Published: October 23rd, 2015 at 2:12 pm ET
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CBS Las Vegas, Oct 22, 2015 (emphasis added): Government officials are still looking into what may have caused a low-level radiological storage facility [~100 miles outside Las Vegas] to go up in flames… “We didn’t even hear about it when it happened, according to Cindy Craig, a resident. “We weren’t even get told about it until the next day.”
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct 21, 2015: Carol Johnston, owner of KC’s Outpost [in Beatty, Nevada]… said she was serving customers on a patio Sunday when she “heard a big boom” then looked up and saw a big puff of smoke. “Why didn’t they evacuate the town then?” she asked in a telephone interview Wednesday.
CBS Las Vegas, Oct 22, 2015: In the 40-second cellphone video… you can see the explosion in the shooting from the ground causing massive plumes of smoke. The explosion caused the facility to go up in flames. State officials said the fire started in one of 22 covered trenches used to store low-level radioactive material…
AP, Oct 19, 2015: EPA said the unknown amount of low-level radioactive waste that burned had been deposited… before 1992… [USGS previously] found high concentrations of radionuclides underground, the Nuclear Resource and Information Service said.
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct 22, 2015: Fire Marshal Chief Peter Mulvihill said [it] “burned very hot“… Items buried in the low-level nuclear waste dump include… nuclear reactor crud…
AP, Oct 21, 2015: Mulvihill said the fire burned unabated after starting Sunday during intense thunderstorms and flash flooding… Now, first-responders have backed off while investigators locate archived paperwork to determine what was buried in the burned trench… [I]ncident managers initially feared about 2,000 people in the sprawling rural area would need to be evacuated if radiation had been detected. Mulvihill told reporters that all but two employees left the… facility adjacent to the radioactive waste dump…
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct 20, 2015: “We don’t know exactly what caught fire. We’re not exactly sure what was burning in that pit,” Fire Marshal Chief Peter Mulvihill said… “there was some energetic burning” that blew a hole in the cover soil that caps trench No. 14, where low-level radioactive materials were buried. 
AP, Oct 19, 2015: [EPA] is sending a radiological emergency team to look for contamination… EPA spokesman Rusty Harris-Bishop says no dangerous gamma radiation has been detected… The fire erupted Sunday during heavy rain…
KSNV, Oct 20, 2015: [R]esidents are still concerned because of what was burning, and because they say they were “flat out lied to“… As the fire burned, the US 95 was closed for a 140 mile stretch for nearly 24 hours. People waiting in their cars say they were told a much different reason for the traffic jam. “They told us it was debris in the road,” one resident told News 3. “We found out it was a nuclear waste fire.”
KSNV, Oct 20, 2015: This small town voiced big concerns at Tuesday night’s town hall after a fire at a low-level radioactive waste dump… “We don’t find out about it in the city of Beatty until we watch the news the next morning. What if that was extremely hazardous?” [a resident] said. “I’m very, very upset about it.”… many questions remain including what exactly was burning?… “We have absolutely no idea… what it is” [Sheriff Sharon Wehrly] said…
Las Vegas Sun, Oct 23, 2015: Sunday’s nuclear fire… reportedly did not emit above-average doses of radiation.
Las Vegas Sun, Oct 22, 2015: Media buzzed with reports of a low-level nuclear fire… [T]he plume of smoke — determined by the… government to not be hazardous to public health — billowed… residents, though, were unaware of the details of the emergency situation.
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct 19, 2015: Mulvihill said investigators would be taking a close and methodical look at the site “once it is safe to go down there.”… [The fire] was allowed to burn itself out over the course of about 12 hours… US Ecology officials said they created “an exclusion zone around the facility” at the request of state regulators… As part of their investigation, state officials said they will be looking at the [dump's] overall stability…
KTNV, Oct 22, 2015: You can see a column of white smoke… Then multiple underground explosions in trench 14 send more smoke spewing out. The ground erupts… We don’t know what these explosions kicked up into the air but we do know state leaders were well aware of the risks buried at the U.S. Ecology site… Minutes from legislative hearings detail concerns about “unknown contamination levels.” The state expressed concern because it was not sure of the contamination levels or when a fissure might occur.
KTNV transcript, Oct 22, 2015 (at 2:20 in): “We’ve just learned… there are 2 new areas of land that are sinking from recent flooding at the site, and a crater where the fire broke out.”
