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Monday Humor? America's "Most Polluted" Nuclear Weapons Site To Become National Park
On Sunday, we brought you “Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown,” in which we highlighted a piece from Sean Adl-Tabatabai who asks whether government-funded researchers are intentionally downplaying rising levels of radiation in the Pacific Ocean stemming from the 2011 meltdown in Japan.
“In March 2011, Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered multiple meltdowns following a massive earthquake and tsunami. The exploding reactors sprayed massive amounts of radioactive material into the air, most of which settled into the Pacific Ocean,” Adl-Tabatabai writes, adding that “a study presented at the conference of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco on Dec. 14, shows that radiation levels from Alaska to California have increased since samples were last taken.”
But while Adl-Tabatabai worries that perhaps Americans are getting a sugar-coated version of story thanks to the fact that the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has received millions in government funding, he may be overestimating the public’s interest in the dangers of being exposed to nuclear waste because as AP reports, “thousands of people are expected next year to tour the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, home of the world's first full-sized nuclear reactor, near Richland, about 200 miles east of Seattle in south-central Washington.” Here’s more:
The nation's most polluted nuclear weapons production site is now its newest national park.
[Visitors] won't be allowed anywhere near the nation's largest collection of toxic radioactive waste.
The Manhattan Project National Historic Park, signed into existence in November, also includes sites at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico. The Manhattan Project is the name for the U.S. effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II.
At Hanford, the main attractions will be B Reactor - the world's first full-sized reactor - along with the ghost towns of Hanford and White Bluffs, which were evacuated by the government to make room for the Manhattan Project.
The B Reactor was built in about one year and produced plutonium for the Trinity test blast in New Mexico and for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, that led to the surrender of the Japanese.
Starting in 1943, more than 50,000 people from across the United States arrived at the top-secret Hanford site to perform work whose purpose few knew, French said.
The 300 residents of Richland were evicted and that town became a bedroom community for the adjacent Hanford site, skyrocketing in population. Workers labored around the clock to build reactors and processing plants to make plutonium, a key ingredient in nuclear weapons.
The park will tell the story of those workers, plus the scientists who performed groundbreaking research and the residents who were displaced, said Chip Jenkins of the National Park Service, which is jointly developing the park with the Energy Department.
And a bit more color from the government's Hanford webpage:
Post World War II tensions between the U.S. and Russia brought about the “Cold War” and drove continued atomic weapons production and Hanford’s plutonium production mission. Additional reactors were constructed next to the Columbia River as the two nations began to develop and stockpile nuclear weapons. In 1959, construction began on the last Hanford reactor, dubbed “N.” N Reactor was a dual-purpose facility which produced plutonium for atomic weapons as well as steam for generating electricity. It was the only dual-purpose reactor in the United States and was so advanced that President John F. Kennedy came to Hanford in September of 1963 for its dedication. Starting in the mid 60’s through 1971, the older reactors were shut down leaving only N Reactor operating on the Site. N Reactor continued its mission of producing plutonium and electricity until 1987. Since that time Hanford’s mission has been to clean up the site after decades of weapons production activities.
Here are a few images from the site:
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For anyone planning a family trip to the country's most polluted nuclear site, you can rest assured that "everything is clean and perfectly safe," Colleen French, the U.S. Department of Energy's program manager for the Hanford park says.
"Any radioactive materials are miles away."
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"I am become death, creator of national parks." ~ Colleen French
Additional tourist attractions at the new park include: five legged lizzards, deer with heads on each end, nuclear plant worker cemeteries, leaking waste tanks, and glowing waterfalls.
The only people who go to Hanford as a tourist are the idiots among us. Pray they don't reproduce.
http://youtu.be/KCArrvXa4z4
Just damn...
Now the Japanese will want to make Fukushima into a theme-park.
"Kids City Japan, operator of the KidZania theme park in Tokyo, says it is planning to build a full-scale solar power plant in Fukushima Prefecture just 25 kilometers from the crippled plant."
http://travel.cnn.com/tokyo/visit/fukushima-get-power-theme-park-kids-86...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ajahePtEaY
The Japanese will love this place!
http://thesaker.is/the-imf-changes-its-rules-to-isolate-china-and-russia/
Much of the Hanford reservation is more contaminated than is the Chernobyl radioactive exclusion zone.
An American and a Japanese politician are walking in the citycenter of Fukushima.
The American asks: Didn't godzilla destroy the fukushima nuclear buildingthing?
Oh relax... don't glow... that site is miles away...
Award a contract to Trump -- as long as he builds a housing complex for whatever 'Syrian Refugees' we bring into the country.
I'd trust Trump to do a good job for them. ;-)
I have been at Hanford on a guided tour they were offering back then (a few years ago). Totally awesome.
Did the tourguide mention that the best and brightest 'American' scientists working on Manhattan were actually adopted Nazis?
