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Troubles with Tritium & Shield Source in Peterborough
William E. Lynch Jr. is the owner of Shield Source, which manufactures radioactive ‘EXIT’ signs using a nuclear reactor waste by-product calledTritium. Tritium gas was first used as the detonating component in nuclear bombs. It is sourced from the Darlington Nuclear plant and transported 66kms north to Peterborough for use in “self-illuminating safety signs” .
Speaking to CHEX News’ Melody Belfry, Lynch defended Shield Source’s safety record arguing, “We’ve been in Peterborough for 26 years, we are licensed as you know by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and they are regulatory, and watching over what we do, and all the operations we have comply with all the applicable regulations.”
According to a Canadian Environmental Law Association, CELA, media release, Shield Source has “recalculated its tritium emissions for the years 2010 and 2011 at five to nine times the levels previously reported”, adding, “The new levels are more than twice the release limits allowed by the CNSC licence.” Joseph Castrilli, legal counsel at CELA is acting on behalf of a local citizen’s group, SAGE, Safe and Green Energy Peterborough, in the matter.
For CHEX News, Melody Belfry also spoke with Ruth Webster, who “works for the company and only lives five kilometers away, she thinks all of this is for nothing”. Webster told Belfry “we’re tested, all the guidelines are followed, they’re a wonderful company to work for and to be with and it just makes me upset to think of all this going on”.
Webster was in attendance at an April 19th public information meeting hosted by Shield Source. The meeting was requested by SAGE organizer and local filmmaker Jessica Rowland. The occasion was the first public meeting in the history of Shield Source which operates at the Peterborough Airport.
The Indian space programme reached a milestone on Thursday with the successful launch of the heaviest-ever remote sensing satellite to be designed and built indigenously.
The Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-1), propelled into space by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, is a microwave remote sensing satellite.
It is the first Indian satellite capable of taking pictures both during the day and night, and under all weather conditions. The Synthetic Aperture Radar on the satellite can penetrate through clouds as well.
Lift-off: India’s PSLV C-19 lifts off carrying India’s first indigenous radar imaging satellite
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is to journey closer to the sun’s surface than any spacecraft yet, hovering only 42 million kilometers away from the white-hot star. This NASA photograph shows the largest solar flare in five years erupting from the sun’s surface March 6, 2012. (NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory/Getty Images)
The European Space Agency (ESA) todayannounced that it is teaming up with a UK firm to build a new spacecraft projected to travel nearer to the sun than any satellite to date,reported the BBC.
The announcement coincides with the 50th anniversary of Britain’s first satellite launch,said NASA.
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is scheduled for a 2017 launch that will take it on journey closer to the sun’s surface than any spacecraft yet, hovering only 42 million kilometers away from the white-hot star, said BBC.
Spaceflight Now said it will also enter Mercury’s orbit as part of a seven-year mission.
Astrium’s science director, Dr. Ralph Cordey, told BBC that the biggest challenge will be heat from the sun, which scientists intend to offset by way of a special heat shield that can withstand temperatures as high as 500 degrees.
“Solar Orbiter is a fantastic mission,” Spaceflight Now quoted ESA science head Gimenez Canete as saying. “It will help us understand how the sun, essential to almost all life on Earth, forms the heliosphere and the origin of space weather, which can have an enormous influence on our modern civilization.”
Astronomical experts have expressed their fears of a predicted solar storm’s negative impacton telecommunications, technology, electricity and aviation. There are real fears of a super solar storm that may hit the Earth between 2012 and 2013.
The Astronomical Society in Jeddah confirmed a super solar storm will hit the Earth at the end of 2012 or the beginning of 2013. The greatest impact of this storm will be on the communications sector.
“It is expected at the beginning of the new solar circle, which represents an increase in sunspots on the sun’s surface. The sunspots usually have tremendous activity resulting from the interactions of sunspots with each other. These interactions generate a solar explosion that releases a massive storm into space. The storm will be earth-bound and will hit the earth’s magnetic field. It generates either the phenomenon of ‘Aurora Borealis’ or the so-called ‘North damage.’ This phenomenon can penetrate the radio waves. However, it all depends on the force of the solar explosion,” Majed Abu Zahra, president of The Astronomical Society in Jeddah, told Arab News.
“The consequences of this storm will affect the telecommunications, technical and electricity sectors. In March 1989, when the sun was at the top of its activity it launched streams of massive X-ray, and ultraviolet radiation reached the upper layer of the earth’s atmosphere with charged positive protons and negative electrons that led to heating of the upper layer and expanding it into the external space, affecting satellites moving in low orbits,” said Abu Zahra.
“The phenomenon of ‘Aurora Borealis’ can result in a temporary interruption of the wireless communication (radio waves). However, this phenomenon has no direct effect on the human life as the Earth is surrounded by the atmosphere and magnetic fields, but the real danger is to astronauts outside the Earth’s atmosphere if they do not take the necessary safety precautions,” added Abu Zahra.
The society’s website is updating its warning that there may be super solar storms hitting the earth and may disrupt electronic devices.
“The food trucks will no longer be able to supply stores with food. The cell phones and computers also will no longer work. Without power from the grid most factories will no longer work. Within three days or so, food that’s in your local store will be gone. Since most cars and trucks today require electronic ignition to work, most vehicles will likely not work. However non-electric trains most likely would continue to work,” according to the website.
“There are suggested mechanisms by which solar variations may have an effect on climate. The first is solar irradiance changes directly affecting the climate.
The Rendlesham Forest Incident is one of the most amazing incidents in UFO History. In December, 1980, an unprecedented series of sightings and the actual landing of a craft (or multiple craft) of unknown origin occurred in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England. The base was used by the U.S. Air Force during this period, therefore dozens of USAF personnel were eyewitnesses to these events as they occurred over a 2-3 day period. Landed craft were not only directly encountered by military personnel, but a hovering UFO was seen emitting a beam of light directly over a missile silo which reportedly disarmed it. The British Ministry of Defense (MoD) denied that the event posed any threat to national security, and stated that it was never investigated as a security matter.
Lift-off: India’s PSLV C-19 lifts off carrying India’s first indigenous radar imaging satellite