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I too am having trouble with sleeping, some times that's all I can do, right now I have a kitchen full of rinsed but dirty dishes, no appatite and I just got up to take my med's and am ready to go back to bed…granted I'm 64 and broken in many ways but my doc tells me blood is fine, I am loosing weight though, don't feel very sgarp mentally either, just wanna sleep, so I'll smoke a cigarette and go back to bed…nite-nite…sorry this is on the wrong page but well, who knows, page 2 comes up blank…
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October 2015-Japan reporting on Bridgeton/Westlake landfill. And it sure ain't nice.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/08/world/st-louis-girds-catastrophic-event-underground-fire-burning-since-10-get-near-cold-war-nuke-waste-cache/#.Vi1tCcko7qD
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Name that tune
The legend lives on from the high Tsunami rocks on down.
Of the big Ocean they call the Pacific.
The Ocean, it is said will become dead
When the Chem~trail skies turn radioactive gloomy.
With a load of MOX rods core- 120 tons or more
Then the Daiichi fuel pools weight empty.
Those bad reactors and control room crew was about to be screwed
When the 40 ft tsunami came early
The Daiichi Nuke plant was the pride of the Yakuza side
Hiring the homeless from some prefectures in Japan
As the big Reactor plants go it was clustered than most
With a crew that was not well seasoned.
Including some terms with NRC and IAEI over sight firms
That were fully bribed for Nuclear bomb fuel breeding.
[Cont]
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And later that night when the control room bell rang
Could it be the 9.5 earthquake thy'ed been feeling?
The whipping wires made a tattletale sound
When the Tsunami wave broke over the sea wall.
And every man knew, as the Prime Minister did too,
T'was the earthquake of March 11's Tsunami come stealing.
The dawn came late and their Sushi had to wait
When the radiation of March came skins red rashing.
When afternoon came, broken pipes poured like Typhoon rain
In the face of a catastrophic 9.5 earthquake.
When the plant buildings exploded the old supervisor spoke
Saying "fellas it's been good to know ya."
The Supervisor called in, he had no water coming in
And the broken reactors and fuel pools had no water.
And later that night all the Nuke plants lights went out of sight
Becoming the wreck of Fukushima Daiichi reactors.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When Tsunami waves turn the minutes to hours.
[Cont]
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The researchers say they'ed have made cold shutdown
If they'ed put 10 more shutdown years behind them.
They might have stopped the explosions or the might have cooled the Corium's.
If they could have drilled deep for more water.
And all that remains is the faces and names
Of the sick wives the sons and the daughters.
The Pacific ocean waves roll as the break water wall's hold
Old Pacific no longer seems like a fisherman's dreams.
The Islands and Tokyo bay is no longer for sportsman.
And farther out West, America takes what Fukushima has sent her.
And contaminated boats go as the mariners all know
With the oceans radioactive plume's remembered.
In a musty old Catholic churches in America they pray
In the staunch liberal bleeding hearts Cathedral's.
The church bell is ringing for an infinite time's
For the Billions of dead from Nuclear crime's.
The legend lives on from the enenews.com on down
Of the big dead Oceans of the wobbling world.
Radioactive Pacific they said produced all the dead
When the contaminated currents came secretly early.
~Gasser Classic~
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The Big Lake they said, doesn't give up its dead, when the evils of radiation come stealin'
Listen to this while sippin' on some Brandied pears…..
Gordon Lightfoot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=251&v=N_7_548GZHY
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Thanks Stock. Love that song.
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Gasser too.
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Ya, sadie, hurricane force winds on cold lakes…"fellas it too rough to feed ya"
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What a song….gasser classic!
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Spooky! Paid your flood insurance lately?
https://youtu.be/R3JYLcvz2R4
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Boatnerds Unite!
There is something grrand about humanity's biggest machines.
Love the big lakers.
Love warching them come and go, over on Lake Michigan.
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Gasser, named your tune….I ply those waters now, catching big fish, none shown radiation in tests, but still some mercury. Large cold big lakes, Great Lakes.
I love them. Gordon Lightfoot.
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PS this song been rolling through my mind and dreams for 1 month now….odd…..
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http://www.gotohoroscope.com/txt/dream-dictionary-boat-sinking.html
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Not my boat……
Plus Looking Glass "Brandi Your A fine Girl"
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This is my favorite seafaring song.
Barcelona – Ronnie Lane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g27QGP4F7p8
Dream well, Enenews.
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Very nice song Heart..don't count me out yet lol , i'm on the wrong heartmedication and my mind is twisted from that..can't post much usefull atm..wrong mind , wrong thought's..sry , working on it..
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@Dr. Goodheart
The best dream to have would be one in which you are sailing across a placid ocean. A placid sea is one that shows calm.
