Something I never knew about a meltdown outside Los Angeles
I read this article this morning and talks about the Santa Susana Boeing/Rocketdyne partial nuclear meltdown outside Los Angeles. Funny how these things go unnoticed for so many years, until something like Fukushima happens:
Thanks...Found this on Florida
This article says Florida already has higher levels of Cesium-137 because of experiments the US did back in the 1950's/60's.
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/cesium-137-and-strontium-...
(If you read the Abstract, keep in mind it was written in 1969)
This is f*ing chilling and relates to the weather issues
from the link:
"Abstract:
Cesium plasma clouds have been emplaced in the 90 to 103-km altitude region of the ionosphere by rockets and by a 7-in. gun. These clouds have been studied by coherent-pulse-doppler, high-frequency radar for three purposes: (a) to investigate neutral gas and magnetohydrodynamic motions in the clouds, (b) to investigate the role of such motions in forming the plasma clouds into persistent, artificial, sporadic-E patches, and (c) to investigate the potential of such clouds for illuminating the near-over-the-horizon region and detecting small targets in that region. Parts (a) and (b) of this study are continuing efforts in basic ionospheric research which will be reported elsewhere. This report concerns the third stated purpose, which may be of importance for over- the-horizon surveillance radar. Evidence has been acquired which demonstrates that the objective of achieving over-the-horizon illumination by this means is possible. Earth backscatter echoes have been found to display an adequately narrow spectral dispersion to permit velocity-discrimination of moving targets. Examples are given of earth backscatter and probable over-the-horizon aircraft echoes from cesium plasma clouds."
The ethics of scientists...
The Rocketdyne accident was readdressed in a significant article in either the L.A. Times or L.A. Weekly (most likely the latter, which is probably why the paper has been gutted) about five years ago or so.
Keep in mind: in Los Angeles if the truth is bad news, then the public there considers it "negative" and actually wants it suppressed.
Now here is the question... when these accidents -- whoops, I mean "slight incidents" -- happen, as we now know have so many times -- WHERE is the conscience of the scientific community...??? WHERE are those scientists -- who we keep being told on here, are SO ETHICAL --to inform the public...????!!