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JOMP Book Photo Challenge Day 26: Fast Read

Aesop’s Fables by S.A. Handford

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Tri-City Development Council (TRIDEC)Hanford’s historic B Reactor has been designated the Manhattan Project Historical National Park.SHARE THIS STORYPRINTGET NEWS ALERTSSubmit this StoryNuclear Waste Leaking at ‘American Fukushima’ in NorthwestAlexander Nazaryan, Newsweek5/14/16The Hanford Nuclear Reservation sits on the plains of eastern Washington, where the state meets Oregon and Idaho. This is open country through which cars pass quickly on the way to the Pacific coast or, conversely, deeper into the heartland. The site is nearly 600 square miles in area and has been largely closed to the public for the past 70 years. Late last year, though,it became part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which will allow visitors to tour B Reactor, where plutonium for one of the two atomic weapons dropped on Japan in World War II was produced.This was a hopeful turn for a place that, for four decades, stocked the American nuclear arsenal. A total of nine reactors operated at Hanford, and though they are now decommissioned, the reactors have left behind 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. That a place so tainted with radioactive material could become parkland was a positive sign.Not quite, it seems, with recent reports indicating new breaches in the tanks holding the nuclear waste. Workers on the site have been sickened too, suggesting that the rush to designate Hanford as a park may have been premature.The 177 underground tanks were never a permanent solution, and the government has hired private contractors to build a plant that will solidify the waste and prepare it for permanent safe storage. The project will cost an astonishing copy10 billion, according to estimates, making it what many believe to be the most expensive, and extensive, environmental remediation project in the world. Completion is about five decades away.When I visited Hanford in 2013, construction of theWaste Treatment Plant—which will pump nuclear sludge out of the tanks and turn them into a hardened, glasslike substance—was slow and rife with technical challenges. Whistleblowers, meanwhile, were alleging that private contractors had neglected safety and engineering concerns in their rush to complete the job. Otherwise sober observers likened the place to a nuclear tinderbox. “America’s Fukushima?”asked the resultingNewsweekcover story.The question remains disturbingly open. Of the 28 newer double-shelled tanks, AY-102 was already known to be leaking toxic sludge into the soil. Now a second double-shelled tank, AY-101, is believed to be leaking as well,according to a report by Seattle news station KING 5. A contractor’s memo obtained by the station acknowledges “the possibility that the material is from tank waste that has escaped from the primary shell of the double-shell tank.” That material likely includes radioactive isotopes like cesium-137 and strontium-90, though nobody really knows the exact composition of the sludge in each tank. But everyone is certain that their escape bodes poorly for the thousands who live and work in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State.Those worries were further compounded late last weekwhen 11 workers at Hanford became illdue to vapors emanating from AY-102, the leaking double-shelled tank.The ill workers and revelations about the second leaking tank are likely to dampen enthusiasm about Hanford’s unlikely return to nature. In the wake of the most recent revelations, anuclear-energy historian warned on the liberal site CounterPunchthat “at Hanford we have the threat of a radiological explosion or terrorist act that could release volumes more radiation than was released by Fukushima...and spread radiation across the West Coast and mountain west.”This is an unwelcome development for one of the nation’s newest national parks. Maybe the federal government was cavalier in this designation: It’s hard to enjoy nature when the possibility of man-made disaster looms.Reprinted with permission fromNewsweek.Read more athttp://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/05/14/nuclear-waste-leaking-american-fukushima-northwest-164460 2 Comments

The radioactive material is

Ohoyo ChahtaThe radioactive material is accessible to and showing up in the tissues and feces of animals and in plant tissues -- including harvester ants, flies, rabbits, mice, and tumbleweeds. I know for a fact that radioactive materials were found in harvester ant mounds before 1986 (the ants were bringing it up from under ground as they tunneled), but here is a more recent (2010) summary from the Wall Street Journal: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704694004576019280235026892

Read more at

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/05/14/nuclear-waste-leaking-american-fukushima-northwest-164460

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http://www.newsweek.com/hanford-nuclear-reservation-radioactive-waste-454808

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Hanford: Out of Madness, Accidental Brilliance

Recently I spent a night and day at Hanford Reach National Monument in Washington.  You may have heard of Hanford.  It is an enormous piece of semi-arid steppe in the eastern part of the state along the Columbia River used by the U.S. Department of Energy for nuclear purposes.  But we’re not talking energy here.  This is a little story (or travel post if you will) about how an idea of questionable moral foundation accidentally becomes a brilliant idea.

In the early 1940s, during World War II, the Federal Government came to this mostly empty part of Washington with an ultimatum.  They told the residents of the small town of White Bluffs, along with scattered ranchers and farmers in the region that they could support their country’s war effort by leaving their homes within 30 days.  The simple folk of eastern Washington didn’t know it but the Manhattan Project was getting started.

