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2nd November 2013, 19:31
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"Beware the Ides of March"
Caesar:
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry "Caesar!" Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer:
Beware the ides of March.
Caesar:
What man is that?
Brutus:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2, 15–19
On my Nuclearnuttery blog that was removed by ATS/NSA/whoever late last year, there was an article detailing the need for USA to address its spent nuclear fuel storage situation. This was one of my more serious articles, one of those with a real point, and a real deadline.
Seattle Times ran an article yesterday or today detailing the situation in Washington state that has for decades been swept under the rug by experts and the press. A civilian group had to conduct parallel studies in order to release the truth of the matter to the public.
Upon moving to Washington state in 2007, it came to my attention that Yucca Mountain was no longer an option for semi-permanent spent nuclear fuel storage. For some reason Nevada decided not to go forward with the plan to start stockpiling spent fuel within its borders. The project was de-funded. Thanks to this, Washington is starting to have a lot in common with Fukushima. We have far too many spent fuel rods being stored near active fault lines, and nowhere to put it.
On my blog I asked questions, like can CERN find a way to quickly "defuse" such hazardous spent fuel and turn it into something useful. We are going to run out of room by 2015, if the quake doesn't come first.
Yucca Mountain Defunded:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Yucca_Mountain_2.jpg/280px-Yucca_Mountain_2.jpg
Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Las Vegas. Located in the Great Basin, Yucca Mountain is east of Amargosa Desert, south of the Nevada Test and Training Range and in the Nevada National Security Site. It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which is currently identified by Congressional law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility. However, while licensure of the site through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ongoing, political maneuvering led to the site being de-funded in 2010.
Seattle Times article on seismic risk to Hanford Site:
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022173243_nukequakesxml.html
Originally published November 1, 2013 at 1:19 PM | Page modified November 1, 2013 at 8:29 PM
Hanford nuke plant’s earthquake risk underestimated, group says
A new report by an anti-nuclear organization says earthquake risks were seriously underestimated when the state’s only commercial nuclear-power plant was built almost 30 years ago on the Hanford nuclear reservation.
By Sandi Doughton
Seattle Times science reporter
A new analysis by an anti-nuclear organization says earthquake risks were seriously underestimated when the state’s only commercial nuclear-power plant was built almost 30 years ago on the Hanford nuclear reservation.
Seismic studies since then have uncovered more faults, extended the length of previously known faults and challenged the assumption that large quakes are not likely in the area, says the report from the Washington and Oregon chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). Geologists now believe one fault passes a scant 2.3 miles from the 1,170-megawatt plant called the Columbia Generating Station (CGS).
The new evidence suggests that the region could be rocked by shaking two to three times stronger than the plant was designed for, said Terry Tolan, the veteran geologist who prepared the report for PSR.
“No seismic structural upgrades have been made at the Columbia Generating Station despite all of the geologic evidence that has been assembled over the past thirty years which has dramatically increased the seismic risk at this site,” Tolan wrote.
The physician’s group submitted the report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday, along with a letter calling on NRC Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane to shut down the reactor until it is upgraded to withstand stronger quakes.
Macfarlane defended the power plant in her response to an earlier letter. “The NRC continues to conclude that CGS has been designed, built and operated to safely withstand earthquakes likely to occur in its region,” she wrote in September.
On Friday, NRC spokesman Scott Burnell said the Washington nuclear plant, along with all others in the Western United States, is under orders from NRC to re-evaluate its seismic risk by March 2015. That review, instigated after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that led to meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima reactor complex, will take into account all the new science, he added.
read more please: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022173243_nukequakesxml.html
Wikipedia on Spent Fuel Rod Storage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_fuel_pool
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Carso_Fuel_pool.jpg/220px-Carso_Fuel_pool.jpg
Spent fuel pools (SFP) are storage pools for spent fuel from nuclear reactors. They are typically 40 or more feet (12 m) deep, with the bottom 14 feet (4.3 m) equipped with storage racks designed to hold fuel assemblies removed from the reactor. A reactor's pool is specially designed for the reactor in which the fuel was used and situated at the reactor site. In many countries, the fuel assemblies, after being in the reactor for 3 to 6 years, are stored underwater for 10 to 20 years before being sent for reprocessing or dry cask storage. The water cools the fuel and provides shielding from radiation.
