http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com Michaël VB's blog of randomness & art + Access to radiation monitors Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:02:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/3fbbaf628f60f474a8c6193c1869fe66?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/only-like-the-contents-of-a-can-of-soda-how-they-spin-the-gravity-of-hanfords-leaking-nuclear-waste-tanks/ http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/only-like-the-contents-of-a-can-of-soda-how-they-spin-the-gravity-of-hanfords-leaking-nuclear-waste-tanks/#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:17:37 +0000 Michaël V.B. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/?p=7884 Continue reading →]]> http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/only-like-the-contents-of-a-can-of-soda-how-they-spin-the-gravity-of-hanfords-leaking-nuclear-waste-tanks/feed/ 0 Michaël V.B. After my visit to the B Reactor, I drove a half hour into the Hanford Site, until I reached the armed checkpoint, where I smiled at the guard and said "I guess this is as far in as I can go, right?" Without the proper badge, I had to U-turn. But I could see the worst contaminated site in the distance (with the cranes), where the cleanup operation is in full swing. Hanford Site, Washington Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013 http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/radioisotope-analysis-results-for-sampled-seaweed-soil-mushrooms-northern-humboldt-county-california/ http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/radioisotope-analysis-results-for-sampled-seaweed-soil-mushrooms-northern-humboldt-county-california/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:40:48 +0000 Michaël V.B. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/?p=7872 Continue reading →]]> http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/radioisotope-analysis-results-for-sampled-seaweed-soil-mushrooms-northern-humboldt-county-california/feed/ 2 Michaël V.B. Trinidad Beach, Trinidad, Humboldt County, Northern California One of the locations I sampled from, in this case a small amount of Dulse and Rockweed seaweeds. Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, April 2013. Morel and Chantrelles from Sig Rivers National Forest, mixed into one sample to increase the amount needed for a quality test Seaweed sampled from Trinidad, CA EMSL_testresults_4samples_NoHum_May2013_MVB_table_annotated1 EMSL_testresults_4samples_NoHum_May2013_MVB_table_annotated1_3isosOnly_Bq.kg Added data in red is a a calculated conservative "guestimate" based on a soil sample with 13 Bq/Kg of Cs-137 http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/my-visit-to-hanfords-reactor-b-worlds-first-full-scale-plutonium-factory/ http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/my-visit-to-hanfords-reactor-b-worlds-first-full-scale-plutonium-factory/#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 22:24:20 +0000 Michaël V.B. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/?p=7822 Continue reading →]]> http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/my-visit-to-hanfords-reactor-b-worlds-first-full-scale-plutonium-factory/feed/ 1 Michaël V.B. Inside the B Reactor remain many off-limits areas that have not been sufficiently decontaminated to allow visitors. Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven If you're not gung-ho about obliterating fellow human beings, you may b looked at with a slight hint of suspicion. Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013 (biometrics of other visitor blacked out) There I stood. A snapshot after spending over an hour inside that monstrocity. B Reacor parking lot, Hanford Site, Washinton. One of many documentaries on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (almost all of 'm buying into the war logic). CLICK IMAGE to watch on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4NB3dl_roQ DSC07815 Close-up of the Uranium rod loaders. Many areas remain too radioactive to enter. Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013. Welcome, my friend, welcome to the machine! Click image to listen to Pink Floyed Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013 The crucial water intake to prevent the reactor from overheating. Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013. Basically they tell you how to make Plutonium... Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013. Control Room video with archival footage and nuclear physics animations. The clock is left at the time the reactor first reached criticality on September 26, 1944 Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013 Control Room panel Old radioactive train wagon, which used to take the irradiated uranium, containing the sought-after Plutonium, to the separation plant. Side of Reactor B, Hanford Site, WA. Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013 One of many historic documents. Over 50,000 people were directly involved with the Manhattan Project, but less than 1% of those actually knew they were participating in building a weapon of mass destruction. Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013 Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear). Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming. MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/the-hanford-site-holding-the-pacific-northwest-at-nuclear-gunpoint/ http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/the-hanford-site-holding-the-pacific-northwest-at-nuclear-gunpoint/#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 07:46:38 +0000 Michaël V.B. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/?p=7395 Continue reading →]]> http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/the-hanford-site-holding-the-pacific-northwest-at-nuclear-gunpoint/feed/ 2 Michaël V.B. DSC07808b To the right of the Colombia River, the B Reactor, with further in the background some of the other reactors that were used to manufacture the nuclear fuel for tens of thousands of nuclear bombs. Hanford Ste, Washington, May 28, 2013 Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven Located in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, West of Idaho, North of California and south of the Canadian province of British Colombia, the Hanford Site lies upstream the Colombia River from The Dalles, and Portland, Oregon. Having Chai at a corporate coffee establishment, on the southern end of the 'Hanford Site', in Southeastern Washington CLICK IT to WATCH http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/Hanford-officials-hid-leak-evidence-from-advisory-panel-208417861.html For the Full report from which this image was plucked (original shows more), click image. Source: http://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/Attachment_2_AY-102DSTUpdate_110712.pdf Source: http://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/Attachment_2_AY-102DSTUpdate_110712.pdf Source: http://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/Attachment_2_AY-102DSTUpdate_110712.pdf After my visit to the B Reactor, I drove a half hour into the Hanford Site, until I reached the armed checkpoint, where I smiled at the guard and said "I guess this is as far in as I can go, right?" Without the proper badge, I had to U-turn. But I could see the worst contaminated site in the distance (with the cranes), where the cleanup operation is in full swing. Hanford Site, Washington Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013 http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/mount-hood/ http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/mount-hood/#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 21:41:57 +0000 Michaël V.B. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/?p=7805 ]]> http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/mount-hood/feed/ 0 Michaël V.B. The volcano Mount Hood, as seen from just north of The Dalles, by one of the dams on the Colombia River.Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, end of May 2013. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/multnomah-falls-northern-oregon/ http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/multnomah-falls-northern-oregon/#comments Mon, 27 May 2013 22:58:03 +0000 Michaël V.B. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/?p=7787 Continue reading →]]> http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/multnomah-falls-northern-oregon/feed/ 0 Michaël V.B. DSC07637 DSC07694 DSC07652 DSC07683 DSC07646 DSC07644 The Colombia River Gorge, looking downstream from a bit further upstream. Northern Oregon, USA Photos by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/crater-lake-national-park-oregon-usa/ http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/crater-lake-national-park-oregon-usa/#comments Mon, 27 May 2013 22:31:33 +0000 Michaël V.B. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/?p=7777 ]]> http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/crater-lake-national-park-oregon-usa/feed/ 0 Michaël V.B. DSC07397 DSC07378 DSC07394 DSC07424 DSC07443 DSC07438 DSC07437 DSC07431 http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/woke-up-in-heaven/ http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/woke-up-in-heaven/#comments Mon, 27 May 2013 20:46:08 +0000 Michaël V.B. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/?p=7770 Continue reading →]]> http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/woke-up-in-heaven/feed/ 0 Michaël V.B. view through the car window Southern Oregon somewhere, May 2013 Southern Oregon All photos © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013 http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/mount-mcloughlin/ http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/mount-mcloughlin/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 18:11:25 +0000 Michaël V.B. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/?p=7766 ]]> http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/mount-mcloughlin/feed/ 0 Michaël V.B. Between Mount Shasta and Crater Lake, Mount McLoughlin, one of the volcanic peaks in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, Southern Oregon (USA) Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoveb, May 20, 2013 http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/siskiyous-mountains/ http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/siskiyous-mountains/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 03:38:06 +0000 Michaël V.B. http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/?p=7763 ]]> http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/siskiyous-mountains/feed/ 0 Michaël V.B. Applegate Lake, SOuthern Oregon Photo by © Michaël Van Broekhoven, 2013