The latest Conca shill push is for "more radiation" and now its "listen to us because we call ourselves scientists". A few comments from a reader at Forbes are below. I think he nails the issues nicely. Go visit the article at Forbes too and leave a comment.
Also to keep this "science" thing in context, bear in mind the number of scientists who continue to lie about "global warming". Nukepro settled that issue once and for all. There has been no warming for the last 17 years. Here is the proof using real data.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/08/global-warming-real-information-from.html
Visit the Conca Shill here
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/08/03/science-is-not-democratic/
Finally the reader comments, spot on, but I wonder if he is being sarc with "great faith in Obama".....
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
CS134 /CS137 Ratio and Food Chain in Alaska - Dangerous Levels of Radioactivity
Lichens in Alaska were tested in June 2011 and had extremely high levels of both Cesium 134 and Cesium 137. Around 6000 to 8000 pCi/ kg.
And the ratio of 134 to 137 was around .8. What that means is that all of this cesium is directly attributed to Fukushima.
Here is the full report you can download, its big
Alaska 2011 Radiation in Food Sources Report 300 pages
Here is how it works. CS137 has a half life of 30 years, CS134 has half life of 2 years. So if the radiation was from 4 years ago, the CS would fall to around 25% of where it started.
It just so happens that the 137 and 134 quantities are about a 1 to 1 ratio at the beginning, with some variance based on the degree of fuel burnup. Color chart below shows actual test results for Fuku. The ratio was about .85.
The actual ratio measured in the lichens was right around .80 on average. So all of this is due to Fukushima
Got it? The lowest level of the food chain is highly contaminated. That was 2011, they are not planning on testing again until 2016. Does that make any sense?
And the ratio of 134 to 137 was around .8. What that means is that all of this cesium is directly attributed to Fukushima.
Here is the full report you can download, its big
Alaska 2011 Radiation in Food Sources Report 300 pages
Here is how it works. CS137 has a half life of 30 years, CS134 has half life of 2 years. So if the radiation was from 4 years ago, the CS would fall to around 25% of where it started.
It just so happens that the 137 and 134 quantities are about a 1 to 1 ratio at the beginning, with some variance based on the degree of fuel burnup. Color chart below shows actual test results for Fuku. The ratio was about .85.
The actual ratio measured in the lichens was right around .80 on average. So all of this is due to Fukushima
Got it? The lowest level of the food chain is highly contaminated. That was 2011, they are not planning on testing again until 2016. Does that make any sense?
Friday, August 1, 2014
Bringing it Home, Understanding Cesium Deposition at Fukushima and Stirred Up Dust
I like doing this type of calculations that "Bring it Home"
Some others at ENENEWS have gotten good at it. With all the big numbers, scientific notation, various ways of expressing radiation units that the pro-radiation stakeholders use to confuse people....well it's nice when something is presented in an easy to wrap your head around way.
OLDFOOL Since a trillionth of a gram of Cs-137 emits over 3.2 becquerel, a gram of Cs-137 would emit over 3.2 trillion becquerels. So if they are saying that all the dust they created released no more than 4 trillion becquerels, they are implying they only stirred up 1.25 grams of Cs-137 in the dust. I cannot imagine any construction project at that site only stirring up 1.25 grams of Cs-137 in the dust. Most construction projects stir up several kilograms of dust. It would not be pure Cs-137 of course. But it would be more than 1.25 grams. Somebody has made a mistake in their math.
Securitize July 17, 2014 at 10:04 pm · Reply A Becquerel indicates, on average, an amount of radiation where one radioactive “decay” event occurs each second. 37 billion becequerels are in one curie, or 37 billion disintegrations per second.
Potassium 40 exists in bananas and other fruits and is very weakly radioactive, 71 ten-millionTHs of a curie pure gram. By contrast, cesium 137 has 88 curies per gram. Indeed Cs 137 and Sr 90 emit 10-20 million times more radioactivity than comparable amounts of potassium 40.
