This is a very important article well researched with embedded links.
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
OverView: Nukes Bad Business
Well it is a rare occurrence that I am ever speechless but that has been my state. So I have have spent my time collecting, copying and archiving all of the information on this disaster. I have noticed Contacts and News feeds disappear as time goes on and issues are reinvented.
School began for me so it was impossible to attend the Hanford meeting in Portland, eight hours away in the middle of the week. We all have to live our lives but as an effected population we must work together to change the direction of electrical generation. Unfortunately nuclear plants are a symptom of much deeper issues which feed complacency. We all have a responsibility to correct this course.
A couple of points I would like to make. Human beings are truly a global community sharing a nightmare they may never recover from. Plutonium has been created by humans, dispersed by humans and will now affect humans for longer than dominant Western society can remember (25,000). These are facts. This is the heritage we all have allowed. It is what we will be known through all time and space.
I do not want to continue on this, however truthful, didactic spasm of thought, I want to make suggestions for change. First of all these directional decisions that we have seen fit not to participate in for what ever reasons, do effect us. Not one can escape. So if it is all choice and a "game" with the true reality being:
AIR, WATER, FOOD in that order.
Why mot make a "game" (human Culture) compassionate to humans and the Earth. It will "sell" just as well if not better and humans will be able to find the joy of their full potential. I'm sorry for the folks who have their chips on the losing hand but they put them there.
Culture has played a part in this disaster. The Japanese are very polite. Like many very old cultures it is simply not OK to talk about bad things or things that would make someone feel unworthy. You can see how this might create serious issues in a a situation like the Fukushima accident. Another thing I have discovered as I had suspected, the Japanese are very frugal in business. Not only did they appear to drag their feet to deal with the immediate issue but they simply cannot get out of the mind set that something can be saved at this site. I have read over and over that reactors #5 and #6 are fine. Articles give the feeling that TEPCO's intention was to try to save something even from the other reactors. It is not customary to be wasteful in Asia.
It is difficult for the mind to wrap around the incredibly deadly materials involved in the generation of nuclear power. The human brain could almost be described as naive in its organic earthly concepts of things. But thats how things are normally. Nothing in the natural familiar environment stays deadly for 24,000 years and some radioactive isotopes much longer. These manmade elements are more deadly for longer than anything on Earth. They are the source of high cancer statistics among western human populations. Its a fact, now the 5-10-20-50 year lag times the industry has been hiding behind have lappsed and the information is in. Any scientist who says it is not so is lying and most likely getting a hefty pay check to do so; or they are so tunnel focused they are simply unaware of all the data. Both situations are very scary for the future of human beings.
There are other ways to do the same thing, generate electricity. Nuclear generation of electricity is simply not a good business choice. It is dangerous, and consumes more power than it produces just to keep from blowing up. Think about it, it is really a no brainer. The visual I get is of a child alone with a gun, safety off. The small child simply has no concept of what might happen.
Ultimately we have to ask ourselves is it worth it when we have the creativity and ability to design better ways. In fact we already have them, they are simply not funded. There are answers. Nuclear is not Green it is the most ungreen device that ever has existed. Perhaps a mirror of the society that created it.
Love and take care of your Families and your Responsibilities to them.
School began for me so it was impossible to attend the Hanford meeting in Portland, eight hours away in the middle of the week. We all have to live our lives but as an effected population we must work together to change the direction of electrical generation. Unfortunately nuclear plants are a symptom of much deeper issues which feed complacency. We all have a responsibility to correct this course.
A couple of points I would like to make. Human beings are truly a global community sharing a nightmare they may never recover from. Plutonium has been created by humans, dispersed by humans and will now affect humans for longer than dominant Western society can remember (25,000). These are facts. This is the heritage we all have allowed. It is what we will be known through all time and space.
I do not want to continue on this, however truthful, didactic spasm of thought, I want to make suggestions for change. First of all these directional decisions that we have seen fit not to participate in for what ever reasons, do effect us. Not one can escape. So if it is all choice and a "game" with the true reality being:
AIR, WATER, FOOD in that order.
Why mot make a "game" (human Culture) compassionate to humans and the Earth. It will "sell" just as well if not better and humans will be able to find the joy of their full potential. I'm sorry for the folks who have their chips on the losing hand but they put them there.
Culture has played a part in this disaster. The Japanese are very polite. Like many very old cultures it is simply not OK to talk about bad things or things that would make someone feel unworthy. You can see how this might create serious issues in a a situation like the Fukushima accident. Another thing I have discovered as I had suspected, the Japanese are very frugal in business. Not only did they appear to drag their feet to deal with the immediate issue but they simply cannot get out of the mind set that something can be saved at this site. I have read over and over that reactors #5 and #6 are fine. Articles give the feeling that TEPCO's intention was to try to save something even from the other reactors. It is not customary to be wasteful in Asia.
