in a subsequent nuclear fuel cycle, but if the diesel and electricity used to excavate such an enormous hole and mill the lean ore exceeds that produced in the fuel cycle what is the point? The Olympic Dam expansion requires desalinated water supply and pipeline, a rail connection and there is a suggestion of an airport. The initial energy input is unlikely to provide a decent energy return, certainly not if world recession lowers the price of copper.

The proponents of the "nuclear option" should state where they imagine the world's uranium supply would come from, especially if Australia retained its uranium for its own fleet.

Posted by John Busby, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 3:32:56 AM
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anti-green quotes UIC paper 75, but nothing could undermine the case for nuclear power more!

It gives the concentration of uranium in seawater as 0.003 parts per million, so with an optimistic yield of say 50% it would require the processing of 1,000,000 x 2/0.003 = 667 million cubic metres of seawater to obtain 1 tonne of uranium with huge pumping energy.

UIC75 gives the average of uranium concentration in the earth's crust as 2.8 ppm (0.00028 %), so with a ratio to overburden to ore of 3:1 and a yield of 10% it would take the mining and milling of 1,000,000 x 10 x 3/2.8 = 10.7 million tonnes of rock to get 1 tonne of uranium. At the mine and mill the principle fuel is diesel, so as fossil fuels get scarcer the level of extraction energy rules.

UIC75 argues that a rise in the price of uranium could be readily carried in the price of electricity, but the killer factor is the enormous increase in the energy needed to extract the uranium from low concentration resources. If the input energy in the overall nuclear fuel cycle exceeds the electrical energy obtained therefrom, the entire operation is pointless. Only the limited high grade reserves in Canada give an adequate energy gain, but to maintain its current production requires continuous prospecting and opening of new mines, the finding of which cannot be guaranteed.

UIC75 mentions military warheads, but the supply of ex-weapons HEU is running out. It admits that thorium is not in commercial use, nor is there a commercially available fast breeder reactor.

anti-green mentions the recent WNA paper on "The new economics of nuclear power". It needs new economics because the old ones have failed. There is no margin to pay for waste treatment. In the USA spent fuel remains on site at 72 of the 100+ power stations which has to be kept stirred and cooled in ponds to avoid a melt down.

anti-green will need better than UIC75 to convince me that nuclear power is viable.

Posted by John Busby, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 4:00:19 AM
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2005-12-14T19:47:00.000-08:00

Pope says war no excuse for human rights abuses
13 Dec 2005 11:52:52 GMT

Source: Reuters
By Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said in an annual peace message on Tuesday that countries have a duty to respect international humanitarian law even if they are at war.

In the first peace message of his pontificate, he also appealed for worldwide nuclear disarmament and said countries considering acquiring such weapons should "change their course".

In the message for the Church's World Day of Peace, celebrated on Jan. 1, he also strongly condemned terrorism but said the world community should look deeper into its political, social, cultural, religious and ideological motivations.

In one part of the message, which is sent to heads of state and international organisations, the Pope said war could not be an excuse for disregarding international humanitarian law.

"The truth of peace must also let its beneficial light shine even amid the tragedy of war," he said, re-enforcing his stand by quoting from another Vatican document that said "not everything automatically becomes permissible between hostile parties once war has regrettably commenced".

The 12-page message, called "In Truth, Peace", he said the Holy See was convinced that international humanitarian law had to be respected "even in the midst of war".

The Pope did not name any countries or wars but his words followed widespread controversy over reports of abuse of prisoners by the United States in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.

The reports have incensed U.S. adversaries and alienated some allies. Earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came under pressure in Europe over reports of secret CIA prisons on the continent.

Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Vatican's Justice and Peace department, told reporters at the presentation of the message that the Pope's words applied to all wars. Asked if Iraq was included, he said: "That's correct."

TRUTH IN LAW

In his message, the Pope called international humanitarian law one of the finest expressions of truth.

"Precisely for this reason, respect for that law must be considered binding on all peoples," he said.

International humanitarian law "must be brought up to date by precise norms applicable to the changing scenarios of today's armed conflicts and the use of ever newer and more sophisticated weapons", he added.

Washington says the Geneva Convention does not apply to foreign captives in its war on terrorism, but human rights activists say it is still bound by the 1984 U.N. Convention against Torture to which it is a signatory.

President George W. Bush has said the United States does not practise torture, or send suspects to countries that do.

Last week a group of American Roman Catholic peace activists held a march to the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, protesting conditions for terrorism suspects.

In another part of the message, the Pope said the possession of nuclear weapons by any country for security was "not only baneful but also completely fallacious" because there would be no winners in a nuclear war.

"The truth of peace requires that all -- whether those governments which openly or secretly possess nuclear arms, or those planning to acquire them -- agree to change their course by clear and firm decisions, and strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament," he said.
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2005-12-14T19:09:00.000-08:00

Waves 'brought waste to Somalia'

Tsunami waves could have spread illegally dumped nuclear waste and other toxic waste on Somalia's coast, a United Nations spokesman has said.

Nick Nuttall of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) told the BBC that December's tsunami appeared to have broken barrels and scattered waste.

Mr Nuttall said a preliminary UN report had found that Somalis in the northern areas were falling sick as a result.

Some firms have been dumping waste off Somalia's coast for years, the UN says.

It says international companies have been taken advantage of the fact that Somalia had no functioning government from the early 1990s until recently.

Cancer link

"It appears that the tsunami broke open the containers and scattered a lot of these toxic substances around," Mr Nuttall told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.

We need to see if there needs to be a clean-up, whether top soils have to be removed and disposed of safely
Nick Nuttall

"We are talking about radioactive chemicals, heavy metals, medical waste.. you name it," he said.

Mr Nuttall said that reports from the tsunami-hit areas in northern Somalia had found that some local villagers there had mouth bleeds and haemorrhages.

He said that some of the hazardous wastes had been linked with cancer.

"We know this hazardous waste is on the land and is being blown around in the air and being carried to villages.

"There is also a possibility - which needs to be urgently investigated - about whether some of these chemicals have got into the coastal waters.

However, the spokesman said the UNEP needed to assess the full impact for the country.

He said that the waste posed significant danger to Somalia's fishing industry and also local marine life.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/4312553.stm

Published: 2005/03/02 17:20:03 GMT
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Posted on Sun, Nov. 20, 2005
Veteran recounts dumping of radioactive waste off U.S. shore

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/13219865.htm
BY JOHN M.R. BULL
Newport News (Va.) Daily Press

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The Army might not know what kind of radioactive waste it dumped with chemical weapons off Virginia in 1960, but Ellis R. Cole is sure it wasn't harmless.

The Geiger counter readings were proof of that.

