The dark shadows of a girl blowing bubbles. It’s one of many ghosted silhouettes that seem even more lonely out here. (via I went to Chernobyl - Imgur)
The face of atomic death just one second away from unleashing its absolute destruction. Only one millisecond after the bomb explodes, this 65.6-foot (20 meters) ball of fire appears in midair, with spikes that look like rotten teeth or stalactites of fire (called the rope trick effect). (via The First Millisecond of a Nuclear Explosion Is the True Face of Atomic Death)
"Mettre en œuvre une réelle politique d’efficacité énergétique s’impose d’autant plus que le nucléaire n’a jamais permis de réduire notre facture pétrolière ni nos importations d’électricité de pointe depuis l’Allemagne, très coûteuses et polluantes. Son coût est d’ailleurs appelé à augmenter du simple fait de l’indispensable renforcement de la sûreté des centrales. Jouer sur l’offre seule est donc voué à l’échec."
— Nucléaire : le bouquet énergétique n’a pas qu’une fleur - Libération
"Tokyo Electric Power Co injected air into the containment vessel of Fukushima reactor No 1 to artificially “lower the leak rate”. When caught, the company expressed its “sincere apologies for conducting dishonest practices”. The misconduct came to light in 2002 after whistleblowers working for General Electric, which designed the reactor, complained to the Japanese government. Another GE employee later confessed that he had falsified records of inspections of reactor No1 in 1989 - at the request of TEPCO officials. He also admitted to falsifying other inspection reports, also on request of the client. After that incident TEPCO was forced to shut down 17 reactors, albeit temporarily."
— Fukushima nuclear plant owner falsified inspection records | The Australian
"An official from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in December 2008 that safety rules were out of date and strong earthquakes would pose a “serious problem” for nuclear power stations.
The Japanese government pledged to upgrade safety at all of its nuclear plants, but will now face inevitable questions over whether it did enough."
The Japanese government pledged to upgrade safety at all of its nuclear plants, but will now face inevitable questions over whether it did enough."
— Japan earthquake: Japan warned over nuclear plants, WikiLeaks cables show - Telegraph
"In the cable, Meece refers to research carried out in May 2007 in the Luiswishi mine, located approximately 20 km northwest of Lubumbashi, the region’s capital city. After analysing 100 kg of rock samples from the mine, a scientific commission from Kinshasa found “dangerously high levels of radiation existed at Luiswishi mine, and that the mine operator …was suppressing this fact to continue mining operations."
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The story originates from a publicity-hungry American lab technician turned UFOlogist, Robert Hastings. Hastings worked as a lab technician before retirement and now devotes himself full-time to pushing the UFO Disclosure agenda via books and lectures. He appears to have no particular expertise other than an obsession with proving a link between UFOs and nuclear weapons.
Hastings feels it is his “patriotic duty as an American citizen” to break the international cover-up and bring The Truth to the attention of the public. Let’s be clear what Hastings believes: according to the Daily Mail, he claims “Earth is being visited by beings from another world who for whatever reason have taken an interest in the nuclear arms race”.
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