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Radiological and Nuclear Disaster Preparedness

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:08:31 +0000

Are we, as a nation, prepared for a radiological or nuclear attack? With concern over continued terrorist threats at home and abroad, “dirty bombs”, and the nuclear armament of rogue states, this question is just as relevant today as it was on September 11. This special session of Public Health Grand Rounds not only addresses these challenges, but reviews current efforts to improve the public health community’s ability to prepare for and respond to these threats.

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This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds/archives/2010/03-March.htm

Duration : 1:12:4

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Soviet Civilian GP-5 Gas Mask

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:27:29 +0000

A very common Russian gas mask.

Duration : 0:0:54

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UK confirms using WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION in Iraq

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:52:24 +0000

Depleted Uranium is a WMD by Leuren Moret My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff:

Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal Code Title 50 Chapter 40 Section 2302.

DU weaponry violates all international treaties and agreements, Hague and Geneva war conventions, the 1925 Geneva gas protocol, U.S. laws and U.S. military law.

Since 1991, the U.S. has released the radioactive atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere. That is 10 times the amount released during atmospheric testing which was the equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs. The U.S. has permanently contaminated the global atmosphere with radioactive pollution having a half-life of 2.5 billion years.

The U.S. has illegally conducted four nuclear wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and twice in Iraq since 1991, calling DU “conventional” weapons when in fact they are nuclear weapons.
DU on the battlefield has three effects on living systems: it is a heavy metal “chemical” poison, a “radioactive” poison and has a “particulate” effect due to the very tiny size of the particles that are 0.1 microns and smaller.
The blueprint for DU weaponry is a 1943 Manhattan Project memo to Gen. L. Groves that recommended development of radioactive materials as poison gas weapons – dirty bombs, dirty missiles and dirty bullets.

DU weapons are very effective kinetic energy penetrators, but even more effective bioweapons since uranium has a strong chemical affinity for phosphate structures concentrated in DNA.

DU is the Trojan Horse of nuclear war – it keeps giving and keeps killing. There is no way to clean it up, and no way to turn it off because it continues to decay into other radioactive isotopes in over 20 steps.

Terry Jemison at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs stated in August 2004 that over 518,000 Gulf-era veterans (14-year period) are now on medical disability, and that 7,039 were wounded on the battlefield in that same period. Over 500,000 U.S. veterans are homeless.

In some studies of soldiers who had normal babies before the war, 67 percent of the post-war babies are born with severe birth defects – missing brains, eyes, organs, legs and arms, and blood diseases.

In southern Iraq, scientists are reporting five times higher levels of gamma radiation in the air, which increases the radioactive body burden daily of inhabitants. In fact, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan are uninhabitable.

Cancer starts with one alpha particle under the right conditions. One gram of DU is the size of a period in this sentence and releases 12,000 alpha particles per second.

Thankyou to encryptedreality0 and PressTV

Duration : 0:1:1

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Dispersing radiation for Nuwax-81 exercise

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:01:46 +0000

This is clipped from the 1982 Defense Department film, NUWAX-81 Documentary Nuclear Weapon Accident Exercise. This clip shows the spraying of short-lived radioisotopes via an agricultural sprayer to a localized area to simulate contamination by weapons-grade plutonium.
The Nuclear Weapons Accident Exercise (NUWAX-81) was conducted in April 1981 jointly by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) at the DOE’s Nevada test site and included FEMA and the State of California. The six day exercise scenario involved a simulated crash of an U.S. Army helicopter transporting nuclear weapons to a storage site. Aircraft parts and pieces of inert nuclear training weapons were prepositioned at the site. Short-lived radioisotopes, radium-223 and mercury-197, were distributed via an agricultural sprayer to a localized area to simulate contamination by weapons-grade plutonium. More than 600 accident response personnel participated in the exercise. The major objectives were to exercise and evaluate the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s interface with DOD, the command and control of the joint DOD-DOE response forces, and the coordination of their technical and logistical support. The exercise aroused greater awareness within federal and state governments of the need to plan and coordinate response procedures and to practice these procedures and was followed up by additional exercises. The entire film, NUWAX-81 Documentary Nuclear Weapon Accident Exercise, has been digitized by the nonprofit Public.Resource.Org (http://public.resource.org/index.html ) in a cooperative agreement with the National Technical Information Service (http://public.resource.org/ntis.gov/index.html ) and is available at the Internet Archive at www.archive.com .

