Chicago Oct 24 Rad Waste Storage

Here is a list of all locations and schedules of meetings
Download sample press releases, Alerts, and more for each meeting for use by grassroots groups. Note: these are in Word format so you can edit, add your group's information and customize how you wish:
Rockville, MD. Oct. 1 and Nov. 14
Denver, CO. Oct. 3
San Luis Obispo, CA, Oct. 7
Carlsbad, CA, Oct. 9
Perrysburg, OH, Oct. 15
Minnetonka, MN, Oct. 17
Oak Brook, IL, Oct. 24
Chelmsford, MA, Oct. 28
Tarrytown, NY, Oct. 30
Charlotte, NC, Nov. 4
Orlando, FL, Nov. 6

 Information from here.
 http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/wasteconfidence.htm


The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding public meetings to collect comments on a Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (Draft GEIS--see link below) on the extended storage of highly radioactive irradiated fuel rods currently stored at nuclear power reactor sites in Washington DC, and 10 other cities between October 1 and November 14, 2013. 

This file is specific to NRC's public meeting on Thursday, October 24 in Chicago-Oak Brook, Illinois Chicago Marriott Oak Brook 1401 West 22nd Street  Oak Brook, IL 60523 Link to google map: http://tinyurl.com/nrcOct24

NRC will hold an "Open House" at 6 pm, and the meeting 7--10 pm (local time). If you are planning your own events, be sure to insert the times you want people to arrive.

We encourage local groups to use their own materials -- these draft organizing documents are offered simply as a starting point or aid. Edit / insert your own info + quotes / revise / reject freely!

This WORD file contains the following DRAFT documents for the CHICAGOmeeting:

·       Media Advisory

·       Outreach email to your allied groups

·       Outreach email to members/ individuals

·       Press release

·       Flyer

We will be posting separately:

·       Talking points

·       Several different drafts of short comments for oral presentation

·       JPG for possible paid advertisement

If there are other document drafts that would be helpful for you, please contact Mary Olson, NIRS -- maryo@nirs.org or 828-252-8409 (cell 828-242-5621).

The Waste Confidence Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (DGEIS) is publicly available at http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1322/ML13224A106.pdf

Please scroll down to Draft Document 1

DRAFT Document 1 -- Media Advisory  (put out about 2 weeks prior to the meeting -- be sure you contact "Day Books" for your area and send it to the Day Books again 48 hours in advance."

[Letterhead or list of organizations working together]

Date

For Immediate Post

Contact: [include one or more names, phone and email]

Media Advisory

Chicago to have Major Role in U.S. High-Level Radioactive Waste Regulation

Thursday October 24 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Hear Public

What: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has produced a Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for the first time on the extended storage of highly radioactive irradiated fuel rods currently stored at nuclear power reactor sites. The NRC is seeking public comment on the document, and will hold 2 meetings in the Washington DC area and 10 field meetings outside of DC, including [City name]. [City name] is the only location in [region].

When: Thursday October 24, 6 pm Open House; Meeting 7--10 pm [change time if you have your own plan]

Where: Chicago Marriott Oak Brook  1401 West 22nd Street  Oak Brook, IL 60523

Link to google map: http://tinyurl.com/nrcOct24

Who: Any member of the public, their advocates and representatives [list any VIP or organizations planning to comment] may comment. Both oral and written comments will be accepted.

Why: A federal court ordered the NRC to study the impact of storing high-level radioactive waste ("spent" fuel rods) at reactor sites, including a look specifically at dangers from fuel pools such as those seen at the Fukushima Daiichi Japanese nuclear disaster site. Prior to that the NRC simply asserted that the storage of the waste was no problem, would have no impact and that since federal law mandates a different federal agency, the Department of Energy, to take this most concentrated of all the types of radioactive waste, an impact statement was not needed. The federal court order is historic since it additionally removed the NRC's authority to license expanded production of the waste (new nuclear power reactors, or license renewals). The public is invited to comment on the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement, particularly any site-specific aspects of waste storage since the document is intended to address every reactor site in the United States, past, present and future.

Physicsforums.com useful formulas

I was making up these formulas from scratch last week, actually easier to just find someone else's!   LOL

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=486089&page=44

Great site, you have to register.   They have some smart moderators too (and I don't mean Boron, get it:-)).    However the moderators are "part of the system" meaning they are deeply involved in nuke and have an inherit conflict of interest.
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Hi Clancy688 - more or less the same question occurred to me - this is how I did it:

the Bq number gives you the activity of a quantity raqdioactive material where one nucleus decays per second and is tied into atomic mass and half life by following equation:

Bq = (m / ma) * Na * (ln(2) / t1/2)

m=mass in grams, ma = atomic mass, Na = avogadro constant, t1/2=half life in seconds

if you had Cs137 at 10,000TBq and half life is 30.17 yrs

then m= Bq / (Na * (ln(2) / t1/2)) * ma => m = 10E15 / (6.02E23 * (ln(2) / 9.51E8))

m = 0.166 grams 

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http://research.uncc.edu/sites/research.uncc.edu/files/media/IsotopeSheet.pdf

 

Full Credit to Yoichi Shimatsu On Fukushima Nuclear Criticality.

