HYDRA'S PAGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCREWUPSWelcome to Hydra's ENVIRONMENTAL SCREWUPSHOMEPAGE  The generation of electricity and weapons productionwith nuclear facilitieshave negativeand positive arguments. The proponents who argue that screw-ups are raremay not consider one of the major league radiation releases. Three nucleardisasters are detailed (click the rad symbol) at the plutonium and tritiumproduction facilities in the Chelyabinsk Region of the former USSR. Theblundering bureaucratic process described is incredible but likely repeatableby those that never learn from the past. The original articles onChelyabinsk have been removed from the Internet although additional sourcesof the magnitude of the contamination in this area can also be found on aGoogle search. Radioactive contamination areas as well as recent plans forthe the importation of spend high level radiation fuel rods from variouslocations in Asia can be found at theEcoBridge site.EDDIE FLAGRANTE'SVOICE: Eddie Flagrante reporting for Expos? Magazine. Shockingnews this week, America -- Small town, rebellious teen, Jonny Warner committedsuicide early the morning of the fourteenth by hurling himself headlong intothe main waste treatment silo of the Francis Gary Powers Nuclear Plant. Jonny,who spelled his name without the customary H, was said to have taken hislife in the name of teen love. A tragic case of a hormonal imbalance resultingin a class three nuclear disaster.............(Thescene shifts to the Chemistry Lab.)........................CANDY:Hey,Toffee. Why the "grumpy face?" TOFFEE:Oh...noreason......COCO:You didn'tseem yourself at pep squad today.GINGER:And you dropped yourbaton three times at twirling practice.TOFFEE: Sorry, girls, I guess Ijust have my mind on...other things.GINGER,CANDY,COCO:Tell us about it,Toffee............................................................................TOFFEE:THREE WEEKS AGO I TOLD HIM WE WERE THROUGH.I DID WHAT MY PARENTS SAID TO DO. THEY SAID "ENOUGH," SAID HE WAS NO GOOD.HE WASN'T BAD. HE WAS JUSTMISUNDERSTOOD............TOFFEE:THREE WEEKS AGO, WE SAID OUR GOOD-BYES. I SAW THERE WERETEARS IN HIS EYES. DEEP DOWN I WISHED HE'D MAKE THINGS ALL RIGHT. BUT HESHOOK HIS HEAD, AND HE DROVE INTO THE NIGHT...And Iscreamed...JONNY DON'T GO TO THE NUCLEARPLANT! JONNY DON'T GO TO THE NUCLEAR PLANT! I WISH I COULD STOPYOU BUT YOU KNOW I CAN'T. JONNY DON'T GO, JONNY DON'TGO.............GIRLS: OOH! OOH! AAH! AAH! SHA LA LA LALA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA! WHOA, WHOA, NO!.........(One of the chemistryprojectsexplodes.)..........TOFFEE:TO THE NUCLEAR PLANT! THREE WEEKS AGO THEY TOOK MY GUY FROM ME.AND BURIED HIS BODY DEEP AT SEA. AS HE SAILED OFF, I KNEW MY DREAMSWERE THROUGH. THE SUN, IT SET, UPON MY OCEAN BLUE.... JONNY DON'T GOTO THE NUCLEAR PLANT! JONNY DON'T GO TO THE NUCLEAR PLANT! IWISH I COULD STOP YOU BUT YOU KNOW I CAN'T. JONNY DON'T GO... JONNYDON'T GO TO THE NUCLEAR PLANT! JONNY DON'T GO TO THE NUCLEAR PLANT! I WISH I COULD STOP YOU BUT YOU KNOW I CAN'T. JONNY DON'TGO.......TO THE NUCLEAR PLANT! DON'T GO! OH, NO! DON'T GO.... TO THE NUCLEARPLANT! TO THE NUCLEAR PLANT! TO THE NUCLEAR PLANT!.......GIRLS: TO THE NUCLEAR PLANT! WHERE'D HE GO? DOWN, DOWNBELOW...OOH! OOH! AAH! SHA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA! JONNYDON'T GO... JONNY DON'T GO... JONNY DON'T GO WHOA, WHOA, WHOA... JONNY PLEASEDON'T GO, OH, JONNY! JONNY PLEASE DON'T GO, OH, JONNY! WISH I COULD STOPYOU, I KNOW I CAN'T. JONNY, JONNY, JONNY... JONNY DON'T GO, JONNY PLEASEDON'T GO, OH JONNY. JONNY DON'T GO, JONNY PLEASE DON'T GO, OH JONNY. JONNYDON'T GO, JONNY PLEASE DON'T GO, OH, JONNY. JONNY DON'T GO, JONNY PLEASEDON'T GO, OH, JONNY, NO! JONNY DON'T GO..JONNY DON'T GO...JONNY DON'T GO...JONNYDON'T GO..JONNY DON'T GO... JONNY DON'T GO... JONNY DON'T GO...JONNY DON'TGO...WHOA, NO! TO THE NUCLEARPLANT!........ lyricsfrom ZOMBIE PROM, song:"JONNY DON'T GO TO THE NUCLEAR,PLANT"........Music: Dana P.Rowe.....Lyrics: John DempseySomewhat closer to home is the Environmentalists Newsletters onDOE Watch. This page provides informationon contamination from the processing of nuclear materials at the Oak RidgeDOE facility in Tennessee. This page provides information and good linkson beryllium. The highly visual scrolling graphics is entertaining as wellas enlightening.First Man: I think, I think I am, thereforeI am, I think................. Establishment:Of course you are my bright little star. I've miles And miles Of filesPretty files of your forefather's fruit And now to suit our Great computer You're magneticink........... First Man:I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I mustbe................. Inner Man: There you go, man,keep as cool as you can. Face piles And piles Of trials With smiles It riles them to believe That you perceive The web they weave And keep on thinking free.