Author: Simon

I keep GMT so it is already 14 April for me. == Arnie Gundersen: The Myths Of Three Mile Island (video). Dr. Steve Wing on the health effects of Three Mile Island (video). A reevaluation of cancer incidence near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant: the collision of evidence and assumptions. This is an NIH…

Dan Mitchell says the Obama plan for automatic tax increases when Congress overspends is a bad idea. At that rate the government will own us all before long. He has a counter proposal. There are more in the comments. I have one myself. There is a better way: decimation. If Congress and the President over…

Here are some links to keep you up to speed on the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Interview With A Site Cleanup Worker – He talks about a worker only being able to turn three bolts before exceeding the allowable radiation dose. – Note you may have to use a browser other than Firefox to watch…

The Nuclear Plant at Fukushima has just reached the inner circle of hell. Level 7. (well it is Japanese and I don’t read that so good – like not at all) But you can go to Zero Hedge for a general outline. Here is what they have to say. What started as less serious than…

Note to my readers: I like to post here at Classical Values only the most reliable reports and speculations. Well as reliable as possible given that it is breaking news. I do use My Naval Nuke Reactor Operator training to filter as much as I can. I also use as a filter the Emperor’s evaluation…

Food prices are going through the roof for basic commodities. This is causing instability in many places around the world. Spengler says there may be no solution. From the Straits of Gibraltar to the Hindu Kush, instability will afflict the Muslim world for a generation, and there is nothing that the West can do to…

There is a lot of back and forth going on about nuclear power. The advocates say it is plenty safe and there are others who say radiation scares me and I don’t think nukes are safe at all. Let us think about it in terms of “fear of flying”. By objective criteria (compared to automobiles)…

You can see the whole video the excerpt was taken from at my Gorbachev – Chernobyl Did It post. This article explains why “biorobots” were necessary. Describing the horrific event and its immediate aftermath, Russia’s Pravda (April 26) said: “The nuclear reactor was burning for ten days. The people who were trying to extinguish the…

China likes Thorium based nuclear reactors. So they are doing research. If the reactor works as planned, China may fulfill a long-delayed dream of clean nuclear energy. The United States could conceivably become dependent on China for next-generation nuclear technology. At the least, the United States could fall dramatically behind in developing green energy. “President…

A source for the plastic detector: Rexon Components. Another Source: Bicron Plastics. A pdf of some of their products. GammaWatch makes a very neat watch/radiation detector for $250. Unfortunately they are currently out of stock. This is kind of cool but it is not very sensitive. It will warn you of very serious hazards: NukAlert…

Althouse says quoting from AP: Winnebago County’s numbers say Prosser received 20,701 votes to Kloppenburg’s 18,887. The AP has 19,991 for Prosser to Kloppenburg’s 18,421. I live in Winnebago County and no one I know here voted for Prosser. Or Kloppenburg. In fact I can state categorically that neither was on the ballot. Fraud? Well…

Some people reading my recent posts on nuclear power think that I oppose nuclear power. Nothing could be further from the truth. What I’m against is pretending that there are few or no problems with nuclear power as it currently exists. Let me start with the Chernobyl accident. It was not a tragedy for people…

Commenter Frank at my post Lies Of Chernobyl had this to say in response to this comment fragment of mine. I said: M. Simon: Also the 10 REM dose limit supposes that most people are not too far from average when it comes to the effects of radiation. But people are genetically different. To which…

Deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet Alla Yaroshinskaya featured at 1 hour 17 minutes into the video posted here has an Internet post on some of the things she found out when she got her hands on a secret report of the Chernobyl accident. Let me start with the editor’s description of her post: In…

Mikhail Gorbachev says Chernobyl did in the USSR. The price of the Chernobyl catastrophe was overwhelming, not only in human terms, but also economically. Even today, the legacy of Chernobyl affects the economies of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Some even suggest that the economic price for the USSR was so high that it stopped the…

For a rough calculation I like 250 gallons water per ton. So 50 tons of water is roughly 12,500 gallons. Let us make it easy and say 10,000 gallons a day. If the cooling water is applied for 100 days that is 1 million gallons. If it goes on for 1,000 days (roughly 3 years)…

From the ex-SKF blog comes this bit: I posted this on my Japanese blog for the Japanese readers. I’m putting out the summary for the English readers here, too. A nuclear researcher at Kyoto University (which is considered one of the two most prestigious national universities, the other one being Tokyo University) has reversed his…

Every now and then I get one wrong. When I do I like to correct my errors. Thanks to Charlie Martin who made me look up some different opinions. ==== In my recent post Blue Light Special I said that the blue lights seen at the reactor accidents in Japan were evidence of a criticality…

In my post Crack Of Doom I said: Just to add to the rumor factory. I have seen mentioned that the radiation monitors can read a maximum of 1,000 millisieverts per hour. Which is a very high level for human habitation. If that is the case we do not in fact have a maximum number…

Evidently the fish in the ocean are not paying attention to the 20 km exclusion zone around Fukushima. They should because there is a small radiation problem. Radioactive iodine-131 readings taken from seawater near the water intake of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant’s No. 2 reactor reached 7.5 million times the legal limit, Tokyo…