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War Criminal Pity Party Overshadows US Radioactive Leak | Weapons of Mass Distraction

By Abby Martin on February 25, 2014 in News

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NM officials say nuke waste leak plugged

By Henry Austin

A radiation leak at a nuclear waste storage site below the New Mexico desert has been plugged, but the facility will remain closed for at least the next three weeks, officials said late Thursday.

The facility near Carlsbad was cleared last Friday when an underground air-monitoring alarm went off, indicating unsafe concentrations of radiation inside the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

“Any type of release outside of the facility or inside the facility is unacceptable and is disconcerting,” said Ryan Flynn, an official at the New Mexico Environment Department. “From the state’s perspective, one event is far too many.”

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A shipment of nuclear waste delivered to the nuclear waste disposal site 26 miles east of Carlsbad that has been shutdown by a radiation leak.

Site officials said they have stopped the leak which they called a “one-time incident,” but will not know what caused it until they go into the underground facility – something that is not expected to happen for at least the next three weeks.

“This is the first time that we have had a leak at the facility,” said Joe Franco of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Elevated radiation levels were found around the facility but they were not high enough to threaten human health, the DOE added. The department insisted the incident was not connected to an underground fire that broke out at the plant two weeks ago.

No workers were underground when the leak was detected near the plant’s waste-disposal platform, and none of the 139 employees working above ground were exposed, the DOE told Reuters Sunday.

The site is designed as a repository for so-called transuranic waste, including discarded machinery, clothing and other materials contaminated with plutonium or other radioactive materials.

KOB and Reuters contributed to this report.

First published February 21 2014, 5:14 AM

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Henry Austin joined NBC News as a contributor in June 2013, and covers domestic and foreign breaking stories for NBCNews.com. Austin joined NBC News after more than 10 years as a reporter. After starting at British press agency South West News Service, he moved to British newspapers The Sun and The People, before relocating to Canada to help set up press agency Hot News. There, he covered U.S. news stories for a variety of newspapers and magazines around the world.

He lives in London and works out of the NBC News London bureau.

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Radiation Leak in New Mexico: “We’ve never seen a level like we are seeing”

The Daily Sheeple – by Kimberly Paxton

A nuclear waste facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico is the site of an airborne radiation leak. The high levels of particles were detected late Friday night at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

WIPP is housed at an old salt mine, and toxic waste like plutonium is housed half a mile underground.

All of the 139 workers were sequestered on site.  

WIPP is the nation’s first transuranic nuclear waste repository, used to permanently dispose of low-level nuclear waste from government sites around the nation.

“These are radionuclides that are of a hazard if inhaled, but it is not the kind of radiation that penetrates, and so the primary concern for the release of this nature is (through) the ventilation passageway and that’s why our employees are sequestered in place,” said Roger Nelson, a Department of Energy spokesman. (source)

The staff members have all tested negative for contamination, and nonessential employees have been cleared to go home.

There have been false alarms in the past, but the DoE said initially that this was a legitimate leak.

“They (air monitors) have alarmed in the past as a false positive because of malfunctions, or because of fluctuations in levels of radon (a naturally occurring radioactive gas),” Department of Energy spokesman Roger Nelson said.

“But I believe it’s safe to say we’ve never seen a level like we are seeing. We just don’t know if it’s a real event, but it looks like one,” he said.

It was not yet clear what caused the air-monitoring system to indicate that radioactive particles were present at unsafe levels, Nelson said. (source)

The Department of Energy is conducting testing at the site. There is no indication of what caused the leak at this time.

According to the DoE, despite their initial statement, there’s no longer real cause for concern. Last night, they released updated measurements on the number of potentially harmful airborne alpha and beta particles and said that none seems to have reached the surface. The story changed dramatically, taking a turn for the positive, as Nelson said that the leak was “not significant”.

“Monitors at the WIPP boundary have confirmed there is no danger to human health or the environment,” the department said late Saturday night. “No contamination has been found on any equipment, personnel, or facilities.” (source)

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TEPCO detects record radiation at Fukushima’s reactor 2, new leak suspected

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December 21, 2013

No. 2 reactor buildings of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear power plant (AFP Photo / Pool)

TEPCO has found a record 1.9 million becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances at its No.2 reactor. Also radioactive cesium was detected in deeper groundwater at No.4 unit’s well, as fears grow of a new leak into the ocean.

The level of beta ray-emitting radioactivity in groundwater around the crippled Fukushima reactor No. 2 reactor has been rising since November, NHK reported.

Previous the highest level – 1.8 million becquerels (bq/liter), of beta-ray sources per liter – was registered at reactor No.1 on December 13.

Meanwhile, TEPCO’s latest examination of deeper groundwater beneath the #4 reactor’s well has raised new concerns that there might be another source of radioactive substances leakage into the ocean.