Cesium 137 is a significant portion of the long-lasting radioactive isotopes emitted during a nuclear meltdown or other accident. The amount of cesium 137 deposited per square kilometer can thus be used to determine whether that land is fit for human habitation. The lands around the Chernobyl and Fukushima reactors are considered completely uninhabitable for decades based on ~10 curies per square km, or if you like ~25 curies per square mile.
Thus, slightly more than 1/3 of ONE GRAM of cesium 137, deposited across a square mile of land as a smoke or gas, is enough to render that land uninhabitable for decades. Contamination of ~10 curies per square km, ~25 curies per square mile, or ~1/3 of a gram of Cs 137 per sq mi, renders the area unfit for raising crops or livestock. For comparison, dozens of nuclear power plants in the US hold fuel rods containing more than 100 million curies of Cs 137. Remember that just 100 curies can render 1 sq mi uninhabitable.
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Some others at ENENEWS have gotten good at it. With all the big numbers, scientific notation, various ways of expressing radiation units that the pro-radiation stakeholders use to confuse people....well it's nice when something is presented in an easy to wrap your head around way.
OLDFOOL Since a trillionth of a gram of Cs-137 emits over 3.2 becquerel, a gram of Cs-137 would emit over 3.2 trillion becquerels. So if they are saying that all the dust they created released no more than 4 trillion becquerels, they are implying they only stirred up 1.25 grams of Cs-137 in the dust. I cannot imagine any construction project at that site only stirring up 1.25 grams of Cs-137 in the dust. Most construction projects stir up several kilograms of dust. It would not be pure Cs-137 of course. But it would be more than 1.25 grams. Somebody has made a mistake in their math.
Securitize July 17, 2014 at 10:04 pm · Reply A Becquerel indicates, on average, an amount of radiation where one radioactive “decay” event occurs each second. 37 billion becequerels are in one curie, or 37 billion disintegrations per second.
Potassium 40 exists in bananas and other fruits and is very weakly radioactive, 71 ten-millionTHs of a curie pure gram. By contrast, cesium 137 has 88 curies per gram. Indeed Cs 137 and Sr 90 emit 10-20 million times more radioactivity than comparable amounts of potassium 40.
Cesium 137 is a significant portion of the long-lasting radioactive isotopes emitted during a nuclear meltdown or other accident. The amount of cesium 137 deposited per square kilometer can thus be used to determine whether that land is fit for human habitation. The lands around the Chernobyl and Fukushima reactors are considered completely uninhabitable for decades based on ~10 curies per square km, or if you like ~25 curies per square mile.
Thus, slightly more than 1/3 of ONE GRAM of cesium 137, deposited across a square mile of land as a smoke or gas, is enough to render that land uninhabitable for decades. Contamination of ~10 curies per square km, ~25 curies per square mile, or ~1/3 of a gram of Cs 137 per sq mi, renders the area unfit for raising crops or livestock. For comparison, dozens of nuclear power plants in the US hold fuel rods containing more than 100 million curies of Cs 137. Remember that just 100 curies can render 1 sq mi uninhabitable.
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Global Warming, Real Information from the NukePro
This was fairly hard to find this data and parse in into a format that made some sense. Check out the charts and drop a comment.
Here is the Excel File Itself
Download it from Box which is a great free service, I recommend them.
https://app.box.com/s/wza4c690phtxq7cfutzt1880 to 1913 Global Temperature Data
Maybe even do some more advanced number crunching, or correlate them to nuke bomb testing and sunspots. Have at it! For now if you need the file, email me, and I will send it to you.
Bottom line, Global Warming has certainly occurred since 1880, but temperatures go in cycles, and "we" (meaning humans including scientists) do not understand them. There is a lot of complex stuff that affects weather, and yours truly strongly believes that sunspots and other sun magnetic and electric effects and as also related to cosmic ray blocking are WAY more important than CO2 from fossil fuel burning. Most of the Egg Head scientists don't even understand solar spots and are crappy at predicting cycles, and befuddled when there academia programmed minds can't operate to understand a process when it conflicts with their "training".
