<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526157" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nuclear Is Safe? No They Lied To You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A list of non classified nuclear disasters<br>chalk one up for Chalk River Canada <br>rating 5 a “reactor shutoff rod failure, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">combined with several operator errors, <br>led to a major power excursion of more <br>than double the reactor's rated output <br>at AECL's NRX reactor” then a big deal.1952</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Entrant two Windscale Pile United Kingdom <br>rating 5 a “Release of radioactive material to <br>the environment following a fire in a reactor <br>core.” Toast a good year for nuclear disasters.1957</div><div style="margin:10px 0">graphite core of a British nuclear “[weapons <br>programme] reactor at Windscale, Cumberland <br>(now Sellafield, Cumbria) caught fire, releasing <br>substantial amounts of radioactive contamination <br>into the surrounding area.” Radioactive fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A warm welcome to entrant three. Kyshtym <br>Russia rating 6 a “Significant release of <br>radioactive material to the environment <br>from explosion of a high activity waste tank.” 1957 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Please all welcome contestant one back<br>Chalk River Canada (rating?) “Due to <br>inadequate cooling a damaged uranium <br>fuel rod caught fire and was torn in two.” 1958</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Champagne pops cheer another good year<br>Vin&#269; a Yugoslavia (rating?) “During <br>a subcritical counting experiment a power <br>buildup went undetected - six scientists <br>received high doses.” What detailed detail? 1958 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Applause please for our first American entry<br>Santa Susana Field Laboratory US (rating?) <br>“Partial core meltdown.” Sounds serious. <br>Tick one deep operations public cover up.1959</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time to take a nice country waltz in a US county <br>Westinghouse Waltz Mill Westmoreland County<br>(rating?) a core melt accident in a test reactor? 1960 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Looks like American is going for a hat trick<br>Charlestown US (rating?) “Error by a worker <br>at a United Nuclear Corporation fuel facility <br>led to an accidental criticality”. Human error? 1964</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes score a limelight hat trick for team USA<br>Monroe US (rating?) “Sodium cooling system <br>malfunction.” Human error or mechanical? <br>Again deep cover details lacking team USA.1966 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heavy duty classified dudes. (Date? Rating? Location? <br>Unknown?) Soviet icebreaker ‘Lenin’, “USSR’s first <br>nuclear-powered surface ship, suffered a major accident<br> <br>(possibly a meltdown...) in one of its three reactors. <br>To find the leak the crew broke through the concrete and <br>steel radiation shield with sledgehammers, causing <br>irreparable damage. It was rumored that around 30 of the <br>crew were killed. The ship was abandoned for a year to <br>allow radiation levels to dropp before the three reactors<br> <br>were removed, to be dumped into the Tsivolko Fjord on <br>the Kara Sea, along with 60% of the fuel elements packed <br>in a separate container.” Soviet widow maker. Winter 1966-1967</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now we return to previous country entrant two.<br> <br>Dumfries and Galloway, Chapelcross Scotland UK<br>United Kingdom (rating?) reactor core “Graphite <br>debris partially blocked a fuel channel causing a <br>fuel element to melt and catch fire.” Heavy Metal Fire? 1967</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pleasant skip across to continent Europe<br>Lucens Switzerland (rating?) a “Total loss <br>of coolant led to a power excursion and <br>explosion of experimental reactor.” Bad? 1969</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Future forecast Japan blows three reactors at<br>Fukushima due to coolant lacking back up power? 2011</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crossing ‘The Wall’ with ease a nuclear breeze <br>we enter Cold War Griefswald East Germany<br>rating 3 vodka toast hot partly damaged reactor<br>excessive heating damaged ten fuel rods.1975</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Greifswald East Germany (rating?) Foot noted as<br>“Excessive heating which damaged ten fuel rods” 1989</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reality investigative journalism reveals near core <br>meltdown, the fifth dangerous incident at the plant. <br>“Three out of six cooling water pumps were switched <br>off for a test. A fourth pump broke down and control </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of the reactor was lost” accident reportedly attributed <br>to sticky relay contacts. Sneaky cover up. December 7,1975 <br>main trough fire destroyed current supply control lines <br>of 5 of 6 main coolant pumps, rating 4, declassified 1989</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A quick visit to a former Soviet satellite state<br>rating 4 Jaslovské Bohunice Czechoslovakia<br>“Damaged fuel integrity, extensive corrosion <br>damage of fuel cladding... release of radioactivity.