Nuclear Austerity in Alabama by Arnie Gundersen
Channel: MsMilkytheclown
Date: 2011-08-12

Today the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and Fairewinds Associates issued a report to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority regarding numerous concerns with the Bellefonte Unit 1 nuclear project. First designed with slide rules back in 1968, Bellefonte Unit 1 is America's oldest nuclear power plant that has yet to generate any electricity. TVA began construction in 1974, mothballed the plant in 1988, and cannibalized the plant for scrap metal between 2006 and 2008. Alarmingly, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently allowed construction of Bellefonte Unit 1 by TVA to start again with its 1968 design and its 40-year old weakened foundation and containment. In the video and in its report, Fairewinds identifies seven areas of substantial risk for TVA if it continues to construct this aged facility.
Fairewinds Report for Southern Alliance for Clean Energy on TVA Bellefonte Plant
http://www.fairewinds.com/updates



The nuclear updates out of Japan have slowed to nearly Zero. BEWARE! Read between the lines. (I'm guessing things are Totally out of Control)... but that's just an estimate, after watching this "performance" on a daily basis. On the other hand, they could well have things totally fixed. Who am I to say?

100x Background Radiation in Fukushima City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0zDo-HYIT0&list=FL0pQPW0k7V1o&index=7
I went to Fukushima City on July 25, 2011 to compare Medcom Geiger Counters and found readings over 10.0 micro sieverts (uSV) common. This is 100 times Osaka background levels (0.1uSV). The Fukushima health authority, Dr. Shunichi Yamashita, says this is safe. Parents in Fukushima with the Fukushima Network disagree and need our support. They are working to get children out. Would you want your child playing in the grass in this city?

Good evidence that cesium-gas residue is visible at Fukushima...
http://iangoddard.com/journal/fukushima/cesiumCOLOR.jpg
as evidenced by
Fukushima: Lethal Levels of Radiation & the Implications (Arnie Gundersen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAMjiVg23TA

TEPCO has discovered locations on the Fukushima plant site with lethal levels of external gamma radiation. Fairewinds takes a close look at how this radiation might have been deposited and how similar radioactive material would have been released offsite.

[NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.] * Cesium-134 ~ 2 years * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days * Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.] * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days * Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.] * Uranium-234 ~ 246,000 years * Uranium-235 ~ 703.8 million years * Uranium-238 ~ 4.468 billion years


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