Kirk, Sorry. Swamped here.
Thanks for the input. There are still a lot of gullible people. And a lot of people are counting on that. Sounds like your history can be of service to a lot of people. You could document it you know? Todd Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:35 PM Subject: RE: Energy Related Deaths are "Meaningless?" - A Primer in the History of Nuclear Accidents was lRe: [biofuel] Excess deaths from power industries > Todd, I used to work in the radiation business. > There are "situations" that never occurred unless you were one of the people > present. > Secrecy and denial are part of the job. > > Sad but true. The reality of radiation is an unknown. I suppose someone > somewhere has access to the non events but they aren't part of statistics > for public consumption. NRC risk assessment is a sales job. > > Kirk > > -----Original Message----- > From: Appal Energy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 6:26 PM > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Energy Related Deaths are "Meaningless?" - A Primer in the > History of Nuclear Accidents was lRe: [biofuel] Excess deaths from power > industries > > > WARNING: > > This message is lengthy and filled with information. If you are averse to > the thought of better comprehending the historical record of the nuclear > power industry, please walk away from the screen. > ........................ > PREVIOUS MESSAGE: > > > > > The NRC calculates that this level of > > > > radiation release > > > > spread over the population will cause 12 cancer > > > > deaths per reactor." > > > > Possibly true (can't verify the numbers, but know them to be non-zero). > > Now let's have the excess death figures for other forms of power > > generation, starting with coal-fired steam plants... > > > > Bottom line: there are no cost-free power technologies - only better and > > worse ones. So the figures are meaningless unless other power > > technologies' excess deaths are presented for comparison. Without those, > > the article is just scare tactics. > > > > Marc de Piolenc > ....................... > > PREFACE: > ....................... > No, Marc. > > I believe that the true matter behind your point is that you would prefer to > obfuscate the issue(s), deriving some extremely peculiar form of personal > satisfaction. > > Coal? It Kills. Nuclear? It Kills. Oil? It Kills. > > But you want to argue over which death has more meaning? > > Are you really that careless (read "lack of caring") and inconsiderate of > other human life?. > > You admit that at least some deaths related to nuclear are inevitable, yet > you qualify those deaths as "meaningless" and the NRC text that informs the > public of their inevitable existence as being nothing more than "scare > tactics?" > > How many "survivable" childhood leukemias, "survivable" bone, breast and > thyroid cancers are equally as "meaningless" to you? > > The really ugly fact about the NRC's nuclear "risk assessment," - quite the > misleading term in itself - is that these deaths are going to be ONLY the > ones they can with some degree of certainty certify as nuclear power plant > related. > > It doesn't address the "uncertifiable" and inevitable hundreds or perhaps > thousands of instances of human suffering that will also occur - some may be > deaths, some may be "survivable" cancers and others may be "nothing" more > obtrusive than chromosomal damage that may or may not surface at some later > date in any family's genetic "lottery." > > You may be familiar with the first few, as they are military "Bent Spears" > and "Broken Arrows." I would presume that US Army Counter Intelligence > informed you of these terms during your residence there. > ................ > > A PRIMER IN THE HISTORY OF NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS: > > "BROKEN ARROWS" - accidents which threaten nuclear devastation - 36 known by > 1991 - none of which were acknowledged willingly. Almost without question > more have not surfaced. > > 1) July 27, 1956, RAF Lakenheath, Cambridgeshire. Great Britain. US B-47 > crashes upon landing. Three Mark-6 bombs come within a few degrees of > detonation. > > 2) 1950, Fairfield-Suisum USAFB, California, USA. A US aircraft crashes. > Nuclear bomb on board explodes during the fire, killing 19 men. Pentagon > only admits the accident in 1981. Base renamed to Travis AFB, after General > Travis who died in explosion. > > 3) March 10, 1956. US B-47 fails to meet refueling tanker and crashes into > the Mediterranean. Two capsules of nuclear material for bombs presumably > lost. > > 4) 1957. A Mark-17 nuclear bomb accidentally dropped near Albuquerque, New > Mexico, USA. Believed to be the same as the Mark-17 dropped on Bikini Atoll, > Marshal Islands, 1954, yielding 1,200 times that of the Hiroshima bomb. > Fortunately, when the 20 ton explosive trigger detonated, the