Bottom line---there has been NO GLOBAL WARMING over the past 17 years. Isn't that an "inconvenient truth" for those who wish to transfer wealth via Cap and Trade type acts. Also pretty inconvenient for those who wish to promote a dying nuclear energy field by stating that it can help reduce global warming.
Fact, we are seeing some more extreme weather months in the last 17 years, BUT the standard deviation is actually going down, see the chart. What does it mean?
Simple. Those in the boomer and post boomer generations have lived through a period of incredible weather stability. In the far known and measured past, weather has been more extreme. Just that fact alone helps the huge economic expansion of post WW2. We had it good. Now we are getting a few extreme spikes. It will be hotter and colder, dryer and wetter going forward. But global temperature has stalled out, and a reversal is likely.
Another big thing that is barely on most peoples radar is the earths magnetic pole shift, I can't deal with that one today, but realize it could be a massive effect on earth weather.
Check out the charts and drop a comment.
A reader at this site contributed a link to his own work, which proves that global warming is a scam, and that CO2 IS NOT a driver for upward temperatures. He is a real engineer with a background similar to mine. He has put real science to what is "know on a gut level".
http://agwunveiled.blogspot.ca/2013/12/calculated-meanglobal-temperatures-1610.html
And a frequent commenter here, Dud added in
No chart for sunspot activity?
Rectified, if you like --> http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/images/Zurich_Color_Small.jpg
Quote: "One of the possible explanations for a link between sunspots and weather is via cosmic rays. It is accepted that cosmic rays play a part in cloud formation by encouraging the nucleation of water droplets. It is also accepted that there is a negative correlation between sunspots and cosmic rays. Figure 5 demonstrates this link."
http://www.climatedata.info/Forcing/Forcing/sunspots.html
And amazingly, on Aug 1, 2014 when I published my proof that Global Warming is a scam, Suspicious Observers had a short comment on their daily video, and the statement that "there has been no warming for 17 years" and a link to a long video that goes deep into Global Warming scam. I haven't watched it yet, but here it is.
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Michael V.B.
Sadly I came to the same findings, and it does seem that the catastrophic man-made global warming theory has been pushed mostly by people aligned with the nuclear expansion agenda. And some very well-meaning environmentalistas (with not the best scientific interpretation skills, imo) fell for the propaganda… .
Using NOAA Annual averages I settled on a conservative "at least 12 years of no global warming", with signs (esp. related to solar activity) pointing to cooling ahead:
https://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2014/06/29/warmest-may-global-cooling-climate-change/
One of the most pronounced examples of using the CO2-scare to push nuclear has been George Monbiot, who stepped up the nuke propaganda machine before the data was even in, with, "Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power" (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/pro-nuclear-japan-fukushima But most "warmistas" in key positions of political influence have one thing in common (Al Gore, Obama, James Hansen, Bill McKibben, etc.), they're also supporting the nuke agenda…
Here is the Excel File Itself
Download it from Box which is a great free service, I recommend them.
https://app.box.com/s/wza4c690phtxq7cfutzt1880 to 1913 Global Temperature Data
Maybe even do some more advanced number crunching, or correlate them to nuke bomb testing and sunspots. Have at it! For now if you need the file, email me, and I will send it to you.
Bottom line, Global Warming has certainly occurred since 1880, but temperatures go in cycles, and "we" (meaning humans including scientists) do not understand them. There is a lot of complex stuff that affects weather, and yours truly strongly believes that sunspots and other sun magnetic and electric effects and as also related to cosmic ray blocking are WAY more important than CO2 from fossil fuel burning. Most of the Egg Head scientists don't even understand solar spots and are crappy at predicting cycles, and befuddled when there academia programmed minds can't operate to understand a process when it conflicts with their "training".
Bottom line---there has been NO GLOBAL WARMING over the past 17 years. Isn't that an "inconvenient truth" for those who wish to transfer wealth via Cap and Trade type acts. Also pretty inconvenient for those who wish to promote a dying nuclear energy field by stating that it can help reduce global warming.