Cole said he helped winch hundreds of 55-gallon barrels labeled "radioactive" out of a ship and into the ocean.

He was, he said, aboard a small Fort Eustis, Va.-based ship sent that summer to pick up a load of radioactive waste from an Army chemical-weapon development and test base in Maryland and dump it into the Atlantic Ocean.

"It was common knowledge on the ship that we were dealing with something that was very dangerous," said Cole, now 64 and living in Lakeport, Fla. "I've been uneasy about it for a number of years. No one seemed to care at the time, but I felt in my heart we did something absolutely wrong."

Army records show that a shipment of 317 tons of radioactive waste and 3 tons of Lewisite - a blister agent related to mustard gas - was dumped June 14 and 15, 1960, about 90 miles off the Virginia-Maryland line. Cole said it might have been dumped much closer to shore than Army records showed.

Cole came forward after reading a Daily Press investigation revealing that the Army secretly dumped at least 64 million pounds of chemical weapons and 500 tons of unidentified radioactive waste off 11 states from 1945 to 1970, when the practice was halted.

He provided a detailed, credible description of one of many Army dumping operations and offered the Daily Press access to his military record for verification. He also agreed to speak to Army chemical-weapons experts.

Cole said two holds of the ship were filled with barrels of radioactive waste. He said the ends of the barrels were encased in concrete, which had gaps to hook chains connected to a winch that hoisted the barrels out of the hold and over the side.

He said he was 18 at the time and was chosen to be one of the men who went into the holds to hook the barrels onto the winch. The captain issued a "very unusual" order that prohibited anyone from being in the holds for more than two hours at a time, thus limiting radiation exposure, Cole said.

On leaving the holds, the workers were examined with a Geiger counter to determine the degree of radiation on them. "It would beep incessantly," Cole said.

He was then ordered to shower, a common practice for decades to reduce the effects of radiation exposure. The Geiger counter still went wild.

He took eight to 10 showers each time that he left the ship's holds before the Geiger counter didn't detect a dangerous level of radiation, he said. "The more showers I took, the less it beeped until it eventually stopped beeping," Cole said.

He said he didn't remember whether he was required to wear a protective suit when in the holds. And he wonders whether the colon cancer diagnosed last year was caused by radiation exposure decades ago.

Cole described a method of dumping not previously disclosed. Army records don't indicate that the ends of dumped barrels filled with chemical-warfare agents or radioactive waste were encased in concrete. But it's a plausible method to remove barrels from a ship's hold.

Army photographs from the 1940s to the 1960s show forklifts pushing the steel containers and chemical-filled ordnance over the sides of ships. In later years, the Army's preferred disposal method was to scuttle ships packed with chemical weapons.

Records also show that radioactive material in those years frequently was mixed with concrete before being dumped into the ocean.

Army dumping records don't reveal the origin of the radioactive waste jettisoned. But National Archives records show that large quantities of unidentified radioactive material were transported in the 1950s by the Army's chemical-weapons escort service from a nuclear lab at Oak Ridge, Tenn., to Army bases with chemical weapons slated for ocean disposal.

At the time, the thermonuclear, or hydrogen, bomb was being developed at that lab. Army transportation of potentially highly radioactive waste from the lab is known to have continued until 1960.

The Army wasn't the only entity to dump radioactive waste off the Virginia-Maryland line in 1960.

A 1961 report in the defunct Armed Forces Chemical Journal shows that private industry also dumped at least 8 tons of radioactive waste - some of it highly dangerous nuclear material - in the same location as the Army operation that Cole said he was on. The journal said what was then the Atomic Energy Commission approved the location. (The AEC was superseded in 1975 by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.)

Cole told the Daily Press that he was aboard a ship named the Pvt. Carl V. Sheridan, which he described as a 176-foot-long freighter. The Fort Eustis-based ship was ordered to the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland to pick up its load of radioactive material.

The name of the ship couldn't be verified. But an archivist at the Army Transportation Museum said ships of that description, designated freight supply vessels, were based at Eustis in the 1960s.

Cole said his ship headed into the Atlantic and north to the Virginia-Maryland line. But the seas were too rough to set up the booms used to lift the heavy barrels from the ship's holds, so the vessel spent the night at Wilmington, Del.

The ship headed south the next day, found the seas still too choppy to dump its cargo, and tied up at a dock at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va. The captain hung a placard - "radioactive" - on the side of the ship, which Cole said he understood to be standard operating procedure at the time.

The post commander apparently considered the ship too dangerous to have around and ordered it away from the dock.

"They threw us out of port," Cole said. "They made us go out into the (Chesapeake) bay for the night. It was too dangerous for the Army brass at Fort Monroe."

The next morning, the ship headed into the Atlantic and steamed north for what the crew estimated to be 60 to 70 miles before dumping its load, Cole said.

Army records show that the radioactive waste was dumped about 110 miles north of the fort and 90 miles from shore. If so, either Cole's memory is inaccurate or the Army's records are mistaken and the dumping was much closer to shore than recorded.

One thing Cole is clear on: The material that his ship was carrying was dangerously radioactive.

"That's something that's bothered me for the last 45 years," he said. "They told me to do it, and I did it. I always felt we were doing something wrong."
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2005-12-13T15:22:00.000-08:00

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cronkite.php?articleid=6892

August 6, 2005
Lessons from Hiroshima, 60 Years Later
by Walter Cronkite

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago were stunning and sobering events. They brought World War II to an end, and everyone was thankful for that. Not too many of us stopped to think about the full implications of those bombs for our future. We were too busy celebrating the end of that terrible war.

One of the people who had it absolutely right at the very beginning about the meaning of Hiroshima was the great French writer Albert Camus. He wrote in a French resistance newspaper: "Our technological civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests." We are still facing that choice.

Both the US and the USSR tested nuclear weapons in the atmosphere until the early 1960s, while they continued to create more efficient weapons. It didn't take either country long to get those weapons on intercontinental ballistic missiles and then submarine-launched ballistic missiles. They created a situation in which the world could be destroyed in a matter of minutes. This threat of a massive nuclear exchange was thought to provide an ad hoc policy to prevent nuclear war. It was called the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction, for which the acronym was MAD. Never was an acronym more accurately descriptive.

We came very close to a nuclear exchange between Washington and Moscow in 1962 with the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was a very frightening time, and we can all be thankful that sanity managed to prevail. There were high-ranking US officials at the time who were pressing for bombing Cuba, which would have meant a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. That was one of many close calls during the Cold War.

With the end of the Cold War, there seemed to be a real chance again to put nuclear dangers behind us, and once again the opportunity was largely missed. Today, in the 60th year of the Nuclear Age, we still have some 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world, and some 4,000 of these are on hair-trigger alert. You have to wonder about a species that seems so incapable of eliminating the greatest danger to its own survival. Not so incidentally, the United States has more nuclear weapons in its arsenal than any other nation.

