Turning Our World Into A Radioactive Nightmare
By James Donahue
It began with the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. Then there were the years of nuclear and hydrogen bomb testing by first the United States, then Russia, China, and the other nations as they joined the brotherhood of nuclear energy.
We built nuclear electric generating plants. We put nuclear reactors in submarines so they could remain at sea and underwater for months without coming to the surface. We put them in naval vessels. Medical institutions found ways of utilizing radioactive tools to help study and heal the human body.
After a few years it dawned on us that all of this exposure to radioactivity was affecting our health. More and more people were suffering from cancerous growths and other new diseases found to be related to intense exposure to even X-ray machines. There began an effort by world leaders to put an end to the insanity. Atomic bomb testing was first moved underground. Then we began a planned dismantling of the world nuclear arsenal.
But electric power plants were being constructed all over the world . . . all of them powered by large reactors utilizing the heat from bundles of uranium “rods” that are heat controlled by a constant flushing of water from nearby lakes and streams. When the water stops flowing the rods, packed by the thousands in massive reactor cores, have the potential of burning at over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. The technical name for such fires is “meltdown” because that is exactly what happens. The buildings that house these cores are destroyed and there is a release of a deadly volume of radioactive isotopes into the environment.
We know what happens when a plant goes into meltdown because it happened at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania in 1979, Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986 and Fukushima, Japan in 2011. There have been rumors of “accidents” and near-meltdowns at several other sites but without confirmation.
What most people don’t know about much of the radiation that has been spilled into the atmosphere, the earth and the seas of the world since all of this began, is that the isotopes are not only toxic, they hang around and remain active for a very long time.
Bob Nichols, a retired military ammunition plant worker who maintains a weekly report on nuclear counts in the atmosphere over the United States, says some of this radiation accumulates for hundreds of years before it begins to slowly dissipate. And the more of it we dump into our environment, the more toxic the world around us becomes.
Nichols says there are 1,946 different radioactive isotopes released from every nuclear explosion and every reactor “release” that occurs. He says there are presently 438 nuclear reactors operating at world power plants. There are 104 of them in the United States.
Another thing people don’t know is that every one of these reactors operates like a pressure cooker. To keep them under control the lid has to be removed regularly and the excess steam released into the air. That steam is laced with radioactive isotopes. Also the water used to cool the uranium rods gets contaminated with radioactive waste. While the plants are designed to circulate the cooling water and keep it contained, it can occasionally escape, as it did at Fukushima.
Nichols reports on the “Counts per Minute” (CPM) of radioactive decay registered by a special instrument used to determine the amount of the most dangerous isotopes hanging in the air over major U. S. cities each week. You can visit his report every Saturday on veteranstoday.com/author/bobnichols. You will be shocked at his report.
While “normal” radiation in a pre-nuclear age was 5 to 20 CPM, Nichols found counts of 1,000 and higher in 39 American cities during the week of December 5 to 12, 2015. Another 10 cities measured between 900 and 999 CPM. The most prevalent isotope found is Cesium 137, which attacks every living thing, gets in our food and can kill us. It attacks our muscles, can cause radiation sickness and cancer.
He said most radiation monitors report on the radioactive presence of Cesium 137 and Cesium 134. Nichols utilizes a professional counter that estimates the total radiation count for the week. But he warns that the numbers can go even higher when calculate these numbers with daily, monthly and yearly exposures. The stuff just keeps bombarding us.
The highest counts for the week were found in Yuma, Arizona, at 1,767 CPM, Spokane, Washington at 1,585, Colorado Springs, Colorado at 1,547, Miami, Florida at 1,490 and San Diego, California, at 1,484.
He said the lethality of these high radioactive counts “from a specific release goes up for 35 years; then declines slightly and hangs steady for thousands of years. . . The end result, of course, is extinction of our species and all others on the planet.”
So can anything be done to stop this constant bombardment of deadly radioactivity? Of course there is. But it will involve shutting down all nuclear reactors, including the ones running our naval vessels and running in private industrial labs. It involves the destruction of all of our nuclear bombs and weaponry. And it will include a safe removal of all of the plutonium waste created by these reactors. And right now, nobody appears willing to do this.
The nuclear waste from the Fukushima disaster is still sending a toxic cloud all over the Northern Hemisphere of the world. At this point no one knows how to stop the ongoing disaster in Japan so it may continue to haunt us all for hundreds of years in the future.
Nichols said the operators of all of the reactors know what they are doing to the planet and the living things on it. They have been purposefully keeping this information a secret and they are not willing to stop.