More: http://www.gotohoroscope.com/txt/dream-dictionary-boat-sinking.html
But if your geiger counter went crazy, then YOU ALSO should better loose control!!
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Wow in Chicago 2014, GL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDdq1wC_kg
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Fuel/waste comparsion: Bridgeton/Westlake, Fukushima, Chernobyl.
Westlake: 40,000 tonnes of radiological waste placed in OU1.
Fukushima: 4 reactors – 1852 tons [274 tons in three reactors + 409 tons in reactor storage pools and 1169 tons in central pool].
Chernobyl: 1 reactor – 245 tons.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Fukushima_and_Chernobyl_nuclear_accidents
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Out Of Control Nuclear Fire At St. Louis Missouri Secret Radioactive Nuclear Landfill, Creek Runoff, Secret Govt Radiation Testing Of Residents And Cancer Links
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2015/07/st-louis-missouri-secret-radioactive.html
New Mexico – Sandia Labs Melted Down Dozens Of Nuclear Reactors On Purpose, Then Dumped Them In Open Unlined Ditch
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/11/new-mexico-sandia-labs-melted-down.html
What if instead of low level waste, this ditch has some nuclear reactors in it, like down in New Mexico, from Sandia labs?
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DocG
What do they mean 1,5000,000 tons? Was it tons? I am so upset I can't remember wtf I just read. What do they mean..melted reactors and buried them in the fcking dirt? Being from the desert, I can say that any 'mound looking' ground is man made.
And how about a burning radioactive Superfund site? Is high quality pure uranium waste more potent than the 'cheap shit'? Because that's exactly whats burning in Missouri.
And this:
St. Louis to Washington, DC–709 miles exactly due east.
Weather moves west to east thanks to the jet stream.
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@GOM
The Good Dr's website stated 1,500,000 Cubic Feet of waste, starting from 1947.
It is the 1979 comment that caused me to collapse in the corner with a strong adult beverage:
"Following the 1979 Three Mile Island commercial nuclear reactor accident…Sandia conducted dozens of experiments…{{high-level}} nuclear fuel…and the waste was disposed in the Mixed Waste Landfill.
Now we know how Western Pennsylvania became so radioactive at that time. Perhaps? anyone remember the article here {at ENE} a year ago, describing the radio-active river/mutated fish upwind of TMI.
Peace All
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GU
Thanks for clearing that up. I was shell shocked. There is good news too. D.C. Is straight east from St. Louis-709.5 miles.
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SSMR Dr. Same stuff more radiation…well its something that everybody shares
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1940-Tonawanda, NY: "They secretly, and in mutual agreement, INJECTED 37,000,000 GALLONS OF URANIUM HEXAFLOURIDE WASTE SLUDGE into porous sponge like rock shallow well and when the wells could take no more they pumped the remaining gallonage into 2 Mile Creek".
2 Mile Creek ran through a golf course. Children dived into the water for golf balls. Parents were not told of radiation chemical contamination. Radiation waste spread over countless acres..no concern for the debilitating effects on an unsuspecting public.
The war was over, Vets came home, went to work..had families. Little did they know the health consequences that lurked and would be, for generations..Manhattan Legacy.
http://fluoridealert.org/news/tonawanda-new-york-legacy-of-the-manhattan-project/
OR
http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/tonawanda-new-york-legacy-of-the-manhattan-project/
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10 years I had a girl friend, she and I lived together for 10 years, she grew up on 2 Mile Creek, it was the eastern border of her families property…she ended up having cancer, it was stage 4 before it was found…they had a well for drinking and cooking, she always complained it tasted like sulfur as most of the wells in the area did/do…well now I know and I'll share with her this news…Many Thanks
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I am not big "sue them" guy, but the only way to get the attention of a corporation is to take it's money. Same with government offices.
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Taffy
Your welcome. Sorry for your loss. I now have a mission, to dig up dirt on the nuke cartel.
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Taffy
Oops. Thought she died, sorry. Still, cancer IS a loss to the quality of life.
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Thank you, and yes she is still alive but it cost me the relationship because of not finding cancer first, the doc's claimed I gave her some bizarre disease and out the door I went. Hope you find lots of dirt
, it's right there under your feet 
…okay, bad joke 
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Keep on keeping on T… the humor is part of it.. doom humor.
Got to keep on laughing about this stuff.. it is one healthy way of dealing with this Catch 22 stuff.
We are good with it.
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Go get em GOM!
