Editor's Note by William B. Fox
Publisher, America First Books

First published 7 August 2011,
Last updated 12 Feb 2012

This web page is concerned with three major issues:

a) False flag analysis: American nuclear facilities suffered an amazing run of "bad luck" in 2011. Worse yet, officials were way too lackadaisical and incompetent about fixing problems once they arise. All of this suggests at a minimum "LIHOP" approach, that is, a "Let It Happen On Purpose" pattern of criminal negligence and mismanagement in the U.S. nuclear industry. In fact, once you start digging, it gets even scarier and scarier. You may come to agree with Leuren Moret that it is as bad as MIHOP (Make It Happen On Purpose).

For readers who are wondering "What is all the commotion, anxiety, apprehension, and excitement about?" a good layman's introduction to this question is the transcript extract I have prepared for the 1 July 2011 Alex Jones Show. Please also see my transcript of the 27 June 2011 Jeff Rense interview with Dr. Tom Burnett on the Ft. Calhoun danger and the ongoing Fukushima catastrophe. The following is my own summary of some key points:
As of early August 2011, the nuclear plants in Nebraska at both Ft. Calhoun and Cooper had still failed to take adequate defensive measures against the prospect that upper Missouri River dams could collapse as part of a domino effect, creating a massive flood surge flood capable of swamping Nebraska's already flooded nuclear power plants. Many experts believe that the flood component of the overall threat could persist until mid-August. If the cooling systems for reactors and spent fuel storage areas were to break down for only a few hours, or if dirty Missouri water were to contaminate fuel rods (to include spent fuel rods in storage) --or if Ft. Calhoun were to get hit with a Mossad-CIA Stuxnet virus attack similar to what many researchers believe was the primary cause of the Fukushima melt-downs -- America could experience a "Fukushima on the Missouri" capable of rendering major portions of the U.S. uninhabitable for the next several hundred years.
Although Ft. Calhoun had been officially in shut down in April, two thirds of the fuel rods for "fully loaded capacity" remained in the reactor, and a nearby spent fuel rod storage building (40 feet deep into the ground, 38 feet above ground, 78 feet total in height) was filled to the brim. It holds approximately 379 tons of nuclear material. If even a fraction of any of this went into melt-down, this would release radiation that is the equivalent of thousands of Hiroshima atomic bombs, except instead of the radiation being released all at once in a fireball explosion, it would seep out over time. But no matter whether millions of Americans in the Midwest die from an atomic blast, or die within ten years from cancer from massive radiation leakages, the end result is the same over time: dead is dead.
In the month of June Ft. Calhoun suffered a number of major failures. On Tuesday, 7 June, an electrical fire and power outage caused a "catastrophic loss of cooling" for about 90 minutes for both the reactor and spent fuel rod building. The day before, on June 6th, "the Federal Administration Aviation (FAA) issued a directive banning aircraft from entering the airspace within a two-mile radius of the plant." On Sunday, 26 June, some kind of "machinery" [a backhoe, said Jeff Rense] punctured an eight foot high protective "AquaBerm." The Missouri River now surged against the walls of the reactor and storage buildings, damaging electrical systems and forcing Ft. Calhoun to rely on a backup mobile diesel power generator to maintain its cooling systems. Nuclear industry officials fretted that the Missouri could surge a few feet higher, which the Nuclear Regulator Commission claimed could cause reactor core damage. The Federal officials ordered the evacuation of everyone within ten miles. But don't worry, they said, because everything is under control.
Then in early July, Ft. Calhoun authorities manage to reinflate the rubber berm, which is not high enough to handle worst case flood scenarios. Ft. Calhoun disappeared from mainstream media news stories, despite claims by authorities that the flood threat would persist into mid-August.
I ask the reader to consider what any "reasonable man" who cares about humanity would do in a situation like this. Given even the slightest possibility of a melt-down that could destroy much of the U.S., wouldn't it make sense to bend over backwards to take extra protective measures? For example, rather keep ones fingers crossed, wouldn't it make sense to create a sandbag wall ringing the plant high enough and thick enough to handle any possible Missouri River flood surge imaginable, to include an "doomsday flood" resulting from a domino collapse of all upstream dams? Wouldn't it make sense to bring in extra pumps, generators, and other backup systems to insure that the cooling systems will stay running under all the worst scenarios imaginable?
Somehow this level of common sense foresight seems to elude nuclear industry officials. They seem quite content to rely on a portable diesel backup generator, sandbags crammed against doors within the reactor building, and an inflatable rubber berm that has already failed once that is only eight feet high.
It gets worse. Upon further research, we find that lackadaisical and irresponsible attitudes permeate the entire U.S. nuclear industry. Nuclear power plants have been built on top of dangerous faults and within flood plains using the obsolete 1950's GE Mark I design. Most nuclear power plants have lived out their design lives and are functionally obsolescent and becoming increasingly dangerous from wear and tear. 75% have dangerous leaks into the environment. Rather than deal with these realities, nuclear regulatory authorities consistently sweep problems under the rug. Among things, rather than hold to standards, they simply raise the bar on "acceptable" radiation levels, or go into denial and cover-up.
Speaking of denial at the highest levels, it is hard to find a better example than the refusal of the Obama Administration and mainstream media to warn the general public about the radiation dangers from massive plumes drifting across America in the months following the Fukushima meltdowns on 11 March 2011. Many experts claim that Fukushima has released the equivalent of over a hundred Chernobyls worth of radiation into the atmosphere. They also claim that in the 25 years following Chernobyl, radiation spread across Europe led to the "soft kill" early deaths of over a million people. The cumulative effects of Fukushima fallout, to include radioactive isotopes that get into American food and drinking water, may lead to the early "soft-kill" deaths of tens of millions of Americans through myriad diseases and ailments stimulated by accumulated radiation poisoning. Yet the Obama administration has done absolutely nothing to warn Americans to stay indoors when it rains (when most of the radiation comes down), acquire radiation measuring devices, or to show even the most minimal care about what they eat and drink. Seattle and other West Coast residents were not even informed that in April they were breathing in average of five hot particles a day compared to residents of Tokyo, who were breathing ten. "Hot particles" consist of plutonium and uranium isotopes which are extremely toxic and dramatically increase the chances of cancer once they get embedded in lungs and other body tissues. For more details about radiation effects, please see the Leuren Moret archive.
The same pattern of denial and cover-up applied with the forest fires that threatened the Los Alamos, New Mexico labs in late June. Decades of nuclear tests had contaminated the forest areas, and tens of thousands of barrels of nuclear waste were stored under tents on the lab grounds. There was no effort to measure and reveal to the public the radiation that was being released into the atmosphere by the forest fires.
Official behavior has been so criminally negligent, so deceitful, so willfully blind, and so recklessly irresponsible that one can reasonably suspect high level support for LIHOP (Let It Happen on Purpose) false flag events. In fact, as incredible as it may sound to many Americans, on this web page I document considerable evidence that there are now "psychopathic nests" at the highest levels who are ideologically predisposed towards committing (or permitting) great evils -- and are even titillated by them once they take place. In political terms, they are predisposed towards perpetrating tyranny, cruelty, and even genocide.
As one example, U.N. Agenda 21 rationalizes global depopulation measures. Many "globalists" use it to rationalize the reduction of major human populations through increased radiation exposure. Fallout is the perfect "stealth weapon" to drive up rates of sterility, miscarriages, birth defects, cancer, and myriad other diseases caused when radioactive nanoparticles get embedded in cells throughout the body.
As another example, the"re-wilding" ideology of extreme environmentalists rationalizes deliberate flooding of American cities and crop lands. Ironically, artificially retaining water at dams until it is about to overflow and then suddenly releasing it (the current policy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) does not gently lay down silt in a manner consistent with the allegedly "more natural" pre-dam era, but instead creates such flood force that it destroys valuable top soil and creates disfiguring gullies. Hence, this current policy is actually less "natural" than an intelligently operated dam system. On top of this, it exposes America to possible melt-downs by nuclear power plants and fuel rod storage facilities that have very stupidly been located in flood plains. Poisoning America's heartland with radioactive plutonium, cesium, iodide, and myriad other extremely dangerous isotopes hardly does the environment a favor.
The "re-wilding" ideology is often sheep's clothing for "disaster capitalist" wolves such as George Soros and other Rothschild confederates -- who have in fact been buying up flood-impacted farmland in America's disaster areas with both fists through proxy companies. This is hardly "natural" either, since "disaster capitalist" ideology is typically based on the "fallacy of the broken window" line of economic reasoning. It is only "natural" to the extent that it is a criminal-parasitic rather than a productive approach to economics, and yes, little Virginia, parasites are actually fairly common on Wall Street as well as in nature.
Last, but not least, nuclear weapons tests and nuclear plants have been massively poisoning the U.S. population for decades prior to the 2011 U.S. nuclear facility crisis episodes discussed in some detail on this web page. Please read the free online ebook Secret Fallout: Low-Level Radiation From Hiroshima to Three-Mile Island by Dr. Ernest Sternglass, (1972 and 1982). The horrifying effects on the general U.S. population from "fission products," which include reduced IQ's and increased birth defects, cancers, and other ailments has been continually covered up. Combine this evil with the deliberate contamination of hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and millions of innocent civilians with depleted uranium since 1990, and an extremely monstrous picture emerges.
Things are rotten on all levels of American society, from the very bottom to the very top. All of this raises even more troubling and deeper sociological questions. Given major changes in values and demographics in American society in recent decades, one can only begin to wonder how many fellow U.S. citizens can be trusted to run something as dangerous as nuclear power pants -- which are essentially "slow motion atomic bombs" or "dirty nuclear bombs waiting to happen." Can a country that is incapable of controlling its debt, of preventing its strategic industries from being exported abroad, of protecting veterans from DU poisoning, of preventing an unconstitutional illegal alien candidate from becoming president, of stopping the hijacking of its foreign policy by Israel, of guarding its borders from massive illegal Third World immigration, and of avoiding myriad other symptoms of total dysfunction, irrationality be trusted to run anything that is this dangerous?
Even worse than all of this is the constant threat of a bogus terrorist attack or sabotage by a major intelligence agency such as Mossad, CIA, or MI6, or all working together, As documented in my Mission of Conscience series, they are the likely malefactors behind New York and Washington D.C. 9/11, Madrid 3-11, London 7-7, and many other false flag attacks. A dangerous "natural disaster" situation provides "plausible deniability" for saboteurs. Many researchers believe that a Stuxnet attack was the real reason for the Fukushima melt-downs, even though it has been blamed by mainstream media and politically correct officialdom on an earthquake, a tsunami, and a problem starting backup power generators..
Perhaps fixing these America's problems on a deeper social and political level is necessary pre-requisite before achieving real solutions to America's others problems -- to include its nuclear industry -- become feasible.

b) Operations analysis: We need to collect and suspicious indicators regarding not only Ft. Calhoun-related events, but other nuclear reactors around the country.

A large percentage of American nuclear reactors have aged beyond their original design lives, and authorities are often sweeping problems under the rug. On top of this, mainstream media often engage in distortion and cover-up. This puts an extra burden on us to collect a lot of reports from different sources to piece together what it really going on.
Many experts claim that given the sad state of America's nuclear industry, it is not a question of "if" but when America will experience its own Fukushima unless strenuous efforts are made now to fix the real underlying problems.

c) Citizen Activism: Unfortunately government cover-ups, intelligence agency sabotage, nuclear industry greed, national media suppression, and malevolent special interest group agendas continue to aggravate existing problems and create new ones rather than provide solutions. The burden falls on the shoulders of grass roots citizen activism to overcome nuclear crises.

People around the world are suffering rising background radiation levels from many different sources. They include radiation released from military weapons tests as well as depleted uranium warheads exploded on battlefields and in training exercises. They also include not only catastrophic melt-downs at places like Chernobyl and Fukushima, but also steady leaks from the day-to-day operations of nuclear plants around the world, to include the U.S. and U.K.
All these things are causing rates of sterility, cancer, diabetes, and other diseases to steadily rise around the world. Leuren Moret, Dr. Doug Rokke, and other radiation experts warn us that this can not go on forever. If permitted to continue unabated, the ultimate end game is a dead planet.
As a final note, I often like to use a "forum" approach for presenting information by drawing upon people with a wide variety of views and backgrounds. However, please be aware that Mossad-CIA has compromised a number of sources listed on this page and causes them to engage in "limited hangout" and "disinformation," even though most of what they say is true. Therefore, please look at many sources to form your opinion. I personally believe that the most reliable sources have been Leuren Moret and Dr. Chris Busby in terms of honestly stating the full nature and magnitude of nuclear threats.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Criminal and Other Subversive Analysis

Overview of False Flag Characteristics

Other Authors on False Flag-related "Facts, Theory, and Conjecture"

Nuclear Industry Questionable Behavior Patterns

National Media Questionable Behavior Patterns

Obama Administration and Plutocratic Elite Questionable Behavior Patterns

Operational Analysis and a Chronology of Significant Events and Mishaps

Overview of Nuclear Power Plant Operations
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant
Cooper Nuclear Plant
Las Conchas Fire at Los Alamos
Vermont Yankee
Miscellaneous Other Recent U.S. Nuclear Problems
Foreign Nuclear Power Plant Problems
Nuclear Plant Historic Comparables

Nuclear Environmental Contamination Hazards

Atmospheric Radiation Threat to Americans
River, Lake, and Ocean Contamination Threat
Earthquake and HAARP Analysis

Political and Technological Solutions

Special Equipment and Other Technological Approaches
Conferencing, Networking, and Organizing International Support

Additional References

Miscellaneous Links
Transcripts
Wikipedia articles
Significant Videos
MP3 Downloads

Criminal and Other Subversive Analysis

Overview of False Flag Characteristics

• False flag operations typically reflect major geopolitical interests covertly at war with their own host society or other countries.

Editor's Note: I have already covered broad geopolitical motivations by malevolent globalists in some detail in my BP-Disaster and Fukushima Crisis web pages. I have also provided a deeper analysis on the sociological and historical background of many of these malefactors in the "parasitism" section of my Mutualism vs. Parasitism article, and Chapter 5 of my Mission of Conscience series "Profiling the Opposing Forces Commander..." These same globalists are also very much in control of the American nuclear power industry, and have almost identical motivations and modus operandi as outlined in the aforementioned references.
It is important to note that ever since private central bankers created the Federal Reserve System in 1913, they lit the fuse on an unsustainable financial system. The created a system that depends on ever expanding amounts of fractional reserve lending, fiat money creation, and payoffs of top political leaders by alien interests, as explained in Chapter 33 of my Mission of Conscience series. Melt-downs in the nuclear industry are helping to divert attention away from major forms of financial and economic meltdown in America, many of which are accelerating rapidly.
The following is a brief overview of three primary reasons why power elites have pushed nuclear power systems even though on balance these systems are generally bad for the public welfare.

* "Atoms for Peace" public relations (PR) cover for a NOT-cost effective industry that produces nuclear weapons material and supports international intrigues.
Although the nuclear power industry was sold to the public in the 1950's as a "technological wave of the future," in which nuclear power would constitute the "too cheap to meter" lowest cost form of energy, the underlying reality has been the opposite. The Achilles Heel of the nuclear industry is based on the fact that nuclear materials are extremely toxic and dangerous. Once one factors in the total costs to society of trying to mine, manufacture, utilize, safeguard, and then store (in waste form) nuclear materials --and top of all this handle nuclear-related casualties -- it turns out that the nuclear power industry is the most expensive and the most dangerous form of energy. Or, as Albert Einstein once put it, "Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water." Therefore, official rationales stating economic benefits for the nuclear power industry are usually lies, but political establishments around the world nevertheless feel a vested interest in perpetuating these lies. A major motivation for maintaining this deception is that a system of nuclear power plants provides the economic and technological infrastructure -- as well as an "atoms for peace" public relations "cover" -- to covertly process materials necessary for nuclear weapons and serve other alleged "vital national defense" needs. The nuclear industry is really not an "industry" within the conventional meaning of a free enterprise system with a free press, but rather a heavily subsidized arm of government policy that is also heavily subsidized on an informational level through censorship and propaganda.
Not surprisingly, the nuclear industry has always been a major hotbed for espionage and other nuclear materials-related intrigues, a point I will document in greater detail later.

* "Hard greed" profit-seeking and "soft greed" mission creep.
Without adequate checks and safeguards, government subsidized programs, bureaucracies, and other specially-privileged interests tend to take on a life of their own, grow like cancers, and turn "official lies" into articles of faith in secular cult religions.
The longstanding existence of a nuclear power industry and nuclear-dependent "military-industrial complex" has now created a vast constituency of individuals willing to do virtually anything to protect their steady paychecks from nuclear-related jobs, to include lying to themselves, acting willfully blind to evidence of lies, tolerating evil, and engaging in the lowest forms of partisan politics.
A classic work which explains how unrestrained bureaucracies tend to grow like cancers and can ultimately start exerting the opposite influence on society than what was originally intended (or at least for public consumption) is Why Government Doesn't Work (pdf) by Harry Browne.
Special interests can become particularly dangerous when they practice "the best defense is a good offence" and promote self-serving lies as "The Gospel Truth." As one example, the military-industrial complex started to aggressively use Depleted Uranium as munitions in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, even though military planners have conceptualized DU as a "soft kill" radiation weapon since 1943. Many DU experts believe that the adverse effects of DU nanoparticle absorption and its ability exacerbate myriad diseases and forms of dysfunction has led to led to over 600,000 U.S. servicemen filing for permanent disability since Persian Gulf War I, and has caused the deaths or permanent incapacitation of millions of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, and neighboring countries. Despite all of this, there are still many highly ranked individuals within the military-industrial complex who not only deny the ill effects of DU, but actively promote its use.
Nuclear industry officials can also become dangerous when they practice "bigmanship." In other words, they try to gain prestige, profits, and favors by spreading nuclear facilities to foreign countries which clearly lack the social, economic, and political stability to handle the dangers.

* Nuclear power plants can serve as "pre-positioned dirty nuclear bombs waiting to happen" for such purposes as population reduction, revenge, and extortion.

The melt-down of numerous nuclear plants through various forms of sabotage is the equivalent of getting hit by a massive ICBM strike, it is just that radiation leaks take longer to kill large numbers of people than explosive nuclear devices, but the end result after a couple of decades can be very similar.
There are many different kinds of motivations for why globalists may want to set up nuclear power plants for potential meltdowns or major leakage.

a) They may be pursuing a deliberate global depopulation program. Radiation poisoning is an ideal"stealth weapon" to drive up rates of sterility, miscarriages, and infant mortality without necessarily stirring up an open public rebellion.

b) They may wish to use radiation to distract or weaken a host population while they simultaneously seek to undermine it by many other means.

To fully comprehend the sinister context of radiation exposure, one needs to also understand how this is only one component of a multi-pronged arsenal of "soft kill" weaponry. On the physical side, in addition to being exposed to radiation from nuclear power plants around the world and depleted uranium nanoparticles in the atmosphere, Americans are also being hit with the hazards of artificial food shortages, genetically modified food, dangerous chemicals in vaccines, unhealthy food additives, chemtrail toxins,. hazardous and unnecessary scanners at airports, and harmful levels of electromagnetic radiation from CT scans, cell phones and other devices.
On the psychological side, Americans are being continually lied to by controlled mainstream media.
On the economic side, globalists have stripped away most of America's industrial base in the last few decades, many of their best jobs have been outsourced, and personal, corporate, and government debt has skyrocketed on all levels.
On the governmental side, globalists continually make unconstitutional grabs for power and conduct illegal infringements on basic rights. In regard to the Ft. Calhoun and Missouri River flood crisis, one can discern behind the "re-wilding", "rural council," and "disaster capitalist" schemes a clear attempt to exploit, emasculate, and impoverish rural areas and centralize economic and political power with plutocratic interests and the federal government.

c) They may seek revenge or gratification of an urge for nihilistic, spiteful, or bloodthirsty destruction.
The leading globalists, who are led by the Rothschilds and other Jewish plutocrats, are typically motivated by racial hatred and ethnic envy towards host populations. One example involves the "Samson Option" doctrine pronounced by Israeli leaders. Despite the fact that Israel has received more foreign aid and charity per capita than any other country in the world, this has not stopped Israel's leaders from stating that if Israel goes down, they are prepared to take the whole world down with them, to include innocent peoples everywhere. Despite the fact that the United States has done more for Israel and the Jewish people than any other country in history, this has not stopped Israelis from attacking Americans in such underhanded incidents as the Lavon Affair in 1954, the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, or the deliberate attempt to sink the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967 , the attack on the World Trade Center towers or Pentagon on 9/11, or engaging in myriad other criminal-parasitic outrages towards their benefactors. The historical track record of their tribesmen for bloodlust is breathtaking, ranging from the mass murder of tens of millions of Russians under Jewish Bolshevism, to the alleged massacre of 75,000 Persians celebrated in annual Purim observances by munching on "Haman body parts."

d ) They deliberately create nuclear industry vulnerabilities for such purposes as espionage, theft, blackmail and extortion.
Just as Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street bankers threatened Congress with a martial law if they did not pony up trillions to bail out the bankers in October 2008, similarly potential saboteurs can deliver an ultimatum that if certain U.S. authorities do not meet their demands, they will sabotage enough nuclear facilities which will spew out enough radiation to kill millions of Americans.

It is worth repeating that I have many references in my BP-Disaster and the Fukushima Crisis web pages and other cited sources that support all of the points above. In regard to the current crises involving Ft. Calhoun and other American nuclear facilities, the following are some additional update references:

"Atoms for Peace" PR cover for a NOT-cost effective industry that produces nuclear weapons material and supports international intrigues.

2011-07-21 Is nuclear energy different than other energy sources?, thebulletin.org, 2011-07-21 blog comment to this article [press "collapse" to see this article on the web page"]: The Fukushima tragedy demonstrates that nuclear energy doesn't make sense" by Arjun Makhijani
"...The price tag for disaster. Insurance, too, is a problem hiding in plain sight. Under the Price Anderson Act, Congress has limited the liability of the whole nuclear industry to about $12 billion per accident. Yet, according to a 1997 Brookhaven National Laboratory study PDF done for the NRC , the worst-case spent fuel pool accident in a densely populated area would result in about 140,000 excess cancer deaths and $540 billion in damages (roughly $700 billion in 2010 dollars). The US government has promised to assume the rest of the liability, though there is no practical legislative provision for it.
Of course, no private insurance company or even consortium of insurance companies would shoulder the fearsome liabilities arising from severe nuclear accidents. Governments seem to want to go where insurance companies fear to tread. An interesting form of capitalism seems to be at work: privatize profits and socialize liabilities. It will be some time before all the damage and liabilities arising from the Fukushima accident can be tallied, but there is no doubt that $12 billion is a pitifully small amount in the face of the losses, dislocation, and damage -- not only in Japan, but globally.
Nuclear power and nuclear bombs. Clearly, nuclear power is different from fossil fuels in that it has low carbon emissions (and, in principle, in an all-nuclear economy, none). But nuclear power is also different from fossil fuels in a far more sinister way: Nuclear fission is the only energy source that can be used to hide a nuclear weapon infrastructure.
In contemplating US participation in a nuclear weapons convention, J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote in 1946: "We know very well what we would do if we signed such a convention: we would not make atomic weapons, at least not to start with, but we would build enormous plants, and we would call them power plants. … We would design these plants in such a way that they could be converted with the maximum ease and the minimum time delay to the production of atomic weapons." More recently, Mohammed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said of the rush (PDF) to nuclear power by a number of countries: `You don't really even need to have a nuclear weapon. It's enough to buy yourself an insurance policy by developing the capability and then sit on it. Let's not kid ourselves: 90 percent of it is insurance, a deterrence.'"
2008-07-24/25 One of the NRC's nuclear industry "infiltrators" responds to op-ed, (subscription link at waynemadsenreport.com)
"This editor recently penned an op-ed for McClatchy on why nuclear power is not an acceptable alternative to fossil fuels for the United States. The op-ed appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Grand Forks Herald. The op-ed follows, along with a response in the Grand Forks Herald from a public affairs officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), championing the "safety record" of America's nuclear power plants, including, unbelievably, Three Mile Island. One of the hallmarks of the Bush regime will be how it turned over the U.S. government's regulatory agencies over to the industries they regulate: the NRC, the FCC, FDA, EPA, and the list goes on. The NRC public relations officer should also realize that the Pale Verde nuclear plant is in Wintersberg, Arizona, not in Nevada. That bit of information might come in handy for the NRC the next time there is a "non-public safety"-connected incident at the nuclear power plant."
WAYNE MADSEN: Keep lid on eco-unfriendly plants, Grand Forks Herald, July 18, 2008.
WASHINGTON — America's twin crises of sky-rocketing energy costs and catastrophic climate change effects shouldn't be a convenient excuse to push nuclear power as a viable replacement for coal, oil and natural gas power-generating plants.
The nuclear disaster at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 and the near-disaster at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 are reasons enough to strike nuclear power from the list of acceptable non-fossil and carbon energy sources.
The nuclear power industry has done little to nothing to improve the safety records of their plants. Just recently, Vermont's Yankee nuclear power plant, owned by Entergy, experienced a cooling problem that forced it to shut down 50 percent of its power production. That shutdown came after repeated safety violations by the plant and a lack of adequate safety inspections.
The same scenario has played out across the country due to the infiltration of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by nuclear industry boosters and lawyers who have spiked and censored nuclear safety reports by the NRC's technical staff to favor the profits of the nuclear power plant operators over public safety interests.
In 2002, a hole due to corrosion developed in the reactor lid of the Davis-Besse nuclear plant in northwestern Ohio. The plant's operator, FirstEnergy Corp., and the NRC agreed that the reactor lid could have blown open in 60 days had the hole not been discovered.
The near-catastrophe at the Davis-Besse reactor could have rivaled that of Three Mile Island and the impact on Cleveland and other northern Ohio cities and towns could have been disastrous.
The poor nuclear safety record of America's nuclear power plant operators, especially during the laissez-faire regulatory holiday of the Bush administration, has not stopped GOP presumptive presidential candidate John McCain from waving the nuclear flag.
In 2004, the Palo Verde nuclear plant, 50 miles west of Phoenix, saw two of three units shut down due to radiation leaks from aging equipment. The NRC saw fit to approve continued operation of the faltering plant. In addition, radioactive water was found to have leaked into ground water around Palo Verde. Similar leaks into the water supply have been discovered at the Braidwood nuclear power plant near Chicago. The Union of Concerned Scientists' call for a major investigation of such leaks was ignored.
Nuclear power generation also generates nuclear waste. Currently, there are 55,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel in storage depots around the country awaiting transport through America's cities and small towns to a storage facility in Yucca Mountain in Nevada - despite the opposition of an overwhelming majority of Nevadans.
Nuclear power proponents argue that nuclear energy is a renewable energy source like solar, wind, bio-fuels and hydrogen. However, nuclear energy is neither renewable nor "green." From the uranium mining, processing, conversion and reprocessing phases, as well as spent nuclear fuel disposal, the impact on the environment in the event of an accident can last for hundreds of thousands of years.
The safety of the people of Vermont, northern Ohio, Arizona, Chicago and other parts of the country should not be negotiable by the nuclear power industry lobbyists who roam the halls of Congress.
Germany has nixed the future development of its nuclear power industry and a recent uranium leak into the water supply from a nuclear power plant near Avignon in southern France has all of Europe rethinking nuclear power.
Our Congress should follow the lead of Germany and permanently ban new nuclear power plant construction.

...and supporting international intrigues

Israel has always been intimately involved with U.S. nuclear plants, since they provide the infrastructure for the manufacture of atomic bombs, a top priority of Israel policy documented in Michael Collins Piper's book The Golem.
The Mossad capability to sabotage any American nuclear facility at any time is very intimidating for American politicians, which along with AIPAC funding, is just one more way that Israel controls the U.S. Congress. (See They Dare to Speak Out [pdf] by former Congressman Paul Findley, Stealth Pacs: Lobbying Congress for Control of U.S. Middle East Policy by Richard H. Curtiss, The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement With Israel, 1947 to the Present, by George W. Ball and Douglas B. Ball, Proof American Government and Military is Run by Israel (video), and Jim Traficant: "Israel has used us like a whore!" (video) for details). Since every nuclear power plant is essentially a "slow motion atomic bomb" or "dirty nuclear bomb waiting to happen," Mossad sabotage could conceivably release more radiation across America than a massive Russian ICBM strike. Please see my Fukushima page for strong evidence that Mossad-CIA's Stuxnet virus was the key factor behind the nuclear power plant dysfunctions that led to the Fukushima melt-downs, which in turn has released so much radiation that the upper third of Japan is likely to be uninhabitable for decades, if not centuries, and a large proportion of the Japanese population has already been effectively "soft-killed." Tens of millions of Japanese will likely be dead within five to ten years from cancers and myriad other ailments stimulated by radiation poisoning. Since massive radiation plumes have been crossing America, it is possible that millions of Americans are marked for early deaths as well. According to many radiation experts, Chernobyl caused the early deaths of over a million Europeans in a twenty five period, and Fukushima is expected to release more than 100 times the radiation of Chernobyl into the atmosphere, oceans, and ground water.
Final Judgment by Michael Collins Piper makes the case that a prime motivation for the Mossad-CIA murder of John F. Kennedy is that he wanted to interdict the joint covert atomic bomb development program that the Israelis were conducting with the Red Chinese. Once Lyndon Johnson replaced Kennedy (many believe that Johnson was a crypto-Jew), Israel got everything it needed from the U.S. to build its first atomic bombs.
Chapter 30 of my Mission of Conscience series documents the likelihood that CIA operative Roland Carnaby was assassinated by Mossad in Houston via Houston police proxies for his attempts to interdict Israeli smuggling of plutonium from U.S. nuclear facilities through the Port of Houston to Israel.

CIA Operative Roland Carnaby at the CIA HQ in Langley, Virginia.

The September 2001 update by former U.S. Navy intelligence officer Wayne Madsen on the Carnaby case presents a less than glowing account of the ability of the U.S. Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission to protect America's most vital national interests and the public safety:

September 20-21, 2011 -- Israel's nuclear smuggling network was key element in Carnaby murder in Houston

Israel, working with deeply-embedded intelligence moles in the United States, including within the U.S. government and "off-the-books" intelligence front companies, has been pilfering spent U.S. nuclear fuel from American nuclear arms caches at a phenomenal rate over the last several years. U.S. and foreign intelligence sources have confirmed that much of the nuclear fuel has been shipped to Israel and other locations via the port of Houston.
The illegal smuggling of spent highly-enriched uranium (HEU) and plutonium fuel from U.S. nuclear weapons facilities is the same outbound Houston shipping pipeline used by Bush-influenced Carlyle Group and the firm's front companies in Spain and France to ship precursor nerve gas chemicals to Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s, according to one Pentagon intelligence source.
The nuclear smuggling is a major back story to a September 8 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report titled "Nuclear Nonproliferation: U.S. Agencies Have Limited Ability to Account for, Monitor, and Evaluate the Security of U.S. Nuclear Material Overseas." The most serious finding in the GAO report states:

"DOE [Department of Energy], NRC [Nuclear Regulatory Commission], and State are not able to fully account for U.S. nuclear material overseas that is subject to nuclear cooperation agreement terms because the agreements do not stipulate systematic reporting of such information, and there is no U.S. policy to pursue or obtain such information. U.S. nuclear cooperation agreements generally require that partners report inventory information upon request, however, DOE and NRC have not systematically sought such data. DOE and NRC do not have a comprehensive, detailed, current inventory of U.S. nuclear material--including weapon-usable material such as highly enriched uranium (HEU) and separated plutonium--overseas that includes the country, facility, and quantity of material. In addition, NRC and DOE could not fully account for the current location and disposition of U.S. HEU overseas in response to a 1992 congressional mandate. U.S. agencies, in a 1993 report produced in response to the mandate, were able to verify the location of 1,160 kilograms out of 17,500 kilograms of U.S. HEU estimated to have been exported. DOE, NRC, and State have established annual inventory reconciliations with five U.S. partners, but not the others it has transferred material to or trades with."

Leuren Moret: Well, it is very interesting. Dr. Steven Chu, who is a Chinese America, was at Stanford University doing research on alternative energy, solar energy, I believe, technologies. And he won the Nobel Prize and was suddenly moved, almost immediately, to the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, which is a Department of Energy facility that has been turned over to the University of California. And as soon as he became director, he was only a director for a couple of years, BP gave Dr. Chu half a billion dollars to develop the Helios Project which is a research village or a research park conducting research on energy for BP. Of course the American people are going to end up paying for a lot for the cost of that research. And BP will be the beneficiary of that research. But as soon as Obama came into office, Dr. Steven Chu was appointed director of the Department of Energy. And he immediately hired or appointed Dr. Steven E. Koonin, his under secretary for science, and Koonin is a former British Petroleum scientist. But he was also a JASON, which as I mentioned are the successors to the Manhattan Project scientists, and they are the ones who developed HAARP. He is very interested, and has done research and is interested in the global environmental science, in astro physics, and he is a physicist. So HAARP is his sand box, if you want to put it that way. Now they together, Dr. Steven Chu and Dr. Steven Koonin oversaw the British Petroleum disaster in the Gulf. And they stood back and did nothing. They allowed the total poisoning of the Gulf with Corexit, which was a chemical -- a very dangerous chemical -- that makes the oil sink into the ocean so that people will not see it floating on the surface. They have also been overseeing the Fukushima disaster. Now I also know Chu and Koonin are eliminating alternative forms of power such as coal. Chu is in the process of dismantling the coal industry. The London bankers own all of the oil companies now, and they want to eliminate competitors. Some other interesting aspects of Dr. Koonin are that he was at Cal Tech. He hired one third of the scientists there now on the faculty, the professorial faculty while he was the provost of Cal Tech. And he was the chief scientist of BP between 2004 and 2009. He was also very involved in playing a central role in establishing the Helios Project which is the energy biosciences institute at the University of California, but listen to this, he was also on the Trilateral Commission which involves Japan, and he is on the Council of Foreign Relations now, so he is clearly a CIA scientist through and through with ties to the City of London. And that would be BP. The Queen of England owns British Petroleum.

Both Leuren Moret and Wayne Madsen have provided strong evidence that the 3-11-2011 Fukushima meltdowns were ultimately caused by the Stuxnet virus inserted by Mossad operatives who worked with Israeli security firms that guarded Japanese nuclear plants. In her 18 July 2011 interview with Dr. James Fetzer titled "Fukushima and the Global Danger," Ms. Moret explained how the Stuxnet virus was originally developed by the CIA and then shared with Israel's Mossad. In addition, in her interview with Dr. Fetzer she also explained how the U.S. Department of Energy has aided and abetted the Mossad nuclear sabotage, and even inhibited the ability of Americans to know about and defend themselves from radioactive clouds blowing over them from Japan.

Leuren Moret: ...Now we can't get [data on] infant mortality increases in the contaminated areas of Japan -- actually the whole country is [contaminated], because the U.S. and the Department of Energy and Dr. Steven Chu and Dr. Koonan are controlling the emergency response and they are controlling what TEPCO does. And the documents that are being released jointly in Japan by the Japanese government and the U.S. government -- actually a friend of mine hacked one of the maps of contamination in northern Japan and underneath the top layer was the map, was the same map, but it said "The Department of Energy." So it is the Department of Energy that is coming up with the maps, the numbers, measuring --
Dr. Fetzer: That is the U.S. Department of Energy?
L. Moret: The U.S. Department of Energy is running the whole thing.
Dr. Fetzer: And it appears to me a cover-up, right? A massive suffocation of real information about what is going on.
L. Moret: Oh it is the biggest cover-up about the most serious nuclear issue that has ever happened in the history of the world. And it will certainly contribute to a major extinction. A genocide of, oh, many, many people in the northern hemisphere. But the radiation two weeks after explosions was already reported plutonium in Australian fish, and I think it was plutonium in Columbia in South America, so it -- radiation is different. It respects no borders, it respects no socioeconomic class, and it respects no religion. It is an equal opportunity killer. And it is killing the babies first. The babies are the first ones almost immediately to die, even within a day of exposure.
Dr. Fetzer: Within a day of exposure. They are like canaries in the coal mine.
L. Moret: That's right.

Treason by leaders of America's nuclear industry is an old story. Many have even embraced social and political ideologies that are fundamentally hostile to the American national interest and even the American way of life. In a Mises Institute lecture, Russian historian Yuri N. Maltsev described how Robert Oppenheimer, a key Jewish leader of the Manhattan Project, told Soviet intelligence agents that while he would not personally spy for the Soviets, he would gladly hire anyone they recommended to him to be his assistant. The Russians knew everything that was going on, which was one reason why Stalin did not act particularly surprised when Truman first announced to him that the U.S. had the atomic bomb, and why the Soviets were able to explode their own bomb so soon thereafter. After Venona Project documents were declassified, they revealed that Communist infiltration of the highest levels of the U.S. government was actually much worse than charged by Senator Joe McCarthy.
In her archived MP3 interviews, Leuren Moret has described her experiences working with Marion Fulk "Father of the H-Bomb" at the Lawrence Livermore Labs in Berkeley California, who in turn was intimately involved with the Jewish physicist Edward Teller in building nuclear weapons. According to Moret, Teller was not only a key inspiration for the fictional film character "Dr. Strangelove," but was also a man of very questionable character who was despised by his associates at Livermore. (Some sources on the Internet, such as a Jewish lady named Pamela Schuffert, go so far as to accuse Edward Teller of being a hardcore Sabbatean Satanist, to include involvement with child sacrifices).
Teller played a key role in planning America's nuclear facility policy in the 1950's, to include building nuclear reactors over some of the most active fault zones in America on the West Coast and in some of the worst flood zones in the Midwest, combined with utilizing the General Electric Mark I design which stores spent fuel rods over reactors. (From a nuclear safety viewpoint, this is comparable in ones own personal life at home to storing cans filled with gasoline in a cabinet over ones kitchen stove).
In the following segment from her 3 Feb 2008 interview The Hidden Purpose For Using DU with Dr. Winn Parker, Ms. Moret how Teller was a key influence behind the fluoride poisoning of America's public drinking water -- and chemtrail polution of America's skies:

Leuren Moret: Well, when you mine uranium -- extract uranium metal -- you get a ratio of three isotopes of uranium which is constant throughout the universe and this is because they have different half lives. And so the only isotope that bomb-makers and nuclear power plant people are interested in is Uranium 235. But that is only .72 percent -- less than one percent -- of all the metal that you extract from the ore. And so 99.3% of the uranium metal that is extracted is depleted uranium once you remove half a percent of the U-235. And so most of what is thrown away or discarded or is not useful is uranium 238. That makes up 99.5% of the uranium that is not useful. And it has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the age of the earth. And so the Department of Energy has [or had] over a million tons of depleted uranium stored as uranium hexafluoride gas, which is how the uranium 235 is extracted from the mass of uranium. And Edward Teller said, "What are we going to do with all of this fluoride, it is horribly neurotoxive, and it is also very corrosive. So what he devised was the chemtrail program and the drinking water program. So they converted the uranium hexafluoride gas into solid uranium -- depleted uranium -- and fluoride. And the fluoride was dumped in the drinking water of America, because "dilution was the solution" to the DOE pollution from fluoride. And there was never anything, any real benefit meant for the public. The fluoride actually in the mouth in toothpaste kills the bacteria. And so it does cut back on tooth decay, but the fluoride gets into the structure of the teeth and actually weakens the phosphate structure...
... The fluoride escapes from drinking water supplies, reservoirs and so forth into the atmosphere and it started screwing up atmospheric processes and the proper transmission of electromagnetic frequencies. And so Edward Teller and the nuclear weapons lab had to do something about that. And so they started flying planes, military and secretly commercial planes through the air across America releasing chemical trails. They were aluminum and barium particulates which reacted with the fluoride and neutralized it in the atmosphere. Now what has happened since then is chemtrails are now being used for a different purpose, and that is to serve as electromagnetic frequency mirrors in the sky for HAARP transmission. HAARP is the High [Frequency Active] Auroral Research Project, which is three very large ground array antennae systems around the Arctic Circle. The University of California has been involved with developing all kinds of weapons of mass destruction. Actually the weapon of mass destruction contractor for Wall Street Bankers and the City of London bankers, and this large antennae around the Arctic Circle is being used to modify weather, trigger tectonic warfare, and also for global mind control.

Ms. Moret also describes the global depopulation agenda promoted by plutocratic elites who include the Queen of England (who like most top British aristocrats is part Jewish) who owns controlling interests in major uranium mining operations and nuclear industries around the world. Radiation is the perfect way to stealthily drive up sterility and die off rates. Also, because radiation poisoning is manifested in myriad diseases in addition to bolstering cancer rates, it is the perfect "soft kill" weapon to weaken and reduce human populations over time.

Leuren Moret: Well, let me just read to you a statement from National Security Memo 200, April 24, 1974. The title of this memo is "Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests." This is from a paper that I have written. "Depopulation," this is not the memos, it is the intro, "Depopulation through a continuous covert global nuclear war has been waged against citizens, paid for by citizens through taxation, and privatized and secretly implemented by the global ruling elite. From 62 years of depleted uranium wars alone, global public health has been devastated by large increases in death rates," and Winn, that is what you are talking about in England. They are increasing the death rates and chronic disease, and decreasing the birth rates, because radiation causes infertility, both evident in the vital statistics of many countries since 1945. And I have gone to lots of countries and collected data and it is in the vital statistics of Japan, the U.S., and many other countries. This is about Henry Kissinger and depopulation. Quote, from the National Security Memo 200: "Dr. Henry Kissinger proposed in his memorandum to the National Security Council that `Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.'" He quoted reasons of national security and because the U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries. Wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospect for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies, and the economic interests of the U.S.

