U.S. Government Cannot Be Trusted On Radiation Plume
9/11, Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island, Project SHAD, Atomic Soldiers – governments habitually deceive public on health threats
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Given the brazen contempt with which the EPA lied to ground zero workers in telling them that the air was “safe to breathe” on 9/11, government agencies cannot be trusted to give accurate information about the Fukushima radiation plume, which is set to reach California on Friday according to the United Nations.
This is the reason potassium iodide pills and geiger counters have sold out and it goes to the heart of the whole Fukushima catastrophe. Governments worldwide have proven themselves completely deceptive and untrustworthy, which is why no one believes their assurances about “harmless” radiation, and have taken steps to prepare themselves for the worst case scenario.
“A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday,” reports the New York Times.
“Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States, even if hints of it are ultimately detectable. In a similar way, radiation from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 spread around the globe and reached the West Coast of the United States in 10 days, its levels measurable but minuscule.”
The same people telling us that the levels are miniscule and the radiation “harmless,” are from the same organizations who assured us that the Chernobyl disaster only killed 9,000 people, when in reality it exposed 550 million Europeans, and 150 to 230 million others in the Northern Hemisphere to notable contamination and led to nearly a million deaths.
Given the fact that Japanese authorities have overseen a clear cover-up of the amount of radiation being spewed by the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, added to the fact that the EPA and the White House, both of which conspired to engage in a cover-up on 9/11 in claiming that the air was safe to breathe at ground zero (aided by establishment media outlets like the New York Times), which led to chronic illnesses and deaths of thousands of Americans, also cannot be trusted, the fact that the UN is making assurances that the radiation plume will be “harmless” should be treated with the utmost suspicion.
As the Washington Blog notes, “If we could rely on the Japanese and American governments to inform us of any danger, we wouldn’t have to be so vigilant.”
“But given the American government’s cover up of the severity of the BP oil disaster, the health risk to New Yorkers after 9/11, and numerous other health issues, we will have to educate ourselves.”
There are numerous people on the west coast who are streaming continuous live pictures of geiger counters to the Internet. One example is embedded below. Normal background radiation can range from 5 CPM to 60 CPM – anything above 100 should raise an alarm.
This geiger counter is based in Santa Monica.
Assurances that the majority of the radiation plume will disperse over the Pacific Ocean are also glib, given how the Chernobyl radiation cloud smothered most of the northern hemisphere within a week. Remember, experts are calling this crisis “Chernobyl on steroids,” if the worst comes to the worst the radiation cloud could affect the entire globe.
The history surrounding both 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl give us a clear warning that governments and “trusted” authorities habitually lie about the threat posed by radiation as part of their supposed effort to “prevent mass panic” amongst the population.
The false claim that there were no “deaths or long-term health effects connected to the accident,” at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, which is again being parroted by the corporate media, is based on deceptive assurances made at the time by authorities that levels of radiation emitted were harmless.
In reality, cancer rates in children and infants living Dauphin County, where Three Mile Island is located, are significantly higher than the national average.
Similarly, the devastating long term health impacts of Chernobyl have been routinely downplayed.
As a 2010 book published by the New York Academy of Sciences documents, “Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor.”
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The book, written by Alexey Yablokov of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy in Moscow, and Vassily Nesterenko and Alexey Nesterenko of the Institute of Radiation Safety, completely demolishes claims made by the WHO and the IAEA that the disaster only lead to only 9,000 deaths.
“Drawing upon extensive data, the authors estimate the number of deaths worldwide due to Chernobyl fallout from 1986 through 2004 was 985,000, a number that has since increased.”
Janette Sherman, MD, the physician and toxicologist who edited the book, notes that the consequences of Chernobyl “were far worse than many researchers had believed”.
Numerous governments, including the French government, “deliberately suppressed information about the spread of radioactive fallout.” In parts of France, thyroid cancer surged as the population didn’t take steps to protect itself having believed their government that the radiation cloud was harmless.
The book also reveals how, “Americans also consumed contaminated food imported from nations affected by the disaster. Four years later, 25 percent of imported food was found to be still contaminated.”
Let us not forget either the disgraceful legacy of Project Shad, wherein the US Department of Defense exposed unwitting and unwilling participants to deadly biological and chemical weapons. Similarly, under the atomic soldiers program, US troops were ordered to walk directly into the shockwave of nuclear bombs.
Given the documented history of governments, and particularly the White House, routinely lying to their populations about the severity of health threats, particularly radiation, anyone who believes assurances about the “harmless ness” of the plume of radiation which will reach the west coast tomorrow is not only foolish, but is putting their own life and the lives of their loved ones at risk.