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Manhattan Project Historical National Park:.."to those looking for history and a larger-than-usual dose of radiation".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3142637/Ghosts-Armageddon-abandoned-decommissioned-facilities-dotted-dedicated-Manhattan-Project-potential-nuclear-war.html
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Actual boat to Coast Guard radio comms at wreck of Fitzgerald….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3dZ0YwOwI
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And how far is this landfill from the New Madrid Fault ?
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"US Ecology Idaho
US Ecology's Idaho facility, located 70 miles southeast of Boise in the Owyhee Desert, treats and disposes hazardous waste, non-hazardous industrial wastes and low-activity radioactive material. The site's arid climate, deep groundwater, and favorable geology help ensure permanent waste isolation. Combined with a state of the art multi-layer landfill liner system, the Idaho facility is an ideal choice to minimize environmental liability. It is one of a few sites in the nation that also accepts PCBs and hazardous / PCB “mixed wastes”. In January 2007, the Idaho facility was named an OSHA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) "Star" site."
https://www.usecology.com/Locations/All-Locations/US-Ecology-Idaho.aspx
US "Ecology".
That's rich.
"Low level" nuclear waste, my ass!
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Oops! Grabbed the wrong dump.
Here is Nevada site info.
"US Ecology’s Nevada operation, located 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas in the Amargosa Desert, treats and disposes hazardous and non-hazardous industrial wastes. The site's arid climate and deep, stable geology are well suited for permanent waste isolation. Combined with a state-of-the art multi-layer landfill liner system, the Nevada facility is an ideal choice to minimize environmental liability. this Facility is one of a few U.S. sites that also accepts hazardous / PCB “mixed wastes”. Beatty also acts as a cost effective transfer location for shipment of refinery tank bottoms to our US Ecology Texas facility. In May 2007, this facility was named an OSHA Safety Health Awareness Recognition Program (SHARP) site."
https://www.usecology.com/Locations/All-Locations/US-Ecology-Nevada.aspx
Mailing address, phone and fax numbers are also on their website, for anyone who would like to communicate with them.
No gamma, huh?
Bet lots of beta, though.
Like WIPP, only above ground.
Note that the fires and explosions were allowed to burn themselves out.
Firefighters and officials were well back.
Noted that everyone but 2 people evacuated the site.
But nobody has any idea what burned.
Exclusion zone only after the fire was out.
Funny how that keeps happening, isn't it?
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Remember my posts last week of the video of the inspection of Unit3 Containment?
Well, Fukushima Diary now thinks he has discovered evidence that zooplancton are swimming around in the 1Sv water inside the Containment Vessel!
http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/10/tepcos-camera-caught-possible-living-creature-inside-reactor-3-vessel-of-1-svh/
Found this on SHTF Plan, and Zero Hedge, too. So this is now all over the web.
Visions of Godzilla struggling out of Reactor3, batting cranes out of the way, and scattering workers in white suits.
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Video shows zooplankton in Containment Vessel of Unit 3 at Fukushima.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/10/tepcos-camera-caught-possible-living-creature-inside-reactor-3-vessel-of-1-svh/
Would be a big 'Wow!" From biologists around the world, if true.
Cosmologists would find it interesting if life could thrive in 1 Sv radiation.
This may be big news!
Admin. Still no thread on Unit3 Containment video?
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Seen by video camera, just before the camera enters the water.
View entire video for perspective.
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Google Earth has a fairly recent view of FDNPP.
It was fun to trace the path of the "Frozen" Wall around Reactor Ruins1-4, which you see as surface piping.
Pictures were before removal of the cover over Unit1, and before the Frozen Wall was completed on the harbor side.
Coordinates are 37*25'20" N 141*1'55" E.
(The iPad seems to have no degree sign, so I used an asterisk instead. If you want to copy and paste the coordinates, substitute the degree sign.)
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West coast has been having a whole lot of little earthquake swarms, many in CA, but others in WA and OR.
Dutchsinse put out a video on Friday of the Oregon eq swarm.
That one is clearly caused by the movement of magma under old volcanos.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5hoAFoUJiyY
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I'd bet you a dollar that buried bananas or bacon will not blow up.
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Crap..now I have to place all that red meat back into the freezer! Smells, but still good, and it has only been a couple of days since I ripped it all out and everyone cried.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3300942/Why-red-meat-good-health-days-dire-cancer-warnings-comfort-expert-analysis.html
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SSFL fuel elements buried in Beatty Nev revealed in 1979 report
1979 Warren Olney Breaks the SSFL Meltdown Story in 1979 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44gDy9iUc7k
at approx 12:25 Michio Kaku ( likely one of his first interviews ]
at approx 9:50 " 14 months and millions of dollars later, the fuel had been shipped and buried in Beatty, Nevada "
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