Elsewhere in her interview with Dr. Parker, Ms. Moret noted that the U.S. population has been targeted for depopulation along with the Third World. Therefore, America's shadow rulers may not be overly concerned if Americans get showered with radiation from melt-downs, whether at home or abroad.
Even though the effects of depleted uranium were well known as early as 1943 -- and even suggested for "dirty bomb" attack concepts, Moret argues that the Zionist power elite made a conscious decision to commence gratuitous use of depleted uranium by the U.S. military and other armed forces around the world beginning with Persian Gulf War I in 1990. Now DU contaminates training ranges across the U.S. and battlefields across Europe and Asia, and has incapacitated hundreds of thousands of U.S. veterans, not to mention millions of people in the Mideast and central Asia. Moret has collected considerable data which demonstrate that the globalists are succeeding in driving up sterility rates around the world as background radiation levels around the planet continue to rise.
On my BP-Gulf Catastrophe and Fukushima Disaster web pages I have already listed references that provide deep background on Rothschilds-City of London, "Nuclear Lizzy" (the Queen of England), Mossad-CIA, and other bad actors, so there is no need to re-list them here, although I recommend that the reader visit those web pages because they provide deep background that also applies to the U.S. nuclear industry.
2010-08-02 U.S. hypocrisy on nuclear weapons proliferation -- when Washington looked the other way as another nation pursued nukes, by Wayne Madsen (subscription page at waynemadsenreport.com)
"The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, revealed on "Meet the Press" on August 1 that the United States has on the table a military strike plan for Iran and strongly indicated that the Obama administration is prepared to use force to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
However, the United States was not always so bellicose when a regime with which it had strategic and political links had secretly developed a nuclear weapons capacity.
After the fall of successive right-wing Argentine military regimes in 1983, the CIA revealed in a Secret report that Argentina stood on the brink of obtaining a nuclear weapon by the end of 1984. The Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, which, respectively, backed a series of Argentine right-wing presidents and dictators, including Alejandro Lanusse, Juan Peron, Isabel Martinez de Peron, Jorge Videla, Roberto Viola, Leopoldo Galtieri, and Reynaldo Bignone, before Raul Alfonsin became the president of the center-left government in 1983, stood by idly as Argentina pursued nuclear weapons. The CIA's Secret report on Argentina's nuclear weapons capability was revealed by Jack Anderson in the Washington Post on December 12, 1983...
2010-06/07 Nuclear Weapons: The Neanderthal Gift to Modern Civilizations? by Eustace Mullins, Introduction by Willis Carto, from the Revenge of the Neanderthal special issue, Barnes Review
2010-06-11 Possible Western Pennsylvania link to Israeli nukes boosted , by Richard Gazarik, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
"A recently declassified federal report bolsters a long-simmering Cold War theory that uranium was illegally shipped from an Armstrong County plant in 1965 to Israel to support its nuclear arms efforts.
The once-secret report by the General Accounting Office reveals the FBI initially refused to investigate the disappearance of 206 pounds of weapons-grade uranium-235 from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. -- known as NUMEC -- in Apollo [Pennsylvania].
That refusal led to widespread speculation the uranium, enough to build five nuclear weapons, was diverted to Israel with covert U.S. government assistance, the report states."
2009-03-01 Nuclear bazaar back in business, by Wayne Madsen (subscription page at waynemadsenreport.com)
WMR has learned from a knowledgeable source that Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan, recently released from four years of house arrest in Pakistan, is back in the nuclear proliferation business. Khan and his associates allegedly paid $2 billion to the government of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to have Khan, the "father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb," released from his house arrest...
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair recently told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) that "there are restrictions on him [Khan' imposed by the [Zardari] government."
Blair testified that Khan is now unconnected with his old nuclear proliferation network. WMR has been told by a source who works within the nuclear intelligence community that Blair was far from being truthful and, in fact, Khan has re-established the Khan network. Furthermore, in addition to Iran, North Korea, Libya, and Saudi Arabia having been part of the original Khan network, along with Turkey and Israel as middlemen, WMR has learned that another silent partner was the People's Republic of China. WMR has previously reported that Saudi Arabia was another recipient of Khan nuclear secrets but that the connection was suppressed by U.S. intelligence so as to not offend the Saudis, believed to be strong allies in America's "global war on terrorism."
The Press Trust of India recently revealed that Khan's network also included Japan, where a Tokyo company called Western Trading procured missile nose cones for Khan as early as 1980.
When Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA) asked Blair whether Khan still posed a nuclear proliferation threat, Blair said he could only answer that question in a closed and classified session.
Oddly, the Bush administration waited until its last month in office to impose sanctions on Khan and members of his network. Former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers said that when the Dutch intelligence service discovered that Khan was stealing nuclear secrets while employed by URENCO in Almelo in the Netherlands, the CIA pressured the Dutch to back off arresting Khan on at least two occasions.
China's role in the Khan network has been downplayed by U.S. intelligence. Among the nuclear design documents discovered by the United States in Libya were exact duplicates of those from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico that had been translated into Chinese. The Obama administration has signaled that it wants to transfer control of the nation's nuclear laboratories from the Department of Energy to the Department of Defense. The reasons are said to be for enhanced security. However, the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), responsible for protecting the nation's nuclear secrets, has been woefully unfunded and the Obama administration is pushing the entire U.S. nuclear weapons program to the Pentagon, which has repeatedly flunked nuclear surety inspections at a number of Air Force bases, including Minot, Malmstrom, and F. E. Warren.
The current counter-intelligence security budget at Los Alamos is estimated as $115 per year per foreign national present in the area of the laboratory. The H1/B1 guest worker visa program, WMR is told, was the number one method by which the Chinese and the A. Q. Khan network were able to gather so many American nuclear secrets. The program, WMR is told, was pushed in the early-to-mid 1990s by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with the blessing of his friend Warren Buffett and the lobbying efforts of Preston Gates law firm lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The Washington Post has been a major proponent of the H1/B1 visa program primarily because Bill Gates' wife, Melinda, and Buffett sit on the Washington Post company's board of directors. The nuclear security problem arising from the introduction of a large number of nuclear physicists and other scientists via the H1/Bi program has largely been downplayed by the Post as a result..."
2008-06-06/08 -- Unraveling the nuclear smuggling racket - signs point to CIA involvement, by Wayne Madsen (subscription link at waynemadsenreport.com).
"Two recent events are pointing to the distinct possibility that the CIA's nuclear counter-proliferation efforts were an attempt at putting back into the bottle the nuclear genie it helped to unleash.
Swiss President Pascal Couchepin's recent admission that Switzerland destroyed some 30,000 documents dealing with the involvement of Swiss engineer Friedrich Tinner and his sons Urs and Marco on charges that they helped provide nuclear technology to Pakistan's nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer (AQ) Khan and Khan's recent recanting of his previous admission that he helped smuggle nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya, and Iran all point to an effort to sweep under the carpet the CIA's tacit involvement with providing Pakistan, and by default, Libya, Iran, and North Korea, with nuclear technology. WMR previously reported that Urs Tinner is a suspected CIA agent who likely worked with Valerie Plame Wilson's Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover firm.
Khan now claims he was coerced by the Pervez Musharraf government, acting under pressure from the Bush administration, to make his confession. On May 31, 2006, WMR reported: "the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office has complained to the United States that the Bush administration has failed to cooperate with Switzerland's efforts to track the A Q Khan nuclear proliferation network. The Bush administration's multiple refusals to assist Switzerland in probing the Khan network, which was a major target of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division, Brewster Jennings Associates, and Valerie Plame Wilson, was revealed by former UN weapons inspector David Albright. Switzerland arrested three members of the Tinner family -- Friedrich, Urs, and Marco -- for illegally supplying centrifuges from a Malaysian company to Libya. Urs Tinner has been rumored to have been a U.S. intelligence asset. Switzerland has received cooperation in its probe from Southeast Asian nations, including Malaysia and Thailand, and South Africa. All three are key transit points for nuclear materials involving Russian-Israeli Mafia assets who, in turn, are linked to top members of the Bush administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney."

"Hard greed" profit-seeking and "soft greed" mission creep.

2011-07-04 Concerns rising over US plans to build massive plutonium bomb factory in Los Alamos, presstv.[Rense.com]
"`They are proposing to build this new facility to make the plutonium production for weapons production four times (than) their current capacity of 20 pits per year,' said Subhankar Banerjee, Founder of ClimateStoryTellers.org.
"This is a very bad plan to build a massive nuclear bomb facility within a fire zone and the fires are only getting worse with climate change and it is also sitting on a very active seismic zone that (the) scientists have underestimated seriously but those results are coming out now and it's also sitting in between Valles Caldera which is a super volcano and on the west and then on the east is [the] Rio Grand river which is our main water source. So we are working on ... we are getting the public engaged to oppose this nuclear facility right now so it's both fire, nuclear and Native American devastation all happening right now in New Mexico," said Banerjee.

Global depopulation program

2011-06-06 The Elite’s Plan For Global Extermination by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com "In a bombshell new video interview, historian and author Webster Tarpley exposes how White House science czar John P. Holdren, who infamously co-wrote a 1977 textbook in which he advocated the formation of a “planetary regime” that would use a “global police force” to enforce totalitarian measures of population control, including forced abortions, mass sterilization programs conducted via the food and water supply, as well as mandatory bodily implants that would prevent couples from having children, is a Malthusian fanatic in the tradition of the arcane anti-human ideology that originated amongst British aristocracy in the 19th century." See also the19 June 2011 interview: The Elite’s Plan for Global Extermination Exposed by Dr. Webster Tarpley.
2011-06-04 Dr. Steve Pieczenik: Royalty Incorporated; Alex Jones Channel "Alex talks with critically acclaimed author and former senior State Department official Dr. Steve Pieczenik about the savage history of the British empire and the royal family." [Editor' Note: Please also see Chapter 5 of my Mission of Conscience series which includes extracts from such works as Mike Piper's The New Babylon which explain how the British aristocracy and central bank got infiltrated and taken over by "Neanderthals"].

Radiation poisoning is part of a "joint task force" of initiatives working in parallel to deindustrialize, dispossess, weaken and enslave Americans

2011-07-30 Agenda 21 Coming To A Farm Near You As Federal Government Moves To Ban Family Farms, by Alex Thomas, theintelhub.com. "Our country is under full scale attack by bureaucratic world government type globalists who are openly working to destroy the American way of life in favor of a totalitarian police state."
2011-07-03 Getting used to Life without Food: Wall Street, BP, bio-ethanol and the death of millions by F. William Engdahl:
"...New Global Dustbowls?
What biofuels and their pushers—from BP to agribusiness, combined with the mad decisions of governments from Washington to Berlin to Paris and beyond – have accomplished is the elimination of grain security reserves worldwide. This has been vigorously mixed with a cocktail of deregulated free commodity derivatives trading to create the ingredients for the worst potential food crisis in human history...
...Reduced solar sunspot activity means a less active sun. As Dutch physicist Gijs B. Graafland puts it, “It will affect severely the evaporation of ocean water and by that the amount of rain. This results in lower water for agriculture and therefore in less growth and more severe blowing away of dry fertile top soil layers which gives a decade of high food prices.”
Translated to us, that could mean climate catastrophes, harvest failures, droughts and dust storms -- such as those that swept the US Midwest during the Great Depression of the 1930s -- in fertile regions across the planet, not just once but over a span of years. If the solar physicists as well as earlier Russian astrophysicist, Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia who predicted similar onset of a new “Little Ice Age” beginning 2014, are right, we may soon face a food crisis on a scale our planet never in history has faced."
[Editor's Note: Please also see "Famine killed 7 million people in USA [during Great Depression]" by Dmitry Lyskov, Pravda.ru, May 19, 2008 about how America also got hit by a deadly artificial mass famine in the 1930's just like the Ukraine. See also Chapter 33: Wall Street Coup de Etat of my Mission of Conscience series which has embedded on the web page the must-see classic video The Money Masters. For those who want some deep background on financial system manipulation, please see the softcover book The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, the online book Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins, and America's Great Depression (pdf) by Dr. Murray N. Rothbard. Taken together, all these sources explain how Jewish heads of the Federal Reserve Banking System artificially created the Great Depression of the 1930's through their manipulation of money and credit. Unfortunately these same kinds of people are very much in control of America's central banking system today and are every bit as malevolent, monopolistic, deceptive, and greedy as they were in the 1930's]
2011-07-03 As Missouri Floods, Anger Spills Over At Army Corps By Dave Helling and Scott Canon, mcclatchydc.com, [Rense.com]
"Why did the six huge Missouri River reservoirs — including Gavins Point, the farthest downstream — fill to the brim and force the months-long release of floodwater?
The short answer: The Corps could have prevented or drastically held down flooding by opening floodgates sooner. The reasons it didn't — reasons putting government water managers on the spot this summer — rest in a tangle of history, physics, meteorology and politics."

Robert E. Lee as a captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a man who later became one of America's most distinguished and respected generals. Once upon a time, during the "Pre-Neanderthal, Pro-Cro Magnon" era of American history, the U.S. Corps of Engineers was one of the most highly respected organizations in the U.S. Army, not to mention the U.S. Government. Are those days now "Gone With the Wind?"

2011-07-01 Alex Jones Show transcript (extract).

Alex Jones: You know what to do? I am going to get into this Agenda 21 right now. I have got to do a whole three hour broadcast on this in the near future, because we have been covering it for the sixteen years I have been on air. They set up Agenda 21 in '92, at the Big Earth Conference headed up by Maurice Strong. You can pull up the video online. You can pull up the quotes where he said a post-industrial America. It is our job to destroy the West and destroy industrial society, reduce the world population by at least 80%. Jesse Ventura, his global warming fraud show in the first season was really good in exposing all that. But I am just glad this information is becoming mainline. You need to understand, that is where the standardized zoning is. Whether you are in England, or Australia, or Germany, or the U.S., it is the same stuff. Formula One is coming into Austin. They are going to pay for it with taxpayer money, but then the companies agreed, which then sets the precedent to pay all these carbon offsets to private companies. I mean it is just a total scam, and Al Gore is the head of one company, the Rothschilds are the head of the biggest. But President Obama's Executive Order 13575, again we talked about this a few weeks ago, they are like "Rural Councils." And it has got the Department of Defense on it, Homeland Security, and they already had this covertly set up. And they send out Homeland Security at events. I have seen it in the Associated Press. And they get the farmers there to talk to them about Al Qaeda, and once they get there, it is like "Is someone growing marijuana? Are there illegal guns in the area? Help us watch your neighbors. I mean, it is so creepy. They know the Midwest, the "bitter clingers" as Obama called them, clinging to their guns and their Bibles are the biggest enemy of the establishment. Plus the farmers in the East, the Amish, and the folks in the West. They are targeting them everywhere. But the Midwest is really where it is really happening, and if you just joined us, I read earlier where the Army Corps of Engineers knowingly -- I mean there is a science to this -- and working and giving orders to the big reservoir dam operators in their plan with record rain in many of these areas that they list that you now see flooded, with the reservoirs already full, with the record snow melt about to come in, and they just waited until it was cresting the dams, and released it. And it is being called a false flag, and I totally agree. And now the Army Corps is in there trying to demand that people be forced to sell in expanding flood plains. And of course FEMA makes you buy flood insurance from them now. They control the consortium. That started after Katrina. I know a lot of folks who live on the lake, but even in hill top houses two hundred, three hundred feet above the lake, and these areas have never been underwater in modern times, and then they are like "you have got to pay extra stuff." Just like Obama saying you have got to buy insurance. It is just a scam. They just order you as a form of taxation for the private corporate interests. Let us go to this Fox News Clip, and again, if FOX was more like this all the time I would support them. It shows a real war inside the elite, covering what the rural affairs agenda and this new council really does. Here it is.

Ronald Reagan: You will find that they have also asked for the right to imprison farmers who wouldn't keep books as prescribed by the Federal government. The Secretary of Agriculture asks for the right to seize farms through condemnation, and resell them to other individuals. And contained in that same program was a provision that would have allowed the federal government to remove two million farmers from the soil.
Commentator: If you live in the heartland of America, you have to listen up. While the nation was distracted with the Anthony Wiener drama, President Obama signed an executive order that will seize greater power over food, fiber, and energy in our vast countryside areas. The President created the White House Rural Council to for "working across government" to strengthen rural communities and promote economic growth. Sounds great, but get this. The council involves a long list of the most powerful people in America: Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner, the Defense Secretary is on it, Attorney General Eric Holder --even the head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. Why would Homeland Security be involved in exerting power and influence over the heartland. Why would the Defense Department be involved in promoting economic growth? The plan calls for the Federal government to control almost every aspect of rural America. It will also "Identify and facilitate economic opportunities associated with energy development, outdoor recreation, and other conservation-related activities." Really? When did hunting and fishing become associated with conservation-related activities?

Alex Jones: He goes on and calls it a New World Order. Ladies and gentlemen, that was Ronald Reagan, by the way, at the first. They had this plan in '64, and it is like something out of Stalinist Russia. You can't make this stuff up, it is Agenda 21.

Jones: [Later in the show] So they didn't early on allow the floodgates to be opened on these highland lakes and mountain lakes. They let it build up and then once the spring storms came, they released it all at once. [Back to reading from The Purposeful Flooding of America's Heartland by Joe Herring]

Missouri Senator Roy Blunt agrees, calling the management plan "flawed" and "poorly thought out." [Jones: No, it is not poorly thought out] Sen. Blunt characterized the current flooding as "entirely preventable" and told reporters that he intends to force changes to the plan...
...Greg Pavelka, a wildlife biologist with the Corps of Engineers in Yankton, SD, told the Seattle Times that this event will leave the river in a "much more natural state than it has seen in decades"

Jones [later in the show] ....they are not building a lot of new dams. They are trying to get rid of the old dams and have destroyed quite a few, and then when they do have dams, they are using them as a weapon and letting the water go right to the crest and then once the rain starts, they already have the snow drifts melting, then the rain comes, and then they release it at once to have the maximum effect. The Army Corps of Engineers are incredible engineers, incredible history. They built one of the best inland dam and water control systems the world has ever seen. And suddenly in the last few decades they are reversing all of that and using the water as a weapon. That is diabolical, but it is stated they do not want people living in the rural areas and they are going to use water as a weapon. All right, now I am really blowing a lot of time here, but I am going to tie that in with Obama's Executive Order. We talked about this a few weeks ago, but I want to really tie it all together. 13575 creates rural councils. Because we posted on YouTube yesterday, I have never seen this, a film clip of Ronald Reagan as governor talking about globalist world government plans to rob the Midwest of its farmland and force people out, which is the stated re-wilding project. I mean, this is just amazing, so I was blown away seeing Ronald Reagan say this, so that is coming up later. OK, obviously in other news, I tend to cover just whatever is on the top of my head, is most important. And sometimes it does not seem as important, but in the wide long term frame it is really dangerous to realize how predatory the establishment is."
2011-06-26 UPDATE: More on the Missouri Dams, Posted by Ann Barnhardt – June 26, AD 2011 4:50 PM MST
"There are folks who are confused as to how the situation with regards to the Missouri River dams could be the fault of the Army Corps of Engineers. After all, isn’t the amount of rainfall an Act of God?
This is not a FLASH flooding dynamic. This isn’t happening because it rained three feet in 24 hours. The largest factor in this flooding is the runoff coming from the melting of the snowpack in the Rocky Mountains. The snowpack is precisely measured and the number of acre-feet of water that will be drained into the Missouri River basin each spring is a precisely known value. If you don’t believe me, pull up the website for ANY ski resort. They will have DETAILED snowpack depth data updated on a near-daily basis. One could work up usable data based just off of the ski resorts – but we also have frequent and detailed snowpack measurements coming from the National Forests and National Parks. I am hard-pressed to think of a meteorological dataset that has the precision, reliability and lead time that the runoff from the snowpack has. The Army Corps of Engineers knew to the acre-foot how much water was coming, and when it would arrive (summer tends to happen at roughly the same time each year).
Knowing that we had a RECORD snowpack this year, the ACoE should have opened the Missouri dam system up starting early in the spring so as to gently and gradually draw-down the reservoirs and give each dam system enough slack to absorb the snowpack runoff. They intentionally did not do this, and citing “wildlife habitat” concerns in collusion with the Marxist-Environmentalists, they kept the reservoirs full, thus ensuring that when the snowpack runoff arrived, it would have nowhere to go. Again, this was all 100% unnecessary and 100% intentional. I don’t care how many C- affirmative action hires they have, there is absolutely no way that this was a function of being “surprised” by water that has been measured and sitting in the Rocky Mountains for MONTHS. Snowpack of Quantity X inches yields runoff of Quantity Y acre-feet. It is a liner function that any Beavis or Butthead could have looked up on a table.
I find myself worried not just about farmground, but about low-lying residential areas in both Omaha and Kansas City.
Here is a citation regarding the ACoE buyout bids on flooded farmground: KC Star Citation Here.

2011-06-22 The Purposeful Flooding of America's Heartland by Joe Herring, americanthinker.com (discussed on the 1 July 2011 Alex Jones show, 1st hour, beginning around 11 minutes, MP3 download Here).
"The Missouri River basin encompasses a vast region in the central and west-central portion of our country. This river, our nation's longest, collects the melt from Rocky Mountain snowpack and the runoff from our continents' upper plains before joining the Mississippi river above St. Louis some 2,300 miles later. It is a mighty river, and dangerous.
Some sixty years ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) began the process of taming the Missouri by constructing a series of six dams. The idea was simple: massive dams at the top moderating flow to the smaller dams below, generating electricity while providing desperately needed control of the river's devastating floods.
The stable flow of water allowed for the construction of the concrete and earthen levees that protect more than 10 million people who reside and work within the river's reach. It allowed millions of acres of floodplain to become useful for farming and development. In fact, these uses were encouraged by our government, which took credit for the resulting economic boom. By nearly all measures, the project was a great success.
But after about thirty years of operation, as the environmentalist movement gained strength throughout the seventies and eighties, the Corps received a great deal of pressure to include some specific environmental concerns into their MWCM (Master Water Control Manual, the "bible" for the operation of the dam system). Preservation of habitat for at-risk bird and fish populations soon became a hot issue among the burgeoning environmental lobby. The pressure to satisfy the demands of these groups grew exponentially as politicians eagerly traded their common sense for "green" political support.
Things turned absurd from there. An idea to restore the nation's rivers to a natural (pre-dam) state swept through the environmental movement and their allies. Adherents enlisted the aid of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), asking for an updated "Biological Opinion" from the FWS that would make ecosystem restoration an "authorized purpose" of the dam system. The Clinton administration threw its support behind the change, officially shifting the priorities of the Missouri River dam system from flood control, facilitation of commercial traffic, and recreation to habitat restoration, wetlands preservation, and culturally sensitive and sustainable biodiversity.
Congress created a committee to advise the Corps on how best to balance these competing priorities. The Missouri River Recovery and Implementation Committee has seventy members. Only four represent interests other than environmentalism. The recommendations of the committee, as one might expect, have been somewhat less than evenhanded.
The Corps began to utilize the dam system to mimic the previous flow cycles of the original river, holding back large amounts of water upstream during the winter and early spring in order to release them rapidly as a "spring pulse." The water flows would then be restricted to facilitate a summer drawdown of stream levels. This new policy was highly disruptive to barge traffic and caused frequent localized flooding, but a multi-year drought masked the full impact of the dangerous risks the Corps was taking.
This year, despite more than double the usual amount of mountain and high plains snowpack (and the ever-present risk of strong spring storms), the true believers in the Corps have persisted in following the revised MWCM, recklessly endangering millions of residents downstream.
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt agrees, calling the management plan "flawed" and "poorly thought out." Sen. Blunt characterized the current flooding as "entirely preventable" and told reporters that he intends to force changes to the plan...
...At the time of this writing, the Corps is scrambling for political cover, repeatedly denying that it had any advance warning of the potential for this catastrophe. The official word is that everything was just fine until unexpectedly heavy spring rains pushed the system past the tipping point.
On February 3, 2011, a series of e-mails from Ft. Pierre SD Director of Public Works Brad Lawrence sounded the alarm loud and clear. In correspondence to the headquarters of the American Water Works Association in Washington, D.C., Lawrence warned that "the Corps of Engineers has failed thus far to evacuate enough water from the main stem reservoirs to meet normal runoff conditions. This year's runoff will be anything but normal."
In the same e-mail, he describes the consequences of the Corps failure to act as a "flood of biblical proportions." His e-mails were forwarded from Washington, D.C. to state emergency response coordinators nationwide. The Corps headquarters in Omaha, NE which is responsible for the Missouri river system, claims they heard no such warning from Lawrence or anyone else. Considering the wide distribution of this correspondence, and the likely reactions from officials in endangered states, their denials strain credulity.
Whether warned or not, the fact remains that had the Corps been true to its original mission of flood control, the dams would not have been full in preparation for a "spring pulse." The dams could further have easily handled the additional runoff without the need to inundate a sizeable chunk of nine states. The Corps admits in the MWCM that they deliberately embrace this risk each year in order to maximize their re-ordered priorities...
...In recent decades, many universities have steeped their Natural Sciences curriculum in the green tea of earth-activism, producing radically eco-centric graduates who naturally seek positions with the government agencies where they can best implement their theories. Today, many of these men and women have risen high in their fields, hiring fellow travelers to fill subordinate positions and creating a powerful echo chamber of radical environmentalist theory.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a victim/tool of the above-described process. The horrifying consequence is water rushing from the dams on the Missouri twice as fast as the highest previous releases on record. Floodgates that have not been opened in more than fifty years are in full operation, discharging water at a rate of 150,000 cubic feet per second toward millions of Americans downstream.
This is a mind-boggling rate of release. Consider that 150,000 cubic feet of water would fill a football field instantly to a depth of four feet. This amount of water, being released every second, will continue unabated for the next several months. The levees that protect the cities and towns downstream were constructed to handle the flow rates promised at the time of the dam's construction. None of these levees have ever been tested at these levels, yet they must hold back millions of acre-feet of floodwater for the entire summer without failing. In the flooding of 1993, more than a thousand levees failed. This year's event will be many orders of magnitude greater.
There are many well-publicized examples of absurd obeisance to the demands of radical environmentalists resulting in great economic harm. The Great Missouri River Flood of 2011 is shaping up to be another -- only this time, the price will likely be paid in lives lost as well as treasure. Ayn Rand said, "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
We need to begin the investigations immediately. It seems that it is sanity, and not the river, that needs to be restored."

2011-06-17 US Orders News Blackout Over Crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant, by Sorcha Faal, whatdoesitmean.com. [Editor's Note: This listing is not meant at an endorsement of Faal's overall credibility, which has been spotty in various areas, however, in this particular case Faal seems makes provocative points worth notice]
"Unknown to the American people about Obama’s “war” on the US coal industry is it’s estimated to cost them over a 60% increase in their electricity bills by 2014 and cause over 250,000 jobs to be lost in an already beleaguered economy.
More ominous for those American people whose lives depend on the coal industry that is being deliberately destroyed is the Obama regime’s massive “security exercise” currently ongoing in the major coal mining States of Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, and as we can read about, in part, as reported by InfoWars.Com:
“If you’re still living under the delusion that the TSA is just restricted to airports then think again. A joint VIPR “security exercise” involving military personnel has Transportation Security Administration workers covering 5,000 miles and three states, illustrating once again how the TSA is turning into a literal occupying army for domestic repression in America.
The TSA, in alliance with a whole host of federal, state, local agencies as well as military personnel, is currently conducting a massive “security exercise” throughout Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia.
“The participating teams are composed of a variety of TSA assets including federal air marshals, canine teams, inspectors and bomb appraisal officers. They will be joined by state and local law enforcement officials to supplement existing resources, provide detection and response capabilities. The exercise will utilize multiple airborne assets, including Blackhawk helicopters and fixed wing aircraft as well as waterborne and surface teams,” reports the Marietta Times.
Although the exercise is couched in serious rhetoric about preparedness, it relates to “no specific threat” and the details are nebulous to say the least and seems to revolve around little else than testing out high-tech surveillance equipment and reminding Americans who their bosses are.”
2010-04-27 Maurice Strong, the Father of America’s Destruction (Crime, Inc. mack daddy) by Richard Salbato

What [is Israel] to do? I have other dreams as well— apocalyptic ones. I think: Israel has been building nuclear weapons for thirty years. The Jews understand what passive and powerless acceptance of doom has meant for them in the past and they have ensured against it. Masada was not an example to follow—it hurt the Romans not a whit, but Samson in Gaza? With an H-bomb?
What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter? Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens?
For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away . . . have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice?

— Professor David Perlmutter, Louisiana State University, “Dark Thoughts and Quiet Desperation,” The Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2002

We [Israelis] possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force. Our armed forces are not the 30th strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capacity to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.

— Dr. Martin van Crevald, Hebrew University Jerusalem [Occupied Palestine] Israel

[Editor's Note: America's nuclear plants serve as quiet "Golem" or "pre-positioned dirty nuclear bombs" that can be used along with Israel's stockpile of nuclear weapons to create a global "Jonestown Massacre" with radiation instead of cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. Once sabotaged by Mossad-CIA -- as in the case of the likely Stuxnet virus sabotage of the Fukushima reactors -- they can release enough radiation to take the whole northern hemisphere down with Israel, if in fact this is not happening already (As of August 2011, the Fukushima nuclear material still has not been contained or stabilized, and more catastrophic releases of radiation are possible in the months or even years ahead) The quotes above taken from a "Look Inside the Cover" page for the ebook version of The Golem] .

Radiation poisoning may be deliberately inflicted on Americans out of revenge, spite, bloodthirstiness, racial and ethnic envy, and nihilism

One of the basic rules of Right Wing 101 is that as ethnic-genetic distance increases, the odds begin to also increase that different people will begin to act more like predators or parasites towards each other rather than as mutualists and altruists. (Conversely, as ethnic-genetic distance decreases, the odds of mutualist and altruist behavior begins to rise). There is an evolutionary logic behind all of this, as explicitly explained in A New Theory of Evolution by Sir Arthur Keith. (He basically applies the virtues of small business competition in a free enterprise system to "evolutionary breeding units" in a genetic version of a "free market." The end result is more fit tribes rather than a better commercial products. In other words, he applied laissez faire microeconomic concepts to biology, substituting "gene flow" for "product flow.").
These evolutionary dynamics can also be inferred from Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by Dr. Edward Wilson, and the landmark article Zoological Subspecies in Man by Dr. Raymond Hall, Mankind Quarterly, Oct 1960. The latter work helps explain the nuclear megatonnage-worth of subterranean racial hatred described in the Barnes Review special issue The Revenge of the Neanderthal that latter-day "Neanderthals" and even certain southern European groups feel towards northern Europeans who are more "Cro-Magnon" in their physical attributes and approach to life.
Other works in sociobiology help explain how parasites evolve relative to host societies (the layman's term for "parasite" is "criminal"), and why parasites are often innately programmed to try to fatally sting their hosts whenever they feel threatened with removal, much like a leech that is pulled off ones skin as opposed to one that is motivated to let go on its own before a burning cigarette butt. Similarly, various alien plutocracies such as the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Mossad-CIA, Bilderburgers, U.N. Agenda 21 promoters and myriad allied "front organizations" seem motivated to fatally sting and poison global populations with radiation, false flag pandemics, and other evils. This is especially true now that a combination of Internet exposure and economic failure is threatening their power base.
Many scientists once believed that Cro-Magnons wiped out Neanderthals in a European race war that may have climaxed 30,000 years ago. Now a growing number of scientists believe that Neanderthals survived in pockets, and also as portions of the overall genetic makeup of large populations as a consequence of miscegenation. Apparently quite a few individuals with some "Neanderthal" DNA strains are alive and well today in the more kosher sectors of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, the City of London, and Israel. Unfortunately "Neanderthal"-tainted individuals seem to control Mossad-CIA and have American nuclear power plants either under their thumbs or in their cross-hairs as well as many other false flag targets of opportunity.
Applying ethnic-genetic theory to the nuclear industry, we can expect it to continually break down in terms of its internal efficiency as it gets increasingly loaded with disparate racial and ethnic groups who secretly envy or hate each other as "affirmative action" and other "multi-racial" and "multi-cultural" ideologies continue to run amuck. In addition, "Nordic" characteristics involving rational, far-sighted, stable, and self-restrained intelligent behavior described by Dr. Lothrop Stoddard in his classic work Racial Realities in Europe have been evaporating across America as the Nordic demographic component has also been in sharp decline. "Nordics" once comprised about 60-70% of the U.S. population in the early 19th century, and they have now been reduced to perhaps less than 16% today. One rough way to track their decline is to look at the rate of decline in the overall population of the expression of many of the recessive genes that Nordic peoples generally carry, such as blue eyes. I discuss all of this in greater detail on my Libertarianism vs. Nationalism web page, however, it is worth reproducing the guidelines provided by the Wikipedia article on eye color:

A 2002 study found that the prevalence of blue eye color among Caucasians in the United States to be 33.8 percent for those born from 1936 through 1951 compared with 57.4 percent for those born from 1899 through 1905. Blue eyes have become increasingly rare among American children, with only one out of every six or 16.6%, which is 49.8 million out of 300 million (22.4% of white Americans) of the total United States population having blue eyes. The plunge in the past few decades has taken place at a remarkable rate. A century ago, 80 percent of people married within their ethnic group. Blue eyes were routinely passed down, especially among people of Western and Northern European ancestry.

On an physical anthropological basis, American whites in the late colonial and early U.S. period were essentially a partnership of Nordic and northern Celtic peoples. As an example, the Puritans who settled New England as yeo-man farmers came from the most Nordic part of eastern England and were more on the Nordic side, whereas the Scots-Irish who provided the core of the pioneer culture that developed in western parts of the colonies in the mid-to late 18th century were heavier on the Celtic side.
Northern Celtic peoples are very similar in their innate psychological traits with Nordics, but both groups have little in common with the kinds of people who now make up America's power elite today and who seek to deindustrialize the country and perfect the police state.
The Protestant work ethic once emanated from the innate traits of Nordics and northern Celts. It emphasized hard work, savings, personal liberty, far-sightedness, and rational planning. By the end of the 19th century, it helped America become one of the most innovative and economically successful industrial countries on earth. Anyone can talk about their need for freedom, but very few people on this planet have a talent for creating scientific and industrial infrastructure and wealth at a faster rate than population growth and consumption, which in turn creates a standard of living that makes "freedom" more meaningful. Unfortunately the kinds of people with a historic track record of success in this area have been steadily replaced by alien peoples with historic track records of chronic failure. Once these alien peoples have become American citizens, they have continued to fail in this area, despite all efforts at assimilation.
Even worse, the leadership tone in America has been replaced with the Neanderthal-like "Chutzpah Ethic" that emphasizes short term profiteering, intrigue, deception, mafia-style criminal gangsterism, and various other types of nonproductive "wise guy" approaches to life that have helped to convert American into a casino society and multi-racial, multicultural mess.
Latter-day "Neanderthals" hate Cro-Magnons every bit as much today as they did 20-30,000 years ago, if not more so, because of the tremendous achievements of Cro-Magnons in advancing science, technology, and viable democratic and republican governmental systems. This gives Cro-Magnons prestige that is very threatening to "Neanderthals" in their quest for global domination.
We can also expect America's nuclear industry to undergo increased external attack by Mossad-CIA false flag operations as WASPs continue to weaken as the once dominant ethnic group in America. Using the counter-predator vs. predator model typically found in the study of ecology, as WASP counter-predators weaken, we can expect Mossad-CIA predators and parasites to become just that much more bold and dangerous.
As I discuss in greater detail on my Libertarianism vs. Nationalism web page, the social model entailed in the totally corrupt Jewish-Catholic political machines that evolved in New York City, Chicago, and other major cities in the early 20th century have now infected and taken over almost all major American institutions, to include a major part of the U.S. Congress, CIA, DHS, FBI and the nuclear industry. WASPs have become so weak that Jews and allied racial and ethnic groups no longer feel they bother to engage in any form of "adaptive mimicry" towards their hosts in order to gain more power. Instead, the full dark side of their nature has been coming out into full public view. The Rothschilds-City of London, "Nuclear Lizzy," "Bibi," and their sinister associates now stage false flag terror attacks around the world and nuclear smuggling out of U.S. nuclear facilities through Mossad-CIA and MI6 with amazing brazenness. Their controlled national media ignores the continuing Fukushima radiation threat to Americans and continuous nuclear plant malfunctions around the country while engaging in "Global War On Terror" fearmongoring related to nuclear facilities. And Jewish-controlled Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street tycoons still dictate to Congress how many more more trillions to fork up in order for high level malefactors to line their own pocket at taxpayer's expense -- or else. (For more background on Jewish modus operandi, please see my discussion of Jewish criminal totalitarian psychopathology in my mutualism vs. parasitism article and my explanation of their Asiatic-despotic social model in Chapter 5 of my Mission of Conscience series.)
On my Libertarianism vs. Nationalism web page I link to some articles which describe how Jews and their minions now even have the chutzpah to openly delight rubbing salt in the wounds of dispossessed WASPs:

2011-09-10 The New Jewish Hostile Elite Interview With Kevin MacDonald PhD by Brother Nathanael Kapner
2011-08-19 Philip Weiss on the Disintegration of WASP Society by Dr. Kevin MacDonald.
2011-07-10 John Paul Stevens as a prototypical WASP by Dr. Kevin MacDonald
2010-07-15 What Would It Take? by Edmund Connelly, Occidental Observer, "I believe Whites are willfully denying the clear and present danger we face. Whether it is through late or broken marriages, lackluster efforts at having replacement-level families, or feeble efforts at keeping the governing elite from importing a new (non-White) people, demographically, White Americans are in free fall. About this, the numbers speak clearly; there is no ambiguity . . . Everything in this article written thus far describes the non-violent dispossession of Whites, but there remains the possibility of the process speeding up through mass slaughter. MacDonald is explicit in comparing the heavily Jewish Bolshevik takeover of Russia to the situation here today: “Again, the analogy is striking. As emphasized repeatedly on TOO, Whites can expect to be increasingly victimized by non-Whites with historical grudges as they sink to minority status and lose political power.”
2010-06-20 The Death of the WASP by Paul Gottfried, Taki's Magazine.
2010-05 Elena Kagan and the Decline of WASP America by Kevin MacDonald, Ph. D, The Nationalist Times, May 2010

Last, but not least, it is very common in nature for parasites to sting or poison their hosts if they try to remove them. This is one reason why people use the burning end of cigarettes to remove leeches rather than just pull them off.
At a time when globalist bankers feel the heat of the free Internet as they continue to loot America dry with endless trillions in bail out money to cover the endless debts that they themselves have created through their own recklessness, it will be interesting to see to what extent they will try to use their Mossad-CIA forces to fatally sting America with blankets of radiation that permanently poison the country before their evil grip over America is finally broken.

Nuclear industry vulnerabilities have been deliberately created for such purposes as espionage, theft, blackmail, extortion -- and genocide.

2011-03-28 Dr. Anthony J. Hall: From Hiroshima to Fukushima, 1945-2011: A Nuclear Narrative of Hubris and Tragedy by Anthony J. Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies University of Lethbridge, veteranstoday.com. [Editor's Note: Many individuals like myself read between the lines and see something much more sinister more than simply hubris and tragedy taking place here].
2006-02-16 -Nuclear security expert punished for calling attention to security deficiencies at U.S. nuclear weapons facilities. With the Bush administration still spinning "fairy tales" about WMDs in Iraq and pressing for sanctions against Iran, by Wayne Madsen, (waynemadsenreport.com)
"February 16, 2006 -- Nuclear security expert punished for calling attention to security deficiencies at U.S. nuclear weapons facilities. With the Bush administration still spinning "fairy tales" about WMDs in Iraq and pressing for sanctions against Iran and North Korea for their nuclear weapons programs, America's nuclear weapons sites are sitting ducks for terrorist attacks.
Although much attention was paid to whistleblowers from DIA and NSA at the February 14 Shays Committee hearing, the testimony of former Department of Energy Quality Assurance Program Manager Richard Levernier was perhaps as startling as revelations about torture and sexual molestation of children in Iraq and massive NSA eavesdropping of American citizens.
Up until one year prior to the 9-11 attacks, Levernier was in charge of a team of security experts who tested the security at various nuclear weapons sites. Levernier's troubles began after he witnessed security tests of U.S. nuclear sites being limited by higher authority...
..."These results were extremely troubling, considering that actual terrorists -- who would not be obligated to coordinate their attack schedule with the security forces or to observe speed limits and avoid building ladders and climbing on roofs -- would likely overwhelm site protective forces. Moreover, even the so-called 'wins' were suspect. In tests in which the protective forces 'prevailed,' security forces were often suffering 50 percent or greater casualties or indiscriminately 'slaughtering' crowds of evacuating employees. Yet, all that was recorded after these tests was a 'win' for the contractor protective force."
After Levernier sent an unclassified Inspector General report to the media, he was stripped of his Quality Assurance security responsibilities and transferred to a windowless basement storage room in the DOE Germantown [Maryland] building, where is primary job responsibility for three years was to manage DOE's official foreign travel program, an administrative function completely unrelated to national security.
Levernier identified critical security problems at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico; Lawrence Livermore in California; Rocky Flats in Golden, Colorado; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Savannah River, South Carolina, among other facilities. However, he encountered something that the late Colonel Ted Westhusing and General [since demoted] Janis Karpinski discovered in Iraq -- the power of politically-connected contractors like US Investigation Services, CACI, and Titan. In Levernier's case, his criticisms of nuclear weapons security ultimately led to companies like Wackenhut and Dyncorp, security firms with historically close ties to the GOP.
The outsourcing of America's most critical functions -- from signals intelligence to nuclear weapons security -- to powerful politically-connected firms that repeatedly engage in fraud, waste, and abuse and then cover up their crimes against the American people and the people of the world, is unprecedented in U.S. history.

• False flag operations typically utilize major official operations to accomplish the exact opposite of what is stated for public consumption.

[Editor's Note: In Chapter 8 of my Mission of Conscience series, I explain why military and police anti-terror exercises are paradoxically the best time for false flag operators to stage false flag attacks. Among other things, if one controls a training exercise, one can also use it as a cover for insurgents to insert bombs and set up other elements of a false flag attack. In addition, one usually also has enough control to make sure the military and police reaction to the false flag event is spin-doctored to suit the purposes of the false flag operators.
While an actual training exercise may be a short term "set up" to bring a false flag attack to its conclusion, there are also important "deep set up" processes that may take several years to prepare an area for a false flag operation. This can include buying up control of local media and corrupting police and federal officials.
In the entries below, I have provided examples of what may be "deep set up" operations, where people in strategic positions are being conditioned to serve almost the exact opposite function in real life compared to their normal job description.]

2011-08-24 Pentagon Quake Nightmare: Fukushima on the Mississippi by Noah Schachtman
[Editor's Note: What an interesting coincidence that deliberate flooding by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-controlled dams began at the very end of May, just after the exercises were over]
"In May, the federal government simulated an earthquake so massive, it killed 100,000 Midwesterners instantly, and forced more than 7 million people out of their homes. At the time, National Level Exercise 11 went largely unnoticed; the scenario seemed too far-fetched — states like Illinois and Missouri are in the middle of a tectonic plate, not at the edge of one. A major quake happens there once every several generations...
...The results of May’s disaster exercise won’t be released to the public. But privately, these government officials say they’re glad that this earthquake was just a drill — and not the big one. Especially because there are so many nuclear power plants in the fault zone.
“A couple of things keep me up at night,” Paul Stockton, the Defense Department’s senior homeland security official, told the Aspen Security Forum last month. A quake, like the one simulated in National Level Exercise 11, is chief among the sleep-takers. “It’s so much bigger than anything we’ve faced — way beyond Hurricane Katrina.”
...During NLE 11, more than 9,000 National Guardsmen were dispatched to 50 sites around Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee for mock disaster relief. They were joined by workers from the Food and Drug Administration, state agencies, and charity groups like the American Red Cross. It was a truly massive undertaking — especially considering there were all-too-real tornadoes assaulting the region at the same time...
...Including, potentially, a Fukushima on the Mississippi. 15 nuclear power plants are in the New Madrid seismic zone.
2011-07-01 Alex Jones Show (extract). [Editor's Note: Dams that were built to help control flooding and generate electric power are now used to create even worse floods than ever existed before they were built. Rather than help generate electricity, their flooding activities set the stage for possible melt-downs of nuclear power plants that generate electricity. Rather than protect farmers, the federal government now seeks to ruin and dispossess them. Government that is supposed to protect the rights of citizens instead arbitrarily takes it away from them and perfects tyranny. While all these things may not be directly involved in causing a particular false flag operation, they certainly create a fertile moral and political climate for a LIHOP false flag attack to take place. Alex Jones gives his own perspective on these points below.].

Alex Jones ...we have heard FOX News, Glenn Beck and others, talking about Agenda 21 and the global standardization of laws with carbon taxes and international zoning, through Federal zoning, and these rural councils that are being set up to basically pressure people off their land. The premises ID, the animal ID, the Food Safety Act, all lobbied for by multi-national Big Agra to openly shut down their competition...

Jones: [later in the program]...See, they openly with the re-wilding want to get rid of dams, and they have said that and you have seen that. But instead what they are doing is they are not just using the dams. Or they are letting water build up and then releasing dangerous amounts of it, and then talking about, "Well, this is natural, you shouldn't be living in a flood plain." And FEMA continues year after year to expand flood plains to even houses on top, hill tops three hundred feet above lakes here in Austin. There is just asinine type stuff that is going on, and it is all about land grabs, all about power grabs, all about Agenda 21. All about this rural council that ties into the ten governor council...

Jones [later in the program]: ...Ronald Reagan in '64 -- in '64 -- talking about what the Agriculture Department was trying to do then. And the Agriculture Department's statement is "Get big or get out." Their policy is to shut down small farms. They have the Premises ID, the Animal ID. They tried to pass the Food Safety Act, because Big Pharma owned Big Agra. It always is a big combine. They are all merged. They had $17 million in one week [in political contributions], last November, to try to pass that, to openly try to shut down all the farms and small ranches, with incredible ten dollars in regulations with chips, tags, on a five dollar chicken. Just total bankruptcy, but then Tyson and the rest are exempt. That is just one example. Just the end of it all. Now the IRS already does not allow you to write off your hobby farm. You keep a family farm or family ranch, you try to keep cattle to get the state tax exemption because you could not pay for it if it was not there with the property tax, and then you run the cattle. You pretty much lose money having them, but you have got to have them there to be able to have the tax exempt, and then they come in now to my family and say "You are not getting that. You don't get to -- it has got to be profitable or you are out." But the, oh, -- it is just incredible. Most small farms and ranches, they work at the feed store, or they work at the prison, or they work at the power company, or they work delivering mail in a route, or they are truck drivers and then they take care of their cows when they get home at 7:00 at night. Or they take care of their sheep or their crops. It's all over. And they are going to have the receivership arm come in with Federal help so they can have the federal busy bodies there to organize and con everybody. Don't worry, America is going down. You want it America? You want tyranny, you are getting it.

2011-06-20 Nuclear industry, regulators maintain cozy relationship [Nuclear Industry, Regulators In Bed Together], by Jeff Donn, AP, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page] [Editor's Note: Government regulators in charge of enforcing nuclear plant safety are instead creating a fertile climate for nuclear accidents -- and LIHOP false flag operations].
"LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. Federal regulators have worked closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation’s aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards or failing to enforce them, The Associated Press has found.
Time after time, officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have decided that original regulations were too strict, arguing that safety margins could be eased without peril, according to records and interviews.
The result? Rising fears that these accommodations by the NRC are undermining safety and inching the reactors closer to an accident.
Examples abound. When valves leaked, more leakage was allowed — up to 20 times the original limit. When rampant cracking caused radioactive leaks from steam generator tubing, an easier test of the tubes was devised."
2005-08-29 Guess Who's In Charge Of Guarding U.S. Nuclear Power & Weapon Sites, by Michael Collins Piper, American Free Press. [Editor's Note: Given the strong evidence that Mossad-CIA created the Stuxnet virus known to have destroyed Iranian nuclear facilities in fall 2010, and which was probably the primary cause of the Fukushima melt-downs, not to mention the Israel passion documented elsewhere on this web page for stealing U.S. nuclear materials and technology-- having Israelis guard U.S nuclear power and weapons sites is like having the proverbial foxes guarding the henhouses].
"American supporters of Israel were delighted to learn that an Israeli company, Magal Security Systems, owned in part by the government of Israel, is in charge of security for the most sensitive nuclear power and weapons storage facilities in the United States.
The largest perimeter security company in the world, Magal started out as a division of Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI), which was owned in part by the government of Israel. In recent years, however, Magal evolved into a publicly traded company, although IAI (and thus the government of Israel) still holds a substantial share in the highly successful firm.
What this means is that the government of Israel will have control over the security of America’s nuclear weapons.
Supporters of Israel say that this is a splendid idea, since Israel is said to be America’s closest ally. However, there are some critics who question the propriety of America’s supersensitive nuclear security being in the hands of any foreign nation, particularly Israel, which, even today, officially refuses to confirm or deny that it has nuclear arms."

