The Truth of Three Mile Island - Nuclear Deceit by the NRC and the Nuclear Industry

A You Tube video exposing the deceit of the Federal Government's nuclear watchdog, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the nuclear industry. Deaths, sickness and radiation poisoning as a result of the disaster. A government regulator who intentionally deceives the public is no regulator, it is a pawn for the nuclear industry.

What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Don't Want You to Know, Fukushima Nuclear Detonation

Unfortunately the public cannot rely on Japanese Governmental Agencies or U.S. Governmental Agencies to tell a truthful story about the events regarding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster. However, there is one lesson the U.S nuclear regulators seem willing to accept, the nuclear disaster was caused by natural disasters resulting in an extended station blackout (power outage). The extended station blackout resulted in a loss of nuclear reactor core and  fuel pool cooling. A lack of nuclear fuel cooling resulted in multiple hydrogen explosions, the melting through of the reactor pressure vessel in at least one unit and the possibility of a fuel pool criticality event.

The involvement of the Plutonium Oxide fuel and the detonation within the reactor unit 3 fuel pool is the reason the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman recommended the evacuation of all U.S. Military personnel within a 50 mile radius of the Fukushima Nuclear plant site..

Nuclear fuel pellets were found 2 miles from the Fukushma nuclear plant as a result of the explosion. The Unit 3 reactor and its cooling pool contained Mixed Plutonium Oxide Fuel (MOX).

The expert testimony in the following You Tube videos display the likely hood of a nuclear detonation in Reactor Unit #3 as a result of a hydrogen explosion inducing a nuclear super criticality detonation in the fuel pool.




Fairewinds Associates briefing. Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gunderson and Former NRC Inspector and Trainer Dave Lochbaum. Mr. Lochbaum was also an operator at Browns Ferry. He now works with the Union of Concerned Scientists. Fairewinds video, 'Why Fukushima Can Happen Here."

Why Fukushima Can Happen Here: What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

Fukushima Chronicles, An Industry Gone Mad; Fukushima and the Mass Media - Interview with Dr. Akira Tokuhiro, Professor University of Idaho‏

Animation of the FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT REACTOR 2, You Tube by ml750

Dr. Akira Tokuhiro exposes the deceit and cultural difficulties surrounding the events in Fukushima, Japan nuclear disaster. My continuation of the Fukushima Chronicles, this edition - An Industry Gone Mad.

May 17, 2011 Huffington Post interview http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivian-norris-de-montaigu/interview-with-akira-toku_b_863297.html  with Dr. Akira Tokuhiro, Professor University of Idaho. "[Dr.]Akira Tokuhiro, professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering for the University of Idaho, was born in Tokyo, Japan, but now works in the Center for Advanced Energy Studies in Idaho Falls. Akira has more than 20 years of experience in nuclear engineering and has been closely monitoring the situation in Japan..."  http://www.uidaho.edu/idahofalls/features/faculty/akiratokuhiro

"The mass media in Japan is only given the information TEPCO and the government want to give them. Labor practices in Japan, he says, are quite brutal and when you get to the bottom of the labor force, those at the top of society do not really care about them."

"Why is TEPCO not telling anyone the truth? That these 3 units have partially melted and that they have known this for 3-4 weeks at least. They release only small amounts of information every day. Many nuclear engineering professionals have known, were able to figure out almost from the beginning, in fact perhaps from March 15, sixteen hours or so after the accident, that the core had melted. Was there any operator error involved? He understood that TEPCO workers retreated on March 12 because the radiation readings were simply too high. He believes that within 16 hours after this they already knew the core had melted. And even though no one wants to waste precious time pointing fingers and blaming, this information is much needed in order to learn about how the events surrounding Fukushima and these numerous criticalities can be avoided in the future. We have many many of these plants operating, in the U.S. and around the world."

"Virtually any nuclear engineer connected with the industry he or she supports cannot be fully trusted right now to give us the full truth about Fukushima because the truth is simply too damaging to the nuclear industry and they know it."   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivian-norris-de-montaigu/interview-with-akira-toku_b_863297.html 
Nuclear Whistleblower Explains Design Flaws Of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant In Japan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMcafp9lqa0
Fairewinds Associates - Fukushima Updates:  http://www.fairewinds.com/updates
May 22, 2011 video update from Arnie Gunderson, Fairewinds Associates.

