De reguliere (massa-) media in het westen en vooral in de VS staan bol met retoriek over ‘het gevaar’ dat Noord-Korea (N-K) zou vormen voor de VS, terwijl de langeafstandsraketten van N-K (die het meestal niet doen) volgens deskundigen zelfs Alaska niet kunnen raken…….
Daarnaast heeft Noord-Korea niet eens een atoombom, daar bij ondergrondse kernproeven de dagen daarna radioactieve straling is te meten boven die plek (bovengronds), straling die zelfs met satellieten is te detecteren…… Dit is nooit aangetoond, als dat wel het geval zou zijn geweest, hadden de media daar wereldwijd bol mee gestaan….. Door een enorme hoeveelheid explosieven ondergronds tot ontploffing te brengen, kan je een explosie met een atoombom nabootsen, deze is te meten door trillingen op De schaal van Richter, m.a.w. zo’n explosie veroorzaakt een (lichte) aardbeving…….
Vreemder is echter dat diezelfde massamedia in de VS zo goed als niets melden over kerncentrales in de VS die zwaar nucleaire troep lekken……
Zo was er op 8 juni jl. een fiks ongeluk met centrale van de Hanford Site (nuclear facility) in de staat Washington, die 2 maanden lang onder de pet werd gehouden. Tot 5 kilometer rond de centrale werden plutonium deeltjes gevonden (plutonium beschadigt DNA en is zwaar kankerverwekkend)…….
De arbeiders van de centrale zijn uiteraard zwaar de klos, maar de werkgever vond hen fit genoeg om weer aan het werk te gaan, terwijl een aantal van hen bleven hoesten en hoofdpijn hadden (een veeg teken…)….. Ja ja, de VS, het land van ‘de ongekende mogelijkheden….’
Overigens werd het plutonium uit deze centrale gebruikt voor ‘Fat Man’ de atoombom die op 9 augustus 1945 de Japanse stad Nagasaki plat legde en daar rond de 250.000 slachtoffers maakte, althans die slachtoffers overleden onmiddellijk aan de gevolgen van deze enorme oorlogsmisdaad, daarna zijn nog vele tienduizenden mensen extra overleden, dit na een veelal vreselijke lijdensweg…..
Lees het schokkende verhaal op Anti-Media over de Hanford Site. Deze centrale is overigens maar 1 van de stokoude en levensgevaarlijke kerncentrales in de VS, ‘het land’ waar de media en de politiek liever niet schrijven over de radioactieve besmetting van mensen en woongebieden, althans als deze ‘ongelukken’ al bekend worden gemaakt……
Forget
North Korea, America Is Already Quietly Nuking Itself
August
10, 2017 at 11:29 am
Written by Everett Numbers
(ANTIMEDIA) — While
senior U.S.
officials led
by President Trump and media
pundits sound
the alarm over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, America has been
dealing with a series of nuclear
leaks domestically
that are already exposing the public to radioactive material.
The
most recent case is in Washington State, where a radioactive leak at
the Hanford Site nuclear facility that began on June 8 was kept
secret for two months while contaminating the surrounding area.
Plutonium
particles detected as far as three miles away from the decommissioned
nuclear Hanford Site in Washington state left workers with headaches
and coughs, but officials insist that the nearby public highway is
not at risk of contamination.
The
radioactive air contamination was recorded on June 8 but wasn’t
made public until two months later, when, on Tuesday,
Seattle NBC-affiliate KING obtained
an internal Hanford memo detailing
the findings.
As
part of a government-contracted project to clean up and demolish the
deactivated plutonium production plant, hundreds of workers travel
daily on Rattlesnake Barricade, a turnoff from Highway 240. That is
where plutonium and americium, both highly toxic heavy metals, were
found, about three miles from the Hanford Site’s contaminated
Plutonium Fishing Plant (PFP).
Alarms
sounded both inside and outside the PFP on June 8 upon detection of
the airborne radiation, the Tri-City
Herald reported.
A “precautionary
take cover” order
was sent to some 350 workers around the PFP, but workers in other
areas of the Hanford Site were not alerted, KING reported.
“They
should have contacted the other contractors and let them know what
happened. No one took cover in other facilities and didn’t know
what was going on,” an
anonymous employee told KING. “I
think it was irresponsible not to do more.”
“They
downplay a lot of things (at Hanford),” the
worker added.
CH2M
Hill, the contractor employing the workers, determined they were in
good enough shape to “return to work” after the
take cover order, the engineering consultancy confirmed to KING.
However, KING cited
an unnamed source who was there on June 8 and said some of those
returning workers continued coughing and still had headaches.
Radioactive
vapor was released when crews were unsealing and resealing old
nuclear waste drums, and the vapor traveled beyond the PFP
containment zone when another crew was taking down a portion of the
Plutonium Reclamation Facility (PRF) at the same time. Some in the
area were not wearing proper breathing masks and were exposed.
Air
testing was completed the same day, June 8, and the results were
announced on August 8. The contamination levels were “below
levels that would be of concern for human health,” Hanford
employees were told this week in a memo obtained by KING.
That
may not be comforting for the workers who test positive for “internal
exposures” to radioactive plutonium. So far, at least 12
out of the first 65 test kits given to employees have come back
positive, according to KING. The results of another 236
test kits have yet to be reported, but if nearly 20 percent of
workers have already tested positive, more are bound to follow.
There
are different forms of radiation, and none are worse than plutonium’s
alpha radiation. Internal exposure to plutonium is not like exposure
to radiation by air travel, microwaves or even X-rays.
“Alpha
particles damage or destroy DNA and can cause cancer,”
said Dr. Marco Kaltofen of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s
Nuclear Science and Engineering Program, Dept. of Physics.
Hanford
officials are considering distributing more tests to other workers
from other areas of the site, the Tri-City Herald reported.
The state’s energy department is supposed to have the PRF torn down
by the end of next month, but contractors have notified regulators
that the deadline may not be met because work is paused while new
procedures are established as a result of the June incident,
according to the newspaper.
The
Hanford Site’s plutonium was used in the “Fat Man” nuke
that killed between 39,000 and 80,000 people in Nagasaki, Japan, on
August 9, 1945. Hanford did not cease production of plutonium until
the late 1980’s and has been a cleanup project for 28 years. The
cleanup work is anticipated to last for at least 75 more years.
Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
a typo
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Als de VS zo goed zou willen zijn, om de komende jaren een oorlog uit te vechten op het eigen grondgebied in Noord-Amerika, kan de wereld eindelijk eens gerust ademhalen!! Kernraketten zijn voor die oorlog niet nodig, de oude kerncentrales doen het vuile werk wel……
Zie
ook: ‘North
Korea: Killer Sanctions Imposed By The UN Security Council‘
en:
‘North
Korea Does Not Trust America for a Pretty Good Reason‘
en:
‘Only
Morons Believe What The US Government Says About North Korea‘
en:
‘VS
dreigt Noord-Korea met wat je niet anders dan een nucleaire aanval
kan noemen……..‘
en: ‘Raketwetenschappers over Noord-Korea’s kernraketten bluf en angstzaaierij in de VS……‘
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