Het is vandaag 30 jaar geleden, dat de kernramp in Tsjernobyl zich voltrok. In aanloop van de 30 jarige herdenking deze ramp, liet een aantal kernenergie deskundigen van zich horen de laatste tijd. Opvallend commentaar: een ramp als die in Tsjernobyl is niet mogelijk met de centrales in Nederland en België.......
Na de kernramp van 2011 in Fukushima, was dit geluid verdwenen, tot die ramp haalden de voorstanders van kernenergie deze dooddoener 'te onpas en te onpas' van stal. Maar helaas: de kernreactoren van Fukushima waren 'moderne en betrouwbare' reactoren, gebouwd naar VS ontwerp >> weg dooddoener!
Het is nu meer dan 4 jaar, na de ramp in Fukushima en blijkbaar vindt de kernenergie maffia het tijd, weer te pleiten voor kernenergie. Zoals gezegd de oude dooddoener wordt weer van stal gehaald, alsof de ramp in Fukushima niet plaatsvond.......
Intussen stroomt er per dag 300 ton aan radioactief water uit het Fukushima complex zo de oceaan in, dat is 300.000 liter!!! De pers en milieugroepen zijn niet welkom in het rampgebied rond Fukushima, m.a.w. alles wat daar passeert is verborgen voor het publiek en de wereld moet een regering geloven, die als alle voorgaande Japanse regeringen zoveel mogelijk de gevaren van kernenergie bagatelliseert...... Oh nee, ik vergis me, de vorige regering sloot alle kerncentrales na de ramp in Fukushima, dat heeft de huidige regering teruggedraaid........
Een paar weken geleden liepen twee Japanse kerncentrales groot gevaar, door een zware aardbeving in het gebied, waar deze centrales stonden......... Lullig genoeg was de aandacht in de Nederlandse media voor dat feit uiterst belabberd.....
Na het zoveelste stilleggen van een Belgische reactor in Doel, of Tihange, berichtte Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten gisteren dat computers van de Duitse kerncentrale van Gundremmingen besmet waren met een computervirus........ Niet door kwaadwillende buitenstaanders, maar gewoon via een 'bevriende stick......'
Hier een artikel dat Harvey Wasserman publiceerde op de webpagina van Eco Watch, over 30 jaar Tsjernobyl:
30
Ways Chernobyl and Dying Nuke Industry Threaten Our Survival
April
26 marks the 30th anniversary of the catastrophic explosion at
the Chernobylnuclear
power plant.
It
comes as Germany, which is phasing out all its reactors, has asked
Belgium to shut two of its nukes because of the threat of terrorism.
Greenpeace
action at the Bohunice nuclear power plant in Czechoslovakia, near
the Austrian border. Activists erected 5,000 wooden crosses on April
25, 1991 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl
disaster, and appealed to the Czech government to close the outdated
Soviet-built plant. Photo credit: © Greenpeace / Veronika Leitinger
And
it makes us remember the second and third biggest lies told us
by the atomic power industry: that no commercial nuke could explode,
and that no one would be harmed by reactor fallout.
Prior
to the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl, there was at least one minor
explosion (on March 28, 1979) at Three
Mile Island (TMI)
in Pennsylvania. Thankfully, TMI Unit 2’s containment dome was
uniquely solid. The site is in the flight path of the Harrisburg
airport. Citizen activists had demanded Unit 2’s containment be
able to withstand a jet crash. So they forced construction upgrades
that may have saved millions of lives when the reactor was stretched
to its limits.
TMI’s
owners long denied there was a melt-down at all. But robot cameras
later showed otherwise. The industry still denies anyone was harmed
by TMI’s fallout. But the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
and the Baltimore News-American reported that
downwind farm and wild animals died in horrifying droves. Parallel
reports by researcher Tim Mousseau are now coming from areas downwind
from Chernobyl.
Village
Voice reporter Anna Mayo (recently deceased and greatly missed),
photographer Bob Del Tredici and filmmaker Robbie Leppzer all
documented TMI’s immense human toll. In 1980, I interviewed dozens
of local downwinders enduring radiation-related illnesses including
cancer, emphysema, heart disease, stroke, sterility, birth defects
and Down’s Syndrome.
Recent
studies by nuclear engineer Arnie
Gundersen indicate
TMI2’s containment may have cracked, releasing far more radiation
than generally suspected. Even now, nobody knows exactly how much did
escape, what it consisted of, where it went or who was impacted.
TMI’s owners have quietly paid at least $15
million in damages to downwinder families,
including at least some payments for Down’s Syndrome.
By
1979 new reactor orders had already stopped due to the industry’s
horrific inefficiencies, bad economics and lack of answers for
decommissioning and radioactive waste storage. The industry’s
biggest lie—that atomic power would be “too cheap to meter”—was
already obvious.
But
when Chernobyl blew up 30 years ago, it exposed lies number
2 and number 3: that a commercial reactor could not explode and
that the industry’s radiation would kill no one.
Here’s
a short list of 30 ways these two tragic flaws are killing us all.
They are discussed with experts Joe Mangano and Dr. Janette Sherman
on my recent
Solartopia show.
1. According
to studies by three top European scientists,
first published in 2009, more than 985,000
people have died from
Chernobyl’s fallout.
2. Impactful
radioactive contamination is still in evidence in soilthroughout
Ukraine, Belarus and as far away as Scotland.
3. By
some estimates, children born throughout regions downwind of
Chernobyl have suffered
radiation-related diseases at
rates affecting up to 80 percent of those born in critical areas.
