We all "know" nuclear accidents "never" happen, right?

[Bob]

PARIS—train carrying nuclear waste has derailed in a Paris suburb 24 December, 2013, but no leaks, injuries or other problems have been reported. TG for small miracles !

An official with the national fire service says experts carried out radiological tests after the incident in Drancy, and found no leaks.

The official said the train was travelling slowly and went about 50 centimetres off the rails, and an investigation will be carried out. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to fire service policy.

Jean-Michel Genestier, deputy director of rail company SNCF Geodis, said on BFM television that it was “a minor incident.”

Drancy Mayor Jean-Christophe Lagarde expressed concern about the safety of the nuclear and chemical trains that pass regularly through his town.

[Flash]

http://tvanouvelles.ca/archives/lcn/infos/faitsdivers/media/2013/07/20130708-073036-g.jpg

http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2013/07/na0709_beforeandafter_940_jr.jpg?w=940&h=1537



A whole city downtown destroyed, 47 dead, millions in damages, and most of the world did not hear about it. The oïl was mixed with another chemical which made it extremely inflamable and which was not listed on the transportation sheet. Result, area as seen in the picture. The only thing missing was nuclear radiation.

The company that had the transportation contract went bankrupt so they won't pay a dam cent to repair the damages, it is our provincial government which has the task to pay for clean up, social upheaval, social and monetary support, meaning us, the people. The insurers won't pay either because the company had not listed the whole mix of products, therefore was illegally transporting the merchandise. Transport Canada has been blamed too. It does smell corruption all around.

Nevertheless, the results are the same, those chemicals and nuclear products should not be transported through inhabited areas.

They are very right to be worried in Paris.

[Snowflower]

I remember hearing about it, Flash. It was reported to anyone paying attention to alternative media instead of the pap put out by mainstream. We got quite a lot of coverage on that particular accident, because it happened right on schedule with clif high's forecast of train disasters.

[Flash]

I remember hearing about it, Flash. It was reported to anyone paying attention to alternative media instead of the pap put out by mainstream. We got quite a lot of coverage on that particular accident, because it happened right on schedule with clif high's forecast of train disasters.

I did not know that Clif High's had forecasted train disaster!!! Interesting indeed.

[araucaria]

PARIS—train carrying nuclear waste has derailed in a Paris suburb 24 December, 2013, but no leaks, injuries or other problems have been reported. TG for small miracles !

An official with the national fire service says experts carried out radiological tests after the incident in Drancy, and found no leaks.

The official said the train was travelling slowly and went about 50 centimetres off the rails, and an investigation will be carried out. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to fire service policy.

Jean-Michel Genestier, deputy director of rail company SNCF Geodis, said on BFM television that it was “a minor incident.”

Drancy Mayor Jean-Christophe Lagarde expressed concern about the safety of the nuclear and chemical trains that pass regularly through his town.
Interesting location. I mentioned Drancy railway station only the other day on the Hitler thread as being the starting point for Jewish and other deportee convoys to Auschwitz.... (there was an internment camp in Drancy).

The nuclear waste will have been transiting to the Cap de la Hague reprocessing plant on the Cherbourg peninsula less than a hundred miles from me. It could have been from as far afield as Japan.

[Amanda]

This article proves that the masses are not being given any accurate news and/or information. I feel sad for all the sleepers when I read articles like this one but I know that with millions of awakened humans we are moving closer to a better life. I hope all those that died in the accident are at Peace.

Much Peace - to the survivors - Amanda

[Bob]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/UsineHague.jpg/1200px-UsineHague.jpg

Nuclear fuel reprocessing in France. 26 Dec 2013

The AREVA NC (formerly Cogema - Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires) La Hague site is an AREVA nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in La Hague on the French Cotentin Peninsula that currently has nearly half of the world's light water reactor spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity.

It reprocesses exhausted nuclear fuel from France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Japan, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Trains travel from these countries, shipments from afar come via tanker over water, then are transferred to the rail containers for "safe and uneventful" conveyance to the facility..

This is an OLD plant. It has been in operation since 1976. The original purpose of this plant was to make pure high grade nuclear bomb plutonium for France's military. After sufficient weapons grade bomb making material (plutonium) was refined, it was decided that keeping the facility would be useful to continue to recover/recycle nuclear material.

Greenpeace really hates this site, but has been taking less efforts in recent years, no longer chaining themselves to the shipment trains.

"Greenpeace has been campaigning since 1997 for the shutdown of the site, which they claim dumps "one million litres of liquid radioactive waste per day" into the ocean saying that such is "the equivalent of 50 nuclear waste barrels", claiming the radiation affects local beaches." Factory officials obviously feel otherwise. Eric Blanc, deputy director of the processing plant, says that the plant does intentionally release radioactive material and the amounts are very acceptable and not dangerous.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/eef131/Reproc1.gif

The nuclear fuel cycle - starting with exploration for radiation leaking from the ground able to be picked up by radiation detectors, geologists take samples, and determine if the rock formation will provide profit to the company extracting it.