Fact, we are seeing some more extreme weather months in the last 17 years, BUT the standard deviation is actually going down, see the chart. What does it mean?
Simple. Those in the boomer and post boomer generations have lived through a period of incredible weather stability. In the far known and measured past, weather has been more extreme. Just that fact alone helps the huge economic expansion of post WW2. We had it good. Now we are getting a few extreme spikes. It will be hotter and colder, dryer and wetter going forward. But global temperature has stalled out, and a reversal is likely.
Another big thing that is barely on most peoples radar is the earths magnetic pole shift, I can't deal with that one today, but realize it could be a massive effect on earth weather.
Check out the charts and drop a comment.
A reader at this site contributed a link to his own work, which proves that global warming is a scam, and that CO2 IS NOT a driver for upward temperatures. He is a real engineer with a background similar to mine. He has put real science to what is "know on a gut level".
http://agwunveiled.blogspot.ca/2013/12/calculated-meanglobal-temperatures-1610.html
And a frequent commenter here, Dud added in
No chart for sunspot activity?
Rectified, if you like --> http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/images/Zurich_Color_Small.jpg
Quote: "One of the possible explanations for a link between sunspots and weather is via cosmic rays. It is accepted that cosmic rays play a part in cloud formation by encouraging the nucleation of water droplets. It is also accepted that there is a negative correlation between sunspots and cosmic rays. Figure 5 demonstrates this link."
http://www.climatedata.info/Forcing/Forcing/sunspots.html
And amazingly, on Aug 1, 2014 when I published my proof that Global Warming is a scam, Suspicious Observers had a short comment on their daily video, and the statement that "there has been no warming for 17 years" and a link to a long video that goes deep into Global Warming scam. I haven't watched it yet, but here it is.
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Michael V.B.
Sadly I came to the same findings, and it does seem that the catastrophic man-made global warming theory has been pushed mostly by people aligned with the nuclear expansion agenda. And some very well-meaning environmentalistas (with not the best scientific interpretation skills, imo) fell for the propaganda… .
Using NOAA Annual averages I settled on a conservative "at least 12 years of no global warming", with signs (esp. related to solar activity) pointing to cooling ahead:
https://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2014/06/29/warmest-may-global-cooling-climate-change/
One of the most pronounced examples of using the CO2-scare to push nuclear has been George Monbiot, who stepped up the nuke propaganda machine before the data was even in, with, "Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power" (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/pro-nuclear-japan-fukushima But most "warmistas" in key positions of political influence have one thing in common (Al Gore, Obama, James Hansen, Bill McKibben, etc.), they're also supporting the nuke agenda…
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Cancer Trends Over Time, Rocketing Upward Coincident With Nuclear Technology
Cancer trends over time Anecdotal evidence implies that in 1900 only 3% to 6% of people got cancer. Better record keeping starting around 1945 shows that cancer deaths have gone up 500%. And since we are more successful at treating cancer, the mean the rate of cancer has gone up more than 500%, maybe 700%. You can download this document. Funny how cancer started rocketing up in the same year that nuclear bombs were dropped.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Low Quality Troll Invades ENENEWS
The latest paid troll attack comes from MF or Moe Foe.
Spewing hatred, swearing all the time, ripping people a new one. This self professed seasoned radiation expert apparently doesn't even have a workstation computer or laptop, he just does it all on a phone.
hmmmm......that doesn't seem quite right.
The troll is harping on Conca's latest crime against humanity, hoping to increase radiation by 100 to 200 TIMES (not percent) in terms of nuke plant releases. He left this picture at Forbe's Conca post.
He laughs at experiments in which sick people were unwittingly given doses of plutonium to "see what happens", and he exclaims "they didn't die instantly!" therefore Plutonium is not as bad as other things. The arrogance, the pyschopathy.
At least the last dedicated troll attack was a, LOL, "high quality troll". Eventually they all lose their luster.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/01/high-quality-troll-invades-enenews.html
Other trolls have been IP logged from Oak Ridge National Labs spewing insults at the NukePro website.