• False Flag operators typically require both high level national and local control to thwart honest "first responder" and media reaction and suppress patriotic citizen uprising.

[Editor's Note: The mainstream media is manipulated by an unholy alliance of many special interests, namely Zionists, Mossad-CIA, the military industrial complex, and major corporate interests -- to include the nuclear industry]

2011-08-19 Mainstream Censors Radiation Threat by Keith Johnson, American Free Press
"...In the United States, a recent report by Janette Sherman, M.D. and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano indicate a 35-percent spike in infant mortality throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Meanwhile, the true extent of the damage and radioactive contamination caused by the Fukushima disaster continues to be downplayed or ignored entirely by the mainstream media. Getting to the truth has been difficult..."
2011-07-26 "It Cannot Happen Here!": Read PROPAGANDA, majiasblog.blogspot.com.his piece by Reuters labeled an “investigation” is, as a whole, propaganda even if it does have some useful information, like plant rankings.
http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/11/07/JapanNuclearRadiation.pdf
Why is it propaganda?
It is propaganda because the article that locates the most dangerous plant IN the U.S. (Ohio) ALSO states Fukushima could never happen here because of years of enhanced U.S. regulatory scrutiny
(excerpted) “In the United States — Japan’s early model in nuclear power — Fukushima’s lagging safety record would have prompted more intensive inspections by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It would have also invited scrutiny from the U.S. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, an independent nuclear safety organization established by the U.S. power industry after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, experts say.” (end quote from article)
2011-07-20 Pentagon Seeks to Manipulate Social Media for Propaganda Purposes, georgewashington2.blogspot.com.
...Indeed, as I wrote in February:
I noted in 2009, in an article entitled "Does The Government Manipulate Social Media?":

...The U.S. government long ago announced its intention to "fight the net".
As revealed by an official Pentagon report signed by Rumsfeld called "Information Operations Roadmap":
The roadmap [contains an] acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.
"Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads.
"Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public," it goes on.
***
"Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system".
Indeed, the Pentagon publicly announced years ago that it was considering using "black propaganda" - in other words, knowing lies.
CENTCOM announced in 2008 that a team of employees would be "[engaging] bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as bloggers who are posting incomplete information."
The Air Force is now also engaging bloggers. Indeed, an Air Force spokesman said:
"We obviously have many more concerns regarding cyberspace than a typical Social Media user," Capt. Faggard says. "I am concerned with how insurgents or potential enemies can use Social Media to their advantage. It's our role to provide a clear and accurate, completely truthful and transparent picture for any audience."
In other words, the government is targeting "social media", including popular user-ranked news sites.
In addition, when you look at what the Israeli lobby has done with Megaphone software to automatically vote stories questioning Israel down and to send pro-Israel letters to politicians and media (see this, this and this), you can start to see how the U.S. military - an even larger and better-funded organization - could substantially influence voting on social news sites with very little effort.
Moreover,the military has outsourced many projects to private contractors. For example, in Iraq, much of the fighting has been outsourced to Blackwater. And governmental intelligence functions have largely been outsourced to private companies.
It is therefore not impossible that the government is hiring cheap labor to downvote stories on the social media sites which question the government, and to post pro-government comments.

(other governments and large companies "astroturf" online as well. See this, this and this.)"
2011-07-03 Radiation Coverups Confirmed: Los Alamos, Fort Calhoun, Fukushima, TSA (video) by James Corbett
2011-06-29 Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Almost Lost Nebraska by Harvey Wasserman, hawaiinewsdaily.com, [Rense.com] "The corporate media is carrying virtually zero coverage of any of the above stories. All are subject to rapid, dangerous changes about which we may have little reliable information."
2011-06-28 Los Alamos Fire And 30,000 Barrels of Plutonium: Perfect Cover For A Nuclear False-Flag Operation? by Avalon and Shepard Ambellas, activistpost.com.
Government officials have been quick to claim that the situation does not pose a risk to public health and while we all hope they are right, it is the job of the press to MAKE SURE.
NBC Nightly news was one of the few newscasts to cover the fact that THREE nuclear power plants are currently in danger in the United States!
2011-06-27 Ft Calhoun Newest Photos Have Disappeared by Dr.Tom Burnett "MSNBC apparently had a picture of the Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant taken today AFTER the 'water dam' - barely visible surrounding the reactor and main control buildings in this photo taken on June 24 - burst. But that page is now 'page not found'."
2011-06-26 NRC Website Defines Media Blackout Over Nebraska Nuclear Plant Flooding: Americans are getting more information about the drowning nuclear plant from civilians on YouTube than government agencies or media by Tim King, salem-news.com.
"(SALEM, Ore.) - As the U.S. populace idles along in relative ignorance over the looming nuclear disaster in Nebraska, we turn our attention, quite naturally, to the agency in this nation that monitors and regulates these deadly energy sources, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC...
...The facility was built in a location known as the Missouri River flood plane.
Granted, the recent nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Facility in Japan where water invaded the reactor areas, hadn't happened yet, but many still question the wisdom of the Nebraska location, in the most basic sense.
It is staggering to consider the lack of human safety this plant by the river logic might ultimately lead to. Or, to think of what background must exist that allowed this location called Ft. Calhoun to contain a nuclear operation in the first place.
I know red states are mostly behind nuclear power, but I suspect they may reconsider their feelings after this.
So back to the NRC; I thought I'd go to their site to see what the 'official' update is, since our information on Nebraska is coming through channels in Paris, Moscow, and through our Writer John McCarthy who has been watching these developments from Vienna, Austria, where the The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safety Conference just concluded.
But the NRC doesn't seem to know about Nebraska. It has several rotating images with stories about many seemingly less important stories, but no mention of Nebraska.
Perhaps one could begin searching and locate information, I included the full size print from their site below and of course you can visit the site. Just be aware of the lack of response or awareness that this U.S. agency is displaying.
Of course I say this in jest, but sadly, this reported informational blackout that keeps coming up, seems to be patently true if the very agency that regulates nuclear safety doesn't mention it.
They mention Japan, boy do they mention Japan.
This is interesting because many people living there, including our Writer Maidhc 'O Cathail in Osaka, say life in their cities some distance from the coast, never did change over the tsunami and related nuclear disaster.
I thought I'd snap a picture of the NRC Website for posterity's sake, just to document how completely asleep at the wheel they must be...."
2011-06-23 Why is there a Media Blackout on Nuclear Incident at Fort Calhoun in Nebraska? by Patrick Henningsen, globalresearch.ca.
2011-06-17 Two-thirds of hot nuclear fuel remains in reactor core at Calhoun plant even though media claims it was ‘shut down’ for refueling and maintenance, enenews.com
2011-06-17 US Orders News Blackout Over Crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant, by Sorcha Faal, whatdoesitmean.com.
"A shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant located in Nebraska.
According to this report, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant suffered a “catastrophic loss of cooling” to one of its idle spent fuel rod pools on 7 June after this plant was deluged with water caused by the historic flooding of the Missouri River which resulted in a fire causing the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to issue a “no-fly ban” over the area.
Located about 20 minutes outside downtown Omaha, the largest city in Nebraska, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant is owned by Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) who on their website denies their plant is at a “Level 4” emergency by stating: “This terminology is not accurate, and is not how emergencies at nuclear power plants are classified.”
Russian atomic scientists in this FAAE report, however, say that this OPPD statement is an “outright falsehood” as all nuclear plants in the world operate under the guidelines of the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) which clearly states the “events” occurring at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant do, indeed, put it in the “Level 4” emergency category of an “accident with local consequences” thus making this one of the worst nuclear accidents in US history.
Though this report confirms independent readings in the United States of “negligible release of nuclear gasses” related to this accident it warns that by the Obama regimes censoring of this event for “political purposes” it risks a “serious blowback” from the American public should they gain knowledge of this being hidden from them.
Interesting to note about this event was the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chief, Gregory B. Jaczko, blasting the Obama regime just days before the near meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant by declaring that “the policy of not enforcing most fire code violations at dozens of nuclear plants is “unacceptable” and has tied the hands of NRC inspectors.”
This report further notes that the “cover-up” of this nuclear disaster by President Obama is being based on his “fantasy” of creating so-called green jobs which he (strangely) includes nuclear power into as his efforts to bankrupt the US coal industry proceed at a record breaking pace.
2011-06-16 Rising Water, Falling Journalism [Ft Calhoun DECEIT - 2/3 Hot Fuel IN Reactor, Spent Pool NOT Closed], .thebulletin.org, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page] "The implication is that being shut down makes a plant safe. But as the ongoing crisis in Fukushima demonstrates, nuclear fuel remains hot long after a reactor is shut down. When Fort Calhoun is shut down for maintenance and refueling, only one-third of the fuel in the reactor core is removed. Besides the hot fuel remaining in the core, there is even more fuel stored in the spent-fuel pool, which is not shut down. According to a May 2011 report PDF by Robert Alvarez at the Institute for Policy Studies, there are an estimated 1,054 assemblies of spent fuel, weighing 379 tons, at Fort Calhoun. The oldest of these assemblies are in dry-cask storage, which does not require any water or electricity for cooling. "
2010-12-15 CIA Funding and Manipulation of the U.S. News Media (video) "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director, quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy

• Insiders usually personally profit –-in more ways than one.

2011-06-27 Feds buying up farmland they flooded; Soros in on it -UPDATE, foodfreedom.wordpress.com [Rense.com] [Editor's Note: I have linked to articles that document the evil influence of Rothschild front man George Soros regarding many other topics, such as the economic ruin of Iceland, Mossad infiltration of the port of Houston, and Zionist neo-con "color revolution" trouble-making in the Ukraine and other Eastern European countries as described in Chapter 32 of my Mission of Conscience series.]
"UPDATE: More on the Missouri Dams
Posted by Ann Barnhardt – June 26, AD 2011 4:50 PM MST
There are folks who are confused as to how the situation with regards to the Missouri River dams could be the fault of the Army Corps of Engineers. After all, isn’t the amount of rainfall an Act of God?
This is not a FLASH flooding dynamic. This isn’t happening because it rained three feet in 24 hours. The largest factor in this flooding is the runoff coming from the melting of the snowpack in the Rocky Mountains. The snowpack is precisely measured and the number of acre-feet of water that will be drained into the Missouri River basin each spring is a precisely known value. If you don’t believe me, pull up the website for ANY ski resort. They will have DETAILED snowpack depth data updated on a near-daily basis. One could work up usable data based just off of the ski resorts – but we also have frequent and detailed snowpack measurements coming from the National Forests and National Parks. I am hard-pressed to think of a meteorological dataset that has the precision, reliability and lead time that the runoff from the snowpack has. The Army Corps of Engineers knew to the acre-foot how much water was coming, and when it would arrive (summer tends to happen at roughly the same time each year).
Knowing that we had a RECORD snowpack this year, the ACoE should have opened the Missouri dam system up starting early in the spring so as to gently and gradually draw-down the reservoirs and give each dam system enough slack to absorb the snowpack runoff. They intentionally did not do this, and citing “wildlife habitat” concerns in collusion with the Marxist-Environmentalists, they kept the reservoirs full, thus ensuring that when the snowpack runoff arrived, it would have nowhere to go. Again, this was all 100% unnecessary and 100% intentional. I don’t care how many C- affirmative action hires they have, there is absolutely no way that this was a function of being “surprised” by water that has been measured and sitting in the Rocky Mountains for MONTHS. Snowpack of Quantity X inches yields runoff of Quantity Y acre-feet. It is a liner function that any Beavis or Butthead could have looked up on a table.
I find myself worried not just about farmground, but about low-lying residential areas in both Omaha and Kansas City.
Here is a citation regarding the ACoE buyout bids on flooded farmground: KC Star Citation Here
2011-06-24 Feds buying up farmland they flooded; Soros in on it, by Ann Barnhardt,
Cattle commodities broker, foodfreedom.wordpress.com [Foodfreedom.wordpress.com editor's Note: Remember when the Army Engineers blew the Birds Point levee in early May? Now we know the real reason. ~Ed. ]
"Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I’ve had for years, that are actually somewhat connected concepts.
1. File this one under “Now It All Makes Sense.” A Missouri farming and ranching contact just got off a conference call wherein he was informed that the federal government is sending out letters to all of the flooded out farmers in the Missouri River flood plain and bottoms notifying them that the Army Corps of Engineers will offer to BUY THEIR LAND.
Intentionally flood massive acreage of highly productive farmground. Destroy people’s communities and homes. Catch them while they are desperate and afraid and then swoop in and buy the ground cheap. Those evil sons of bitches.
2. Speaking of evil sons of bitches, George Soros appears to be “investing” in farmground through the same puppet company that he used to get into the grain elevator and fertilizer business. The company is called Ospraie Capital Management and is buying up farmground in a joint venture with Teays River Investments as a partner. Here is that announcement: Click Here
Okay. Here’s the connection. This Ospraie outfit was a hedge fund specializing in commodities that was started and run by some cocky child who didn’t know how to trade bear markets and got his butt kicked into next week in the grain market of 2008. He also lost a fortune trying to trade RARE EARTH METALS. In fact, it was so bad that he had to shut his fund down because he had promised his investors that he would give them all of their investment money back if the fund lost more than 30% in one year. Whoopsie.
But it appears that Soros swooped in and saved the day because this Ospraie is the “co-investor” with Soros that bought the remnants of ConAgra’s trading operation and renamed it . . . Gavilon. In the industry, it is widely acknowledged that Ospraie IS Soros. That [CNN] article is here.
As you probably remember, Gavilon just recently bought both DeBruce Grain out of Kansas City and the biggest grain elevator company in the Pacific Northwest, thus making Soros (who is the money behind Gavilon through both his own Soros Fund Management AND his de facto control of Ospraie) the third-largest grain company in the U.S. with 280 million bushels of storage capacity, behind only Archer Daniels Midland (542 million bushels storage capacity) and Cargill (344 million bushels storage capacity).
Bottom line: Soros, through Ospraie, is buying up farmground. Please also note that the hotlink citation above is dated June 26, 2009. My contact says this has been going on for two years – and also remember what I told you about farmground prices inflating wildly, especially in Illinois. I have personally confirmed farmground in Illinois selling for $13,000 per acre within the last month, whereas that same kind of ground in Illinois was going for $5,500 per acre the day Obama was inaugurated."
2011-06-17 Midwest Floods: Both Nebraska Nuke Stations Threatened by Rady Ananda
The Midwest floods will seriously impact food and gas prices over the next year. Angela Tague at Business Gather suspects the lost farmland is behind the price spike to $7.55 a bushel for corn — twice last year’s price. Tague notes that the corn shortage will have far-reaching consequences:
“Corn is a key ingredient in ethanol gasoline, feeds America’s livestock and is found in many food products including soft drinks and cereal. Prices will undoubtedly increase steadily at the grocery store, gas pump and butcher shop throughout the summer as Midwest flooding continues along the Missouri River basin. Not only are farmers losing their homes, land and fields — ultimately their bank accounts will also suffer this season.”
And let’s not forget all that genetically modified seed washing south to contaminate natural fields.

• Controlled national media typically pre-condition Americans to accept false flag illusions prior to the attacks with forms of "predictive programming" that promote "Stockholm Syndrome" and "Cognitive Dissonance" problems in confronting reality.

Editor's Note: For an introduction to the "predictive programming" concept, please see Chapter 37 "`Operation Blackjack,' the Kansas City, KS Nuke, and the Zombie March Towards `Stalingrad II'" in the Mission of Conscience Trilogy.

2011-07-20 New Terror Report Warns of Insider Threat to Utilities by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz and Megan Chuchmach, abcnews.go.com. See also 21 July 2001 Infowars.com article Latest DHS Fear-mongering: al-Qaeda Plans to Take Out Nuke Plant by Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.com. [Editor's Note: Forget about high level Mossad-CIA intrigues that have frequently subverted nuclear industry, to include the use of the Stuxnet virus in Japan and other false flag-type operations. Forget about how Al Qaeda and Bin Laden are Mossad-CIA fabrications. Forget about massive inertia, self-dealing, arrogance, and incompetence within the highly protected and monopolistic nuclear industries. Forget about Israelis guarding American nuclear plants, high levels of nuclear plant obsolescence and safety violations, and hosts of other ills that plague the nuclear industry that are documented on this web page -- it is all about that Al Qeda boogeymen hiding under your bed and behind every bush who are going to cause our next nuclear crisis].
2011-06-22 Government Fort Calhoun Simulation Disaster Radiation Plume Map : WOW! Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant (video). Additional blog response to this video HERE. [Editor's note: This reminds me of the Harvard-Stanford 10-kiloton ground burst nuclear fallout projection map for Portland, Oregon provided in Chapter 24 "Noble Resolve and the Ignoble Whitewash: Portland and Phoenix Join the Terror Target Club" of the Mission of Conscience series. The ground burst fallout map coincidentally came out just before Operations Noble Resolve and TOPOFF in summer and fall 2007 which had a nuke event in Portland as part of their scenarios -- before public exposure caused authorities to reconfigure their scenarios. Remember, just like the exercise scenarios that accompanied 9/11, the best time to pull off a false flag attack is during a military exercise when one can make it an exercise scenario go "live." Please see Chapter7 and Chapter 8 of the MC series.
2011-04-03 Illuminati Card Game and How They Predict the Future. [Editor's Note: Many web sites note the amazing coincidence between the 1995 "Illuminati Card Game" pictures for the destruction of "Twin Towers" and the fire at the Pentagon on 9/11. It also seems to consistent with an "order out of chaos" strategy historically exploited by Jewish Bolsheviks who led the Red Terror in Russia and their kinsmen in Western countries who continually promote "cultural Marxism." It is also consistent with utterly ruthless global power grab goals by Zionist neocons and other globalists documented by Mike Piper in works like The High Priests of War , The New Babylon, The New Jerusalem, and The Golem, or the "Barbarians Inside the Gates" series by Col Donn de Grand Pre, which includes Viper's Venom and Rattler's Revenge. While the particulars of certain cards developed in the mid-1990's may not have been completely fulfilled in the subsequent phony "Global War on Terror" that formally commenced on 9/11, what is particularly intriguing is way the card game does accurately portray completely psychopathic mindset of a plutocratic power elite engaged in "full spectrum dominance" and covert "total war" operations against host populations. For them, everything can be manipulated. For close observers of Rothschilds/City of London malefactors and their Mossad-CIA agents, one might ask what isn't accurate about this card games' portrayal of a coldly manipulative globalist mindset? The following Facebook site lists most of the cards: facebook.com/media/albums/?id=138814779472876]

False flag operators usually require powerful intimidation propaganda apparatuses that create a climate of general fear to find or speak the truth.

2011-07-18 Fukushima and the Global Danger, Dr. James Fetzer interview with radiation expert Leuren Moret on The Real Deal talk show.

Loren Moret: ...Dr. John Gofman who was at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, in fact he was an associate head of the whole facility. He was a deputy director, and he wrote a book Depopulation Through Nuclear Pollution. He was hired from UC Berkeley Physics Department and funded to do research on the biological effects of ionizing radiation. And when he and Arthur Tamplin started reporting it in international meetings, they took all their funds away, they burned the house down next to John Gofman's house. He is a medical doctor and a physicist. He had two PhDs, and he discovered three isotopes of uranium for his PhD research.
Dr. James Fetzer: He discovered three new isotopes?
L. Moret: Of uranium.
Dr. Fetzer: No kidding, that's amazing. You could get a Nobel Prize for that.
L. Moret: He should have. And, well, he got the finger. He got the house next to his burned down as a warning. He told me that. And so he spent the rest of his life shunned and isolated, but --
Dr. Fetzer: This is by the nuclear power industry?
L. Moret: By the nuclear establishment.
Dr. Fetzer: The establishment which includes the military industrial complex.
L. Moret: Yes, and --
Dr. Fetzer: In collusion with the nuclear power companies.
L. Moret: And the medical profession and the Department of Energy --
Dr. Fetzer: Why would the medical profession be on the wrong side of this issue, Leuren?
L. Moret: Oh, well, the military and the Atomic Energy Commission set up the EPA to hide the effects of radiation from the public. They set up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to hide the medical effects of radiation from the public, and they set up the Centers for Disease Control.Why are colonels going in and out of the CDC every day now? It is because of the medical profession in the U.S. is completely controlled by the military.
Dr. Fetzer: The medical profession is completely controlled by the military.
L. Moret: In the U.S., completely.
Dr. Fetzer: That is quite a sweeping statement. I mean it is --
L. Moret: It is completely controlled by the military, Jim.
Dr. Fetzer: [Laughter] That is a very scary thought, Leuren.
L. Moret: Do you want me to say it again? I am going to tell you something. A year before the 2003 Iraq War, the Pentagon knew they were bombing the whole country into uranium oblivion --
Dr. Fetzer: Yes.
L. Moret: And medical doctors in poor communities where economic drafting would occur, all over the United States were visited by Pentagon officials, and the medical doctors were warned that if they diagnosed anything else except post-traumatic stress syndrome, in other words, it is all in your head, or if they spoke to any reporter or revealed anything about the health problems of returning veterans, or returning soldiers from the 2003 Iraq War that the doctors would be fined $10,000 to $150,000 and be put in jail for one to ten years.
Dr. Fetzer: Unbelievable.
L. Moret: Now do you think that the military controls the medical profession?
Dr. Fetzer: Well this is such blatant fascism that I cannot believe it.
L. Moret: Well we live in a fascist country.
Dr. Fetzer: Well I think we do, and it is tragic to see so many signs that all point in the same direction.
L. Moret: Well Aaron Russo made a landmark documentary film From Freedom to Fascism and they murdered him. He was assassinated. He was assassinated with CIA cancer. They killed him. They killed Jacqueline Onassis. She died in three months from CIA cancer...

2011-07-20 Whistleblowers "terrified" at TVA nuke plants?, cbsnews.com.
"That's news to attorney Lynne Bernabei, who specializes in whistleblower lawsuits.
"It has turned out," she says, "that I've represented more whistleblowers at TVA than any other place."
Bernabei told CBS News that's more than 60 people since the 1980s - at least eight since the TVA says it beefed up its employee feedback program a decade ago.
"People are terrified to come forward at TVA," Bernabei asserts. "It's just like back in 1985. Nothing has changed. They're terrified to come forward because they know that they will not get employment at TVA."
Nadeau informed her supervisors that other security guards at Watts Bar were sleeping on the job. In 2008, she was fired for what was termed "inappropriate abusive communication behavior."
She thinks it was retaliation, saying she "was told by one of the supervisors that I am -- above-average clean. I'm too moral. And I'm paranoid and eccentric."
Says Bernabei, "The whole regulatory system is based on self-reporting by the utility employees. If those employees are scared of coming forward, you're not going to get the safety problems reported, and you're gonna have a plant that is not safe."
CBS News spoke with one whistleblower, Gail Richards, who said she was too afraid to appear on-camera for "fear of further risk of retaliation for me and my family by the TVA and NRC."

False Flag attacks staged by today's Zio-globalists typically have Kabbalistic or Masonic numerological significance.

[Editor's Note: The Kabballah is hardcore Jewish mysticism. Historically there has been a strong Jewish influence on Masonry, to the extent that Masonic philosophy and lore borrows heavily from Jewish traditions -- a prime one being veneration of the rebuilding of the Temple of Solomon.]

2011-06-06, putting the month first, and knocking out the zeroes, this becomes 6-6-11. Anything that repeats a number (such as in 7-7 London), or is divisible by 11 (6-6), or has an "11" (as in 9/11 or Madrid 3-11) has strong numerological strength.
I have identified two interesting anomalies for June 6th. First, Ft. Peck ramped up to 45,000 cfs, perhaps approaching the record 50,000 cfs reported for 06-07, despite the fact that a 31 May Billings Gazette article predicted that Ft. Peck would not reach 50,000 cfs until 14 June. Ft. Peck is one of the key dams in the system, and someone was anxious to accelerate the downstream flood process. But it gets even more spooky than this; on 2011-06-06 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a directive banning aircraft from entering the airspace within a two-mile radius of the plant. Why would it issue such an airspace ban the day before the electrical fire that knocked out cooling for 90 minutes at Ft. Calhoun? Is this like the BBC report of the Building 7 collapse 20 minutes early? Was a saboteur really supposed to start the fire on the 6th, but got delayed a day? In addition to all of this, on 6-6 Ft. Calhoun issued a "Notification of Unusual Event," even though there was no breaking event that caused it to issue the notification on this day as compared to the preceding or following day.

2011-06-26 Some kind of "machinery" [a backhoe, said Jeff Rense] punctured an eight foot high protective "AquaBerm." 06/26/2011 may also be written as 6-26-11. "626" is the anagram of 6-22, and can also mean "the second "6-6" event in the month. This may be written as 6-22-11 or 6-22-2-11. Adding in the extra "2" in the year field adds numerological strength. During a flood crisis, how likely is it that someone will accidentally collapse an important berm holding back flood waters by swinging a backhoe around in the wrong direction? In addition, according to the Wikipedia article on the Las Conchas Fire that threatened the Los Alamos National Laboratory: "The fire started on June 26, 2011, at approximately 1:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time when a tree fell on a power line." This be written as to 6-22 (the anagram)-2- 11-1, or 6-222-111. The extra "1" from the time 1:00 PM adds extra "numerological" strength. As I note in Chapter 8 of the Mission of Conscience series, " The World War I Armistice was signed 1on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.' (Woodrow Wilson was surrounded by Jewish advisors.)"

Other Authors on False Flag-related "Facts, Theory, and Conjecture"

2011-07-01 The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing by Brandon Turbeville, activistpost.com.
2011-06-29 The New Era of “All Natural” False Flag Disasters by Zen Gardner, naturalmedicine.com
2011-06-28 Fukushima in Nebraska? Raging Flood Waters Threaten Nuclear Catastrophe by Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.com "Upstream dams may burst and overwhelm nuclear fuel rod storage site."
2011-06-28 Admission Nebraska Nuclear Plant Flooded on Purpose? (video) Truther Girls.
2011-06-28 Fort Calhoun False Flag?, thetruthergirls.wordpress.com
"... Who ordered to have [the aqua berms designed to help protect reactor buildings from floods] destroyed and why? To push the ‘green agenda’ for deindustrialization? I’m no big fan of nuclear energy myself, but how far will they go to have all our power replaced with biofuels? Far enough to sacrifice lives for the ‘greater good’? And let’s not forget to ask the quintessential conspiracy theory question: ‘who benefits?’ Is it a coincidence that Bill Gates and the Rockefellers are putting all their chips on biofuels? If false flag history tells us anything, probably not.
2011-06-28 Fort Calhoun False Flag?, thetruthergirls.wordpress.com.
Alright, I was starting to see a pattern and it was looking more and more like this was turning out to be the Year of the Nuclear Disaster, just like last year was the Year of the Oil Disaster, but it was just a hunch- no real evidence to back it up. Just a feeling. If there was a smoking gun, I didn’t expect they’d be sticking it in our face on the news quite so soon, but then I was catching up on the situation at Fort Calhoun and something struck me.
On June 28, we were receiving reports from the MSM that although the flood waters had risen and some safety measures had failed, there were others in place that would prevent the facility from experiencing a major disaster. According to the following article from CNN, the AquaBerm that had been placed around the plant had accidentally been punctured and deflated, but:
"He said the chances of floodwater getting into the building where the core is kept are almost zero.
The plant is designed to withstand waters up to 1,014 feet above mean sea level, according to the OPPD. The river currently stands at 1,006.3 feet and is not expected to exceed 1,008 feet, the OPPD said.”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/26/nebraska.flooding/index.html?iref=NS1
Personally, it was not very reassuring to me that it would take a mere 6 extra feet of water, beyond the upper limit of what is expected, to cause a major catastrophe. Given that Scott from Believer’s Underground had just told me that there were another 3 months of spring melt on the way, I didn’t see how the plant representative could boldly state the risk of flooding getting into sensitive areas was almost zero.
Be that as it may, I didn’t think much more of it until the subject of the AquaBerm came up again. Maybe it was in the way it was phrased in this article in asianweek.com:
“Like it was a good idea to make a water berm out of a giant Hefty garbage bag. Some machinery at night punctured the dang thing and it deflated leaving 2 ft of water all over the place, and the plant was on emergency backup power for a while because water got to another connection, but it’s back to offsite power again.”
This had this ‘aw shucks folks, we dunno what happened’ tone to it that seems to always pop up when there is something sinister afoot. Like on 9/11 when they couldn’t scramble the fighter jets to intercept the planes, or when the Undie Bomber somehow made it through security with no Visa or passport, or when Haliburton ordered drilling mud to be replaced with seawater, or when BP had boons placed in the Gulf in entirely the wrong way.
Uh…d-uh… we put up an inflated hefty bag then we let sharp equipment get near it and, uh, it busted. Nevermind that that is what those things are designed for, to contain flood waters and that it’s a little more high-tech than a Hefty bag. Looks like someone is pulling the incompetence card.
http://www.asianweek.com/2011/06/28/nebraskashima-after-the-aquaberm-busted/
But here is the real smoking gun, James Acton from the Carneghie Endowment for International Peace stating on MSNBC News:
“This is not business as usual. You don’t build these AquaBerms and then order to have them destroyed. That said, I think the prospect of a significant release of radiation into the environment is still very slim.”
2011-06-28 Los Alamos Fire And 30,000 Barrels of Plutonium: Perfect Cover For A Nuclear False-Flag Operation? by Avalon and Shepard Ambellas, activistpost.com.
"Concerned Citizens For Nuclear Safety, an anti-nuclear watchdog group, has reported that over 30,000 barrels of plutonium contaminated waste is being stored in tents ABOVE ground near the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
These barrels may be in danger due to a massive fire that has been quoted as, “entirely uncontained and highly unpredictable.”
“The weather forecast for Los Alamos predicts the wind through Tuesday afternoon will be from the southeast, then switching from the southwest at 11-18 mph with minimum humidities in the lower teens. This could encourage the fire to move closer to Los Alamos,” reported Wildfiretoday.com. This is absolutely critical information that was given one paragraph in the corporate controlled media.

2011-06-21 Nebraska Nuclear Threat: As Predictable As Fukushima [Cooper Nuke Plant Inches From Becoming US Fukushima], washingtonsblog.com, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"Nuclear accidents - like oil spills and financial meltdowns - happen because big companies push to make more money by cutting every safety measure in the books.
The accident at Fukushima was predictable.
Likewise, the potential problem at the Fort Calhoun reactor in Nebraska was predictable. (For background, see this and this.)
As Ketv reported in March:

Fort Calhoun's nuclear power plant is one of three reactors across the country that federal regulators said they are most concerned about.
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Last year, federal regulators questioned the station's flood protection protocol. NRC officials said they felt the Omaha Public Power District should do more than sandbagging in the event of major flooding along the Missouri river.
OPPD officials said they have already made amends and added new flood gates.
"We updated our flood protection strategy and have tested and re-tested our new strategy. The issue is operationally resolved, and at no time was there a threat to public safety or was public health at risk," OPPD President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Gates said.

The New York Times noted yesterday:

Last year, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission cited the Fort Calhoun plant for not being adequately prepared for floods and rated the safety violation in the “yellow” category, the second most serious. The agency ordered changes because it said that under the plan in place at the time
...
After initially contesting the findings, the plant’s operators, Omaha Public Power District, said that the problems had been resolved...

Nuclear Industry Questionable Behavior Patterns

2012-05-08 FBI Whistleblower Releases Unauthorized Memoir — “They have individuals on their payroll on almost every nuclear facility in the United States” (VIDEO), ENENews.com
2012-04-28 “Revelations on nuclear plants sound warning” — Harvard study reveals large-scale radiation releases just outside major US city that lasted for decades — “Surely this could not have happened, but apparently it did” (VIDEO), ENENews.com
2011-12-06 Is The Amount of Energy Put Into Mining, Processing, and Shipping Uranium, Plant Construction, Operation, and Decommissioning GREATER than the Energy a Nuclear Plant Can Produce In Its Lifetime?, washingtonsblog.com
2011-11-12 Engineers Knew Fukushima Might Be Unsafe, But Covered It Up … And Now the Extreme Vulnerability of NEW U.S. Plants Is Being Covered Up, washingtonsblog.com
2011-06-28 Nuclear Trouble Intensifies in Japan and USA (video)
2011-06-22 Radiation leaked from three-quarters US nuclear facilities by Deborah Dupre, examiner.com
2011-06-20 Nuclear Reactor Design Chosen - Not Because It Was Safe - But Because It Worked On Navy Submarines, washingtonsblog.com.
"...Virtually all of the nuclear reactors in the U.S. are of the same archaic design as those at Fukushima (Indeed, MSNBC notes that there are 23 U.S. reactors which are more or less identical to those at Fukushima.)
Called "light-water reactors", this design was not chosen for safety reasons. Rather, it was chosen because it worked in Navy submarines...
...Ambrose Evans-Pritchard argues that there was another reason why all safer alternative designs - including thorium reactors - were abandoned:
The plans were shelved because thorium does not produce plutonium for bombs.
...the Nuclear Regulatory Commission - like all nuclear "agencies" worldwide - is 100% captured and not an independent agency, and the NRC has never denied a request for relicensing old, unsafe nuclear plants.
Indeed, Senator Sanders says that the NRC pressured the Department of Justice to sue the state of Vermont after the state and its people rejected relicensing of the Vermont Yankee plant, siding with the nuclear operator instead..."
2011-04-18 Nuclear Overseers Are "Fake" Agencies Funded and Controlled by the Nuclear Power Industry, washingtonsblog.com.
"The Christian Science Monitor noted recently:

Just as the BP oil spill one year ago heaped scrutiny on the United State's Minerals Management Service, harshly criticized for lax drilling oversight and cozy ties with the oil industry, the nuclear crisis in Japan is shining a light on that nation's safety practices.
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... [Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreev, who as director of the Soviet Spetsatom clean-up agency helped in the efforts 25 years ago to clean up Chernobyl ] has also accused the IAEA of being too close with corporations. "This is only a fake organization because every organization which depends on the nuclear industry – and the IAEA depends on the nuclear industry – cannot perform properly."
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is no better.

As nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen, Duane Peterson (president of VPIRG & coordinator for the campaign to retire Vermont Yankee nuclear plant), investigative reporter Harvey Wasserman and Paul Gallay (executive director of Riverkeeper) point out in a roundtable discussion:

• The NRC won't even begin conducting its earthquake study for Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York until after relicensing is complete in 2013, because the NRC doesn't consider a big earthquake "a serious risk"
• Congressman Markey has said there is a cover up. Specifically, Markey alleges that the head of the NRC told everyone not to write down risks they find from an earthquake greater than 6.0 (the plant was only built to survive a 6.0 earthquake)
• The budget for the NRC comes from the nuclear power companies [just like banks fund the Federal Reserve]
• The NRC is wholly captive to industry
• The NRC has never turned down the request of a nuclear power plant to be relicensed in the United States. Relicensing is solely a paper process; there is no safety review.
• The NRC's assumptions regarding a worst-case accident are ridiculous. For example, the NRC assumes only 1% of the fuel could meltdown, while 70% melted down at Fukushima. The NRC assumes no loss of containment, while there has been a major loss of containment in reactors 1-3 (especially 2) at Fukushima.
• "If there was a free market in energy, nuclear power would be over ... immediately". Nuclear plant owners can't get insurance; they can only operate because the U.S. government provides insurance on the taxpayer dime. The government also granted a ridiculously low cap on liability
• If we had no subsidies for nuclear, coal or oil, we'd have a clean energy economy right now
• We have 4 reactors in California - 2 at San Onofre 2 at San Luis Obisbo - which are vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis.
• No state or federal agency knows who would be in charge in case of an accident at Indian Point. It's like the Keystone Cops

National Media Questionable Behavior Patterns

2011-07-20 New Terror Report Warns of Insider Threat to Utilities by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz and Megan Chuchmach, abcnews.go.com.
"Sabotage by an insider at a major utility facility, including a chemical or oil refinery, could provide al Qaeda with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11 anniversary attack Osama bin Laden was planning, according to U.S. officials.
A new intelligence report from the Department of Homeland Security issued Tuesday, titled Insider Threat to Utilities, warns "violent extremists have, in fact, obtained insider positions," and that `outsiders have attempted to solicit utility-sector employees' for damaging physical and cyber attacks."
[Editor's Note: This is a mixture of truth and totally irresponsible and misleading fear-mongoring. On the truth side, there are certain parts of American civil defense that have been very weak relative to other countries such as Switzerland and Sweden, such as in fallout shelter preparation and the storing up emergency food stocks. However, it fails to mention how Israelis who guard U.S. nuclear facilities also likely ran a Stuxnet virus attack that was the prime cause of the Fukushima melt-downs, how Mossad-CIA likely ran 9/11, Madrid 3-11, and London 7-7 and is the most likely cause of future damage to U.S. nuclear facilities as false flag attacks, how Osama Bin Laden was a Mossad-CIA asset who denied responsiblity for 9/11 and has likely been dead since December 2001, and how the U.S. nuclear industry is permeated with incompetence, corruption, and saddled with numerous derelict nuclear plants that are "accidents waiting to happen." Nor does it mention the major thesis of Final Judgment by Michael Collins Piper, namely that Mossad-CIA assassinated John F. Kennedy because he refused to support joint Israeli-Red Chinese nuclear bomb development. Please see the video Ted Gunderson Former FBI Chief - Most Terror Attacks Are Committed By Our CIA And FBI and the 21 July 2001 Infowars.com article Latest DHS Fear-mongering: al-Qaeda Plans to Take Out Nuke Plant by Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.com].
2011-07-06 14 Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Brainwash Americans, by Dr. Cynthia Boaz, Truthout, "It is ironic that in the era of 24-hour cable news networks and “reality” programming, the news-to-fluff ratio and overall veracity of information has declined precipitously. Take the fact Americans now spend on average about 50 hours a week using various forms of media, while at the same time cultural literacy levels hover just above the gutter."
2011-06-30 Is The Mainstream Media Covering Up The Truth At Los Alamos, Ft. Calhoun And Fukushima? endoftheamericandream.com, [Infowars.com]
"What in the world is really going on at Los Alamos, Ft. Calhoun and Fukushima? There are millions of Americans that would like the truth about what is happening at these nuclear facilities, but the mainstream media has been strangely quiet. Instead, the mainstream media is running headlines such as `10 Dirtiest U.S. Beaches Named' and `Pole Dance Stops Times Square Cold'. Yes, those are actually headlines that appeared on the front pages of major mainstream news websites in the United States today. Sadly, you really have to dig to find anything about the problems that are currently happening at nuclear facilities in the United States, and the mainstream media seems to have gotten really tired of talking about Fukushima. It is almost as if the mainstream media actually prefers to talk about mindless things rather than focus on the truly important events that are happening all around us."
2011-03-16 Nuclear industry shills re-inventing history, waynemadsenreport.com
"The corporate-owned and operated right-wing lunatics on radio and television, particularly major league insanity-based commentator Sean Hannity, may be legally entitled to utter total falsehoods about the Japanese nuclear disaster without worrying about a Federal Communications Commission-enforced Fairness Doctrine to set the record straight. However, it is a violation of FCC broadcast licensing for the right-wing cacophony to spout absolute false information that impacts on public safety. That is a flat-out violation of FCC licensing requirements for broadcasters to serve the public interest.
On March 14, Fox "News" host Hannity had on his program a nuclear industry propagandist named Jay Lehr from The Heartland Institute, a climate change denial outfit. Lehr proceeded to make statements downplaying the effects of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. Lehr's comments and Hannity's agreement with them not only defied logic but were absolute disinformation worthy of Joseph Goebbels. The comments came a day before the Fukushima nuclear event was rated a level 6 disaster. Three Mile Island in 1979 was rated a 5 while Chernobyl in 1986 was rated a 7. The Fukushima disaster will go down in history as one of the worst nuclear power plant catastrophes the world has faced.
After Lehr stated, "I can tell you with the utmost confidence there will not be a health impact of anything that is going on at the Fukushima power plant," he had the aboslute gall to say of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, "there was no long-term impact on health from anybody away from the plant due to the radiation cloud. There were 1,000 cases of leukemia in the village right surrounding Chernobyl, and 998 of them were cured."
The Heartland Institute, based in Chicago, is one of a number of vile corporate-funded right-wing non-profit organizations that invent their own facts and statistics to suit the agenda of their corporate paymasters. Armed with barrels of corporate cash and prepared junk science and phony history talking points, spokespersons for organizations like the Heartland (Heartless) Institute find eager media outlets like Fox News to spew their copious amounts of bovine excrement.
As for Lehr's statement that 998 people in a village near Chernobyl were cured of leukemia, WMR is publishing a photograph that proves Lehr to be a revolting disinformation purveyor. In September 1990, this editor visited, along wth an 80-member U.S. delegation, a children's hospital outside Minsk, in the then-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, where dozens of children from near Chernobyl were being treated for cancer, including leukemia. In the years following our visit, I discovered from one of our guides that all the children at the hospital had died from cancer contracted as a result of the Chernobyl disaster.

They are all dead now. Children in Byelorussia in 1990 suffering from cancer as a result of Chernobyl.

In the above photograph taken at the children's hospital, a one-time Soviet Communist Party retreat that was turned into a cancer clinic for children affected by Chernobyl, there are four boys seen. The young boy at the back right was wearing a Philadelphia Phillies cap I had given him, with foreknowledge that hair loss was inevitable at some stage. Lehr claims an 98 percent cure rate from Chernobyl. How about a 100 percent death rate among these children at the hospital outside of Minsk! That is a fact compared to the Heartland Institute's contrived history of Chernobyl and the Koch Brothers-funded junk science and fake history.
I hope that Hannity, Lehr, and the Koch Brothers who fund the Heartland Institute's propaganda output take a close look at the faces of these children. They all died from cancer resulting from the effects of Chernobyl's radiation. Chernobyl was a Level 7 event. Fukushima is approaching that level. Alas, it will have no effect because when Japanese children become cancer victims as a result of General Electric's failed reactors at Fukushima, the right-wing will eject as much venal propaganda as the Japanese reactors are in emitting high-levels of radiation. Pro-corporation right-wingers, like their Nazi and fascist ideological predecessors, are heartless and soulless ogres who love money more than any fellow human being.

Obama Administration and Plutocratic Elite Questionable Behavior Patterns

2011-08-06 Super Congress: A Financial Death Panel That Will Help The Banks Loot & Rape America: The Super Congress will use dictatorial powers to bypass constitutional checks and balances and ram through a fascist agenda taking direct orders from the criminal bankers on Wall Street by Saman Mohammadi, The Excavator, archived at blog.alexanderhiggins.com.
2011-08-06 A National Debt Of $14 Trillion? Try $211 Trillion by NPR Staff. "We've got 78 million baby boomers who are poised to collect, in about 15 to 20 years, about $40,000 per person. Multiply 78 million by $40,000 — you're talking about more than $3 trillion a year just to give to a portion of the population," he says. "That's an enormous bill that's overhanging our heads, and Congress isn't focused on it." [Editor's Note: Here is another incentive for high level psychopaths to resort to stealth population reduction methods. If you can't repay 'em, kill 'em!]
2011-08-01 The USDA’s Incestuous Relationship with the Rural Council & the United Nations by Debbie Coffey, ppjg.wordpress.com.
2011-07-26 The Destroyers: Who Control The Congress, The White House And The Media by Devvy Kidd.
2011-06-27 Jeff Rense interview with Dr. Tom Burnett (transcript) on the Ft. Calhoun danger and the ongoing Fukushima catastrophe

Rense: How could they break the rubber dam? [Editor's Note: Rense is referring to the rubber berm broken at Ft. Calhoun covered in some detail in the Ft. Calhoun chronology below]. Come on folks, this is absurd. The most important thing standing between us and a potential Fukushima-grade catastrophe is this rubber dam. How could they even start a backhoe up in the area, let alone somebody working near it trying to load sand on the back side. Give me a break. This is nuts.
Dr. Burnett: What people are not talking about -- they are not talking about anything. They will not release any photos. The commissioner of the NRC, I have not seen any pictures of him touring the plant, as he supposedly did today. Nobody north of -- in that part of Nebraska really understood that he was even there except that all the deputy sheriffs went up to the plant. But he didn't get into an airplane or helicopter. He drove up in a car as close as he could get, and then he says, or his press corps said, he motored across or swam across did something, and got in there and as soon as he got in they offered him a life jacket. And then he took his expensive silk suite and his $400 shoes and he was running up and down the flooded sand bags, which of course they wouldn't let him do anyway. So I suspected that story. I suspect he got near enough to look at it, because it would have damaged his reputation if he had just jumped back in his plane and left. And then he said, "Oh, I see it, that looks great" and then left. In fact, he is gone. So your listeners can judge for themselves, but I think that story is baloney. Now you can ask me at this point what we are going to do with Ft. Calhoun, or you can jump to Fukushima, because I am ready to slam the focus --

Rense: ...The EPA has already proven itself quite competent in terms of lying, directly. Bald-faced lying. The NRC, the same way. You name the federal agency, and every damn one of them is a liar. So I don't -- I admire these people for being conditional in their anger, well if -- if we -- that's fine, but it has already happened, folks. You have been lied to. You have been had. They had the ability to make this plant safe. They didn't. This is a simple choice. They didn't choose to spend the money to do it. And one rubberwater-filled berm, and one back hoe, and all the best-laid plans of mice and rats -- you notice that I didn't say men, are gone. Just that quickly.