The Implications of the Fukushima Accident on the World's Operating Reactors from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

The Fukushima Chronicles, A Story of Nuclear Deceit - Will NRC Regulators Pay Attention to the Warnings

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  Fukishima Daiichi Facility after explosions as viewed by satellite imagery


NEW YORK TIMES - In Japan Reactor Failings, Danger Signs for the U.S.

By HIROKO TABUCHI, KEITH BRADSHER and MATTHEW L. WALD

Published: May 17, 2011

Vents that American officials said would prevent devastating explosions at nuclear plants in the United States were put to the test in Japan and failed.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/world/asia/18japan.html

IAEA Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html


NIRS update link to the Fukushima disaster: http://www.nirs.org/fukushima/crisis.htm

You Tube Video aerial view of reactor damage, Dated April 19, 2011


Nuclear Collapse? May 10. 2011


Nuclear Inferno, Reactor Vessels Breached, May 18, 2011 video.

Has Fukushima's Reactor No. 1 Gone Critical?

image by "Digital Globe"

       Fukishima Daiichi Facility after explosions as viewed by satellite imagery

                       Cutaway drawing of a GE Mark 1 Reactor.
IAEA-Fukishima Report: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html It is interesting to note that this report on the reactor status states reactors 1,2 and 3 cores are exposed but stable, http://www.slideshare.net/iaea/summary-of-reactor-status-1-april-2011-1300-utc There is nothing stable about an "exposed" reactor core. Note the report states there is no information on the #1 reactor. Note article below, it has "gone critical." Trusting the report is an issue, hiding the truth is another issue.

Has Fukushima's Reactor No. 1 Gone Critical?  Good question, the real question in reference to civilian nuclear power activities, can anyone trust the nuclear power industry? There are known health risks and scientific facts concerning the physics of a nuclear reaction. Unfortunately the nuclear power industry  lies about risks.

In the early days of the manufacture of nuclear weapons a criticality incident occurred, it was called "tickling the dragon." Unfortunately it led to the death of the scientist involved. It should be obvious 1 and possibly 2 of the reactor vessels at Fukishima are ruptured and a "melt down" is occurring. At least one reactor has became uncontrollable, in all probabilities there are 2 reactors which have reached a point of no return. The question becomes, just how far has the meltdown gone? Has the meltdown penetrated the confines of the reactor containment structures?

This is one of the better articles I have seen on the subject of the Fukishima nuclear disaster, http://www.zimbio.com/Fusion+power/articles/XfpPuePkED3/Japan+Fukushima+Nuclear+Plants+Reaching+Critical

Nuclear Industry has Paid Off Congress to Compromise Public Safety. Officials confirm ‘apparent’ breach of containment vessel at Japanese reactor – spent fuel pond boiling - Bellona

Officials confirm ‘apparent’ breach of containment vessel at Japanese reactor – spent fuel pond boiling - Bellona  Explosion in the #4 reactor and fire reported. Meanwhile, the Libyan, "Wag the Dog War" continues. The nuclear industry's puppet politicians serve their masters. Including our President, Barrack Obama whose campaign has received millions of dollars from the nuclear industry.

Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, official, whistle-blower, Dave Lochbaum informs group last night in Chattanooga, Tn. that members of the Senate has told the NRC to not enforce laws protecting the public from nuclear accidents.  Lochbaum reported that if the NRC enforced the law the Congress, specifically the Senate, would not fund the NRC.  Senate members have stated the nuclear industry can not make sufficient money if safety regulations are enforced. Dave Lochbaum is now a member of the Union of concerned Scientists. http://www.ucsusa.org/news/experts/dave-lochbaum.html

The Nuclear Industry has bought and paid political officials to compromise public safety.

Nuclear Plant Explodes - Censorship of Nuclear Events in the Media - Nuclear Disaster Updates

Update: April 6, 2011, YouTube Video-Winds aloft modeling, Jet Stream displays radiation potential reaching the west coast and beyond.

