- Jeff - I think their is a strong likelihood that a reactor
accident has occured in Antarctica. It certainly fits the clues which I
have developed beginning on Tuesday April 24th. The "tip off"
was the request for salt to be delivered with the rescuers. Potassium Iodide
is a salt that blocks the uptake of radioactive Iodine during a nuclear
emergency.
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- The request specified to fill the pockets of one rescuer's
coat with salt. That indicates a priority instead of a normal quartermaster's
request which would be delivered by the case - a priority like hand carrying
someone's medicine. Additionally, after the focus on "salt" by
some media as being an indicator of a potential need for Potassium Iodide,
the "70south.com" website posted this update on April 27:
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- "Seems the South Pole did receive a salt supply
(100 Pounds) but it is baking salt. There will however not be salt on the
tables will [sic] October when fresh supplies arrive."
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- I suspect a reactor accident has occured at the Amundsen
- Scott South Pole Station
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- HERE ARE THE FACTS
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- 1. Something unusual has happened requiring the evacuation
of 11 people from Antarctica.
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- 2. A new power plant was scheduled to go online at the
Amundsen - Scott South Pole Station in April 2001 as part of the South
Pole Modernization Project. Construction began in 1998. The entire station
will be replaced with the new 2005.
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- 3. Raytheon took over the logistics of the U.S. Antarctic
Program on April 1, 2001
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- 4. Raytheon is a Nuclear Engineering Contractor having
constructed more than 50 commercial units and involved with 75% of US nuclear
power plants.
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- 5. The layout of the new powerplant resemble that of
a reactor site; including a water supply adjacent to the plant. The new
power station was constructed under the ice.
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- 6. The logistics of operating a remotely located nuclear
plant require maitaining more than 100,000 spare parts. Who better to handle
that than Raytheon?
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- 7. Previous experience with diesel and jet fuel contamination
in McMurdo sound has been very bad. The marine life on the floor of the
sound is gone. Handling, transporting and storing enourmous quantities
of these fuels for power at the South Pole is even more troublesome. Nuclear
power could be viewed as less invasive and more cost effective at the South
Pole Station.
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- 8. Workers have cleaned up radioactivity before in severe
conditions and in total darkness in Thule Greenland in January 1968 following
the crash of a B-52 carrying 4 nuclear bombs - so it can be done. Workers
faced 85mph winds and -70F degree temperatures to clean up the snow and
ice which was taken to the US. One bomb (or radioactive components of one
bomb) sank to the ocean floor. An attempt to recover that bomb or components
occured in the spring of 1979 while I was there. All of these events were
classified. I have pictures of some of the equipment.
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- 9. It has been reported that a cargo ship is heading
to Antarctica at this time (unconfirmed).
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- There was a fire at "Nukey Poo" in McMurdo
Antarctica 30 years ago (nickname of a dual use nuclear reactor which operated
for 10 years supplying electrical power and desalinating seawater. The
fire was caused by hydrogen gases and really wasn't much of a problem.
The reactor has been removed.
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- Most people have the impression that Antarctica is a
"nuclear free zone." But, Department of Energy documents indicate
that the US interprets the Antarctic Treaties as allowing the peaceful
use of nuclear materials.
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- It is possible that a small Pressurized Water Reactor
was going through its start up procedures and testing at the South Pole
Station when an accident occured. Initial start up can be a difficult time.
At Three Mile Island 23 years ago, the reactor scrammed on its first day
of start up in a precursor event of the partial meltdown in 1979.
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- I have seen pictures of a vertical cylindrical structure
under construction at the South Pole Station which could accomodate a US
Naval reactor. I have taken pictures of these reactors being shipped by
rail past my home.
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