There has been much emphasis in the news about the dangers of nuclear proliferation in such countries as North Korea. All countries should abide by the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Few Americans are aware, however, that the treaty also provides that the US and other nuclear-weapons states must reduce their numbers of nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, disarmament by nuclear-weapons states receives limited attention in news reporting, at least within the United States. I think this might be because the continuing existence of our own vast arsenal doesn't seem to Americans, even if they are aware of it, to be nearly as dangerous as the threat of new nations acquiring the ghastly weapons.

The survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – the hibakusha – have continually warned, "Nuclear weapons and human beings cannot coexist." In the end, I believe this is the most important lesson of Hiroshima. We must eliminate nuclear weapons before they eliminate us.

The best security, perhaps the only security, against nuclear weapons being used again, or getting into the hands of terrorists, is to eliminate them. Most of the people of the world already know this. Now it is up to the world's people to impress the urgency of this situation upon their governments. We must act now. The future depends upon us.

Anything less would be to abandon our responsibility to future generations.

©2005 Walter Cronkite
Distributed by King Features Syndicate

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2005-12-13T14:04:00.000-08:00

http://www.mothersalert.org/globalwarming2.html

Why Nuclear Power is Not the
Solution to Global Warming

The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER),
Worldwatch Institute, and Sen. George Mitchell in his book,
World on Fire have all spoken to the potential scale and cost
of Carbon Dioxide offset through the use of nuclear.

“Slowing Global Warming: A Worldwide Strategy”
by Christopher Flavin,
World Watch Paper # 91
published by the Worldwatch Institute, October 1989

“. …for nuclear power to offset even 5 percent of global carbon emissions would require that worldwide nuclear capacity be nearly doubled from today’s level. That means that nuclear is simply not a medium term option for slowing global warming.”

World on Fire
by Senator George Mitchell 1991

“…If nuclear plants replaced all coal-fired plants in the world, global warming could be cut by 20 to 30 percent by the middle of the next century (2050). But it would require bringing a nuclear power plant on line somewhere in the world every one to three days for the next forty years. The cost would be $9 trillion; the pace of construction would be ten times larger (greater?) than any the world has ever seen. Both figures are unthinkable. A totally safe reactor, a totally safe place to dispose of its deadly
wastes, and a totally safe way to keep the wrong kind of nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands none of these things have been resolved. By the time they are resolved, if they ever can be, it will be too late. The projected global warming will be full upon us.”

Greenhouse Warming: Comparative Analysis of
Nuclear and Efficiency Abatement Strategies
by Bill Keepin and Gregory Katz, Energy Policy,
December 1988

The authors posit a conservative scenario in which one-half of non-fossil energy is supplied by nuclear power with a construction program beginning in 1988.

“…This results in a total nuclear installed capacity of 8,180 GW by the year 2025, equivalent to some 8000 large nuclear power plants. This represents a 20-fold increase in world nuclear capacity, requiring that nuclear plants be built at an average rate of one new 1000 MW plant every 1.61 days for the next 37 years. At an assumed cost of $1.0 billion/1000MW installed, this results in a total capitol cost of 8.39 trillion (1987) dollars, an average of $227 billion each year for 37 years to build the required nuclear plants. Total electricity generation cost is $31.48 trillion, or an average of $787 billion/year. The required capitol investment is economically infeasible for the developing world…”

The authors point out that even with a massive nuclear construction program, the use of fossil fuels will continue to grow.

“ Thus, in this scenario, even bringing a new nuclear plant on line every day and a half for nearly four decades does not prevent annual CO2 emissions from steadily increasing to a value 60% greater than they are today.”

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'Clean' nuclear power?

From Mr John Busby
February 22, 2005 UK Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-1494615,00.html

Sir, Papers delivered to the World Nuclear Association’s
annual symposiums show an industry in crisis in that primary
supplies of uranium provide only 55 per cent of the current
demand, the balance coming from the so-called secondary
sources of ex-weapons material, inventories and reworked
mine tailings. The papers indicate that the secondary
sources are running down.

The 36 reactors under construction (letter, February 17) can
only be supplied by the scheduled closing of many of the 430
existing reactors, whose life is in some cases being
extended by ignoring the safety implications associated with
the deterioration in the materials of their construction as
a result of irradiation.

Even if nuclear power is “carbon dioxide clean”, which it is
not, the contribution it makes to global energy supplies is
a mere 2½ per cent. Using the lower grades of uranium ore as
the higher grades are depleted leads to even more carbon
dioxide being released from the less efficient mining,
milling and enrichment involved.

Nuclear power offers neither sustainability nor a “clean”
overall fuel cycle and cannot contribute to an alleviation
of global warming. There is no “nuclear option”.

Yours faithfully,
JOHN BUSBY,
Oakwood,
Melford Road, Lawshall,
Bury St Edmunds IP29 4PY.
February 17.
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2005-12-13T13:59:00.000-08:00

Eminent nuclear chemist and cardiologist Dr. John Gofman
wrote the following letter, May 11, 1999:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720

LETTER OF CONCERN

To Whom It May Concern,

During 1942, I led "The Plutonium Group" at the University of California, Berkeley, which managed to isolate the first milligram of plutonium from irradiated uranium. [Plutonium-239 had previously been discovered by Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillan]. During subsequent decades, I have studied the biological effects of ionizing radiation---- including the alpha particles emitted by the decay of plutonium.

By any reasonable standard of biomedical proof, there is no safe dose, which means that just one decaying radioactive atom can produce permanent mutation in a cell's genetic molecules [Gofman 1990: "Radiation Induced Cancer from Low-Dose Exposure"]. For alpha particles, the logic of no safe dose was confirmed experimentally in 1997 by Tom K. Hei and co-workers at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [USA] Vol. 94, pp. 3765-3770, April 1997, "Mutagenic Effects of A Single and an Exact Number of Alpha Particles in Mammilian Cells."]

It follows from such evidence that citizens worldwide have a strong biological basis for opposing activities which produce an appreciable risk of exposing humans and others to plutonium and other radioactive pollution at any level. The fact that humans cannot escape exposure to ionizing radiation from various natural sources ---which may well account for a large share of humanity's inherited afflictions- is no reason to let human activities INCREASE exposure to ionizing radiation. The fact that ionizing radiation is a mutagen was first demonstrated in 1927 by Herman Joseph Muller, and subsequent evidence has shown it to be a mutagen of unique potency. Mutation is the basis not only for inherited afflictions, but also for cancer.