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A chance to remember a really famous blow out<br>Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania US<br>rating 5 Three Mile Island US “Severe damage to <br>the reactor core.” A cooling system meltdown.1979</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us adjourn sip wine in Orléans near gay Paris <br>rating 4 Saint Laurent des Eaux France. “Melting <br>of one channel of fuel in the reactor with no release <br>outside the site.” Nicely swept under the mat.1980</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A new island entrant extreme earthquake risk Japan<br>rating 2 Tsuraga Japan “100 workers were exposed <br>to doses of up to 155 millirem per day radiation.” 1981<br>Wow this was a honeymoon warning not heeded? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ontario New York (rating?) “A steam pipe burst at <br>the Ginna Nuclear Generating Station, resulting in a <br>loss of coolant and gasses were intentionally vented <br>to the atmosphere to reduce risks of explosion.” 1982</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Japan attempted this procedure blow it three times.2011</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Buenos Aires Argentina rating 4 “An operator error <br>during a fuel plate reconfiguration in an experimental <br>test reactor led to an excursion... operator absorbed <br>2000 rad (20 Gy) of gamma and 1700 rad (17 Gy) of <br>neutron radiation which killed him two days later.” 1983</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us now speed through so many more to do? <br>Hamm-Uentrop Germany (rating?) “Spherical <br>fuel pebble became lodged in the pipe used to <br>deliver fuel elements to the reactor.” Sparks? 1986<br>Not the Flintstones Bamm-Bamm bam it’s dangerous. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chernobyl Ukraine (USSR) rating 7 “Widespread <br>health and environmental effects. External release <br>of a significant fraction of reactor core inventory.” 1986 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So brief? Someone really hid scary data on this mega <br>disaster. Power excursion, explosion, complete meltdown.<br>Fifty fatalities initially reported mostly cleanup personnel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">explosion combustion of graphite reactor core spread <br>radioactive material across Europe. “100,000 people <br>were evacuated from the areas immediately surrounding <br>Chernobyl in addition to 300,000 from the areas of heavy <br>fallout in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia” still radiating. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“An 'Exclusion Zone' was created surrounding the site <br>encompassing approximately 1,000 mi² (3,000 km²) ” <br>and deemed off-limits for human habitation... studies <br>by governments, UN agencies and environmental groups <br>have estimated the consequences and eventual number <br>of casualties. Their findings are subject to controversy.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why because the estimated kill list topped over a million! <br>This was a power excursion explosion, complete meltdown! <br>Chernobyl still stealth killing chilling data not funny haha! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vandellos Spain rating 3 “Near accident caused by fire <br>resulting in loss of safety systems at the nuclear power <br>station” meant rain in Spain could radiate the plain.1989</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Less detail given but commonality is disaster obvious.<br>Cadarache France rating 2 “Spread of contamination <br>to an area not expected by design” proves design error.1993</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back in the US, back in the US, USSR another disaster? <br>Tomsk Russia rating 4 “Pressure buildup led to an <br>explosive mechanical failure” another Soviet oops.1993</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes big time. “The accident exposed 160 on-site <br>workers and almost two thousand cleanup workers <br>to total doses of up to 50 mSv (the threshold limit <br>for radiation workers is 100 mSv per 5 years) . Nasty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh dear another bad disaster ridden radiated year<br>Ishikawa Prefecture Japan rating 2 “Control rod malfunction” 1999<br>No! Want accurate gossip on this shameful cover up? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Operators attempting to inser one control rod during <br>an inspection neglected procedure and instead withdrew<br>three causing a 15 minute uncontrolled sustained reaction <br>at the number 1 reactor of Shika Nuclear Power Plant. The <br>Hokuriku Electric Company who owned the reactor did not <br>report this incident and falsified records, covering it up until”.2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh dear really naughty Japan needs a new safe nuclear plan? <br>Ibaraki Prefecture Japan rating 4 “An accidental critality”<br>Old inadequately training, cost cutting part-time, workers trick? <br>Tokaimura “Fatal over exposures of workers <br>following a criticality event at a nuclear facility”.1999 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Twelve hours after the start of the incident residents <br>within 10 km were asked to stay indoors”.