For the first time, the analysis of water samples taken from a layer 25 meters beneath the No. 4 reactor’s well that is facing the ocean has revealed radioactivity in groundwater.

TEPCO investigators detected 6.7 bq/liter of Cesium 137 and 89 bq/liter of strontium as well as other beta ray-emitting radioactive substances.

However, the company’s officials said that it is early to talk about a hotspot of radiation leak and more examinations are needed to prove that. TEPCO suggested that current numbers could be wrong because radioactive substances may have been mistakenly mixed during the process of getting the sample.

Leakage of radiation-contaminated water has been the major threat to Japan’s population and environment from the very beginning of the Fukushima disaster in March 2011.

Only in late July 2013 did TEPCO acknowledge the fact that contaminated water is escaping from basements and trenches of the Fukushima plant into the ocean.

Since then, TEPCO reported about two major leaks of highly radioactive water into the ocean from storage tanks – a 300-ton leak in August and 430 liters in October.

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NSA Dragnet: Snowden Leak Reveals Mass Spying During G8, G20 Summits

NSA Dragnet: Snowden Leak Reveals Mass Spying During G8, G20 Summits
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US may have illegally monitored foreign dignitaries as well as wider population

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Nov 28, 2013

The latest revelation to come from the Edward Snowden leaks highlights how the NSA conducted a mass spying exercise with the co-operation of Canadian authorities during international meetings in order to further certain policy goals.

In a report by The Canadian Broadcasting Company, it is revealed that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government colluded with the NSA during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits in Toronto.

Documents marked “Top Secret,” highlight how the US embassy in Ottawa was transformed into a spy centre compound for a week as president Obama met with 25 foreign dignitaries and leaders.

The NSA was aided by its Canadian counterpart, the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC).

While the documents do not specifically state who the target of the huge operation was, it is thought that the exercise is most likely a repeat of what occurred in Britain just a few months earlier during the 2009 G20 summit in London. There, as other NSA leaks have revealed, the U.S. and Canadian intelligence agencies, along with Britain’s GCHQ are said to have hacked the phone calls and emails of multiple foreign politicians and diplomats.

The document pertaining to the Toronto summit states that the NSA’s goal was, at least in part, “providing support to policymakers” at the meetings, namely providing what would have been private information to the Canadian and US leaders in order to give them an advantage during negotiations and debates.

The documents once again highlight how the NSA surveillance dragnet extends beyond simply protecting against security threats, and has become a commonplace tool for the US government and its allies, The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The so called “Five Eyes” have had a surveillance agreement dating back to the 1950s, it was only revealed to have existed in 2005.

If true, the latest revelations would once again show how the NSA and its partner spy agencies are routinely breaking the law. Under Canadian law, a warrant must be issued in order for the government to conduct covert surveillance on anyone, including foreign visitors. Foreign spy agencies also do not have jurisdiction on Canadian soil.

“If CSEC tasked NSA to conduct spying activities on Canadians within Canada that CSEC itself was not authorized to take, then I am comfortable saying that would be an unlawful undertaking by CSEC,” says Craig Forcese, an expert in national security at University of Ottawa’s faculty of law.

“[The CSEC is] undermining democracy here at home, while deeply damaging Canada’s international reputation as a fair and honest partner,” said Steve Anderson, executive director of OpenMedia.ca, a Canadian civil liberties group.

The US government has refused to comment. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office has also refused to comment, citing national security.

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Fukushima leak classified as "serious radiation incident"

Published time: August 28, 2013 12:38

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has raised the rating of the radioactive water leak at the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant to Level 3 – a “serious incident” on an international scale of radioactivity.

The upgrade is from Level 1, an “anomaly,” which was initially assigned to the leak of 300 tons of radiation-contaminated water from a tank at the Fukushima plant, when it was first acknowledged by Tokyo Electric Power Co, or TEPCO, the company running the plant, on August 20.

Level 3 indicates a serious threat on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), which goes from Level 0 (no threat) – to the highest level, 7, which was assigned to the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdowns following the March 2011 tsunami, and also to the Chernobyl catastrophe, which happened 25 years before the Japan disaster.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority criticized TEPCO for failing to discover the source of the leak earlier. The company running the plant acknowledged Tuesday that radioactivity near the leak and exposure levels among patrolling staff started to increase in early July.

On Monday, during a visit to Fukushima, Japanese Industry Minister Toshimitsu Motegi promised the government would supervise the clean-up at the plant. 

Nuclear regulators lashed out at TEPCO on Wednesday for ignoring their calls for stepping up patrolling efforts at the plant, which they believe has led to the leak being overlooked.

But the chairman of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority, Shunichi Tanaka, said that describing the situation at the plant as “dire” was wrong.

