Carlsbad, CA
Friday, May 20, 2022
Tritium's "Low Energy" beta release is not "low danger"!
In many conversations with LLNL's former #1 tritium expert (retired), I learned a lot about tritium and wrote extensively about it.
Calling it a "low energy" beta emitter is playing into the pro-nuker's hands and nobody should do that. Oh yes, it *is* "low energy" compared to other beta emitters. Here, in brief, is why that A) doesn't matter, and B) in aggregate, makes things worse.
Beta particles are dangerous because they are charged particles: They have a charge of -1 electron volt.
They do their damage by pushing other negatively charged things away and by pulling positively charged things towards them.
But when first released from the nucleus of an atom, they are moving extremely fast -- fairly near the speed of light.
Imagine a magnet moving that fast past a piece of iron filing. Nothing will happen. But if you move the magnet slowly past iron filings, they'll all move. So it is with beta particles. They do virtually all their damage at the end of their tracks, when they've slowed down sufficiently to be near other charged particles longer.
So ALL beta releases do their damage when they've slowed down significantly. Down well past speeds that they are ALL released at. A single tritium beta release can damage thousands of atoms and molecules, ionizing them and rearranging molecular structures -- basically just like any other beta release. They ALL do all their damage at the end of their tracks.
"LOW ENERGY" is still thousands of times more than the amount of energy in a molecular bond. (See attached chart).
As to B, why tritium is worse "in aggregate", that's simply because one standard method of determining the "danger level" of a radioactive release is to determine the total energy being released. But from tritium, that means many more particles are released compared to something with a "high energy" beta release. So you'll get more damage from more particles for the same total energy release from an aggregate of particles, if measured by total energy being released -- a common way for pro-nukers to minimize the apparent health dangers from tritium, in addition to simply calling it "low energy" as if that makes it safer.
Please look carefully at this energy spectrum chart, which I developed on my own but with enormous assistance from the aforementioned tritium expert.
Ace Hoffman
Carlsbad, CA
Authorship note: It was the LLNL expert's idea to include energy equivalents: He said these charts never include that, but should. So I did. He wanted it to show why Tritium can be so damaging: Because this so-called "weak" beta emission is thousands of times stronger than a normal chemical bond.
Carlsbad, CA
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Reality is that which it does not go away no matter what the Supreme Court says
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Reality is that which it does not go away no matter what the Supreme Court says
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Dangerous nuclear plants in florida
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-above-normal-2022-atlantic-hurricane-season
15 to 22 hurricanes this year on the east and Gulf coast's
https://www.stellaradjusting.com/prepare-for-a-flood-miami-florida/
Miami already flooding
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8.3 million houses at risk this year in the usa from hurricanes
Wildfires and.cancer
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00067-5/fulltext
More wildfires and cancer
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/05/17/wildfires-cancer-risk-study/5531652723109/
Wildfires are increasing cancer rates in the country.
https://thescotfree.com/opinion/incident-at-santa-susana-a-meltdown-a-fire-and-a-cover-up/
Young people, who use the most social media and the internet, get it. Things are getting chaotic and, in the face of worldwide pollution, climate change, and unhinged class politics aimed at protecting corporations from responsibility, for environmental malfeasance.
https://www.golocalprov.com/news/supreme-court-ruling-strikes-down-epas-effort-to-restrict-greenhouse-gas-em
This is where the rich and corporations are using money and power, to extend malfeasance for direct liability of climate change, away from themselves. They have poured billions into dark money sites, through the Koch and others, to politicize the Supreme Court and destroy democracy.
It is being done through radical rightwing politics and, a captured corporate, right wing, usa supreme court. The United States Supreme court, just ruined the new green deal, by allowing unlimited coal and fossil emmisions, with no liability to corporate polluters. When a nuke plant goes up, and half the country is on fire, with multiple hurricane ravaged areas people, will not be able to deny radical climate change much anymore.
Cancer rates are climbing.
The corporations and elite classes know there are not the resources or space, for much more exploitation and unsustainable pollution to live on this planet, the way we live anymore.
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Climate change is becoming more complex. increasing climate change complexity, embodies shrinking life support systems. The irrational and the authoritarians, think they can use climate change, to motivate further irrationality . They may be able to in the short-term but,
ReplyDeletethey are dangerously delusional. Growing, complex, climate change is affecting them as well. It is getting worse...
Things are changing, at faster rates than anticipated. There are new layers of vulnerability, coming into play as addressed in the Santa Susana, article.
Wildfires , floods and hurricanes are occurring all over the planet at increasing frequency. They are getting worse each year. There are 21 hurricanes projected for the Gulf Coast region according to the NOAA, for 2022.