I've read up on operation Paper Clip. But you know what I've never really read is reasonable explanation as to why these Nazi scientists were among the foremost authorities on nuclear chain reactions, rocket propulsion, synthesized narcotics, coal-gas conversion (fischer-tropsch process). How could a country with 80 million people (1/4 the size of the US) have so many what appears to be gifted scientists?
Here's my theory - basically, the NSP when around to all the schools and asked the teachers, "who here is the best at [insert STEM study]"; and told them, "you will study this; all your expenses are paid, and you will be comfortably employed for the rest of your life." And thereby fully funded the best-of-the-best, maintaining them in their field of study.
Those more privvy to this, please chime in...
I heard the early nuclear physicists had a morbid fascination with the nuclear tales in the Indian sacred texts, and a lot of their ideas of nuclear power came from there.
Don't speak Sanskrit myself, but several of the early nuclear pioneers did.
Ah yes - I to read the epic "Ramayana" in a college literature class. Probably in the same vein where the Aryan Insignia comes from.
Ha! Your linked article lost me at National Security and Ethical Concerns.
Government is theft. Nothing ethical will ever result.
"Any radioactive materials are miles away.""
I looked and this article really was AP.
This is not an onion piece.
This dumb cunt really is that dumb.
And people ask me why I am not married.
I show them reasons like this idiot with a vagina complex and a flapping mouth for 100k.
Traitor cunt.
Sounds like you need to get yourself a nice boyfriend and settle down.
Let me know when team vagina creates a Republic without help from MEN sweetheart.
when does IPO start? sounds bullish, can't wait for SPDR Wasteland ETF.
Symbols for the ETF?
how about
FKD
DED
or a special 4-letter ETF
CNCR
Next: Anthrax Petting Zoo, the beltway's newest wholesome attraction for all the family. It's for the children.
Mr. Oppenheimer's Wild Ride.
Spend your next vacation at the new Love Canal water park and hot springs.
I used to hike the Appalachian Trail, IIRC, around Pawling NY. I runs right through a place called Nuclear Lake, an abandoned facility near a pond, where a sphere of plutonium exploded and wrecked a building. They said it was all cleaned up and perfectly safe, but I (thankfully) went around it.
I can't find any reference at all to it on any map or on the Internet now, 33 years later. But all the locals knew all about it back then, and stayed far away.
You're welcome
http://www.scoutingny.com/how-to-visit-new-yorks-nuclear-lake/
The sphere didn't actually explode. They were made in two halves and used to measure the radiation increase when they were brought closer together increasing the neutron flux density. They made the same mistake at Los Alamos and two people died. The incidents did not spread radioactive contamination they just caused a burst of radiation and heat which caused the sphere halves to fly apart. I don't know about the incident at Hanford but the one at Los Alamos did not cause any damage to the building. The first accident I know of that caused structural damage was at a test reactor in Idaho at INEL when a control rod was ejected from the core. You need to understand the difference between radiation and radioactive contamination to have a good understanding of the risks involved. They are not at all the same thing.
"You need to understand the difference between radiation and radioactive contamination to have a good understanding of the risks involved. They are not at all the same thing."
Well that makes zero sense.
I bet your mom also had Down syndrome.
What-does the nuclear industry have some sort of device like the hasbara trolls when Israel is mentioned and gleaned from search engine bots?
Or are most 'Mericans such stupid pathetic morons they actually still support this monstrous government evil that is destroying the natural world?
I wasn't implying anything about your intelligence with my post but your reply leaves little doubt as to your miniscule thinking ability. You do need to understand and apparently there is a lot more understanding that you lack.
I have had friends that work there and heard a story that the mud-bees that would build their nests out of the highly radioactive mud.....and of course the bees don't care about property lines.
"Incidence 400 percent above normal. The Washington State Health Department is trying to identify the cause of an unusually high number of rare birth defects in south central Washington, around the leaking Hanford nuclear site."
http://nsnbc.me/2014/04/24/400-spike-in-rare-birth-defects-near-leaking-...
Bring the kids...
(Radiation kills the kids first)
So many bells and whistles and lights and buttons and levers; it has to be real.
Never forget the national park stuff kicked off in 1913, a pretty bad year.
The way the "national park stuff" works also tends to involve exemption from various federal and state regulations (including oversight, reporting and disclosure requirements that exist in the non-protected corporate and government world). I smell a rat.
This is a continuing disaster. We have spent approximately 10 billion on cleanup and achieved, oh...nothing. I've driven by, it is out in the middle of nowhere and, for that reason, contains the last free flowing stretch of the Columbia River. On the other side of the road are the Rattlesnake Hills. Good place to see how fast your car can go.
I believe every chief safety inspector in recent years has quit.
"The cost of the Hanford vitrification plant has increased $430 million from close to $12.3 billion to almost $12.7 billion, according to a new review."
"Construction has been stopped at the Pretreatment Facility and a portion of the High Level Waste Facility because of issues that could effect the future safe and efficient operation of the plant."
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article32166357.html
Just the vit plant alone. Add billions more for the land reclamation and storage tank removal.