Duration : 0:0:54

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Low-Level Radiation: Is It Good for You? [Gary Sandquist]

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:01:33 +0000

Lecture by Gary Sandquist, Ph.D. given to the 14th Annual Meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness held in Salt Lake Cty, Utah; August 1996. http://www.ddponline.org

Dr. Gary M. Sandquist is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and former Director of the Graduate Nuclear Engineering Program at the University of Utah. Previously he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Physics and Civil and Mechanical Engineering Departments at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he supported and trained Army personnel in Functional Area 52 activities (Nuclear operations). He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. in Engineering Science, Ph.D. in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, MBA, was a Post Doctoral Fellow at MIT, and served a Sabbatical at ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Utah and New York (Mechanical) and California (Nuclear), a Board Certified Health Physicist, a Diplomate in Environmental Engineering, a Certified Quality Auditor, and a retired U.S. Naval Reserve Commander with an Intelligence Designator. The Reactor Supervisor and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Licensed Senior Reactor Operator for a TRIGA research reactor, he served as a short mission expert in nuclear science and safeguards for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and as Technical Training Director for the joint DOE, EPA, DRI Community Radiation Monitoring Program at the Nevada Test Site. Dr. Sandquist’s principal scientific interests include risk assessment; radiation transport, analytical detection and measurement; assessment and decontamination of chemical and radioactive hazards; design and execution of characterization and final status surveys using Multi-Agency Site Survey and Investigation Manual (MARSSIM); and design and operation of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) and American Nuclear Society (QUANS). He has authored or co-authored 500 publications including 5 books and book chapters, 180 refereed papers, 325 technical reports, developed 17 major technical computer codes and participated in over 200 technical meetings, conferences, workshops and government hearings. (Source: www.yosemite.epa.gov)

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Duration : 1:0:45

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The Chernobyl Disaster

admin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:07:48 +0000

A flick I made for school.

Music by Kyle Gabler (World of Goo Soundtrack).
Footage from: Unapietra, GreenpeaceVideo, caiodepaula, Spamicles, mrfatslob, Zipox, RussiaToday, D2T8L.

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union). It is the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and is the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
On April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, near the town of Pripyat in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, had a meltdown. The resulting fire sent a plume of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area, including Pripyat. The plume drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Northern Europe. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia had to be evacuated, with over 336,000 people resettled. According to official post-Soviet data, about 60% of the fallout landed in Belarus.
The accident raised concerns about the safety of the Soviet nuclear power industry as well as nuclear power in general, slowing its expansion for a number of years while forcing the Soviet government to become less secretive. The countries of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus have been burdened with the continuing and substantial decontamination and health care costs of the Chernobyl accident. A 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl Forum, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Health Organization (WHO), attributed “fewer than 50″ direct deaths (including nine children with thyroid cancer) and estimated that there may be up to 4,000 additional cancer deaths over time among the approximately 600,000 most highly exposed people.Although the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and certain limited areas remain off limits, the majority of affected areas are now considered safe for settlement and economic activity.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster )

Duration : 0:6:27

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Decontamination of Ships after an Atomic Test Bikini Atoll 1946