While only about 8 feet (2.4 m) of water is needed to keep radiation levels below acceptable levels, the extra depth provides a safety margin and allows fuel assemblies to be manipulated without special shielding to protect the operators.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that many of the nuclear power plants in the United States will be out of room in their spent fuel pools by 2015, most likely requiring the use of temporary storage of some kind.[1]
"I felt fear"
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/28/world/asia/japan-nuclear/
Former Japanese leader: 'I felt fear' during nuclear crisis
By Kyung Lah, CNN
updated 6:45 AM EDT, Mon May 28, 2012
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120528103758-naoto-kan-story-top.jpg
Tokyo (CNN) -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he was overwhelmed and afraid during last year's nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, acknowledging that little has been done since then to ensure that another nuclear disaster will not occur.
Sounding like a fiery anti-nuclear activist, Kan Monday testified before a panel appointed by parliament to investigate the nuclear disaster.
"There wasn't much information coming to me" from the government regulatory agency, NISA, or the plant's operator, TEPCO, Kan said. "I thought I couldn't make any countermeasures in this crisis. I felt fear."
My grandfather was a nuclear missile maintenance man -- a real life silo-sitter -- and for some reason I've always taken a dim view of the situation our world has built for itself. Some of the premonitions I've had were in the context of the White Sands Trinity Monument to the first documented nuclear detonation. But it seems as if the truth is far closer to home, and many times more sinister, than something as isolated as a bomb.
We have built our houses upon the sand, like the foolish man in the Bible parable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Trinity_Site_Obelisk_National_Historic_Landmark.jpg/600px-Trinity_Site_Obelisk_National_Historic_Landmark.jpg
Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device, conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, as a result of the Manhattan Project,[5][6][7][8][9] in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the new White Sands Proving Ground, which incorporated the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. (The site is now the White Sands Missile Range.)[10][11] Trinity used an implosion-design plutonium device, informally nicknamed "The Gadget".[12] Using the same conceptual design, the Fat Man device was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The Trinity detonation produced the explosive power of about 20 kilotons of TNT (84 TJ).
Although nuclear chain reactions had been hypothesized in 1933 and the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (Chicago Pile-1 or CP-1) had taken place in December 1942,[13] the date of the Trinity test is usually considered to be the beginning of the Atomic Age.[14]
p.s. the author of this thread lives within 100 miles of Handford nuclear reservation.
photo courtesy of Seattle Times
"Beware the Ides of March"
Caesar:
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue shriller than all the music
Cry "Caesar!" Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer:
Beware the ides of March.
Caesar:
What man is that?
Brutus:
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2, 15–19
On my Nuclearnuttery blog that was removed by ATS/NSA/whoever late last year, there was an article detailing the need for USA to address its spent nuclear fuel storage situation. This was one of my more serious articles, one of those with a real point, and a real deadline.
Seattle Times ran an article yesterday or today detailing the situation in Washington state that has for decades been swept under the rug by experts and the press. A civilian group had to conduct parallel studies in order to release the truth of the matter to the public.
Upon moving to Washington state in 2007, it came to my attention that Yucca Mountain was no longer an option for semi-permanent spent nuclear fuel storage. For some reason Nevada decided not to go forward with the plan to start stockpiling spent fuel within its borders. The project was de-funded. Thanks to this, Washington is starting to have a lot in common with Fukushima. We have far too many spent fuel rods being stored near active fault lines, and nowhere to put it.
On my blog I asked questions, like can CERN find a way to quickly "defuse" such hazardous spent fuel and turn it into something useful. We are going to run out of room by 2015, if the quake doesn't come first.
Yucca Mountain Defunded:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Yucca_Mountain_2.jpg/280px-Yucca_Mountain_2.jpg
Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Las Vegas. Located in the Great Basin, Yucca Mountain is east of Amargosa Desert, south of the Nevada Test and Training Range and in the Nevada National Security Site. It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which is currently identified by Congressional law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility. However, while licensure of the site through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ongoing, political maneuvering led to the site being de-funded in 2010.
Seattle Times article on seismic risk to Hanford Site:
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022173243_nukequakesxml.html
Originally published November 1, 2013 at 1:19 PM | Page modified November 1, 2013 at 8:29 PM
Hanford nuke plant’s earthquake risk underestimated, group says
A new report by an anti-nuclear organization says earthquake risks were seriously underestimated when the state’s only commercial nuclear-power plant was built almost 30 years ago on the Hanford nuclear reservation.
By Sandi Doughton
Seattle Times science reporter
A new analysis by an anti-nuclear organization says earthquake risks were seriously underestimated when the state’s only commercial nuclear-power plant was built almost 30 years ago on the Hanford nuclear reservation.
