SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL POOLS/NUCLEAR TRASH-A NATIONAL SAFETY & SECURITY THREAT

Boiling Water Reactors are a National Security threat. Fact Sheet on hazards of Boiling Water Reactors (BWR). https://www.nirs.org/factsheets/boiling-water-reactors/

"A drained spent fuel pool in the U.S. could lead to a catastrophic fire that would result in long-term land contamination substantially worse than what the Chernobyl accident unleashed." https://www.ips-dc.org/blog/safeguarding_spent_fuel_pools_in_the_united_states

Brookhaven National Laboratory studied the consequences of a severe spent fuel pool accident at a closed U.S. reactor in a 1997 report prepared for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. "In the most severe case, if the fuel rods rapidly caught fire after water completely drained from the spent fuel pool, an accident could:"

• Contaminate up to 2,790 square miles of land, makng it unfit for human habitation,
• Cause as many as 143,000 cancer fatalities over time, in a radius of 500 miles from the accident site, and
• Cause property damage up to $780 billion (in 2011 dollars).

"In short, the possibility of a Fukushima-like loss of coolant to spent fuel pools - and ensuing release of radiation - is quite real in the United States, whether as a result of an earthquake, terrorist attack or other disaster. The risk of such a disaster varies from plant to plant and can be mitigated in various ways, but it cannot be fully eliminated given current spent fuel pool designs." https://www.frontiergroup.org/blogs/blog/fg/what-are-risks-posed-spent-fuel-pools-united-states

Foundation for Resilient Societies NRC petitions on issue.
https://www.resilientsocieties.org/nuclear-regulatory-commission.html

Radioactivity and the Systematic Falsification of Nuclear Risk

https://www.ratical.org/radiation/radioactivity/

Savanah River Site and Small Modular Reactors

"Shh," says DOE.  "We have secrets, we are killing people but don't tell them the truth." (claims and costs: http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/weeklystats.htm )

Ionizing Radiation from nuclear plants, fuel facilities and weapons complexes-colorless, odorless, tasteless radiation death. In many instances you will not know the extent of cellular mutations until you are diagnosed with cancer. In some cases, many years later. For more info: http://radioactivepoison.blogspot.com/

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin - credits: Medical Pictures from uIowa.edu: UI Dermatology / Tom Ray.

 

""Under a Cloud" presents evidence that the Savannah River Site in South Carolina had a recent, unreported radioactive fallout event. That fallout threatens human and environmental health. This is a "wake-up call" for the communities neighboring the Savannah River Site: we must take action to secure site accountability and to protect our health and our environment."




The TVA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars of your money for a project you will never see any results. Welcome to the SMR (small modular reactor) story, a project which you the rate payer are paying so the nuclear industry will benefit. A project in which there are no orders for the atomic mechanism, no approvals; our government is spending hundreds of millions of your hard earned dollars in the experiment for which only the nuclear industry reaps the financial benefits.

SMALL MODULAR REACTORS, SMR,  PRESENTATION BY TOM CLEMENTS
"“While SRS may superficially appear to present certain attractive aspects for the location of SMRs, the site has not had experience with operation of nuclear reactors in over twenty years and has no current expertise in reactor operation,” said Clements.

  “While DOE is set to chose two SMR designs to fund for further development, SRS affirms that no construction funds will be provided, leaving vendors with the difficult and perhaps insurmountable task to find private funding for SMR construction.”"

"Two of the three separate “Memoranda of Agreement” for three different and still hypothetical SMR designs include deployment timelines which are already admitted by DOE to be inaccurate since they were signed less than six months ago."

"As SMRs are being promoted for overseas markets, SRS officials will not say what plans are for used reactor vessels or highly radioactive spent fuel which would be taken back to the production site." http://aikenleader.villagesoup.com/p/documents-reveal-time-line-and-plans-for-small-modular-reactors-smrs-at-the-savannah-river-site-sr/840884

TVA and SMR's http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/advanced/clinch-river.html

Tom Clements Small Modular Reactor Overview for tva meeting 6.26.2012 from MATRRorg
 

Critics blast contract for Bellefonte generators.--Nuclear fuels process, sickness and death.

Critics blast contract for Bellefonte generators - timesfreepress.com

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COPY OF THE COMPLAINT LETTER .

To The Office of the Tenneesse Valley Authority Inspector General;

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Complaint: Regarding the design and construction by contract of 2 steam generators for the Bellefonte Nuclear Power Plant prior to TVA Board approval of construction.

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Per news article, "Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy, Inc., has been notified of a contract award from Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to design and manufacture two steam generators for the Bellefonte Unit 1 Plant as a part of the Bellefonte completion project." link:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bw-to-design-and-manufacture-steam-generators-for-tvas-bellefonte-unit-1-plant-2010-10-14?reflink=MW_news_stmp

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The purchase by contract is being made prior to the approval of the construction phase of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant. The "letting" of this contract prior to approval by the TVA Board could result in a financial loss to the TVA. As a minimum the approval of "letting" contracts of this nature relating to the construction of the nuclear plant places the "cart before the horse" and circumvents the approval process of the TVA Board. Unless the TVA is now saying the Board is insignificant and subordinate to the executive decision making of the TVA's executive officers. Surely the TVA Board is not engaged in a secret "star chamber exercise" in violation of the Federal Sunshine Laws?