Fukushima Blasts Caused By Nuclear Plasma Not Hydrogen Gas By Yoichi Shimatsu .

Showing all the stubbornness of a cross-eyed mule, the Tokyo Electric Power Company sticks to the untenable argument that hydrogen gas caused the blasts at two nuclear reactors at its Fukushima No.1 plant as well as the raging fires in the spent fuel pool of Reactor 4. This preposterous claim has recently gained credence from a memo by Spain’s nuclear authority (posted at ENE News, October 17). The hydrogen “theory” - which should be preceded by “conspiracy” - is part of an official cover-up by the European Union, the U.S. Department of Energy and the toothless watchdog IAEA in cooperation with Japan’s Economy Ministry that aims to trivialize the dangers posed by nuclear reactors and planned fusion-energy plants. In contrast to the spotless corridors of the pro-nuclear bureaucracy, on the grimy factory floor hydrogen gas (H2) is of no use to welders against metal, since it burns at a mere 300 degrees Celsius. Other gases catch fire at far higher temperatures: Acetylene (C2H2) used in cutting torches flames at 3,300 C and plasma arc welding starts at 20,000 C. High heat is what it takes to cut through steel alloys and to pierce the shrouds of reactors. Simply put, hydrogen gas, even under high pressure, lacks the combustion potential to blow the lid off Reactor 1. Nor can flaming hydrogen jump, as claimed by TEPCO, from Reactor 3 over a wide distance to ignite the R4 spent fuel pool. Who are these clowns trying to fool? Obviously, those government bureaucrats who cheated on their science exams. Giving Away the Game The memo from the Spanish Science Ministry’s CIEMAT (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) states that H2, or hydrogen gas, accumulated inside the drywell head, which “could lose its hermicity” under high internal pressure, and thereby escaped into the concrete building around the reactor. A hermetic barrier is airtight, and the top of the reactor is covered by a double set of steel domes. Reactor 1 was operating at the time of the March 11 earthquake, so its drywell covers could not have been inadvertently left ajar by human error. Whatever broke through the reactor shield had immensely greater energy potential than hydrogen gas. A clue for an alternate and more plausible explanation can be gained from examining the professional backgrounds of the memo writers, Enrique Gonzales and Luis Enrique Herranz, with the CIEMAT Nuclear Fission Division. Senor Herranz works at the nuclear security division, fair enough, since it is in charge of crisis response. The co-writer Gonzales, however, has served as the Spanish representative to the planning committee for the Jules Horowitz Research Reactor, under construction in Cadarance, France, near Nice. The vast facility also produces fast-flux neutron reactors for the French Navy’s nuclear fleet. The research project is formally titled International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), slated for completion within this decade. Japan’s Atomic Energy Agency is one of several non-European sponsors of the ITER reactor. Its namesake is the late Jules Horowiz, a Polish-French physicist who provided key support for the start-up of Israeli warhead production at Dimona. (source: the journal of Israel Studies) Horowitz’s work at Dimona and his other illegal acts of nuclear proliferation were coordinated under the late nuclear chemist Bernard Goldschmidt, husband of heiress Naomi Nina Rothschild. Star Power One of the objectives at Cadarance will be to test new materials against extreme temperatures and chemical damage inside reactors. This research is especially important toward selecting the metal cladding for curved fuel rods in the next-generation of plasma fusion reactors. Fusion is achieved by the bonding, under extreme temperatures, of two types of heavy water: deuterium (water in which the hydrogen proton contains an extra neutron) and tritium (hydrogen proton with two additional neutrons). The end products are helium gas and a free neutron, the latter providing the desired heat energy for power production. Artificial fusion is achieved inside nuclear plasma, a gas-like cloud of ions, at a temperature of 100 million Celsius, which is hotter than the interior of a star. The fusion process is obviously dangerous since the plasma can instantaneously vaporize the steel, molybdenum and other materials of a reactor, leaving only a large hole in the ground. To control the high-energy plasma, rings of magnets encase the donut-shaped reactor, known as a torus or tokamak. The plasma, separated from the chamber walls by magnetic repulsion, races around in a circular path, generating more heat energy as deuterium and tritium are added. Accidental  releases of plasma can be catastrophic, but the few suspected incidents have gone unreported under a total cover-up by the scientific establishment and intelligence agencies. The devastating effects of free-flowing plasma can be surmised from the quick work done by a relatively puny plasma torch in demolishing the upper levels of the Reactor 4 building. Specter of Destruction It can be argued that the Fukushima facilities are light-water reactors, cooled by normal water instead of deuterium, and therefore safe from fusion reactions and plasma formation. During a meltdown, however, deuterium and tritium can be readily produced through neutron bombardment of water by overheated fuel rods.  Neutron penetration of the hydrogen atom in water can transform that water into deuterium, and a second neutron strike will result in the creation of tritium. Whenever a threshold quantity of deuterium and tritium build up inside a damaged reactor, the possible scenarios include the rupture of a reactor, a mushroom cloud blast and unstoppable fires inside spent fuel pools. At the time of these shocking events, witnesses reported seeing blue flashes in the vapors escaping Reactor 3. These bright filaments, similar to wavy rays from a Tesla coil, are a type of birkeland current, caused when plasma starts to cool and interact with ions in the atmosphere. Inside every nuclear reactor lurks the specter of plasma that can trigger its destruction. Given the grim precedent of fusion-driven, plasma-powered events at the TEPCO reactors, it is no wonder that the CIEMAT staffers went on a “fishing expedition,” under the cover of researching “hydrogen gas” releases at Fukushima. Unfortunately for CIEMAT security official Harranz, water pumps and firefighting equipment will be just as helpless against future plasma blasts as they were at Fukushima No.1. Plasma cannot be quenched, it just runs out of stuff to burn. The Spanish science ministry has cause for worry because much of the European research in fusion energy is being conducted at its TJ-2 Stellarator at the National Fusion Laboratory in Madrid. While fusion accidents are less dangerous to the general population than the radioactive fallout from nuclear plants, the entire staff of engineers and workers on site will simply vanish into thin air along with the structure. In the now-lengthy time span since 311, not a single nuclear physicist has acted on ethical principle to expose the hydrogen fraud and disclose the truth behind the Fukushima blasts. (Only a notable brave few nuclear engineers have tried to disclose the truth.) The collective cowardice and pro-industry hucksterism of the physicists have served to encourage the continuance and future development of a fundamentally flawed and fatally risky technology. The unforgettable catastrophe at Fukushima shows, in contrast, that every nuclear reactor across the planet must be shut down and relegated to history as man’s greatest folly. The booming silence exposes the fact that nuclear physics is a discredited field, an accessory to mass murder and war, and therefore unworthy to be deemed a science.  With its bigoted mumbo-jumbo about cosmological origins and sanctimonious justification of the terror and death inflicted upon its victims, nuclear physics stands as a crime against humanity. Yoichi Shimatsu is a science writer based in Hong Kong and former editor of The Japan Times Weekly.

