Scientists Say Nuclear Fuel Pools Pose Safety, Health Risks

Fukushima Radiation Plume In The Pacific Ocean Destroying The Food Chain

 

2 Timothy 3

Perilous Times and Perilous Men

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:  

 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.

 And from such people turn away!

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A report from NBC News:

 Ninety-six aboveground, aquamarine pools around the country that hold the nuclear industry's spent reactor fuel may not be as safe as U.S. regulators and the nuclear industry have publicly asserted, a study released May 20 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine warned.

 Citing a little-noticed study by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the academies said that if an accident or an act of terrorism at a densely-filled pool caused a leak that drains the water away from the rods, a cataclysmic release of long-lasting radiation could force the extended evacuation of nearly 3.5 million people from territory larger than the state of New Jersey. 

It could also cause thousands of cancer deaths from excess radiation exposure, and as much as $700 billion dollars in costs to the national economy.

The report is the second and final study of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant, which was pummeled from a tsunami on March 11, 2011.

 The authors suggest the U.S. examine the benefits of withdrawing the spent fuel rods from the pools and storing them instead in dry casks aboveground in an effort to avoid possible catastrophes.

The idea is nothing new, but it's been opposed by the industry because it could cost as much as $4 billion.

The latest report contradicts parts of a study by Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff released two years after the Fukushima incident.

 The NRC staff in its 2014 study said a major earthquake could be expected to strike an area where spent fuel is stored in a pool once in 10 million years or less, and even then, "spent fuel pools are likely to withstand severe earthquakes without leaking."

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These nuclear things were built by companies that pushed them for profit.

And now they are not being properly handled for the same reason, for profit.

Greed will always have serious repercussions in the long run.

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 Luke 12:18-21
 

“Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do.

 I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.  

 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. 

Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ’

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! 

This very night your life will be demanded from you. 

Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

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A former engineer at one of Germanyâ(TM)s nuclear reactors has made an astonishing claim: that the plant intentionally pumped radioactive waste into the atmosphere in 1986.

 Speaking to the Westfalischer Anzeiger, 83-year-old retired engineer Hermann Schollmeyer apparently decided it was time to come clean, three decades after the incident he describes.

The official story had always been that radioactive waste was unintentionally leaked into the air at the THTR reactor in Hamm in May 1986, the western German newspaper reports.

 But Schollmeyer now claims that the plant used the cover of the Chernobyl -- which had released a cloud of radioactive waste over western Europe -- to pump their own waste into the atmosphere, believing no one would notice.

"It was done intentionally," Schollmeyer said. "We had problems at the plant and I was present at a few of the meetings."