Stop Bellefonte Nuclear Plant-  http://www.matrr.org/

March 12, 2011 video


Cesium released NewsX report


Update 2nd Explosion, Unit 3, video Mar 13, 2011


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42044156/ns/world_news-asiapacific/?gt1=43001 (6 plants are now involved in the emergency.)
Japanese Nuclear Plant explodes, the steel skeleton of the upper portion of the unit 1 reactor building, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, is all that remains. Complicating the issue is the deceit of the nuclear industry. The issue of trust is critical, how are we to trust an industry who intentionally deceives the public concerning a disaster. In the case of the Japanese government they also appear to be participating in the deceit.
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The upper shell of the containment building was blown away due to the buildup of hydrogen gas in the containment vessel, the building itself, maybe both, the resulting explosion decimated the structure.
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The issuing of Iodine tablets will not result in facilitating trust, a critical factor in determining safety and security of citizens surrounding the area of a nuclear plant.
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Confidence in our nuclear regulators, NRC, has not been established when the regulators decided to continue the construction of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant without one vote of approval. The vote of the NRC was 3 votes jointly approved/disapproved and 1 vote disapproved, the Chairman and senior staff officials of the NRC stated, "unprecedented." The critical issue of placing trust, safety and following critical regulation to insure the health and safety of the public before profit of an industry is dissolved in a bureaucratic conundrum in support of the nuclear industry's bottom line.
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility disaster is a further display concerning the risk of nuclear power. The unthinkable can and does occur.
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Nuclear Information and Resource Service- Tell Congress: Heed the public and END the nuclear loan program:  http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5848    The Nuclear Loan program will increase our national debt by billions, upon billions of dollars.
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For additional background information, please refer to
http://www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/japan-earthquakenuclear.pdf.
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Censorship of Nuclear Events: To find the truth one must look to foreign news sources, see below. Nuclear accidents, events as the nuclear industry calls them, are one of the greatest censored news items in the United States. The nuclear industry not only manufacture nuclear plants, they also own national broadcasting outlets in the United States. G.E. and Westinghouse. http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/culturalcon.htm
"GE & Westinghouse together own 80% of all nuclear power plants in the world." http://www.cpsr.cs.uchicago.edu/other-chicago/mediamap/corpdata.html
Many listings from "Project Censored" contain pages upon pages of U.S. media "censored" nuclear power articles. The lead off listing, the lie of 3 Mile Island. http://www.projectcensored.org/search/?cx=013508615264581914751%3Ai74kibqknxe&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=nuclear+censorship&sa=Search&siteurl=www.projectcensored.org%2Ftop-stories%2Fcategory%2Ftwo-thousand-and-ten-book%2F#993
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Update: German Financial News Report - http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2011-03/19621328-round-up-u-s-nuclear-experts-comment-on-japan-reactor-crisis-weekend-contact-information-provided-for-experts-available-for-interviews-008.htm 
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"Partial Core Meltdown to Full Core Meltdown:"  http://www.vocfm.co.za/index.php?section=news&category=internationalnews&article=57710
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Update, Sunday Mar. 13, 2011: 2nd plant location, emergency declared - "The latest nuclear alert was issued late Sunday for the Onagawa power plant and reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency after radiation levels outside the facility exceeded maximum acceptable levels." 
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"Earlier Sunday, the government said radiation levels outside the Fukushima plant had briefly spiked to 400 times the normal level.  More than 200,000 people had been told earlier to evacuate the area.  Authorities say at least 19 people have been exposed to radiation and more than 160 others may have been.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Japanese-PM-Appeals-for-Unity-to-Face-Earthquake--117895114.html  and Euronews- http://www.euronews.net/2011/03/13/emergency-at-second-japan-nuclear-plant/  Today's Yahoo Report: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110313/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_nuclear_crisis
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Update: Monday, Mar. 14, 2011 - 2nd explosion rocks Japanese nuclear facility, unit 3 explodes at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility. - http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewContent.act?clipid=611015349&mode=cnc&tag=3.5963?icx_id%3D271344