Seismic studies since then have uncovered more faults, extended the length of previously known faults and challenged the assumption that large quakes are not likely in the area, says the report from the Washington and Oregon chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). Geologists now believe one fault passes a scant 2.3 miles from the 1,170-megawatt plant called the Columbia Generating Station (CGS).
The new evidence suggests that the region could be rocked by shaking two to three times stronger than the plant was designed for, said Terry Tolan, the veteran geologist who prepared the report for PSR.
“No seismic structural upgrades have been made at the Columbia Generating Station despite all of the geologic evidence that has been assembled over the past thirty years which has dramatically increased the seismic risk at this site,” Tolan wrote.
The physician’s group submitted the report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday, along with a letter calling on NRC Chairwoman Allison Macfarlane to shut down the reactor until it is upgraded to withstand stronger quakes.
Macfarlane defended the power plant in her response to an earlier letter. “The NRC continues to conclude that CGS has been designed, built and operated to safely withstand earthquakes likely to occur in its region,” she wrote in September.
On Friday, NRC spokesman Scott Burnell said the Washington nuclear plant, along with all others in the Western United States, is under orders from NRC to re-evaluate its seismic risk by March 2015. That review, instigated after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that led to meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima reactor complex, will take into account all the new science, he added.
read more please: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022173243_nukequakesxml.html
Wikipedia on Spent Fuel Rod Storage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_fuel_pool
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Carso_Fuel_pool.jpg/220px-Carso_Fuel_pool.jpg
Spent fuel pools (SFP) are storage pools for spent fuel from nuclear reactors. They are typically 40 or more feet (12 m) deep, with the bottom 14 feet (4.3 m) equipped with storage racks designed to hold fuel assemblies removed from the reactor. A reactor's pool is specially designed for the reactor in which the fuel was used and situated at the reactor site. In many countries, the fuel assemblies, after being in the reactor for 3 to 6 years, are stored underwater for 10 to 20 years before being sent for reprocessing or dry cask storage. The water cools the fuel and provides shielding from radiation.
While only about 8 feet (2.4 m) of water is needed to keep radiation levels below acceptable levels, the extra depth provides a safety margin and allows fuel assemblies to be manipulated without special shielding to protect the operators.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that many of the nuclear power plants in the United States will be out of room in their spent fuel pools by 2015, most likely requiring the use of temporary storage of some kind.[1]
"I felt fear"
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/28/world/asia/japan-nuclear/
Former Japanese leader: 'I felt fear' during nuclear crisis
By Kyung Lah, CNN
updated 6:45 AM EDT, Mon May 28, 2012
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120528103758-naoto-kan-story-top.jpg
Tokyo (CNN) -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he was overwhelmed and afraid during last year's nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, acknowledging that little has been done since then to ensure that another nuclear disaster will not occur.
Sounding like a fiery anti-nuclear activist, Kan Monday testified before a panel appointed by parliament to investigate the nuclear disaster.
"There wasn't much information coming to me" from the government regulatory agency, NISA, or the plant's operator, TEPCO, Kan said. "I thought I couldn't make any countermeasures in this crisis. I felt fear."
My grandfather was a nuclear missile maintenance man -- a real life silo-sitter -- and for some reason I've always taken a dim view of the situation our world has built for itself. Some of the premonitions I've had were in the context of the White Sands Trinity Monument to the first documented nuclear detonation. But it seems as if the truth is far closer to home, and many times more sinister, than something as isolated as a bomb.
We have built our houses upon the sand, like the foolish man in the Bible parable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Trinity_Site_Obelisk_National_Historic_Landmark.jpg/600px-Trinity_Site_Obelisk_National_Historic_Landmark.jpg
Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device, conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, as a result of the Manhattan Project,[5][6][7][8][9] in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the new White Sands Proving Ground, which incorporated the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. (The site is now the White Sands Missile Range.)[10][11] Trinity used an implosion-design plutonium device, informally nicknamed "The Gadget".[12] Using the same conceptual design, the Fat Man device was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The Trinity detonation produced the explosive power of about 20 kilotons of TNT (84 TJ).
Although nuclear chain reactions had been hypothesized in 1933 and the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (Chicago Pile-1 or CP-1) had taken place in December 1942,[13] the date of the Trinity test is usually considered to be the beginning of the Atomic Age.[14]
p.s. the author of this thread lives within 100 miles of Handford nuclear reservation.