Very truly yours,

[signed]
John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph D
Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology

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United States: 215 atmospheric tests + 815 underground tests = 1,030
USSR: 219 atmospheric tests + 496 underground tests = 715
UK: 21 atmospheric tests + 24 underground tests = 45
France: 50 atmospheric tests + 160 underground tests = 210
China: 23 atmospheric tests + 22 underground tests = 45

The grand total of global atmospheric tests = 528

Source: Page 52, "Atomic Audit, the Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear
Weapons Since 1940," Stephen Schwartz, Editor, Brookings Institution Press,
Washington D.C., 1998.
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2005-12-13T13:28:00.000-08:00

Medical & Ecological Consequences of Nuclear Power

Below is Helen Caldicott's talk at the NPT on Nuclear Power with a
recommendation for creating a Sustainable Energy Agency from
Herman Scheer of Eurosolar.

NGO Presentations to the 2005 NPT Review
Conference

The Medical and Ecological Consequences of Nuclear Power
Speaker: Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Policy Research Institute

The official task of the IAEA since 1957, enshrined in article IV of the
NPT promotes the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and the "transfer" of
nuclear technology. Superimposed upon this official policy is a huge
propaganda push by the nuclear industry promoting nuclear power as a
panacea for the reduction of global-warming gases.

There are presently 442 nuclear reactors in operation globally. If, as the
nuclear industry suggests, nuclear power were to replace fossil fuels on a
large scale, it would be necessary to build 2000 large 1000-megawatt
reactors. Furthermore, to replace all fossilfuel-generated electricity
today with nuclear power, there is only enough economically
viable uranium to fuel the reactors for three to four years.
Belgium, Germany, Spain and Sweden have decided to phase out their
operating nuclear reactors, while Britain plans 10 new reactors and China
plans 27 by 2020. The US administration has called for construction of
more than 50 new reactors.

The true economies of the nuclear industry are never fully analysed -
including costs of uranium enrichment, the massive liability involved in a
nuclear accident, decommissioning all existing and new nuclear reactors
and the enormous expense in the transportation and storage of radioactive
waste for a quarter of a million years. The prevailing ethic says that
nuclear power is emission-free. The truth is very different. In the US for
instance, where much of the world's uranium is enriched, the enrichment
facility at Paducah, Kentucky, requires the electrical output of two
1000-megawatt coalfired plants, which release large quantities of carbon
dioxide, the gas responsible for 50% of global warming. Also, this
enrichment facility and another at Portsmouth, Ohio, leak from rusty pipes
93% of the chlorofluorocarbon gas emitted yearly in the US. The production
and release of CFC gas is now banned internationally by the Montreal
Protocol because it is mainly responsible for stratospheric ozone
depletion. But CFC is also a global warmer, 10,000 to 20,000 times more
potent than carbon dioxide.

The nuclear fuel cycle in all countries uses large quantities of fossil
fuel at all stages - the mining and milling of uranium, the construction
of the nuclear reactor and cooling towers, robotic decommissioning of the
intensely radioactive reactor at the end of its 20 to 40-year operating
lifetime, and transportation and long-term storage of massive
quantities of radioactive waste. Contrary to the current propaganda line,
nuclear power is not green and it is certainly not clean. Nuclear reactors
consistently release millions of curies of radioactive isotopes
into the air and water each year. These unregulated sanctioned releases
occur because the industry considers certain radioactive elements to be
biologically inconsequential. This is not so. These unregulated releases
include the noble gases krypton, xenon and argon, which are
fat-soluble and if inhaled by persons living near a nuclear reactor, are
absorbed through the lungs, migrating to the fatty tissues of the body,
including the abdominal fat pad and upper thighs, near the reproductive
organs. These radioactive elements, which emit high-energy gamma
radiation, can mutate the genes in the eggs and sperm inducing
genetic disease. Tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, is another
biologically significant gas, routinely emitted from nuclear reactors.
Tritium combines with oxygen creating "tritiated" water. Tritium which is
a soft energy beta emitter, more mutagenic than gamma radiation
incorporates directly into the DNA molecule of the gene and it passes
readily through the skin, lungs and digestive system where it is
distributed throughout the body. The half life of tritium is 12.3 years,
giving it a biologically active life of 246 years.

The dire subject of massive quantities of radioactive waste accruing at
the 442 nuclear reactors across the world is also rarely, if ever,
addressed by the nuclear industry. Each typical 1000-megawatt nuclear
reactor manufactures 33 tonnes of thermally hot, intensely radioactive
waste per year. More than 80,000 tonnes of highly radioactive waste sits
in cooling pools next to the 103 US nuclear power plants, awaiting
transportation to a storage facility yet to be found. Much more accrues at
reactor sites in France, Japan Russia and elsewhere. This dangerous
material is an attractive target for terrorist sabotage as it traverses
roads, railway and shipping lines of many nations.

The long-term storage of radioactive waste is an immense insoluble
problem. No country, including the US has a plan for preventing this toxic
carcinogenic material escaping into the biosphere and contaminating the
food chain for the rest of time. Furthermore, a study released recently by
the US National Academy of Sciences shows that the
cooling pools at nuclear reactors, which store 10 to 30 times more
radioactive material than that contained in the reactor core,
are subject to catastrophic attacks by international terrorists,
which could unleash an inferno and release massive quantities of deadly
radiation -- significantly worse than the radiation released by
Chernobyl. This vulnerable high-level nuclear waste stored in
the cooling pools at the 442 global nuclear power plants includes
hundreds of radioactive elements that have different biological impacts in
the human body, the most important being cancer and genetic diseases.

The incubation time for cancer is five to 50 years following exposure to
radiation. Children, old people and immuno-compromised individuals are
many times more sensitive to the malignant effects of radiation than other
people. Following are four of the most dangerous elements made in nuclear
power plants. Iodine 131, which was released at nuclear accidents at
Sellafield in Britain, Chernobyl in Ukraine and Three Mile Island in the
US, is radioactive for twenty three weeks and it bio-concentrates in leafy
vegetables and milk. When it enters the human body via the gut and the
lung, it migrates to the thyroid gland in the neck, where it can later
induce thyroid cancer. In Belarus more than 2000 children have had their
thyroids removed for thyroid cancer, a situation never before recorded in
pediatric literature. Strontium 90 lasts for 600 years. As a calcium
analogue, it concentrates in cow and goat milk. It accumulates in the
human breast during lactation, and in bone, where it can later
induce breast cancer, bone cancer and leukemia. Cesium 137, which also
lasts for 600 years, concentrates in the food chain, particularly
meat. On entering the human body, it locates in muscle, where it can
induce a malignant muscle cancer called a sarcoma. Plutonium 239, one of
the most dangerous elements known to humans, is so toxic that
one-millionth of a gram is carcinogenic. More than 200kg is made annually
in each 1000- megawatt nuclear power plant. Plutonium is handled like iron
in the body, and is therefore stored in the liver, where it causes liver
cancer, and in the bone, where it can induce bone cancer and blood
malignancies. On inhalation it causes lung cancer. It also
crosses the placenta, where, like the drug thalidomide, it can cause
severe congenital deformities. Plutonium has a predisposition for the
testicle, where it can cause testicular cancer and induce genetic diseases
in future generations. Plutonium lasts for 500,000
years, living on to induce cancer and genetic diseases in future
generations of plants, animals and humans.