Why the good Ol' USA is not stepping up, stepping in to help Japan with nuclear.

 At ENENEWS--Wemadethis said

Abe doesn't know what's going on!
Why are Americans so resistant to make any noise about this? I'm over in Europe and the whole thing stinks to high heaven from over here. Get active yanks!

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Here is the low down as I watched it in real time.

Japan was reacting to the Tsunami and the nuke emergency.   They were releasing real information and evacuating people.  In that first week I noticed one day...the real information was cut in half, and the next day cut in half again, and OBummer came out emphasizing "no risk to USA".    After about 4 day of the rollout of the BP playbook by the US Government, forcing Japan to start the coverup, there was effectively only a few percent of truth coming out of Japan.

In other words, under the New World Order Disaster Playbook (NWODP TM) the half life of truth is about 1 day.   

Japan Gov and TEPCO have been colluding for years to cover up the real situation.    And the USA who pushed them into nuclear 50 years ago, now see China as a real threat to "our buddies" in Japan if Japan cannot compete in manufacturing because they can't use the "cheap electricity" that their 50 nuke plant can provide.    USA has stated, this year that Japan's shut down nuke plants are a security threat to the USA.    So don't expect the corrupt bloated government of the USA to do anything smart here.

Nuclear and Education were the largest contributors to the Obummer regime.   Do not expect any smart action by USA.   They want Japan to restart reactors and have gone on record as saying not just that, but that the lack of restart was a security threat to the USA.     I guess that mean Obummer can drone some anti-nuclear protesters, only half kidding.

