Tritium trouble? Nuke fears rise with quake, self-policing
On Monday, August 29, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that the quake may, in fact, have produced force that exceeded the North Anna plant's specifications and that the Commission is sending a special Augmented Inspection Team to assess the damage.
"Initial reviews determined the plant may have exceeded the ground motion for which it was designed," says the release, which also assures that "no significant damage to safety systems has been identified."
That's small consolation to one prominent nuclear watchdog, who says it's not what's above ground that gives him the greatest concern.
"Central to the issue is miles of buried pipe under the plant that carry radioactive water," says Paul Gunter, director of a nonprofit group called Beyond Nuclear.
Gunter cites recent problems with underground pipes at nuclear plants in Illinois and Vermont, where millions of gallons of water contaminated with the radioactive hydrogen isotope tritium seeped into groundwater, even as the power companies that owned the plants denied for years that it was happening. The result of those leaks and their public concealment by the Exelon and Intergy power companies–at the Braidwood Station plant in Illionis and at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant–was not additional government oversight as one might expect, says Gunter, but merely the creation of two voluntary programs that allow the power companies to inspect their own pipes and groundwater and then report the findings to the Commission.
"Here's an industry that has hidden these leaks that is now self-reporting and overseeing itself to the NRC," says a disgusted Gunter.
Indeed, at North Anna, newly arrived government inspectors won't be conducting their own tests of the miles of underground pipes. And the assumption that those pipes didn't sustain damage during the earthquake, which knocked two Louisa County schools out of commission and caused cracks in the Washington Monument some 90 miles away, might be laughable to Gunter if he weren't convinced of potentially grave public danger.
TPTB are trying to depopulate the world in order to promote their own agenda.
.I really believe they are trying to kill us. This is absolutely unbelievable! The world's governments are so corrupt, nothing would surprise me anymore. All this money spent protecting us from terrorism, and our own infrastructure will be what does us in!
Tritium trouble? Nuke fears rise with quake, self-policing
- Nuclear power watchdogs say the risk of radiation contamination rose significantly with the August 23 earthquake.Wikipedia/Dougward
After the nuclear catastrophe that followed the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last spring, some Central Virginia activists cautioned that a similar nightmare could unfold right here at the Dominion-operated North Anna nuclear generating plant in Louisa County. Despite Dominion's assurances that the plant made it through the August 23 earthquake unscathed, activists contend that the quake, which measured 5.8 on the Richter Scale and had anepicenter just eleven miles from the plant, may have been more catastrophic than anyone is admitting. New information bolsters their fears.
On Monday, August 29, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that the quake may, in fact, have produced force that exceeded the North Anna plant's specifications and that the Commission is sending a special Augmented Inspection Team to assess the damage.
"Initial reviews determined the plant may have exceeded the ground motion for which it was designed," says the release, which also assures that "no significant damage to safety systems has been identified."
That's small consolation to one prominent nuclear watchdog, who says it's not what's above ground that gives him the greatest concern.
"Central to the issue is miles of buried pipe under the plant that carry radioactive water," says Paul Gunter, director of a nonprofit group called Beyond Nuclear.
Gunter cites recent problems with underground pipes at nuclear plants in Illinois and Vermont, where millions of gallons of water contaminated with the radioactive hydrogen isotope tritium seeped into groundwater, even as the power companies that owned the plants denied for years that it was happening.
The result of those leaks and their public concealment by the Exelon and Intergy power companies– at theBraidwood Station plant in Illionis and at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant– was not additional government oversight as one might expect, says Gunter, but merely the creation of two voluntary programs that allow the power companies to inspect their own pipes and groundwater and then report the findings to the Commission.
"Here's an industry that has hidden these leaks that is now self-reporting and overseeing itself to the NRC," says a disgusted Gunter.