2011-07-21 Latest DHS Fear-mongering: al-Qaeda Plans to Take Out Nuke Plant by Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.com, "...Information supposedly gleaned from this unsubstantiated trove is at the heart of the latest DHS effort to frighten Americans into accepting the ongoing conversion of America into a Gestapo police state."
2011-07-15 Executive Order #13575: Theft of rural and agricultural lands for UN Agenda 21 by Marti Oakley, Infowars.com
"Obama recently signed EO 13575, establishing the White House Rural Council. The council is a list of the most aggressive agencies and departments in the US government. The all-inclusive council members represent the very agencies and departments most dedicated to forcing the subjugation of the US to United Nations control. In fact, many of the agencies, departments and organizations listed as Council members are in fact creations of the UN; created for no other purpose than to give the United Nations direct access to the United States.
This council can be viewed as nothing less than the establishment of a domestic terrorism group which will orchestrate the coming assault on private agricultural property owners in an effort to force them off their land and out of production. There was an effort during the Reagan presidency to launch a similar assault on individual owners of agricultural land which would have displaced more than 2 million people, handing their land over to others who were more amenable to the government and UN control."
2011-07-14 Operation Castaway: ATF Trafficked Guns to Honduran Criminal Gangs by Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.com "Evidence indicates that the ATF not only provided weapons to Mexican drug cartels and gangs but also trafficked guns to criminal gangs in Honduras, including the murderous MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, known to work with the Sinaloa drug cartel." [Editor's Note: Who needs to worry about "Al Qaeda" attacking nuclear plants when the Army Corps of Engineers sets up nuclear plants for melt-down by deliberately causing highly destructive floods, and the ATF (the same wonderful folks who tried to set up Randy Weaver and who burned David Koresh and his Branch Davidians alive at Waco, Texas) has been caught red-handed arming criminal gangs. So far there have been no Al Qaeda attacks, therefore on a statistical level alone, ABC News and DHS should really be warning us about the Army Corps of Engineers and ATF terror threat to American nuclear safety]. See also the 14 July 2011 article Barack Obama, Cop Killer by the AlexJones channel, which notes: "Obama caught shipping guns to drug dealers who have killed at least 3 police officers."
2011-07-18 THE QUIET COUP: The implementation of Agenda 21 by Debbie Coffey, Debbie Coffey, "People have noticed the 25 government agencies on Obama’s new White House Rural Council. And, they’re questioning what might be the need for all of them.
What people may not have noticed yet, is that the government agencies in this council are also on other councils..."
2011-07-11 Radiation Data From Aerial Radiological Survey In Washington State May Be Classified For National Security Purposes, by Alex Thomas, The Intel Hub. [Editor's Note: "We're from the government, we're here to help you. Don't bother your pretty little heads about whether dangerous levels of radiation have been coming down with the rain and we should have warned you to stay indoors during precipitation, or whether you were breathing five hot particles a day, or anything like that...your doctor will let you know in 5-10 years when he informs you that you have terminal cancer, but by then we will be out of office and enjoying our Swiss bank accounts, and it will be your tough luck schmuck."]
2011-07-08 US government openly admits arming Mexican drug gangs with 30,000 firearms - but why?, by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
" ...The American government is working AGAINST you, not for you
The point in all this is that much of what you see happening in the world today in terms of terrorism, the drug war, infectious disease and health care are just fabricated, staged events actually pulled off by the very people who stand to benefit from the reaction!
Suckers and sheeple always believe the mainstream news at face value. They believe we're under attack from terrorists who bring down tall buildings, or we're being assaulted by Mexican drug gangs on the border, or we're threatened by the Swine Flu. That's what suckers are supposed to believe, you see: That your government is never working against you... it's always working FOR you, right?
But intelligent people know the opposite is true: Your government is usually plotting against you and trying to figure out how to expand its power, expand its reach, reduce your freedoms and control your life. This is accomplished by unleashing the very problems that the government claims to be fighting to prevent.
The government, for example, says it's trying to solve our nation's economic problems. And how does it accomplish that? By generating trillions of dollars in new fiat currency and handing it over to the criminals running Wall Street. This has the net effect of stealing money from everybody else through dollar devaluation.
How does the government solve our national health care crisis? By enacting Obamacare, which mandates that more people buy into a system that has utterly failed to serve the health interests of the American people in the first place!
So at the very same time the government says it's working to improve the economy, it's actually stealing from you behind your back. At the very same time the government says it's trying to stop cancer, its own health-related agencies (National Cancer Institute, for example) are openly engaged in massive disinformation campaigns that spread false information about sunlight being "dangerous" to your health (while conveniently ignoring the truth about vitamin D and its cancer preventive properties).
The government says it wants to make your food safer, and yet the USDA keeps approving genetically modified foods that are essentially massive biological experiments that cause widespread infertility and disease.
The same story goes on and on... with fluoride in the water, mercury in dental fillings, aspartame in diet sodas, pesticide use in agriculture and so on. At nearly every turn, the government itself is actively plotting against the People to keep them financially enslaved, biologically diseased and mentally ignorant.
Shipping guns into Mexico, you see, is just a tiny part of the big picture that's going on today in the USA. The same process -- Problem, Reaction, Solution -- is in use almost everywhere in government at both the state and federal level.
Big Government is the enemy of peace and freedom
Bureaucrats hate to lose their jobs, and if there's a way to stage something that makes them suddenly look more important, they won't hesitate to roll it out. The U.S. government, just so you know, has been actively engaged in weapons trafficking, drug running and counterfeiting for decades. If you or I did what our own government does every single day, we'd be arrested as felony criminals. But when the government runs guns into Mexico, or traffics in cocaine, or prints counterfeit dollar bills that have no backing with real value, somehow it's all okay.
Amazing how our own government has now turned into the very criminals that it claims to be protecting us against, isn't it? Who are the real terrorists in America? The ATF agents running guns into the hands of Mexican drug gangs, of course. And the FBI agents who set up Arab-looking patsies to try to set off fake bombs that the FBI actually assembled for them!...
2011-07-07 Our Politicians Are Selling Off Pieces Of America To Foreign Investors – And Goldman Sachs Is Helping Them Do It by endoftheamericandream.com. [also archived at republicbroadcasting.org]
2011-06-30 High-Level American Officials Admit that the United States Uses False Flag Terror … And Warn of Future Attacks, blog.alexanderhiggins.com.
2011-06-24 Al Gore, Agenda 21 And Population Control, endoftheamericandream.com, "Imagine going to sleep one night and waking up many years later in a totally different world. In this futuristic world, literally everything you do is tightly monitored and controlled by control freak bureaucrats in the name of "sustainable development" and with the goal of promoting "the green agenda". An international ruling body has centralized global control over all human activity. What you eat, what you drink, where you live, how warm or cold your home can be and how much fuel you can use is determined by them. Anyone that dissents or that tries to rebel against the system is sent off for "re-education". The human population is 90 percent lower than it is today in this futuristic society, and all remaining humans have been herded into tightly constricted cities which are run much like prisons. Does all of that sound good to you? Well, this is what Agenda 21 is all about."
2011-06-24 Controversial ag spending bill defunds local food systems, promotes meat monopoly by Rady Ananda, Activist Post [also archived republicbroadcasting.org] [Editor's Note: For those interested in farm and ranch-related issues that impact the heartland, here is just one more of myriad examples where corrupt big government favors big corporate monopolists and "rent seekers" over smaller farm/ranch producers].
2011-06-22 Corruption in America, endoftheamericandream.com [also archived at republicbroadcasting.org] "In the United States today, it is not just the economy that is crumbling. The entire fabric of society is coming apart as well. Literally almost wherever you look you can find rampant corruption in America. Our federal government is corrupt, our state and local governments are corrupt, our corporations are corrupt and unfortunately average Americans seem to become more corrupt all the time. As corruption becomes widespread in America, trust is breaking down. It is very difficult to know who to trust these days. But a society cannot function without trust. So what are we going to do when all the trust is gone?"
2011-06-21 Does The New ‘White House Rural Council’ = UN’s Agenda 21? by Mike Opelka, theblaze.com, [also archived at republicbroadcasting.org], "President Obama’s E.O. 13575 is designed to begin taking control over almost all aspects of the lives of 16% of the American people. Why didn’t we notice it? Weinergate. In the middle of the Anthony Weiner scandal, as the press and most of the American people were distracted, President Obama created something called “The White House Rural Council” (WHRC)..."
2011-06-21 Agenda 21 Indoctrination Going Global at Warp Speed by Jorge Mascarillo, Activist Post, [also archived at republicbroadcasting.org], "It is time to sound the alarm yet again on Agenda 21. Much of the focus of critical LA21 discussion has centered on its progress in the United States, but it too has been making rapid inroads into México, as to the rest of the planet."
2011-06-08 Just Can’t Run: Seattle Residents Breathing Fukushima Radiation by Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.com [Editor's Note: A responsible government would warn its citizens to stay indoors and out of the rain -- at a minimum. Instead, the entire threat has been ignored by the Obama Administration and mainstream media, as if it could care less if millions of Americans come down with terminal cancer in the next 5-10 years, as well as myriad other diseases stimulated by ingested radioactive microparticles. This alone speaks volumes about the true character of the government's currrent leaders].
"Former nuclear power industry executive and chief engineer of energy consulting company Fairewinds Associates told CNN earlier this week that residents of Seattle, Washington, are breathing ten “hot particles” per day of Fukushima radiation...
...In addition to radiation in the atmosphere, the deadly substance is now working its way into the food chain.
Gunderson warns that by 2013 radiation will bio accumulate in top of the food chain animals like tuna and salmon."
2011-05-16 10 Indications The United States Is A Dictatorship by Activist Post
2010-12-09 24 Signs That All Of America Is Becoming Just Like Detroit - A Rotting, Post-Industrial, Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland, endoftheamericandream.com.
2010-04-27 Maurice Strong, the Father of America’s Destruction (Crime, Inc. mack daddy) by Richard Salbato.

Operational Analysis and a Chronology of Significant Events and Mishaps

Overview of Nuclear Power Plant Operations

2011-08-01 Nuclear Power 101: Fairewinds examines the fundamental advantages and disadvantages of splitting atoms to boil water (video). Included in this presentation and PowerPoint is a discussion of how nuclear power plants work, how to cool a reactor during an accident, the effect of hot particles when inhaled, and concerns involving the long-term storage of nuclear waste. This presentation took place at the Nuclear Power Conference held at the University of Vermont July 23, 2011

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant

[Editor's Note: As one might expect, we have received conflicting reports about Ft. Calhoun. Some sources suspect that the danger is far from over, that the plant has experienced malfunctions that are far more serious than has been reported, and that the plant could be seriously leaking radiation into the environment. Therefore, I have decided to create a chronology of many different sources to help the reader piece together a more accurate opinion].

For the most recent updates, please see Nuclear News Now -- Ft. Calhoun.

Chronology:

2012-03-14 "WSJ: "Fire at Nuclear Plant Called Serious Threat," majiasblog.blogspot.com.
"March 13 2012 The Wall Street Journal
"The June 7 fire at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant, 19 miles north of Omaha, caused an electrical failure that knocked out pumps circulating water in a pool with spent nuclear fuel. In an investigation released Monday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it classified the fire as a 'red' event, representing the highest level of safety threat tracked by the agency"
Majia here: This news report demonstrates that the NRC and power operators will lie straight out to the public when a nuclear threat is imminent.
I watched the Fort Calhoun plant flooding carefully over the summer.
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/fort-calhoun.html
Denial of any major problem at the plant was the name of the game.
Government authorities banned media reporters from coming close to the plant by boat or plane.
Now we learn that there was an electrical failure that could have caused a fire in a spent fuel pool.
Indeed, it may have caused a fire. Who knows.
It is clear that government authorities do not prioritize public health and welfare; instead, lies will be spun to keep the population from knowing the imminent risks posted to their health by our genocidal nuclear plants.
[Editor's Note: If the estimated 379 tons of nuclear material contained the spent fuel pool ever goes critical, it could take out a huge portion of the eastern United States, as noted elsewhere on this web page. The condescending and deceptive behavior demonstrated by authorities involved with Ft. Calhoun towards the public is criminal].
2012-01-09 Problems continue to emerge at troubled Ft. Calhoun: Now worse than worst grade a reactor can have and still operate — Plus cause of fire that knocked out spent fuel pool cooling this summer remains unknown, enenews.com
2011-09-13 June fire at nuke plant probed by Nancy Gaarder, World-Herald Staff Writer.
2011-08-07 Editor's Note: The person who runs majiasblog recommends that readers refer to the following web page as a primary source for readings:
Real Time EPA RadNet Japan Nuclear Radiation Monitoring For Every Major City In The Entire US On A Single Page, blog.alexanderhiggins.com, 12 April 2011
[Editor's Additional Note: Not all of this data is accurate. Please also see 2011-05-19 Confirmed: EPA Rigged RADNET Japan Nuclear Radiation Monitoring Equipment To Report Lower Levels Of Fukushima Fallout, blog.alexanderhiggins.com.]
2011-08-05 EPA Radnet Data August 5 1:30 PM Pacific Time Omaha NE and Des Moines IA, majiasblog.blogspot.com,"The EPA has changed it webpage again...The high posted for [Omaha for] August 5 is just under 250 beta, which is very, very high ...Des Moines, with a high today of around 225 beta (also very high)."
2011-08-01 Des Moines Radiation Levels VERY HIGH August 1, majiasblog.blogspot.com, Des Moines 318 beta, Omaha IA 91 beta, Kearney IA 46 beta, Mason City IA 112 beta...
2011-07-30 majiasblog.blogspot.com Saturday, July 30, 2011, EPA Radnet 7/30 11:00 PM Pacific Time, https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/monitorView.do,
Des Moines is current for the first time in a very long time with 145 beta (very high), Mason City is 95 beta, Kansas City is 0, Wichita KS is under review, Bismark ND is 76 beta, Omaha is 84 beta, Lincoln NE is 101 beta, Kearney NE is 120 beta, Pierre SD is 108 beta, Rapid City SD is under review, Billings MT is under review, Milwaukee WI is under review, Bay City MI is 61 beta, Detroit MI is 0 beta, Duluth MN is 0 beta, JET STREAM IS PRETTY FAR NORTH—CANADA—BUT DOES DIP DOWN AROUND 7/30-7/31 IN THE SOUTH DAKOTA AREA SO THESE HIGH READINGS IN VERY SPECIFIC AREAS COULD BE FROM THE JET STREAM. http://www.weatherimages.org/data/imag192.html, I’M STILL SUSPICIOUS THOUGH THAT FORT CALHOUN’S SPENT FUEL POOL IS ACCUMULATING HYDROGEN GAS AND IS BEING VENTED EVERY FEW DAYS., PERHAPS OMAHA’S READINGS ARE BEING MANIPULATED DOWNWARD...
2011-07-30 Corps Begins Reduction Of Water From Gavins Point, AP,
"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started to reduce releases from Gavins Point Dam into the Missouri River on Saturday.
The corps said releases at the dam near Yankton, South Dakota were lowered from 160,000 cubic feet per second to 155,000. It's scheduled to be lowered again on Monday to 150,000 cfs.
The releases are scheduled to hold at that level until mid-August, then gradually be cut each day to reach the target of 90,000 cfs by month's end and 40,000 cfs by October 1st.
2011-07-29 What is the Source of the High Radiation Readings in Pierre SD?, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
2011-07-29 Ft. Calhoun nuke plant can’t be inspected for damage until floodwaters recede — Restart may be some time next spring by ENENEWS Admin
2011-07-29 We Are Being Poisoned Also: EPA Radnet Readings, majiasblog.blogspot.com, https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/monitorView.do, Kansas city 0 beta, Wichita under review, Omaha 118 beta, Lincoln NE 125 beta, Pierre SD 315 beta!!!!, Rapid City is under review, Bismarck ND 207 beta, Duluth MN 0 beta, Seattle WA 0 beta, Spokane WA 116 beta, Madison WI under review, Milwaukee WI under review, Chicago IL under review, jet stream position, http://www.weatherimages.org/data/imag192.html. [Editor's note: These readings may be from Fukushima radiation rather than from Ft. Calhoun or Cooper -- or a combination of both. Please see my "Aerial Dance of Mass Death and Genetic Destruction" week-by-week Fukushima radiation and fallout projections and companion articles" series for Fukushima-related radiation readings across America.
2011-07-28 Nuclear plant will wait to reopen: Officials plan an inspection after waters recede, columbiatribune.com.
"OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — When the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant will be able to restart is still not clear because the utility that operates it won’t be able to inspect it for damage until floodwaters from the overflowing Missouri River recede, officials said yesterday...
...The Missouri River might not return to within its banks until sometime in September because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues to release massive amounts of water from the upstream reservoirs."
Monday, July 25, 2011 Omaha Radiation: Fort Calhoun? Radnet Data July 25 10:00 am Pacific Time, majiasblog.blogspot.com, https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/monitorView.do, Omaha Nebraska 139 beta, gamma energy range 10 (42), range 2 (2360), range 3 (1476), range 4 (428), range 5 (236), Lincoln, NE 38 beta, Des Moines under review, Mason City 69 beta, Kansas City under review, Wichita under review, Rapid City, SD under review, Pierre SD 31 beta
2011-07-22 EPA Radnet Readings: 4 Months of Elevated Radiation Levels From Disasters Far and Near, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
"Yes the headline says it all. I've been tracking the jet stream and now Fort Calhoun and the fire in New Mexico. All of these events are leading to radiation releases. Luckily they have not converged so far so that people getting the jet stream conveyed Fukushima radiation are not getting anything else since the jet stream has been so far north of the other 2 disasters most of the time.
The big question is how are all of these multiple disasters going to be contained? Additionally, I fear the health consequences of months of elevated levels of exposure to ionizing radiation
Radnet July 22 10:00 a.m Pacific Time, Des Moines Iowa 54 beta, Mason City Iowa 50 beta, Kansas City under review, Wichita KS under review, Omaha Nebraska 85 beta, Lincoln Nebraska 56 beta, Pierre SD under review, Rapid City SD 93 beta, Levels over 50 beta are above background based on my daily readings of these for the last 3 months, Albuquerque New Mexico 92 beta—this has to be coming from the fire near Los Alamos, https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/monitorView.do, PRIMER ON THE EFFECTS OF LOW LEVELS OF IONIZING RADIATION, http://www.ratical.com/radiation/CNR/NoSafeThresh.html
2011-07-18 Omaha Radiation Levels? Could High Levels Be From Fort Calhoun???? by majiasblog.blogspot.com, EPA RADNET DATA at https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/monitorView.do: Omaha Nebraska 187 beta, gamma range 10 (47) ; range 2 (2540.); range 3 (1,682); range 4 (472); range 5 (286), THIS IS QUITE HIGH COMPARED TO BACKGROUND, Lincoln Nebraska 64 beta, Kansas City under review, Wichita Kansas under review, Des Moines Iowa under review, Mason City Iowa 63 beta, Pierre, S.D. beta 29, Rapid City SD under review, The jet stream is far north again. I do not think Omaha Nebraska’s reading is from the jet stream bringing in Fukushima radiation, http://www.weatherimages.org/data/imag192.html, People who live in the vicinity of Fort Calhoun should be calling their elected officials and demanding some answers.
2011-07-13 Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant (OPPD) More flooding News – Heads Up! (video)
2011-07-10 Ft. Fukushima, Nebraska, by Dr. Tom Burnett
"OPPD says that, as of today, they are trying to refill the punctured aqua dam that they said they didn't need anyway but now they do because the water really IS going to flood the plant. If you have ever played with water toys you can imagine how much fun it will be trying to fill a 2,000 foot-long innertube in 7 feet of running Missouri river water. Especially since the water has been declared unsafe by the Governor.
Interesting that there have been ZERO news or pictures from there since June. It hasn't blown up yet, but it's going to be a write-off. And do you remember the COOPER plant just down the river? Well, darn if the water may not flood that as well. There is a lot of talk lately in high places about levees about to break.
In the mean time, the Vermont Yankee plant has been spilling radiation for forty years and they want a permit to keep spilling it for another forty. The report of their plant is so pitiful that the NRC won't even accept the report! So, naturally, we can't see it.
But those are just typical of US nuclear plants. They built them to last thirty years and didn't bother to repair them - and now they want them re-licensed for another 20 or 30 or 40 years.
What's up at Fukushima? 7.0 earthquake off the coast of Sendai yesterday....only about a 5.4 by the time it hit Daiichi - just enough to set everything off again. Lady Gaga was a pit premature. I'd suggest putting off that trip to Japan for...oh...10,000 years.
Los Alamos? A lot of buildings were damaged, 400 surrounding homes were lost, but AMAZINGLY, the fire never got anywhere the 30,000 drums of high-level radioactive material that were between the fire and the lab and the homes.
Guess what happens after EVERY wildfire? Torrential rain and flooding. Yep. Guaranteed. You read it here first..."
2011-07-07 OPPD reinstalls nuke plant dam by Nancy Gaarder, World-Herald staff writer, omaha.com:
"FORT CALHOUN, Neb. — The Omaha Public Power District is reinstalling the plastic, water-filled dam that — until bursting — had kept Missouri River floodwaters away from the buildings that house its nuclear reactor.
After the Aqua Dam ruptured on June 26, water flowed around the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station to a depth of more than 2 feet.
However, OPPD officials said, the water did not reach the reactor or other critical areas because additional barriers, including sandbags, were in place.
Mike Jones, a spokesman for the utility, said Wednesday that the Aqua Dam is expected to be in place by Saturday.
The utility has not experienced any significant difficulties in reinstalling the barrier, he said. If completed by Saturday, it will have been out of commission about two weeks.
[Editor's Note: In a situation where there was a real risk that the Missouri could rise a few feet and create a 100% chance of a reactor melt-down (based on an NRC estimate), why did OPPD screw around for two weeks instead of immediately replacing the original aqua dam that allegedly got punctured by someone screwing around with a backhoe? And why did OPPD order aqua berms be destroyed when obviously there is a critical shortage? Why did they fail to immediately create a massive sandbag ring around the plant high enough to handle all worse case scenarios, and immediately suction out all interior areas to insure that the previously flooded electrical and cooling systems are restored to full functionality?]
2 011-07-06 Nelson Continues Pushing Corps On Flood Control Policy, nebraska.statepaper.com.
"In a statement issued Tuesday, [U.S. Senator] Nelson said the corps must put safety at the Cooper Nuclear Station and Fort Calhoun ”at the forefront of how it manages the Missouri River.”
Nelson also questions the corps’ ability to keep the public appropriately informed. In any case, he says it must do a better job.
Nelson’s dispute with the corps began June 29 when he sent a letter to Brigadier General John McMahon outlining several concerns.
Nelson noted earlier comments from a corps’ spokesman who said Nebraska’s two nuclear power plants are not being factored into the corps’ schedule of dam releases and that there is “no flexibility in the system.”
Nelson asked McMahon to clarify those comments.
Two days later McMahon replied that the corps’ number one priority is “the safety of the public.” McMahon said the corps is in close contact with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) assessing “the impacts of reservoir releases on the nuclear power plants.”
In his Tuesday statement, Nelson said that while the corps and NRC maintain the reactors are not at risk, the corps post mortem will determine if changes are needed to prevent future flooding." 2011-07-05 (Fort Calhoun) Nebraska Cooper Nuclear Power Plant : Arnie Gundersen 7/5/2011
2011-07-05 U.S Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Plant Flooded, news.xinhuanet.com.
BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The Fort Calhoun plant north of Omaha in the US state of Nebraska has been surrounded by flood water from the Missouri River for over ten days. As worries mount, US authorities have reassured the public the plant is safe.
Could this be another Fukushima?
Operators of the Fort Calhoun plant say no.
But pictures like this make it hard to believe the official statement that only part of the utilities are flooded.
Rumors have spread that the reactors suffered a complete meltdown and that radioactive tritium is leaking into the river.
But plant operator, Omaha Public Power, says all key buildings in the plant are secure. No flooding, no meltdown, no radioactive leakage.
They say the plant has nine power sources, and two backup generators, making a Fukushima scenario impossible.
They've received some backing from the independent Union of Concerned Scientists. The group says despite some flooding inside, there are no severe safety problems.
Local residents aren't reassured."
2011-07-04 ABC News Says They Made An Error In Reporting Fort Calhoun Evacuation, Demands Story Be Scrubbed From Internet, blog.alexanderhiggins.com
2011-07-02 10 Mile Mandatory Evacuation Area Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant still safe (video)
2011-07-01 Fukushima in the US? Flood berms break around Fort Calhoun nuclear plant, ten-mile evacuation zone declared, by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer, naturalnews.com.
2011-07-01 Kaku on ABC: Ft. Calhoun nuke plant “like Fukushima in slow motion” (VIDEO)
2011-07-01 Fire at Nebraska nuke plant injures worker by Stephen Webster, rawstory.com.
"A fire yesterday at an embattled Nebraska nuclear plant sent one worker to the hospital with severe burns, according to reports from local media.
The Omaha World-Herald reported that the incident occurred around 2 p.m. yesterday outside a security building on the grounds of the Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant, but that it was not near any of the reactors.
The worker was reportedly refueling a portable pump when it caught fire. He was airlifted to a nearby hospital with burns on his arms and face."
2011-06-30 Flood Alert! A pictorial overview of the Ft. Calhoun situation, cartoradiations.fr.
2011-06-30 Fort Calhoun, majiasblog.blogspot.com

Aerials of Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Flooding - No-Fly Zone Enforced as of June 14, 2011

2011-06-30 Senator concerned about massive dams upstream from Nebraska nuke plants — Army Corps alludes to ‘issues’ that are being monitored closely, enenews.com.
2011-06-30 Enviro Group Calls for Daily Updates on Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Floodings, prnewswire.com.
2011-06-29 Fort Calhoun, Not Fukushima? Picture's Worth 1,000 Words! video, [Editor's Note: This shows Tim Nellenbach, plant manager and others touring Ft.Calhoun at ground level. If you believe that it was really the Stuxnet virus that took down Fukushima, then Ft. Calhoun has been perfectly set up for a Stuxnet attack to push things right over the knife edge.]
2011-06-29 Mitchio Kaku: Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant - "Fukushima In Slow Motion" (video) (2:36)
2011-06-28 GAVINS POINT DAM [YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA] ABOUT TO BE BLOWN, truthwinds.com [Editor's Note: It looks like this was a false alarm]
2011-06-28 Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Underwater- References of 10 Mile Mandatory Evacuation Area Scrubbed From News Sites, blog.alexanderhiggins.com.
2011-06-28 Nuclear Fears At Threatened US Plant (video), "Managers at a nuclear power plant in Nebraska are concerned floods could trigger a disaster similar to the one in Japan."
2011-06-28 Local TV: Water has leaked into building containing radioactive material at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant — “That water we treat as radioactive waste” (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-06-28 Protective flood berm collapses at Ft Calhoun nuclear plant; KSU has radioactive leak by Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer, Activist Post "...Off planet is the safest repository [for spent nuclear fuel], given the danger posed to Earth by millennia of radioactivity. Professor Benjamin Sovacool calls nuclear energy the deadliest, costliest form of energy on record, showing that, on average, there has been one nuclear accident resulting in at least $330 million in damage every year for the past 30 years."
2011-06-28 A Long Road Ahead for a Flooded Reactor by Matthew Wald, NYT
2011-06-28 OPPD Officials Insist Nuke Plant Secure From Flood, ketv.com (includes video)
Managers of the Omaha Public Power District's Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station conducted a tour of the plant surrounded by Missouri River floodwaters on Monday.
OPPD officials insist the reactor, which has been shut down for two months, is safe and they said they are doing everything they can to keep it that way.
`We are confident all our equipment will perform as designed,' said plant manager Tim Nellenbach."
2011-06-27 Jeff Rense interview with Dr. Tom Burnett (transcript) on the Ft. Calhoun danger and the ongoing Fukushima catastrophe

Rense: They have got muddy water on the turbine building, OK.
Dr. Burnett: OK, so the turbine building is where the water from the reactor in its operating goes to transfer heat. And guess what else goes through the turbine building to transfer heat? The cooling pool for the spent fuel. That goes through the turbine building to be cooled, and it comes back in there as super clean water. And if it doesn't, then the temperature of that spent fuel pool is going up about 2 degrees an hour. And I suspect, I can't prove it -- I have no sources on site -- I suspect that is what is happening right now. I think they are running on one backup generator that they are trying to keep their batteries charged with, and they have 88 hours of backup power. But I don't really believe that they have 88 hours of battery power. So I think that somebody is up there pulling out their hair right now trying to figure out what to do, and they can't get any diesel fuel in...

Dr. Burnett: There is a chart on the USGS web site which projects the flood level. And I looked at that, and it predicted five to seven, or five to ten feet of additional water height over the next three or four days. Of course these are predictions. They are trying to predict the future, and they can't. No one can predict the future. It might suddenly all of a sudden go somewhere else. But if those projections from the U.S. Government are correct, Ft. Calhoun has a problem they cannot avoid.
Rense: No, they can't. The story I have here is that there is a 100 percent chance of reactor core damage if the flood waters go above 1,010 feet at Calhoun. This is the NRC talking. It is right now 1,007 feet, so we are only three feet away from meltdown.
Dr. Burnett: They were actually 109.5 I believe at one point before the condom burst and they said "Oh, no problem, we have four or five feet to go, la, la, la, but you know they were fighting with the NRC for over a year because the operators for the plant did not want to spend the money to correct it.
Rense: Right. One of the worst plants in America, easily.
Dr. Burnett: One of the three worst. One of the three most dangerous, yes? And now that their primary abatement tool, their solution, which was the rubber dam has burst -- actually it did not burst, they burst it. Welcome to Fukushima America. If something doesn't break, just go out and break it.
Rense: Just turn a backhoe loose in the area and swing that extend-a-hoe and get it anything they can reach.
Dr. Burnett: And you know, it is not funny. It is horrible. It is sad. It is terrible. But I cannot believe that -- I mean, who is in charge here? No one! No one is in charge. There is no adult supervision.
Rense: The keystone cops are in charge.
Dr. Burnett: Well, maybe they are.

Rense: ...This is one of the crummiest plants in America. The top three worst. The NRC, as corrupt as that is, has been arguing and fighting with these Calhoun-Cooper people for a long time, and they are now going to potentially see the chickens come home to roost. This is a real big issue folks, because Tom, as I see it, they are either out of options, or they are running out very quickly.
Dr. Burnett: They are out of options. They used their options between June 6th and June 20th. They did everything they could. They brought in another diesel generator on wheels. They put in the rubber dam, filled it full of water. They put in sand bags, and that is the extent of their plan. And once that plan failed, they basically have no other options. They are talking about reconnecting to external power. That is not happening.
Rense:Why not? What is the problem? They claimed -- they were boasting that they had both overhead power and subterranean power to the plant.
Dr. Burnett: Well originally they did. Subterranean power came into the plant because there were no power lines. OK, it was all underground. Well, that is all well and good, and that kind of washed out or got trashed, and then between May and June 6th, or June 20th, they put in overhead lines, and that is well and good too until the switch is flooded. We are talking about 345 kilovolt lines, and those lines are now inoperable. The only thing they have going for them right now is one diesel generator that was recharging their batteries. They don't have any external power because their electrical systems has -- their panel room, their whole electrical infrastructure was in the basement under water. And that is just the bottom line. So unless somebody put a breaker box on top of the building, and they can switch this stuff on and off to the cooling pool, which they can't, they don't have many options left. They are basically out of options. So once you run out of options, you just start putting out good news. Oh yes, everything is safe, no problem. But when the commissioner of the NRC gets within a couple of miles and says, "Oops, that is it, I am out," and leaves, just like figure the odds. They have got a problem, but nobody will admit it. But let me tell you something about mid-America, the corn belt. These are real Americans up there. These are people in Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota. These are people who are not going to put up with it. In fact, I have had a bunch of emails saying, "You know what, if these people lie to us --"
Rense: They already have.
Dr. Burnett: Oh yeah. There is going to be a huge problem out there.
Rense: Yes, pitch forks and torches in that part of the country.

Dr. Burnett: ... In 1952 the Missouri River peaked twelve feet higher than it is now.

20011-06-27 The NRC in Action at Fort Calhoun [100% Chance Of Core Damage With Another 3 Feet Of Water], by David Lochbaum, mrzine.monthlyreview.org, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"The Union of Concerned Scientists often complains about Nuclear Regulatory Commission inaction -- the agency's failure to enforce its regulations prohibiting unmonitored and uncontrolled releases of radioactively contaminated water, the agency's tolerance of four dozen reactors operating in violation of fire protection regulations, and so on.
Today, we commend the NRC in action...
....During their routine inspections of weather protection readiness in 2010, the NRC's inspectors found a commitment in the plant's design and licensing reports stating that vital safety equipment located in the auxiliary building would be protected against a flood rising to 1014 feet above mean sea level.
The NRC's inspectors determined that the plant's design did not fulfill this commitment. In fact, NRC estimated there was a 100% chance of reactor core damage caused by a flood rising above 1010 feet...
...More important than this computer analysis debate, the NRC's actions led to tangible changes in flood protection measures at Fort Calhoun. Workers at Fort Calhoun procured more portable pumps, fabricated new flood plates to protect against flooding up to 1014 feet, verified readiness of sandbagging equipment and materials, and took additional flood protection steps..."
[Editor's Note: Ft. Calhoun's protection methods have proven mediocre at best in the face of a potential melt-down of both the reactor and main fuel rod storage area -- which sinks 40 feet down into the ground as well as rises 38 feet above and could start going "critical" if enough dirty Missouri River water seeps in. If a large portion of the nuclear fuel stored at Ft. Calhoun got into the atmosphere, it could render major portions of the Midwest and East uninhabitable for centuries. The plant is not prepared for high level internal subversion, such as Mossad-CIA false flag ops like on 9/11, or other forms of high level corruption, such as the possibility that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Obama are under the control of the Rothschilds/City of London/George Soros (as in the case of the BP-Gulf Catastrophe where BP and the City of London literally took over the Gulf of Mexico and directed Obama and U.S. national media), and other malefactors, who want to deliberately flood out farmers to grab their land and drive up food prices for the remaining agricultural corporations like Monsanto (the main leader in pushing destructive GMO strains on farmers) that they themselves control, or conduct radiation warfare to depopulate the Midwest and East Coast as part of some kind of psychotic Zionist "End Times" or "Samson Option" scenario].
2011-06-27 Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant: Flood Seeps Into Turbine Building At Nebraska Nuke Station [Floodwaters Now In Calhoun Turbine Building] by Josh Funk and Nelson Lampe, huffingtonpost.com , [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page], "OPPD officials say Fort Calhoun is designed to be protected from floodwaters up to 1,014 feet above sea level – that's about 8 feet higher than the river's current level. And the latest prediction from the Corps of Engineers is that the river won't rise more than 2 feet above its current level near Fort Calhoun." [Editor's Note, earlier sources said there was a 100% chance of reactor damage at 1,010 feet, now we suddenly up to 1,014 feet. What changed in so short of time, while the plant can't even keep an aqua berm in operation without puncturing it?]
2011-06-27 Event Notification Report for June 27, 2011 [Some Calhoun Fuel For Cooling Washed Away In Dam Break], U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Operations Center , [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page] "At approximately 0125 CDT, the AquaDam providing enhanced flood protection for Fort Calhoun Station Unit 1 failed. This resulted in approximately 100 gallons of petroleum being released into the river after a protective barrier was breached and many fuel containers were washed out to the river."
2011-06-27 Many containers of fuel to power pumps were washed away after breach at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant, enenews.com.
2011-06-27 Ft Calhoun Newest Photos Have Disappeared, Dr. Tom Burnett, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"MSNBC apparently had a picture of the Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant taken today AFTER the 'water dam' - barely visible surrounding the reactor and main control buildings in this photo taken on June 24 - burst. But that page is now 'page not found'.
I'll guess that when the aqua dam burst, the control room was flooded. They are saying "no problem, there is no danger"- but, of course, there IS a problem.
The REASON there is a problem and why they aren't telling the truth is because, while Fukishima is equivalent to about twenty Chernobyls, Ft. Calhoun is equivalent to about twenty Fukushimas.
Not because it has a lot of reactors - or even a very big one. But because it is holding an immense amount of nuclear fuel in its cooling pool.
This isn't some elevated bathtub like the cooling pools at Fukushima. Oh, no. This cooling pool is forty feet UNDER GROUND AND forty feet ABOVE GROUND. It's EIGHTY FEET DEEP IN TOTAL. If they can't cool it, the corn belt is in trouble.
I'm guessing that it's the big rectangular building behind-left (actually touching) the round nuclear reactor containment building.
Why do I think that? Because it has no windows or ventilation and it's about the only building on-site large enough to hold the amount of spent nuclear fuel it has to hold - and, by the way, it was filled up to capacity in 2006 - which is why they had to start storing the excess spent fuel rods in those concrete dry casks outside of the pool. But I could be wrong. If I am, please send me a diagram - not an opiniongram.
The dry casks are visible near the top of the picture. They are grey concrete blocks set together on the large, grey square area.
The casks have white doors facing a little to the left in the photo. The NRC says there is 'no problem' should the casks become partially submerged by Missouri flood waters.
The back-up generators are probably flooded as well. They were ALSO what the rubber dam was in place to protect. Even if they aren't, there is water in the electrical system. That's what the yellow cards from the NRC were about last year - and those cards were never signed off as safe. There are at least six and probably dozens of NRC and government people there 'closely monitoring' the plant. All they can do is watch.
The 'emergency' plans were only thought up when the water started rising and were only implemented beginning on June 6. Before then, the plant owners were still pissing back and forth with the NRC that a flood that bad couldn't happen. And the brilliant rubber condom around the plant didn't just burst by itself. The dumbasses were piddling around and managed to pop it themselves!
So, when they tell me there is no danger at all, I know otherwise because the rubber dam was the last resort...and that ANY water higher than that is too much - and the water was clearly VERY high up on it when it burst.
I'm thinking that if I call another disaster, and it happens, it will start getting dicey in about sixty-four hours. From now.
2011-06-27 Nebraska Residents in No Danger After Floods Hit Nuke Plant: Waters Breach Berm at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station [NE Officials Say 'No Danger' After Water Berm Pops] (video), by David Kerley, ABC World News, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
The head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been dispatched to a nuclear power plant in Fort Calhoun, Neb., where a berm collapsed Sunday, but the public is in no danger, officials said.
The breach allowed Missouri River flood waters to reach containment buildings and transformers and forcing the shutdown of electrical power.
Backup generators are cooling the nuclear material at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station..."
2011-06-27 Managers at a nuclear power plant in Nebraska are concerned floods could trigger a disaster similar to the one in Japan, cnn.com
2011-06-27 Waters Encircle Nuclear Plant [Rubber Berm 'Accidentally Punctured' - Waters Surround Calhoun], by Anna Raff, online.wsj.com, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page] "A protective berm holding back floodwaters from a Nebraska nuclear power plant collapsed early Sunday after it was accidentally torn..."
2011-06-27 7/7 Midwest Staged Disaster Warning!!!
2011-06-27 New docs show only 11 days ago workers at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant were still plugging holes where water could come flooding in (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-06-26 Fort Calhoun Nuclear Flood Emergency: Hours from core damage by Deborah Dupre, examiner.com.
2011-06-26 Fort Calhoun nuclear power station: Flood berm collapsed; Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant: Nuclear Alert or Nuclear Crisis? by Cartoradiations, cartoradiations.fr.
"water now surrounds the auxiliary and containment buildings (under development).
Water and electricity do not go together!
Emergency generators powered the plant Sunday while workers tried to restore power. Later in the day, power was restored.
The berm's collapse (Aqua Dam) didn't affect the reactor shutdown cooling or the spent fuel pool cooling (officially = subject!)
This cooling pool is 40 feet under ground and 40 feet above ground!
Ft Calhoun's reactor is a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR-476 MWe). It requires the super-heated coolant (light water) to be pressurized at crazy-high pressures to remain liquid as it flows through the coolant channels within the core of the reactor. If power is lost to the plant (station blackout), pressure in the closed-coolant system will fall... and the super-heated coolant will immediately boil and turn to steam. We all know what happens when steam rapidly forms in a sealed environment (scenario of the disaster Fukushima).
2011-06-27 Berm Protecting Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Breaks … Plant Flooded, on Emergency Diesel Generators ; Washington’s Blog | Unfortunately, the berm at Fort Calhoun has now broken. [Infowars.com]
2011-06-26 Breaking News: Flood Wall fails At Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant, theintelhub.com.
"Recent independent radiation reports have shown normal background radiation levels which indicates that there most likely has not been a release of radiation from the plant, at least not yet.
Mike Rivero of WhatReallyHappened.com has written a much more likely analysis.
The external power we were told could not fail … has failed. Fort Calhoun’s cooling system is running on the emergency backup generators. They have fuel for 88 hours (less the time they have already been operating) unless the flood waters short out and shut down the generators or pumps.
So basically, the nuclear power plants the US Government told us were safe are in danger of a major radiation release because the heavy snow pack the US Government told us was a thing of the past has produced heavy flooding which has overwhelmed toe flood controls systems the US Government assured us did not need repairs or upgrades.
That about sum it up?
2011-06-26 Flood wall fails at Fort Calhoun [Calhoun Water Berm Collapses - Waters Now Inside Perimeter], by Sam Womack, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page] "The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station turned to diesel-powered generators Sunday after disconnecting from the main grid because of rising floodwaters."
2011-06-26 Flood berm collapsed at Nebraska nuclear plant [Berm Fails At Calhoun - 'Aux' Bldgs Surrounded By Water], kcautv.com, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
2011-06-26 Auxiliary building at Ft. Calhoun surrounded by water after berm failure — NRC letter said if water enters auxiliary building, could have station blackout with core damage in hours, enenews.com ", A Nuclear Plant’s Flood Defenses Trigger a Yearlong Regulatory Confrontation, New York Times, June 24, 2011:......] At 1,010 feet, water would begin to enter the auxiliary building, “shorting power and submerging pumps. The plant could then experience a station blackout with core damage estimated within 15 to 18 hours,” under a worst-case scenario, the NRC said. [...]"
2011-06-26 Ft. Calhoun nuke plant now running on emergency generators as workers try to restore electricity — Power supply cut after water surrounded main electrical transformers, enenews.com
2011-06-26 Flood berm bursts at Nebraska nuclear plant " by CNN Staff, articles.cnn.com
" ...Some sort of machinery came in contact with the berm, puncturing it and causing the berm to deflate, said Mike Jones, a spokesman for the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), which owns the Fort Calhoun plant."
2011-06-25 NRC Event at flooded Ft. Calhoun nuke plant: Both Fire Suppression Pumps are inoperable — Water levels too high for surveillance tests, enenews.com.
2011-06-24 A Nuclear Plant's Flood Defenses Trigger a Yearlong Regulatory Confrontation, by Peter Behr of ClimateWire, NYT:
"...OPPD had also committed to protect the plant's reactor systems against floodwaters reaching 1,014 feet, the NRC says -- a level that might be reached if the Gavins Point Dam upriver on the Missouri in South Dakota were breached.
OPPD planned to extend the barrier to 1,014 feet by stacking sandbags on top of some steel floodgates that protected the auxiliary building, and to use more sandbags to safeguard the water intake structure and its essential cooling water pumps..."
[Editor's Note: So if sand bags are so effective, why didn't OPPD immediately erect a ring of sandbags rising to well over 1,014 sea level elevation around the nuclear plant and then immediately pump all the interior areas dry the moment the aqua berm got punctured? Why did it wait two weeks to erect a new aqua berm, leaving interior areas flooded in the face of a raging river and the extremely serious threat of dam and levee breaks upstream? Why did it originally try to destroy aqua berms?]
2011-06-24 Missouri River flooding prompts northwest Missouri evacuations [ Water Level At Cooper Nuke Plant Still Rising], columbiamissourian.com , [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page] "The Army Corps of Engineers has been releasing water from upstream dams after heavy rain and snow melt. Water releases at the Gavins Point Dam in South Dakota hit 160,000 cubic feet of water per second Thursday, and the corps plans to continue releasing water at that rate until at least August."
2011-06-24 Nuclear Regulatory Commission says spent fuel casks near flood water pose no threat [NRC - Calhoun Spent Fuel Casks Near Flood Pose No Threat], Lynda Waddington, washingtonindependent.com , [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"A Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman told The Iowa Independent Friday that dry cask storage of spent nuclear fuel rods at two Nebraska facilities are not being protected from flood waters because the situation poses no public or environmental threat...
...Both Cooper and Calhoun workers have stockpiled additional equipment, including diesel fuel to run emergency generators if necessary. Dricks said both plants have enough fuel to power generators for roughly one month. Power is important because fuel rods in the reactor core as well as spent fuel rods in the cooling pool need to be kept cool. If all power was lost, officials estimate that the pools surrounding the rods, which is kept at 80 degrees, would not reach boiling for roughly 88 hours."
2011-06-24 A Nuclear Plant's Flood Defenses Trigger a Yearlong Regulatory Confrontation [Floodwaters Rise Around Ft. Calhoun Nuke Plant], by Peter Behr,ClimateWire, NYT, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"The plant's defenses include new steel gates and other hard barriers protecting an auxiliary building with vital reactor controls, and a water-filled berm 8 feet tall that encircles other parts of the plant. Both systems are designed to hold back floodwaters reaching 1,014 feet above sea level. Additional concrete barriers and permanent berms, more sandbags and another power line into the plant have been added. The plant was shut down in April for refueling and will remain so until the flood threat is passed..."
....NRC inspectors concluded that at flooding levels above 1,008 feet, the plant "would experience a loss of offsite power and loss of intake structure" and water pumps providing essential cooling water to the plant. In that case, "the plant would be incapable of reaching cold shutdown" with normal operations -- a fundamental safety requirement imposed by the NRC. The commission's Region IV office in Arlington, Texas, issued a notice of violation against the plant on Oct. 6 last year, finding that the issues were of "substantial importance" to the plant's safety.
OPPD challenged the NRC's inspectors' conclusions in a series of conferences before bowing to the commission staff's demands and agreeing to install the additional defenses this year. The AquaDam water berm was installed beginning June 4...
... The NRC responded in its October 2010 letter that once flooding reached 1,004 feet, water would have entered the plant and the ability of emergency workers to move around the site would "significantly degrade."
If levels exceeded 1,004 feet, water would reach the lower floodgates, hampering the welding of plates to door frames, the NRC said. At 1,008.5 feet, the technical support center used by emergency technicians would have been inundated. At 1,010 feet, water would begin to enter the auxiliary building, "shorting power and submerging pumps. The plant could then experience a station blackout with core damage estimated within 15 to 18 hours," under a worst-case scenario, the NRC said.
The NRC concluded that the use of the fire truck for emergency pumping would fail, after it determined the truck could not draw floodwaters successfully from the turbine building. Moreover, it was not clear how workers could operate a crane to lift the fire truck into position if outside power were lost, the NRC staff added.
The NRC has not completed its evaluation of the new defenses installed at Fort Calhoun, nor has it resolved how OPPD handled the new information about flood threat that the NRC says the utility received via the Corps of Engineers...
2011-06-24 Thom Hartmann: Nuclear Power – “We Almost Lost Nebraska” (video), (4:47) RT
2011-06-23 The Latest on Flooding: June 23 [Army Corps To Add 4-5 More Inches Of Flood Water To Calhoun], omaha.com, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"...On Tuesday, the Army Corps of Engineers announced that releases from Gavins Point would increase another 7 percent to 160,000 cubic feet per second.
That will add about 4 to 5 inches in the river's level at Fort Calhoun and Cooper Nuclear Stations, according to information from the corps and the National Weather Service..."
2011-06-23 Parts of Nebraska Nuclear Facility Already Under 2 Feet of Water … But – So Far – Emergency Flood Walls Are Protecting Electrical Equipment, washingtonsblog.com.
2011-06-23 Fort Calhoun nuclear power station: Flood berm collapsed; Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant: Nuclear Alert or Nuclear Crisis? by Cartoradiations, cartoradiations.fr.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects record water release from the federal dams along the Missouri River to continue until mid-August.
The Army Corps of Engineers announced that releases from Gavins Point dam
would increase another 7 percent to 160,000 cubic feet per second.
2011-06-23 Minot, North Dakota Residents Flee and Nuclear Silos Protected as Historic Flood Waters Rise [Minot Nuke Silos Sandbagged As Waters Rise] video, by Michael Murray, ABC News, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page] "Minot is also home to more than just families - Minuteman III nuclear missile silos are also in the flood's path. At least two silos are being protected by sandbags and pumps, but are reported to be safe. " [Editor's Note: So the Air Force protects its silos by immediately surrounding them with rings of sand bags, but OPPD can only erect a flimsy eight foot high aqua berm --which gets punctured -- and then stands around and does nothing for two weeks as flood waters rush into its turbine building and threaten to contaminate underground stored fuel rods and cause them to go critical].
2011-06-22 Sirens Blare As [2 Feet Of Flood Water Already Into Parts Of Ft Calhoun Plant], by Michael Murray, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"Although the Fort Calhoun plant is surrounded by an eight foot tall and 16 foot wide protective berm, two feet of water have already made its way to several areas of the Fort Calhoun plant, but authorities say there is no immediate danger at either plant."
2011-06-22 Fukushima Day 103 "ticking time BOMB...50-100 yrs cleanup" PLUS Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Island (video)
2011-06-22 NRC tracking flooding at two Nebraska nuclear power plants [NRC Monitoring Rising Flood Waters At Two NE Nuclear Plants], , [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"Cooper is operating at full power. Fort Calhoun shut down for a refueling outage on April 7 and operators have decided not to restart the plant until flood waters recede," the release said..." [Editor's Note: This is misleading. One third of the fuel rods were extracted from the Ft. Calhoun reactor, but two thirds remain and require the same cooling as a full-bore nuclear power plant to prevent melt-down].
..."Flooding could complicate the restart of the Fort Calhoun plant as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects record water release from the federal dams along the Missouri River to continue until mid-August, keeping river levels high." [Editor's Note: Meanwhile authorities destroy berms, then rely on a flimsey water-filled berm that can get punctured by an alleged backhoe "accident" --which is what happens-- and then take two long weeks to replace the berm while the gravest danger of rising water is at its height. Paging the Three Stooges]
2011-06-21 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant? by Dr. Tom Burnett, hawaiinewsdaily.com.
"Earlier this month, workers at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant surrounded the reactor and other key parts of the facility with a massive water berm called an “AquaDam”.
Fort Calhoun had a foot-deep pool next to the reactor for spent fuel rods. The pool was so full in 2009 that they were sealing the fuel rods up in dry casks and sticking them in an on-site ‘mausoleum’.
This, of course, is why there is a no-fly zone around the plant — someone might realize that wherever the fuel casks and underground fuel pools are, they are NOT inside the condom.
Hat tip and a bow to Arthur Hu for finding the dry-storage bunker, half-submerged OUTSIDE the condom. It’s the smaller brown building adjacent to the white tank.
No one really knows what their condition is – or even if the spent fuel is still on-site. No one in the major media is asking the question, and the operators aren’t saying.
So who made the dry storage cask containers at Fort Calhoun?
That would be Transnuclear, Inc.
And who owns Transnuclear? Areva.
And what else is Aveva doing?
Selling water purification tanks and systems to TEPCO for Fukushima.
What else does Areva do? Anything it wants, since it’s a giant multinational behemoth.
2011-06-21 NPPD: Nuke Plant Could Be Shut Down “In Three Seconds”, Critics Still Worry [More Concerns About Nebraska's Cooper Nuke Plant Safety], by Nebraska Watchdog, missouri-news.org, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
Despite ongoing and growing flood worries don’t tell the folks who run a Nebraska nuclear power plant, which is designed similar to the wrecked reactor in Japan, that the facility 70 miles from Lincoln and Omaha is an accident waiting to happen.
Even in the face of key safety questions over the years, some as recently as two months ago, the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) insists the 37-year-old Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, which sits on the raging Missouri River, is as secure as they come.
On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the safest, Alan Dostal who is NPPD’s nuclear expert says, ”We are an absolutely safe plant, that’s a 10.”
Dostal’s comments came during an interview with Nebraska Watchdog on March 29, five days before three workers at Cooper were exposed to radiation. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a fuel rod accident triggered alarms that are worn by the workers. NPPD says the incident which is still under investigation did not cause any apparent injuries but was “unacceptable.” The NRC wants “to understand why normal work practices were not followed.”
In the meantime Beyond Nuclear, an anti-nuclear power group, is petitioning the NRC to suspend Cooper’s license along with the licenses of 20 other U.S. reactors that in many respects mirror the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.
In its petition, filed before the Flood of 2011, Beyond Nuclear didn’t mention Nebraska’s weather by name but did say “a severe flood followed by a severe thunderstorm or accompanied by a large tornado” could cause a Fukushima like situation.
In addition the federal government’s own Sandia National Laboratories has concluded that similarities between the Dai-Ichi plant and reactors like Cooper pose a significant problem: specifically that a lengthy loss of electrical power could cause a nuclear meltdown.
2011-06-21 Nebraska Nuclear Threat: As Predictable as Fukushima, washingtonsblog.com.
2011-06-21 Missouri River Flood Threatens Nebraska Nuclear Reactors by Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse.
Due to the extreme winter including major rains in May the Corp of Engineers announced that it would release 150,000 cubic feet of water per second at Gavins Point Dam at Yankton SD, but was forced to increase that to 160,000 feet by June 24th. This would increase flooding by up to a half a foot. ACE also acknowledged that this level would continue into August. This is five times more water than the Corp has ever released before, and the rainy season has not ended yet (see below for June rain amounts)
2011-06-20 Flooding Brings Worries Over Two Nuclear Plants [Floods Continue To Cause Worries Over Two Nuke Plants], by A. G. Sulzberger and Matthew L. Wald , [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"The current flooding, which was caused by heavy rain and snow in parts of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains, forcing record water releases from the dams normally used to prevent flooding, has pushed communities from Montana to Missouri to create barriers to hold back the river, which is expected to stay at these high levels for much of the summer.
2011-06-20 Calhoun Dry Cask Spent Fuel Modules Now Half-Submerged, by Dr.Tom Burnett, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page] "The dry-storage bunker is half-submerged OUTSIDE the condom."
2011-06-20 Levees in northern Missouri breached [Water Surging Over Levees In N Missouri - Washouts Possible], AP , [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"Reporting from Kansas City, Mo.— Several levees in northern Missouri were failing to hold back the surge of water being released from upstream dams, and officials and residents braced themselves Sunday for more breaches as the Missouri River dipped but then rose again."
2011-06-19 Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Plant Situation According to Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency, ncrenegade.com. [David DeGerolamo comments:]
"Whatever the current condition of this facility, here are the facts:

1. a rising Missouri River
2. a nuclear power plant surrounded by sandbags
3. a report from the NRC stating the plants piping penetrations are not waterproof
4. a no fly zone surrounding the plant
5. a documented fire which temporarily stopped coolant from reaching the spent fuel rods

These facts coupled with what does appear to be a news blackout in the United States are the reasons why we must continue to be vigilant and trust in ourselves to make informed decisions. The flooding of the Missouri River, the Ft. Peck Dam and the Ft. Calhoun Nuclear plant need to be monitored closely."
2011-06-18 Nebraska Floods: Nebraska Governor Requests Disaster Declaration [NE Governor Asks Disaster Declaration - Levee Worries Grow], suite101.com, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
2011-06-18 Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Plant lifts media blackout about meltdown (video)
"In April, OPPD asked for a no fly zone over the plant because they shut down the reactor for routine refueling.
"It has nothing to do with radiation. There is no release of radiation from the site," Bannister said.
[Editor's Note: In prior years the Ft. Calhoun plant has leaked Tritium and other radioactive substances into the Missouri River -- in fact 75% of American reactors routinely leak radiation, and the rates of cancer are significantly higher close to nuclear power plants all across America than elsewhere -- yet an OPPD spokesman insists that at the height of a flooding crisis there have been no leaks]
2011-06-18 US orders news blackout over crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant: report, nation.com.pk.
A shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant located in Nebraska.
2011-06-17 May 16 report foreshadowed yesterday’s “event” at Calhoun nuke plant: Flooding of Intake Structure could jeopardize ability to cool reactor, enenews.com
2011-06-17 NRC: No flood danger at reactor [NRC Still Says Ft Calhoun Say, Nothing To Worry About - Photos], by Nancy Gaardner, World-Herald, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"In May, OPPD learned from the Army Corps of Engineers of the imminent flooding.
Since then, the utility has taken a number of steps that Dricks said have given federal regulators confidence in OPPD's ability to endure what will be a summer of flooding:

• Installing an approximately 8-foot-tall, 16-foot-wide water-filled tubular rubber dam. The dam encircles the reactor building, like a black snake, and holds the floodwaters at bay.
• Building an earthen berm around the switchyard, and other berms or sandbag walls around other electrical structures. Protecting the structures allows continued electrical power to the plant.
• Trucking in two more fuel oil tanks that will supplement those on site and provide a total of four weeks' fuel for the backup diesel generators. The plant is developing plans for additional supplies of fuel.

In addition, the plant's backup batteries can provide power for eight hours, Dricks said. The plant's daily source of electricity is brought in from outside via transmission lines. The plant has six power lines coming into the plant, and any one of those is sufficient to run it.

• Ordering six additional boats.

The plant began sandbagging on the weekend of May 21, according to the utility.
On June 6, the plant issued to federal regulators a “Notification of Unusual Event” because the river was projected to reach a flood level that would prevent the plant from operating. This type of notification is the least serious of four emergency classifications.
On June 7, a fire occurred that caused an interruption of power to the spent fuel pool. As a result, the plant was unable to continue active cooling of that pool. According to OPPD, power was out 90 minutes.
Within minutes after the start of the fire, the utility issued an “Alert,” the second-lowest of the four levels of emergencies.
Both the NRC and OPPD agree that the disruption of power was not a threat to public safety. Calculations indicate that the plant's spent fuel pool could have gone 83 hours without power before the water in it would have begun boiling, Dricks said.
2011-06-17 Two-thirds of hot nuclear fuel remains in reactor core at Calhoun plant even though media claims it was ‘shut down’ for refueling and maintenance, enenews.com
2011-06-17 THEY WANT YOU DEAD! Media Blackout! Nebraska Nuclear Plants Flooding! (MIRROR) (video) (3:15)
2011-06-16 Rising Water, Falling Journalism by Dawn Stover, thebulletin.org.
2011-06-16 Midwest Floods: Both Nebraska Nuke Stations Threatened by Rady Ananda, republicbroadcasting.org
2011-06-16 Nebraska Nuclear Reactor Flooded,
On June 9th, an electrical fire knocked out cooling of the spent fuel rods at the plant. On June 6th, the Federal Administration Aviation (FAA) issued a directive banning aircraft from entering the airspace within a two-mile radius of the plant.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist points out:

Virtually every article about the flooding mentions that the Fort Calhoun plant was shut down on April 9. On May 27, the Omaha World-Herald reported, “The Omaha Public Power District said its nuclear plant at Fort Calhoun, which is shut down for maintenance, is safe from flooding.” The implication is that being shut down makes a plant safe. But as the ongoing crisis in Fukushima demonstrates, nuclear fuel remains hot long after a reactor is shut down. When Fort Calhoun is shut down for maintenance and refueling, only one-third of the fuel in the reactor core is removed.
***
Many articles have reported that the temperature in the spent-fuel pools rose 2 degrees during the recent power outage. That may not sound like much, but only a few articles told readers the actual temperature of the pool. And a 2 degree rise from, say, 210 degrees Fahrenheit to 212 degrees Fahrenheit (the boiling point for water) would be catastrophic. The pool is normally kept at about 80 degrees Fahrenheit. OPPD estimated that, in the absence of any power to circulate coolant, it would take about 88 hours before water in the pool would begin boiling.

Since last week, the plant has been under a "notification of unusual event" classification, because of the rising Missouri River. That is the lowest level of emergency alert. The Omaha Public Power District - which runs the reactor - says that there have been no releases of radioactivity, everything is under control, and that:

The flight restrictions were set up by the FAA as a result of Missouri river flooding.

...Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen said that he doesn't expect a melt-down, as the diesel generators are situated higher above the ground than at Fukushima, so - unless the water rises further than expected - they should keep working:

However, Channel 6 news notes that OPPC is intentionally flooding the containment building to cool the rods:
The facility was taken offline to refuel earlier this year so the containment building has been flooded by OPPD in order to cool the fuel rods.
Hanson adds they have a number of backup systems in place to continue to pump clean water through the spent fuel pool and into the reactor containment building so he says there is nothing to fear.
And see this."
2011-06-15 Ft Calhoun Spent Fuel In Ground Pools, Flooded Already?, by Dr. Tom Burnett, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"Ft. Calhoun is the designated spent fuel storage facility for the entire state of Nebraska...and maybe for more than one state.*
Calhoun stores its spent fuel in ground-level pools which are underwater anyway - but they are open at the top. When the Missouri river pours in there, it's going to make Fukushima look like an x-ray. But that's not all. There are a LOT of nuclear plants on both the Missouri and Mississippi and they can all go to hell fast.
BTW, US plants hold about four times OVER capacity in their spent fuel pools PLUS all the new and recently removed fuel from Calhoun...the plant was officially being refueled.
Be aware that Ft Calhoun isn't a BWR like Fukushima - it's a PWR. But that doesn't matter, because the fuel is all sitting OUTSIDE the reactor waiting to wash away or explode - which will destroy about 15,000 square miles of what used to be the corn belt. That's all being washed away by the flood waters anyway.
Calhoun may already be spewing radiation into the flooding Missouri...the public will be the last to be told. Therefore, everything the river water touches on its way downstream will or could become contaminated.
This could be nothing...or, it could wipe out the middle of America. Note the following:

The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located on 660 acres (270 ha) between Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, and Blair, Nebraska adjacent to the Missouri River. This plant has one Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactor generating 500 megawatts of electricity. In 2003, the plant had its operating license renewed for an additional twenty years, expiring in 2033.

The report states,

"During identification and evaluation of flood barriers, unsealed through wall penetrations in the outside wall of the intake, auxiliary and chemistry and radiation protection buildings were identified that are below the licensing basis flood elevation. A summary of the root causes included: a weak procedure revision process; insufficient oversight of work activities associated with external flood matters; ineffective identification, evaluation and resolution of performance deficiencies related to external flooding; and "safe as is" mindsets relative to external flooding events."

As a result of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspection conducted from January 1 to June 21, 2010, the NRC determined that Fort Calhoun Station (FCS) did not have adequate procedures to protect the intake structure and auxiliary building against external flooding events. Specifically, contrary to Technical Specification 5.8.1.a, the station failed to maintain procedures for combating a significant flood as recommended by Regulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix A, section 6.w, "Acts of Nature."
There is a supplemental report to be filed by August 30th 2011 to update the situation as reported.
* Source: http://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/locations.html
2011-06-15 KS Health Officials - Don't Use Missouri River (radiation?), AP, hutchnews.com, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
2011-06-15 Arnie Gundersen - Nebraska Nuclear Plant: Emergency Level 4 & Getting Worse (3 of 3) Video (14:47). Part 1 (14:49), Part 2 (10:01) Video show notes:
"On June 6, 2011, the Fort Calhoun pressurized water nuclear reactor 20 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska entered emergency status due to imminent flooding from the Missouri River. A day later, there was an electrical fire requiring plant evacuation.
Then, on June 8th, NRC event reports confirmed the fire resulted in the loss of cooling for the reactor's spent fuel pool. The discussion includes specific details of the technical failures at Fort Calhoun, the risks of coolant loss at overcrowded "spent" fuel pools, and the national hazards of nuclear facilities along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, and other water sites during the current period of floods and climate change."
2011-06-15 Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
by: John Sullivan, ProPublica, Wednesday
A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said.
The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in March. If the cooling water in a pool is lost, the used nuclear fuel could catch fire and release radiation.
As ProPublica reported earlier, fire safety is a continuing concern at the country's 104 commercial reactors, as is the volume of spent fuel piling up at plants."
2011-06-15 Airspace Over Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Still Closed, by Ricky Kreitner, businessinsider.com.
2011-06-14 Nebraska Nuclear Plant at Level 4, 3, 2, 1 Emergency, by Dr. Tom Burnett, hawaiinewsdaily.com
"The Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, Nuclear power plant is going down fast due to massive flooding.
The Omaha Public Power District has declared a Notification of Unusual Event (NOUE).
The FAA has issued the following directive, shutting down airspace over the plant:

FDC 1/6523 ZMP FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS FORT CALHOUN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT BLAIR,NE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. PURSUANT TO 14 CFR SECTION 91.137(A)(3) TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT FOR FLOOD RELIEF EFFORTS WITHIN A 2 NAUTICAL MILE RADIUS OF 413113N/0960438W OR THE OMAHA /OVR/ VORTAC 316 DEGREE RADIAL AT 26.1 NAUTICAL MILES AT AND BELOW 3500 FEET MSL. NEBRASKA STATE PATROL, LT. FRANK PECK TELEPHONE 402-450-1867 IS IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION. MINNEAPOLIS /ZMP/ ARTCC TELEPHONE 651-463-5580 IS THE FAA COORDINATION FACILITY

2011-06-14 No Fly Zone Over Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Due to “Hazards” [ No Fly Zone Over Ft Calhoun Plant To HIDE Things], ncrenegade.com, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"The Federal Aviation Administration issued a temporary flight restriction over the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant until further notice due to “Hazards”. This would normally be a precautionary measure after an electrical fire disabled cooling for the spent fuel rod pool as outlined below. The question is why is this still in effect?"
2011-06-14 Ft. Calhoun Flood Defenses [Ft Calhoun Nuke Containment Bldg Flooded To Keep Rods Cool], by Gary Smollen, wowt.com, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page] [Editor's Note: Did the writer of this news story misunderstand what really happened, or was there literally a flooding of the containment building?]
Jeff Hanson says, "Protecting the vital assets we have sandbagged and placed earthen berms around the substations which guarantees the power can get into the plant to keep the plant powered."
The facility was taken offline to refuel earlier this year so the containment building has been flooded by OPPD in order to cool the fuel rods. [Editor's Note: I have added the boldface].
Hanson adds they have a number of backup systems in place to continue to pump clean water through the spent fuel pool and into the reactor containment building so he says there is nothing to fear."
2011-06-14 ALERT OMG Fort Calhoun and Cooper Nuclear Power Plants What is Coming Alert! (video)
2011-06-14 Arnie Gundersen - Nebraska Nuclear Plant: Emergency Level 4 & Getting Worse - June 14, 2011 (1 of 3), Part 2, Part 3, Full 40 minute version Here.
2011-06-13 Sand Bags and Nuclear Power Plants Don’t Mix, ncrenegade.com.
"A DTN customer who lives on the Missouri River bottom forwarded a letter sent June 6 by the Corps of Engineers office in Kansas City to landowners along the river. The letter informed landowners that the Corps has the authority to buy land along the Missouri River to restore fish and wildlife habitat losses resulting from construction, operation and maintenance of the Missouri River Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project. The Corps was asking all landowners outside of a levee if they are will to sell the property, or would consider easements for fish and wildlife.
In other words, the Corps is offering buyouts."
2011-06-10 Dam Danger, Flooding and Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant by Adept2u,
"...The Missouri River is in 100 year flood stage and according to one source I cite in the diary if we roll snake eyes on our luck not only is a nuclear power plant criticized for it’s lack of flood preparedness in danger, but St. Louis may end up to their armpits in water.

...Barring any other issues, the gates will stay open and all 28 of them should be in use by next week, raised slightly higher to increase the flow rate.
The gates will contribute about 65,000 cfs to the full release of 150,000 cfs scheduled to start sometime next week.
Meantime, the corps expects the lake behind the dam will continue to rise to 1,856 feet elevation. The new record elevation will occur because the top of the spillway is higher when the gates go up and because of the bulge of water expected from mountain snowmelt. ...

As alarming as that might be the true issue may not be with the Garrison Dam, but the Fort Peck Dam the first dam in the system. Here is a scenario taken from Bernard Shanks a guest commentator from the St. Louis Today.com website.

The Fort Peck Dam is built with a flawed design that has suffered a well-known fate for this type of dam — liquefaction — in which saturated soil loses its stability. Hydraulic-fill dams are prone to almost instant collapse from stress or earthquakes. California required all hydraulic-fill dams be torn out or rebuilt — and no other large dams have been built this way since.
At three miles wide, Fort Peck Dam last opened its floodgates 36 years ago. By the end of the first week in June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be releasing a record spill of water. The corps recently answered the question of possible failure with a statement the dam is "absolutely safe." It may be the largest at-risk dam in the nation.
Here is a likely scenario: Garrison, Oahe and three other downstream earthen dams would have to catch and hold a massive amount of water, an area covering nearly 250 square miles 100 feet deep. But earthen dams, when overtopped with floodwater, do not stand. They break and erode away, usually within an hour. All are full.
There is a possibility a failure of Fort Peck Dam could lead to a domino-like collapse of all five downstream dams. It probably would wreck every bridge, highway, pipeline and power line and split the heartland of the nation, leaving a gap 1,500 miles wide. Countless sewage treatment plants, toxic waste sites and even Superfund sites would be flushed downstream. The death toll and blow to our economy would be ghastly

2011-06-09 NRC monitors declared fire alert, flood dangers at Fort Calhoun nuclear station, Source: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
"... There was no danger to the public of a radiation release because the plant has been shut down since early April for a refueling outage and remains in that condition. Although the plant briefly lost its normal ability to cool the spent fuel pool, temperatures in the pool remained at safe levels and the plant recovered pool cooling without the need for any of the plant’s multiple backup systems..." [Editor's Note: This statement is very misleading. The Ft. Calhoun nuclear reactor remained at 2/3 the "fully loaded" fuel rod capacity, and the spent fuel rod building remained filled to the brim. If the cooling system were to ever shut down, or dirty Missouri River water were to ever contaminate fuel rods, everything could go into a catastrophic melt-down, and even cause a major nuclear explosion]
2011-06-09 NRC Monitors Second Event at Neb. Nuclear Plant Following Fire, Disruption of Spent-Fuel Cooling, Nuclear Street News Team, nuclearstreet.com.
"...During that time, though, pumps for the plant's spent-fuel cooling system stopped working. The Associated Press quoted plant and NRC officials as saying one pump was returned to service within one or two hours, and a second pump returned to service Wednesday. Backup safety systems were not needed, according to the NRC. And while spent fuel can heat the water surrounding it to dangerous temperatures over the course of several days, federal officials quoted by AP said temperatures in the tank did not exceed 83 degrees..."
2011-06-09 Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuclear Plant: The safety of spent fuel pools, as at the Fort Calhoun plant outside Omaha, has been an issue since the accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant by By John Sullivan and ProPublica, scientificamerican.com.
"...If the cooling water a pool is lost, the used nuclear fuel could catch fire and release radiation.
As ProPublica reported earlier, fire safety is a continuing concern at the country's 104 commercial reactors, as is the volume of spent fuel piling up at plants.
Officials at Fort Calhoun said the situation at their plant came nowhere near to Fukushima's. They said it would have taken 88 hours for the heat produced by the fuel to boil away the cooling water.
Workers restored cooling in about 90 minutes, and plant officials said the temperature in the pool only increased by two degrees.
The fire, reported at 9:30 a.m., led to the loss of electrical power for the system that circulates cooling water through the spent fuel pool, according to a report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. A chemical fire suppression system discharged, and the plant's fire brigade cleared smoke from the room and reported that the fire was out at 10:20 a.m., the NRC said.
2011-06-09 Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant Spent Fuel Pool Cooling System Stopped Working For Hours, by Lucas Whitefield Hixson, news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com
"Many people were scrambling at the NRC to cover up the full extent of the damage at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant following an electrical fire that stopped the cooling system to the spent-fuel rods. The NRC originally reported that the fire was detected in a switchgear room at 9:30 am, by declaring a Notification of Unusual Event. Automated fire suppression systems activated as expected and the fire was confirmed out at 10:20 a.m.Thursday this was updated to an Alert, with no recognition by MSM, because the cooling systems were down for multiple hours.
The fire impacted two pumps, causing them to go offline. One pump was returned to service after almost 2 hours had elapsed, and the second pump required much more time until later in the day. This is extremely alarming if you also look at the report filed by the OPPD (Omaha Public Power District) just last month after inspecting the Fort Calhoun Station."
2011-06-08 Fort Peck Dam to increase water releases again, by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, krtv.com/news.
2011-06-08 Nebraska Nuclear Plant Lost Cooling System After Fire, by Ryan Tracey, online.wsj.com
"WASHINGTON—A nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Neb., on Tuesday briefly lost the ability to cool a pool of used nuclear fuel after a fire at the site, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.
The NRC said the plant recovered cooling ability without activating backup systems and "temperatures in the pool remained at safe levels." The public was not in danger because the plant has been shut down since early April for a refueling outage, the agency said.
Spent fuel pools in the U.S. have received increased scrutiny after a recent crisis in Japan involving potentially overheated nuclear fuel and the release of dangerous radiation.
The agency declared an alert, the second of four emergency classes, at 9:40 a.m., 10 minutes after "an indication of fire" in a building at the plant. The NRC didn't disclose the cause of the fire. Automatic fire control systems activated and the fire was out by 10:20 a.m., the agency said. The plant is operated by the Omaha Public Power District.
2011-06-08 Expert Warns Missouri River Could See “Flood of Biblical Proportions”, stlouis.cbslocal.com,
"Bernard Shanks, an adviser to the Resource Renewal Institute, says the Fort Peck Dam and five others along the Missouri are already full with the Army Corps of Engineers releasing record amounts of water to prepare for snow-melt and heavy rain up-river.
As a guest on KMOX’s Total Information AM Wednesday, Shanks was asked what he fears will happen should the Fort Peck Dam fail and set off a chain-reaction.
“There would be a flood like you’ve never seen,” Shanks told hosts Doug McElvein and Debbie Monterrey. “It would be literally of biblical proportions.”
He foresees a very real threat of “chest-high” water in St. Louis before summer’s end.
Shanks’ main concern: that the Fort Peck dam, which he maintains is built with a “flawed design”, would be overwhelmed by snow-melt and heavy rains up north and give way, causing reservoirs downstream to collapse in a domino effect.
If that happens?
“It would be the most epic man-made disaster in the United States,” Shanks replied bluntly.
He says most of the dams holding back water along the Missouri River are 50 to 70 years old, and like people they tend to weaken with time.
“I have followed this issue for 40 years, and I have never seen them more at-risk than they are today,” Shanks warned.

Caption from 8 June 2011 article: Expert Warns Missouri River Could See “Flood of Biblical Proportions”: "Satellite images of the impact of the 1993 flood on the Missouri-Mississippi River confluence. (earthobservatory.nasa.gov)"

2011-06-06 Garrison Dam Release Schedule As Of Sunday June 6, "... * Sunday 115,000 cfs, * Monday 120,000 cfs, * Tuesday 130,000 cfs, * Mid June, going to 150,000 cfs.."
2011-06-05 Fort Peck Releases Historic Water Flows, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers News Report; "40,000 cfs June 5, 45,000 cfs by June 6, 50,000 by June 7th."
2011-06-01 Garrison Dam At 95.8% Capacity As Water Release Schedule Slowed,
"PICK CITY, ND – According to numbers from the US Army Corps of Engineers Reservoir Control Center updated this morning, the Garrison Dam is at 95.8% capacity.
The dam, completed in the 1950's, has never had its spill gates opened to release flood waters before in its history..." [Editor's Note: According to a table shown on this video, the first release was on May 30th around 85,000 cfs."]
2011-05-31 Fort Peck Dam to release more water; flooding likely in Wolf Point, by Brett French, "..Fort Peck needs to make room for the Missouri’s spring snowmelt. So by June 14, the outflow will be raised to a record high 50,000 cfs. The previous high release mark was 35,000 cfs in 1975."
2009-10-05 Fort Calhoun plant may store spent fuel rods permanently [Is Calhoun A Quiet, Permanent Spent Fuel Center?], by Tim Pallesen, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"Radioactive nuclear waste may be kept forever at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant after plans for a Nevada disposal site appear to have collapsed...
...Spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants are the most highly radioactive of all nuclear wastes.
The nuclear plant operated by the Omaha Public Power District south of Blair has a 40-foot-deep pool next to the nuclear reactor for spent fuel rods after they are removed from the reactor.
Storage in the pool was to be temporary.

Cooper Nuclear Plant

See also "Cooper Status update" at news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com

2012-02-06 [Good News] Cooper Nuclear Station Finds FOD Filled Fuel Lines by Potrblog
Any one who has scanned the daily NRC event reports probably has a good idea how Situation Normal All Fouled Up (SNAFU) the entire regulatory system really is. One key aspect of such a feigned saftey structure is keeping SNAFUs from going FUBAR (Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition).
In that regard, someone at Cooper Nuclear Station in Nebraska was vigilant enough to keep a SNAFU from going FUBAR. That person performed a quality assurance inspection on a shipment of high pressure fuel lines which are used to supply the emergency diesel generators with fuel. They found that those fuel lines were clogged with manufacturing debris (FOD). Had those FOD filled fuel lines been installed, the Nuclear Plant likely would not have had emergency power available during a station blackout, and that could have quickly lead to a Fukushima FUBAR scenario. Without a doubt, the FOD finder deserves a gold star.
Of course the question remains how such an escaped defect SNAFU in such an important piece of equipment ever happened at the fuel line manufacturer. Obviously it is the type of situation one might expected when buying a fuel line for a 1972 Ford Pinto, but it is not the type of quality assurance one expects for a fuel line going into a Nuclear Plant.
2011-07-06 Cooper Nuclear Station to Begin Flooding Preparations, ncrenegade.com.
"A flood warning has been issued by the government that will impact the Cooper Nuclear Station. As shown below in the alert, at 9:15 AM on July 6th, the water level was 41.1 feet. Cooper Nuclear Power Station begins flooding preparations at 40.5 feet. It seems strange that the government is issuing this alert at this level when the station declared a “notification of unusual event” on Sunday at a water level of 42.5 feet.
Someone in Congress is finally giving this situation and the Army Corps of Engineers the attention it should have received three weeks ago."
2011-07-05 (Fort Calhoun) Nebraska Cooper Nuclear Power Plant : Arnie Gundersen
2011-06-24 Levee Fails, But Brownville OK [Levee Failure Won't Affect Cooper Nuke Plant, Brownville], by Emerson Clarridge, World-Herald Staff Writer, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"A Missouri River levee three miles north of Brownville, Neb., failed Thursday night, triggering evacuations in Atchison County, Mo.
According to early assessments, the breach posed no threat to the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville...
...The nuclear plant came within about 18 inches of shutting down early Monday, when the Missouri River level at the plant rose to 43.8 feet. The plant is operated by Nebraska Public Power District."
2011-06-23 Officials Monitoring Floodwaters at Nebraska Power Plants [Cooper Roaring Along At Full Output Despite Rising Flood Threat], by the CNN Wire Staff, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"The Cooper Nuclear Station, about 80 miles south of Omaha, remains operating at full power. The plant issued an unusual event declaration on Sunday as water levels rose, but the current level is two feet below the plant's elevation, Dricks said."
2011-06-23 Levee Breaks North of Brownsville [Brownsville Levee Near Cooper Nuke Plant Has Failed], journalstar.com, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
2011-06-21 Gauge malfunction causes bad data on river level near Cooper nuke plant, enenews.com
2011-06-20 River falls short of Nebraska nuke plant shutdown, AP [republicbroadcasting.org] "The nuclear plant [Cooper] has been preparing for the flooding since May 30. More than 5,000 tons of sand has been brought in to construct barricades around it and access roads, according to NPPD. [Editor's Note: Meanwhile, Ft. Calhoun has relied on a long rubber berm, also called a "condom" that can get punctured].
2011-06-20 Cooper Nuclear Station On Lowest Warning Level [2nd Nebraska Nuke Plant Makes Unusual Event Statement],wowt.com , [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page] "As the Missouri River rises, the Nebraska Public Power District declared a Notification of Unusual Event Sunday for the Cooper Nuclear Station located three miles southeast of Brownville, Nebraska along the riverfront."
2011-06-20 Cooper Nuclear Station Issues “Notification of Unusual Event” and Is Under a No Fly Zone, ncrenegade.com.
The reason for the restrictions is to prevent hovering aircraft from hitting high voltage power lines. Since Ft. Calhoun is offline, the power lines are not energized but it is possible that a helicopter pilot may want to fly into transmission lines. Using this logic, all nuclear plants should be under these same restrictions.
2011-06-20 ‘Event’ at Cooper nuke plant: Uncontrolled release of oil into Missouri River after levees are over topped, enenews.com
"NE Levee Near Cooper Nuke Plant Could Fail Any Time - Vid, , [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]

Las Conchas Fire at Los Alamos, New Mexico

2011-07-26 Newly released chart shows 133 acres burned on Los Alamos lab property — Officials had insisted there were only two tiny fires, enenews.com.
2011-07-03 New Fire At Los Alamos Laboratories Caused by a Squirrel? washingtonsblog.com.
2011-07-01 Radioactive Wastes Dumped in Open Pits Outside Los Alamos Nuclear Labs, washingtonsblog.com.
2011-07-01 Alex Jones Show (transcript extract)

Alex Jones: ...[Reading the title of an article] "Firefighters Scramble to Contain Blaze Near Lab In Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico." The -- [Jones reads from the 1 July 2011 article Firefighters scramble to contain blaze near nuclear lab in New Mexico by the CNN Staff]

...fire is burning nearly unabated through the Santa Fe National Forest and Valles Caldera National Preserve.
By late Thursday, it had charred 93,678 acres and strong winds threatened to be the firefighters’ greatest challenge.
"We have seen fire behavior we have never seen before,” Fire Chief Doug Tucker told reporters.

Jones: ...Now the good news is in the last few hours, right as the firefighters were not sure they could stop it as close as 50 feet away -- they have been battling it because they have not been allowed to cut back firebreaks in the last few decades -- right up to the facilities where 20,000 plus barrels of uranium and plutonium are stored. There has already been nuclear testing all over that area, so it is putting a lot of isotopes in the atmosphere that had been bound up in the soil and the plants for sixty plus years of outgoing testing. But the good news is that that winds change directions away from the facility in the last few hours, and so keep your fingers crossed because we are all downwind. I am right here in Texas. And we are already undoubtedly if you look at the winds it is coming right into Austin, right into where I live. And I saw a report in the major news just this last two weeks ago that the average person in tests that scientists did inside Seattle are getting five hot particles a day. That means particles, not just background radiation, but actually highly radioactive particles. Different isotopes, uranium, plutonium, Strontium, Cesium, blowing over here, and that people on the East Coast are getting as many as five hot particles a day, in your mouth, in your nose, into your lungs. And I mean it is just, I mean Chernobyl admittedly, even the U.N. and EU admits, they estimate a million people have died from complications from Chernobyl in 1986, and this is much bigger than that, so I love my children, and I cannot just sit here and let them die at 25 of lung cancer. If Los Alamos starts burning, I am going to have to fly my children probably to Canada. I mean if it gets into those 20,000 barrels, we are going to have to evacuate, and the government is not going to tell you to evacuate, folks. Just like with the dust [near the highly pulverized World Trade Center Towers] on 9/11. I will evacuate my family. OK? If it gets to those barrels...

2011-07-01 Massive wildfires threaten to ignite 30000 barrels of plutonium waste at New Mexico nuclear weapons facility, EPA on radiation alert, Jonathan Benson, staff writer, naturalnews.com.
2011-06-30 Evacuations Still In Place, Fire Chief Says (video), koat.com.
2011-06-30 Fire Closes in on Plutonium at Los Alamos National Laboratory, washingtonsblog.com
2011-06-30 Fire near Los Alamos lab to be largest in New Mexico history — Bracing for gust up to 40 mph this afternoon, enenews.com. [Editor's Note: What an amazing coincidence that a major fire would threaten Los Alamos nuclear waste storage facilities in the same month that some clown "accidentally" punctured the protective berm around the Ft. Calhoun plant that protected the spent fuel rod building from dirty Missouri river water (fuel rods require clean water to avoid going critical) -- not to mention the strange electrical fire in the Ft. Calhoun plant a few weeks before. It is all beginning to smell very suspicious to me, like some kind of Mossad-CIA false flag sabotage campaign.]
2011-06-30 Los Alamos Fire Chief: “We have seen fire behavior we have never seen down here and it’s very aggressive” — Even burn scars are burning and that’s unusual (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-06-30 UPDATED: Las Conchas Expected to Exceed 100,000 Acres by Journal Staff [Editor's Note: Includes map of fire area as of 2011-06-30; 9:15 AM update: "Crews have managed to contain only 3 percent of the fire near Los Alamos. They’re bracing for winds that could gust up to 40 mph Thursday afternoon."]
2011-06-29 EPA On Radiation Alert As Fires Reach 50 Feet From Los Alamos Nuke Plant Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com
“The concern is that these drums will get so hot that they’ll burst. That would put this toxic material into the plume. It’s a concern for everybody,” said Joni Arends, executive director of the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, an anti-nuclear group.
The EPA has responded by bringing in “air monitors, along with a special airplane that checks for radiation levels,” reports ABC News.
The 95-square-mile fire has turned the city of Los Alamos into a ghost town, with 12,000 residents evacuating on Monday.
The EPA’s trustworthiness on reassuring Americans that there is no danger from radiation released into the atmosphere is likely to be somewhat lessened by what happened following the Fukushima disaster earlier this year."
2011-06-29 Q&A: Is New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory Really Safe? by Olivia B. Waxman, "Caused by a fallen power line..."
2011-06-29 RED ALERT :Los Alamos Nuclear Crisis, Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant (video) 2011-06-29 Las Conchas fire, evening flames (video), "4th day of the fire..."
2011-06-28 Wildfire reaches Los Alamos nuclear facility: Thousands of residents have fled the town of Los Alamos, but officials say all radioactive materials at the lab are safe, by Dominic Rushe, guardian.co.uk, " The wildfire is being driven by 60mph winds..."
2011-06-28 Fire Threatens Plutonium and Uranium Release at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Washington’s Blog, A raging wildfire is threatening to engulf the Los Alamos National Laboratory. "Los Alamos has likely tested more nuclear weapons than any other facility in the world..."
2011-06-29 Q&A: Is New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory Really Safe?, by Olivia B. Waxman "Caused by a fallen power line, the blaze — which spans more than 108 miles — has destroyed about 61,000 acres of the Santa Fe National Forest and forced the evacuation of the town of Los Alamos (population 11,000). Worse, the fire is creeping dangerously close to the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), one of the country's biggest nuclear research facilities. At risk are 20-30,000 drums of Cold War-era plutonium-contaminated waste that are sitting above ground in fabric tents in Technical Area 54 within the Area G section."
2011-06-29 High potential for “major calamity” at Los Alamos if fire reaches 20,000 barrels of nuclear waste in fabric-type building, says former top security official, enenews.com.
2011-06-29 Residents worried about radioactive smoke plume if fire reaches radioactive waste: “If it gets to this contamination, it’s over — not just for Los Alamos, but for Santa Fe”, enenews.com.
2011-06-28 Los Alamos Fire And 30,000 Barrels of Plutonium: Perfect Cover For A Nuclear False-Flag Operation? by Avalon and Shepard Ambellas, activistpost.com.
2011-06-28 Los Alamos Nuclear Lab: What Are the Dangers? (video) Physicist Michio Kaku discusses the threat wildfires pose to the government lab, abcnews.go.com
2011-06-27 Wildfire shuts Los Alamos lab, forces evacuations [30,000 Barrels Of Plutonium Waste Stored At Los Alamos], by Susan Montoya Bryan, AP, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"...Lab spokesman Kevin Roark said environmental specialists from the lab were mobilized and monitoring air quality on Monday, but that the main concern was smoke.
The anti-nuclear watchdog group Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, however, said the fire appeared to be about 3 1/2 miles from a dumpsite where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above ground. The group said the drums were awaiting transport to a low-level radiation dump site in southern New Mexico."
2011-06-27 Thousands Evacuate From Town Near Atomic Site - Video[NBC News Coverage Of Sandia, Calhoun, Minot Disasters], NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, Janet Shamlian reports on Los Alamos, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
2011-06-26 Wikipedia article on the Las Conchas Fire: "The fire started on June 26, 2011, at approximately 1:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time when a tree fell on a power line." [Editor's Note: Please see the numerology discussion for why this has some rich associations].