Link to ENENEWS
http://enenews.com/fukushima-worker-theres-more-contamination-leaking-than-tepco-announces-alarms-inevitably-go-off-during-radiation-inspections-at-end-of-day-officials-nothing-is-being-controlled-prime-m/comment-page-1#comment-388994

Bureau of Sewerage Tokyo Area

This is the English Page

Funny how some samples can be detected at 17 CPM but then others say <50 (none detected, but 50 is the minimum we can detect today.   Hmmm maybe the reading is 48)

Keep in mind, this is Tokyo, pretty far away from the nuclear plant meltdowns.   

http://www.gesui.metro.tokyo.jp/oshi/infn0757e.htm

Keep in Mind the Half Lives

I-131                  8       Days           Beta Decay, mutation and death of cells even several mm away
                                                       10% Gamma, so can be seen with Gamma Camera
Cesium-134     2.065  Years           Beta Decay, and 1.6MeV Gamma
Cesium-137      30      Years           Strong Gamma


You just got to love the nuclear industry--

"The isotope I-131 is still occasionally used for purely diagnostic (i.e., imaging) work, due to its low expense compared to other iodine radioisotopes"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_131

The other important thing to know about I-131 is that the small and moderate exposures are what causes the cancers, and it is very effective at that.     The large exposures just flat out kill the nearby cells, which in a sick way is "better" because then the cells are just dead, and they do not become cancerous.


Protection--Potassium Iodide (use during a known risk).     7000 times the amount needed for daily nutrition.    Also from the Wikipedia article.

The most common method of treatment is to give potassium iodide to those at risk. The dosage for adults is 130 mg potassium iodide per day, given in one dose, or divided into portions of 65 mg twice a day. This is equivalent to 100 mg of iodide, and is about 7000 times bigger than the nutritional dose of iodide, which is 0.015 mg per day (150 micrograms per day). See potassium iodide for more information on prevention of radioiodine absorption by the thyroid during nuclear accident, or for nuclear medical reasons. The FDA-approved dosing of potassium iodide for this purpose are as follows: infants less than 1 month old, 16 mg; children 1 month to 3 years, 32 mg; children 3 years to 18 years, 65 mg; adults 130 mg.^[18] However, some sources recommend alternative dosing regimens.^[19]

Charts showing lots of I131 which can only mean 1 thing -- Criticality -- Fresh nuclear reactions

I have asked the author for the source data.    If true, this is huge.   Maybe all 3 underground coriums rolled into the same underground hard rock valley and are now having a "party".

Nice Clean Air Today, Except for Pacific Northwest

Pretty clean.    I have been seeing waves of radiation wash over the USA these last few weeks with Fukushima admissions also on the rise.   

Its pretty much a "duh" moment for TEPCO and Japan Gov.     As long as they let ground water flow into the plant area, it will pick up radiation from the coriums, whether the coriums are under the buildings or just in the basements.    This valley used to be a river, they raised the land to make the plant and divert the water.     Now the earthquake dropped it 3 to 6 feet.     

They have to pump the ground water out before it ever hits the plants area.  They have to lower the elevation of the ground water.    What part of "Duh" does it take a nuclear scientist to understand.  

Back to the Pacific Northwest....those poor folks have been getting pounded with rads for 2.5 years now.      And it will last AT LEAST another decade.   

Seriously, I would just move.

Nuclear is Dying, Please Help (it Die)

http://sustainablog.org/2013/09/us-nuclear-power-in-decline/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-sustainablog+%28Sustainablog%29

The chart says it all.   But keep in mind the chart is even more compelling granted that nukers have been ramrodding through "uprates", which is like taking an clunker car and throwing a nitrous system on it in order to get more speed until it just fully blows up.    many plants are 30 years old and running 10% to 18% above their original design....to increase profits.    And risk.

But the Nukers externalize the risk.    They put the risk on us.   So they can make more money.   

They still have nuclear promoters on the blogosphere trying to pimp the idea that Fukushima is insignificant, that it will be measurable but not harmful.    The shame.

Discussion on I131 I 129 and Fukushima

I made this chart to better understand the "zaps being put out for Rad Iodines.

Radiation Monitoring Sites

The top map is from 
 http://radiationnetwork.com/index.htm

They state "readings not equalized" meaning that pancake type Geigers will pick up about 3 time the amount that a smaller tube type Mueller will pick up.

The Radiation Alert Inspector is a pancake type Geiger. 

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 The bottom map is from

I haven't exactly figured out NETC yet.   Sometimes they are reporting Beta and sometimes they have Gamma (in a 600 to 800  keV range)

Check it out,

Sept 10, it sucks to be in Corvalis OR right now, currently 98 CPM Beta, high of 216 Beta.

 http://www.netc.com/

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Lies being told on Hawaii TV, disgusting really.    Keep the sheeple calm!