Nuclear Scheme

I was on a talk show called West of the Rockies and on the program, I was discussing how a toxic environment is contributing to health problems both psychical and mental in the United States.

As Americans, we are told every day that the food we eat will kill us and certain activities will cause health problems. According to a recent report published by the World Health Organization, eating 1.8 ounces of bacon, hot dogs or jerky on a daily basis will increase your chances of getting colon cancer by as much as 18 percent.

I always shake my head when I hear about these reports because there is always somebody who will always say something to you if you have bacon and eggs for breakfast. They will bring it up as if you are going to change the way you eat because of some government lobbied report.

What is even more aggravating is while the anti-meat reports are a matter of policy in the mainstream narrative, genetically modified vegetables are encouraged and the eating of fish is also recommended.

The scheme is to adjust intakes of food by creating a scare that will push you into abstaining from one alleged dangerous food – for a panic choice of eating some other toxic food being produced by companies that have politicians on their board of directors or politicians having invested a ton of money in the production of food stuffs that are known to be toxic.

There is also a silent killer seldom getting any attention by the media and that is the toxic environment having been created by the constant cover-ups and manipulation of the dangers of radioactive exposure.

Whether we want to hear it or not, the heavy truth is we now live in a radiation-contaminated country. It continues to pose risks to those living now and generations to come. If the media was ever truthful about the exposures happening, eating bacon and hot dogs would pale in comparison.

In the nuclear information war, we all lose by definition. Many of us have all accepted our roles in the information war and those roles are usually reduced to passive absorption of whatever is reported and no real motivation to seek out more information about a certain topic that should be a concern for you, your family and your community.

Those who have researched vital information for the public are usually tuned out because it tends to be uncomfortable to learn that you have been lied to. It is also uncomfortable to realize that without equally balanced information – the general consensus are willing to accept media information as unquestionable reality.

This is where we lose in the long-term.

There have been a few nuclear close calls that have happened in the United States and while local media is forced to report the incidents and the danger for public safety requirements, the network narrative is still fixated on poll numbers for politicians.

This is the new and quite boring distraction.

A subsurface fire at a Missouri landfill poses catastrophic radiation damage to the St. Louis area even though authorities say that the fire has been contained.

About 20 miles from downtown St. Louis, the Bridgeton Landfill has been spewing toxic smoke from a fire that has been burning since 2010. The cause of the fire and its extent remain unknown. Just 1,000 feet away is the West Lake Landfill, a site contaminated in 1973 by radioactive waste dating back to the 1940s. It was designated an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site in 1990, but the federal government is still deciding how to clean up the waste.

Even though officials say that people are safe for now, a catastrophic event can happen without warning.

Authorities in St. Louis County have quietly developed an emergency plan in case a smoldering landfill fire reaches the nuclear waste site.

Both the Bridgeton and the West Lake landfills are owned by Republic Services. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster filed a lawsuit against the company in 2013, claiming negligent management and violation of state environmental laws, the Associated Press reported. The case is scheduled to go to trial in March 2016.

Koster told the AP that the latest reports about Bridgeton indicated radiological contamination in trees outside the landfill, and there were indications the fire has moved past the “interceptor wells” and closer to the nuclear waste. Republic Services responded by accusing the state of intentionally causing “public angst and confusion.”

On October 18th, 2015 a fire ignited in a low-level nuclear storage site in the desert 10 miles 115 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The blaze followed flash flooding that shut down the town’s escape routes: U.S. 95 and Highway 373.

A plume of smoke billowed over the storage site and the rain continued to pound the bare and flat landscape of the Mojave Desert. County officials and law enforcement were taking hundreds of phone calls, working to clear the roads and planning evacuations. They declared an emergency and received intel from the state and federal government. But officials didn’t rush to update the community.

Helicopters and other aircraft were flying 50 feet from the ground near Beatty, Nevada to test air quality for radiation. Support teams from the Nevada National Guard, state agencies and the federal government were also performing tests in the region. The federal and state governments said there were no signs of high-level radiation polluting the air. The people of Beatty, Nevada, are now concerned because of the lack of transparency with regard to what really happened and whether it posed a greater risk than what was reported.

The Nye County Department of Emergency Management later apologized for not immediately reporting the event to the people.

The 80-acre storage site, run by waste Company US Ecology, is home to 22 low-level nuclear storage trenches, ranging in size from shallow holes to chasms hundreds of feet deep and wide as football fields. The federal government dumped the nuclear waste — equipment and clothing once subjected to government nuclear testing, from 1970 to 1992.

The holes are covered with dirt and rocks of the desert, and officials from the county and state have not concluded what started the fire.