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/14/japanese-official-damaged-reactor-fuel-rods-temporarily-exposed/ 
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Update: Mar 14, 2011, 6PM CST the #2 reactor at Fukushima plant has exploded. Units 1, 2, and 3 have exploded. Unit 3 contained MOX plutonium fuel.
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"Nuclear Information Resource Service led a coalition of groups that petitioned the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2005 requesting emergency enforcement action on the vulnerability of the Mark I and II elevated nuclear waste storage pool. The coalition’s petition to the NRC was denied." http://www.dcbureau.org/201103141303/Natural-Resources-News-Service/fission-criticality-in-cooling-ponds-threaten-explosion-at-fukushima.html
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Update: Mar 14, 2011 9PM CST the #4 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is on fire and apparently  acriticality issue has occured due to a loss of coolant in the fuel pool. 3 reactors are now in a meltdown condition and the used fuel in unit 4 has gone "critical."
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To trust the corporate multinational  nuclear industry and their government puppets is foolish!  There is no "fail safe" nuclear power system, an atomic reactor is dangerous, it is not inherently safe. A nuclear reactor contains radiation a thousand times greater than the Hiroshima  atomic bomb. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/03/explosion-hits-nuclear-power-plant-in-japan-in-quakes-aftermath.html
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Update: Mar 16, 2011 -- Local government officials in Japan, near the nuclear plant site, say, "they are leaving us here to die." The continuing saga of the nuclear power industry in Japan. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12765859  In the United States, ultra-conservative political supporters of the nuclear power industry continue to deceive the people of our nation about the risks of nuclear power.
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Update: Mar 17, 2011 - The state of reactor # 2 seems to be a question. This report says the #2 reactor has exploded. "Officials had grown increasingly worried about Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant unit 2 after two hydrogen explosions in three days occurred at the plant, and the unit lost its ability to cool. The fuel rods on unit 2 became fully exposed for the second time Monday, a dangerous development in the effort to stop the reactor from melting down." http://abcnews.go.com/International/japan-earthquake-radiation-leaking-fukushima-nuclear-plant-explodes/story?id=13131123&page=2   Mysteriously, the #2 reator is able to hold water and be cooled since power has been reestablished according to Tokyo Power.

This report from the UPI: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/03/17/Cooling-efforts-suspended-at-nuclear-plant/UPI-10771300341277/  

Electrical power to be restored?  http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/03/18/2011031800375.html

Photos of the damaged reactors. http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/17/6290420-new-closer-aerial-views-of-wrecked-reactor-in-japan  Story line says #3 reactor pictures.



"Chernobyl on Steroids...".


Update: From Goddards Journal-Sep. 4, 2011 Steam Explosion & Criticality

ATOMIC LINKS

Helpful inks on classifications of nuclear events, materials released, emergency proceedures, risks, general info related to radioactive atomic power to include new atomic power reactor problems.

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The international nuclear and radiological event scale: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Factsheets/English/ines.pdf

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EPA info on radioactive atomic power plants: http://www.epa.gov/radtown/nuclear-plant.html

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Official government training info: http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/training_downloads.shtm#CERTSM

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www.crcpd.org/Homeland_Security/NuclearPowerPlantMaterial.pdf Note page 58 on the pdf page as this lists specific materials released.

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Are you ready to fry? http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/nuclear_power_plants.shtm

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"...ask them, why they are afraid to tell the truth?" http://www.activistmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1079&Itemid=143

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"What you are not suppose to know." (routine radioactive releases) http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/routineradioactivereleases.htm

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NARAC: https://narac.llnl.gov/

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"You will not glow." www.redcross.org/images/pdfs/code/nuclear_power_plant.pdf

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"The rest of the TMI story": http://www.ki4u.com/three_mile_island.htm (Some KI for you poor country folk.)

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RISK ASSESMENT: This is important, some nuclear plants have many significant reportable events and present themselves as a constantly changing environment. As the plant ages and the number of EVENTS increase so does risk. The current models and assessments in the U.S. nuclear industry DO NOT take into consideration a fluid environment of change in a plant. U.S. models of accident risk assessment are inaccurate at atomic power plants, they do not consider physical, human and operational changes which occur daily. A scientific study on this subject: Development of Specific Risk Criteria: www.immsgroup.com/images/08%20IJMSR_paper_5.pdf

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Quote from the above link: "The most important problem with definition of risk criteria lays in the following fact: the models of probabilistic safety assessment, which may represent a prerequisite for application of defined risk criteria, have very wide area of acceptability. It is difficult to define risk criteria, which would be applicable to all models without conditions and prerequisites. Several factors exist, which, if changed, may impact the results in a larger extent."