Vermont Yankee

2012-02-17 Gundersen featured on CNN — NRC refuses to speak to network despite weeks of requests and showing up in person (VIDEO), (6:00) Amber Lyons reporting, enenews.com. [Ed. Note: This is an excellent short clip on the 40 year old Vermont Yankee nuclear plant -- with the same Mark I design as Fukushima -- whose license to operate is being extended another 20 years under the "perception management" auspices of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). According to Arnie Gundersen, in 1972 the NRC admitted that they should never have licensed Vermont Yankee because of all the problems with the Mark I design -- now so apparent with the Fukushima melt-downs -- but decided to not change their minds because it would "ruin nuclear power forever"]
2010-01-22 The Hidden and Not-So-Hidden Costs of Entergy’s Vermont Yankee,” Beyond Nuclear Bulletin
Background: Despite assuring the State of Vermont for more than a year that it had no buried pipes carrying radioactivity, Entergy Nuclear’s Vermont Yankee reactor has revealed it is leaking radioactive tritium, almost certainly from underground pipes that it now admits do exist. In fact, Vermont Yankee has even announced the discovery of “highly radioactive water,” 50 times more radioactive than would be allowed in drinking water by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen has made clear that Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee has indeed lied about the existence of buried pipes over the course of many months.
Our View: Entergy Nuclear has betrayed the trust of the lawmakers, regulators, and citizens of Vermont. Simultaneous with its revelation of radioactivity leaks on site, Vermont Yankee spokespeople engaged in a predictable campaign to downplay the health and safety risks of tritium. However, tritium can impact the human body right down to the DNA level, and can cross the placenta from mother to fragile fetus. At such intimate levels, tritium can and does damage human health, leading to cancer, genetic damage, birth defects, and other maladies. The National Academy of Science has reported consistently over the decades that any exposure to radioactivity, no matter how low the dose, still carries a health risk. As reactors age – and Vermont Yankee is nearly 40 years old – its systems, structures and components degrade, worsening tritium leaks from buried piping. Vermont Yankee’s license should not be extended 20 additional years."
2011-07-21 Is nuclear energy different than other energy sources?, thebulletin.org, 2011-07-21 blog comment to this article [press "collapse" to see this article on the web page"]: The Fukushima tragedy demonstrates that nuclear energy doesn't make sense by Arjun Makhijani
"...The current tally: one in every 100 commercial light water power reactors, the most common design in the world (including all operating US commercial reactors), has now had a partial or full meltdown before its first 40-year license period has expired -- three at Fukushima Daiichi and one at Three Mile Island. The Fukushima meltdowns have had serious containment failures. In addition, there have been four hydrogen explosions and heating up or boiling of one or more spent fuel pools, which often have larger stores of long-lived radioactivity than the reactors. This severe accident rate -- one every five to 10 years for which a few hundred reactors have been operational -- is far greater than regulators and proponents imagine. So, we simply do not know how to reliably calculate the probabilities of such events, which remain rare in theory, but evidently not so rare in practice. And each accident sequence has been unique. There even appear to be differences among the meltdowns at the Fukushima reactors. Still, the US regulatory process moves ahead, relying on the perilous notion that these terribly dangerous events can be calculated -- though the official numbers are now in the realm of statistical fiction
Chernobyl was written off by many in the West as being attributable to poor design and the Soviet dictatorial system. Three Mile Island released radioactivity but did not create severe offsite hot spots; as a result, some even pointed to it as a very rare event and a demonstration of nuclear safety. But Fukushima has given lie to the idea that severe accidents are very rare or that the consequences for the public are not disastrous. They already are. Hot spots dot the landscape around Fukushima. The livelihoods of farming and fishing families have been destroyed; the seas have become radioactive for miles around. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced; many or most will not be able to return to radioactively contaminated homes. Parents had to protest vigorously to prevent their children from being ordered to schools within radioactive hot spots, which would irradiate the children as much as nuclear workers. And still the radioactivity releases continue, months after the earthquake and tsunami.
Worse, while the US government actively ignores the failure rates of nuclear power plants, it still encourages their growth by offering loan guarantees, among other subsidies. In a sensible world, where government was above all dedicated to public safety, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) would have stopped licensing new plants and re-licensing existing ones. But, the process marches on, while a review of Fukushima is conducted on the side.
Take the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant: It has more spent fuel in its pool than all four pools at the stricken Fukushima reactors put together, and it is of the same Mark 1 design. Nevertheless, the NRC re-licensed Vermont Yankee on March 21, just 10 days after the start of the Fukushima disaster and despite the National Academies' conclusion -- pre-Fukushima -- that dry-cask storage of spent fuel is a much better defense against terrorism. Additionally, the dry casks at Fukushima did not leak radiation, even in the face of both an earthquake and a tsunami. Most of the spent fuel at Vermont Yankee has cooled down enough to be put into dry storage. Yet, the NRC did not require that that be done as a condition of re-licensing the reactor. The NRC made a bet that reactor spent fuel pools are safe enough -- based on accident probabilities that have been rendered obsolete. That much was evident well before March 21, 2011..." [Boldface added by editor]

Miscellaneous Other Recent U.S. Nuclear Problems

[Editor's Note: It is my purpose to familiarize readers with major nuclear-related issues, and also provide time-saving links to expedite their own research, but not to provide a detailed and exhaustive overview of all U.S. nuclear problems. The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability or ananuclear.org provides a good introductory list of America's major ongoing "problem children" in the nuclear industry, as follows:]

Environmental Cleanup
Fernald Preserve/Uranium Foundry
Greater-Than-Class-C (GTCC) Radioactive Waste
Hanford Reservation
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
Kansas City Plant
Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory
Mound Facility
Nevada Test Site
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Waste
Nuclear Weapons
Oak Ridge Reservation
Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Pantex Plant
Plutonium
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
Reliable Replacement Warhead Program
Reprocessing
Rocky Flats Site
Savannah River Site
Spent Fuel Management
Stockpile Stewardship
Tritium
Water Contamination
Yucca Mountain

Miscellaneous Other:

Nuclear power plants and other large nuclear facilities in the United States, Operating or closed, Including their individual histories, locations, technical details, official contact points, and local activist groups, animatedsoftware.com.
"There are over 100 operating nuclear power plants in America and 16 non-operational power plants, and a large number of nuclear fuel and weapons facilities. The more you know about these places, the more frightened you’ll be -- and should be!"

SECTION 3: Major Nuclear Accidents-in-Progress, from RADNET, Information about source points of anthropogenic radioactivity from Davistown Museum, Box 144, Hulls Cove, ME 04664

SECTION 12: MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC POWER COMPANY: PARADIGM OF THE TWILIGHT OF THE NUCLEAR ERA, Collapse of a Pyramid Scheme, Rituals of Evasion, from RADNET, Information about source points of anthropogenic radioactivity from Davistown Museum, Box 144, Hulls Cove, ME 04664

Indian Point, New York
[Editor's Note: The Indian Point nuclear reactor is located on the Hudson River 38 miles from New York City. (Please note that many nuclear safety experts like Leuren Moret, Dr. Chris Busby, and Dr. Edward Sternglass mentioned on this web page in the section "How Hazardous Is It To LiveNear A Nuclear Power Plant" recommend living no closer than 50 miles from a nuclear plant, and to really be on the safe side, a minimum of 100 miles is best -- please see the studies on how infant mortality, heart diesease, birth defects, cancers and other ailments skyrocket as one lives closer to a nuclear power plant). Indian Point is also located near earthquake fault lines. It is not designed to withstand a worst case earthquake scenario, and it can't even fix an 18-year-old leak. Sweet dreams, New York, New York! --And Oh, by the way, if New Yorkers continue to drag their feet and fail to directly confront this extremely serious threat, a more fittingly macabre double entendre might some day be the classic "New York" expression "Drop Dead!" All it takes is just one melt-down and NYC is cooked.]
2011-04-18 Nuclear Overseers Are "Fake" Agencies Funded and Controlled by the Nuclear Power Industry, washingtonsblog.com. [Editor's Note: I have already listed this article before on this web page, but it is worth repeating it again here in regard to Indian Point:]
"...As nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen, Duane Peterson (president of VPIRG & coordinator for the campaign to retire Vermont Yankee nuclear plant), investigative reporter Harvey Wasserman and Paul Gallay (executive director of Riverkeeper) point out in a roundtable discussion:

• The NRC won't even begin conducting its earthquake study for Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York until after relicensing is complete in 2013, because the NRC doesn't consider a big earthquake "a serious risk"
• Congressman Markey has said there is a cover up. Specifically, Markey alleges that the head of the NRC told everyone not to write down risks they find from an earthquake greater than 6.0 (the plant was only built to survive a 6.0 earthquake)
• The budget for the NRC comes from the nuclear power companies [just like banks fund the Federal Reserve]
• The NRC is wholly captive to industry
• The NRC has never turned down the request of a nuclear power plant to be relicensed in the United States. Relicensing is solely a paper process; there is no safety review.
• The NRC's assumptions regarding a worst-case accident are ridiculous. For example, the NRC assumes only 1% of the fuel could meltdown, while 70% melted down at Fukushima. The NRC assumes no loss of containment, while there has been a major loss of containment in reactors 1-3 (especially 2) at Fukushima....
• No state or federal agency knows who would be in charge in case of an accident at Indian Point. It's like the Keystone Cops."

2011-03-18 New York Attorney General Demands Earthquake Study On Nuclear Plant,
Indian Point Near New York City Hasn't Fixed 18-Year-Old Leak, by Hanna Siegel and Seniboye Tienabeso
2011-03-16 Indian Point 3 Ranked Highest in Risk of Failure from Earthquakes by Cliff Weathers, "A study by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found that the Indian Point 3 reactor in Westchester County has the highest risk of serious damage and catastrophic failure in the event of a regional earthquake..."
2011-03-15 Quake safeguards at Indian Point questioned amid Japan disaster: Scientists say potential for earthquake near nuke plant greater than first thought by Adam Bosch, Times-Herald.
"...New information came to light in 2008. A study by a group of leading seismologists from Columbia University revealed a second fault line near Indian Point, the Stamford-Peekskill fault line.
Scientists said the Ramapo Seismic Zone and the Stamford-Peekskill fault line intersect roughly one mile north of Indian Point. These seismic areas have been relatively quiet — producing an occasional earthquake measuring less than 3.0.
But the experts said that combination of fault lines near Indian Point were capable of producing a magnitude 7.0 temblor.
Entergy, the company that owns Indian Point, said its three nuclear units, including one that was shut down in 1974, were built to withstand a magnitude 6.1 earthquake...
2011-02-16 Lamont-Doherty scientist says the region is overdue for a big quake, .lefthudson.com, "A scientist who runs the region's seismographic network for Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory says the New York City area is past due for a significant earthquake. And some researchers are jittery about the proximity of one fault line to the area's only nuclear reactors."

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, California

According to Wikipedia (Jan 2012) "The 2010 U.S. population within 50 miles (80 km) was 8,460,508, an increase of 14.9 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include San Diego (45 miles to city center)." [Editor's Note: So let's put it all together: a) Most of the coastal areas of California are as earthquake prone as Japan b) It is biologically hazardous for humans and all other life forms to live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, especially since they routinely leak all the radioactive fission products of a nuclear blast c) Most American nuclear regulatory agencies and nuclear plants practice a chronic "culture of coverup" and denial as documented in Secret Fallout: Low-Level Radiation From Hiroshima to Three-Mile Island by Dr. Ernest Sternglass d) Most nuclear power plants are "slow motion dirty nuclear bombs" whose fuel rods are capable of wiping out areas larger than Pennsylvania if not kept continuously cooled -- otherwise they can easily go critical -- all of which can happen within only a few hours once adequate cooling stops. Fuel rods take years to keep adequately cooled even after the nuclear plants where they were used have been put into "cold shutdown" and e) At the highest levels of policy-making "oversight" we find the same criminals, "aliens," and lunatics who gave us the BP-Gulf catastrophe, endless DU wars for Israel and the "global depopulation agenda" overseas, the stealth war against WASPs and dispossession of WASP America, the Mossad-CIA Stuxnet virus sabotage of the Fukushima reactors, and the Goldman Sachs/Wall Street hollowing-out of the American industrial base and the shake-down of tens of trillions of dollars from Congress in bailout money. Why is it so hard for so many Americans to figure out how extremely dangerous this situation is? What else do you need to know???]
2012-04-25 New Gundersen Interview (AUDIO) — Hundreds turn out to see presentation at city council meeting near San Onofre nuclear plant; Mother speaks about brain cancers in neighborhood, ENENews.com
2012-03-17 AP: California’s San Onofre nuclear plant shuts down indefinitely over safety worries, enenews.com
2012-02-10 Laguna takes stand on San Onofre by Barbara Diamond, "...[Southern California Edison Company spokesman Christopher] Abel verified that 4,000 tons of high-level, radioactive waste are stored there." [Ed. Note: There are about 4,277 tons involved at Fukushima. There were about 180 tons at Chernobyl, and 30 tons at Three Mile Island. If the total San Onofre stockpile were to ever go critical, one might visualize how it could wipe out the rest of America, that is, whatever parts of America survive the full run of Fukushima radiation which has yet to run its course].
2012-02-06 Nuclear Expert: Pipe ruptures at Calif. nuke plant could have lead to meltdown, China Syndrome, catastrophic radioactivity release (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2012-02-03 San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant: Hundreds of Damaged Tubes Discovered, Small Radiation Release Confirmed, theintelhub.com.
2011-12-22 NUCLEAR RUSSIAN ROULETTE IN CALIFORNIA – Dan Hirsch on San Onofre
2011-10-12 Panel: Japan-level nuclear crisis possible at San Onofre by Fred Swegles, The Orange County Register. "...Dr. Caldicott said. `You are running a cancer factory that generates electricity.'"
2011-? Shut San Onofre (pdf) by Ace Hoffman, free download at acehoffman.org. Starts with:

"No more inadequate seismic studies
No more incomplete tsunami studies
No more promises of improvements
No more lubricating oil fires, transformer explosions, bent turbine shafts, tritium leaks, dropped cranes, dead batteries, contaminated fuel oil, rusted power cables, stuck valves, cracked tubes or SCRAMs...
No more all-new subcontractor teams
No more spent nuclear fuel piling up
No more “performance matrices”
No more “lessons learned”
No more falsified records
No more near-misses
No more hearings
No more delays
No more lies
No more.

2011-04-18 Nuclear Overseers Are "Fake" Agencies Funded and Controlled by the Nuclear Power Industry, washingtonsblog.com. [Editor's Note: I repeat this article listing for a third time as it pertains to San Onofre].
"...[as observed in] a roundtable discussion:

• ..."If there was a free market in energy, nuclear power would be over ... immediately". Nuclear plant owners can't get insurance; they can only operate because the U.S. government provides insurance on the taxpayer dime. The government also granted a ridiculously low cap on liability
• If we had no subsidies for nuclear, coal or oil, we'd have a clean energy economy right now
• We have 4 reactors in California - 2 at San Onofre 2 at San Luis Obisbo - which are vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis...

2011-03-14 California reactors may be vulnerable to quakes, lawmakers say, ocregister.com, "In an eerily prescient missive sent just days before natural disaster crippled Japanese nuclear reactors, California lawmakers warned federal officials that San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear power plants may be more vulnerable to quakes than officials care to acknowledge."
2009-11-05 San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing (video) uploaded by activist Ace Hoffman
"This is a clip from a special Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing held in Dana Point, California on November 5, 2009 to discuss the "culture of cover-up" at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).
Two speakers are presented in this clip. The first speaker, Rick Busnardo, works at the plant and has done so for about 25+ years. The other has opposed nuclear power for about 35+ years.
The second speaker is Ace Hoffman, the uploader of the video. Visit his blog: acehoffman.blogspot.com."
2009-01-31 Nuclear Peril - San Onofre (video) (2:55) [Editor's Note: Allison Ball from GreenMachineTV makes some good points about San Onofre's very serious problems about finding storage for its nuclear waste and transferring out old reactors. However, while the tsunami threat is very real, I dispute her concerns about rising water levels from alleged continued "global warming," most of which is a hoax promoted by Rothschild crime family and their City of London/British Royal Family/Bilderberg/CFR/Tavistock Institute/Mossad-CIA-MI6 and other "Dope, Inc." related confederates to "justify" crooked carbon tax schemes. See Michael Chrichton's criticism of "global warming" referenced in Chapter 38 of my Mission of Conscience series. Regarding ultra high level corruption, please also see my articles archive page where I list Dope, Inc.: Britain's opium war against the U.S; The Book That Drove Kissinger Crazy (pdf) by Konstandinos Kalimtgis, David Goldman, Jeffrey Steinberg, sponsored by Lyndon LaRouche].

Miscellaneous Events and Current U.S. Nuclear Industry Issues


2012-05-14 “We are living through the worst public health scandal in history” — 60 million developed cancer from nuclear weapons tests (VIDEO), ENENews.com
2012-05-11 Wall Street Journal: "Nuclear Official Blocked Safety Concerns", majiasblog.blogspot.com
2012-04-27 Run of the Mill Nuke Spill, majiasblog.blogspot.com
Very good article
April 26, 2012: The Limerick Incident Wasn't an "EPPI": Relax, It’s Just a Run-of-the-Mill Nuke Spill, by DAVE LINDORFF
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/26/relax-its-just-a-run-of-the-mill-nuke-spill/
[Excerpted] "A little over a month ago, back on March 19, at 3:00 in the morning, the Limerick Nuclear Power Station, which runs two aging GE nuclear reactors along the Schuylkill River west of Philadelphia, had an accident. As much as 15,000 gallons of reactor water contaminated with five times the official safe limit of radioactive Tritium as well as an unknown amount of other dangerous isotopes from the reactor’s fission process blew off a manhole cover and ran out of a large pipe, flowing into a streambed and on into the river from which Philadelphia and a number of smaller towns draw their municipal water supplies.
No public announcement of this spill was made at the time, so the public in those communities had no idea that it had occurred, and water system operators had no opportunity to shut down their intakes from the river. There was no report about the spill in Philadelphia’s two daily newspapers or on local news programs...."
Majia Here: Just wait until I tell you about tritium from nuke plants in swimming pools....
2012-04-13 Stop the Nuclear Industry Welfare Program by Bernie Sanders and Ryan Alexander, Reader Supported News [h/t "Stop Nuclear Industry Welfare Program", majiasblog.blogspot.com, Saturday, April 14, 2012]
The US is facing a $15 trillion national debt, and there is no shortage of opinions about how to move toward deficit reduction in the federal budget. One topic you will not hear discussed very often on Capitol Hill is the idea of ending one of the oldest American welfare programmes – the extraordinary amount of corporate welfare going to the nuclear energy industry.
Many in Congress talk of getting "big government off the back of private industry". Here's an industry we'd like to get off the backs of the taxpayers.
As, respectively, a senator who is the longest-serving independent in Congress and the president of an independent and non-partisan budget watchdog organisation, we do not necessarily agree on everything when it comes to energy and budget policy in the US. But one thing we strongly agree on is the need to end wasteful subsidies that prop up the nuclear industry. After 60 years, this industry should not require continued and massive corporate welfare. It is time for the nuclear power industry to stand on its own two feet.
Nuclear welfare started with research and development. According to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, since 1948 the federal government has spent more than $95bn (in 2011 dollars) on nuclear energy research and development (R&D). That is more than four times the amount spent on solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biofuels, and hydropower combined. But federal R&D was not enough; the industry also wanted federal liability insurance too, which it got back in 1957 with the Price-Anderson Act. This federal liability insurance programme for nuclear plants was meant to be temporary, but Congress repeatedly extended it, most recently through 2025. Price-Anderson puts taxpayers on the hook for losses that exceed $12. 6bn if there is a nuclear plant disaster. When government estimates show the cost for such a disaster could reach $720bn in property damage alone, that's one sweetheart deal for the nuclear industry!
R&D and Price-Anderson insurance are still just the tip of the iceberg. From tax breaks for uranium mining and loan guarantees for uranium enrichment to special depreciation benefits and lucrative federal tax breaks for every kilowatt hour from new plants, nuclear is heavily subsidised at every phase. The industry also bilks taxpayers when plants close down with tax breaks for decommissioning plants. Further, it is estimated that the cost to taxpayers for the disposal of radioactive nuclear waste could be as much as $100bn.
Even with all of those subsidies, the private sector still will not agree to finance a new nuclear plant, so wealthy nuclear corporations recently secured access to $18.5bn in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees. Maybe the Wall Street banks agree with the Congressional Budget Office, which estimated the risk of default on nuclear loans at above 50%. The nuclear industry's financial troubles are not new. In the 1960s and 1970s, 100 reactors were cancelled because of cost overruns. Things were so bad Forbes called it "the largest managerial disaster in business history". Despite this history, some want to dramatically increase federal loan guarantees for nuclear plants.
It is shocking that the nuclear industry continues to receive so much federal support at a time of record debt. Of course nuclear subsidies benefit some of the wealthiest and most powerful energy corporations in America, which may explain the persistence of nuclear welfare. For example, Exelon, which takes in $33bn in revenue annually, is the leading operator/owner of nuclear reactors in the US. Entergy, with revenues of more than $11bn annually, is the second largest. Together, these two companies own or operate almost one-third of US reactors, and based on their revenue they are doing pretty well. Why do they need endless federal welfare for their industry year after year? Will it ever end?...
2012-03-23 Has too much plutonium made Hanford waste untreatable? Western world’s most expensive construction project having nuclear chain reaction worries, by ENENews.com
2012-03-07 Survey: Americans Not Warming Up to Nuclear Power One Year After Fukushima by By Civil Society Institute, Newton, MA; and ORC International, bradenton.com
2012-03-05 Lessons Not Learned: New Map Shows 120 Million Americans at Nuclear Fallout Risk: "Red flags for heightened risk factors of a severe nuclear accident abound in the United States" by Common Dreams staff, commondreams.org.
2012-03-03 The Demonic Reality Of Fukushima And The Absurdity Of The NRC by Cindy Folkers, rense.com.
2012-03-02 Fifteen 'Near-Misses' at US Nuclear Plants in 2011, majiasblog.blogspot.com.
By Environment News Service 29 February 12
http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/10219-fifteen-near-misses
-at-us-nuclear-plants-in-2011
WASHINGTON, DC, (ENS) - The Union of Concerned Scientists has documented 15 "near-misses" at 13 U.S. nuclear plants during 2011 and evaluates the response of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to each event in a report released today....
Many of these 15 "near misses" occurred because reactor owners either tolerated known safety problems or took inadequate measures to correct them, Lochbaum finds..."
2012-02-08 US nuclear industry on the brink of collapse - expert, by Gennady Yevstafyev, retired Lieutenant-General of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence, The Voice of Russia,
"... It has become very clear after 2007, when Americans signed outrageous, as many people – non-proliferators believe, nuclear treaty with India because India is not a member of Non Proliferation Treaty and it was not supposed to receive all kinds of equipment and materials through nuclear supplies group because it is not a member of this and that’s why it could not be controlled. But Americans have managed to convince other people that India should get special treatment and they did it in a very selective way – out of 22 nuclear facilities and reactors which exist in India 14 were put under control and 8 were left Indian local control because they are working for military purposes. And the outside world after some hesitation has swallowed this kind of decision.
Many things are explained very simply – American nuclear industry is on the brink of collapse. Inside America there is no construction of nuclear facilities, nuclear reactors and so on for a number of years and Americans see that they are quickly losing their positions in the world in competition with other countries. That’s why they are trying to arrange the huge market for their own industries.
For example the treaty with Indians, when there was an estimation - what could bring the United States to the cooperation with India, it came to about $100 billion in five years. It’s a huge amount of money and they are trying to regain from France, from Russia – the markets in those areas. So, it is quite simple what they are doing and it is along with the certain political connotations it is mostly economic requirements."
2012-01-21 Study: 90% higher incidence of childhood leukemia around nuclear plants — Authors call for investigation -International Journal of Cancer by ENENews.com
2012-01-20/22 The Radioactive Waste Crisis by Linda Pentz Gunter, counterpunch.org.
2012-01-18 NPR: Newly leaked report warns plutonium levels at Hanford may be much higher than claimed — “The Columbia River is at stake, all of that area and its vitality” says Washington Governor, enenews.com.
2012-01-18 USATODAY: Official concerns over uncontrolled nuclear reaction risks inside plutonium facility near Portland, by ENENEWS (Editor's Note: Actually the Hanford Nuclear facility is not "near" Portland, Oregon, but rather Portland is about 213 miles downstream on the Columbia River).
2012-01-01 Nuclear Expert: Reactors produce 50 years of electricity and half a million years of waste — Not a particularly good deal (VIDEO), enenews.com
2012-01-17 Coverup? Safety manager at Washington nuclear site: Criticality could be probable — Worried about hydrogen explosion — Up to 13 times more plutonium than thought, like 20+ Nagasaki bombs, by enenews.com.
2011-12-06 North Anna Nuclear: When Is a NUCLEAR EMERGENCY Not Reported As An EMERGENCY? And How To Protect Yourself, pissinontheroses.blogspot.com.
2011 [The Year in Review] What if the Fukushima nuclear fallout crisis had happened here?

These five nuclear power plants had emergency shutdowns in 2011:

• Calvert Cliffs - Lusby, MD (due to hurricane)
• North Anna - Louisa, VA (due to earthquake)
• Ft Calhoun - Ft Calhoun, NE (due to flooding)
• Browns Ferry - Athens, AL (due to tornado)
• Surry - Surry, VA (due to tornado)

Why U.S. nuclear power plants are vulnerable to severe accident with nuclear fallout
A future severe nuclear accident at a U.S. nuclear power plant is a real possibility. In 2011 five nuclear power plants in the United States lost primary power due to earthquake or extreme weather events, including tornados, hurricanes, and flooding. Fortunately backup power systems kicked in at these plants and a disaster was averted. But weather is not the only risk factor. Other risk factors include:
Type of reactor – There are two types of reactors operating it the United States: Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) and Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs). Some experts judge that the design and structure of BWRs do not protect against the release of radiation during a severe accident as effectively as PWRs. The four reactors involved in the Fukushima nuclear crisis were BWRs. On the map, NRDC experts assigned a red flag to a reactor if it is a BWR.
Age of reactor – Reactors were designed to operate for 40 years, yet the regulatory body that oversees nuclear safety in the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has re-licensed some nuclear power plants to operate for 60 years, well beyond their originally engineered design lifetime. On the map, NRDC experts assigned a red flag to a reactor if the NRC has approved the reactor to operate for 60 years.
Power level of reactor – The NRC has approved many utility operators to increase the operating power of their nuclear reactors, including for Fukushima-type reactors, and in some cases multiple times and to significantly higher power levels. These so-called "power uprates" push reactors beyond what they were originally engineered to do, and could increase the radiation hazard if a nuclear accident occurred. On the map, NRDC experts assigned a red flag if the NRC has granted a reactor a power uprate.
If a person received one rad of radiation from a nuclear accident, it would increase one's chance of getting cancer by 1 in 1,000 (averaged over all ages and both sexes). And although the NRC believes that the chances of a severe accident with fallout in a core meltdown for any one of the 104 U.S. nuclear reactors is small (probability of less than 1 in 10,000 per year), can we afford the risk? Millions of Japanese people were exposed to radiation from Fukushima, increasing their risk of developing cancer, and the cost of the Fukushima accident is projected to exceed US$100 billion, and the environmental effects will last for generations. What if a meltdown occurred at one of the 65 nuclear power plants in the United States?
Why we need urgent federal action to reduce the risks of U.S. nuclear accident fallout
With 6 million Americans living within 10 miles of a U.S. nuclear power plant – the evacuation zone defined by the federal government – and more than 120 million Americans living within 50 miles of a U.S. nuclear power plant – the distance the U.S. government told Americans to evacuate from the area around the Fukushima plant – we cannot afford to stand by and hope the worst won't happen here, especially with extreme weather intensifying around the globe.
Red flags for heightened risk factors of a severe nuclear accident abound in the United States. Currently 23 U.S. nuclear reactors are the same type of reactor, a boiling water reactor (BWRs), which was involved in the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Some BWRs are operating near major American cities like Philadlephia. Nearly all of the 104 nuclear reactors operating in the United States were designed and built three to four decades ago. Despite being originally engineered for a 40-year lifespan, the NRC has approved 71 reactors at 32 nuclear power plants to operate for 60 years. And 90 percent of U.S. nuclear reactors have had their operating power increased beyond the original design engineered for them.
Yet the NRC hasn't yet made a single U.S. nuclear power plant any safer than it was since the Fukushima accident about one year ago. After the Fukushima disaster, a task force assembled by the commission's chairman identified a list of safety improvements including top tier items to be "started without unnecessary delay." But these important safety upgrades are still years away from being implemented, if ever. In fact, some of these safety improvements have been on the commission's to-do list since the 1990s..."
2011-11-19 BREAKING ALERT! History of MULTIPLE SABOTAGE Attempts at Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant, pissinontheroses.blogspot.com.
2011-11-18 !! ALERT- Brunswick North Carolina !! DANGEROUS AND NEAR DEADLY NUCLEAR PLANT INCOMPETENCE UPDATE, pissinontheroses.blogspot.com, 11/20/11: We believe the circumstances of this incidence point to an actual case of SABOTAGE aimed recreating a Fukushima style meltdown in North Carolina, based on a March 2011 bulletin describing exactly such a scenario at the Brunswick plant. See the following blog post for details and a video analysis.[MAXIMUM ALERT] NUCLEAR SABOTAGE WAS AN ATTEMPT TO RECREATE FUKUSHIMA IN NORTH CAROLINA
2011-11-09 Map: The Nuclear Bombs in Your Backyard: Look up where in the United States the Pentagon keeps its atomic weaponry, by Adam Weinstein and Tasneem Raja, motherjones.com.
2011-10-12 COLLECTIVE SUICIDE: WAKE UP!, majiasblog.blogspot.com
Arnie Gunderson's latest Fairewinds video is a big WAKE-UP call, despite its under-stated delivery.
http://www.fairewinds.com/content/are-regulators-and-nuclear-industry-applying-valuable-lessons-learned-fukushima
"I'm in a super rush today so for now I will just summarize some of his main findings.
US Nuclear power plants are set up as limited liability corporations with little-to-no assets backing them so the public will have to pay majority of clean up costs from a nuclear accident.
Losses caused by nuclear accidents in the US are limited by price Anderson at approximately $10 billion
Design bases limits that are used to specify the plant’s safety structures against earthquakes, hurricanes, and the like are set by industry scientists who grossly underestimate the likelihood of severe earthquakes, storms, etc.
Nuclear power plants use a cost-benefit analysis system that grossly reduces anticipated costs of accidents.
Gunderson identifies the cost-benefit system as the Max 2 design analysis system (I may have misspelled the name of the system).
David Shannon, who developed this cost-benefit system, decried its use by the nuclear power industry. He had designed it for a dirty bomb and feels its extrapolation to nuclear plant accidents is inappropriate.
Gunderson identifies some of the cost-benefit analysis system’s limitations.
It only looks at some kinds of cancer that would be caused by a nuclear accident, not all forms.
It doesn’t look at other illnesses besides cancer caused by radiation, such as heart attacks caused by exposure to cesium.
It assumes radiation that lands on field will be plowed under, not decontaminated.
It presumes houses will be hosed off and the water will be allowed to drain into rivers and ground water.
It includes no clean up for forests.
It plans for NO storage of radioactive material in drums after clean up.
It presumes radiation stays in ground and doesn’t get thrown up in air by winds, thereby artificially limiting extent of human exposure.
It presumes accident lasts 2 and ½ hours ONLY. Fukushima has been 7 months.
It assumes not much fuel is damaged
It assumes wind blows in straight line
It gives plant owner option of compensation or clean up and compensation is always cheaper.
It lowballs human life at $3 million dollars.
It allows NRC to choose whether or not to make changes outlined by the cost-benefit system.
THE NRC wants RADIATION EXPLOSURE LEVELS 100 times HIGHER THAN APPROVED BY EPA"
2011-09-19 Nuclear power plant shut down after leak is discovered, power-eng.com, "A leak from a valve at the 778 MWe Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan forced the plant to shut down September 16."
2011-09-18 Our Nuclear World, the Corbett Report.
2011-09-02 Earthquake threat to nuclear reactors far higher than realized: 'Forty years ago, when some of these plants were started, the hazard — we had no idea,' industry consultant says by Dina Cappiello and Jeff Donn, AP.
"WASHINGTON — The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data.
The nation's nuclear regulator believes a quarter of America's reactors may need modifications to make them safer..."
2011-09-01 Time.com: “Augmented Inspection Team” is only used when risk of reactor core damage rises by 100 — AIT already at quake-hit North Anna nuke plant, enenews.com.
2011-08-31 Feds Allowing Tritium Radiation Catastrophe Cover Up At North Anna VA Nuclear Plant? Nuclear industry watchdogs warn the North Anna nuclear plant may be leaking radioactive tritium due to damage in underground pipes from the Virginia earthquake, blog.alexanderhiggins.com.
"On August 24th, a 5.8 earthquake struck Mineral Virginia which sent shock waves all over the eastern seaboard being felt from Colorado to Massachusetts, from South Carolina to Ontario Canada, after which the media was silent on the fate of the North Anna nuclear plant which is located at the epicenter of the quake.
The quake caused damage over hundred miles away, most notably cracking the Washington Monument, and took both of the reactors at the North Anna plant offline due to the earthquake cutting off the electricity needed to cool the nuclear reactors. The loss of electricity due to the earthquake caused the Fukushima nuclear meltdown which raised fears the North Anna plant could suffer a similar fate.
However officials quoted the plant owner as saying the plant was operating normally on backup generators. We then learned that one of the four generators at the plant failed within minutes of being activated.
That was followed by assurances that no radiation was leaked from the plant even as the plant operator admitted the next day they were forced to vent steam from the reactor to prevent a Fukushima style “hydrogen” explosion at the reactor. While officials still asserted the plant was operating safely it begged the question of why the reactor needed to vent steam if the reactor was indeed being properly cooled.
The operator then admitted that radiation had in fact been leaked from the plant, but downplayed the leakage by saying the amount was miniscule and was inline with normal operations, even though the plant was shut down and was not be ran under “normal operation” procedures...
2011-08-29 A Privately Owned Nuclear Weapons Plant in…Kansas City? by Adam Weinstein [Editor's Note: Leuren Moret has talked about phony privatizations in which high level insiders are able to get nuclear plants for pennies on the dollar that cost taxpayers billions to build. In addition, do you want the Rothschiilds or George Soros owning a nuclear weapons plant next door to you?].
2011-08-24 August 24 photo shows steam rising from multiple locations at quake-hit Virginia nuke plant (PHOTO), enenews.com.
2011-08-23 Earthquake Rocks D.C.: Evacuations, Nuclear Power Shutdown, Felt on East Coast, Midwest & Canada, Infowars.com
2011-08-06 Leakage causes operators to shut down Nine Mile 2 nuclear plant by John Mariani, syracuse.com [Rense.com]
2011-07-20 New Terror Report Warns of Insider Threat to Utilities by Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz and Megan Chuchmach, abcnews.go.com.
"Sabotage by an insider at a major utility facility, including a chemical or oil refinery, could provide al Qaeda with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11 anniversary attack Osama bin Laden was planning, according to U.S. officials.
A new intelligence report from the Department of Homeland Security issued Tuesday, titled Insider Threat to Utilities, warns "violent extremists have, in fact, obtained insider positions," and that `outsiders have attempted to solicit utility-sector employees' for damaging physical and cyber attacks."
[Editor's Note: This is a mixture of truth and totally irresponsible and misleading fear-mongoring. It fails to mention how Israelis who guard U.S. nuclear facilities also very likely ran a Stuxnet virus attack that was the prime cause of the Fukushima melt-downs, how Mossad-CIA likely ran 9/11, Madrid 3-11, and London 7-7 and is the most likely cause of future damage to U.S. nuclear facilities as false flag attacks, and how the U.S. nuclear industry is permeated with incompetence, corruption, and derelict nuclear plants that are "accidents waiting to happen."]
2011-07-19 Nuclear Engineers: “Appalling” and “disturbing” findings at Tennessee nuke plant (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-07-19 Fukushima-type disaster inevitable in U.S.? by Armen Keteyian, cbsnews.com.
(CBS News)
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was to meet Tuesday to discuss sweeping new safety recommendations, after having just finished inspecting all 104 U.S. nuclear plants in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster.
On "The Early Show," CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian spotlighted one of those facilities' post-Fukushima inspection reports.
Watts Bar, in Spring City, Tenn., is the last nuclear plant to be licensed in the U.S., and a textbook study of the pros and cons of nuclear power. It provides electricity to some 9 million people in seven states, yet is dogged with a long history of safety issues and whistle-blower lawsuits -- including six by a 71-year-old great-grandmother named Ann Harris.
If you walk through the front door of Harris's house in rural Tennessee, you'll meet one of the most unlikely and feared advocates of nuclear safety.
Harris said she "began as a clerk in instrumentation engineering at Watts Bar in construction on Unit 1. And I could barely spell 'nuclear' when I went to work."
What was the turning point in her work? "Basically," she replied, "the books are being cooked. People are saying things, they swear under oath it's been done, and it hadn't been done."
When Harris refused to sign a multimillion-dollar construction contract riddled with errors, she said, Tennessee Valley Authority executives told her that her career was over. Instead, it sparked a 28-year crusade devoted to preventing a nuclear accident.
Harris said, "You can see a Fukushima happening here in the U.S."
So it's not a matter of 'if,' it's a matter of -
"When," Harris finished the sentence.
CBS News has obtained a copy of a National Regulatory Commission (NRC) "Post Fukushima" Watts Bar report, dated May 2011. [Editor's Note: Please see the 19 July 2011 article Nuclear Whistleblower: “The Books Are Being Cooked” Fukushima In America Will Happen by Alex Thomas, The Intel Hub with an embedded video of this interview].
The NRC report highlighted over 24 vulnerabilities after assessing the nation’s nuclear power plants after [...]
CBS News had two nuclear engineers look at the report. One gave Watts Bar a "D-" and called it "appalling." The other cited what he called more than 40 "disturbing findings" during a 40-hour inspection, including:

• A lack of emergency responder training
• Faulty control panels
• Malfunctioning communications equipment
• Issues with portable backup diesel generators

We asked David Lochbaum, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists why the NRC isn't pounding on the door of Watts Bar, saying, "Look we need these problems fixed?"
"I think the fact that there hasn't been a major reactor accident in the United States for over three decades allows the industry and the NRC to become complacent," Lochbaum said.
Are they just gambling, taking one huge risk with people's lives with these reactors, particularly Watts Bar?
Lochbaum replied, "In some respects, it's the biggest poker game in the country. You're playing high-stakes poker with American lives."
2011-07-18 Fukushima and the Global Danger, Dr. James Fetzer interview with radiation expert Leuren Moret on The Real Deal talk show. [Editor's Note: Ms. Moret provides and amazing narrative of bureaucratic incompetence, political chicanery, logistical bungling, and even "gangsterism" in the American nuclear industry].

Leuren Moret: ...So they have built all these nuclear power plants all over Japan. They are all on the ocean, you know just a few feet above sea level, yet they have had tsunamis that are 30 and 50 feet, and then they put the diesel backup power system for the operating system in the basement of the reactor, and it is probably at sea level. So these are booby traps. They have 600,000 spent fuel rods full of all the fission products that come out of a nuclear bomb, and they are stored in seven pools that are located on top of the reactors.
Dr. James Fetzer: This sounds like the American plan to stash all our nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
L. Moret: Yes, it is the same thing.
Dr. Fetzer: It is volcanic and porous, and is over an enormous aquifer providing water to southern California. It is a stunning plan to guarantee the annihilation of most of California's population.
L. Moret: I actually worked as a geochemist at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab on the Yucca Mountain and the WIPP [Waste Isolation Pilot Plant] project in New Mexico, which was the pilot program for the Yucca Mountain project. And they have 36 earthquakes a month right at Yucca Mountain because it is a big fault block. It is faulted on four sides. They have hot springs under the proposed facility. The rainwater dripped down through the porous tuff, it is a volcanic rock that is like sea foam, kind of. Like pumice. And they had to guarantee that that would be dry and safe for 250,000 years.
Dr. Fetzer: [Laughter] Yeah, right.
L. Moret: That was the requirement of the National Academy of Sciences. So I was in Nevada at a meeting of an independent scientific panel called the Nuclear Review Board and this is twelve independent scientists who reported and made recommendations to the President and Congress. Impartial. So I was sitting there and this scientist from Livermore was making a presentation and he had photos of an underground instrument room in the Yucca Mountain facility. One of the women engineers stopped him and said "Could you tell me what all those tarpaulins are over the instruments?" He said, "Oh, it is to keep the water off of the instruments. It is dripping from the ceiling. It's rainwater." And she said, "Like how much." He said, "Oh, it is about 500 gallons an hour that is coming into this room." And she said, "Oh, and a letter went to the President of the United States after this presentation, after this meeting, and they recommended canning the Yucca Mountain project." And I think it went to Clinton and he actually almost completely shut it down. And it has never recovered.
Dr. Fetzer: It was insane to begin with.
L. Moret: It was insane to begin with, and the --
Dr. Fetzer: From a scientific point of view, it is completely indefensible to store radioactive waste --"
L. Moret: It was all science fraud. And then when I was at Livermore, the canisters that they spent $2.5 billion developing these canisters and the repositories. The canisters that hold nuclear waste had been placed underground in New Mexico, it is near the Carlsbad Caverns called the WIPP project. And in the Yucca Mountain facility these were test storage canisters. And they had low level radioactive waste like contaminated uniforms and stuff in them, and they brought the canisters back with to Livermore when I was there. This was five years after they put them underground. The bacteria had eaten all the metal canister and left the nuclear waste. It would be like eating the beer can and leaving the beer.
Dr. Fetzer: Yes, which is going to remain in tact for you to consume.
L. Moret: Well about that time a law suit that had been filed in Federal court in the District of Columbia had been going to the courts for twelve years. Finally a judge ruled and he said to the Department of Energy regarding the Yucca Mountain project, he said "The National Academy of Sciences recommended that the waste has to be safe for 250,000 years and you have to guarantee that because of the long-lived isotopes. And in your presentation to this court, you have only guaranteed it for 10,000 years," and he said "Not only that, but your science is totally fraudulent. You have to throw everything you have done in the last 50 years in the garbage can and start all over."
Dr. Fetzer: Well this was an unusually erudite judge who would know these things. I mean this judge was smart enough to make that kind of ruling is astonishing.
L. Moret: Well, he was very informed. He was impartial. And he was correct in his assessment.
Dr. Fetzer: There are not a lot of judges like that around Leuren, I hate to say.
L. Moret: I know.
Dr. Fetzer: It is seemingly fortuitous that someone of his caliber would be handling this case.
L. Moret: It was fantastic. So, basically that really was the dagger in the Yucca Mountain Project, but the terrible problem, just like in Japan, and just like every country around the world, is that there is no permanent nuclear waste facility. The Swedes have put it underground in granitic rock, but we can't do that. We can not put it in any granitic rock, any crystalline rock, anywhere in the United States, because most of the nuclear power plants are on the East Coast, and a Senator did not want all the nuclear waste stored on the East Coast, and most especially in his state, I think it was Vermont, and so he passed a law in Congress that no nuclear waste generated in the U.S. or shipped here can be stored in crystalline rock. And so they had to go to New Mexico to an underground salt deposit from an ancient Permian sea. I have pieces of that salt right here in my room. The New Mexico legislature agreed to allow that to happen if the Federal government would build an entire infrastructure of new highways and roads in New Mexico. So the government Department of Energy started the project and did the tunneling and the studies and when the roads were completed, the New Mexico legislature passed a law that no nuclear waste could ever be transported to New Mexico by roads. And no one would license flying nuclear waste into New Mexico. And then they had to start all over again. They said lets put it at the Nevada test site. It is already moon cratered from 1,300 nuclear bombs.
Dr. Fetzer: You are saying the New Mexico legislature outfoxed the Federal government.
L. Moret: Yes. And the problem, the reason it ended up in Nevada is because it is called the "Screw Nevada Bill." The Nevada delegation elected officials in Congress did not have enough political pull to defeat it in Congress, so they screwed Nevada and put that site in Nevada.
Dr. Fetzer: Well that was heading for Yucca Mountain, right. Where is it currently targeted?
L. Moret: No, that was to establish Nevada. They do not have any alternative. There is no alternative. That is why we have --
Dr. Fetzer: You know this radioactive waste is so dangerous, even to transport it is hazardous.
L. Moret: Oh my God, they have been transporting it in railroad cars, and if you drive by or stand next to a railroad car, some of these cars, for five minutes you are dead. And they have lost them! They have lost trainloads of nuclear waste and they didn't find it for a month! One train load was parked in Sacramento downtown.
Dr. Fetzer: Oh my God! Were there deaths because of it?
L. Moret: I don't know. I don't know. And another train load was lost in Texas for two months. So the whole point is the shoddiness, the fraud. The deception, the lies. The gangsterism...