Watch the video below to get an idea of how Chernobyl impacted the whole of Europe and beyond. The clip tracks the path of the radioactive cloud over the course of 7 days.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
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THE world was stunned by the first announced release of atomic energy in the destructive blasts over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But as people gradually recovered from shock and horror, they were offered conscience-soothing assurances that atomic energy wasn’t all evil. It could also be controlled and guided into useful channels.
Early reports even stirred the hope that the energy produced by the fission of uranium might be the final solution to the energy problem. Although uranium was more expensive than coal or oil, it has a millionfold greater energy content, far overshadowing any other source of power that man had ever known. The cost of the fuel in atomic furnaces would be next to nothing. After the furnace was built and connected into the electric turbines, power costs would be practically nil!
Alas! This euphoric vision of free power faded away under a closer look. The first sobering realization was that less than one percent of the uranium (the U-235 isotope) is susceptible to the chain reaction. And to get it in high enough concentration to keep the nuclear fire burning, it has to be separated from its heavier isotope (U-238). This is a difficult and costly operation, and a fair fraction of the energy that is gained from the U-235 when it is burned has already been spent in separating it.
Then we learned about the neutrons, which propagate the reaction from the burning to the unburned fuel. They are not like the familiar flames that leap from coal to coal in a stove. In atomic fission, the neutrons spilling out of the splitting atoms leave the fuel, the reactor and everything in and around it dangerously radioactive. So the reacting system must all be enclosed inside thick shields and have mechanical devices to operate it by remote control. What goes on inside is more frightening than a fire, because the penetrating invisible rays can burn us fatally without our knowing it.
Furthermore, to control the burning is a touchy operation. A nuclear reactor is not a bomb, but if allowed to run wild it could conceivably melt its way through the protective walls and escape into the neighborhood with its deadly load of radioactive ashes. To avoid this, it takes intricate and expensive safeguards and constant skilled vigilance. Then, too, the uranium does not burn completely to ashes. As it is consumed, the fission residues begin to eat up more and more of the neutrons that the uranium produces, and this quenches the chain reaction. Long before it is used up, the fuel has to be taken out and replaced with fresh uranium-235.
Moreover, discarding the burned fuel is not as simple as scattering wood ashes in the garden. The nuclear ashes are tremendously radioactive, and have to be heavily shielded for a long time after they are taken out. Some of the more abundant radioelements in the products of fission last for centuries. There is far too much of it to dump into the sewers, or even into the ocean. Neither is it safe to bury where groundwater might reach it. Up till now, most of the radioactive waste has been kept in guarded storage, waiting for someone to figure out what to do with it.
Every one of these complications adds large costs, so that before any power is delivered to the electric grid most of the savings from the “free” fuel have been eaten up. In spite of these drawbacks, nuclear energy has been vigorously promoted, and it has come to be a part of the everyday energy supply in many countries.
Some economic analysts say that nuclear power is still not as cheap as power from coal or oil, and that it has gained its present foothold only by the help of government subsidies, which are not charged to the power companies. On the other hand, the utility company that supplies Chicago’s electricity has published cost figures to show that nuclear plants are saving millions of dollars for their customers. They already get 42 percent of their electricity from the atom, and plan to increase this to 65 percent by 1985. Nuclear power is important in the national economy of many countries.
Objections to Nuclear Power
The use of nuclear energy has been running into more and more opposition. The mounting piles of radioactive waste are a present cause for genuine concern; nobody wants the stuff stored near where he lives. Also, there is a nagging feeling that somehow a nuclear plant might explode and scatter its radioactivity over an area that could expose millions of people. No such explosion has ever occurred, but no one can guarantee absolutely that it will not.
Protest parades and court actions delay the construction of plants. Government agencies, to placate the protesters, put ever more stringent requirements on the approval of new plants.
The fears of a nuclear plant explosion were whipped up to a national frenzy during the recent mishap at a plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor got out of control when some valves and instruments used to control the cooling water in the core failed to perform. For several days it was nip and tuck whether the reactor might overheat and melt down, or whether hydrogen gas accumulating in the top of the vessel might blow it apart. The building enclosing the reactor was designed to contain the radioactive materials in either contingency. But if that, too, failed, one could imagine that thousands of people in the vicinity would die. Many residents chose not to trust the official assurances and moved out until the crisis was over.
In the end, the danger was averted with no worse injuries than exposures about like those received routinely in medical use of X rays, but the power plant was lost. It may cost as much to clean and repair it as to build a new one.