After it is mined (strip-mining is one of the techniques used to obtain the raw rock, as the uranium compounds tend to be near the surface when located by the detectors, it is run in a MILL which grinds the rock leaving radioactive dust in the atmosphere and all over the milling apparatus. It is chemically enhanced, or concentrated by different upgrading processes, creating a profitable substance called "Yellow Cake".

Among the compounds identified in concentrated yellowcakes include: uranyl hydroxide, uranyl sulfate, sodium para-uranate, and uranyl peroxide, along with various uranium oxides. Yellowcake typically contains 70% to 90% triuranium octoxide (U3O8) by weight. Other oxides such as uranium dioxide (UO2) and uranium trioxide (UO3) exist in the highgrade concentrate.

http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00043/Kazakhstan_uraniu_43463gm-a.jpg (yellowcake concentrate)

The uranium at this point is bound tightly with oxygen as an oxide, trioxide, or dioxide. It is useless in this state for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons. Higher level processing and concentration and separation steps are needed to be performed on the material.

At this point it can be shipped or processed on-site.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Conversion_of_Yellow_Cake_to_UF6.png

The above diagram illustrates a typical enrichment cycle that performs separation and isolation of the desired brown-cake uranium compound to be added to Fluorine (Hydrofluoric acid or gas depending on the manufacturer's unique procedure).

It is the Uranium Fluoride which is then applied to the centrifuges where the different weights of the isotopes of uranium separate out. Fission-grade material, weapons grade material, pure uranium are all possible.. The technique of removing oxygen from a metallic oxide is called "reduction" by the way.

http://www.chemcases.com/images/nc-07_clip_image001_0000.jpg centrifuges rotate and spin the uranium-hexa-fluoride mixture where parts of it separate out, and these centrifuges are cascaded, or series parallel stacked in stages so that at the last set of centrifuges, the desired uranium isotope remains in a very high concentration.

When the concentration is above a certain level, it becomes weapons grade, when it is lower, it is "reactor grade". These procedures is what the world fears that non-nuclear countries can obtain weapons grade uranium to build bombs out of, a non-peaceful use..

Rows of gas centrifuges


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Gas_centrifuge_cascade.jpg

The concentrated uranium isotope is extracted from the centrifuges, and converted into small manageable (non-critical sized) pellets, placed in properly designed "fuel rods" that are eventually used inside a reactor core (one design). Other reactors can coat the fuel with carbon and other materials, making them basically "balls" which are used in a different reactor style.

http://www.energy-net.org/01NUKE/images/nuclear_rod.jpg

After the uranium has split in the reactor, undergoing it's nuclear fission process, different parts of the pellet becomes depleted of its high energy, but some of the uranium within the pellet is still of the high grade. The fission process is not complete, nor is it uniform... Therefore the pellet becomes inefficient, or contaminated with other newly formed elements that are no longer able to produce the uranium fission reaction. The fuel rod has to be taken out, disassembled from the core, and is then ready to be recycled.

And off it goes to the recycling plant, by train, by truck, by boat... see the diagram at the top of the page.

Along each of these transportation steps, something can go right, or something can go wrong. Something can leak, something can get hijacked or sabotaged. The higher the concentration, the higher the danger.

What can't be re-used, or recycled is considered WASTE.. Waste must be disposed of in some way, and burial is traditionally what is desired.. Problem with that is, the containers leak after a time, and when they leak, the potential for exposure of the radioactives into the environment becomes a serious issue.

Here is a map of the storage sites in the Union


http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49775000/gif/_49775212_nuclear_reactors_464.gif

[araucaria]

I visited the site in the nineties when it was still run by Cogema.
Below are a bird's-eye view of the plant, and two pics of the interim storage facilities: pool storage for spent fuel before reprocessing (needs cooling), and interim storage of vitrified waste for return to the client.

[Bob]

I visited the site in the nineties when it was still run by Cogema.
Below are a bird's-eye view of the plant, and two pics of the interim storage facilities: pool storage for spent fuel before reprocessing (needs cooling), and interim storage of vitrified waste for return to the client.

I find it particularly distressing that radioactive waste water (is that cooling water from the casks shown?) is being dumped into the Ocean by the Plant.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=24266&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1388080410 http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=24267&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1388080423

In my post above, I mention the radioactive waste water release that happens DAILY..

""Greenpeace has been campaigning since 1997 for the shutdown of the site, which they claim dumps "one million litres of liquid radioactive waste per day" into the ocean saying that such is "the equivalent of 50 nuclear waste barrels", claiming the radiation affects local beaches." Factory officials obviously feel otherwise. Eric Blanc, deputy director of the processing plant, says that the plant does intentionally release radioactive material and the amounts are very acceptable and not dangerous.""