Plutonium is also the fuel for nuclear weapons -- only 5kg is necessary to
make a bomb and each reactor makes more than 200kg per year. Therefore any
country with a nuclear power plant can theoretically manufacture 40 bombs
a year.Nuclear power produces a carcinogenic legacy for all future
generations, it produces global warming gases, and
it is far more expensive than any other form of electricity
generation, while it triggers the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

A supplementary protocol to the NPT is needed, which would permit the
signatory States to fulfil their obligations stated in Article IV of the
NPT by supplying technical aid in form of Renewable Energy Technologies.
The supplementary protocol should be the basis for an International
Renewable Energy Agency that can act as a counterbalance to the
institutionalized advocates for nuclear energy. The main provision of the
supplementary protocol to Art IV should be: "The present Treaty permits
the parties to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty to replace the
assistance in the peaceful use of nuclear energy provided for in article
IV with assistance in promoting the use of clean, sustainable, renewable energy."

Convenors: Helen Caldicott, Herman Scheer, Xanthe Hall, John Loretz, Alice
Slater

http://www.energyjustice.net/nukenet/

2005-12-13T11:15:00.000-08:00

"I am become Death,
the shatterer of worlds."
The line of Hindu scripture that flashed through Oppenheimer's mind at the moment "gadget," the first test bomb exploded above the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945.

Bhagavad-Gita Chapter 11
The Vision of the Universal Form
Lord Krishna is beseeched by Arjuna to reveal His universal form showing all of existence.

Lord Krishna said: I am terrible time the destroyer of all beings in all worlds, engaged to destroy all beings in this world; of those heroic soldiers presently situated in the opposing army, even without you none will be spared. Bhagavad-Gita 11:32
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Radioactive Contamination in America
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Mina Hamolton

Iraq's alleged nuclear threat sinks into the dustbin of history. Americans can stop worrying about atomic perils? Wrong.
Americans are at risk from American-as-apple-pie, Stars-and-Stripes, and made-in-USA, WMDs.

A just-released study, Danger Lurks Beneath: The Threat to Major Water Supplies from US Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons Plants, details the danger. Written by Dr. Marvin Resnikoff, a high energy, nuclear physicist, who has been studying nuclear hazards for 28 years and published by the public interest group, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, this book will curl your hair.

Danger Lurks Beneath shows EVEN IF THE US NUCLEAR ARSENAL IS NEVER USED a deadly plague has been released upon the land and water. Though most of the 13 nuclear weapons factories are currently shutdown (a situation President Bush would love to change), the contamination is spreading.

The process of manufacturing nuclear bombs is not dramatic. Unlike an actual nuclear exchange no humans are burned to a crisp, no cities are pulverized. But the ingredients for a nuclear bomb must be mined, sheared, heated, melted, liquefied, transformed into gas, spun, fashioned into metal, nuked, chopped up, put through chemical baths, extracted - all the while unleashing a host of poisons.

The hazard isn't just to the citizens living nearby to the factories. The poisons threaten us all.

Imagine the distance between Boston and New York. It's a five-hour, pedal-to-the-metal highway jaunt. It's also the alarming distance toxins have migrated away from the Hanford nuclear weapons factory in Washington.

Mussels and oysters found on the Washington coast are contaminated with radioactive poisons that flowed down to the coast from Hanford, 200 miles upstream. This is one of many devastating findings in Danger Lurks Beneath.

How can we take in the enormity of what's happened and is still happening?

We learn that four major rivers and many minor rivers are already contaminated or at risk. The Columbia River in Washington, the Snake River in Idaho, the Tuscaloosa River in Georgia, the Rio Grande in New Mexico, the Great Miami River and Ohio Rivers in Ohio.

How do we wrap our minds around four major rivers at risk? What does it mean for people who swim, fish or drink from those rivers? What about people picnicking alongside those rivers? Are the grasses along the banks safe? Is the sediment toxic?

The risk is not a hypothetical, let's-worry-in-ten-years matter. At the Fernald nuclear weapons factory in Ohio the plant managers deliberately poured - via a buried pipeline -tons of uranium into the Great Miami River. Yes, TONS. And this is a river that flows into the Ohio River from which many municipalities draw drinking water.

Ohio communities are not the only ones whose water supplies are threatened. One water reservoir has already had to be shutdown, the Great Western reservoir in the suburbs of Denver. It's contaminated by runoff from the Rocky Flats factory. Now a second nearby water reservoir, Standley Lake, is also polluted by radioactivity.

The information in Danger Lurks Beneath is so shocking we want to comfort ourselves, assure ourselves, Hey we don't live there or near there. Problem: The toxins are seeping into the food chain in sinister ways. For example, ever eat farm-fed trout? That delicious, fresh trout staring up from your plate was probably grown in water drawn from the Snake River aquifer in Idaho. The nearby Idaho nuclear weapons factory is polluting the aquifer.

For the first time in 2000, plutonium was detected in two locations in this aquifer. A host of other nasty chemicals and radionuclides had already been found in this vital water source.

Not that the trout are contaminated, at least, as far as we know. But here's an indicator of how real the threat is: several years ago a trout farmer tried to sell his Idaho hatchery business to the company, W.R. Grace. He was turned down. What were W.R. Grace's reasons? They didn't want a fish farm that gets its water from a source above which nuclear waste is buried. (1)

W.R. Grace was not whistling in the dark. It's a company that knows about nuclear hazards. Back in the 1960's, Grace ran a now-defunct nuclear reprocessing factory in West Valley, NY.

Danger Lurks Beneath shows that the contamination from nuke weapons factories is widespread and it's traveling along unknown and unmapped pathways. We're fooling ourselves if we think we're safe -- anywhere.

The information is this book would be easier to swallow if there were a villain, an archenemy like Saddam to blame. But these villains are US government employees making extraordinarily dumb decisions, decisions driven by a blind dedication to so-called national security.

During four decades worth of bomb making the Atomic Energy Commission and its successor the Department of Energy adopted an out-of-sight, out-of-mind policy. Dump the waste where nobody can see it. Pump poison into aquifers, pipe it to rivers, dump it into streams, ponds and trenches, site burial grounds in swamps. And, all the while, lie about what you're doing.