People are breathing radionuclide infested smoke, in areas with wildfires like Santa Susana and New Mexico where wildfires are rampant this year.
Many Radionuclides, generate their own heat, making them unencasable, even at several hundred feet below the surface.
The rich arrogant, ignorant old politicians and younger oligarchs are ignoring the dramatic increases in wildfires, and pollution being spread and cataclysmic consequences of monstrous climate change. There were 6 dramatic indices for cataclysmic climate change in the world by June
1. Thousand year flooding in.yellowstone Idaho and montana
2. 800 thousand acres of forest burned in New Mexico, the most radioactive state in the usa. Wildfires in Spain by nuclear reactors.
3. Unlivable temperatures above 130 F in Africa, India, Iran, Egypt and other equatorial sub equatorial regions
4. Temps over 100 F in subtropics with 60 percent humidity leading to.wick.poimt organ failure
5. Miami flooded already
6. The Arctic hot, melting emitting unprecedented amounts of.greenhouse.methane along with California, texas, and Siberia. Old drill holes leaking methane like a sieve
Radionuclides are pyrophoric. They generate, their own heat and can start fires on their own, as happened in Arvada Colorado at Rocky flats, with plutonium fires and plutonium releases in the seventies and eighties
ReplyDeleteThere are millions-of-tons of radionuclides, in the environment now.
Climate change is real
Rivers of water and thousand year floods in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana . Massive methane releases in the Arctic. 95 degrees in Alaska already this year.
The Western usa is truly one of the most radioactive hotbeds, in the world There Los alamos nuke bomb manufacturing by Santa fe where the water tables have.plutonium in them and the worst wildfire in american history started, burning two thirds of Me Mexico . Nuke-testing in nevada, INL, Hanford, Santa susana, white sands, wipp, alamogordo. There were projects rullison and gas buggy in New Mexico and Colorado, where 8.separate nuclear bombs were exploded, under rivers in the larhest water sheds of the arrid west. It was done. to free natural gas. The natural gas, can never be used naturally. That is because, it is of course too radioactive. Yet the government did not care at the time. Radioactive fallout continues to.dribble into the Colorado and Rio Grand river basins 50 years the nuclear bomb explosions. The.detonations were done in some of the most arrid, drought ridden.areas on earth, where someof the worst wildfires on earth are raging annually and biannually. Remember nuclear bomb fallout contains plutonium.uranium.and cesium 137 from those 50 year old blasts. The radionuclides continue to be pyrophoric to this day!
Last month one of the most radioactive states in the usa, New Mexico, was on fire. 800 thousand acres burned in most of New Mexico in the past month and a half, releasing unimaginable amounts of radioactive dust, uranium, and fallout went into the air. Many Radionuclides generate, their own heat and can start fires on their own, as happened in Arvada Colorado at Rocky flats, with plutonium fires and plutonium releases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_from_the_Rocky_Flats_Plant
There were projects rullison and gas buggy in New Mexico and Colorado, where 8-separate nuclear bombs were exploded, under rivers in the larhest water sheds of the arrid west. It was done. to free natural gas. The natural gas, can never be used naturally. That is because, it is of course too radioactive. Yet the government did not care at the time. Radioactive fallout continues to.dribble into the Colorado and Rio Grand river basins 50 years the nuclear bomb explosions. The.detonations were done in some of the most arrid, drought ridden.areas on earth, where someof the worst wildfires on earth are raging annually and biannually. Remember nuclear bomb fallout contains plutonium.uranium.and cesium 137 from those 50 year old blasts. The radionuclides continue to be pyrophoric to this day!
ReplyDeleteLast month one of the most radioactive states in the usa, New Mexico, was on fire. 800 thousand acres burned in most of New Mexico in the past month and a half, releasing unimaginable amounts of radioactive dust, uranium, and fallout went into the air. Many Radionuclides generate, their own heat and can start fires on their own, as happened in Arvada Colorado at Rocky flats, with plutonium fires and plutonium releases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_from_the_Rocky_Flats_Plant
There are still plunonium wildfires by Rocky Flats.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.timescall.com/2022/02/08/rocky-flats-marshall-fire-plutonium-2/
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There are radionuclides, in the environment now from reactors, uranium waste, bomb detonations, old nuclear subs and bombs, plutonium processing, nuclear rocket tests, medical waste, wipp, mining, uranium-refinement, decommissioned nuclear reactors , nuclear reactors pushed into the sea by russia, usa, France. Nuclear waste, dumped into the ocean by the UK, france and usa. Nuclear rtg batteries. There nuclear reactors in orbit
Radionuclides are the.most carcinogenic and toxic substances known to humans.
