You may be aware of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in Japan, it is bad bro.
3 reactors melted down after the Tsumani about 5 years ago. They are polluting, and killing, the Pacific Ocean.
The Japanese authorities do not know where the nuclear fuel is. All that they know is that it is somewhere underneath the reactors.
And that the groundwater from the nearby hills is flowing through the site and into the Pacific Ocean every day.
The radiation is so intense that a human exposed to it for 1 minute would die.
Electronic robots last a few minutes before their control systems seize up.
The problem requires an immediate technological leap forward which has not yet been forthcoming. 5 years on and no solution is in sight.
It is a human catastrophe of incalculable proportions. But the controlled main media ignores the story. Mustn't scare the sheeple.......... Scared sheeple stop spending. Can't be having that can we.........
All this is bad enough but there is an even worse threat on the horizon: Ukraine.
If you only read/watch the controlled main media then you might have the impression that those pesky Russians fucked up Ukraine. You would be totally wrong. It was the fascists in the US and EU that fucked up Ukraine. The Rooskies were in fact bemused onlookers. The Maiden coup was US funded and US run. Old George Soros, the Wests favourite oligarch, was in the thick of it as usual. The EU was complicit. And Ukraine is now a failed state as a result.
This is all easily proven if you know where to look. Don't believe me? You've swallowed all the main media bullshit? Well more fool you. I'm not going to point out the detailed sources in this post. I've got bigger fish to fry; the real nuclear threat
Here is a copy of a recent article from a Russian emigre, Dimitri Orlov. Read him carefully, his info is rock solid. My comments at the end:
"On January 26, 2017 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved up its Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to metaphorical midnight, and it now stands at just 2.5 minutes to midnight. Why did the Board decide to make this change? Essentially, “because Donald Trump.” In other news, the Board also observed that although the Paris climate accord is a good thing, the climate is pretty close to midnight as well.
These are very serious people: well-educated,
professional, some Nobel Prize winners—in a word, experts. We should trust
their word. But then they trust Donald Trump’s word. What gives? Apparently,
none of them are experts on Donald Trump. I don’t pretend to be one either, so
for the paragraph that follows let me turn it over to my old friend and
resident expert on all things Trump, Captain Obvious.
“If you look at Trump’s business dealings, he has
been consistently cautious and risk-averse. If you look at his political
maneuverings, and glance briefly at his book, https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399594493 The Art of the
Deal, you discover that his negotiating technique always involves making an
extreme first offer, then seeking compromise. And if you look at his Twitter
feed, you discover that he loves to troll people. Have these respected Atomic
Scientists been trolled? It would certainly appear that way…”
And so I remain entirely unimpressed by the
untestable hypothesis espoused by the atomic experts that Trump’s mouth is capable
of moving the minute hand of the doomsday clock. But I am even less impressed
by something else: the complete and utter failure of these nuclear sages to
understand what the actual nuclear threat is, which is, at this moment,
becoming quite extreme. For this they may perhaps be forgiven; if all they do
is read and listen to Western media sources, then they would never find out
anything about it. Western intelligence sources are no better, seeing as they
appear to have been “hacked by the Russians.”
In fact, it would appear that the only way to get
an inkling of what’s really going on… and that is to pay attention to the
Russians themselves. Here are some links:
Yes, it’s all in Russian, and no, GoogleTranslate
is not your friend, there being no substitute for at least six semesters of
Russian.
But here—http://www.unz.com/tsaker/the-donbass-is-breaking-away-from-an-agonizing-ukraine/— you can find a
good English-language update to the overall situation in the Ukraine.
Unfortunately, it ignores the nuclear risk dimension. The Saker is good, but
there is a big piece of the picture that is missing, so please read his article
first, and then I will fill in the rather important details.
First, some background. The Ukraine inherited a
very impressive energy sector from the USSR, which includes 15 nuclear
reactors, huge hydroelectric installations and lots of thermal generating
capacity that uses natural gas and coal. With the exception of three nuclear
reactors that have been refueled by Westinghouse (with mixed results; their
fuel rods tend to warp and jam, disabling the reactor) all of the Ukraine’s
nuclear fuel comes from a single supplier in Russia. All of the Ukraine’s natural
gas comes from Russia as well, but since Ukrainian politicians don’t want to
work with Russia for nationalistic reasons, Russian gas now comes to the
Ukraine from the West, and at a higher cost. Also, there isn’t enough of it.
The Ukraine’s coal-fired thermal generation facilities were designed to burn
Ukrainian coal—specifically, anthracite—which specifically comes from the
Donbass region, which is now under separatist control.
A bit more background, and then we can move on to
what the actual risk is. Electricity demand fluctuates hour to hour and day to
day. Peak electricity demand is in the morning and in the evening, with higher
demand during weekdays than at night or on weekends. Nuclear, hydroelectric,
coal-fired and gas-fired generation facilities all differ in how well they can
compensate for changes in electricity demand by ramping up and down.