Indeed, at North Anna, newly arrived government inspectors won't be conducting their own tests of the miles of underground pipes. And the assumption that those pipes didn't sustain damage during the earthquake, which knocked two Louisa County schools out of commission and caused cracks in the Washington Monument some 90 miles away, might be laughable to Gunter if he weren't convinced of potentially grave public danger.
"How can an uninspectable, inaccessible buried pipe have integrity?" Gunter asks. "When this Augmented Inspection Team walks onto the site, they'll be walking over the buried pipe that could be leaking."
"We have a limited number of inspector resources," acknowledges Commission spokesperson Roger Hannah, who says when it comes to the pipes, inspectors will "make sure we see what [Dominion is] doing."
Hannah scoffs at the notion that tritium, already considered by the Commission a much lesser danger than uranium, could leak from damaged pipes into the groundwater and go unnoticed by inspectors.
"If you had some issue, you'd see some leakage fairly quickly," says Hannah, noting that no tests have revealed radioactive leakage anywhere at the North Anna.
Dominion spokesperson Richard Zuercher also offers reassurance that all is well at North Anna, above and under-ground.
"We do have ways to detect if there's any leakage in water," says Zuercher, who says the only damage at the facility was "cosmetic" and didn't affect nuclear function and who insists Dominion will "do whatever is necessary to verify that everything is intact."
Gunter, however, says he believes Dominion's not going far enough to protect the public.
"Given the industry history and what's been done before, Dominion should be distributing bottled water to the town of Mineral and to the residents of Lake Anna," he says. "Indefinitely."
"Given the industry history and what's been done before, Dominion should be distributing bottled water to the town of Mineral and to the residents of Lake Anna," he says. "Indefinitely."
THE MOST SERIOUS THREAT IS UNPUBLICIZED. SOLAR INDUCED GEOMAGNETIC STORMS CAN CAUSE MULTIPLE MELTDOWNS AT NUCLEAR PLANTS!
NOAA forecasts four such storms in this decade with the most dangerous period the next 3 to 5 years.
NASA warns any such storm can collapse the power grid for months.
A nuclear plant without grid power for a month is a meltdown candidate.
See the Aesop Institute website for an overview and suggestions to prevent the worst and mitigate the impact.
This threat is far worse than that of a terror attack.
The hurricane and the earthquake can be viewed as wake-up calls!
http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-dominion-virginia-power-has-lifted-an-aler...
the piping wears out from the intense pressures and constant high-speed water flows in the pipes. The pipes are buried in concrete so, if an earthquake hit the area even 50 miles away, the concrete cracks and at the same time cracks the piping. Leaking will never be found unless the water comes to the surface.
You want to know why there is so many breast cancers, skin cancers, and many other types of cancer...just look at the stack releases that happen everyday at nuclear plants....I'm surprised that we don't glow!
The funny thing is, the guys that are lying and misinforming everyone about these problems, are going to get cancer, too. I guess they think the radiation badge they wear will protect them.
A nuclear plant without grid power for a month is a meltdown certainty.Why hasn't the fracking angle been mentioned yet? There is some going on 160 miles away in WV even though it has already been banned in several states for causing earthquakes.
According to this article here: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Did-Fracking-Cause-the-Vir-by-Dr-Stuart...
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"I think it's really hard to deny there's a connection when the frequency of Arkansas earthquakes dropped by two-thirds when the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission banned fracking (seehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/21/fracking-shutdown-earthquakes-a...). Note that they didn't stop entirely, which suggests that fault disruption may persist even after fracking stops.
Braxton County West Virginia also experienced a marked reduction in their quakes after the West Virginia Oil and Gas Commission forced fracking companies to cut back on the pressure and rate of salt water injection into the bedrock (see http://www.hurherald.com/cgi-bin/db_scripts/articles?Action=user_view&db...).
According to a joint study by Southern Methodist University and University of Texas-Austin, earthquakes started in the Dallas/Fort Worth region after a fracking disposal well there began operating in 2008 and stopped when it was closed in 2009 (seehttp://www.watershedsentinel.ca/content/does-gas-fracking-cause-earthquakes)."