4. Reindeer,
sheep and other animals across
northern Europe are still too heavily contaminated to be safely
consumed.
5. Radioactive
fallout from
Chernobyl hit
northern California within 10 days of the explosion,
followed by a 60 percent drop in bird births recorded at the Pt.
Reyes sanctuary north of San Francisco.
6. Epidemiological
studies by Mangano, Sherman and others show that nearby
infant death rates rise
when commercial reactors open, and drop when they shut.
7. Epidemiological
studies show direct
links between reactor operations and cancer rates downwind, including
a 70 percent excess of thyroid cancer in the four counties
surrounding New York’s Indian
Point reactors
as opposed to the nation as a whole.
8. When
Chernobyl blew up,
industry apologists emphasized that such a disaster at a Soviet
reactor had nothing to do with American nukes. But on March 11, 2011,
four General Electric reactors exploded at Fukushima (three melted,
and their cores have yet to be found).
10. The Fukushima disaster
still dumps at
least 300 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean every day.
11. Thousands
of tons of contaminated water are
being held in flimsy storage tanks at Fukushima, at least some of
which are likely to give way; serious leaks of radioactive water are
also on-going at Indian Point, Florida’s Turkey Point, numerous
other commercial reactor sites and at the Hanford (Washington)
military reservation.
12. The
Japanese government and Fukushima’s owner (Tepco)
are hinting strongly they would like to dump still more thousands of
tons of radioactive water directly into the Pacific.
13. At
least 7,000 clean-up workers are still
being exposed to
radiation at Fukushima every day.
14. It
remains unclear exactly where the cores from Units 1, 2 and 3
might be,
what can be done to contain them and exactly what kinds of long-term
dangers they pose.
16. Physicians for Social Responsibility predicts at least 68,000 downwinders will die from Fukushima’s fallout. Dr. Chris Busby estimatesadditional cancers alone at more than 400,000. Arnie Gundersen estimates the ultimate toll on par with Chernobyl, of up to 1,000,000.
17. Radioactive
hot spots clearly linked to Fukushima are
being found throughout Japan, some as far away as Tokyo.
18. Japanese
activists have kept all but three of Japan’s 54 reactors shut since
Fukushima, but the pro-nuke Abe regime wants to stage some 2020
Olympic events near the stricken reactor site.
19. Some
11,000 highly radioactive fuel rods are still strewn around the
Fukushima site with
no prospects for safe long-term storage. Nowhere on earth has
safe long-term storage of atomic wastes been proven.
20. Though
the explosions at Fukushima have been linked to the tsunami that
wiped out back-up generations, primary damage (especially at Unit 1)
was caused by an earthquake whose epicenter was 120 kilometers
distant, far further than many fault-lines near scores of other
reactors around the world.
21. Two
U.S. reactor sites (Perry
in Ohio and North Anna in Virginia) have already suffered significant
damage from earthquakes.
22. Among
many others, reactors at Diablo Canyon, California and Indian Point,
New York,
are very near major fault lines, with the potential death tolls in
downwind Los Angeles and New York City stretching into the millions.
23. Dr.
Michael Peck, resident Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
safety inspector at California’s Diablo Canyon has warnedthat
the two huge reactors there cannot withstand a likely earthquake
delivered by any of the dozen seismic faultiness surround the site.
Peck filed his report within the NRC but it was made public a year
later by Friends of the Earth and other community groups. The NRC has
dismissed Peck’s warnings and he has been moved to the Commission’s
Chattanooga office.
24. As
terrorists slaughtered innocent civilians in Brussels, the New York
Times reported that
Belgian authorities
evacuated two reactorswhich
they felt were vulnerable to attack. As mentioned above, Germany
has now asked Belgium to shut these nukes down.
25. A
wide range of reports dating back at least to the 1970s have
confirmed that
throughout the entire global nuclear industry, commercial reactors
simply cannot
be guaranteed to
be safe from a concerted terrorist attack, making them all what Karl
Grossman has called “pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction.”
26. The
technological basis for the 99 U.S. reactors now operating dates
far back in
the previous century, as the average age of an operating U.S. nuke
American reactor is now roughly 35 years old, with Davis-Besse (near
Toledo, Ohio) distinguished primarily by four major cuts into its
containment dome, and a shield building that is literally crumbling.
27. Since
Fukushima on March 11, 2011 significant
safety advances advocated by the staff of the NRC and others have not
been installed at U.S. nukes despite widespread warning of defects.
28. Seven
top NRC engineers took the rare
and daring step of
filing a public 2.206 petition warning that 98 of 99 current US
reactors have serious basic flaws in the electrical sector of their
emergency core cooling systems, which are designed to protect the
public from a major catastrophe.
29. Former
NRC expert David
Lochbaum,
now with the Union of Concerned Scientists, has warned that
the inspectors’ findings on the faulty cooling system wiring are
quite serious, and could have been solved easily and cheaply several
years ago, when they were first discovered.
30. The
corrupt regulatory culture of the NRC is now in the process of
re-licensing every American reactor,
with projected lifetimes stretching to 60 years, two decades beyond
original design capacity, guaranteeing that America’s 99 remaining
reactors will continue to dangerously decay, putting us all in harm’s
way. All the relicensing has proceeded without a requirement that the
industry get private insurance, which is still unavailable after more
than a half-century of operations.
There
is much much more. The on-going radiation releases from these jalopy
reactors impact our health and undermine our eco-systems every
day, threatening our future on this planet, and standing in the
way of the Solartopian Revolution in renewables and efficiency that
must ultimately save our planet from ecological and economic
ruin.
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