First of all I wanted to thank Jeanne Mayell for extending the invitation for her prediction class to me. I would have loved to attend but unfortunately the timing didn’t work plus my computer was broken.
I really had the urge to encourage you seers to look into the future of nuclear power, or more precisely, the threats of the nuclear industry to land and people. We all know nuclear power isn’t safe, nor clean and comes with huge risks, as seen with Chernobyl and Fukushima. Fukushima is still an ongoing disaster to the planet. Given that nuclear power plants in the USA have either been built on fault lines, coastal areas and are often connected with ground water resources, I see huge risks in the future for this. Coincidentally (or maybe I have psychic talent after all) this happened the next day I got very worried about it:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-nuclear-site-s-collapsed-tunnel-may-have-gone-n758191
This dilapidated and outdated industry will never come clean about the real state that it is in. Fairewinds, an independent organization of nuclear scientist, have kept an eye on this industry and their cover-ups very well. I highly recommend following them. Here is one of their great articles.
http://www.fairewinds.org/demystify//magical-thinking
One quote of the text:
“Not surprisingly, nuclear reactors are simply incapable of withstanding the worst disaster imaginable. The proclamations made by nuclear power and nuclear weapon fixated governments have been designed to reduce costs to reactor owners, which are either corporations or governments, and then passing on the radioactive remains to local communities to sort out and protect for the next 25-mellenniums – until all the radioactivity decays away.”
With rising sea levels, worsening climate change disasters, increased global terrorism, and earthquakes overdue in Oregon and California, in no way we will escape whole large areas becoming no-go zones in Americas future. There are also many many nuclear plants around the freshwater lakes, that you seers say, will be the place to go once climate migration begins. Here is a good map of nuclear power plants and their risks (and damages already done):
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/us-nuclear-power-plants-database#.WRdgXMm1tE5
You guys might even have covered it in your prediction sessions. If not, this is an important topic to keep in mind for the future.
XOXO
Thank you for bringing up this important and thought provoking topic, Tee.
I live in Oregon not that far from the Hanford Reactor and I'm pretty sure we're on the Cascadia Fault, as well.
My best friend from college..we graduated in the early 70s..to put that in perspective (!) lived a few miles from the reactor.
They were all so proud of it being built and all of the jobs it brought in from construction on..but looking at it for the first time I felt a strange awe tempered by larger fear. My awe has shut down long before Hanford did ..but the fears....not easy to think about!
With another warning event at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Washington this past week..the second in two weeks time, it is becoming a pretty serious predictive threat that nuclear fission may be something that our scientists can create but it is not something they know how to contain, or even effectively treat when things go wrong from simple to enormous.
Originally, it was a tunnel collapse, now a worker was removing a robotic device out of the space between double walls when monitors detected more th 3 times the expected level. Furthermore, radioactive contamination was found on the workers protective clothing,. Hanford was used for decades to make plutonium for nuclear weapons and millions of gallons of the most dangerous wastes produced by that work are still stored in 177 underground tanks there. Many are decades old and have since leaked.
This risks for workers and townspeople is all too real but even more so is the bigger permanent solution of what to do with all of this nuclear waste. It is currently estimated that cleanup will last until 2060 and cost an additional 100 billion dollars on top of what has already been spent.
And these figures are most certainly not taking in any of the predictions made by Jeanne, her world wide group or any of us working here online to keep abreast of ongoing or future threats to us, our families, our country and our world.
This is a prediction just waiting to happen especially with climate change and rising sea waters.
So I did a scan of central Washington State (!) but what I came up with is actually quite logic:
Natural disasters, disaster leadership and climate change aside, nuclear power is going to be a major future problem, too. Another tentacle of the Manhattan project poses a huge threat to the North West.
Here is an article on Hanford (btw this watchdog’s service is priceless and atrociously underrated and will be highly valued in the future… when it is too late. I highly recommend supporting them and getting their word out now). Check this out:
http://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energy-education//a-predictable-nuclear-accident-at-hanford
“The Hanford complex, which dates back to 1943, produced the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Half the size of Rhode Island, it is often described as the most contaminated place in the United States. Until its last reactor closed in 1987, it churned out plutonium for the roughly 70,000 nuclear weapons the United States built during the Cold War. As the historian Kate Brown documents in her book Plutopia, which explores the uncanny similarities between Hanford and its Soviet counterpart Ozersk, Hanford has been a slow-motion environmental disaster since its opening, constantly excreting radioactive contaminants into the air and water. More dangerous than the tunnels are the giant tanks of liquid nuclear waste: 177 of them containing 56 million gallons of radioactive soup whose composition is only approximately known. The contents of some have to be stirred periodically to prevent the formation of hydrogen bubbles that would cause the tanks to explode. One million gallons of this witches’ brew have already leaked into the groundwater from tanks that were built to last only 20 years. The US government projects that it will cost more than $107 billion to clean up the site, with remediation finished by 2060. Few knowledgeable people put much credence in either number.”
…Yikes… something is going to happen, an earthquake or explosion that will brig this issue to the forefront, when it is too late unfortunately. I believe this could lead to one of the greatest nuclear disasters in Northern America, carried out on the back of Yakama Natives, whose territory has been terribly contaminated:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud
Also if the Columbian river gets polluted, both Washington and Oregon are going to be in deep trouble. The flipside of all this, central Washington could become eerily peaceful:
https://www.courthousenews.com/surrounding-nuclear-site-natural-treasure-fire/
“The most toxic site in the Western Hemisphere is also responsible for the surrounding area’s incredible biodiversity. And as the years since the meltdown at Chernobyl have demonstrated, plants, insects and birds can tolerate radioactivity much better than humans can.”
I wonder how our future society will navigate the huge displacements of climate and nuclear refugees … Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind comes to mind (highly recommend all his movies). For those who don’t know the story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(film )
“One thousand years have passed since the Seven Days of Fire, an apocalyptic war that destroyed civilization and created the vast Toxic Jungle, a poisonous forest swarming with giant mutant insects. In the kingdom of the Valley of the Wind, a prophecy predicts a saviour "clothed in blue robes, descending onto a golden field, to join bonds with the great Earth and guide the people to the pure lands at last". Nausicaä, the princess of the Valley of the Wind, explores the jungle and communicates with its creatures, including the gigantic, trilobite-like armored Ohm. She hopes to understand the jungle and find a way for it and humans to co-exist.”
My beloved nuclear philistines ;-)
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Anyone wanna weigh in on our nuclear future???
mycellium and algae seem to be responding to seemingly impossible man made disasters.. working with nature the possibilities are infinite!
https://emagazine.com/growing-solutions-to-radioactive-waste/