-lyrics from Moody Blues, In the Beginning,On The Threshold of a Dream album, Deram Records."There are practically no cases ofradioactive watermelons this year."-Andrei Buyanov, Moscow atomic food inspector(DailyGrist)A bit more closer is the nuclear power plants of Pennsylvania. On April 20,1999, all eight of the deep demineralizer valves failed due to a possiblecomputer malfunction causing approximately a loss of 110-inches of wateron the primary side of Limerick Unit-1within 40-seconds. Overall this seems to have been classifiedas a potential ho humm event of possible public interestlikely equivalent to an amorous canine showing interest in oneof the security guard s leg. This was originally copied from nukenet andreposted (USENETnewsgroup copy) in Usenet Newsgroups. Thenukenet egroup providesinteresting discussion of events near and far, including the historical Y2K(not to be confused with PIE2K) issue. The searchfeature provides a quick method of finding information on specific topicsin the numerous messages. COMINGATTRACTION HOT MUDHOMEPAGE!!!!!"This rising mud has been modifiedfrom its original version. It has been formatted to fit your localstrip-pit."So how bad can certain bay areas in New York and New Jersey be polluted?At one point a potential remedy, suggested by the New JerseyState Environmental Program, was to put the sediments from the bay,put it into impermeable (if this exists for long) bags, and then placethem in an approved area in "another"part of the ocean. On the flipside, placing the sediment in trucks/trains and dumping it into abandonedmines in PA was also OK.Visit Hydra's "HOT MUDHOMEPAGE now!!! .........................................Click theskull now! But, if you would rather look at some picturesof some nice ash on thebeach, visitthe project Returnto Sender homepage. This has the continuing saga of City ofPhiladelphia incinerator ash which went for a cruise to find a home ten yearsago. In a real life maritime journey, that pales the saga of Gilliganand the Skipper, the ash was finally dumped on a beach town in Haiti, whereit continues to sit and migrate into the environment. The original claimwas that it was just a fertilizer. After a bit the residents found out thatthe only thing resembling fertilizer was the song and dance given by the crew of the ash boat. True, the ash is finally back, but as long asthis link exists it is still informative. A scientist from Russia namedAdamTook a pot shot at splittingthe atom.He blew off hispenis,And now, just betweenus,Is known in the Kremlin asMadam-unknownShifting back to Russia the potentialhazards for human health and the environment could be severe from a formerweapons grade anthrax burial site on Vozrozhdeniye Island. The Chicago Tribune(June 2, 1999) reported that live spores have been found at this burial site.Vozrozhdeniye (Renaissance) Island was the disposal site for hundreds oftons of drummed anthrax waste from the Soviet biological weapons program.The details of a former biological weapons release is detailed in an articlefrom Lev Fyodorov (Deathfrom the Test-Tube). This article describes the effects of anaccidental anthrax release in the Chkalovsky district of Sverdlovsk during1979. This particular biological agent was reported to have particularlyaffected adult males, and may have been more than one strain (or with otherbacteria or virus strains) of anthrax.More details on the Sverdlovsk incident can be found at George WashingtonUniversity'sNational SecurityArchives. The National Security Archive was founded in 1985, and isconsidered, "the world's largest non governmental library of declassifieddocuments." The informationon"Anthrax at Sverdlovsk, 1979" provides details(with some blacked out sections) on intelligence reports on anthrax. Also,former Soviet research on other biological agents is touched on.Shifting over toIraq the biological programs do have rootsin other countries, including the United States, where biological stocksas well as other nuclear, chemical, and delivery systems. Although, muchof this was done in the 80's there should be some concern on why any businesswould help a known violator of human rights purchase these types of weapons.The full list of United States weapons suppliers are translated from an originalGerman article atRense.com. The listis also referenced at the Ratical News Posting service with full LA Weeklyarticle "Madein USA - A guide to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction". This lattersite also provides hyperlinks to the history of foreign actions in Iraq,including the funding from previous administrations. In retrospect, whatadministrations would be stupid enough to help Iraq's WMD programs?Shaking hands withSaddam Hussein provides some basic clues.An excellent source of the microbiological suppliers for various phases ofIraq's biological weapons development at the Monterey Institute of InternationalStudies Centerfor Nonproliferation Studies. The flowchart provides the hyperlink forthe various phases of biological weapons aquisition with hyperlinks to thevarious steps. Chaos reignswithin.Reflect, repent, andreboot.Order shallreturn.