<br>Another better late than never scenario; to be reused.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ikitelli Turkey rating 3 “Loss of a highly radioactive <br>Co-60 source” “combined with several operator errors, <br>led to a major power excursion of more than double <br>the reactor's output” surge juicing up the power grid.1999</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yanangio Peru rating 3 “Incident with radiography <br>source resulting in severe radiation burns” smarting.1999 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Welcome to heralded high tech twenty first century? <br>Authorities have finally implemented adequate nuclear<br>fool proof safety procedures right? Wrong. So Sorry.<br> <br>Paks Hungary rating 3 “Partially spent fuel rods <br>undergoing cleaning in a tank of heavy water <br>ruptured and spilled fuel pellets” ruptured scary.2003</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sellafield England UK rating 3 Release of a large quantity of <br>radioactive material, contained within the installation”.2005</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Braidwood Illinois USA (rating?) a nuclear material <br>leak. “Tritium contamination of groundwater was <br>discovered at Exelon's Braidwood station.” How much? 2005</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Atucha Argentina rating 2 “Overexposure of a worker <br>at a power reactor exceeding the annual limit” 2005</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Erwin Tennessee USA rating 2 “Thirty-five litres of a <br>highly enriched uranium solution leaked during transfer”.2006<br>A “required public hearing on the licensing of the plant <br>was not held due to the absence of public notification.’ Naughty! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forsmark Sweden rating 2 “Degraded safety functions <br>for common cause failure in the emergency power <br>supply system at nuclear power plant”. Maintenance? 2006</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fleurus Belgium rating 4 “Severe health effects for a <br>worker at a commercial irradiation facility as a result <br>of high doses of radiation” Human mechanical error? 2006</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Onagawa Japan “Reactor shutdown after the 2011 <br>Sendai earthquake and tsunami caused a fire”. 2011 <br>Miyagi earthquake produced vibrations above plant design 2005 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Results. Unit 1 was shut down due to test results. November 2006 <br>Unit 2 confirmed pipe leak due to debris damage. May 2006 <br>Pressure control difficulties prompted further inspections. June 2006</div><div style="margin:10px 0">METI and Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency determined <br>plant's performance was not satisfactory. July 2006 </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unit 3 pipe integrity concerns reactor was shut down. July 2006<br>Reactor repaired restarted. T&#333; hoku earthquake. November 2006 <br>Damaged turbines a fire broke out; plant shut down. March 2011</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fukushima Japan (rating?) after early trickie dickie lie reports<br>rating 5 (later updated when data could no longer be hidden) rating 7 <br>Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, Japan had partial meltdowns in <br>multiple reactors, emergency power failure,3 hydrogen explosions? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reactor shutdown after the 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami<br>failure of emergency cooling caused an explosion Level 3 at the<br>Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant, overheating plus radioactivity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stuart Arm incorrectly states, 'apart from Chernobyl, no nuclear <br>workers or members of the public have ever died as a result of <br>exposure to radiation due to a commercial nuclear reactor incident.' <br>Among cover ups lethal doses were received workers timed out? <br>Beware new nuclear flu especially nuclear waste escapes near you? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Benjamin K. Sovacool has reported that worldwide <br>there have been 99 accidents at nuclear power plants.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fifty-seven accidents have occurred since the Chernobyl disaster, <br>and 57% (56 out of 99) of all nuclear-related accidents have occurred <br>in the USA. Relatively few accidents involved fatalities.” Statistics? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The “Paul Scherrer Institute found in separate studies that during <br>the period from 1970 to 1992, there were just 39 on-the-job deaths <br>of nuclear power plant workers worldwide.” Stuart Arm found none? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Most sources quoted were limited to the “List of civilian nuclear accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia” to allow reader ease in data checking.<br>Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br>Written in March 2011 on the 18.3.2011. 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