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Accepted system of dose limitation for routine releases of radioactive effluents at nuclear power plants--ALARA criteria (as low as reasonably achievable, economic and social factors taken into account (or the poor and uneducated country folk are expendable)) www.eolss.net/ebooks/Sample%20Chapters/C09/E4-23-03-03.pdf

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History of Nuclear Censorship-The Cover-up: http://www.lornasalzman.com/collectedwritings/Censorhip.html

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Radioactive Waste Processing Company Targeted Black Workers for Higher Radiation Exposure: http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/12-31-09a.cfm Scrap from the Davis -Besse plant. Remember the hole in the Davis Besse reactor due to corrosion? More about Davis -Besse. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/04/davis-besse.html

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Tokaimura Criticality Accident: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf37.html

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The Lesser Evil, Nuclear or Coal: http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_lesser_evil_nuclear_or_coal/

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New Reactor Issues and concerns.

AP1000 Issues: http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100423/coalition-design-new-nuclear-reactor-less-safe-americas-current-fleet

Areva's EPR Issues: http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclearreaction/2009/11/what_nuclear_renaissance_major.html

A Not So Happy Anniversary of a Radioactive Atomic Power Disaster

A not so Happy Anniversary nuclear industry to the largest nuclear disaster of all time. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/26/AR2010042601419.html Millions sickened and dying.

POLITICAL HYPOCRITES- Stop nuclear subsidies and further socialistic expansion of our governments debt via nuclear power corporate welfare. "Not one cent for the poor and sick, billions for the nuclear industry." http://www.pottsmerc.com/articles/2010/04/24/opinion/srv0000008081225.txt

The truth of 3 Mile Island: "Human infant deaths in the forms of miscarriages, stillbirths, and crib deaths soared for the period of April through September." http://www.boisestate.edu/history/ncasner/hy210/3mile.htm

Intentional deceit concerning radioactive contamination of the area surrounding the 3 Mile Island nuclear accident. The deceit of the 3 Mile Island accident is reflected in NRC policy today. http://www.counterpunch.org/wasserman03242009.html

Shortcuts to disaster: The nuclear construction license reinstatement was approved for Bellefonte without one vote of approval by the NRC Board, 1 vote disapproved, 3 votes jointly approved/disapproved. The vote was described as "unprecedented" by the chairperson of the commission. However, the NRC went ahead and granted reinstating the previously cancelled construction license for the sole purpose of avoiding newly implemented controls and proceedures of current new nuclear construction license applicants.

" What good fortune for governments that the people do not think." Adolph Hitler

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Shocking Scientific Reports, Deaths From Nuclear Radiation

Could it be that the advocates of Nuclear Energy do not give a damn for you, your children, grandchildren or anyone else for that matter? Are the corporations and advocates of nuclear energy colossal liars of the caliber of a mass murderer? Has the public been intentionally scammed and lied to in a colossal national deceit program about the safety of nuclear power? This report reflects the severity of the lie: http://newsmine.org/content.php?ol=nature-health/65-million-nuclear-deaths.txt

Cover ups, releases of radioactive materials: http://www.truthout.org/article/tennessee-nuclear-fuel-problems-kept-secret more about cover ups and lies: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2465/is_3_31/ai_73040730 The 3 Mile Island lie: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/19/5325/ , other nuclear accidents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents#2000s Nuclear Accidents in progress: http://www.davistownmuseum.org/cbm/Rad16.html Then there is this, http://www.wildclearing.com/ice-ages/the-exposed.html 41,869 "Poisoned Nuclear Workers" either sick or dieing. These are people just like you and I, citizens of the Southeastern United States of America. Their only difference is they had a job handling radioactive materials.

The real question is, after all this information why do we still continue to build nuclear power plants? There can only be 1 of 2 answers, 1) all the information, links listed, is not true; 2) the nuclear industry via our government has deceived the public at large with a colossal lie for money.