The two motivators are power and money, he said.
By James Donahue
It began with the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. Then there were the years of nuclear and hydrogen bomb testing by first the United States, then Russia, China, and the other nations as they joined the brotherhood of nuclear energy.
We built nuclear electric generating plants. We put nuclear reactors in submarines so they could remain at sea and underwater for months without coming to the surface. We put them in naval vessels. Medical institutions found ways of utilizing radioactive tools to help study and heal the human body.
After a few years it dawned on us that all of this exposure to radioactivity was affecting our health. More and more people were suffering from cancerous growths and other new diseases found to be related to intense exposure to even X-ray machines. There began an effort by world leaders to put an end to the insanity. Atomic bomb testing was first moved underground. Then we began a planned dismantling of the world nuclear arsenal.
But electric power plants were being constructed all over the world . . . all of them powered by large reactors utilizing the heat from bundles of uranium “rods” that are heat controlled by a constant flushing of water from nearby lakes and streams. When the water stops flowing the rods, packed by the thousands in massive reactor cores, have the potential of burning at over 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. The technical name for such fires is “meltdown” because that is exactly what happens. The buildings that house these cores are destroyed and there is a release of a deadly volume of radioactive isotopes into the environment.
We know what happens when a plant goes into meltdown because it happened at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania in 1979, Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986 and Fukushima, Japan in 2011. There have been rumors of “accidents” and near-meltdowns at several other sites but without confirmation.
What most people don’t know about much of the radiation that has been spilled into the atmosphere, the earth and the seas of the world since all of this began, is that the isotopes are not only toxic, they hang around and remain active for a very long time.
Bob Nichols, a retired military ammunition plant worker who maintains a weekly report on nuclear counts in the atmosphere over the United States, says some of this radiation accumulates for hundreds of years before it begins to slowly dissipate. And the more of it we dump into our environment, the more toxic the world around us becomes.
Nichols says there are 1,946 different radioactive isotopes released from every nuclear explosion and every reactor “release” that occurs. He says there are presently 438 nuclear reactors operating at world power plants. There are 104 of them in the United States.
Another thing people don’t know is that every one of these reactors operates like a pressure cooker. To keep them under control the lid has to be removed regularly and the excess steam released into the air. That steam is laced with radioactive isotopes. Also the water used to cool the uranium rods gets contaminated with radioactive waste. While the plants are designed to circulate the cooling water and keep it contained, it can occasionally escape, as it did at Fukushima.
Nichols reports on the “Counts per Minute” (CPM) of radioactive decay registered by a special instrument used to determine the amount of the most dangerous isotopes hanging in the air over major U. S. cities each week. You can visit his report every Saturday on veteranstoday.com/author/bobnichols. You will be shocked at his report.
While “normal” radiation in a pre-nuclear age was 5 to 20 CPM, Nichols found counts of 1,000 and higher in 39 American cities during the week of December 5 to 12, 2015. Another 10 cities measured between 900 and 999 CPM. The most prevalent isotope found is Cesium 137, which attacks every living thing, gets in our food and can kill us. It attacks our muscles, can cause radiation sickness and cancer.
He said most radiation monitors report on the radioactive presence of Cesium 137 and Cesium 134. Nichols utilizes a professional counter that estimates the total radiation count for the week. But he warns that the numbers can go even higher when calculate these numbers with daily, monthly and yearly exposures. The stuff just keeps bombarding us.
The highest counts for the week were found in Yuma, Arizona, at 1,767 CPM, Spokane, Washington at 1,585, Colorado Springs, Colorado at 1,547, Miami, Florida at 1,490 and San Diego, California, at 1,484.
He said the lethality of these high radioactive counts “from a specific release goes up for 35 years; then declines slightly and hangs steady for thousands of years. . . The end result, of course, is extinction of our species and all others on the planet.”
So can anything be done to stop this constant bombardment of deadly radioactivity? Of course there is. But it will involve shutting down all nuclear reactors, including the ones running our naval vessels and running in private industrial labs. It involves the destruction of all of our nuclear bombs and weaponry. And it will include a safe removal of all of the plutonium waste created by these reactors. And right now, nobody appears willing to do this.
The nuclear waste from the Fukushima disaster is still sending a toxic cloud all over the Northern Hemisphere of the world. At this point no one knows how to stop the ongoing disaster in Japan so it may continue to haunt us all for hundreds of years in the future.
Nichols said the operators of all of the reactors know what they are doing to the planet and the living things on it. They have been purposefully keeping this information a secret and they are not willing to stop.
The two motivators are power and money, he said.