20 Radioactive Dangers We All Face

1. Nuclear reactors crashing on Earth from space 
and fallout from:
2. Pacific nuclear testing
3. the Nevada Test Site
4. High-altitude nuclear tests 
5. Project Rulison
6. Mighty Oak nuclear test
7. North Korea's nuclear tests
8. Global nuclear testing
9.  'Project 57' (Area 13) 
10. Trinity, WSMR & Steel

11. Hanford & INL & LANL
12. Nuclear Power
13. DTRA's Divine Strake's babies 
14. Fallout resuspension: Milford Flat Fire 
15. Australia's fallout and duststorms
16. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
-and-
17. Low-level radiation impacted viruses
18. Radioactivity in drywall (dust) 
19. Nuclear waste transport
20. Greenham Common

        

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Radiation rises from Milford Flat fire
By Judy Fahys
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated:07/12/2007 05:32:10 PM MDT

A puzzle has sprung from the flames of the Milford Flat fire: what's pumping radiation into the air?
   The National Nuclear Security Administration said Thursday its radiation monitors in the area are showing
gamma radiation spikes seven times higher than the normal background.
   But before anyone runs to the doctor, it's worth pointing out that even those spikes, if someone breathed
them for seven hours straight, produce less than one-2,000th of the radiation dose a Utahn normally gets in a
year.
   "You're talking about a very small dose," said NNSA spokesman Darwin Morgan.
   The agency, which had proposed a massive, non-nuclear explosion experiment at the Nevada Test Site last
year, monitors the air for radiation at 29 monitoring stations in Utah, California and Nevada. The agency
cancelled the so-called Divine Strake test after hearing from thousands of Utahns who complained that the
explosion would send radiation-tainted debris into their air and onto their landscape.
   "We heard loud and clear from the people of Utah they are concerned about radiation," said Morgan,
explaining his agency's reasons for publicizing the radiation-meter findings.
   Morgan said filters from the Milford monitoring station are being analyzed at a laboratory. The agency
thinks that naturally occurring radon is being released from the ground, but only study of the material captured
on the air filters will tell them for sure.
   Dane Finerfrock, director of the Utah Division of Radiation Control, said the fact that radiation is released
during combustion is no secret.
   "There's a radioactivity in that forest and brush," he said, " and some of it stays in the ash and some of it goes
into the atmosphere."
   Morgan said there is no data about the radiation from the Neola North fire in eastern Utah. The agency does
not have monitors in that part of the state.
 

 

 

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Idealist's public document archives: 1. Documents 2. Documents

U.S. NUCLEAR tests: 128 A + 899 U in NV,
1 A in NM, 10 U (in NM, CO, AK, MS, central NV),
100+ A, U in Pacific, 3 A in S. Atlantic
(A=aboveground; U=Underground)


'The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that 
 the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.' 
- Forgotten Guinea Pigs Report, 1980

In 1986, the U.S. Dept. of Energy used the cover of the Chernobyl fallout cloud over the United States to release huge amounts of radiation into the air from a failed underground Nevada nuclear test. It was called Mighty Oak.

Did global fallout cause massive mutations that may explain disorders like autism?

learn more on our global fallout page

 

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