Climate change is real
Rivers of water and thousand year floods in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana . Massive methane releases in the Arctic. 95 degrees in Alaska. Insane war in the redioactive hellhole of ukraine, where Chernobyl occured.
The Idaho National Laboratory had 90 thousand acres of old burnedout, and melted down nuclear reactors and nuclear waste go into the air in 2017.
50 old reactors decrepit nuclear reactors at INL by Idaho.springs. There is a thousand tons of nuclear waste at Idaho.National.Laboratory by Idaho.springs.idaho. INL had 3 reactor meltdowns in the fifties. There was the high level fallout that accompanys a nuclear reactor meltdown left there as well. . Ninety thousand acres of radioactive soot and smoke. The most radioactive places, on earth burned at INL in 2017. The radioactive smoke flooding the sky's, of most of North america. Like the old nevada open air nuclear testing did, in the 50s and 60s.
Hanford
ReplyDeleteHanford nuclear reservation in East Washington, is where much of the plutonium for nuclear bombs was made and refineed, in the usa in the 40s and fifties.
They even tested releasing radioactiveradioactiveiodineiodine on residemts in Washington.leading to thousands.of cases of thyrooid cancer and dozens.of miscarriages in unknowing residents in washington
The Green Run: Family, Coverups and Lies, My Father's Race to Save the Planet https://a.co/d/43P0C0d
There are 100s of thousands of gallons of cesium 137 , plutonium and nitrate waterstored at Hanford. . Enough to blow Washington State in half, like mayak did in the Soviet Union 60 years ago.
Santa susana, is where two nuclear reactors melted down and there have been 2 radionuclide tainted major- suburban wildfires, close to Los Angeles. The woolsey fire the most recent. Spreading radioactive fallout across Los alllngeles.
White sands, wipp, the first atomic bomb explosion at alamogordo new mexico, projects rullison and gas buggy, church rock. Last month the most radioactive state in the usa new mexico, was on fire. 800 thousand acres burned in New Mexico in May and June releasing enough radioactive dust, uranium, and fallout to give everyone in the world cancer.
Radionuclide generate their own heat and can start fires on their own even in small amounts, like the plutonium did at rocky flats.
Radionuclides are pyrophoric. They generate, their own heat and can start fires on their own, as happened in Arvada Colorado at Rocky flats, with plutonium fires and plutonium releases in the seventies and eighties
ReplyDeleteThere are millions-of-tons of radionuclides, in the environment now.
Climate change is real
Rivers of water and thousand year floods in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana . Massive methane releases in the Arctic. 95 degrees in Alaska already this year.
The Western usa is truly one of the most radioactive hotbeds, in the world There Los alamos nuke bomb manufacturing by Santa fe where the water tables have plutonium in them and, the worst wildfire in american history started, burning two thirds of New Mexico . Nuke-testing in nevada, INL, Hanford, Santa susana, white sands, wipp, alamogordo. There were projects rullison and gas buggy in New Mexico and Colorado, where 8-separate nuclear bombs were exploded, under rivers in the larhest water sheds of the arrid west. It was done. to free natural gas. The natural gas, can never be used naturally. That is because, it is of course too radioactive. Yet the government did not care at the time. Radioactive fallout continues to.dribble into the Colorado and Rio Grand river basins 50 years the nuclear bomb explosions. The.detonations were done in some of the most arrid, drought ridden.areas on earth, where someof the worst wildfires on earth are raging annually and biannually. Remember nuclear bomb fallout contains plutonium.uranium.and cesium 137 from those 50 year old blasts. The radionuclides continue to be pyrophoric to this day!
Last month one of the most radioactive states in the usa, New Mexico, was on fire. 800 thousand acres burned in most of New Mexico in the past month and a half, releasing unimaginable amounts of radioactive dust, uranium, and fallout went into the air. Many Radionuclides generate, their own heat and can start fires on their own, as happened in Arvada Colorado at Rocky flats, with plutonium fires and plutonium releases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_from_the_Rocky_Flats_Plant
There are still plunonium wildfires by Rocky Flats.
https://www.timescall.com/2022/02/08/rocky-flats-marshall-fire-plutonium-2/
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There are radionuclides, in the environment now from reactors, uranium waste, bomb detonations, old nuclear subs and bombs, plutonium processing, nuclear rocket tests, medical waste, wipp, mining, uranium-refinement, decommissioned nuclear reactors , nuclear reactors pushed into the sea by russia, usa, France. Nuclear waste, dumped into the ocean by the UK, france and usa. Nuclear rtg batteries. There nuclear reactors in orbit
ReplyDeleteRadionuclides are the.most carcinogenic and toxic substances known to humans.
