Department of Homeland Security orders news blackout over crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant

a no-fly zone has been declared over this flooded nuclear power facility in nebraska

A shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant located in Nebraska.

According to this report, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant suffered a “catastrophic loss of cooling” to one of its idle spent fuel rod pools on 7 June after this plant was deluged with water caused by the historic flooding of the Missouri River which resulted in a fire causing the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to issue a “no-fly ban” over the area. Located about 20 minutes outside downtown Omaha, the largest city in Nebraska, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant is owned by Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) who on their website denies their plant is at a “Level 4” emergency by stating: “This terminology is not accurate, and is not how emergencies at nuclear power plants are classified.”

Russian atomic scientists in this FAAE report, however, say that this OPPD statement is an “outright falsehood” as all nuclear plants in the world operate under the guidelines of the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) which clearly states the “events” occurring at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant do, indeed, put it in the “Level 4” emergency category of an “accident with local consequences” thus making this one of the worst nuclear accidents in US history.

Though this report confirms independent readings in the United States of “negligible release of nuclear gasses” related to this accident it warns that by the Obama regimes censoring of this event for “political purposes” it risks a “serious blowback” from the American public should they gain knowledge of this being hidden from them.Interesting to note about this event was the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chief, Gregory B. Jaczko, blasting the Obama regime just days before the near meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant by declaring that “the policy of not enforcing most fire code violations at dozens of nuclear plants is “unacceptable” and has tied the hands of NRC inspectors.”

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Arnie Gundersen – Nebraska Nuclear Plant: Emergency Level 4 

“On June 6, 2011, the Fort Calhoun pressurized water nuclear reactor 20 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska entered emergency status due to imminent flooding from the Missouri River. A day later, there was an electrical fire requiring plant evacuation.

Then, on June 8th, NRC event reports confirmed the fire resulted in the loss of cooling for the reactor’s spent fuel pool. The discussion includes specific details of the technical failures at Fort Calhoun, the risks of coolant loss at overcrowded “spent” fuel pools, and the national hazards of nuclear facilities along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, and other water sites during the current period of floods and climate change.”

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another spring, another poppy harvest in afghanistan

 

Far away from the war, in the remote hills of Badakhshan, there is another battle raging. Trundling into the valleys on dusty roads ripped up by large SUVs, an Afghan task force is heading towards their target: an industry so profitable that many fear it’s Afghanistan’s only viable option once the West pulls its troops and money out.

We’ve joined up with the Ministry of Counter Narcotics looking for opium. Here in Badakhshan, the Taliban aren’t much of a problem. The real issue is the business that has kept Afghans afloat for many years.

For a while, NATO eased off pushing against the opium trade, feeling that the enemies it created made it even harder to fight the insurgency that was its number one priority. But this year things are different for a reason.

Mohammad, a farmer who grows opium in Badakhshan province told CNN, “We grow poppy because of poverty — we had no other choice. We didn’t grow it for four years here, but the government gave us no help, so we started again. Without it, we’d go hungry.”

The price of the drug has tripled, making it highly possible the harvest will flood record profits into the country, according to the United Nations Office of Drug Control here.

“We can definitely see a record profit in this harvest”, said the UNODC’s director in Afghanistan, Jean-Luc Lemahieu. “Meaning that those who benefit most — the traders, who are not necessarily the insurgents — have the incentive to continue the violence, which is the reason why they are able to make the huge profits they have today.”

That couldn’t come at a worse time for Afghanistan. While most of the money from the opium trade floods into the black economy, some also reaches the insurgency. Either way, it does little to enhance the rule of law NATO so badly wants in order to stop Afghanistan from falling back into being a failed state. The price has risen, says the UNODC, because speculators have pushed it up.

No one knows what the next few years will bring in the country, so opium has become a good purchase. It can be stored for years, is small enough to hide in a house, and is worth an awful lot to a poor farmer. That — together with the tripling of the price — is why it’s popular.

But in a tiny village we visit in the region of Argu, these arguments mean little. Opium is a basic argument for survival. They not grow wheat in this village, but also opium. Mohammad approaches us, just after police wipe out part of his crop. He lost a leg in a blast in Kabul and now has to deal with the loss of a crop that could have earned him $1,000.

He said, “We grow poppy because of poverty — we had no other choice. We didn’t grow it for four years here, but the government gave us no help, so we started again. Without it, we’d go hungry.”

Mohammad won’t discuss whom he would have sold his crop to. But those cartels are the big worry here. The war funds about two-thirds of the economy, and when NATO’s money dries up it’ll have to be replaced with something. Opium is the easy answer and along with it warlords and fears of a narco-state.

Here, far away from the war, growing opium is a simple economic argument – the easiest and often only money to be made.