It is difficult for the mind to wrap around the incredibly deadly materials involved in the generation of nuclear power. The human brain could almost be described as naive in its organic earthly concepts of things. But thats how things are normally. Nothing in the natural familiar environment stays deadly for 24,000 years and some radioactive isotopes much longer. These manmade elements are more deadly for longer than anything on Earth. They are the source of high cancer statistics among western human populations. Its a fact, now the 5-10-20-50 year lag times the industry has been hiding behind have lappsed and the information is in. Any scientist who says it is not so is lying and most likely getting a hefty pay check to do so; or they are so tunnel focused they are simply unaware of all the data. Both situations are very scary for the future of human beings.
There are other ways to do the same thing, generate electricity. Nuclear generation of electricity is simply not a good business choice. It is dangerous, and consumes more power than it produces just to keep from blowing up. Think about it, it is really a no brainer. The visual I get is of a child alone with a gun, safety off. The small child simply has no concept of what might happen.
Ultimately we have to ask ourselves is it worth it when we have the creativity and ability to design better ways. In fact we already have them, they are simply not funded. There are answers. Nuclear is not Green it is the most ungreen device that ever has existed. Perhaps a mirror of the society that created it.
Love and take care of your Families and your Responsibilities to them.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Japanese Disaster Timeline
If you scroll down on this BREAKING NEWS contribution you will see a clarifying timeline with photos of the events in Japan since March 11th.
LINK
LINK
Friday, April 1, 2011
Excuse me Sir. Are you the SAME Mr. Obama I voted for???? Who is This Guy?
I was hoping that Obama would not be just another puppet of the corporations. In my gut I knew change would not be as easy as voting for a person of color. I can have no doubts now with his support for the nuclear industry in the face of this devastating crisis. People who lie come in all colors.
To get our votes he made this statement:
"'I start off with the premise that nuclear energy is not optimal and so I am not a nuclear energy proponent,' Obama said at a campaign stop in Newton, Iowa on December 30, 2007. 'My general view is that until we can make certain that nuclear power plants are safe ... I don’t think that’s the best option. I am much more interested in solar and wind and bio-diesel and strategies [for] alternative fuels.'" Z infoZine, Kansas City
To get our votes he made this statement:
"'I start off with the premise that nuclear energy is not optimal and so I am not a nuclear energy proponent,' Obama said at a campaign stop in Newton, Iowa on December 30, 2007. 'My general view is that until we can make certain that nuclear power plants are safe ... I don’t think that’s the best option. I am much more interested in solar and wind and bio-diesel and strategies [for] alternative fuels.'" Z infoZine, Kansas City
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Frustration!
I just looked at the Wall Street Journal poll asking:
How concerned are you about radiation from the Japanese nuclear disaster reaching the U.S?
Then the bar chart is shown which shows 68% are unconcerned, 16.7% somewhat concerned, and 16.5% seriously concerned.
This data is in the news feed today March 28th. The date of the article is March 18th. My questions is why this old news in the feed today. I had to really look to find the date of the article. It was way at the top in tiny print.
We are getting bombarded with articles about people who love nuclear reactors. Media and the industry are still equating the level of radiation with the health danger. The industry knows full well people, children especially and women, will not begin to have serious health issues for a year to five years. Then exposed individuals for the next twenty years will drop like flies from cancer.
It is not the amount of radiation that is just one measurement that is important. At distances low level radiation is the harbinger of deadly radionuclide particulates that kill if they find their way into the lung, and create major health issues if ingested.
Today it was released that plutonium was found around the site. This is not surprising considering the explosion involving spent fuel rods from 2 reactors. What is surprising is that the "authorities" are only now releasing the information.
Tons of material containing varying amounts plutonium were involved in the first two explosions. It is accepted that a 1/4 lb of plutonium broken down in its smallest form and placed in the lung has the potential to kill every man woman and child on the face of the Earth.
Ingested radionuclides and exposure to radiation is passed as a cumulative poison from one generation to the next. It binds to DNA and settles in the reproductive organs.
What anyone does, is their choice. However nuclear electrical generation is a deception played on the public to utilize stores of war materials at this point. It makes no sense. Unless it is your intention to seriously thin out the human population and weaken the human species which is most susceptible.
Personally I think of it as a trespass. The nuclear industry is releasing manmade lethal (for centuries) radio nuclides into the air and water. My children and your children are being exposed. They are not working on a sub or in a generation plant they are sleeping in their beds breathing air.
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