Almost like a hi-tech military weapons purchase. Lots 'o money, no workee. But the billions went somewhere...
The insanity is that we have the means of dealing with this waste.
Hanford wants another 10 years to clean up
the whole nuclear thing is way over done. After Chernobyl poland inoculated EVERYONE to prevent radioactive iodine....Sweden didn't....cancer deaths in poland went up....Sweden went down....look it up. Humans have dealt with radiation....it is all a control thing. Obviously you don't want to walk into a reactor...but NATURE has lots of radiation...and we have thrived. How many around Chernobyl and Fuki...died from fall out! Very good write up about the data....by the head guy in Poland about the scare mongering!
Yes, just ask the USS Reagan sailors increasingly dying from years of radiation sickness from their mission off Fukushima, while their families get rad sick, too, and their children are born mutated.
Everything is just wonderful.
Yup those people got baked.
http://youtu.be/kgjXwJ8FRK0
Oh well. They live on a ship that makes some of the shit they got sprayed with after the Israeli nukes went off a Fukushima.
How many died from Fuky?? Well, we will never know, because GOVERNMENTS TURNED OFF THE MONITORS!!
Ingesting potassium iodide tablets used to be strongly recommended for any radiation release emergencey at nuclear power plants. They no longer recomment it strongly due to the problem you mentioned in Poland. Potassium Iodide in large doses can cause cancer to the thyroid. Be very careful what you ingest into your body. The cure may be as bad or worse than the disease.
Exactly.
Increase radiation --> increased mutation rate --> faster evolution!
Sure, most of the mutations will have negative effects, but some mutants will be able to fly, read minds and what-not.
"innoculated"? "radiactive Iodine"???? you sure you recieved at least your GED?
Make the 40 square miles of run down polluted wasteland surrounding Detroit into a National Park.
It's already got more wild animals per square mile than any place in africa.
I would like to visit this park if I get a chance. I live in Texas and it would be a long drive. I was born at Los Alamos in 52. My father was working there on weapons research. I'm not scared of it.
"'My father was working there on weapons research. I'm not scared of it."
Boom. Evidence that stupidity is handed down genetically.
I'd like to visit this park too. If I'm still around in 30,000 years.
I know of Ukrainians who bought farmland nearby, and they tell me they grow "giant tomatoes, beans and cucumbers".
Must be some ancient Ukie secret on farming, or Companion Gardening, I suppose.
No, that's just the Uki version of a travel brochure.
Land Of the Giant Vegetables
The kind you used to see postcards of: Giant Vegatables on a Trains flatbed car
I like the idea of turning Detroit into a wasteland theme park. You could hire the few locals left to play the part of post apocolyptic gangs to give the tourists a realistic Mad Max experience. Its not to far away from what they are doing now.
"LA Gang Tours offers tours into the heart of the Los Angeles gangland territory – places you normally wouldn’t think to visit: Skid Row, South Central & Watts and Compton. This unique organization is not glorifying gang violence and activities rather they are humanizing it, raising awareness, and money to work with kids before they get sucked into this “culture’ as well as other anti-gang preventative measures."
http://www.davestravelcorner.com/journals/destination-north-america/la-g...
Keeping in mind that Fat Man targeted the only Christian (Catholic) enclave in Japan. Wiped it out.
I think I will wait to visit...understand a Fukushima National Park is in the works...I think I can get the best exposure in this park...
It will be named the "Ringo Starr Naional Park", because "everything government touches turns to crap."
Actually this is pretty cool. I would like to see Hanford.
It just isn't fair hunting Handford deer at night.
Hahaha.. i read this sometimes ago..
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hanford-nuclear-cleanup-problems/
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/story/2012-01-25/...
And i HAVEN'T STATED with the Savannah River sites.
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO/RCED-99-69
In Savannah River? Your US govt pumped IN river waters to COOLS NUKES RODS directly. Then DUMPS the river waters BACK TO RIVER DIRECTLY. This is happens for MORE THAN 3 DECADES!!
As a comparison. Fukushima failed reactor? Japanese douse that melted fuels with Aquadest waters. Then the used "CONTAMINATED WATERS" picked up by Japanese, and then they're storing this water for further ISOTOPES SEPARATIONS processing, before that contaminated waters dumps to the oceans. At least the Japanese govt MAKES AN EFFORTS to try to CLEANS THOSE CONTAMINATED WATERS BEFORE THEY DUMPS IT TO THE SEA!!
Your US govt? Just dumps that IRRADIATED/CONTAMINATED waters back to the river w/o ANY ATTEMPTS to cleans those river water FIRST!!
Uhuh.. and you complaints about that Japs fukushima waters, eh?? Clueless Americans..
Hahahaha...
Government can save a lot of money
by getting these sponsored by
Pharma , drugs & biotech firms
hey hey , when ppl get cancer
these cos. wll get many times moar
moar cancer
moar money
&
moar money to politicians