This WMD threat makes Saddam's "nuclear" menace look like a cupcake. Ditto North Korea's or Iran's.

Don't expect President Bush to make jokes about this threat. No way is he going to engage in a comic routine looking under the desk in the Oval Office for by-products of the US's bomb building spree.

Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, John Kerry, the US Congress, the media and any sane member of the human species should be trumpeting the findings of this report across the land. Will they? Are they?

Are we?

(1) Perspectives of a Former Idaho Trout Farmer, www.ieer.org/sdafiles.

To obtain a copy of Danger Lurks Beneath go to www.ananuclear.org. If you don't feel up to the 270-page study, an Executive Summary is available. Also you can download individual chapters on nuclear factories nearest you or your family and friends.

Mina Hamilton is a writer based in New York City. She is a Contributing Editor to Danger Lurks Beneath: The Threat to Major Water Supplies from US Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons Plants.
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2005-12-13T07:44:00.000-08:00

http://members.cox.net/theroyprocess/the-new-york-times.html
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DOE Squandered Billions on Useless
Nuke Waste Technologies
By Brian Hansen

WASHINGTON, DC, November 13, 2000 (ENS) - The U.S.
Department of Energy has "squandered hundreds of
millions of dollars" since the end of the Cold War
trying to develop innovative technologies for
cleaning up the nation's contaminated nuclear weapons
sites, concludes a Congressional report unveiled last
week.

The report, "Incinerating Cash," was authored by
staff members of the House Commerce Committee's
Republican majority. The committee's Democratic
members
did not participate in drafting the report.

The report charges that the Department of Energy
(DOE) has wasted much of the $3.4 billion that it has
spent over the last decade on efforts to develop new
technologies for cleaning up nuclear weapons wastes.
Congress ordered the DOE in 1989 to initiate the
program to address the environmental issues resulting
from decades of nuclear weapons production.

The committee's report concludes that the DOE has
spent hundreds of millions of dollars on technologies
that "have not proved useful" in the clean up mission.
Moreover, the "useful" clean up technologies that the
DOE has produced have not been used effectively by the
agency or its private contractors, the report found.

Of the 918 technologies that the DOE has funded,
just 31 - less than 4 percent - have been deployed
more than three times at contaminated nuclear weapons
sites, the report notes. Of the technologies that have
been deployed, more than half have been used only
once,
the report adds.

The report attributes the failure of the program to
an "ongoing pattern of mismanagement and lack of
focus" within the DOE's Office of Science and
Technology, which is implementing the initiative.

Carolyn Huntoon, the DOE's assistant secretary for
environmental management, was quick to dispute the
findings of the Commerce Committee's report. In a
written statement, Huntoon rejected claims that the
technology program has not produced results.

"One out of every five research and development
projects have resulted in a viable technology being
used by the department," Huntoon said.

The DOE's nuclear waste complex consists of 113
geographic waste sites located throughout the country.
The DOE recently estimated that it will cost between
$151 and $195 billion over the next 70 years to clean
up the complex, not including the $51 billion already
spent between 1990 and 1999.

The Commerce Committee's report cited a number of
case studies in concluding that those costs will not
be appreciably reduced by the application of
technologies developed by the DOE's Office of Science
and Technology (OST).

Those case studies were based in large part on a
survey conducted earlier this year, in which several
large DOE site contractors were asked to describe
their use of commercially available OST funded
technologies.

One DOE site analyzed in the committee's survey was
the Rocky Flats facility near Denver, Colorado, where
large quantities of wastes containing plutonium and
other radioactive constituents must be characterized,
stabilized, packaged and moved off site. The DOE's
environmental management program has to date spent
some $4.9 billion at Rocky Flats, and the agency plans
to spend another $4.5 billion over the next five years
to complete environmental cleanup activities by the
year 2006.

However, the Kaiser-Hill Company, the DOE's
contractor at the site, has so far found use for just
seven commercially available clean up technologies,
the Commerce Committee's report found. The company
will likely deploy no more than three of the DOE's
technologies in the year 2000, the committee's
survey found.

"Thus, after 10 years and $3.4 billion spent to
develop technologies to reduce costs and speed
cleanup, few [DOE] funded technologies have been used
for cleanup at Rocky Flats, and few will likely be
used in the future," the report declares.

The report also notes how DOE funded technologies
have been ineffective in advancing remediation
activities at the Hanford nuclear reservation in
Washington state, where the cleanup of 177
underground tanks containing radioactive wastes is one
of the most expensive and significant long term waste
management projects within the DOE complex.

The report notes that Hanford's radioactive tank
wastes represent a huge potential impact to human
health and the environment. Hanford's Office of
River Protection (ORP) spends more than $300 million
each year for characterization, interim stabilization,
and resolution of tank safety issues to control the
approximately 200 million curies of cesium, strontium
and other radioactive constituents stored in rapidly
degrading underground tanks.

Some 30 tanks are known to have leaked in the past.

Since 1990, the DOE has spent $4 billion on this
project, and the agency plans to spend $13 billion
over the next 70 years on tank farm operations. To
date, the DOE has funded 80 technologies and has
spent hundreds of millions of dollars at Hanford.

But the committee's report finds that the
commercially available technologies funded by the DOE
have provided "no significant use" for characterizing
or stabilizing the Hanford tank wastes, nor will they
do so in the future. According to the CH2M Hill
Hanford
Group, the DOE's contractor at the site, none of the
commercially available technologies have been deployed
at the Hanford tank farms.

The report is also critical of the DOE's use of
taxpayer funded technologies to improve operations at
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, where
radioactive waste is interned in casks hundreds of
feet below the surface of the desert.
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2005-12-13T07:07:00.000-08:00

Date: June 29, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation May Cause Harm

WASHINGTON -- A preponderance of scientific evidence shows that even low doses of ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, are likely to pose some risk of adverse health effects, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council.

The report's focus is low-dose, low-LET -- "linear energy transfer" -- ionizing radiation that is energetic enough to break biomolecular bonds. In living organisms, such radiation can cause DNA damage that eventually leads to cancers. However, more research is needed to determine whether low doses of radiation may also cause other health problems, such as heart disease and stroke, which are now seen with high doses of low-LET radiation.

The study committee defined low doses as those ranging from nearly zero to about 100 millisievert (mSv) -- units that measure radiation energy deposited in living tissue. The radiation dose from a chest X-ray is about 0.1 mSv. In the United States, people are exposed on average to about 3 mSv of natural "background" radiation annually. (Clip)

Specifically, the committee's thorough review of available biological and biophysical data supports a "linear, no-threshold" (LNT) risk model, which says that the smallest dose of low-level ionizing radiation has the potential to cause an increase in health risks to humans. In the past, some researchers have argued that the LNT model exaggerates adverse health effects, while others have said that it underestimates the harm. The preponderance of evidence supports the LNT model, this new report says.