nuclear device > failed to ignite. > > 5) 1961, Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA. A 24 megaton bomb, approximately > 1,900 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, was accidentally dropped > over Goldsboro. Five of six safety devices were destroyed upon impact, > leaving only one safety device between an "incident" and devastation across > half the Eastern Seaboard. > > 6) January 17, 1966, near Polomares, Spain. A US B-52 collides with a jet. > The conventional explosive detonation devices scatter the plutonium of 2 of > the 4 bombs over an enormous area. > > 7) January 21, 1968, near Thule, Greenland. Another B-52 collision results > in the plutonium cores of all four bombs on board being scattered over a > greater land mass than the Polomares, Spain accident. Effects of plutonium > contamination are still being realized to date, despite "intensive cleanup" > and "removal of soil to the US," now considered to be largely fictitious > measures. > > 8) December, 1964, Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, USA. A Minuteman nuclear > missile sparks a tremendous explosion when a retrorocket accidentally fires. > > 9) 1960, McGuire AFB, New Jersey, USA. A Bomarc missile explodes in its > silo. Plutonium contamination is so severe that the entombment area is > covered by 500,000 square feet of concrete. Depth of concrete undetermined. > > 10) 1980. (Site unknown.) Titan nuclear missile launches itself after a > workman drops a wrench down the silo. The wrench punctures a fuel tank, > resulting in an explosion that sets the rocket in motion. Fortunately, the > warhead did not explode when the rocket crashed one quarter of one mile > distant. > > 11) April 10, 1963, off the Cape Cod Coast, Massachusetts, USA. The nuclear > submarine USS Thresher implodes and sinks in 8,500 feet of water. 129 lives > lost. > > 12) May 27, 1968, 400 miles southwest of the Azore Islands. The nuclear > submarine USS Scorpion sinks in 10,000 feet of water. Two ASTOR nuclear > torpedoes lost. Ninety-nine crewmen dead. > ................. > > Throw in the rest of the 36 "Broken Arrows" that were known by 1991, add a > few hundred known and unknown "Bent Spears," and you have absolute proof of > how little safety there is in the US military nuclear sector - which happens > to encompass an enormous amount of the private sector of the nuclear > industry. > > Couple that with the abysmal track record of the French, English and Russian > militaries and we have even greater substantiation of how "safe" nuclear > pursuits actually are. > .................. > > ADD THE 66 ATMOSPHERIC, UNDERWATER AND SUBTERRANEAN NUCLEAR AND > THERMONUCLEAR TESTS conducted between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll and > Enewetak, in the southern Pacific - known as "Operation Crossroads." > > For decades, the inhabitants of Rongelap Atoll, "down wind" from Bikini and > Enewetak, suffered the effects of radiation poison - birth defects and > cancers - literally begging the United States government to remove them from > their home. Only in 1985, after decades of requests and increasing media > documentation and public awareness, were they removed. > > As for the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior's fate? After assisting with the > Rongelap relocation to Mejato, she and her crew sailed to Auckland Harbor, > New Zealand, in preparation of leading an enormous flotilla of ships and > boats prepared to occupy the waters within France's Pacific nuclear testing > site at Muroroa Island, as an act of protest. > > Greenpeace's southern Pacific anti-nuclear presence had been a thorn in > France's side since 1972. > > On July 10, 1985, shortly before midnight and only a few days before the > flotilla's departure, twenty kilos of underwater explosives were used to > blow two enormous holes in the Rainbow Warrior's hull, while she was docked > with all crew members on board. One crewman died. It was later determined in > both courts of inquiry and law that the terrorist action was committed by > commandos of the DSGE Action Service, France's secret service, and in all > probability approved on a cabinet level. > > The convicted commandos were later released into French custody and served > no time. > > On December 4, 1989, in international waters off the coast of Florida, the > US Navy illegally and indefensibly attacked the M.V. Greenpeace with two 250 > foot vessels, repeatedly ramming it. Even after two large holes were > punctured in the hull of the M.V. Greenpeace and a Mayday distress signal > was radioed declaring the ship disabled, the navy vessels continued their > attacks. > .................. > Two instances at minimum of "State Sponsored Terrorism" to protect nuclear > energy policy. > .................. > > COUPLE THESE TRAVESTIES WITH: > > 1, 2, 3, & 4) 1956; 1957; 1981; 