Nuclear Cover-up's?, page 1

A very good topic! Scary thing is, about the only real nuclear accidents that the public knows is 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl... there have been MANY more, all of them potentially devastating.

Here are a few interesting ones...

We Almost Lost Ohio -- And Your State Could Be Next

By Russell D. Hoffman

Did you hear about what almost happened at Davis-Besse, a nuclear reactor in Ohio?

It would have been "10 times worse than Chernobyl" as one eminent scientist I've spoken to put it.

Most people have no idea how close we came to catastrophe. A mere half inch.

Here's the basic sequence, in lay-person's terms:

Davis-Besse is a 900 Megawatt PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) owned by FirstEnergy Corp.. It is located 21 miles ESE of Toledo, OH. It first went online in 1977. It's getting OLD.

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In 1944, the Port Chicago disaster killed hundreds of Americans in a single blast. Was it an accident, or was it America's first atomic weapons test?

On the night of 17th July 1944, two transport vessels loading ammunition at the Port Chicago (California) naval base on the Sacramento River were suddenly engulfed in a gigantic explosion. The incredible blast wrecked the naval base and heavily damaged the small town of Port Chicago, located 1.5 miles away. Some 320 American naval personnel were killed instantly. The two ships and the large loading pier were totally annihilated. Several hundred people were injured, and millions of dollars in property damage was caused by the huge blast. Windows were shattered in towns 20 miles away, and the glare of the explosion could be seen in San Francisco, some 35 miles away. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. Officially, the world's first atomic test explosion occurred on 16th July 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico; but the Port Chicago blast may well have been the world's first atomic detonation, whether accidental or not.

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: In January 1990, the Napa Sentinel commenced a series of articles concerning the explosion at Port Chicago in San Francisco Bay on July 17, 1944. Several other articles were produced to support the theory that the explosion was nuclear. Over the years, the Sentinel has been challenged on one point of the articles: If it was a nuclear explosion what about the radiation? For several years our research team has devoted itself to searching for records of other atomic explosions of the era to determine the levels of radiation association with those tests. This four part article addresses the question of radiation at Port Chicago.)

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The project examines the causes and the health and environmental effects of the Tokaimura (Japan, September 30, 1999) nuclear accident. The entire report was based on the published reliable, public domain sources pertaining to the subject. In the following sections, the students reviewed the causes of the accident and its potential health and environmental impacts due to the radiation released, based on experience from the Chernobyl accident and other events which also released radiation to the environment. At the end of each section, the list of sources which includes published information and web-based sources will be provided. In addition, the Appendix of this web page will also provide the links of available photos and other Tokaimura information pages regarding the accident.

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