"The scientific research base shows that there is no threshold of exposure below which low levels of ionizing radiation can be demonstrated to be harmless or beneficial," said committee chair Richard R. Monson, associate dean for professional education and professor of epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. "The health risks – particularly the development of solid cancers in organs – rise proportionally with exposure. At low doses of radiation, the risk of inducing solid cancers is very small. As the overall lifetime exposure increases, so does the risk." The report is the seventh in a series on the biological effects of ionizing radiation.(Clip)

The report was sponsored by the U.S. departments of Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The National Research Council is the principal operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. It is a private, nonprofit institution that provides science and technology advice under a congressional charter. A committee roster follows.

Copies of Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR VII - Phase 2) will be available this summer from the National Academies Press; tel. 202-334-3313 or 1-800-624-6242 or on the Internet at
http://www.nap.edu. Reporters may obtain a copy from the Office of News and Public Information (contacts listed above).

[ This news release and report are available at http://national-academies.org ]

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Division on Earth and Life Studies
Board on Radiation Effects Research

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2005-12-12T13:02:00.000-08:00

To all,
There are alternatives to nuclear power such as wind, solar, biomass,
geothermal, ocean wave, hot air etc.

Here is one "clean, green, cost effective" alternative to nuclear power.
Wavemill ocean wave power technology can be configured to make
hydrogen fuel cells for worldwide distribution.
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Wavemill Technology
http://www.wavemill.com/technology.htm

The Wavemill® is a new, highly efficient technology that harnesses the immense, renewable energy contained in ocean waves. Its unique ability to extract and convert energy from both the rising and falling waves, as well as from surge forces - all without trade-offs - represents a technological breakthrough.

The Wavemill® is the first practical, high-efficiency wave energy converter capable of being factory produced as a cost-effective, off-the-shelf unit, rather than having to be built on site.

Significantly Higher Output Than Wind and Solar Technologies

Ocean wave energy is highly concentrated compared to other renewable sources, often offering 15-20 times more available energy per square meter than wind or solar. Because wave energy is highly concentrated wind energy, and because water density is much higher than that of air, the available energy from ocean waves is known to be many times greater than that of wind. For example, along the California coast, yearly averages show wave power as having a 17 times advantage in available energy per square metre. This advantage, at similar ratios, also holds true in the case of photovoltaic energy converters, more commonly known as solar panels.

No Direct or Upstream GHG's

Wave energy is both free and abundant. By taking advantage of this sustainable energy source, Wavemill® powered systems produce no greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, either directly or indirectly, thereby contributing to the reduction of global warming. This feature will also make larger Wavemill® installations very attractive to those brokering or trading in the emerging market for "carbon credits." Although this could mean lower acquisition costs for the buyer, thus leading to increased demand; it is not factored into WEC's current financial projections. Coupled with the opportunity to lower production and output costs, this key environmental benefit will make Wavemill® based systems highly attractive to a growing number of utilities, water resellers, developers, governments, NGO's, and entrepreneurs worldwide.

Free Energy Reduces Costs for a Variety of Processes

Because wave energy is free, the Wavemill® can reduce the production and output costs of various energy intensive processes. For example, Wavemill® systems can be used for seawater desalination, power generation, water purification or hybrid water/power applications. The production of clean hydrogen fuel by the electrolysis of seawater is also on the horizon.

The Wavemill® is designed to power a variety of energy intensive processes, and because wave energy is free, their associated production and output costs can be greatly reduced. These include the desalination of seawater to provide safe, potable freshwater; the production of electricity and hydraulic power; the purification of unsafe water; and in the future, the production of clean hydrogen fuel and oxygen from seawater by electrolysis. Hybrid systems combining these processes are also practical. These capabilities can be built into Wavemill® devices to provide integrated, turnkey systems or can be connected remotely.

In the case of seawater desalination, the cost of energy - which represents the largest single cost in this process - can now be eliminated or greatly reduced, thereby making safe, freshwater less expensive to produce at a time when global shortages continue to increase. In the growing, global market for innovative, practical and cost-effective solutions, the modular and scalable Wavemill® will address a broad range of market needs and applications.

More Flexible than Tidal Energy

The Wavemill® is NOT a tidal energy device. Unlike those site-specific installations, which require highly unique conditions, the Wavemill® is designed for broad based site suitability and simple installation. Respected studies and reports have stated that because of its global distribution and highly concentrated nature, wave energy represents a logical choice as the most suitable alternative to traditional energy sources - once practical conversion technology becomes available. The Wavemill® provides that practical solution.

Simplicity, Extreme Durability, and Cost Effectiveness

James Watt, whose inventions revolutionized the modern world, stated "Of all things, but proverbially so in mechanics, the supreme excellence is simplicity." The Wavemill's elegantly simple design, full scalability, and innovative approach to production, installation, servicing and security all embody this philosophy.

For example, the Enclosed Surge Wall (ESW) caisson incorporates numerous parts and features into a single, highly durable moulded component. A strategy of incorporating maximum simplicity, durability, flexibility and serviceability is applied in the design of all of the Wavemill's major components, sub-systems and options.

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2005-12-09T10:05:00.000-08:00

To All,

The late Dr. Roy foresaw the MOX or 'reprocessing' problem
when the Three Mile Island partial meltdown occured. He then
developed photon transmutation, The Roy Process. But since
there is far more money in not solving problems, it was killed
by the government. It is still available to a company capable of realization who contracts with us.

Regards,

Dennis F. Nester

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THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
Sunday, November 4, 1979
Process may kill radiation threat

By CLARENCE W. BAILEY
Copyright, 1979. The Arizona Republic

TEMPE -- An internationally recognized Arizona State University physicist disclosed Saturday that he has discovered a method for treating nuclear reactor and other highly dangerous radioactive wastes so they will be harmless.

The procedure was conceived by Dr. Radha R. Roy professor of nuclear physics who is the designer and former director of nuclear-physics research facilities at the University of Brussels In Belgium. and at Pennsylvania State University.

Roy said the process “very roughly can be described in part as a reversal of phenomena that occur during a nuclear fission chain reactions.

The scientist said the process is the culmination of many years research

“Theoretical analysis and mathematical calculations confirm the process is highly effective and that any level of radio activity, from weak to strong. Can be reduced to harmless state in a short period of time,” Roy said.

The thing that is so encouraging is that the method can cancel radioactivity rapidly enough for it to be of r real practical value in disposing of dangerous wastes in storage and as they are being produced, Roy said.

One treatment-plant design which Roy has devised could reduce the radioactivity of even the most dangerous wastes with half-lives or 15,000 to 40,000 years to a level where they would be essentially harmless in about 20 days.