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Request: 1) Determine if law or policy has been violated due to the letting of this contract prior to the official approval of the TVA Board concerning construction outcome of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant Unit 1. 2) Was there a violation of the Federal Sunshine law or Federal contract requirement law or policy concerning this purchase in lieu of no formal approval of the TVA Board concerning construction of Bellefonte Nuclear Plant Unit 1. 3) Does this contract undermine the legal process of the TVA Act and the approvals of such matters of construction prior to formal action of the TVA Board?

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Please notify the undersigned of the receipt of this complaint and outcome. END OF COMPLAINT.

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Research discloses it will cost in excess of $300 million dollars. (Not considering the additional transportation costs involved in transport to Alabama). Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) article, http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2009/09/news-video-of-three-mile-islands-steam.html The TVA Board authorized $248 million for "study and engineering feasibility" for the Bellefonte Nuclear project. Note in the NEI article about the tubing to be replaced at Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the same type of tubing was removed from the Bellefonte plant during its cannibalization 4 years ago. Scrap of Bellefonte sold for $49 million in 2006, http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/mar/29/alabama-salvaging-bellefonte/ not very cost effective. THE CANILIBAZATION INCLUDED THE STEAM GENERATORS, an integral component of the reactor power generation system.

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UPDATE: The TVA's actions in this matter appears to violate the Anti-Deficiency Act (ADA) as there is no authority or funds to purchase the steam generators without the specific approval of the TVA Board. 31 U.S.C. § 1341. The ADA prohibits the Federal Government from entering into a contract that is not "fully funded" because doing so would obligate the government in the absence of an appropriation adequate to the needs of the contract. http://www.gao.gov/ada/antideficiency.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Deficiency_Act

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THE TRUTH OF THE NUCLEAR FUELS PROCESS, IT KILLS. FACTS AND VIDEO LINKS.

"Politifact article" http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/apr/22/lamar-alexander/facts-risks-nuclear-power-plants/ .

"No member of the American public has ever been killed by commercial nuclear power — a record unmatched by other fuels." by Lamar Alexander

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My Reply TO "POLITIFACT": NOT TRUE. (Politifact or Sen. Lamar Alexander refuses to answer my charge they are not telling the truth in support of the multinational nuclear corporations. Alexander receives PAC and corporate contributions from the nuclear industry or their representatives.)

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Nuclear Industry workers have been killed by commercial nuclear power. The nuclear fuel processing facilities are the nuclear industry's dirty little secret. If there was no commercial nuclear power the fuel fabrication facilities would not be in operation. Nuclear fuel workers sickness and deaths http://vimeo.com/1792087 {note the number of claims at 1min 57 sec into video, also note 7min 10 sec thru 7mim 20 sec into the video how difficult it is to acquire claims approval for the exposed workers "radiation is not a toxic substance." ) NOTE BELOW THE CURRENT CLAIMS, benefits paid.

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Radiation death damage suit- http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/s_664868.html

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Three Mile Island (TMI), Killer of Babies- http://www.ratical.org/radiation/KillingOurOwn/KOO14.html "But in fact, said Sternglass, these "preliminary" figures showed an infant-death rate within that ten-mile radius of 7.2 per 1000 live births in 1978; in 1979, after the accident, the number had risen to 15.7 per 1000--a more than doubling. The numbers for infant-death rates within a five-mile radius of TMI--though small--were even more damning. In 1978 the rate had been 2.3 infant deaths per 1000 live births; in 1979, after the accident, it was 16.2--a jump by a factor of seven."

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Benefits paid including death benefits to survivors at: Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/charts/paducah.htm

Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion

http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/charts/portsmouth.htm

Stats: (billions of $$ in claims) Part B&E summary- http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/weeklystats.htm#1

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Video's of those already dead and those dying-- http://www.wildclearing.com/ice-ages/the-exposed.html A special lady tells her story- http://www.wildclearing.com/ice-ages/pike-vina.html Mike Drivers story-- http://www.wildclearing.com/ice-ages/paducah-driver.html

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"People in power who produce within the nuclear fuel chain count costs more than people and thus people become contaminated in deadly ways -- then the contaminated people are finessed or lied to, and suffer in sickness and death as do those they are intimately associated with.

* People who should be holding the producers accountable in the public interest don't, or won't, or don't know how to, or try to but run into obstacles and are discredited or don't have the resources to carry on their struggle.

* People who are sick, dying, and their survivors, have extreme difficulty in finding out how they got that way, then when they do, in finding remedies that will help them, in whatever arena and labyrinth.

* People who struggle against this betrayal each and all have a story that ought to be heard and taken to heart. The film and posted video clips aim to be a way their stories can be heeded.

* In particular, one of the supposed remedies, the EEOICPA (Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act), is flawed, and for many represents just another betrayal.

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Lamar Alexander is a politician who is more concerned with the nuclear corporations bottom line, he is a pawn to the nuclear power brokers. I would hope the folks at "PolitiFact" do not follow in his foot steps demonstrating loyalty to the corporation instead of concern for the people being sickened and dying from the nuclear fuels process. In the statistics and video stories I have listed for you there are many facts which will demonstrate thousands are currently sick, dying and dead as a result of commercial nuclear power. This tragedy has not occurred in the commercial reactor facility itself but as a result of the nuclear fuels process. As the old saying goes, "6 of one, half a dozen of the other;" the results are the same.

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You may discover more about the dangers of nuclear power at http://www.matrr.org/