http://www.gammascout.com/blog Everyone Needs a Geiger Counter Mon, 25 May 2009 09:53:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, let me get this straight.  You've got Iran building a nuclear bomb with Israel chomping at the bit to attack the development facilities, knocking out the centrifuges.  You've got Pakistan fighting the Taliban just a hundred miles from their capital.  And, now we see North Korea has just detonated ... http://www.gammascout.com/blog/?p=101 A recent study just released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington has described the possible results of a preemptive strike on the Iranian nuclear reactor at Bushehr.  In the report, the authors detail how such an attack would create ”an ecological disaster” resulting in “mass deaths”.  ... http://www.gammascout.com/blog/?p=98 The ends justify the means. Not only are our strongest and bravest asked to fight, bleed, and die in far away battlefields, but if they survive, they may face a future full of mysterious illnesses or cancer. What’s it matter so long as the industrial fat cats are fed and ... http://www.gammascout.com/blog/?p=95 A recent series or articles which purport to shed light on the reasons behind the sudden increase in piracy, has revealed that nuclear waste contamination is a lot more pervasive than we imagine. Apparently there are accusations that Italian mafia is also dumping European radioactive waste off the coast of Somalia ... http://www.gammascout.com/blog/?p=93 I’ve written before about the dangerous consequences of an Israeli raid on Iran’s nascent nuclear program.  That danger just got a bit more clear and present now that it was reported that Iran now controls the entire cycle for producing nuclear fuel.  It seems they’ve opened of a new facility ... http://www.gammascout.com/blog/?p=87 Experts in the anti-terrorism field are beginning to coalesce behind theory that the next large scale terrorist event, or “man-made disaster”, as our double-speak political class now wish to refer to such events, will arrive via sea.  That seems the only logical explanation to explain the sudden surge of new ... http://www.gammascout.com/blog/?p=82 The ongoing disaster of contaminated metal from India shows no signs of ending anytime soon.  Governments all over Europe and beyond continue to sound the alarm as metal processors, foundries, machine and metal parts makers alike are finding their raw and finished metal stocks radioactive.  Levels are not insignificant, in ... http://www.gammascout.com/blog/?p=78 Recently we read some disturbing reports out of Canada describing elevated levels of tritium being discharged from Canadian nuclear reactors.  CANDU reactors release a lot more tritium than American reactors (by factor of 20) and do not operate under stricter NRC standards The result is a dangerous discharge into the environment ... http://www.gammascout.com/blog/?p=73 There are some in the right wing talk show media, Michael Savage to name one, who are convinced there’s a “Reichstag Fire” event coming.  The theory goes that Obama and his advisors believe (like Hitler did in the 30’s) that they need to create a mood of fear and danger ... http://www.gammascout.com/blog/?p=68 Over the past several decades, the scrap metal industry has been working hard to screen out radioactive contaminated material.  Much of that came from decommissioned nuclear reactors that were sold into the recycled metals pipeline.  Radiation detection protocols were implemented in most of the industrialized world.  Everything from proximity scanners ... http://www.gammascout.com/blog/?p=64