2011-07-12 Radiation Coverups And Dangers Exposed Worldwide by Alex Thomas, The Intel Hub,
"The nuclear industry and nuclear regulators worldwide, as well as specifically in the United States, have continually covered up disasters and radiation releases as if they never happened or posed no danger to the public.
To begin to understand the corruption of the nuclear power industry and the danger we are in because of it, you must first realize that they actually fund their regulators, The NRC in the United States and the IAEA for the world."
2011-07-10 Report: North Carolina nuclear facility with superheated uranium leaking ten gallons of radioactive cooling water per hour by Ethan A. Huff, naturalnews.com. "(NaturalNews) A nuclear research reactor at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh, NC, was recently shut down after it was discovered that the plant has been leaking about ten gallons of nuclear cooling water per hour for at least the past week. Officials from the university, however, claim that the leak, which stems from the 15,000 gallons of water used to cool the superheated uranium reactor core, poses `no public health threat.'"
2011-07-08 Dangers at Aging U.S. Nuclear Power Plants by Scott Harris, scoop.co.nz, "Interview with Michael Mariotte, executive director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, conducted by Scott Harris"
2011-07-07 N.C. State nuclear reactor springs leak, shuts down, posted by johnmurawski, blogs.newsobserver.com.
2011-06-28 Protective flood berm collapses at Ft Calhoun nuclear plant; KSU has radioactive leak by Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer, Activist Post
"Six and a half hours after the Ft Calhoun water berm collapsed, operators reported it to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, registering it as a “non-emergency.”"
... Off planet is the safest repository [for spent nuclear fuel], given the danger posed to Earth by millennia of radioactivity. Professor Benjamin Sovacool calls nuclear energy the deadliest, costliest form of energy on record, showing that, on average, there has been one nuclear accident resulting in at least $330 million in damage every year for the past 30 years." [Boldface added by Editor].
2011-06-28 Salem Unit 2 nuclear reactor shuts down after cooling pump failure by Bill Gallo Today's Sunbeam
2011-06-22 France sends irradiated nuclear fuel to US — Six casks off-loaded in Georgia and trucked 1,600 miles to Los Alamos, enenews.com.
2011-06-21 Radioactive tritium leaks found at 48 US nuke sites: 'You got pipes that have been buried underground for 30 or 40 years, and they've never been inspected,' whistleblower says by Jeff Donn, AP [also archived at republicbroadcasting.org]
"BRACEVILLE, Ill. — Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows.
The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation.
Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants.
2011-06-20 US heading toward nuclear disaster, EU Times
"...The AP reviewed tens of thousands of pages of government and industry studies, alongside interviews and inspection reports that go back to the 1970s. As a result of the analysis, the AP says that are led to believe that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has regularly lessened restrictions as the NRC repeatedly argues that “safety margins could be eased without peril.” The AP responds that not only is the safety of much of America in danger, however, but the investigation also says that billions of dollars are at stake—as well as around one-fifth of America’s electricity supply.
Many of the problems that the AP identified could eventually lead to a nuclear disaster of epic proportions. Their report says that “thousands” of problems linked to aging were uncovered, including many instrumental components of facilities in less-than-stellar condition. In one example, it notes that leakage seeping through busted valves can today exceed up to 20 times the original limit. And as problems abound, the AP notes that no single official body in government or industry has studied the frequency in breakdowns in recent years while all the while NRC has extended licenses on dozens of reactors. The report says that 82 of America’s operating reactors are more than 25 years old, with 66 units having been re-licensed for an additional two decades. The report argues, though, that many of these facilities were built with the intention of new, updated facilities replacing them long before they would reach this condition..."
2011-06-20 Fukushima USA? Dangerous radioactive leaks and cracked foundations go unpunished at American nuclear power plants, [Radioactive Leaks, Cracked Foundations In US Nuke Plants - Photos], by Daily Mail Reporter, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]
"...The constant danger of aging reactors operating without the highest standards has resulted in rising fears the NRC is significantly undermining safety.
Such negligence is destined to to bring the plants closer to a catastrophic accident that could harm millions and jeopardize the future of nuclear power in the U.S.
Examples abound.
When valves leaked, more leakage was allowed — up to 20 times the original limit.
When rampant cracking caused radioactive leaks from steam generator tubing, an easier test of the tubes was devised, so plants could meet standards..."
2011-06-06 On the Shortcomings in U.S Nuclear Plans
2011-06-04 Third unplanned shutdown reported at Limerick nuclear plant by Evan Brandt, pottsmerc.com, [also archived at republicbroadcasting.org], "Less than a day after putting one its two nuclear reactors back on line following two un-planned shut-downs, the other nuclear reactor at Exelon’s Limerick Generation station shut down unexpectedly Friday morning, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission." [Editor's Note: The Limerick plant is in Pennsylvania]
2011-05-11 NRC Waives Enforcement of Fire Rules at Nuclear Plants by John Sullivan, ProPublica
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is routinely waiving fire rule violations at nearly half the nation's 104 commercial reactors, even though fire presents one of the chief hazards at nuclear plants.
The policy, the result of a series of little-noticed decisions in recent years, is meant to encourage nuclear companies to remedy longstanding fire safety problems. But critics say it is leaving decades-old fire hazards in place as the NRC fails to enforce its own rules.
Fires present a special risk to nuclear plants because they can knock out cables that control-room operators need to safely cool down a reactor. The explosions and fires at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant have shown what can happen when operators can't activate pumps, valves and other equipment needed to prevent damage to the radioactive core.
...Fires are common at U.S. plants. In all, there have been at least 153 since 1995, or an average of about 10 a year, according to NRC records. Small fires, brief fires and fires in areas that were not considered critical to reactor safety have damaged essential equipment and forced emergency shutdowns, reports reviewed by ProPublica show.
An explosion [5] in an electrical panel at Arizona's Palo Verde plant in March 2010 and an electrical fire [6] at the Columbia Generating Station in Washington in August 2009 each knocked out reactor cooling pumps.
Last week, a truck delivering flammable hydrogen to the Duane Arnold plant in Iowa burst into flames near a building holding machines that control the reactor. Plant operators declared an emergency while firefighters poured water over nearby hydrogen tanks.
2011-05-31 Why is the United States so obsessed with nuclear power? by Arne Jungjohann, grist.org, [also archived at republicbroadcasting.org].
This is part one in a series on the United States and nuclear power. Read parts two, three, and four.
After the nuclear catastrophe of Fukushima, as a German living in the U.S., I often get asked these days: What's going on in Germany with the shutdown of nuclear power plants -- is that all mass hysteria? There are good reasons why Germany is moving away so quickly from nuclear power. Certainly, fear is a factor. However, this angst in the face of a nuclear catastrophe has a rational core. Fukushima provides enough grounds to take every single nuclear power plant on the face of the Earth off-line. Regardless of whether the cause is an earthquake, a tsunami, a flood, a plane crash, a terrorist attack, or simple human error, failure of the emergency power system leads to uncontrollable consequences.
2011-05-04 Nuclear reactor in New York goes into automatic shutdown — Refueled just days before, enenews.com.
2011-04-28 Arrogance And Nuclear Power by Jim Kirwan, Rense.com
2011-04-27 America's Worst Nukes Poorly regulated nuclear power plants had 14 'near-misses' in 2010, rollingstone.com [Rense.com].
2011-04-27 Storms Knock Out Three Nuclear Reactors in Alabama -- No Leak, But a Reminder of Nuclear Vulnerability, washingtonsblog.com.
2011-04-27 US facing nuclear scare in Ohio plant?, news.oneindia.in. [Rense.com]
2011-04-12 A U.S. Nuclear Accident Could Be a Lot Worse than Japan, georgewashington2.blogspot.com.
2011-04-08/10 Nuclear Nightmare on the Great Lakes: Playing Russian Roulette at Davis-Besse, by Kevin Kamps and Michael Leonardi, counterpunch.org.
2011-03-29 Records Show 56 Safety Violations at U.S. Nuclear Power Plants in Past 4 Years Mishandled Radioactive Material and Failing Backup Generators Among the Violations by Pierre Thomas, Jack Cloherty and Andrew Dubbins, "Among the litany of violations at U.S. nuclear power plants are missing or mishandled nuclear material, inadequate emergency plans, faulty backup power generators, corroded cooling pipes and even marijuana use inside a nuclear plant, according to an ABC News review of four years of Nuclear Regulatory Commission safety records." [rense.com]
2011-03-24 Oldest US nuclear reactor: a 'disaster' in waiting? by Karin Zeitvogel,
"LACEY, New Jersey (AFP) – A sleepy New Jersey town has popped onto people's radar screens because it has the oldest running nuclear power plant in the United States -- and, some say, the most dangerous...
...It uses a GE Mark I Boiling Water reactor identical to those that lost power at Japan's Fukushima plant in the March 11 earthquake and then was struck by a tsunami that knocked out its backup generators, causing reactor cooling functions to fail."
2011-03-22 Texas town weighs risks, benefits of nuclear plant by John Couwels, CNN [Editor's Note: Jeff Rense at rense.com has made an interesting assertion that no nuclear power plants in America have ever made money. Alex Jones claims that America has a wealth of relatively clean-burning coal whose pollution threat can be most eliminated by "scrubbers" that are vastly safer and more cost-effective.]
2011-03-21 Safeguarding Spent Fuel Pools in the United States: A drained spent fuel pool in the U.S. could lead to a catastrophic fire that would result in long-term land contamination substantially worse than what the Chernobyl accident unleashed by Robert Alvarez, Institute for Policy Studies. "...In 2004, after the NRC tried unsuccessfully to suppress its report, the NAS panel agreed with our findings. The Academy panel stated that a “partially or completely drained pool could lead to a propagating zirconium cladding fire and release large quantities of radioactive materials to the environment."
2011-03-18 Diablo Canyon nuclear plant 'near miss' in report by David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer, SFGate, "For 18 months, operators at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant near San Luis Obispo didn't realize that a system to pump water into one of their reactors during an emergency wasn't working."
2008-04-12 DC Days 2008, Press Release by Susan Gordon, Director, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
“`DOE and its National Nuclear Security Agency are out of control,' said Susan Gordon, Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA). “They are ignoring instructions from Congress to end wasteful projects, hiding money for new weapons in the budget, and failing to heed many environmental requirements. A new administration must reign in this rogue agency.” ANA’s `Report Card' gave DOE an `F' for `Funding Environmental Obligations' and a `D' for pursuing a new generation of nuclear weapons under the benign label `Complex Transformation.'”
2009-04-03 Startling Revelations about Three Mile Island Disaster Raise Doubts Over Nuke Safety: A growing body of personal and scientific evidence contradicts the official story that the accident posed no threat to the public by Sue Sturgis, Facing South.
2009-11-22 United States New World Role: Low-Level Nuclear Waste Dumping Ground; by Rosalind Peterson,"The United States, under President Obama, is allowing U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu to make agreements with foreign countries (already alleged to have signed an agreement with Italy), to bring in radioactive waste into the United States for processing and storage.. the United States has no place to store radioactive waste for the long term or process this waste which is produced by the nuclear power plants we already have in use. Hanford, Washington, has a massive radioactive site which is leaking radioactive toxics into surrounding water sources. Military sites are also on the EPA toxic clean-up list – waiting for funding. Many onsite ponds at nuclear facilities are filled with radioactive materials waiting for storage, in the future, because there are no facilities that can reprocess or store this waste." [Editor's Note: In other words, we have politicians, plutocratic leaders of special interest groups, and nuclear industry top insiders who act like overgrown little boys. They want to wheel-and-deal and act like "bigmen," gaining political points by pretending to solve other people's nuclear problems around the world, but in reality they lack the ability to engage in far-sighted rational operational planning and effective implementation in their own back yard.]
2008-08-10 The Misconception of Nuclear Power by Alex Baldwin, huffingtonpost.com.
2002-03-13 Davis-Besse Nuclear Plant Comes Close To Disaster As Lax Regulator Places Company Interests Ahead of Public Safety, Nuclear Information Resource Service.

Foreign Nuclear Power Plant Problems (Only A Small Sampling of Perpetually Recurring Problems All Over the World)

[Editor's Note: Please see my Fukushima web page for coverage of the Japanese crisis]

2012-05-22 Probability of contamination from severe nuclear reactor accidents is higher than expected, sciguru.com [Editor's Note: Interestingly enough, this study demonstrates unacceptable risk even when if tails to factor in the real rates of nuclear accidents and nuclear pollution. It talks about Chernobyl and Fukushima, but ignores Simi Valley, Three Mile Island, massive Hanford leads, routine radiation leaks from virtually nuclear reactors around the country, other Soviet-era melt-downs besides Chernobyl, bomb test and DU-related radiation, massive leaks from the Sellafield nuclear plant in the UK, and numerous "near miss" accidents that take place every year at nuclear power plants around the world which leak considerable amounts of radiation into the environment. Also, there is strong evidence that more than just three reactors and their spent fuel pools have gone into melt-down or experienced criticality in post 3-11 Japan].

Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the core meltdowns in Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed. Based on the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the number of nuclear meltdowns that have occurred, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz have calculated that such events may occur once every 10 to 20 years (based on the current number of reactors) — some 200 times more often than estimated in the past.

The researchers also determined that, in the event of such a major accident, half of the radioactive caesium-137 would be spread over an area of more than 1,000 kilometres away from the nuclear reactor. Their results show that Western Europe is likely to be contaminated about once in 50 years by more than 40 kilobecquerel of caesium-137 per square meter. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, an area is defined as being contaminated with radiation from this amount onwards. In view of their findings, the researchers call for an in-depth analysis and reassessment of the risks associated with nuclear power plants.

The reactor accident in Fukushima has fuelled the discussion about nuclear energy and triggered Germany's exit from their nuclear power program. It appears that the global risk of such a catastrophe is higher than previously thought, a result of a study carried out by a research team led by Jos Lelieveld, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz: "After Fukushima, the prospect of such an incident occurring again came into question, and whether we can actually calculate the radioactive fallout using our atmospheric models." According to the results of the study, a nuclear meltdown in one of the reactors in operation worldwide is likely to occur once in 10 to 20 years. Currently, there are 440 nuclear reactors in operation, and 60 more are planned.

To determine the likelihood of a nuclear meltdown, the researchers applied a simple calculation. They divided the operating hours of all civilian nuclear reactors in the world, from the commissioning of the first up to the present, by the number of reactor meltdowns that have actually occurred. The total number of operating hours is 14,500 years, the number of reactor meltdowns comes to four—one in Chernobyl and three in Fukushima. This translates into one major accident, being defined according to the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), every 3,625 years. Even if this result is conservatively rounded to one major accident every 5,000 reactor years, the risk is 200 times higher than the estimate for catastrophic, non-contained core meltdowns made by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1990. The Mainz researchers did not distinguish ages and types of reactors, or whether they are located in regions of enhanced risks, for example by earthquakes. After all, nobody had anticipated the reactor catastrophe in Japan...

...The team in Mainz found that in Western Europe, where the density of reactors is particularly high, the contamination by more than 40 kilobecquerels per square meter is expected to occur once in about every 50 years. It appears that citizens in the densely populated southwestern part of Germany run the worldwide highest risk of radioactive contamination, associated with the numerous nuclear power plants situated near the borders between France, Belgium and Germany, and the dominant westerly wind direction.

If a single nuclear meltdown were to occur in Western Europe, around 28 million people on average would be affected by contamination of more than 40 kilobecquerels per square meter. This figure is even higher in southern Asia, due to the dense populations. A major nuclear accident there would affect around 34 million people, while in the eastern USA and in East Asia this would be 14 to 21 million people.

"Germany's exit from the nuclear energy program will reduce the national risk of radioactive contamination. However, an even stronger reduction would result if Germany's neighbours were to switch off their reactors," says Jos Lelieveld. "Not only do we need an in-depth and public analysis of the actual risks of nuclear accidents. In light of our findings I believe an internationally coordinated phasing out of nuclear energy should also be considered", adds the atmospheric chemist.

2011-09-15 French Report: Radioactivity 10 times normal in Avignon — Cause of “anomalous increase” could be directly linked to explosion at Marcoule (CHART), enenews.com.
2011-09-12 France nuclear: Marcoule site explosion kills one, bbc.co.uk.
2011-09 10 Most Radioactive Places on Earth, brainz.org.
2011-08-30 U.N. Nuclear Safety Proposals Weakened by Fredrik Dahl, Scientific American, Reuters.
2011-07-08 Thunderstorm shuts down nuclear reactor in Russia.
MOSCOW, July 8 (Itar-Tass) —— The fourth reactor of the biggest Russian nuclear power plant in Balakovo on the Volga River (Saratov region), some 900 kilometers southeast of Moscow, had to be shut down overnight because of a thunderstorm that switched off two power transmission lines.
2011-06-30 Jellyfish shut down nuclear reactors: Both units at Torness power station closed after jellyfish found in seawater filters, guardian.co.uk. [Rense.com] "Both reactors at a nuclear power station have been shut down after high volumes of jellyfish were found on seawater filter screens."
2011-03-11 Cover-up in Canada: Radioactive Leak Into Lake Ontario by Brandon Turbeville, activistpost.com,
"On March 16, a report was released by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stating that Canada’s Ontario Power Generation has released radioactive water into Lake Ontario via a leak in the Pickering A nuclear generating station.
As a result of what appears to be a pump seal failure, tens of thousands of litres of radioactive water escaped the generating station on Monday and ended up in Lake Ontario. This is troubling for a number of reasons, but it is especially so considering the fact that Lake Ontario is the main source of drinking water for millions of people.
Typically, the Canadian government is claiming that the water contamination is of little concern and that the citizenry should not be alarmed. In an official statement, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission claimed, “The radiological risk to the environment and people’s health is negligible.”

Nuclear Plant Historic Comparables

Hanford

2012-01-18 Problems plague cleanup at Hanford nuclear waste site by Peter Eisler, usatoday.com.
2012-01-18 Gregoire Reacts To Leaked Hanford Waste Report, by Austin Jenkins, npr.org.
2011-08-24 From Hanford to Fukushima Part 4, simplyinfo.org
2011-08-23 From Hanford To Fukushima Part 3, simplyinfo.org
2011-08-22 From Hanford to Fukushima Part 2, simplyinfo.org
2011-08-21 From Hanford to Fukushima Part 1, simplyinfo.org
2011-03-19 Governments Have Been Covering Up Nuclear Meltdowns for Fifty Years to Protect the Nuclear Power Industry by Santa Susana, washingtonsblog.com
Hanford nuclear disaster
2011-06-20 In Hanford saga, no resolution in sight by Jenna Greene, The National Law Journal, reproduced at ananuclear.org.
2011-ongoing; Hanford Site: Past Horror, Future Hope: Historic nuclear research leads to environmental disaster, usgovinfo.about.com, "During its defense production years, the Hanford Site was under strict military security and never subject to outside oversight. Due to improper disposal methods, like dumping 440 billion gallons of radioactive liquid directly onto the ground, Hanford’s 650 square miles is still considered one of the most toxic places on earth." This site in eastern Washington produced about two thirds of America's plutonium during the Cold War, and is considered one of the greatest environmental disasters in American history. See also:
2008-08-18 Protecting the Columbia River: The Hanford Cleanup (video).
2007-12-09 Hanford - Lethal and Leaking Part 1 (video), 60 Minutes, Part 2. [Editor's Note: There have been myriad costly governmental-bureaucratic snafus and debacles all the way through Hanford's history].
1997-05-14 ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BOARD REPORT ON THE MAY 14, 1997, CHEMICAL EXPLOSION AT THE PLUTONIUM RECLAMATION FACILITY, HANFORD SITE, RICHLAND, WASHINGTON
[undated] Hanford Downwinders Were Kept in the Dark! angelfire.com, "Clouds of radioactive material were released into the atmosphere and tracked as they moved downwind, often through populated areas. In one experiment code-named GREEN RUN, radioactive iodine-131 released from the Hanford Nuclear Facility drifted over Spokane. The cloud contained hundreds of times as much radiation as was released accidentally at Three Mile Island in 1979."

2005-01-22 Ex-FBI agent charges feds with radioactive coverup at Rocky Flats, grist.org.
2003 Chernobyl Heart (41:10) According to Wikipedia: "a 2003 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo. The film won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at the 2004 Academy Awards, uploaded to YouTube 2011, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Film description at topdocumentaryfilms.com, where the full length version is available.
"Despite the fact that 99% of Belarus is contaminated with radioactive material, many people refuse to leave their homes behind. Asked why he would not move, the father of a radiation victim replies, `To leave the motherland where you were born and raised, where your soul is connected to the earth – I would not want to. To move to a new place is difficult, especially in terms of a job in Belarus and abroad.'
In Belarus, only 15-20% of babies are born healthy. Roche comforts children who are born with multiple holes in their heart, a condition known in Belarus as “Chernobyl heart.” A lucky few will have their heart problems fixed by Dr. William Novick, who heads the International Children’s Heart Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children with congenital or acquired heart disease in developing countries throughout the world. After saving the life of a young girl suffering from Chernobyl heart and being humbled by her parents’ gratitude, Dr. Novick affirms, `I appreciate this is a bit of a miracle for them…but we have a certain responsibility to these kids.'”
1997-03 Chapter 18: Nuclear Testing, Power Plants and a Breast Cancer Epidemic (excerpt) from the book Metal of Dishonor [see contents online here], by Dr. Jay M. Gould
"The anguish of the Gulf War veterans suffering from the ravages of DU is only a small part of the damage exacted by the American nuclear addiction. A cumulated total of twenty million premature deaths can be attributed to the post-war interaction of both chemical and radioactive pollutants.
The illnesses affecting veterans of the Gulf War are all symptomatic of the same immune system deficiencies that have affected the atomic veterans deliberately exposed to the Nevada nuclear bomb tests, Native American miners exposed to uranium dust and indeed the many millions of victims who since the birth of the nuclear age in 1945 have inhaled or ingested radioactive fission products never before encountered in nature. When uranium and strontium-90 are ingested—especially because they have long half-lives—both have immediate and delayed adverse effects on the immune system's response capabilities. These effects were clearly indicated by classified animal experiments conducted by American nuclear scientists as far back as 1943.
The name for this condition is low-level radiation, which has little relation to background radiation from natural causes such as cosmic rays and radioactive minerals in the soil. Over the course of countless millennia, human immune defenses have developed the capacity to resist cancer from such natural sources, only to be overwhelmed in 1945 by the sudden introduction into a previously pristine atmosphere of huge amounts of man-made radiation.
The Department of Energy has recently admitted that in the haste to produce plutonium for the first atomic bombs, the Hanford nuclear weapons complex released 550,000 curies of radioactive iodine in 1945. In terms of picocuries, the unit now used to measure radioactivity in a liter of milk or water, this means that in 1945, one-hundred-fifty million Americans were unwittingly exposed to more than four billion picocuries per-capita of this lethal radionuclide, comparable to releases from the Chernobyl accident—the worst in human history.
This was followed by two decades of atmospheric bomb tests recently estimated by the Natural Resources Defense Council to be equivalent to exploding forty thousand Hiroshima bombs. The effects of this testing were revealed by a sudden epidemic increase in cancer among children five to nine years old. Since 1945, female breast cancer incidence has nearly tripled, and we have established that a significant number of the eighty million baby boomers born in the bomb-test years 1945 to 1965—literally the worst time in history—did in fact subsequently display evidences of the damage to hormonal and immune systems sustained in utero.
We can show that in the period 1945-1965 there had indeed been an anomalous forty percent increase in underweight live births, perfectly correlated with the rise in strontium-90 found in human bone and especially in baby teeth. In fact, it was the concern expressed by mothers, as in the Women's Strike for Peace movement that helped prod President John Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev to finally terminate above-ground nuclear tests in 1963. There was a brief period of improvement thereafter until fallout from civilian power reactors replaced bomb-test fallout, especially after the Three-Mile-Island and Chernobyl accidents of 1979 and 1986. Since 1979, the ominous rise in the percentage of underweight live births that first surfaced in 1945 has resumed..."
1979-03-28 [date of Three Mile Island (or TMI)] Saving Pennsylvania, by The Happy Fox, "Four independent inquiry’s (available from Amazon.com) President Carter’s Special Commission. Babcock, who built the reactor., Edison Power., who owned the reactor., and the US Dept. Of Environment illustrate how Unit No 2 came very close to a nuclear explosion. Nuclear poison would have wiped-out Pennsylvania."
2012-0`-18 CBC on TMI: Reports of enormous increase in cancer deaths — Infant mortality rates doubled — Birds disappeared — Many mutations observed (VIDEO), enenews
Chapter 17: Incident at Three Mile Island and Chapter 18 To Little Information Too Late from Secret Fallout: Low-Level Radiation From Hiroshima to Three-Mile Island by Dr. Ernest Sternglass, (1972 and 1982). More heavy-handed official coverups while the public continues to take it on the chin.
1966 We Almost Lost Detroit [from Wikipedia]: "...A 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller, presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown.[1][2] It was republished in 1984 by Berkley.
It took four years for the reactor to be repaired, and then performance was poor. In 1972, the reactor core was dismantled and the reactor was decommissioned. America's first effort at operating a full-scale breeder had failed."
1959 Simi Valley, California, Sodium Reactor Experiment Melt-down.
2011-03-16 Decades later, Simi Valley nuclear meltdown still impacts lives, abclocal.go.com.
"SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) -- In 1959, a 2,900-acre Southern California plant suffered a massive partial nuclear meltdown. It remains the worst in U.S. history for the radiation that was released.
The accident at Santa Susana Field Laboratory, or Rocketdyne, left large rates of toxic contamination, radiation and chemicals in Simi Valley and Los Angeles County neighborhoods..."
2009-07-12 Nuclear reactor accident in 1959 remains vivid for former Field Lab worker, vcstar.com.
2007-09-11 Simi Valley Nuclear Disaster (video), History Channel, "[Narrator] ... Located thirty miles from Los Angeles ... [Interviewee at 3 min 8 sec] `Several researchers have estimated that the radiation released from the SRE [Sodium Reactor Experiment] could be as high as 340 times Three Mile Island...[the radiation release] stayed secret for twenty years....Of the three most prevalent radioactive elements identified at the Santa Susana site, cesium-137..."

1957 Kysthym/ Chelyabinsk, U.S.S.R. Nuclear Abolition and the Whole Nuclear Chain by Andreas Nidecker, enformable.com, 15 Nov 2011, "High level waste as Pu is problem: usually kept in basins may catch fire or explode, as it happened in Kysthym/ Chelyabinsk in the former Sowjet Union in 1957, when a tank with Pu waste exploded and approx. 270,000 persons in a fallout area of 15’000 Square km were contaminated."

This map from modernsurvivalblog.com shows areas within a 100 mile radius of a nuclear power plant.

HOW HAZARDOUS IS IT TO LIVE NEAR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT?

[undated] The Myth of Low-Level Radiation, radiationtruth.org.
2012-01-21 Study: 90% higher incidence of childhood leukemia around nuclear plants — Authors call for investigation -International Journal of Cancer, enenews.com
2012-01-11 Nuclear Expert: US allows very high levels of radiation to be released from nuke plants — EPA says not protective of public health (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-10-22 German Gov’t Study: Children living near nuclear plants have double leukemia rates, high incidence of solid cancers — Reactors cannot prevent radiation from escaping (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-10-21 MORE: All countries with nuclear reactors have nuclear bomb factories — Includes Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan — Nuclear power a “camouflage” for nuclear weapons (VIDEO, Part II), enenews.com.
2008-04-24 Reasonable Doubt: Children living near nuclear facilities face an increased risk of cancer by Ian Fairlie, Global Research, April 24, 2008 New Scientist
2003-12-13/14 Testimony of Leuren Moret for the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan, mindfully.org. [Editor's Note: Once one fully understands the risks of nuclear power plants, the policy of placing a nuclear power plant close to New York City (like at Indian Point 24 miles north of the Bronx), or on an active fault zone near Los Angeles, or in many other places close to major U.S. population centers appears nothing short of criminally insane. Just take a look at my Week-by-Week Fukushima Radiation and Fallout Projections and as you scroll week by week beginning at 3-11, note how Tokyo gets clobbered over and over and over and over again with thick radiation plumes. Just ask yourself what level of risk, however small, is acceptable to you that this could some day happen to your city? In addition, please take a look at the Academy Award-winning documentary Chernobyl Heart (see also the description above) and note how today, over 25 years after the melt-down of the Soviet reactor at Chernobyl, in major parts of Belarus and the Ukraine only 20% of the children are born healthy. Again, why is worth it to use nuclear energy compared to natural gas, coal, wind turbines, solar panels, or some other form of energy if there is some chance, however small, that your local community could some day experience this level of genetic mutilation?].

High risk counties within 100 miles of nuclear power plants

"...The Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) 8, a group of independent scientists in the U.S., has collected over 4000 baby teeth from children living around nuclear power plants. By measuring the Strontium-90 (a man-made fission product) in the baby teeth (a “built in dosimeter”), they have been able to correlate Strontium-90 levels with radiation related diseases in children living near nuclear power plants as reported by the CDC. The main pathways for fission products from nuclear power plants are through dairy products and drinking water."

2003-10 If you think Cancer is a problem now, wait until more depleted uranium is released into the world, contacts: The Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP), L. Moret, M. S. and J.D. Sherman, M. D., The European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), A. Yablakov Ph.D. and C. Busby, Ph.D.

...Radioactive releases did not stop with signing of the above-ground test ban by the USA and USSR in 1963. In addition to the known releases from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, every nuclear facility and power reactor emits radioactive isotopes during "normal" operations.
Continuing the landmark St. Louis radiation fallout study, the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP), has collected some 3500 baby teeth to measure Strontium-90 (Sr-90), a proxy for one of 200+ radioactive isotopes released during "normal" reactor operations.
RPHP Findings:
After the 1963 above-ground nuclear test treaty, signed by the USA and USSR, Sr-90 levels fell steadily until the late 1980s but then rose 50% in all areas where teeth were collected. Sr-90 levels in teeth from southeast Florida children with cancer are 55% above that of children without cancer. http://www.radiation.org
Breast cancer incidence is elevated in women living downwind within 50 miles of an operating nuclear reactor. This correlates with higher levels of Sr-90 in teeth collected closest to operating nuclear reactors. [Gould, JM. - The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors, 1996. (ISBN# 1-56858-066-5), Sherman, J.D. - Life's Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer. 2000, (ISBN# 1-56032-870-3)]
Two years after closure of 8 separate nuclear power plants, deaths for children, newborn to 3 years old, dropped from 9 to 42% for those within 50 miles. For areas in which data were available, cancer incidence in children younger than 5 fell significantly after shutdown. [Mangano, J. et al. Arch. Environ. Health, 57(1): 23-31, 2002. Arch. Environ. Health, In press 2003.]
The seriousness of a large corroded hole in the Davis Besse Nuclear reactor, situated on the shore of Lake Erie and its' potential to contaminate the Great Lakes was emphasized by the recent study commissioned by New York State, Review of Emergency Preparedness at Indian Point and Millstone. It lays to rest the idea that a population in proximity to an accidental or terrorist nuclear power plant release can be safely evacuated. http://www.wittassociates.com
These objective reports do not reflect the moral and economic carnage of cancer heaped upon children and their families. Children may be "cured" of cancer, but the treatments cause nearly all to have physical and learning disabilities that they bear the rest of their lives. The unending harm to future generations that suffer genetic damage cannot be calculated...

1972 and 1982 Secret Fallout: Low-Level Radiation From Hiroshima to Three-Mile Island by Dr. Ernest Sternglass, (an online ebook). Chapter 15 Fallout At Shippingport has a very valuable discussion of official coverup of the terrible damage wrought by radioactive leakage of a nuclear reactor 25 miles west of Pittsburgh on the local comunity and how chronic low level radiation can be more dangerous that short bursts of high level radiation.

-- An important related issue--
Additional radiation from nuclear bomb testing

Nuclear Crimes at nuclearcrimes.org provides an online ebook (table of contents here) that explains the criminal radiation poisoning of the general U.S. population through bomb-testing fallout in addition to the equally criminal poisoning of America from nuclear power plants placed close to major civilian population centers.

NUCLEAR AGE PRIMER

During the late 1950s and early 1960s the biggest-ever open-air nuclear explosions in human history, conducted by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, caused a type of worldwide 'nuclear autumn' as 'aged' radioactive fallout that fell from the stratosphere via large convection weather systems contaminated arable areas - and thus the global food supply - and led to the radiological poisoning of hundreds of millions of persons. The chief danger in this 'aged' fallout was strontium-90, a chemical analog to calcium, which was scattered across the northern and southern hemispheres and made it into all living things.
This strontium-90 that still resides in the tissues and bones of all things is the root of our global cancer epidemic and a persistent menace behind many genetic, immunological and neurological disorders. Reputable scientists such as the late Linus Pauling and John Gofman have argued, using science and reason, that the death toll from this 'global fallout' will, at the minimum, fall within the range of a small holocaust...

An infant mortality - global fallout link?

'These observations indicate a common maternal-fetal cause such as an economic or environmental factor...[yet] there are no clear economic correlates...[and] no universal change in nutritional management of pregnant women is apparent...Among environmental factors is the rise in exposure to strontium-90 resulting from atmospheric weapons testing, which has been closely correlated, both geographically and temporarily, with excess fetal and infant deaths from 1950 to 1964....This and other hypotheses should be developed and tested to determine the cause of this important loss of life.'

'After 1951 in England and Wales mortality increased, reaching a maximum deviation from the previous exponential fall in 1967...The same general pattern occurred in the United States...[which] reached a maximum deviation from the previous exponential fall in 1966...'

Sources:
'First Day Neonatal Mortality Since 1935: Re-Examination Of The Cross Hypothesis,' British Medical Journal, Vol. 304, No. 6823 (2/8/92), pp. 343-346
UNSCEAR report, 1967, Annex B, p. 59, Figure 24

(Source: This graph and description reproduced from the home page of Nuclear Crimes)

In addition to afflicting its own civilian population with nuclear power plant emissions and nuclear test fallout, the U.S. Government has also been contaminating the general population with aerosolized depleted uranium (DU). This has resulted from the massive use of DU for military purposes around the world that began with the Persian Gulf War I campaign of 1990-91. Once aerosolized upon impact, depleted uranium munitions get carried by the jet stream around the world. The following three charts were supplied by radiation expert Leuren Moret for the transcript of "Fukushima Radiation and Uranium Weapon Update," the must-read joint interview conducted by Dr. James Fetzer that also included the eminent UK physicist Dr. Chris Busby. These charts illustrate the horrific effects of DU in a such areas as the poisoning of the public drinking water of Los Angeles (this has changed the ratio of newborn girls to boys), the permanent incapacitation of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military personnel, and the destruction of tens of millions of innocent civilians throughout central Asia and elsewhere.

FIG. 5: DEPOSITION OF DU IN LOS ANGELES DRINKING WATER FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN 1999-2008
Source: Leuren Moret, May 5, 2010, data from Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

FIG. 14: 2003 IRAQ WAR MEDICAL DISABILITIES AS OF AUGUST 2006: Reported by the VA as of August 2006, this is the Veterans Administration (VA) list of diagnoses in 631,174 veterans who had served on the battlefield for the first time in the 2003 Iraq War. Muscular-skeletal, mental, ill-defined conditions, gastrointestinal, and neural diseases had the highest numbers of diagnoses in the soldiers and veterans. After WW II, the medical disability rate in veterans was 5%, and rose to 10% for Vietnam veterans due to Agent Orange exposure. The much higher 55% medical disability rate since 1990 in Gulf-era veterans, is due primarily to the 1990 Gulf War introduction and use of depleted uranium weapons to the battlefield. As of 2011 the Veterans Administration (VA) listed over 2 million medically disabled Gulf-era US soldiers and veterans since 1990.
Source: Courtesy of Maj. Doug Rokke retired, from M. Brown powerpoint, Veterans Administration 2006.

FIG. 15: MONSOON RAINOUT EFFECTS OF US NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND DEPLETED URANIUM: Since 1990 and the first Gulf War, bizarre birth defects (in humans and animals) have been reported in Iraqis, Yugoslavians, Afghanis, Palestinians, and in regions where monsoon rains (see FIG. 17 monsoon map) deposit the “smog of war” - battlefield radioactive dust and aerosols - into the environment. Soldiers returning contaminated from Operation Desert Storm had babies born with hands attached to shoulders, no legs, and other severe birth defects. The deformities in babies from Iraq were even worse, due to permanent exposure to increasing levels of radiation in their environment. Conjoined twins were reported in the Iraqi cities where heavy battles occurred: Mosul, Tikrit, Fallujah, Baghdad, Sadr City, Najaf, and Amara. Cyclopia (one eyed babies born with half a face and brain) were reported in Iraq, Nigeria, India, and across the regions of the monsoon season. The opposite of Cyclopia, or Disprosopus in babies with two faces, have been similarly reported in contaminated regions. Conjoined twinning in animals has been reported in Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, India, China, Japan, US, and in other areas of the monsoon season. During bomb testing in the US (1952-63), conjoined twinning became an epidemic and the annual numbers born correlated with the total kiloton equivalent of detonations each year. Since 1990 and the first Gulf War (use of depleted uranium, neutron devices, low kt nuclear weapons), conjoined twinning has become a widespread phenomenon throughout the Middle East and even as far as Poland, Caribbean, Argentina, western slope of the Andes Mts. of South America, US, SE Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines), Africa, and Europe. In response to the twinning crisis, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, established the “Kingdom of Humanity” a modern center in Riyadh to separate conjoined twins at his own personal expense, for parents anywhere in the world with conjoined twins. What a generous miracle for parents without means, and what a gift to the children!
Source: King Abdullah “Kingdom of Humanity”, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
http://www.conjoinedtwins.med.sa/kingdom_of_humanity.php

Nuclear Environmental Contamination Hazards

Atmospheric Radiation Threat to Americans

Editor's Note: Please see my Aerial Dance of Mass Death: week-by-week Fukushima radiation and fallout Projections and companion articles series. The plume charts, animations, and radiation readings provided on these pages should be enough to convince anyone that the tasteless, colorless, "invisible" radiation threat circling the northern hemisphere is extremely real. It threatens the total ruin and genocide of the Japanese people -- and much of America as well. Below are some sample article updates:

2012-03-18 US to burn 100s of tons of radioactive waste from Germany in Tennessee, enenews.com.
2011-08-21 Report: St. Louis rain sample shows radiation dose on August 20 almost triple previous high reading (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-08-16 Highest Yet: Rain near Toronto, Canada measures 20,000 CPM per square meter — “Crazy hot” (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-08-08 Experts: Lethal Levels of “Off-Scale” Radiation At Fukushima Infer Millions Dying, Experts warn off-scale levels of radiation, which are at their highest levels since the disaster began almost 5 months ago, infers hundreds millions dying from the nuclear fallout, by Deborah Dupre.
2011-08-07 Oklahoma City rain at 1.62 microsieverts per hour — “Dangerous Radiation Background” (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-08-06 Oklahoma City First Rain Since Drought Started (video), [OKC Rain 1.62 Microsieverts Per Hour - Bad News - Rense.com] Ramaswami Kumar commented: "Assuming a normal background radiation of .26 microsieverts/hr, 1.62 represents 1.36 above background. or 12 msv annual. Allowed is 0.1 milliSv. This is 120 times the ECRR 2010 allowed safe limit!"
2011-08-04 Major Paper : Canada Government Covered Up “Massive Amounts Of Radiation In Air”, blog.alexanderhiggins.com.
2011-08-04 Excess Deaths in the U.S. Updated for July 30 (pdf). "The latest week 30 mortality statistics (through July 30) issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now indicate that the number of excess deaths in the U.S. since the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster now stands at 27,752."
2011-08-02 Fukushima Radiation 1,000 Times H-Bomb Peak Dr Chris Busby Speaks with the Japanese People by Bob Nichols
2011-07-31 ALERT!!! Fukushima Radiation Spreading Across The World (video)
2011-07-18 Report: 1.68 µSv/hr detected in Canadian rain water sample — Geiger counter display reads “DANGEROUS RADIATION BACKGROUND,” enenews.com
2011-07-18 Fukushima and the Global Danger, Dr. James Fetzer interview with radiation expert Leuren Moret on The Real Deal talk show. [Editor's Note: The rates of cancer, diabetes, and other diseases are generally significantly higher near nuclear power plants than in the general population, yet authorities have constructed numerous nuclear power plants near major population centers. For decades the U.S. Government has engaged in a pattern of denial and cover-up not much different from the Japanese Government in regard to Fukushima].

Leuren Moret: [Global disease rates] absolutely correlate with the introduction of new nuclear technologies. First it was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then it was nuclear bomb testing. They shut that off and then they turned on the nuclear power plants, and that radioactive pollution replaced the bomb-testing pollution. Then it was depleted uranium. And it is all cumulative.
Dr. Fetzer: Of course Chernobyl was in there somewhere.
L. Moret: And Chernobyl was in there, absolutely.
Dr. Fetzer: You are telling me that nuclear power plants are emitters of radiation as well?
L. Moret: Oh, you know those big stacks?
Dr. Fetzer: I know them.
L. Moret: Everything that comes out of a nuclear bomb comes out of those stacks. 1,300 fission products, and that is in a paper produced by Oak Ridge nuclear weapons [National] Lab in Tennessee.
Dr. Fetzer: This makes reliance on nuclear energy simply insane.
L. Moret: Completely insane. And not only that, what the Japanese government is doing, is they are not reporting the internal radiation exposure. It is many times higher than the external. And what they are reporting are the beta emitters. The beta emitters are cesium and iodine, and they never mention plutonium or uranium. Those are the alpha emitters. And they are many, many times more damaging internally than the beta emitters. So they are really reporting the mouse in the living room and they are not reporting the elephant in the living room.

2011-07-12 Report: Peaches in Los Angeles-area found with radiation at more than double site background levels, enenews.com.
2011-06-20 AP Investigation: At aging US nuke plants Feds are repeatedly weakening safety standards or simply failing to enforce them, enenews.com, based on article: As nuclear plants age, NRC loosens safety regulations, by Jeff Donn, Associated Press, June 20, 2011:
"Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation’s aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by the Associated Press has found. [...]
The result? Rising fears that these accommodations by the NRC are significantly undermining safety and inching the reactors closer to an accident that could harm the public and jeopardize the future of nuclear power in the United States.
Examples abound. When valves leaked, more leakage was allowed — up to 20 times the original limit. When rampant cracking caused radioactive leaks from steam generator tubing, an easier test of the tubes was devised so plants could meet standards.
Failed cables. Busted seals. Broken nozzles, clogged screens, cracked concrete, dented containers, corroded metals, and rusty underground pipes — all of these and thousands of other problems linked to aging were uncovered in the AP’s yearlong investigation. [...]
2011-05-19 Confirmed: EPA Rigged RADNET Japan Nuclear Radiation Monitoring Equipment To Report Lower Levels Of Fukushima Fallout, blog.alexanderhiggins.com.
2011-04-04 Radiation and Everyday Life: The FDA is Asleep at the Switch by Robert Alvarez

River, Lake, Groundwater, and Ocean Contamination Threat

2011-07-13 Los Alamos lab prepares for flooding after fire, AP, businessweek.com.
The Las Conchas fire burned only one acre of lab property but did burn off vegetation in two canyons upstream. Heavy runoff from monsoon storms is expected to cause flash-flooding over the summer.
"There is little doubt that we will see ash in the water reaching the Rio Grande," said Dave McInroy, program director for the lab's flood and erosion control efforts. "This is what you'd expect after any fire in New Mexico. We're working to minimize the transport of any contaminants that have attached to sediments in the canyon bottoms."
2006-06-20 Radioactive tritium has leaked from 75% of U.S. nuke plants — Drinking wells were contaminated in Illinois and Minnesota, enenews.com, based on 75 percent of nuke sites have leaked tritium, AP, June 17, 2011:
"Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows. [...]
At three sites – two in Illinois and one in Minnesota – leaks have contaminated drinking wells of nearby homes [...]
And in 2008, 7.5 million picocuries per liter leaked from underground piping at Quad Cities in western Illinois – 375 times the EPA limit. [...]
One of the highest known tritium readings was discovered in 2002 at the Salem nuclear plant in Lower Alloways Creek Township, N.J. Tritium leaks from the spent fuel pool contaminated groundwater under the facility – located on an island in Delaware Bay – at a concentration of 15 million picocuries per liter. That’s 750 times the EPA drinking water limit. According to NRC records, the tritium readings last year still exceeded EPA drinking water standards. [...]
At 41-year-old Oyster Creek in southern New Jersey, the country’s oldest operating reactor, the latest tritium troubles started in April 2009, a week after it was relicensed for 20 more years. [...] Since then, workers have found leaking tritium three more times at concentrations up to 10.8 million picocuries per liter – 540 times the EPA’s drinking water limit [...]

From 2011-05-05 The Plan To Divide And Conquer America At The New Madrid Fault; And How We Can Remain Free Of Crisis Engineers by Zen Gardner, naturalmedicine.com

"HAARP -- We're from the government, we are here to help you, NOT!"