The Feds were interested in Hanford because it was remote, wide-open and with endless supplies of fresh water.  That last requirement was especially important because their goal was to do what Iran is trying to do more than 70 years later: enrich plutonium to make an atomic bomb.  They also used Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Los Alamos, New Mexico (where the bomb was finally assembled and tested).

Hibakusha is a Japanese word used to describe the surviving victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The term literally translates as “explosion-affected people.” In this book, Susan Southard highlights the lives of five hibakusha: Dó-oh Mineko, Nagano Etsuko, Taniguchi Sudmitera, Wada Kóichi, and Yoshida Katsuji. Each of them were teenagers in Nagasaki on the the day of the bombing, suffering serious injuries as a result.

The opening chapters make for a chilling read. Southard does a marvelous job of bringing to life what was occurring in Nagasaki shortly before the bombing, and more importantly, the devastation the blast caused. More than 30,000 people were killed immediately, while more than 40,000 died from their injuries by the end of 1945. By focusing on these five individual survivors, the author is able to put a human face to the horror experienced by the citizens of Nagasaki.

The second half of the book is much less gripping, although just as important. It tracks the lingering effects of nuclear fallout on the country’s survivors. Many suffered punishing injuries that lasted a lifetime, including acute and late-life onset radiation-related illnesses, as well as post traumatic stress disorders. The five hibakusha featured here became vocal spokespeople campaigning against the use of nuclear weapons.

It’s a humorous thing when our atoms touch, The Cerebrum stops my thoughts and actions, But my Limbic System senses you. My bloodstream gets dosed with chemicals, Blood vessels dilated, My heart is under strain. Gaseous exchange becomes grim, Core temperature rapidly rising, Skin is reddened to crimson, Stomach alkaline is incapacitated. Serotonin feeding my insomnia, My corpse is paralysed – From this chemical warfare. But my brain detects you as dopamine. “I am become death, Destroyer of worlds.” Don’t touch my atoms, You’ll end up splitting one.

– Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer, “The father of the atomic bomb”.

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Went to a sale in Atlanta this Friday. Evidently the estate was of a person who worked on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge during WWII. His name was Raymond Stein. The home was a modest older house. It was a mess inside and with some digging I came up with a few things.

Below right is a 50th year anniversary letter.

Below left is a 1945 SED (Special Engineer Detachment) yearbook. On the right is “Atom Bombs” by John Coster-Mullen.

Three-day weekend? Time for exploration! (Edit: Apologies for the delay, for some reason, pictures weren’t uploading)

I’m realizing now that save for the stretch between Nagoya and Kyoto, a large majority of the shinkansen is through pitch black tunnels. Not the most exciting part of the trip, but hey, got me where I needed in around 2.5 hours.

Useful tidbit: it seems Shin-Osaka station is the major link between Kyushu and Honshu shinkansen.

n article on Federation of American Scientist’s Bulletin of Atomic Scientists blog regarding youth perceptions of nuclear weapons and ways to educate them about nuclear arms. Part of the premise of the piece was to give them context to view such weapons and to fear them as their (our) parents did.

Suggestions were mostly focused on the fear nuclear weapons should generate. They addressed ways to gain attention through protest and use that as an opportunity to educate people, using virtual reality to simulate a nuclear blast and instilling the reality of nuclear warfare.The problem with these activists is that they miss the point. It isn’t that young people are unaware of nuclear war, it’s that we don’t care.

If culture is anything to go by people are still making talking about nuclear war. When I read the line about virtual reality my mind immediately jumped to the Fallout series of video games and a digitally rendered post apocalyptic Washington D.C.

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How Nuclear Bombs Work

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Mar 23, 2016

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Given North Korea’s recent saber rattling and bomb photos it might be a good idea to give a rundown of how nuclear weapons work. While this article will not cover thermonuclear weapons or specifics on certain types, it will give you a good idea of what the North Koreans are up to and what a nuclear weapon actually is.

Keep in mind that this overview is very general and only covers the two basic designs.

Recently, North Korean media released pictures of what appeared to many observers to be a physics package for a nuclear bomb small enough to fit into an ICBM. Along with the bomb the North Koreans also revealed a new KN-08 ballistic missile with what appeared to be a modified nose cone.

These photos were met with intense interest (and criticism) from the observers. Melissa Hanham, from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, had doubts about whether the device could fit into the nose cone of the missile or whether the device itself was just a mock-up.

Either way, the North Koreans now claim that these devices are, in fact, operational, and not just mock-ups. They have also claimed that they will conduct tests of the new device to prove it.

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hanford

SuperfundResearch.org

January 26 at 5:09am

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Further down on the page we spoke about the Hanford site in Washington State, where there is a 120 billion dollar plutonium clean-up happening.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

This article talks about the radio-active Beagles of Davis, dogs that were exposed to radiation for "scientific reasons" being buried at the same site.

Business | Radioactive Dogs Buried In Hanford | Seattle Times Newspaper

Some 828 dead dogs, the remains of an unusual Cold War radiation experiment, were shipped to the…COMMUNITY.SEATTLETIMES.NWSOURCE.COM

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