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opeds:
The Buzz About The S-Word - 'The
question is whether or not the District Court Judge will think that
AEHI is getting carried away with a public remark by Shipley that probably -
at that time - only raised some eyebrows...' Re:
AEHI's stock- 'Show me the defamation!'
Going
subcritical: a nuclear test is a nuclear test is a nuclear test
'Since 1997, the DOE has aimed a subcritical testing 'gun' at
the entire world that has fired blanks over and over again and the
impact is no different than when a madman runs around aiming a gun
at other people and firing blanks. The effect is de-stabilizing.'
NOTICE:
If
you or someone you know was traveling on Interstate-15 in central Utah
between
Scipio and Beaver, or on I-70 from Cove Fort (I-15 junction) to
Richfield, Utah, on Saturday, July 7, 2007, please visit our Milford Flat fire page
LINKS:
Learn
about the proposed coal-fired power plant threatening Mesquite, Nevada. Visit StopToquop.org
Coalition
against nukes in CT - Mothball
Millstone
Hiroshima
Peace Culture Foundation newsletter
Complex
Transformation SPEIS now available on the internet,
or in print or CD-ROM
Visit
Downwinders United, Mohave
Downwinders and Justice
for Downwinders
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Richard
Miller and Leif Peterson study NTS fallout - cancer
correlation
The
team studied association between radionuclide deposition
levels from nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site (NTS)
and cancer mortality rates in 5 Midwestern states. Click
title-link for more: Association
between radioactive fallout from 1951–1962 US nuclear
tests at the Nevada Test Site and cancer mortality in
midwestern US populations |
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Recent
op-eds:
Cesium
and the alarm bells that never rang - 'Thanks to
government disinformation perpetuated on a global scale, the
fact that lingering Cesium 137 is in our bodies, our food
supply and our soils, is largely ignored and not
common knowledge. Everyone thinks fallout is gone and
decayed. They’re wrong.'
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Our
Health, Our Future, Our World are our three themed-essays
that explore our 'radiation world-view':
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 Read
Sermon
for the Downtrodden Activist at opednews.com - 'There
is a wall of sturdy construction and impenetrable height and
convincing stature that hides a hideous and ugly set of
truths from the people you want to protect and nurture. Your
job is to tell people what is beyond that wall.'
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Our
Health: Death
and dying from nuclear activities:
- 'In the study, the group estimated that by 2000
there would be a total of 430,000 cancer deaths worldwide -
some of which already would have occurred - from the various
radioactive elements in the fallout. The director of the
commission claimed that roughly half of the cancer deaths
expected by 2000 may come from testing at the Nevada Test
Site.' |
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Why
would The Public Ever Believe Me?
- 'It's a sad thing to see an
anti-nuclear community disintegrate before your eyes. With
Intermountain West groups having closed shop, having lost its
executive directors, having lost funding, having lost direction, can
we afford this defense-less posture?' |
Living
in a nuclear world - 'Hundreds
of millions of tons of fiss ion products were blasted into our atmosphere
during Cold War testing from the 1950s to the 1990s. Fallout from
thousands of nuclear tests - both aboveground and leaky underground
tests - reached all continents. It fell onto fields, lakes,
oceans, crops, houses, and all living things.' |
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Please
God Can My Son Survive Acute Myaloid Leukaemia?
- '"One fact emerges from the revelations
of deceit by
government officials about nuclear fallout: No law now protects the
American people against lying by their government....no penalties
now apply to lying on matters that can cause death or serious harm
to human beings. The
time has come to draw the line against coverups - especially where
the health and safety of the American people are concerned." |
Our
Nuclear Future - 'A
nuclear-free future will not come about through the dissemination of
facts or the ratification of treaties or the coordination of
movements. It will come about through a transformational
change in the way people think.' |
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 The
Iran-Divine Strake Connection - 'Divine
Strake, in the eyes of a few defense and other conspiracy
theorists, was a dry run to see what will happen when
radioactive dust is thrown into the atmosphere. This is
where you have to put on your 'I'm thinking sinister' hat
and go along for a bumpy ride...'
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More
about Divine Strake here or StopDivineStrake.com |
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Foiling
a "Lottery of Death"
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'Such an attack would employ either nuclear weapons, resulting in
global radiation fallout, or conventional bunker buster weaponry
that would unleash harmful, radioactive uranium dust from Iran’s
facilities that would likewise circle the globe and endanger the
lives of millions.' |
More
reading: (1)
Kuwait
prepares for radiation fallout ..yet
potassium iodine pills only 'protect' the body from
absoption of radioactive Iodine 131, which usually comprises
only about 2% of fallout. (2) Jordan's
radiation monitoring plan won't be finished until 2010 (3)
U.S.-made
radiation monitoring device somehow got exported to Iran in
90's
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DOE
saying it's protecting us is a hard pill to swallow -
'You would think that after spending tens of
millions of dollars on Environmental Impact Statements and
Supplement Analyses that the DOE would be proud of its work.
Yet so many documents relating to the Nevada Test Site (NTS)
are missing online.' |
More reading:
(1) Statement on the Transition to a More Electronic Federal Depository Library Program
(2) FDLP
Guidelines on Substituting Electronic for Tangible Versions
(3) Peace
activist 'uncovers' info policy at DOE/NNSA
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Unbelievable Quotes:
"To be blunt,
there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without either resorting
to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program."