Rob Peter to pay --er-- rob Paul as well. It has been an amazing coincidence that while farmers are getting ruined from flood conditions blamed on "too much rain" in the northern Midwest, farmlands in the South and Southeast have been under attack for nearly opposite conditions -- to include"too many" tornadoes as well as "too much drought."

Earthquake and HAARP Analysis

2011-08-24 Pentagon Quake Nightmare: Fukushima on the Mississippi by Noah Schachtman, wired.com.
"...Following the Japan disaster, a task force assembled by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission “recommended sweeping changes to the agency’s regulatory approach to safety issues… [and] order utilities to conduct reviews of seismic safety using the latest research, and, potentially, agree to costly upgrades,” the Wall Street Journal reported last month. “A major area of concern, federal officials say, is the New Madrid seismic zone.”
Will another 1811-style earthquake hit the midwest again? At the Aspen forum, Stockton insisted that “we’re overdue.” That’s overblown, if an independent panel (.pdf) convened by the National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council is to be believed. There’s a one-in-50 chance of a mega-quake every 50 years. Before 1811, the big ones happened in approximately the years 1450 and 900. Still, this is all a game of percentages. No one can say for sure when the next disaster will strike. And it’s worth noting that New Madrid is considered the most active earthquake region east of the Rockies..."
2011-07-20 Drought Of 2011: The Southern United States Is Desperate For Rain As The Middle Part Of The Country Continues To Get Scorched, by theeconomiccollapseblog.com, [also at republicbroadcasting.org]. "2011 sure has been a wild year for America so far. First we had unprecedented tornado outbreaks, then we had horrific flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, then we had record setting wildfires and now we are facing a crippling drought all over the southern United States." [Editor's Note: This may not be an accident for many reasons. a) On my BP-Gulf Catastrophe web page, I document how the reckless (if not malevolent) behavior of the globalists who control BP led to pollution that appears to have broken the Gulf Loop Current, which once provided an extra 10-15 degrees to the Gulf Stream temperature, and whose differential with Atlantic temperatures enabled it to act as a "pacemaker" for global weather patterns. Now that is gone, resulting in more freakish weather patterns. b) Leuren Moret has reported unusually high levels of rainfall on the West Coast probably caused by HAARP, designed to either leech out Fukushima radiation, or else give an level of contamination to West Coast residents, or both, which in turn may have subtracted from Midwestern and Southern rain and c) a number of meteorological observers believe they see evidence of HAARP interventions to create tornadoes and other destructive events in the Midwest and South.
2011-04-28 Central U.S. plans earthquake drill, by Judy Keen, USA Today
2011-04-18 Anniversary of Major U.S. Quake Spurs Elaborate FEMA Exercise by Keith Hansen, American Free Press. "The exercise, unprecedented in scope, is aimed at preparing local, state, and federal agencies...one thing is for sure: Whenever FEMA gets involved, all Americans should be concerned."
2011-04-12 Will Big Oil Trigger the New Madrid Megaquake? by Zen Gardner, .larouchepac.com, [also at republicbroadcasting.org]
2011-04-08 Hearing Exposes Ugly Realities of U.S. Unpreparedness for Coming Earthquakes, larouchepac.com [Rense.com]
2011-03-12 Mega-Quake Coming Warn Russian Scientists, Earthquake Warning From Russian Institute of Physics of the Earth, beforeitsnews.com. [Editor's Note: The two prime suspects are the major faults running through California and the New Madrid Fault that runs through states bordering the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. Both areas have Mark I nuclear reactors built by GE that store spent fuel rods overhead, just like the six reactors at the Fukushima One Plant. These designs are nearly 50 years old, and unlike more recent French nuclear plant designs, are much harder to shut down or bring under control when damaged by earthquakes --as the Fukushima catastrophe has amply proven. Worse yet, on my research page for the BP Gulf Catastrophe, I list the 2010-06-08 Mel Fabregas interview with A. C. Griffith, on The Veritas Show, (manticoregroup.com/radio MP3 download link Here, 28.6 MB, one hour, probably Episode 080.2 listed Here). Griffith's sources believe that the massive drain of oil and gas from "oil and gas volcano" from the Macondo Well area will geologically destabilize the region to the point that it will eventually trigger a major earthquake along the New Madrid Fault. According to Dr. Bill Deagle in his 3rd hour 3-22 show (listed below), there are 15 Mark I reactors close to the New Madrid Fault, they have only 4 hour vice 8 hour back up batteries, and they will likely severely fracture and threaten melt-down with an earthquake of 8.0 or greater.]
2011-02-23 Shallow Earthquakes associated with the New Madrid Fault & BP's Mega Oil Spill. by B. K. Lim
2011-01 NLE 2011 Scenario for Illinois (PDF) --The upcoming 16-20 May 2011exercise envisions a catastrophic earthquake in the Midwest on top of or near the New Madrid fault.
2010-12-16 A 7.0 earthquake in the Midwest? Planning for the "maximum-of-maximums" by Tim Manning. "FEMA is leading a national-level exercise in May of 2011 (NLE 2011) simulating a major earthquake along the New Madrid fault." [Editor's Note: Unfortunately false flag attacks have had a strong historic tendency to coincide with the very exercises that are supposed to help prevent them. Please see. Chapter 8: 9/11 Patterns as Future False Flag Indicators of the Mission of Conscience Trilogy for more background].

Political and Technological Solutions

Overcoming Corrupt or Incompetent Power Elites

[Undated] The French site cartoradiations.fr states (I have improved the Google translation of French)

Nuclear Safety: Citizen Inspection

Protecting the future of our children is not only a right but a duty.
For decades we have seen that for both national and international nuclear authorities with a duty to protect the public safety, to include the IAEA, a lack of transparency has been the rule rather than the exception. The world population is completely ill-informed or misinformed regarding nuclear incidents or accidents.
As a consequence, it is very difficult for citizens to get a precise idea regarding how to assess a situation based upon official figures or to understand the extent of radioactive environmental pollution. The principles of democracy and transparency require that citizens both for and against nuclear power who are subjected to major risks be able to demand of their governments the right to supplement the vigilance of safety officials so that threatened populations can be informed in a regular and transparent way.

2012-03-09 US Survey: Nuclear industry wrong — Fukushima having major, lasting impact on Americans, enenews.com
Title: Survey: Americans Not Warming Up to Nuclear Power One Year After Fukushima, Source: Bradenton Herald, Author: Civil Society Institute and ORC International, Date: March 7, 2012
To gauge any shift in public attitudes, the new survey was benchmarked to an earlier poll carried out by ORC International in March 2011 for CSI. Conducted February 23-26 2012, the new survey of 1,032 Americans shows that:
"...Nearly six in 10 Americans (57 percent) are less supportive of expanding nuclear power in the United States than they were before the Japanese reactor crisis, a nearly identical finding to the 58 percent who responded the same way when asked the same question one year ago. This contrasts sharply with pre-Fukushima surveys by Gallup and other organizations showing a 60 percent support level for nuclear power..."
2011-06-29 Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Almost Lost Nebraska by Harvey Wasserman, hawaiinewsdaily.com, [Rense.com]
" ...The corporate media is carrying virtually zero coverage of any of the above stories. All are subject to rapid, dangerous changes about which we may have little reliable information.
But we do know for sure that US Senator Robert Casey, Jr. (D-PA) now wants to see more deeply into one of the key holes in the nuclear façade: evacuation.
After Three Mile Island’s 1979 partial melt-down, new federal legislation allegedly gave states more power over how to get people out of the path of a melting nuke.
But after an as-yet unopened Perry reactor was damaged by a 1986 earthquake, Ohio’s then-Governor Richard Celeste sued to keep Perry shut pending a state evacuation study.
The NRC refused and won in federal court. Perry opened. Ohio’s official study then said evacuation was virtually impossible.
A quarter-century later, Casey wants to see what it might now take to move downwinders out of harm’s way from a TMI, Perry, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Vermont Yankee, Cooper, Ft. Calhoun…..you name it.
Casey’s being joined by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose demands for the shut-down of Indian Point, 35 miles north of Manhattan, have left its owners “shaken.”
Cuomo and Casey might do well to join governors of states like Vermont, Massachusetts, California and others in testing the law on evacuation planning. Populations have vastly increased at virtually all US reactor sites since TMI. And the ugly realities that define the so-called “Peaceful Atom” are still making themselves all too apparent.
Whether the US will now turn with Germany, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Israel and others away from atomic power and toward a green-powered Earth is up to us. The Solartopian technologies of wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, ocean thermal, bio-fuels, increased efficiency and conservation are now demonstrably cheaper, safer, cleaner, more reliable, more job-producing and quicker to install than anything atomic energy can promise.
A $36 billion loan guarantee give-away still mars the proposed 2012 federal budget. Constant pressure on Congress and the White House can kill that, and any other proposed funding for still more of these nightmares.
The stream of reactor disasters spewing from this dying industry is certain to escalate. The toll rises with each leak at Fukushima, every flame at Los Alamos, each legal brief at Vermont Yankee, every foot of Nebraska floodwater.
The need to stop the madness grows more desperate every day.
2011-07-21 Is nuclear energy different than other energy sources?, thebulletin.org, 2011-07-21 blog comment to this article [press "collapse" to see this article on the web page"]: The Fukushima tragedy demonstrates that nuclear energy doesn't make sense by Arjun Makhijani
Solutions. Nuclear power reactors are just boilers. Is it sensible to make plutonium and highly radioactive fission products just to boil water? Is that a sensible thing to do even if it were cheap, which it is not? Is that the limit of human technological creativity?
Luckily, the world has a free thermonuclear reactor in the sky: the sun, which also animates the winds. Innovations in renewable resources make it possible to take nuclear power out of our energy future. Wind power, even with storage (using compressed air pumped into caverns) is cheaper than new nuclear power plants. Solar photovoltaics are expected to be cheaper than coal without carbon capture in less than a decade (it is official US policy to try to achieve that goal with its "Sunshot Initiative"). Germany has decided to phase out nuclear power by 2022 while reducing carbon emissions. They will use solar power, onshore and offshore wind energy, distributed combined heat and power, advanced efficiency technologies, and a very smart grid. Italy and Switzerland have joined the Germans. The Japanese appear to be headed in the same direction, at least if Prime Minster Naoto Kan has his way.
The United States -- and indeed the rest of the world -- would be wise to do the same. Even if the United States had bold regulators who were unafraid to shut down unsafe plants or mandate a change in fuel design, they could still not possibly have the perfect crystal ball that nuclear reactors demand. And, as it is, the United States has regulators who operate in a political atmosphere that frowns on regulation and even on government itself. No wonder nuclear regulators are too timid to take the modest step of ordering dry storage of spent fuel to guard against terrorist attacks. The United States needs to phase out nuclear reactors in an orderly way -- before there is a Fukushima-scale human tragedy and deep environmental and economic damage."

Additional comments regarding the Reagan-Teller photograph:

According to Wikipedia, Dr. Teller was also a strong supporter of the Zionist A-bomb program: "For some twenty years, Teller advised Israel on nuclear matters in general, and on the building of a hydrogen bomb in particular. In 1952, Teller and Oppenheimer had a long meeting with David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv, telling him that the best way to accumulate plutonium was to burn natural uranium in a nuclear reactor..." Teller advocated very aggressive --many would say totally reckless and even deliberately genocidal -- nuclear weapons testing, nuclear power plant development, and even non-military uses of nuclear explosives for civil engineering projects. Wikipedia notes "Teller's vigorous advocacy for strength through nuclear weapons, especially when so many of his wartime colleagues later expressed regret about the arms race, made him an easy target for the `mad scientist' stereotype" Teller was also an easy target for charges that he was an original prototype for the fictional character "Dr. Strangelove", alongside another spine-chilling "Member of the Tribe" and close professional associate named Herman Kahn at the RAND Corporation. Last, but not least, this photo has an irony explained in the Alex Jones transcript where Reagan warned Americans about globalist schemes against farmers in the 1960's. (See also the 22 June 2011 American Thinker article The Purposeful Flooding of America's Heartland by Joe Herring which explains how deliberate flooding has endangered U.S. nuclear power plants). Admirers of Ronald Reagan believe that in his core he was a decent individual who played a weak hand well, making important incremental gains for conservatives in the face of leftist lunacy, and his "muddle through" skills within the Hollywood, Washington, D.C., and Wall Street political cesspools bought America valuable time for the fall of the Soviet Union, advent of the Internet, and other important events that are helping brainwashed Americans finally wake up and break out of the "matrix" and get their country back. In contrast, critics of "Ronnie" claim that he was really a disaster for the American Right, because he gave it a false sense of security -- unlike an "Obama" -- and the "teflon President" did too many anti-conservative things like support massive illegal alien amnesty and help skyrocket the national debt to be forgivable.

Appendix:
A Jewish Lady Accuses Dr. Edward Teller of Being a Satanist

Editor's Note: I have mirrored the following from the web page
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=123102; for the record just in case someone tires to scrub it off the Internet. Leuren Moret has stated in her interviews that Dr. Teller's associates at the Lawrence Livermore Labs intensely disliked him as a very nasty person. Based on what I have read about Bohemian Grove, the Rothschild and Mossad-CIA crime networks, high level "Franklin-Coverup" type pedophile networks, and high level Satanist groups, I think there is considerable truth to be found within the following passages (reproduced in their original form with spelling errors). I also find it believable that America's nuclear policy -- to include deliberately building nuclear power plants on some of the most seismically active zones in the world, exposing major civilian populations to secret fallout from bomb tests, nuclear power plants, and DU, and destroying Fukushima rectors with the Mossad-CIA Stuxnet virus in order to in turn destroy much of Japan and major parts of the U.S. -- quite a few of these monstrously evil acts have been perpetrated by individuals with very alien mentalities, to include criminally insane, demonic types. I think that film director Stanley Kubrick was on to something when he portrayed a high level U.S. nuclear policy maker as being off his rocker in Dr. Strangelove. See also:
2010-03-11 Edward Teller, Sabbatai Zevi, Michael Aquino, Johnny Gosch, aangirfan.blogspot.com.

Satanism Dark Secrets Exposed-Sabbatean Edward Teller
Sat Feb 21, 2009 05:26
69.146.243.110

Jewish Sabbatean Satanism Exposed in America
"No, it's NOT 'ANTISEMITISM'...It's THE TRUTH!"

-Edward Teller/"Dr. Strangelove""Father of the H-Bomb"

Shocking Memoires from ONE SURVIVOR

Throughout many years of investigating and reporting on satanism/Illuminati in America today, I was shocked and saddened to uncover the rampant Sabbatean satanism/Illuminism/ throughout the many Jewish communities in America, as I participated in social assistance to Russian JEWS (NYC) and performed home care/ child care in their Jewish communities in NYC, Charlotte (NC) and Washington DC and Chicago.
SABBATEAN SATANISM is that branch of satanist practices exclusively associated with the Jewish community, originating with false messiah Sabtai Z'vi several centuries ago. It is also allied with that Jewish branch of THE ILLUMINATI, the ROTHSCHILDS, as well, since both serve the same master and his dark purposes worldwide, Lucifer.
Certainly, not all Jews are of course involved in this. But I can state that there is in fact a decidedly powerful element among the Jewish communities who sadly are.
Previous reports I have published across America include articles exposing people like Jewish abortionist/Sabbatean DR. PHILLIP KITTNER, satanic high priest in the satanist mecca of ASHEVILLE NC, who aborted by DAY and offered human sacrifice of the innocents by night.
Fellow Jewish abortionist Hern of Boulder, CO, is also a Sabbatean satanist in that region. He is very open about it. His nurses of his clinic, in the past, actually wore patches on their uniforms with satanic pentagrams displayed to them, as reported to me by Christian pro-lifers frequenting his clinic to protest.
My previous reports exposing SATANISM IN AMERICA TODAY, also exposed LEONARD MILLMAN, former CIA drug money launderer in the SILVERADO SCANDAL in Denver, CO., as being a prominent member of Jewish Sabbatean satanist circles.
I personally interviewed one man who had married into the LEONRD MILLMAN family, only to come out terrified after discovering LEONARD MILLMAN and family WAS A POWERFUL MEMBER OF THE JEWISH SABBATEAN SATANIST CABAL found throughout the US and world wide.
Such Sabbatan Satanist Jews are ever at war with the Christians on a deadly scale. The ROTHSCHILD Illuminati satanic bloodline were the very ones who funded the beginnings of the BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION, intent on destroying Christianity from the face of the earth to establish their worldwide reign of the Jews in their planned "messianic reign" over the earth, with Jews in worldwide leadership.
Tens of millions of Christians were arrested, tortured and exiled in gulags and martyred for their faith in Jesus Christ at the hands of Jewish leaders and camp capos and secret police torturers.Churches were burned or seized. Bible seized and destroyed. Laws were written outlawing Christianity. One law established by the Bolsheviks in the early years of takeover, was to make criticism of the Jews punishable by death.
Karl Marx was in fact, a confirmed JEWISH SATANIST. His doctrines have been used for years as basis of justification to murder Christians worldwide.
One of the more detailed and horrifying accounts I encountered, but have NEVER previously published and am doing so for the first time now, is THE SECRET SABBATEAN SATANIST LIFESTYLE OF "DR STRANGELOVE," Hungarian Jew and considered the "father of the H-BOMB," EDWARD TELLER.
Teller is now deceased, but many of his victims remain alive, that he used and abused in dark BOHEMIAN GROVE satanic rituals, and among fellow Sabbateans across America, and in Hollywood as well. I encountered the wife of one of "ED TELLER'S BOYS" (formerly Jim Shaw, now deceased) while investigating in Denver, Colorado, Christmas of 2007.
I stayed in the home of Joseph and Paula Applegate for the holiday seasons to interview Paula, Jim Shaw's former wife before he died a few years ago. Paula personally poured out her heart regarding the horror that her former husband, Jim Shaw, had endured after being forced from childhood to become one of "Ed Teller's boys" that Teller used in grim SABBATEAN SATANIST rituals, not ONLY in the BOHEMIAN GROVE, but also in other Jewish Sabbatean satanist rituals nationwide, as well as in Hollywood.
Paula shared how, from the time Jim Shaw was turned over as a child to Edward Teller, he was used for pornographic and pedophilic purposes, and especially in JEWISH SABBATEAN SATANIST RITUALS, forced to sacrifice babies under Teller's orders and control, and used sexually in such rituals as well.
She also revealed Jim's firthand account of how he was introduced to Teller's many Jewish friends in HOLLYWOOD, and passed around to big names and Hollywood producers acquainted with Teller, to be sexually abused, often beaten up for sport as well.
During this time, Edward Teller was also a big financial supporter of a display making the rounds across America, perpetuating THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL. He even traveled witih it at one point, Paula revealed.
Interestingly, after Jim became an adult and still under Teller's control, Jim was also trained and used in THE MOSSAD and various operations.
As Jim emerged later into adulthood, he finally managed to cast off the shackles of SABBATEAN SATANISM and ED TELLER, and became a Messianic Jew, one who believes in Jesus Christ. And he exited that sordid and grim world of Edward Teller, Bohemian Grove and the Sabbatean Jews.
Paula told me that Jim's successful emerging from this Sabbatean world of darkness was not without many battles. Paula, herself a Messianic Jew, told me of the many attacks and retaliation by TELLER and his Sabbatean cronies and their attempts to get his "love boy," Jim, back into his dark clutches.
Angered that Paula was helping keep TELLER away from Jim, Teller attempted to have Paula abducted with the intent of sacrificing her and getting rid of her. She explained to me how their Sabbatean van pulled up next to their car one day, and several recognized Jewish Sabbateans assaulted her and attempted to abduct her, producing a syringe filled with the knock-out drugs used by such satanist abductors frequently, and dragged her away from her car.
Only the quick actions of her husband managed to help get her away and out of their hands. Their van drove away in quick retreat, without their intended victim.The attacks became frequent, she said. Jim and Paula evaded them each time, including their poisoning and death attempts on both their lives eventually (because they BOTH knew too much and became a threat to these Sabbateans and Ed Teller's cover.)
Paula fully gave the glory to God and their Messiah, Jesus Christ, for their ability to overcome these threats and attacks from very powerful satanists. She and Jim both knew how deadly and dangerous they were, how widespread their organization was, and how they were also linked with the deadly Jewish ILLUMINATI, such as the ROTHSCHILDS. Also they are linked with the Jewish/Russian Jewish MAFIA so prevalent in America today.
You can go to links confirming and exposing Teller's involvement in BOHEMIAN GROVE.http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&fkt=1583&fsdt=8042&q=
Edward+teller+bohemian+grove&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Of course, what such sites will NEVER tell you, is EDWARD TELLER'S HORRIFIC SABBATEAN SATANIST involvement, the countless dead infants and victims filling his years of involvement, and the true life account of ONE MAN WHO ESCAPED this satanist pedophile ring and the control of Sabbatean EDWARD TELLER, Jim Shaw.
Jim died a few years ago, and Paula remarried. But Jim's damning testimony exposing the hidden horrors of Jewish Sabbatean satanism continue to warn and wake up Americans to this day.
However, Paula's ordeal is not over. She recounted how her daughter has periodically been stalked, and how her husband has been prevented repeatedly from successfully being hired, because of ongoing harassment from these Sabbateans linked with Teller.
Thus is the painful and grim legacy of SABBATEAN SATANISM in America today.
-Pamela Schuffert

Special Equipment and Other Technological Approaches

2011-11-15 Protect yourself from rising radiation levels by Philip Ridley. "...Andrea Rossi recently demonstrated that cold fusion is viable, with a demonstration of his E-Cat cold fusion generator in Italy. This potentially safe technology would provide unlimited cheap energy utilizing a proprietary catalyst to make nuclear fusion occur at a safe temperature. We could also be using thorium reactors, which cannot melt down and which do not produce as much radioactive waste, but these were rejected because they cannot create a nuclear bomb...."
2011-07-21 Is nuclear energy different than other energy sources?, thebulletin.org, 2011-07-21 blog comment to this article [press "collapse" to see this article on the web page"]: The Fukushima tragedy demonstrates that nuclear energy doesn't make sense by Arjun Makhijani
"...Design flaws. In addition to dismissing smart design, like hardened dry-cask storage for aged spent fuel, nuclear power plants, even new ones, continue to incorporate a central design flaw. All four meltdowns had a common root in a single design feature: zircaloy fuel rods, which are used in all commercial light water reactors. Zircaloy is composed of zirconium (more than 95 percent) with small amounts of tin or niobium, or both. The zircaloy tubes contain the uranium-dioxide fuel pellets that sustain the chain reaction. Zirconium was chosen because it absorbs relatively few neutrons and because it has excellent heat-transfer properties. But there is a price: Zirconium reacts with steam to form zirconium dioxide and hydrogen gas -- an exothermic reaction that increases the temperature in the reactor even more than the loss of coolant alone. So, once the fuel is uncovered and the water in contact with the fuel rod begins to boil, both the process of a meltdown and the risk of an explosion accelerate.
This problem with zirconium was known early on. But, with its good heat conductivity and low neutron-absorption cross-section, it was just too attractive to nuclear power plant designers. Even after the Three Mile Island accident, there was no concerted effort to create a more robust fuel-rod design. Nor does there seem to be now -- after three more meltdowns and four hydrogen explosions...."
[no date] The Dry Cask Spent Fuel Storage Modules At Calhoun,.rigginginternational.com, [Rense.com US Nuke Plant in Trouble page]

Conferencing, Networking, and Organizing International Support

Organizing Resources by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. A good source of leads for citizen groups demanding nuclear sanity and responsibility.
Beyond Nuclear Bulletin at beyondnuclear.org. "Working for a world free from nuclear power and nuclear weapons." [Editor's Disclaimer: As a former military officer who wants to avoid alienating his military contacts, I find this stated purpose a bit too leftist, pacifistic, and utopian for my own personal tastes, but nevertheless this web site unquestionably has a lot of very valuable leads, insights, and background information].
Sample activist mass distribution email:
2011-08-16 Alert! Please Stay Out of the Rain and Help Us Push for Global Nuclear Catastrophe Resolution and American Nuclear Safety by William B. Fox [Ed. Note: An example of an activist alert].
2008-10-20 Grassroots Groups by Nuclear Site, nanuclear.org, "The following is a geographic list of Grassroots Organizations who monitor Nuclear sites in the United States." Download PDF: GRASSROOT GROUPS MONITORING NUCLEAR SITES.pdf

Additional References

Miscellaneous Links

Resources

Energy News at enenews.com. [Editor's Note: See the interesting blog discussion "Who is behind Energy News"]
Nuclear News Now -- Ft. Calhoun
Rense.com US Nuke Plants in Trouble page and Dr. Tom Burnett blog. Dr. Tom Burnett is a leading guest commentator on the Jeff Rense show regarding Ft. Calhoun.
Real Time EPA RadNet Japan Nuclear Radiation Monitoring For Every Major City In The Entire US On A Single Page, blog.alexanderhiggins.com, 12 April 2011 [Editor's Note: Not all of this data is accurate. Please also see 2011-05-19 Confirmed: EPA Rigged RADNET Japan Nuclear Radiation Monitoring Equipment To Report Lower Levels Of Fukushima Fallout, blog.alexanderhiggins.com.]
enviroreporter.com. Web site run by Michael Collins tracks radiation build up on the West Coast
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, ananuclear.org.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at thebulletin.org.
Radiation and Public Health Project at radiation.org.
Beyond Nuclear Bulletin at beyondnuclear.org. "Working for a world free from nuclear power and nuclear weapons." [Editor's Disclaimer: As a former military officer who wants to avoid alienating his military contacts, I find this stated purpose a bit too leftist, pacifistic, and utopian for my own personal tastes, but nevertheless this web site unquestionably has a lot of very valuable leads, insights, and background information].
nuclearpowerdanger.com Has plume maps for U.S. nuclear plants and some interesting articles.
Nuclear Information and Resource Service: http://www.nirs.org/home.htm
The Radiation and Public Health Project: http://www.radiation.org
Institute for Policy Studies, nuclear issues web page.
Union of Concerned Scientists nuclear power plant section
The Bellona Foundation Bellona is an international environmental organization based on science and technology with 70 employees in Norway, Russia, Brussels and the US. This web site provides a good background education on nuclear and other energy-related issues. It makes it clear that there are significant nuclear industry problems not only in Japan, but also in Russia, the UK, U.S., and everywhere else where one has nuclear plants and nuclear waste. The problems involve many factors, and not just Mossad-CIA Stuxnet virus sabotage, to include a certain "nuclear bureaucratic" mindset that seems to plague nuclear industries and nuclear military forces everywhere.
majiasblog.blogspot.com Fukushima and Ft.Calhoun updates
Cooper Status update" at news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com
Fukushima and other nuke disasters tag at whatreallyhappened.com
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety nuclearactive.org [Editor's Note: The last time I checked this web page it looked like someone had hacked it and it was mostly blank. Perhaps you will have better timing].
homeland-defense4u.co, web site of activist Ann Morrison, covers Los Alamos fire and other issues.
truthfarmer.wordpress.com, web site of activist Doreen Hannes, covers deliberate flooding of southeastern Missouri by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California at Berkeley at nuc.berkeley.edu
OPPD Flood and Outage Information
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Missouri River Basin, Water Management Division. Has dam release data.
Ace Hoffman's Nuclear Failures Report
Nuclear Power Fact Sheet (pdf), 10 Jan 2012, by Physicians for Social Responsibility
nukeproffesional.blogspot.com
nuclearhotseat.com

Online eBooks

Nuclear Witnesses, Insiders Speak Out, Chapter 4, and interview with Dr. John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D.
Poisoned Power: The Case Against Nuclear Power Plants Before and After Three Mile Island by Dr. John W Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., and Arthur R. Tamplin, Ph.D., Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pa., 1971 and 1979.
Preventing Breast-Cancer: The story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease by
John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. 1996.
Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease: Dose-Response Studies with Physicians per 100,000 Population by John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph. D., Professor Emeritus, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1999
Radiation-Induced Cancer From Low-Dose Exposure by John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. 1990.
No Immediate Danger, Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, Part 1, by Dr Rosalie Bertell, The Book Publishing Company -- Summertown, Tennessee 38483
Miscellaneous book extracts and articles by leading experts such as Dr. John Gofman and Dr. Rosalie Bertell on the overview web page titled :"The Health Costs of Nuclear Technology."
Secret Fallout: Low-Level Radiation From Hiroshima to Three-Mile Island by Dr. Ernest Sternglass, 1972 and 1981. Chapter 15 Fallout At Shippingport has a very valuable discussion of the official coverup of the terrible damage wrought by radioactive leakage of the Shippingport nuclear reactor 25 miles west of Pittsburgh on the local comunity and how chronic low level radiation can be more dangerous than short bursts of high level radiation.
Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation by Harvey Wasserman & Norman Solomon with Robert Alvarez & Eleanor Walters, A Delta Book, 1982
The Code Killers: An Expose (pdf) by Ace Hoffman, acehoffman.org, May 2008. [Editor's Note: This free downloadable ebook is an excellent illustrated introduction to the hazards of nuclear power. Hoffman offers three different pdf file sizes/quality levels].
COVERUP: What you are not supposed to know about NUCLEAR POWER by Karl Grossman, 1980, 2011
Chernobyl, Insight from the Inside [Extracts from the book online], by Vladimir M. Chernousenko, Scientific Director of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics in Kiev's Task Force for the Rectification of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident, 1991. See also Chernobyl and the Collapse of Soviet Society by Jay M. Gould, March 15, 1993, which comments on this book.
Nuclear Crimes by Andrew Kishner (background here), nuclearcrimes.org. Excellent research, covers outrages from 1945 to Fukushima.
The Nuclear Reader was written with the intention of bringing into focus information known and unknown which surrounds the use of nuclear energy........

• Chapter 1. Hazards of Low Level Radioactivity
  This chapter discusses some of the Many hazards of low level radioactivity.
• Chapter 2. Nuclear Power is Bad Business
  This chapter dispells the myth that nuclear power is economically viable.
• Chapter 3. The Petkau Effect
  This chapter explains the health damaging effect of low-dose radioactivity.
• Chapter 4. Health Damage from Radioactivity
  This chapter clarifies that there is no safe dose of radiation.
• Chapter 5. References
  Medical literature on radiation health damage.
• Chapter 6. Depleted Uranium
  This chapter looks at depleted uranium as a part of the nuclear energy cycle with attention to military uses.
• Chapter 7. Photos of Radiation Damage
  This chapter contains photos of plant deformities and infant deformaties.
• Chapter 8. Radioactive Waste
  This chapter discusses the fact that there is no plan for long term storage of radioactive waste.
• Chapter 9. Toward Clean Energy
  This chapter explores clean renewable energy sources.

How to Help Support the Body's Healing After Intense Radioactive or Radiation Exposure: The Medical, Naturopathic, Nutritional, Herbal, Commonsense External and Internal Approaches (pdf) by Bill Bodri, 2004

Books Recommended by Dr. John Apsley during the 31 March 2011 Patrick Timpone interview on One Radio Network. These books help to explain how the government, nuclear industry, and special interests have lead us to the horrible mess we find ourselves in today. (Part 1: download here, 26.8 MB, 57:13; Part 2: download here, 27.5 MB, 58:40) at around 31:00 into the first hour:
The Petkau Effect: Nuclear Radiation, People, and Trees by Ralph Graeub, Four Walls Eight Windows, NY, (1992)
Deadly Deceit: Low Level Radiation, High Level Cover-up by Dr. Jay M. Gould (1993)
The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors by Jay. Gould, Four Walls Eight Windows, NY, NY (1996)
Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the 20th Century by Dr. J. Samuel Walker, University of California Press (2000). According to Dr. Apsley, this explains how high level policy makers used an arbitrary and capricious approach without really knowing what the real reference points were.
Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy Wagner, Harvard University Press

.Los Alamos

Chapter 7: Los Alamos Laboratories: History and Mission (PDF) Water Report, by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, ananuclear.org.

Jet Stream

Jet Stream Analyses and Forecasts San Francisco State University

Other Web Pages At America First Institute/America First Books on Related Topics

Professor Chris Busby archive at the America First Institute
Leuren Moret archive at the America First Institute
Dr. Doug Rokke archive at America First Books
Week-by-week Fukushima Radiation and Fallout Projections
by William B. Fox
Fukushima Open Source Intel/Alternative Media Summary Page
by William B. Fox
BP-Gulf Catastrophe Intel/Alternative Media Summary Page
by William B. Fox

Other Summary Web Pages by Other Authors

Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Accident and Los Alamos National Laboratory Fire, tuberose.com

Transcripts

2011-07-18 Fukushima and the Global Danger, Dr. James Fetzer interview with Leuren Moret on The Real Deal talk show. Some topics discussed: Japanese government cover-up, infant mortality increase in the U.S., how HAARP and the Stuxnet virus set up the Fukushima melt-downs, radiation and the global depopulation agenda, and absurd nuclear industry practices.
2011-07-01 Alex Jones Show (extract). Jones explains how the deliberate flooding policy implemented by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dovetails with even more sinister policies at a higher level, like U.N. Agenda 21. The amazingly passive-aggressive behavior of authorities in handling the Ft. Calhoun and Cooper nuclear power plant crises amidst rising flood waters must be understood in the context of very malevolent and greedy policies advocated by globalists which work against against local and national interests.
2011-06-27 Jeff Rense interview with Dr. Tom Burnett on the Ft. Calhoun danger and the ongoing Fukushima catastrophe.
2008-02-03 The Hidden Purpose For Using DU, Hours 1 and 2, Dr. Winn Parker interview on "Parker Pathways," Republic Broadcasting Network. Ms. Moret provides background on Dr. Edward Teller, Henry Kissinger, and other "lunatics who ran the [nuclear industry] asylum." Dr. Parker explains some methods for stealth mass extermination of Americans that have been under development.

Wikipedia articles

[Editor's Note: These links are provided with the caveat that Wikipedia has often been hijacked as a Mossad-CIA disinformation source, as in the case of confronting 9/11-related government lies and cover-ups. Its editor's once maliciously removed my update to an article about Tom Chittum's work Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup of America by censoring the entire Civil War Two web page! Please scroll for "Wikipedia" on the Tom Chittum archive web page. See also Professor James Fetzer Exposes Wikipedia.org (video).]

Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents (title of article)

List of civilian nuclear accidents

• List of civilian nuclear incidents
• List of civilian radiation accidents
• List of crimes involving radioactive substances
• List of military nuclear accidents
• List of nuclear and radiation accidents
• List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
• List of nuclear tests
• List of sunken nuclear submarines 

Deliberate Flooding, HAARP, Farm Monopolization, Police State Terror, Population Reduction

Agenda 21(Wikipedia article) "Agenda 21 is an action plan of the United Nations (UN) related to sustainable development and was an outcome of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. It is a comprehensive blueprint of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the UN, governments, and major groups in every area in which humans directly affect the environment..."
Fort Peck Dam

Nuclear Plants and Facilities

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station
Cooper Nuclear Station
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
Las Conchas Fire
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New Technologies in Development

Pebble Bed Reactor
Next Generation Nuclear Plant

Significant Videos

2013-05-28 Into Eternity (1:15:30) Documentary about the problems of dealing with radiation and storing nuclear waste, with a focus on the Finnish Onkalo spent nuclear fuel storage site. A repository needs to be self-contained and stable for at least 100,000 years, yet no human civilization has built anything that has lasted even a tenth that time.
2011-10-05 Nuclear Contamination by Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
2011-10-01 Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott roused the crowds at the No Nuke Rally Saturday October 1st 2011 in NYC by the Hudson River, joined by The Coalition Against Nukes supporters.
2011-08-23 NUKES, TVA, Health & Safety, The NRC & the Nuclear Industry With Ann Harris (video) (58:11) "On 7/9/2011 Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear plant whistleblower Ann Harris talks about her life and struggles at the TVA in the fight for health and safety and justice on the job. Harris has not only defended herself but many other nuclear industry workers. She also talks about the control of the TVA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission by the industry and their trade organization the Nuclear Energy Industry NEI..." (h/t to Majias.blog that highly recommended this video)
2011-08-12 Dial "M" for Meltdown (15:00) by Brian Rich, fairewinds.com. "Long time Fairewinds.com viewer and filmmaker Brian Rich has created a moving and high energy chronology of nuclear power and its impact upon the world."
2011-07-04 Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant A very informal and irreverent narrative overview of the Ft. Calhoun story (caution: profanity).
2011-07-03 Radiation Coverups Confirmed: Los Alamos, Fort Calhoun, Fukushima, TSA, corbettreport.com. See transcript on this page.
2011-07-01 Kaku on ABC: Ft. Calhoun nuke plant “like Fukushima in slow motion” (VIDEO)
2011-06-30 Fort Calhoun Nuclear Disaster Simulation Software Shows Plume Over Nebraska And Iowa.flv (6:45)
2011-06-28 Local TV: Water has leaked into building containing radioactive material at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant — “That water we treat as radioactive waste” (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-06-27 Flooding Concerns at Nuclear Plant (0:47)
2011-06-27 New docs show only 11 days ago workers at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant were still plugging holes where water could come flooding in (VIDEO), enenews.com.
2011-06-24 Thom Hartmann: Nuclear Power – “We Almost Lost Nebraska” (video), (4:47) RT. Ft. Calhoun was built in a flood plain, just like many other U.S. reactors have been built over flood zones or in the path of tornadoes.
2011-06-14 Arnie Gundersen - Nebraska Nuclear Plant: Emergency Level 4 & Getting Worse (video) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
2011-03-18 Dr. Helen Caldicott at Montreal Press Conference "The Dangers of Nuclear War Conference." Dr. Caldicott explains the grave dangers of Fukushima radiation. This video was posted 2011-05-08 on YouTube with the title "Why I Am Leaving Vancouver British Columbia Canada - Thanks, Fukushima Japan"

MP3 Downloads

[Editor's Note: I have provided interviews below about Fukushima since they provide deep background regarding Mossad-CIA black ops and nuclear industry inertia that have relevance to U.S. nuclear industry problems. The Rense interviews with Yoichi Shimatsu focus on Fukushima, whereas the interviews with Dr. Tom Bartlett often comment upon the Ft. Calhoun and Cooper nuclear power plant crises].

2011-08-05 "Robert Gilkeson and Joni Arends on the alarming risk of a Fukushima-on-steroids disaster at the Los Alamos Lab and the plans for an $80 billion plutonium pit factory." Dr. Helen Caldicott interviews Robert Gilkeson and Joni Arends. (If You Love This Planet, MP3 download link Here, 55.3 MB, 59 min).
2011-07-18 "Fukushima and the Global Danger." Dr. James Fetzer interview with Leuren Moret, web page Here, (The Real Deal, MP3 download link Here, 42.1 MB, 1:59:50) Transcript Here.
2011-07-25 Jeff Rense interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 5.7 MB, 24:17)
2011-07-18 Jeff Rense interview with Michael Collins (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 4.8 MB, 20:15)
2011-07-18 Jeff Rense weekly interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here 5.6 MB, 24:04)
2011-07-11 Deanna Spingola interview with Doreen Hannes ("Spingola Speaks," cf. spingola.com,on Republic Broadcasting Network, Show MP3 downloads: 1st hour link Here; each show 13.8 MB, 58 min 48 sec). Topic: In the first hour, Doreen Hannes discusses the deliberate flooding of the Missouri River by the Army Corps of Engineers and their New World Order, pro-Agenda 21 handlers. Her web site is, www.truthfarmer.wordpress.com.
2011-07-11 Jeff Rense interview with Dr. Bill Deagle (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 13.8 MB, 58:54)
2011-07-11 Jeff Rense weekly interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here 5.7 MB, 24:27)
2011-07-01 John Moore interview with Ann Morrison ("The John Moore Show," Republic Broadcasting Network, Show MP3 downloads: 2nd hour link Here; each show about 13.8 MB, 58 min 48 sec). Topic: John and Ann discuss various topics including the hazardous fires near the Los Alamos, New Mexico nuclear labs. Ann Morrison's Website: www.homeland-defense4u.com.
2011-07-01 Alex Jones Show (Infowars.com, Full three hour show MP3 download Here, 43.4 MB, 3:05:02). See transcript of an extract of the show Here. Jones talks about the deliberate flooding of the Missouri River and Agenda 21.
2011-06-27 Jeff Rense interview with Dr. Tom Burnett (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 13.8 MB, 58:54). See full transcript Here.
2011-06-27 Jeff Rense weekly interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here 5.6 MB, 24:04)
2011-06-20 Jeff Rense interview with Dr. Tom Burnett (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 14.7 MB, 1 hr 2 min.)
2011-06-20 Jeff Rense weekly interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here 5.4 MB, 23 min, 1 sec.)
2011-06-13 Jeff Rense interview with Dr. Tom Burnett (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 9.4 MB, 40 min.)
2011-06-13 Deanna Spingola interviews Jim Stone ("Spingola Speaks," cf. spingola.com,on Republic Broadcasting Network, Show MP3 downloads: 1st hour link Here; 2ns hour link Here; each show 13.8 MB, 58 min 49 sec). Topic: Did the Dimona Dozen Murder the Fukushima 50? Journalist Jim Stone at jimstonefreelance.com, discusses various issues related to Fukushima sabotage such as HAARP, nuclear weapon earthquake triggering devices, Israeli security at Japanese nuclear plants, earthquake anomalies, and the Mossad-CIA Stuxnet virus.
2011-06-11 Jeff Rense weekly interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here 5.4 MB, 22 min, 53 sec.)
2011-06-06 Jeff Rense weekly interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 5.4 MB, 22 min, 53 sec.)
2011-05-30 Jeff Rense interview with Dr. Tom Burnett (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 9.8 MB, 41 min, 51 sec.)
2011-05-30 Jeff Rense weekly interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 5.8 MB, 24 min, 49 sec.)
2011-05-24 Jeff Rense interview with Dr. Tom Burnett (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 9.2 MB, 39 min, 21 sec.)
2011-05-23 Jeff Rense weekly interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 5.7 MB, 24 min, 12 sec.)
2011-05-16 Jeff Rense weekly interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 5.7 MB, 24 min, 23 sec.)
2011-05-12 Patrick Seamus (The "Irish Info Warrior") interviews Michael Janitch ("Dutchsinse") (TCTRadio Presents The Free Truth Show, Show MP3 download link Here. 27.7 MB, 2 hr 1 min.) Janitch talks about "HAARP rings" and his YouTube leadership in reporting Fukushima radiation forecasts. [Editor's Note: I do not know enough about Janitch --an amateur meteorologist -- to vouch for his overall credibility, but he has certainly offered a lot of provocative ideas worth further research. My gut feeling is that he is on to something. However, the insinuation in two online videos that Janitch can collect definitive radiation data with a Geiger counter on one particular clear day in a park in St. Louis or on another clear day on top of Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina -- which showed negligible radiation during these particular times -- is naive. It takes very specialized equipment to detect various types of fallout nanoparticles and isotopes, and furthermore one needs radiation plume projection data from meteorologists to avoid being deceived by clear gaps between radioactive fallout-bearing formations. The greatest fallout takes place during rain fall. In addition, certain hot isotopes such as radioactive iodide decay relatively quickly, leaving almost not trace of radiation a week or two later, but dangerous when they initially fall out of the sky. However, there is a video where Dutchsinse found over 124 CPM on his Geiger counter on top of Grandfather Mountain on 24 April 2011. Over 100 is a cause of concern. Compare with the following article: 2011-04-07 Radioactive Rainwater in Saint Louis Missouri Makes Geiger Counter Go NUTS!, blog.alexanderhiggins.com.]
2011-05-09 Jeff Rense weekly interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 5.3 MB, 22 min, 41 sec.)
2011-05-02 Jeff Rense repeat interview with Yoichi Shimatsu (Rense.com, Show MP3 download link Here. 10 MB, 42 min, 28 sec.)
2006-03-06 Paul Goettlich interviews Dr. Ernest Sternglass on low level radiation (overview web page here, download page here, download here, 9.93 MB, 43 min)

Dr. Edward Morbius, played by Walter Pidgeon in the 1956 science fiction classic The Forbidden Planet, demonstrates an IQ-boost machine to a visiting earth crew that enables him to "image" his daughter Altaira. The machine also helped Morbius gain control over the extremely advanced technology of a civilization that came before him on his planet --a civilization created by a people called the Krell who mysteriously wiped themselves out. On a deep psychological level, Morbius proves no more capable of handling this awesome technological power than most Americans are today of handling the stealth dangers of biowarfare, HAARP (weather warfare), DU contamination, nuclear industry radiation releases and various other "depopulation" measures incrementally visited upon an unsuspecting public. All these things acting together threaten to wipe out most Americans. (Typically an induced "act of nature" provides an "cover story." This is then followed by the release of such hidden terrors as "soft kill" radiation effects that include increased rates of sterility, cancer and other diseases or dysfunctions as well as more obvious "hard kill" forms of radiation poisoning).