Although the danger was exaggerated in many press reports—one commentator said, “We almost lost Pennsylvania”—there is no doubt that the accident strengthened the hand of those who object to nuclear power. Emotion, more than reason, seems to incite the clamor to “shut down the nukes.” When the hazard is compared with others that are accepted as a matter of everyday life, it seems to shrink almost to nothing.
For instance, people continue to drive automobiles faster than the law allows, knowing that over 8,000 more people will die this year (in the U.S.) than if they observed the speed limit. Even worse, people keep on smoking cigarettes, urged on by ubiquitous advertising and supported by government subsidies, although 80,000 people will die of lung cancer this year as a consequence.
In contrast, not one person was killed or injured, even in the worst accident in the history of nuclear power. Yet there are those who demand that all nuclear plants be closed. Undoubtedly, the insidious nature of the potential injury from invisible radiations contributes to the emotional nature of the objections. Nevertheless, this feeling is a real factor to be reckoned with, and it will make the authorities slow down and impose more exacting safeguards. The result of all of this will be to make energy still more costly.
How Long Will the Uranium Last?
Another deterrent to the growth of nuclear power is the fact that the supply of uranium is not unlimited. If the projected doubling of present capacity by 1985 is realized, the U.S. will be running short before the year 2000.
However, there is a way of greatly extending the present supply. It is based on the fact that while uranium-235 is being used up, uranium-238 is being transmuted to plutonium. This can be separated chemically from the used fuel, and it makes an even better source of energy than the U-235. In reactors fueled by plutonium, it is possible to regenerate the fuel faster than it is used up, so that ultimately nearly all the uranium, rather than just a fraction of one percent, becomes available.
But there is a risk that hangs like an ominous cloud over all present and future programs. The same uranium that is used in power plants can be diverted to the manufacture of bombs. For this reason governments have maintained a tight monopoly on the plants that separate uranium-235, and keep a strict account of where the product goes. In spite of this, whenever this material is used in power reactors, it is possible to accumulate the plutonium, enough, in time, to build an atomic bomb. India did just this, to the consternation of the Canadians who helped them build their reactor. The problem will be even more acute if plutonium is supplied as fuel. For these reasons some political leaders oppose the development of the breeder reactor.
Many scientists have set their hope on another way of getting energy from the nucleus. This is based, not on the energy from fission of a heavy atom into two smaller ones, but on that from the fusion of the lightest element, hydrogen, into helium. This is the nuclear process that goes on in the sun. In contrast to the limited supply of uranium, and even the much greater supply of coal, the amount of hydrogen available is as vast as the oceans. If this could be accomplished, would it not solve man’s energy problem for all time?
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Uranium-235 is being used up, uranium-238 is being transmuted to plutonium. This can be separated chemically from the used fuel, and it makes an even better source of energy than the U-235. In reactors fueled by plutonium, it is possible to regenerate the fuel faster than it is used up, so that ultimately nearly all the uranium, rather than just a fraction of one percent, becomes available.
THE SAME URANIUM that is used in power plants can be diverted to the manufacture of BOMBS. For this reason governments have maintained a tight monopoly on the plants that separate uranium-235, and keep a strict account of where the product goes. In spite of this, whenever this material is used in power reactors, it is possible to accumulate the plutonium, enough, in time, to build an atomic bomb. India did just this, to the consternation of the Canadians who helped them build their reactor. The problem will be even more acute if plutonium is supplied as fuel. For these reasons some political leaders oppose the development of the breeder reactor.
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Can any one here say with any honesty that the above statement is incorrect? If so, then you shall need to prove it.
I rest my case.
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Japan is a sad situation that is to late to fix.We should be talking about how that government is talking about locking out our navy fleet from the country.Or about how Libya will no longer sell us oil if we dont make a public apology (which will never happen).Gdaffi has said all of the business our country was doing with his will now be given to Russia,China,& India.
This Japan situation is taking away precious time to cover-up some important issuse that are not getting any coverage.
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do not worry, radiation is not going to reach US
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about it ? Here’s the “Real News Flash”:…Matthew 24 (King James Version) Matthew 25 (King James Version) A Warning To America by Dumitru Duduman -( YouTube ) and whats fixin to happen …american cities to be nuked with map ( Henry Gruver – Youtube) Talks about what
GOD had shown them personally and was told to “Warn The Masses” / America on what GOD
was going to do with this country that was once a “Golden Cup In HIS Hand”. Here’s America in scriptures:
Amos 3:7 (King James Version)
7Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.