The Hague: Suicide Manual
May 5, 2011
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The Hague plant
IThere is a page on Wikipedia that provides some information about the site of the Hague, "a reprocessing center located in the Cotentin".
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usine_de_retraitement_de_la_Hague
Vou will learn that this plant, the most polluting in the world regarding nuclear discharges, was put into operation in 1961, half a century ago (...). It is managed by the private company AREVA.
LThe Hague plant has been recovering, for decades, the "wastes" coming from various power plants, French and foreign, and it "reprocesses" them.
En fact, this reprocessing is entirely focused on
the chemical extraction of the 1% of plutonium produced
by fission in uranium reactors, through the capture of fast neutrons by the non-fissile Uranium 238 nuclei. This pure plutonium is then packaged in small containers and sent to the MELOX plant, in Marcoule, in the Gard. There, this plutonium is diluted at 7% in Uranium 238 and this mixture constitutes a new "nuclear fuel", called MOX (Mixed Oxides).
CThis MELOX chemical process can in turn be used in consumer countries to extract plutonium for military purposes. Why create problems, as the Iranians do, by laboriously enriching uranium ore through centrifugation, when it is enough to buy MOX and chemically extract the plutonium 239, the explosive type of fission bombs?
This MELOX process is considered by Americans as "proliferating".
CThis means that this technique will eventually allow all countries in the world to possess their atomic bombs.
CThis fuel is currently used in 20 of the 58 active reactors in France. The construction of EPR reactors will generalize its use (they were designed for this).
CWhat has been ignored for a long time is that this introduction of MOX represented a subtle shift from the fission of Uranium 235 to
a functioning by the fission of Plutonium 238.
The whole world is beginning to know the extreme danger of this substance, which has a great tendency to settle in human tissues, after inhalation or ingestion of dust. The human body is then unable to eliminate them, the characteristic time of their rejection by human tissues being 50 years. These particles are 100% carcinogenic.
It is not an
irradiation
, but a
contamination
,
undetectable by any measuring instrument
. This contamination could occur in the case of a nuclear accident, with the release of debris from fuel assemblies. This has already happened and continues, since the explosion of reactor number 3 of Fukushima, which was loaded with MOX. Plutonium dust has been found in the United States. This dispersion will affect the entire planet and some specialists estimate that it will be the cause of a million cancers.
PTo stop this dispersion coming from reactor number 3, it would be necessary to be able to extract its fuel rods and, at the very least, immerse them in a specially designed pool. However, access to these elements remains impossible, and it is not clear when this access could become possible, in the near or distant future.
It is necessary to continue cooling the fuel elements of this "shut down" reactor, whose core, largely melted, emits several tens of megawatts of thermal energy. A closed-loop water circulation, coupled with a heat exchanger, could allow the evacuation of this heat. However, the deteriorated state of the reactor makes this impossible. The Japanese are therefore forced to implement an "open circuit" cooling, by injection or spraying of fresh water. This water, circulating in the damaged core, becomes charged with debris from the fuel elements that have escaped from the zirconium tubes that contained them and which have melted.
CThis water is therefore charged with plutonium particles and a whole range of highly toxic radionuclides. It partially turns into vapor, which escapes into the atmosphere. The rest flows, through a whole set of cracks, impossible to locate and seal, due to the earthquake, into the galleries located in the reactor's underground. The company TEPCO then pumps this water, which has so far been sent to tanks. When these tanks were full, TEPCO simply poured this highly radioactive water into the nearby ocean, apologizing to the locals and fishermen.
This will continue as long as a closed-loop cooling system cannot be implemented. It is not clear how this could be done, as the reactors, otherwise heavily damaged, remain inaccessible due to the high radioactivity in the vicinity.
Dwo companies are directly responsible for this deadly dispersion:
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The Japanese company TEPCO
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The French company AREVA, which produces and markets this new plutonium fuel in its MELOX plant.
The apologies of TEPCO's responsible. When will those of AREVA's executives come?
Moreover, there is something much more serious.
After five decades of operation, this center of the Hague, which is not a "reprocessing center", a sort of high-tech dump, but, aside from the packaging done in Marcoule at its MELOX plant, a center for the extraction and sale of plutonium fuel. At the Hague, Areva has accumulated a stock that defies imagination, the importance of which is not specified on the Wikipedia page.
Sixty tonnes of plutonium
Lhe elements containing plutonium are currently stored in four pools located at the Hague, housed in buildings whose roofs are not armored, but made of a thin layer of sheet metal (...)
The Devil's Kitchen
The plutonium is an element denser than lead (19 kilograms per liter). Do the calculations. These sixty tonnes of plutonium correspond to 3.15 cubic meters, which could fit in a cube of 1.46 meters on each side.
The Hague plant presents itself as a reprocessing center, recovering the most dangerous and toxic substance in the world. Considering what is happening at Fukushima, a logical reaction could be to stop this production of MOX fuel, to close the MELOX plant in Marcoule and to stop recovering this devil's ash at the Hague plant.
The Hague is not a treatment center, comparable to a waste disposal site, a "nuclear dump".
It is a safe
Ipropose to you the following small problem, level certificate of studies.
An industrialist has a stock of 60 tonnes of plutonium. A barrel of oil has a capacity of 160 liters.
Oil barrel
One gram of plutonium releases as much energy as a ton of oil. Oil also has an average density of 0.88 kilograms per liter. Its average price on the market is around 100 dollars, which is 73 euros. Calculate the equivalent number of oil barrels corresponding to a cube of plutonium of 1.46 meters on each side. Calculate the value in euros of the plutonium stock currently stored at the Hague.
60 tonnes = 60,000 kilograms = 60,000,000 grams = 60,000,000,000, sixty billion kilograms of oil equivalent.
Divide by 140 kilograms, the weight of a barrel. ...