A half-life is the time required for a quantity of radioactive material to lose one half of its radioactive strength.

Roy, who left his native Calcutta, India. to do advanced nuclear- physics research at the University of London during World War II, said all the necessary theoretical and quantum electrodynamical work on the process has been completed.

“There remains perhaps as much as a years work in calculating parameters and preparing data that will he needed for the engineering design of a pilot radioactive waste-treatment plant’ he said.

Roy is known internationally among scientists for his many advanced research contributions in the field of nuclear fission fragments and as the author of definitive graduate and post-doctoral textbooks used in universities all over the world. “During the 37 years since the first fission chain reaction there has been no progress whatever toward the development of a method of deactivating radioactive waste or even for storing it safely,” he said.

“The collections of dangerous nuclear wastes in this country alone have now reached a total of at least 75 million gallons, and it is growing daily.”

He estimated an operational nuclear waste-treatment plant could cost $40 million or more. By contrast, he noted, Congress last summer appropriated $80 million just to build more concrete storage bunkers to hold only a part of the growing accumulation of nuclear wastes.

“Since it is so very dangerous to ship strongly radioactive materials it would certainly be sensible to build a treatment plant for each reactor so radioactivity could be killed out before the waste is transported anywhere" the scientist said.

Roy said that the national danger from nuclear waste is "extremely serious" and urged the federal government to build treatment plants near established nuclear waste storage areas. Other treatment plants should be constructed to kill out the radioactivity in the wastes from the nation's weapons programs and from its educational, industrial, medical and experimental research facilities he said.

Roy warned that waste containing plutonium 239 is "critically dangerous" because of its extremely high radioactivity and also because it is the essential ingredient in an atomic bomb.

The treatment process not only will render plutonium 239 harmless in a remarkably short time, he said, but also will keep deactivated plutonium from ever being reprocessed to make an illegal atomic weapon.

Roy further warned that the United States not only is exporting nuclear energy when it sells reactor technology to foreign nations, but also is sending overseas the potential for making illegal bombs out of plutonium from reprocessed nuclear wastes.

The treatment method will guarantee to foreign countries that use nuclear fission energy that they can maintain an environment free from radioactivity, and it also could guarantee to the world that there will be no reuse of plutonium in an unauthorized weapon, he said. Careful theoretical and mathematical analysis have assured him that the nuclear waste- treatment process will function reliably and with rapidity and high efficiency, he said.

"But the existence of this promising nuclear waste-treatment procedure should not be construed in any sense to mean that nuclear fission power reactors are safe" Roy said. The contractor who built Three Mile Island's reactor-like those who built the other 71 reactors now operational in the United States -- expected that plant to function normally for 30 years in total safety without event .But the fact is that it went out of control and nearly created a meltdown which could have destroyed a large part of the human habitat of east-central Pennsylvania,'' Roy said.

Neutralize & Eliminate Nuclear Waste For Good

The Roy Process Brief Description
from the web site: http://members.cox.net/theroyprocess

Is there a safe process to get rid of nuclear waste? One possible solution is a process invented by Dr. Radha R. Roy, former professor of Physics at Arizona State University, and designer and former director of the nuclear physics research facilities at the University of Brussels in Belgium and at Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Roy is an internationally known nuclear physicist, consultant, and the author of over 60 articles and several books. He is also a contributing author of many invited articles in a prestigious encyclopedia. He is cited in American Men and Women of Science, Who`s Who in America, Who`s Who in the World and the International Biographical Centre, England. He has spent 52 years in European and American universities researching and writing recognized books on nuclear physics. He has supervised many doctoral students.

Roy invented a process for transmuting radioactive nuclear isotopes to harmless, stable isotopes. This process is viable not only for nuclear waste from reactors but also for low-level radioactive waste products.

In 1979, Roy announced his transmutation process and received international attention. The Roy process does not require storage of radioactive materials. No new equipment is required. In fact, all of the equipment and the chemical separation processes needed are well known.

What`s the basis for the Roy Process? If you examine radioactive elements such as strontium 90, cesium 137 and plutonium 239, you will see that they all have too many neutrons. To put it very simply, the Roy process transmutes these unstable isotopes to stable ones by knocking out the extra neutrons. When a neutron is removed, the resulting isotope has a considerably shorter half-life which then decays to a stable form in a reasonable amount of time.

How do we knock out neutrons? By bombarding them with photons (produced as x-rays) in a high- powered electron linear accelerator. Before this process, the isotopes must be separated by a well-known chemical process.

It is feasible that portable units could be built and transported to hazardous sites for on-site transmutation of nuclear wastes and radioactive wastes.

To give an example, cesium 137 with a half-life of 30.17 years is transformed into cesium 136 with a half-life of 13 days. Plutonium 239 with a half-life of 24,300 years is transformed into plutonium 237 with a half-life of 45.6 days. Subsequent radioactive elements which will be produced from the decay of plutonium 237 can be treated in the same way as above until the stable element is formed.
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From the Patent application claim: http://members.cox.net/theroyprocess/additional-uses-royprocess.html

Dr. Roy released his Roy Process to the press in 1979.
Scientists of a large company saw the Patent application under non-disclosure agreements and said the Roy Process was "entirely feasible".

Dr. Roy was offered millions of dollars for the patent rights.
NOT to develop it...but to shelve it. Dr. Roy refused. Then Ronald Reagan signed the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act which made "geologic isolation" (burial) of nuclear waste, federal policy, putting viable alternatives in scientific limbo.
Now after wasting hundreds of billions of tax payers money on junk science, nuclear waste has leaked into our precious ground water.

Dr. Roy was right. There IS only one way to totally eliminate high level nuclear waste and that is to transmute and denature it for good.

Dennis F. Nester
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Patent Examiner Comments on the Roy Process Invention
Re: Yucca Mt. Is Not The Answer for Nuclear Waste

As a patent examiner, the explanation as to why the Roy process was not patented makes perfect sense and is not paranoid at all. There is no reason to get a patent unless you have the money to defend it in court. Large corporations are notorious for stealing them. Also, patent applications in 1979 were held confidential until they were issued as patents. The inventor requiring a non-disclosure agreement of a corporation to view the application is also perfectly reasonable. It is niave to believe that Reagan was not encouraged by large corporations to change the law regarding acceptable nuclear waste disposal methods to benefit them in order to squash any new method like the Roy process. These kinds of things happen all the time.

As to the merits of the Roy process, it seems to me on it's face to have potential to change nuclear waste into something less dangerous. I don't know enough about nuclear physics to really give an detailed response, but I do know that nuclear accelerators do change atomic structure and that bombarding nuclear waste would certainly change it into something else.
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(excerpt by Russell Hoffman)

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