Researching Blanc's statement of what is considered not dangerous it is said, the radiation dose received is the equivalent of taking ONE HIGH ALTITUDE JET FLIGHT.. a normal not worrisome amount..

BUT

As the dumping happens EVERY DAY, 365 days per year, does that mean one has been getting 365 times the normal expected dose? if one swims in the water on the beaches?

[sigma6]

I find all these derailings rather unusual. It reminds me of that movie "John Carter of Mars" that got panned before it even really made it to the movies. It wasn't the greatest movie. But I did enjoy watching it and thought that it definitely had Sequel potential, especially if you get into the history of the author and the many books he wrote.

And yet it was clearly PANNED by elements in Hollywood itself before it even really made it to the screen, that had to have been coordinated. I was more sensitive to that because I was really anticipating that movie, because I had read the books in my youth.

According to Richard Hoagland there was a hidden message in it that they didn't like. I didn't get it at the time because of all the hoopla... But I did notice the only thing that struck me that he did mention was the reference to the 9th ray, as a form of hidden energy. Which now I can see as potential. And the biggest was ... who were those guys that kept popping up out of nowhere and wreaking all manner of havoc in the background? That was rather weird... it was clearly built up to be a sequel. And somebody was clearly trying to pan it.

I think that is what they didn't like. The idea that there exists a secret elite, that operates in the background. That has the means and motive to actually sabotage things when they want to push mankind toward their various agendas. Sometimes they kill, sometimes they just drop hints, sometimes they devastate. They are dirty and evil and consider themselves untouchable. Mostly because of the secrecy that hides them in combination of the willing blindness they have inculcated into the sheep that they fleece.

I will be making a special post on that... watch out for it, It will be a doozy... (actually just have to copy and paste it now...) And it climaxes with a possible interpretation. Similar to Luca's Scantamburlo’s alien interpretation. But I am now leaning toward Jay Weidner and John Lamb Lashe's interpretation of the Archon's. Not them by themselves, but they would be able to infiltrate our society via world leaders, secret societies due to their hidden occult practices. For once this all makes sense and now has scientific context.

The implications is that the only protection against them in fact would be a decentralized government system based on the same multi-polar network of distribution of power like the internet. (Just as it was warned against in the Bible) And a world force that would unite if any network hub got bigger then a certain size would be the only grounds for an attack. hehe, sorry for going off there...

[araucaria]

In my post above, I mention the radioactive waste water release that happens DAILY..

""Greenpeace has been campaigning since 1997 for the shutdown of the site, which they claim dumps "one million litres of liquid radioactive waste per day" into the ocean saying that such is "the equivalent of 50 nuclear waste barrels", claiming the radiation affects local beaches." Factory officials obviously feel otherwise. Eric Blanc, deputy director of the processing plant, says that the plant does intentionally release radioactive material and the amounts are very acceptable and not dangerous.""

Researching Blanc's statement of what is considered not dangerous it is said, the radiation dose received is the equivalent of taking ONE HIGH ALTITUDE JET FLIGHT.. a normal not worrisome amount..

BUT

As the dumping happens EVERY DAY, 365 days per year, does that mean one has been getting 365 times the normal expected dose? if one swims in the water on the beaches?
I don't have the figures, but the company claims to be within the legal limits, which are in fact rather high.

This is the world's most nuclearized area, the industry has had and is having a huge long-term beneficial economic effect on the ragion, which amounts to people in a sense being bought and paid for. Certainly, they seem more complacent than they should be about things like the 44% additional cases of leukemia in small children compared with elsewhere.
http://leblogdejeudi.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/nuclc3a9aire-en-cotentin.pdf

[Bob]

[...]
I don't have the figures, but the company claims to be within the legal limits, which are in fact rather high.

This is the world's most nuclearized area, the industry has had and is having a huge long-term beneficial economic effect on the ragion, which amounts to people in a sense being bought and paid for. Certainly, they seem more complacent than they should be about things like the 44% additional cases of leukemia in small children compared with elsewhere.
http://leblogdejeudi.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/nuclc3a9aire-en-cotentin.pdf

The officials in Canada also are saying the same about how safe it is with the new nuclear waste burial site being proposed in Canada's Lake Huron Shores, "no worries, look at all the jobs being created", and one can see that the town is basically "bought off" to allow for such to exist.. As with Drancy Mayor Jean-Christophe Lagarde's "downstream" worries, folks that are not directly being bought off are seriously concerned. I think a facility from 1976 doing recycling of dangerous nuclear material also is a bit dodgy..'

reference to the Lake Huron issue - http://rt.com/news/nuclear-waste-michigan-us-protest-840/ I have a thread in the forum on that but it was contaminated with off-topic posts. I'll start a different thread on that when more information is available on the Lake Huron problem from the Candu reactors.

[sigma6]

really it sounds exactly like a set up... That is where I would plant it if I wanted to later create a huge global catastrophe. It would literally have the potential to poison all life from that lake to the ocean...

how can they be so blatant in the face of the the entire world?