Posts Tagged ‘plutonium’

Galen Winsor – What Stopped Plutonium Economy?

Galen Winsor describes his hands-on experience with used nuclear fuel and radioactive materials. He explains how the rules associated with his profession changed during the period from 1947-1982. He also questions why those rules changed and who benefited from the changes. [embedded content] Share now! Source

Idaho State University Lost Enough Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Make a Dirty Bomb

On Friday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that Idaho State University may face an $8,500 fine after losing one gram of weapons-grade plutonium. Although this quarter-sized amount of plutonium is nowhere near enough to make a nuclear weapon, it is enough to make a dirty bomb that spreads radiation, according to the Associated Press. The missing plutonium […]

Plutonium Dust Released from Closed Hanford Nuclear Weapons Site

Plutonium Dust Released from Closed Hanford Nuclear Weapons Site April 16th, 2018 Via: Los Angeles Times: As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a desert […]

Radioactive isotopes of plutonium escaped demolition zone of bomb-making plant; workers test positive for exposure

(Natural News) News coverage regarding a recent Hanford incident wherein an extremely dangerous demolition job took place has been plentiful, but no workers that were on-site when it happened have come out to share any of their stories to the press. Until now, that is. For the first time, a Hanford worker […]

Breaking: Tunnel Collapses At Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant

A tunnel has collapsed at a plutonium uranium extraction (PUREX) plant in Hanford, southeastern Washington state. A portion of the tunnel containing rail cars full of highly contaminated nuclear material collapsed Tuesday morning at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, forcing an emergency declaration. The U.S. nuclear facility was part of the Manhattan Project responsible for creating the […]

SOTT Exclusive: Reality check – The biggest victims of terror are Muslims

     As has become common in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, shortly after the bomb attacks in Brussels, people have been blaming… oh, pretty much the entire Muslim population. How a total population of 1.7 billion people who are either adherents of, or loosely connected to, the world’s second-biggest religion could be responsible for these […]

The Original Sin – A Myth Whose Time is Up

Julian Rose, ContributorWaking Times Of all the deceptions pulled on humanity over the ages, The Original Sin is probably the most devastating. Yet hugely successful from the perspective of the perpetrators. Almost everywhere the doctrine of Christianity forged its zealous mission to convert the masses, so the Original Sin accompanied it. […]

Turkey warplanes hit Kurdish PKK camps in northern Iraq

A total of 11 fighter jets were involved in the bombardment of the PKK positions. Eighteen targets were hit, including ammunition depots and shelters, the Turkish military said in a statement, as cited by Reuters. Turkey believes the PKK is a terrorist organization and Ankara has blamed the Kurdish separatist group for a number of […]

Sean Penn: My interview with world’s most wanted – Drug trafficker ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán

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 to be changed, locations not named, and an understanding was brokered with the subject that this piece would be submitted for the subject’s approval before publication. The subject did not ask for any changes. “The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.” — […]

Hormone Disrupting Chemical Banned in EU Found in 50 Top US Snacks

While the US Food and Drug Administration declares this synthetic food additive is “generally recognized as safe, or GRAS,” the European Union’s food regulators outlawed it ever since scientists found it lowered sperm counts in rats. If lowered sperm count and reduced fertility through hormonal disruption isn’t exactly what you signed up for every […]

U.S. Can’t Track Tons of Weapons-Grade Uranium, Plutonium

Noah ShachtmanWired Sept 18, 2011 President Obama has repeatedly said his top counterterrorism goal is to prevent terrorists from acquiring the building blocks to make nuclear or “dirty” bombs. In April of 2009, Obama announced a new international effort to “secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years.” Since then, the Department […]

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