1985, Sellafield, Great Britain - October 8, > 1957. Inadequate temperature sensing arrays gives technicians cause to > increase heat inputs, thinking the core is cooling down. At 11.05 AM the > control rods are withdrawn for a routine start of the reactor's uranium > "enhancement" chain reaction. > > Approximately 35,000 aluminum cans of uranium are present in channels of the > granite walls, with the sole intent and purpose of being partially > "enriched" into plutonium for military purpose by the reactor. > > A canister of lithium and magnesium, also in the reactor to create tritium > for a British H bomb, are believed to be the first to burst and ignite in > the soaring temperatures. This coupled with igniting uranium and graphite > sends temperatures soaring to 1,300 degrees centigrade. > > An estimated 20,000 curies of radioactive iodine escape along with other > isotopes such as plutonium, cesium and highly toxic polonium. > > 5) 1961, Idaho Falls, USA - A military SL-1 reactor erupts. Radioactive > steam kills three technicians. > > 6) 1968, Detroit, USA - A fast breeder reactor overheats. Part of the core > melts down and gases escape before being brought under control. > > 7) 1972, New York, USA - An explosion in a plutonium works plant causes > enough contamination that it is closed permanently > > 8) 1975 Brown's Ferry, USA - All five "failsafe" systems knocked out and two > twin reactors nearly destroyed. > > 9) 1979 Three Mile Island - Operator error and faulty gauge valve causes > near melt-down and an inordinate amount of gas and debris to escape. Reactor > destroyed and later entombed. > > 10) 1986, Gore, Oklahoma, USA - A radioactive gas leak and explosion in the > Kerr McGee uranium plant. One dead. 100 hospitalized. > > 11) April 26, 1986, Ukraine, USSR - The #4 reactor at Chernobyl burns out. A > test is initiated to determine how long generators could produce electricity > on momentum alone. Automatic cooling system disconnected to prevent > automatic shutdown when the reactor is reduced to 7% power. The automatic > "turbine speed reduction" safety also disconnected. At 1:23 AM, with the > flip of a switch, Chernobyl melts down. > > The 1,000 ton, two feet thick steel reactor lid blows off and the ten feet > thick concrete containment was are blown apart. Plant is destroyed in 4 > seconds. > > CHERNOBYL REPERCUSSIONS? > > Chernobyl burned for 12 days, emitting the equivalent of 1,000 Hiroshima > bombs, initially killing 31 people and effecting the evacuation of 135,000 > people over a 300 mile square area. > > Estimated cancer induced deaths were between 5,000 and 25,000 in the Ukraine > alone. Worldwide estimates of cancer related death due to fall out are > 39,000. Both estimates considered highly conservative. > > Presently, over 4,000,000 residents continue to live in severely > contaminated areas. > > Scotland estimates its children received 45 times the amount of radiation > from a single x-ray. Estimates based upon thyroid studies. > > France's agriculture is severely contaminated, yet the government refuses to > inform farmers what the levels are. > > United Kingdom's Environment Ministry re-establishes a "safe" level of > radioactivity in milk to 3-4 times greater than in the US or West Germany. > When these levels were acceded, they are re-labeled as "advisory." > > OTHER? > > I believe we can temporarily hold off on all the data from the Nevada, USA > testing program, both above and below ground. Human experimentation was > conducted en masse both here and Bikini / Enewetak - primarily Army > personnel in Nevada and Navy personnel in the southern Pacific. > > We can temporarily hold off on the thousands of low level radiation leaks > and releases throughout the industry that continue on a regular basis to > this date. > > We can hold off on the history of record for each nuclear facility ever > operated in the US, military, private, enrichment, or public power > generating - data warehoused by the NRC. > > We can diminish incidents such as cracks in Turkey Point's reactor cores > (Miami, Florida, USA) or near loss of coolant resulting from Hurricane > Andrew. > .............. > > Todd Swearingen > Appal Energy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ................... > > POST SCRIPT: To Master Piolenc, > > After all this, is there anything else you would care to omit or obfuscate? > > It would be a great service to yourself and the list were you to refrain > from trying to pass these or other disasters off as "Well...if they hadn't > put that building in front of the plane," or "It was the valve > manufacturer's fault, not the industry's," or "See - one out of six safety > devices did work." > > Such attempt(s) would prove truly to be "counter-intelligent." > > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! 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