See the BBC documentary, "Pandora's Box" under the segment called, "A is for Atom". It was known back in the 50's by nuclear industry insiders that today's plant cores are too big to contain and that relying on water cooling for containment is utterly complicated and imprecise at best.
Now one can understand why the utility industry and its nuclear zealots fought so long and hard to mislead people into believing additional power from solar and wind was too expensive.
Tritium is exceedingly difficult to detect. If they are saying there are no elevated radiation levels, they are most likely talking about gamma levels, and tritium isn't a significant gamma emitter. A simple handheld alpha / beta / gamma geiger counter will not detect the rather unique low-voltage beta emission, it requires more specialised equipment.
Just like with the Los Alamos fire's smoke they are lying by omission, acting as if they are reporting the full story when in fact if there were levels detected without complex lab tests the danger would be so great that a few deaths would be likely from even short duration exposures. The greater danger is long term exposure by consumption in drinking water.
There are some folks saying they have inside information on what really caused the quake. The nuking of underground bases intended to be hiding places for the elites. This one supposedly comes from a Black Dragons spokesperson.
See also: VA Nuclear Plant Loses Power After Quake...NRC WARNED some systems not seismically designed.
Earthquake caused massive nuclear storage casks to move in Virgina
And lets not forget about this:
Radioactive tritium leaks found at 48 US nuke sites
And none of these sites suffered earthquakes.
http://www.readthehook.com/100493/tritium-trouble-did-quake-cause-radioactive-leak
Virginia Aftershock/Earthquake Cover Up
3.4 earthquake jolts Virginia
Oh no, not again: Some Virginia residents awoke Thursday to a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurring shortly after 5 a.m. EDT. It came just nine days after a much larger earthquake -- which also originated in Virginia -- jolted much of the East Coast.
The temblor, with an epicenter 36 miles northwest of Richmond, Va., appears to be an aftershock to the Aug. 23 quake. That one measured 5.8 magnitude and was felt as far away as Ohio and Massachusetts.
The temblor, with an epicenter 36 miles northwest of Richmond, Va., appears to be an aftershock to the Aug. 23 quake. That one measured 5.8 magnitude and was felt as far away as Ohio and Massachusetts.
"Yup, this one woke me up," one resident commented on the Richmond Times-Dispatch's website.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage from Thursday's quake.
In the Aug. 23 quake, the Washington Monument developed several cracks -- including one 4 feet long and as much as 1 inch wide. Since then, the iconic tourist attraction has been closed to the public while engineers decide how to repair it.
The National Cathedral in Washington also has been closed because of damage from last week's quake. Three of its four pinnacles cracked and fell onto the roof.
The National Cathedral in Washington also has been closed because of damage from last week's quake. Three of its four pinnacles cracked and fell onto the roof.
Can someone explain why the USGS would be hiding these little aftershocks or not reporting them at all???? What is there to hide?? It's not out of the ordinary to get aftershocks after an earthquake. Why would they be reporting on some and not others? USGS Website
3.4 earthquake jolts Virginia
Here it is. (USGS)
Earthquake Details
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
| Magnitude | 3.4 |
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| Location | 37.951°N, 77.927°W |
| Depth | 3.5 km (2.2 miles) |
| Region | VIRGINIA |
| Distances | 50 km (31 miles) SW of Fredericksburg, Virginia 52 km (32 miles) E of Charlottesville, Virginia 58 km (36 miles) NW of RICHMOND, Virginia 85 km (52 miles) NNE of Farmville, Virginia |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 0.4 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 0.3 km (0.2 miles) |
| Parameters | NST= 21, Nph= 32, Dmin=2 km, Rmss=0.3 sec, Gp= 83°, M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (mbLg), Version=6 |
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| Event ID | usc0005mrm |
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