Climate change is real
Rivers of water and thousand year floods in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana . Massive methane releases in the Arctic. 95 degrees in Alaska. Insane war in the redioactive hellhole of ukraine, where Chernobyl occured.
The Idaho National Laboratory had 90 thousand acres of old burnedout, and melted down nuclear reactors and nuclear waste go into the air in 2017.
50 old reactors decrepit nuclear reactors at INL by Idaho.springs. There is a thousand tons of nuclear waste at Idaho.National.Laboratory by Idaho.springs.idaho. INL had 3 reactor meltdowns in the fifties. There was the high level fallout that accompanys a nuclear reactor meltdown left there as well. . Ninety thousand acres of radioactive soot and smoke. The most radioactive places, on earth burned at INL in 2017. The radioactive smoke flooding the sky's, of most of North america. Like the old nevada open air nuclear testing did, in the 50s and 60s.
Hanford
Hanford nuclear reservation in East Washington, is where much of the plutonium for nuclear bombs was made and refineed, in the usa in the 40s and fifties.
They even.tested releasing radioactive.iodine on residemts in Washington.leading to thousands.of cases of thyrooid cancer and dozens.of miscarriages in unknowing residents in washington
The Green Run: Family, Coverups and Lies, My Father's Race to Save the Planet https://a.co/d/43P0C0d
There are 100s of thousands of gallons of cesium 137 , plutonium and nitrate waterstored at Hanford. . Enough to blow Washington State in half, like mayak did in the Soviet Union 60 years ago.
Santa susana, is where two nuclear reactors melted down and there have been 2 radionuclide tainted major- suburban wildfires, close to Los Angeles. The woolsey fire the most recent. Spreading radioactive fallout across Los alllngeles.
White sands, wipp, the first atomic bomb explosion at alamogordo new mexico, projects rullison and gas buggy, church rock. Last month the most radioactive state in the usa new mexico, was on fire. 800 thousand acres burned in New Mexico in May and June releasing enough radioactive dust, uranium, and fallout to give everyone in the world cancer.
Radionuclide generate their own heat and can start fires on their own even in small amounts, like the plutonium did at rocky flats.
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5156223
People can now imagine the rivers of water from the sky in Montana like we can in texas and.other places in the.usa. The rivers of water coming from warming Pacific waters, that went into massive.flooding in Yellowstone this year.
The smart asses and fascists will look those people who have lost everything in Montana and, seriously ask them why they had no flood insurance at the time, of the thousand-year flood, catastrophe.. Because floods don't normally happen there u fascist dork.
It's like the fascist paramilitary groups harassing people trying to get out of central.oregon 2 years ago, when half of Oregon was on fire. Even then fascist thugs, that were in denial of climate change, were blocking people, fleeing for their lives, from the wildfire catastrophe. The fascists were saying that people were lighting, the fires in central and west oregon . Half the state was on fire! The fascists even caused some people and children, to get killed. Their lies and criminality, murderous nature knows no bounds. Remember propaganda is lies enduring as Susan of Texas says. We will be getting it, crammed down our throats from here on out, as reality becomes too hard to obscure or hide, by fascist devils.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-16/oregon-rumor-mill-wildfires-fault-of-antifa
There are the methane releases in the Arctic and texas, california, methane from ancient seabeds that never occured before, escalating greenhouse gas release exponentially on earth.
95 degrees in alaska.
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Many areas in the Western USA, have been on fire for the last 3 years sending tons of radioactive smoke, into the atmosphere. A great deal of the smoke in the west, comes from large uranium areas, plutonium reservations, nuke waste areas, places of where there is nuke bomb fallout from Nevada and new Mexico.
Biden and trump, allowed for trillions of dollars, to be spent, at Los Alamos-nuclear bomb, making plant. Trillions for building thousands of new nuclear bombs, that can never rationally, be used.
NATO is seriously fighting a proxy war in Ukraine. The Ukraine is the country, where one of the worst nuclear accidents occured. Half the country of Ukraine, has birth defects from Chernobyl. There are thousands of pounds of unaccounted for fissible and high level nuclear waste in the Ukraine. There are 12 of the oldest, most rickety dangerous, nuclear reactors, In-The-World in Ukraine.
There have been several unaccounted nuclear waste fires, in Ukraine for 20 years by arms depots and otherwise. The forests around Chernobyl, have gone up in flames annually and bianually from the.pyrophoric radionuclides trapped in trees, in forests around Chernobyl for 30 years. The radioactive forests burn emmiting, radionuclide soot and smoke in the Ukraine and across Europe.
The games our savagely greedy and insane, demented leaders, like Trump, Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer are worse than running with sciccors in a meat cutting factory or, playing with matches by an open tank at an oil refinery. They are criminally insane.