“What’s important is not the number itself but to give a basic idea about the extent of the problem,” AP reported Tanaka as saying.

Tanaka said a much bigger problem at the plant was contaminated ground water, which might be reaching the sea. It’s unclear how much water is escaping, the level of its contamination and the damage being done to marine life forms, the regulator said.

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Leak Found in Tank at Fukushima Nuclear Plant

TOKYO — In an embarrassing reversal from its earlier claims, the operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said that radioactive particles have been detected in groundwater flowing into the plant, an admission that could raise renewed questions about the company’s ability to handle the plant’s cleanup.

While the level of contamination is very low, its discovery amounts to an admission of error by the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, which had previously said that no particles had been detected in the water. The reversal, announced on Tuesday, is the latest in a string of mistakes and minor mishaps at the plant. Those mistakes have added to growing criticism of the government’s decision to leave the tricky cleanup in the hands of Tepco, the company that many blame for allowing the accident to happen in the first place.

The discovery could also create additional problems for Tepco by jeopardizing its plans for alleviating a growing water crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The company has been struggling to slow groundwater that has been flowing into the basements of the damaged reactor buildings at a rate of 100,000 gallons per day, threatening the makeshift system that cools the crippled reactors. The water, which becomes highly contaminated once it comes in contact with the reactor buildings, must then be stored in huge metal tanks, which have filled every available space at the plant.

The company had hoped to reduce the influx by pumping some groundwater into the sea before it reaches the buildings. But, that plan needs the approval of residents, particularly commercial fishermen, in areas outside the evacuation zone immediately around the plant. Those fishermen have been slowly regaining their livelihoods since the triple meltdown two years ago. The company had been reassuring them that the water would not further contaminate the ocean.

The company said on Tuesday, though, that it had erred in the previous tests, and that the water in fact contained cesium, a byproduct of the meltdowns. Tepco said it had found up to 0.39 becquerel of radioactive cesium 137 per liter of water, an amount that is far below Japan’s safety level for drinking water, which is 10 becquerels per liter.

Still, it may be enough to scuttle or at least delay the company’s plan to pump groundwater into the sea. Just last week, Tepco had told local fishing cooperatives that levels of cesium in the groundwater were so low that they could not be detected. Those reassurances were met with intense skepticism by fishermen who, even before Tuesday’s admissions, said they no longer trusted any claims made by Tepco.

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Leak Found in Tank at Fukushima Nuclear Plant

NASA: New pump resolves big space station leak

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An impromptu spacewalk over the weekend seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday.
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NASA: New pump resolves big space station leak

Coolant Leak on Space Station May Delay Return of Astronauts to Earth

Ammonia coolant has been seen leaking into space from the P6 truss on the Interantional Space Station. NASA is planning a spacewalk to investigate and repair the leak.

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Right now, NASA is planning at least one EVA—extra-vehicular activity, or spacewalk—for an astronaut on the International Space Station to investigate and hopefully repair a coolant leak. NASA says the crew is not in danger, and the ISS is otherwise operating normally. Pete Harding at NASASpaceflight.com has a detailed article on this situation.

Basically, turning solar energy into power for the station generates heat, which must be removed. A cooling system is used that is essentially a series of ammonia-filled pipes; they run over the heated area, warming up the ammonia, which is then pumped away from the hot spot so it can radiate that heat away into space.

A small leak in one of the pipes has been known for years. It was so tiny it wasn’t a huge concern; a mission a few years back brought more ammonia to the station to refill the pipes. But on May 9, ground controllers noticed the leak had increased suddenly, and astronauts on board ISS saw flakes of frozen ammonia leaking out into space. Because of this, a spacewalk is being scheduled most likely for Saturday, May 11, to take a look and identify the culprit. A second, later EVA will probably then be needed to swap out the faulty part.

This situation is serious, but being handled. Everything on the ISS has redundant backups, so the pipe is being shut down and the backup unit getting prepped for use.

This does throw a monkey in the wrench of the schedule; Commander Hadfield, Tom Marshburn (a likely candidate for at least one of the spacewalks), and Roman Romanenko were already preparing for their return to Earth on Monday. That’s now on hold for a while, probably until the situation is under control. It’s not clear how long the delay will be, or what this will mean for the launch of the next crew of three astronauts to the station, due for late May.

Spaceflight enthusiasts are discussing this on the NASASpaceflightNow forum, and it’s fascinating to read. It’s clear NASA is taking this very seriously, as you’d expect, but it doesn’t sound like this is a life-or-death situation. Still, any time a contingency (extra) spacewalk is added in, there are inherent dangers. Hopefully the engineers on the ground and the astronauts on-board the ISS will take care of this quickly and efficiently.

Tip o’ the spacesuit visor to Emily Lakdawalla and NASASpaceflight on Twitter.

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