-Japanese computer error message"We know where they are.They are in the area around Tikrit andBaghdad."-Donald Rumsfeld (onWMD facilities) March30, 2003 "If no one were watching, Iraq coulddo this. But just as with the nuclear weapons programme, they'd have to startfrom scratch, having been deprived of all equipment, facilities and research.They'd have to procure the complicated tools and technology required throughfront companies. This would be detected. The manufacture of chemical weaponsemits vented gases that would have been detected by now if they existed.We've been watching, via satellite and other means, and have seen none ofthis. If Iraq was producing weapons today, we'd have definitive proof, plainand simple." -War On Iraq, Former Chief Weapons Inspector, Scott Ritterand William Rivers Pitt, Profile Books, 2002. p32-3response to Iraq continued to develop WMD since 1998Scott Ritterdescribed Iraq as“fundamentally disarmed” with 90-95% of its WMD (and 100% of it’snuclear capability) having been eliminated. -Blix cartoon taken from theRush Limbaugh Site (July2003).This would appear to be a graft of the Blix head on to Limbaugh's body.More poor taste artwork, far right propaganda, Bush/Cheneyapologists, and questionable data is available at this Official OXYmoronSite (at significant additional cost)NOT to be confused withRush Limbaugh Online . Afree lampoon far left site On the lighter side, let me relate a story of flashbacks and rabbit wars.Penn State, late 70s. It was a dark and cold walk from theShandygaff saloon in State Collegeshaking off the effects of more imported ales than accustomed too.Watching the butter melt (those drips look like two ratty long ears!)on the hot sticky bun at the State College Diner there was a flashback to1969. It was during a brief vacation from Bien Hoa; while sitting on a stoolat the Texas Tavern in Sydney, Australia during Happy Hour (which reallylasts for several hours). The larger than average rabbit with the dirty,matted fur sat down beside me after several futile attempts at notsliding off the polished wood seats. After offering the disheveled bunnya drink (which was no big deal, since all the drinks was free over thereduring happy hours), a strange tale of intelligent dolphins (always armedwith a modified POST slide rule under their flipper), and the recent battlesof a strange mutant rabbit revolution was related. Writing this off as theexpected drunk bragging from a giant mutant bunny from the Outback, littleadditional thought was given. I recall his mumbling something about breakfastpastry, or something, while departing for drunken (the hippies, thehorses, and the predominantly DOD customers) horse back riding with enterprisinghippies from a Bourke Street commune. The odd bunny was forgotten untilthe sticky (hot) bun with the melting butter some years later. The yearscontinue to pass, and for some odd reason, the link for the Tuna Free Dolphinmeat site (sometimes up sometimes down) pops up during aGoogle search. Well Damn! (I think tomyself) This must be the warped philosophy of some ultra right wing , drift-net,scum sucker (not to be confused with the typical Bush type bureaucratic ultraright wing scum suckers spouting "green" adjectives) poking fun atenvironmentalists! Preparing to do cyber battle with this perceived vile(and likely GOP) organization, little did I know, while mashing the mousekey on the hyperlink, that this would lead to the highly intelligent andcomputer literate dolphins of Australia! Continued sporadic communicationrelated the stories of other (although land locked) species. The seeminglyunrelated links (not hyper) between the Sydney Happy Hour bunny, thebutter sopped State College Sticky Buns, and the technologically proficientdolphins (that document everything) stood out with clarity. This informationis presented on the Hydra's Bunny Facts Page. Subscribe to paenvironment Powered by groups.yahoo.com To return to Hydra's main page click here or onHomer. |
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