Nuclear is not Clean or Green.
Nuclear Truth.
Lairs for Hire.
Ten year since the
Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown disaster, and One year since the
Deceleration of the Covid 19 Pandemic by WHO.
My Dad was in the
Air Force in the World War Two time. He was trained as a paratrooper.
He was one of the people that was to be part of the first wave of the
assault on Japan. Because of the Bombs that never happened. It never
happened because of the bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man. The first and
so far only Nuclear Bombs used in a War on our planet.
After the war he
was stationed in New Mexico, at Kirkland Air Force Base in
Albuquerque. That was where he met my mother. Later He worked at the
Sandia National Labs. His specialty was Electrical and Mechanical
Engineering.
The Government
would send him to other places sometimes. He worked at Los Alamos
once in a while. It was only about seventy five miles away if you go
through Santa Fe. Once in a while they would send him to Lawrence
Livermore in California, but not very often. I remember when we would
go to the airport, so that he could go to Area 51 or to the test
range at Tonapah (Shishone Reservation) where they tested nuclear
bombs in Nevada. That was in the days before the Government used to
Lie about the existence of Area 51. I guess they had no reason to
hide the truth back then, or it didn’t matter.
I know that he got
Nuked in his work, but not sure where. His regular work was at Area 5
in the Sandia Labs. There was one of those lead glass windows that
was like half of a foot thick and very yellow to stop the radiation
in the test reactor. It was straight back from the entrance to the
lab office. There were a couple of those mechanical arms with
controls to move stuff around inside the radioactive area. It had
Rows of those banks of magnetic tape type of memory machines, for the
computers off to the right. There were four rows of those tape
machines. There was a couple of those type of punch card machines
sitting back to back to put new information into the computers. They
were sitting between the reactor and the rows of tape memory
machines. Most people did not understand how bad the dangers of
nuclear contamination was back then.
We got to got to go
there on family days at the laboratories. It seemed super cool to me
back in the early Nineteen Sixties. There was a Rocket Sled out back
of the area five laboratory. They would use it to test newly designed
parts to see how they worked, or to see if it would stand enough
G-Force. It was set on a thing like a train track and had a big long
trough full of water out at the end to slow it down. There was a
giant pile of sand out past the end, I guess to stop it if it didn’t
slow down enough in the water trough.
I didn’t know at
that time that my dad had been nuked. A friend of my dad that worked
with him, in the laboratories had a son that was born with some
serious deformities about that time. He was a pretty cool kid. They
lived just down the street from us. I remember playing with him. He
just walked real funny and his limbs were real short and not shaped
right. It really scared my dad. My little sister had been born not
long before that time. I used to bug my parents, and my mom. I would
tell her that I wanted a little brother. I would tell my mom that its
not fair that my big sister got a little sister. I didn’t
understand why my dad didn’t want to have any more kids. So as a
result, I never got to have a little brother.
I had a Physics
Professor at UNM, named Charles Hyder, who was one of the members of
Physicists against nuclear, and for social responsibility. I did not
realize at that time that he was so opposed to Nuclear. He eventually
did what was the longest protest and Fast on the Steps of the Capital
Building in Washington DC.
The International
Physicians for the Prevention
of Nuclear War, in the middle of dealing with the Covid 19
Disasters have renewed their call for the end to Nuclear Weapons in
any form. They consider Nuclear Weapons, and the possibility of the
use of these weapons to be incredibly worse than this current
disaster from this pandemic.
Most people do not
know that the worst Nuclear disaster in the US was not Three Mile
Island.
I was living in New
Mexico at the time of the Tailings
spill from
the United
Nuclear Corporation Church Rock uranium Mill Processing Plant.
This poisoned the Rio Puerco River for over eighty miles. Polluted
the water tables in the area, and contaminated the lands and the
Navajo Nation all the way past the Arizona border. This was not far
from where our current Secretary of the Interior is from, at Laguna
Pueblo. They were not prepared for this kind of accident. The spill
eventually contaminated the Navajo lands and other areas south and
east of there and much farther.
There was some
Government housing constructed in one of the smaller Laguna pueblos
called Puyte in the Laguna area. The construction people did not
realize how contaminated the area was. The amounts of radon were
found to be so high latter after they were already built that the
Government had them torn down.
There are many
other places in New Mexico that are very contaminated. The whole area
around the JackPile mine near Grants. Some of the older uranium digs
that were from the World War Two time outside of Grants New Mexico.
The area of Shiprock in the Four Corners. The messes from accidents
or just normal operations at Los Alamos. The areas near Sandia Labs.
Many places where mining was done to be removed to processing areas.
Areas that were not productive enough to continue mining, but never
cleaned up or never cleaned up properly. That is, if it is actually
possibly to clean up uranium or other kind of radioactive material
properly.
Fukushima. The
Storage Facilities at the Fukushima reactors
have run out of space
for
storage of nuclear contaminated water
and Tepco
is now
getting ready to dump
over flow contaminated
Water from cooling the Reactors into the Pacific Ocean.