And some trolls just got to troll away.
Spewing hatred, swearing all the time, ripping people a new one. This self professed seasoned radiation expert apparently doesn't even have a workstation computer or laptop, he just does it all on a phone.
hmmmm......that doesn't seem quite right.
The troll is harping on Conca's latest crime against humanity, hoping to increase radiation by 100 to 200 TIMES (not percent) in terms of nuke plant releases. He left this picture at Forbe's Conca post.
He laughs at experiments in which sick people were unwittingly given doses of plutonium to "see what happens", and he exclaims "they didn't die instantly!" therefore Plutonium is not as bad as other things. The arrogance, the pyschopathy.
At least the last dedicated troll attack was a, LOL, "high quality troll". Eventually they all lose their luster.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/01/high-quality-troll-invades-enenews.html
Other trolls have been IP logged from Oak Ridge National Labs spewing insults at the NukePro website.
And some trolls just got to troll away.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Documentary on Aging Nukes
Contributed by Cisco
For the story of how we got to this point with nuclear power generation, how the industry operates, and the real story of about its safety.
"The series had a profound impact. The stories ran on more than 85 front pages, played prominently on leading websites, and generated thousands of social networking shares and tweets. It also set off a raft of newspaper editorials and a few government investigations. The series also drew praise from many of the scientists and engineers who understand the issues best."
http://www.ap.org/company/awards/aging-nukes
stock…you should have a link on your site to this remarkable piece of investigative reporting. A must read for the uninitiated and a good reread for the rest of us.
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For the story of how we got to this point with nuclear power generation, how the industry operates, and the real story of about its safety.
"The series had a profound impact. The stories ran on more than 85 front pages, played prominently on leading websites, and generated thousands of social networking shares and tweets. It also set off a raft of newspaper editorials and a few government investigations. The series also drew praise from many of the scientists and engineers who understand the issues best."
http://www.ap.org/company/awards/aging-nukes
stock…you should have a link on your site to this remarkable piece of investigative reporting. A must read for the uninitiated and a good reread for the rest of us.
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Examples abound. When valves leaked, more leakage was allowed — up to 20 times the original limit. When rampant cracking caused radioactive leaks from steam generator tubing, an easier test of the tubes was devised, so plants could meet standards.
Failed cables. Busted seals. Broken nozzles, clogged screens, cracked concrete, dented containers, corroded metals and rusty underground pipes — all of these and thousands of other problems linked to aging were uncovered in the AP's yearlong investigation. And all of them could escalate dangers in the event of an accident.
Yet despite the many problems linked to aging, not a single official body in government or industry has studied the overall frequency and potential impact on safety of such breakdowns in recent years, even as the NRC has extended the licenses of dozens of
Industry and government officials defend their actions, and insist that no chances are being taken. But the AP investigation found that with billions of dollars and 19 percent of America's electricity supply at stake, a cozy relationship prevails between the industry and its regulator, the NRC.
Records show a recurring pattern: Reactor parts or systems fall out of compliance.......
Monday, June 2, 2014
If Possible, Control Your Food Environment, Produce it Yourself
I been 14 hours a day ramping up my own food production systems to supply ALL the food for my family and dogs. So far so good, looks great.
Multiple reasons:
Gather knowledge, experience, and don't forget TOOLS and EQUIPMENT now. When SHTF these will become very dear.
Get a greenhouse to mitigate climate change effects on your production
Back to WORK!
Multiple reasons:
- Cali drought means food cost way up
- Fed printing means food cost way up
- Radiation control of inputs
- GMO avoidance
- Money savings — if you buy at store, first you earn money, then pay taxes, then pay for food with the piddling amount left over, then pay sales taxes on the food.
- Better taste and quality
- Somewhat fun and rewarding
- One important step away from feeding the NWO insanity
- Ill post some pictures at Nukepro in a week or so
- Pesticide Avoidance
- Shit Hit the Fan Security
Gather knowledge, experience, and don't forget TOOLS and EQUIPMENT now. When SHTF these will become very dear.