Hydroelectric is by far the most flexible, because sluice gates can be opened
and closed in minutes, cutting turbines in and out of production. Gas is quite
flexible as well, followed by coal. Nuclear is the least flexible, because
nuclear fuel produces heat by breaking down along a decay chain that consists
of many radioactive isotopes that decay at different rates—some fast, some
slow—giving the entire system tremendous inertia. Unless a nuclear reactor is
ramped up and down quite slowly, the energy output will not be directly
proportional to the control input. If the operator is careless, it is possible
to cause a meltdown, as happened in the Ukraine at Chernobyl in April of 1986.
Since the overthrow of the Ukrainian government in
the spring of 2014, the Ukrainian economy, which hasn’t been doing well ever
since the USSR fell apart, has gone into a nosedive, with double-digit annual
GDP declines, turning it into a country of refugees and paupers. Until then,
the Ukraine had some very impressive industrial capacity, which it inherited
from the USSR, and which was wedded to Russian industry through a multitude of
business relationships. When in 2014 Ukrainian nationalists seized power, they
started working hard to cut these ties, and much of the industry shut down. It
was this industry, working in shifts round the clock, that provided the base
load of electric demand that the nuclear power plants provided for so nicely.
With the dramatic decrease in industrial activity,
base load has been much reduced. With natural gas imports restricted due to the
inability of the Ukrainians either to negotiate a discount with the Russians or
to pay the full price for the gas they need, their ability to maneuver using
gas-fired power plants has been much reduced. And with the civil war in Eastern
Ukraine, the supplies of coal have been reduced too.
And now came the coup de grâce. A small group of
armed Ukrainian nationalists decide to blockade the Donbass, to make a
political point. Although it should have been trivial for the Ukrainian army to
remove this unauthorized group, so profound is the state of political decay
there that nothing was done or even said about them. In response, the
separatist authorities in the Donbass have announced a counter-blockade, and
will no longer export coal to the Ukraine. They will export it to Russia
instead.
Keep in mind, what the Ukrainian coal-fired plants
need is not just any coal but anthracite, and the only place where they could
possibly get it from is the Donbass. First, there just aren’t that many sources
of anthracite left in the world. But even if the Ukraine could find a way to
burn the lower grades—lignite and bituminous coal—it doesn’t have the ports to
receive the imports. Remember, all of Ukrainian industrial capacity is part of
the Soviet legacy, and Soviet central planners didn’t plan on any coal imports.
The result is that nuclear power is now responsible
for 60% of the Ukraine’s electricity generation, while coal and gas-fired
generation has plummeted by 39%. What this implies is that the nuclear reactors
are being cycled up and down on a daily basis—a prescription for disaster. This
is being accompanied by skyrocketing electricity rates and widespread power
outages—not a situation that is conducive to social stability in a country that
is already a failed state, overrun by roving gangs of heavily armed thugs. The
rabidly nationalistic among them—such as those who blockaded the Donbass—may
very well decide to blockade deliveries of Russian nuclear fuel, and then what?
Even before that happens, the relentless ramping up
and down of the Ukraine’s remaining 15 nuclear reactors will sooner or later
lead to breakdowns and quite possibly to meltdowns. How is a failed state rife
with separatist sentiment (not just in the Donbass, but also in Mariupol,
Odessa, Kharkov and other regions) supposed to cope with nuclear calamities in
the midst of widespread power outages? Some voices in Russia are proclaiming
that to avert multiple nuclear catastrophes in the heart of Europe it is
essential to take the Ukraine’s nuclear installations under international
control. The only ones who can actually make it happen are Russian special
forces (such as the ones who just rubbed out ISIS in Palmyra). Faced with the
prospect of 14 Chernobyls on its doorstep, the European Union is unlikely to
object. Of course, this will bring to an end the Ukraine’s latest, and so far
the longest, experiment with independence, and will spell the end of the
Ukraine as a supposedly sovereign national entity.
And so this, I feel, is the greatest nuclear threat
currently facing humanity. Unlike the bedandruffed professorial types who
hyperventilated over Trump’s tweets and determined that it is now precisely 3.5
minutes to midnight, I am not going to set any timelines. Nor do I recommend
standing idly by and watching what’s left of the Ukraine degenerate into a
Somalia or a Libya with 15 Fukushimas."
Stunning stuff I am sure that you will agree. The US & EU fascists have turned Ukraine into a failed state. And the whole of humanity is threatened as a result.
But hey, never mind all that. Keep watching your TV. Keep staring at your smartphone. Keep looking at your social media. Keep your head up your ass [where the powers that be want it].
Keep being utterly distracted by mindless shite in other words. Don't worry your pretty little heads about this sort of stuff. Above all keep CONSUMING....
Finally, what about Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton, Barak Obummer, Teresa MayorMaynot, Jeremy Corbyn, Hollande, Merkel etc etc? Will any of the "democratic" puppets address this?
What do you think?
Dimitri's article is here:
http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/the-real-nuclear-threat.html
I cheated tbh. His articles are only accessible via Patreon. Minimum $1 per month which I pay. So I copied and pasted. Hopefully he will forgive me.
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