Once again, the authorities do not inform the people on how they can protect themselves or the dangers if any are taking place during these anomalous accidents.

It is obvious that nuclear storage sites, superfund areas and power plants, contain the inherent potential for catastrophe. There is no such thing as a guaranteed safe nuclear reactor. All aspects of the nuclear fuel chain, from mining uranium ore to dropping an atomic bomb to storing radioactive waste, are devastating for the earth and all species living upon it. Radiation is long lasting and has inter-generational effects.

While the corporate media delights on reporting the risks of eating bacon in lieu of genetically modified vegetables, the radioactive dangers are seldom reported. If there were ever disparaging reports on the effects of radioactive exposure due to nuclear power, the corporations that own your information sources would lose their profit margins.

Corporations are not only interested in the profit margins of producing nuclear power —they are also interested in how to make money from managing nuclear disasters.

While those who call for a phase-out of nuclear power and the development instead of sustainable sources of energy as well as energy conservation are often called “unrealistic dreamers,” this is merely the propaganda of an industry seeking to preserve its profits.

Of course it isn’t fashionable to point these things out, especially when the climate change crowd has adopted a new love for nuclear energy to reduce greenhouse gasses.

According to research provided by Tom Zellar of Forbes Magazine, I am surprised at how much self-serving propaganda about nuclear power as a solution to climate change is being embraced by both sides of the political spectrum.

“Climate change is the biggest environmental challenge of our time,” Yukiya Amano, head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, told French ministers at a meeting in Paris back in May of this years . “As governments around the world prepare to negotiate a legally binding, universal agreement on climate at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris at the end of the year, it is important that the contributions that nuclear science and technology can make to combating climate change are recognized.”

Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican Governor of New Jersey and one-time chief of the Environmental Protection Agency under George W. Bush, added her thoughts on the same topic: “Nuclear energy already provides more than 64 percent of our nation’s clean-air electricity,” Whitman wrote in an op-ed for The Hill Blog — one sponsored by the industry’s chief lobby, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI).

“Its long-term benefits simply cannot be replaced by any other energy source,” Whitman added, “especially when we consider the long-term impacts of climate change.”

Well, the radioactive darling of “climate change” activists is still contributing to our toxic environment and it is unfortunate that this whole pseudo scientific scheme is winning over the American people by a very exhausting default. The attitude any more is, if you can’t beat ‘em – then maybe it is okay to join ‘em.

However, if we look back at the Chernobyl disaster and the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, we can see that while nuclear power plants work on a daily basis without incident, the worst case scenario during a nuclear disaster is a long-term catastrophe that effects human life for generations.

In the aftermath of Fukushima, we know that the nuclear power plant in Japan released cesium-134 and other radioactive elements into the ocean at unprecedented levels. Since then, the radioactive plume has traveled west across the Pacific Ocean. Any cesium-134 detected in the ocean today must have come from Fukushima.

Three months ago, it was reported that Fukushima nuclear waste was detected along Southern California coast. It was found that 8.4 Bq/m3 of radioactive cesium measured near beach between Los Angeles and San Diego.

These are the highest levels seen anywhere in North America since the testing began.

Now to avoid panic, the radiation levels are low risk but it appears they are increasing with time and new reports from Japan are saying the first reported cancers from the Nuclear disaster in Japan are now surfacing.

The man worked at the damaged plant for over a year, during which he was exposed to 19.8 millisieverts of radiation, four times the Japanese exposure limit is suffering from leukemia.

The former Fukushima manager Masao Yoshida also contracted cancer of the esophagus after the disaster and died in 2013 – but the owner and operator of the nuclear plant, Tepco, refused to accept responsibility, insisting that the cancer developed too quickly.

Three other Fukushima workers have also contracted cancer but have yet to have their cases assessed.

Another creepy report from Japan, sounds like something out of a Godzilla movie. Several snake-like robots have been used to inspect the reactor containment vessel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and have inexplicably shut down, which puts into question just how contained the radiation is.

The crippled reactors are inaccessible to humans because of deadly levels of radiation, so using the two-foot long robots gave officials the first chance to be able to examine the damage caused by highly-radioactive nuclear fuel debris.

After two unsuccessful attempts to view the reactor, one robotic camera managed to send images along with one other surprise. The camera caught a possible aquatic living creature in the retained coolant water of Reactor 3.

Before we scream Godzilla, the creature is very small and is seen wiggling through the water. No matter how extreme the conditions, there is almost always something that has evolved to endure hostile surroundings like extreme radiation.

Unfortunately, humans don’t.

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