Get a greenhouse to mitigate climate change effects on your production
Back to WORK!
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You have got to be kidding me!? The single largest practitioners of junk science in the United States or you could just as easily call them liars and con men, are the members at the highest levels of our Public Health System. Mainly ATSDR and EPA. Although EPA has a few competent scientists who know that following the mandates of ATSDR is wrong, but will not speak up. Can not speak up under threat of firing.
You don’t believe me? From past History look up Tuskegee Alabama syphilis epidemic for historical context. Look up Libby Montana for 50 years of abuse currently under way. Still not convinced? Have a health professional help you out with mesothelioma death rates in Jefferson Parrish Louisiana…10 times larger than Libby Montana from a similar environmental epidemic. No Public Health Emergency there even at 10 times the first and largest ever declared. OK so you are hugely skeptical? Contact Dr. Marc Shencker at UC Davis epidemiology and ask for death rates in Amador, Tulomne and El Dorado Counties California from environmental Tremolite. So what? Look up the dates of first publications of Libby Montana problems, and Metsovo Greece Metsovo Lung published in the US by Stavros Constantopoulis and Arthur M. Langer.
Still don’t get it? Try this on for size. Real Estate is the most valuable asset to Unites States local government, the most valuable asset to business on par, throughout the US. The government would clear the path to moving housing tracks on top of active volcanoes if people could not see it for themselves. These agencies ATSDR, EPA, State EPA, local Health Departments,although some are making the common scientific mistake of following those they think are smarter than themselves, but most are not, “task themselves”, emphasis added, to fake testing, skew test results and otherwise obscure important information that individuals should have, all in the name of “not panicking the people”. All of these Public Health Agencies work directly or indirectly for the President of the United States.
Although I have great faith in Obama..there is a huge gap that has existed long before he entered office, between the Presidency and his scientific minions. He or they as the case has been, are the very last to know what their scientists are doing.
Obama has no earthly idea at all. He has no adviser who would know ether. Neither did George Bush. Hillary knew very well what I was speaking of and acted upon what I gave her to the best of her ability. She took Cheney down on the subject for 7 years. He did not get what he wanted in year one, until the last year of Bush’s presidency. Then Bush from the presidential podium of State of teh Nation gave him precisely what he wanted…a way for companies across the nation to avoid the entire liability of what they had done…especially Haliburton…but certainly many others.
These people/scientists I speak of act outside our government in a way. They do not report to anyone in the White House other than the office of Budget Management…..who controls the executive agencies by purse strings…not by policy. Well I should accurately say, not by overseen policy. They invent as they go along…in a way inventing good news by adjusting science, so they do not have to report bad news to their boss. Their boss being the President.
On a very positive note….where you do find the scientists who do not succumb to politically motivated government dogma/stories,”the good guys” is in academia. Not everyone mind you, but a bunch. Those who have been in the trenches their entire careers, fighting, quietly, methodically, brilliantly against the corruption of our entire construct of science….partially to no avail. I refer you to Dr. Bruce Case who will no more like the way I presented the above than you do….but who will substantively not disagree much. (He will not be shy about letting me know). Who has maintained an aggressive but somewhat positive and brilliantly subtle approach throughout his long career. These “good guys”struggle directly with scientist who have “sold out”, but their real battle is with government…it is a struggle almost 99% of government has no idea is even going on.
Finally, I will leave you with what amounts to more than an anecdote. Our EPA, meaning the full force of our Federal governments legal ability, took WR Grace to a Jury trial on criminal charges regarding what happened in Libby Montana. Long story of course, all of it relating to enormous incompetency within government scientists, but their was one newspaper man named David Latham, who summed up the acquittal of WR Grace beautifully at the end of the trial with one sentence. Not certain I am quoting it word for word but you will get the idea. “EPA can not convict someone who they have always been in partnership with”. Therein lies almost all of the problem as it pertains to scientists being politically controlled.