Nuclear Gardanne seismic experiments

Gardanne

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In the indifference

April 19, 2003 - added May 25, 2004

May 25, 2004:

This morning I received an email, which is reproduced below. The Gardanne affair has been buried in general indifference. No journalist moved. Jean-Yves Casgha, who had raised the Gardanne issue, did not even attend the two trials, nor did he make any effort to mobilize his colleagues in the press. This is why I was convicted. In the first instance there were two journalists and two articles in major newspapers, but in the second instance there were none. I will no longer attend his "Sciences Frontière" festival in Cavaillon, nor will I speak on the radio show "Ici et Maintenant" from the beach.

The Gardanne mine is now flooded. The surface installations have been dynamited. The farce is over. A few days ago I had dinner at a friend's place with an engineer working at the CEA. Wealthy and very comfortable, he spends his leisure time buying artworks to furnish his luxurious home. He sleeps the sleep of the just.

• In terms of superconductivity, we reach 8 teslas... MHD? You can't be everywhere at once... Hypervelocity torpedoes? I've never heard of them... Don't tell me our nuclear submarines are wheelbarrows... In France, we can still do things... Our nuclear warheads are completely stealthy, I can assure you, that's my area... Giudicelli? Yes, I've heard of those things. But it's a man who says anything.

• Do you think he was drunk?

• Yes, I think he was simply drunk when he made those confidences to you.

• But he didn't look like it.

• I've also heard about these so-called underground nuclear experiments in mines. But no, it's completely false.

• Then, how to ensure the reliability of the nuclear heads after eight years of suspension?

• We do what's called "cold tests". It's the same thing, but with uranium that's not sufficiently enriched to cause a nuclear explosion. We check that the device works properly... Well, a underground nuclear test, believe me, you can hear it. We even picked up the signal of the Kursk accident in 1996.

• But you know that an explosion of one kiloton in a twenty-meter cavity gives a seismic signal of magnitude 3 equivalent to the explosion of 450 kilograms of TNT, common in the mining of mining fronts.

• Yes, but these holes have to be dug... No, I don't believe it.

• Have you heard about electromagnetic weapons?

• Yes, I know. The electromagnetic effects of explosions - No, not that. I mean electromagnetic cannons powered by small nuclear charges, via a flux compression system. It's done in Saint Louis. It's a Franco-German cooperation (see the information below).

• Ah, but Saint Louis isn't the CEA (...).

Close the curtain. I'm no longer involved in this matter. I've made a brief incursion into the world of Egyptology. I'm now trying to speed up the completion of a book to prevent a possible scientific plundering. Indeed, in this environment, it's no better than elsewhere. There may be something to fight against: trying to protect the freedom of the Internet, which is seriously threatened.

**Here is the email I received this morning: **

Mr. Petit

I dare to tell you about my experience regarding the earthquakes in the Gardanne area. I have lived my whole life in Bouc Bel Air, on the edge of Gardanne, except for a five-year interruption in the Paris region. I returned to the country a few years ago in 2000. I lived on the first and top floor of a small building with four apartments. Working exclusively at night, I am therefore awakened every night, which I always pass in front of my computer. In the family, we are particularly sensitive to seismic vibrations. But to describe these, you don't need to be a mobile seismograph.

Every week, I noticed vibrations in the ground, always at night between 1 and 3 a.m.

The vibrations were clearly noticeable, the strongest ones making my computer screen sway without triggering car alarms or waking up the sleeping people. Not being a scientist, I cannot quantify their importance on the Richter scale. The duration is very short, about 1 to 2 seconds, and of a high frequency, which I estimate at 5 cycles per second.

Nevertheless, after a few months, intrigued by these vibrations, even though I knew we were on a seismic fault, I asked my surroundings. The answers I received were: "We are on the old Gardanne mines that often collapse."

Note from JPP: It's strange, collapses that always happen at night, between 1 and 3 a.m.....

However, I think that mine galleries, which are not extremely high, could not cause such strong vibrations, nor so frequent (about once a week). I had come to believe that I was feeling a particularly active geological activity in our region until I read your website.

If you find any interest in this testimony, it is obvious that I authorize you to publish all or part of this email.

*Bertrand P. Police officer. * ---

There are situations where it is better to take certain precautions, hoping they will be effective. The reader may know that my attention was drawn during the summer of 2000 by revelations that were made to me, which led me to the conviction (three witnesses) that France has been conducting underground nuclear tests on its own soil since 1993, these experiments taking over from those suspended in 1996 at Mururoa.

It is also known that our current president of the Republic, Jacques Chirac (nominated as a possible Nobel Peace Prize winner), announced this year that France "would continue the development of its nuclear weapons, mass destruction, through simulations carried out at the Barp Center, near Bordeaux, within the framework of a laser fusion experiment called 'Megajoule'." However, on the one hand, laser fusion has never worked in any country, and on the other hand, this fusion of two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium, even if it worked, which all specialists doubt, has nothing to do with the fusion that takes place in "hydrogen bombs," which work with lithium hydride (a mixture of lithium and hydrogen). This project Megajoule, which in 2010 will involve a thousand engineer and technician salaries, is therefore a screen project, intended to hide other activities: the continuation of underground nuclear experiments within the hexagon itself. (We note in passing that these thousand salaries will be paid to people assigned to a project that is not designed to produce results, given that this type of enterprise has never yielded anything since 1975 anywhere in the world, including in the United States (Livermore). But on the one hand, science journalists are too cowardly to dare to challenge such a waste of such importance, of a "political" nature, and on the other...