- Defense Secretary Robert Gates, 10/28/08
"Although the Divine Strake experiment was cancelled by the project
proponent, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the analyses of soils that would
have been impacted and the resulting downwind radiological doses clearly
demonstrated that the soils at that location did not contain radiological
contamination that exceeded what would be expected in “uncontaminated”
sites in the southwestern United States." -
DOE's response to question on
its Complex Transformation plan (SPEIS) (volume 3), 2008
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Demanding
a brand-new Nevada Test Site Environmental Impact Statement:
The
'Draft Supplement Analysis for the Final
Environmental Impact Statement for the Nevada Test Site and Off-Site
Locations in the State of Nevada' tries to make the case that the
1996 Nevada Test Site (NTS)
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is fine and a new EIS isn't
needed.
Since
1996, so much has changed, from recently proposed enhances in subcritical testing, gutted
environmental monitoring in 1998, unchecked DTRA testing since 2002,
unstudied colloids effects, ongoing land withdrawal legal fights,
and deeply nebulous 'safety test' site clean-up schedules.
There's a ton of reasons why a new EIS needs to be completed. You
can find more on our action
page
For
journalists: when the Draft SA came out in April 2008, why weren't the cities of Boise and Salt Lake City
included on the public meeting tour? (Meetings in St. George, Las
Vegas and Pahrump were held the week of May 5th; more info here). Also,
the NNSA said that the final SA was 'expected to be completed' by
September 30, 2008,' so why are they so late???
If
you live anywhere near the Nevada Test Site: These
are Maximum Gamma Radiation graphs (in reverse alpha order for
now) Warm
Springs Twin
Springs Tonopa
Tecopa
Stone
Cabin St.
George Sarcobatus
Flats Rachel
Pioche
Pahrump
Overton
Nyala
Mesquite
Milford
Medlin's
Ranch Las
Vegas Indian
Springs Henderson
Goldfield
Ely
Duckwater
Delta
Garden
Valley Cedar
City Caliente
Boulder
City Beatty
Amargosa
Alamo
- some graphs might not work, [verify at cemp.dri.edu using
Advanced tab >> Time Series Graph >> Max Gamma]
More
about all this on our Milford Flat Fire page
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GRADUATE
THESIS TURNS UTAH FALLOUT KNOWLEDGE ON ITS HEAD
TITLE:
A study of residual Cesium 137 contamination in southwestern Utah
soil following the nuclear weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site in
the 1950's and 1960's
AUTHOR: R. Blair Bentley, Master of Science in Radiation Health
Physics candidate, Oregon State University
Noteworthy
findings:
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‘Cesium
still exists throughout all areas of Southwestern
Utah...no region was found to be without at least some
contamination’
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‘This
difference was dramatic enough to lead me to believe
that [Enterprise, Utah] received a substantially higher
level of contamination than the St George area. They
were possibly exposed to as much as two or three times
the amount of radioactivity received in other
areas...Iron County’s levels were as high, if not
higher than those in most of Washington County.’
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'...shows
that in the past, prior to nuclear decay and erosion,
some areas may have been contaminated with levels of
cesium higher than current EPA standards.‘
ABSTRACT:
The Nevada Test Site
(NTS) was the location for at least
100 above ground Nuclear Weapons tests during the 1950's and
early 1960's. Radioactive fallout from these tests spread to
many areas north and west of the NTS. According to estimates
from the NCI and DOE, Washington County, Utah was one of the
areas which received some of the highest levels of
radioactive contamination from Nuclear Fallout. Cesium 137,
a byproduct of Nuclear Fission was one of the nuclides
deposited during this fallout period. Cesium 137 has a half
life of 30 years and relatively high photon energy so it is
easily detected and theoretically would still be present in
the soil if it was originally deposited there. A study was
conducted using soil samples from the Washington County area
to determine if Cesium 137 still exists in the area in
detectable amounts. 102 soil samples were collected and
analyzed. Only one of the 102 soil samples did not have
detectable amounts of Cesium contained within it. Several of
the samples contained levels substantially higher than
earlier estimates would have predicted. This leads us to
conclude that doses to the public from the testing could
also have been higher than earlier thought. The area
immediately around the community of Enterprise Utah
contained the highest contamination readings of the
locations we researched. Iron County, Northeast of St
George, also had surprisingly high readings considering that
the studies we researched stated that Iron County's
contamination density was estimated to be lower than most of
the areas in Washington County.
Link to thesis in PDF form: Click here
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Book
Review 
'The
American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and
Recovery' (Oxford University Press, 2008) by Howard G. Wilshire, Jane E.
Nielson, Richard W. Hazlett
"'The
American West at Risk' never made it onto my bookshelf. It is still on
my desk, months after buying it, and I expect it will remain there for
some time as my frequently referenced, easy-to-understand guide to the
environmental problems facing the American West. What's truly valuable
about this book is that the information that the authors distilled into
it is so pertinent and relevant yet usually impossible to find in one
place with such clarity and detail. The average person usually has to
grapple with lengthy, convoluted and sometimes misleading environmental
assessments and impact statements regarding the extent of damage that
projects of the DoD, DoE and other federal agencies have caused or may
cause the land and health of peoples in the West. Wilshire, Nielson and
Hazlett have distilled the thousands of pages that the beginner or
amateur researcher - whether farmer, rancher, downwinder, transplant or
even politician - would normally have to page through to get a handle on
a controversial Western land-use issue. The authors, deeply
concerned about land abuse in the West, have taken the time and effort
to put together this themed-reference guide that no one else has
done.
They did a 5-star job at it." -
Andrew Kishner
Buy
the book at Amazon.com
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