29 September 2014 (01:54 UTC-07 Tango)/04 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/07 Mehr 1393/06 Gui-You (9th month) 4712
“It’s concerning that just a couple months ago, the scope of the problem was presented to us as one drum. Now the scope being represented by the lab involves more high risk drums.”-Peter Wirth, state senator & chairman of New Mexico’s Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Committee
United States: More strangeness taking place at New Mexico’s WIPP and LANL. On 22 September 2014, a truck carrying 110 barrels of salt water to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) tipped over as it entered the south entrance, spilling “about a five and a half barrels” of salt water. The driver claims the brakes failed.
But recently released reports and public hearings revealing more dangerous strangeness. During a recent meeting of the New Mexico Legislature’s Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee it was revealed that the employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) might have been improperly packing mixed waste drums for some time now, in other words there’s more than one nuke waste drum out there with the potential to explode!
“There are two problematic drums, one of which they can’t even get at. So if it were to explode, that’s a problem.”-Don Hancock, Southwest Research and Information Center
In February (after a salt truck fire), at least one mixed waste drum exploded. So far investigations have shown it contained improperly packed items contaminated with radiation, which caused a chemical reaction explosion (it had reached internal temps of 340 and 870 degrees Celsius, 644 and 1598 degrees Fahrenheit). The drum came from LANL. The latest reports reveal that at least twelve drums in the WIPP are at risk of explosion! And six potentially explosive drums are now at the Waste Control Specialists (WCS) site in Andrews, Texas. They all came from LANL.
The state senators chairing the Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee told local news media that at their latest meeting with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), federal officials admit there are serious safety problems at WIPP, but they still don’t have a clue as to why things got so bad. At least 22 employees are contaminated with radiation. WIPP is still shutdown.
“We need air, you are killing us down here!”-WIPP employees begging for their lives during the salt truck fire, from court documents
Now concerning the salt truck fire that took place before the explosion(s?). A lawsuit revealed that for some unknown reason the WIPP managers shutdown the ventilation system after the fire started, and while employees were still underground battling the blaze!
The lawsuit is the one brought by the WIPP employee who has to make numerous trips to a treatment center in Colorado. The lawsuit includes sworn affidavits from other WIPP employees, including the driver of the salt truck. They swear that while they were fighting the underground fire WIPP management shutoff their supply of air. This is why the one employee suffered massive lung damage, from inhaling toxic smoke.
Perhaps management thought by turning off the air they could starve out the fire, however they could have also suffocated all the employees underground! The affidavit says management never turned the ventilation back on, despite the pleas of the employees. Also the emergency lights, alarms and even the fire extinguishers failed to work!
And the new contractor in charge of WIPP records is causing an uproar. Rumors spread that Technical and Field Engineering (TFE) was about to secretly move all WIPP-DoE documents out of the state. The president of the Tennessee based company recently swore to the Carlsbad Department of Development that they were not moving WIPP records out of state. TFE is being paid $24.5-million U.S. tax dollars to ‘manage’ all WIPP-DoE documentation/records over the next five years. It also appears that TFE will layoff employees.
It’s been revealed by Weapons Complex Monitor that there’s been a shakeup of the management at LANL. This is part of a change in DoE policy, and officials from New Mexico say it’s about time: “The New Mexico Environment Department had been pushing DoE to make this change for a long time.”
The watchdog group known as Los Alamos Study Group accuses LANL contractor Los Alamos National Security of violating Nuclear National Security laws: “The reason this change is happening is because Los Alamos National Security errors shutdown WIPP.
This event has shed a glaring light on dangerous violations of hazardous waste law…..has been clear for a long time….the problems at LANL go deeper than a few individuals.”-Greg Mello
Now for something different: The U.S. Navy has developed new electromagnetic weapons!
In the state of Washington the USN is about to use such weapons in a war game. It involves 15 aircraft and three RV sized trucks housing the EMP weapons. The testing will be conducted on the Olympic National Forest and on land controlled by the U.S. Department of Natural Resources.
Officials with the Pacific Northwest Electronic Warfare Range revealed that the true objective of the EMP trucks is to test the effects of electromagnetic weapons on humans: “….identifies the distribution of children and locations of schools, childcare centers, and family housing areas in areas potentially affected by implementation of the Proposed Action.
Human tissue is directly susceptible to shock or burns when metallic objects, which have absorbed high electromagnetic radiation, are touched. This type of burn would be similar to the type of burn produced inside a microwave oven.
There are no conclusive direct hazards to human tissue as a result of electromagnetic radiation. Links to DNA fragmentation, leukemia, and cancer due to intermittent exposure to extremely high levels of electromagnetic radiation are speculative; study data are inconsistent and insufficient at this time.
Strong electromagnetic radiation can cause fire if a wave were to create a spark near explosives or ordnance. Strong waves can also induce an electric current capable of overloading or destroying electrical equipment while less strong radiation waves can interfere with electromagnetic signals, such as radio, television, and telephone.”-Pacific Northwest Electronic Warfare Range statement available in PDF on U.S. Forest Service website
The USN is also going to target animals. You can find that info in the PDF titled APPENDIX A SUMMARY OF SPECIES ANALYZED, EFFECTS DETERMINATIONS, AND REASONING. It should be noted that U.S. Forest Service officials deemed the EMP testing as safe!
And more evidence the U.S. is preparing for a nuclear attack coming from the Caribbean. For years the U.S. Army sent Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) teams to Bahamas to train the Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF), officially to teach the art of bomb disposal. This year the RBDF conducted their EOD training at Fort Irwin, California. But the officer in charge of the Bahamian military police unit undergoing the training revealed it was really about weapons of mass destruction: “It is amazing how something as simple as water could be used to disrupt components within a weapon of mass destruction without totally destroying it, so that the possible weapon could be investigated.”-Lieutenant Andrew Bowe, RBDF military police
For years U.S. taxpayers have been funding a U.S. DoE program that has been training Caribbean Customs-Port officials in radiation contamination detection of cargo on commercial ships.
Japan: Disturbing news out of Japan. An investigation by Kyodo News reveals a more than doubling of hospitals that can be used to treat victims of radiation contamination!
Prior to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi explosions there were only 83 such hospitals, now the government is increasing that to 201. The report says the push to increase the number of hospitals for radiation contamination treatment is being conducted at the local level, however, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) is also revamping medical procedures for treating exposure to radiation.
And there are more reports of the adverse effects of Fukushima Daiichi. An ongoing study by Fukushima Medical University reports a huge jump in cancer cases, especially in children living near the failed GE designed nuclear reactors: “The study has been involving somewhat more than 400-thousand local children. And there have been results that have come in from about a quarter of million. We’ve had a 40 times the normal thyroid cancer death rate and a 40 times the normal or thereabout thyroid abnormality rate; cysts and tumors and other problems with the thyroid among children. And that number is going up, as you would expect, because the Iodine that came out of Fukushima affected people, but the effects continue to spread out over time and we expect the situation to get worse.”-Harvey Wasserman, U.S. journalist interviewed by Russian media
Another study, by University of the Ryukyus, is reporting that insects are dropping like flies around Fukushima Daiichi. The study observed butterflies that ate radiation contaminated vegetation died early, and had mutations. Biologist at the University of South Carolina called the study “groundbreaking”.
And at Fukushima Daiichi, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) continues to deal with their failed ALPS decontamination system that keeps leaking radioactive water into the ocean. This is strange because awhile ago they announced they were not going to use it anymore.
Also, TEPCo throwaway employees continue to report they are not being paid the promised hazardous duty pay.
Cosmic rays to be used at Fukushima! Hows your underwear?