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:11:34 +0000

This clip shows efforts after the BAKER test to decontaminate navy ships. Operation Crossroads was an atmospheric nuclear weapon test series conducted in the summer of 1946. The series consisted of two detonations, each with a yield of 23 kilotons: ABLE detonated at an altitude of 520 feet (158 meters) on 1 July and BAKER detonated 90 feet (27 meters) underwater on 25 July. This clip is from after the BAKER test. The detonation of BAKER caused most of the target fleet to be bathed in radioactive water spray and radioactive debris from the lagoon bottom. . The test produced a radioactive mist that deposited active products on the target fleet in amounts far greater than had been predicted. As the Joint Chiefs of Staff evaluation board later noted, the contaminated ships “became radioactive stoves, and would have burned all living things aboard them with invisible and painless but deadly radiation.” With the exception of 12 target vessels anchored in the array and the landing craft beached on Bikini Island, the target fleet remained too radiologically contaminated for several weeks for more than brief on-board activities. The inability to complete inspections on much of the target fleet threatened the success of the operation after BAKER . A program of target vessel decontamination was begun in earnest about 1 August. This involved washing the ships’ exteriors using work crews drawn from the target ships’ companies under radiological supervision of monitors equipped with radiation detection and measurement devices. Initially, decontamination was slow as the safe time aboard the target ships was measured only in minutes. As time progressed, the support fleet itself had become contaminated by the low-level radioactivity in marine growth on the ships’ hulls and seawater piping systems. By 10 August, a decision was made to stop work in Bikini and tow the surviving target fleet to Kwajalein Atoll where the work could be done in uncontaminated water. The move was accomplished during the remainder of August and September. A major task at Kwajalein was to offload ammunition stored aboard the target ships. this work continued into the fall of 1946. Personnel continued to work on target ships at Kwajalein into 1947. Eight of the major ships and two submarines were towed back to the United States and Hawaii for radiological inspection. Twelve target ships were so lightly contaminated that they were remanned and sailed back to the United States by their crews. The remaining target ships were destroyed by sinking off Bikini Atoll, off Kwajalein Atoll, or near the Hawaiian Islands during 1946-1948. The support ships were decontaminated as necessary and received a radiological clearance before they could return to the fleet. This decontamination and clearance process required a great deal of experimentation and learning at Navy shipyards in the United States, primarily at San Francisco. All CROSSROADS operations were undertaken under radiological supervision intended to keep personnel from being exposed to more than 0.1 roentgen (R) per day. At the time, this was considered to be an amount of radiation that could be tolerated for long periods without any harmful effects on health. For more on this, go to http://www.hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/ohre/index.html . This is clipped from the 1946 Department of the Navy film, Operations Crossroads, which tells of the Able and Baker Atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in the summer of 1946. The entire video has been digitized by the nonprofit Public.Resource.Org (http://public.resource.org/index.html ) in a cooperative agreement with the National Technical Information (http://public.resource.org/ntis.gov/index.html ) and is available at the Internet Archive at www.archive.com .

Duration : 0:0:56

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How to Survive a Nuclear Terrorist Attack

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:52:34 +0000

Watch this video for a demonstration of “How to Survive a Nuclear Terrorist Attack”. To complete the task, you will need:

Potassium iodide
Shelter
Decontamination

Get started with the first step: Have potassium iodide on hand; you may need it to protect your thyroid from the radioactive iodine fallout of a nuclear event. It is available without a prescription; ask your pharmacist for an FDA-approved brand and dosage guidelines.

For the complete guide, go to http://www.howcast.com/videos/317493-How-To-Survive-a-Nuclear-Terrorist-Attack

Also check out Howcast for other do it yourself videos from SpasticSquirrel and more videos in the Terrorism category.

How can you contribute? Create your own DIY guide at http://www.howcast.com/videos/new or apply to the Howcast Emerging Filmmakers Program at http://www.howcast.com/filmmakers/apply

Duration : 0:2:32

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Radiation Emergency

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:57:38 +0000

Nuclear Reactor & Biohazard Incident Safety Procedure

Schemat postepowania w przypadku zagrozenia biologicznego / awarii reaktora.

Duration : 0:1:41

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Inside Chernobyl’s Sarcophagus 1 of 5

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:52:24 +0000

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). It is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. It resulted in a severe release of radioactivity following a massive power excursion that destroyed the reactor. Most deaths from the accident were caused by radiation poisoning.

On 26 April 1986 at 01:23 a.m. (UTC 3) reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, near Prypiat in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. Four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

The plume drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Northern Europe, with some nuclear rain falling as far away as Ireland. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. According to official post-Soviet data, about 60% of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus.

The accident raised concerns about the safety of the Soviet nuclear power industry as well as nuclear power in general, slowing its expansion for a number of years while forcing the Soviet government to become less secretive.

The countries of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus have been burdened with the continuing and substantial decontamination and health care costs of the Chernobyl accident. It is difficult to accurately quantify the number of deaths caused by the events at Chernobyl, as over time it becomes harder to determine whether a death has been caused by exposure to radiation.

The 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl Forum, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Health Organization (WHO), attributed 56 direct deaths (47 accident workers, and nine children with thyroid cancer), and estimated that there may be 4,000 extra cancer deaths among the approximately 600,000 most highly exposed people. Although the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and certain limited areas remain off limits, the majority of affected areas are now considered safe for settlement and economic activity.

Duration : 0:9:20

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