Pyrphoricity – the spontaneous combustion of uranium and other nuclear materials: the unmentioned bushfire danger
 pyrophoric@hush.com– 7 Dec 2020 Why doesn’t anyone care about pyrphoricity and the speading of unquenchable wildfires in populated areas, in industrial Countries? Especially around large nuclear complexes like INL, Hanford, Mayak? Fukushima and Chernobyl?The current wildfires in Australia are some the worst catastrophe in History. I have been reading about Uranium and rare earth mining, close to the Amazon. The mining and contamination of areas around and, in the Amazon. The contamination maybe a more important factor in the wildfires there, than climate change. The human encroachment via clearing of forests, heavy metal mining, rare earth mining and uranium mining are certainly important factors. There is a 70 percent chance that there will be another major nuclear reactor accident, in the world, in the next 2 years. So far they have been occuring on an average of about every 10 to 15 years. They have become much worse. Most reactors are well beyond their initial licensing dates. More than 30 years old. Corroded, embrittled, cracked with poor to no backup. Poor supervision in countries like the USA, Ukraine, and eastern Europe. Accelerated climate change is significantly increasing the risk of nuclear reactor catastrophe. FROM IAEA PDF on Uranium PDA “Uranium metal can be melted by any of several different techniques. However, because uranium is very reactive when heated in air, melting must be done either under a protective inert atmosphere or in a vacuum.17 Health and safety considerations must be carefully considered when using uranium because of its high toxicity and pyrophoricity. The main hazard to health occurs where finely divided particles can become airborne and inhaled. For this reason, vents and fume hoods should be used, or the workers should use respirator equipment to avoid inhalation. The use of pyrophoric phosphorus to fire bomb dresden, in world war 2 killed 120,000 people and burned Dresden to the ground. Guess what, Uranium is more pyrophoric than phosphorus and takes much less to start fires and keep them burning. The government will not talk about it. Nobody will talk about it primarily because of the implications for storage of nuclear waste, what can happen after nuclear catastrophes, and because of the militaries ongoing uses, of depleted Uranium that is highly pyrophoric and radioactive. |
In 2008, the Garnaut Climate Change Review predicted this bushfire situation
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How a climate change study from 12 years ago warned of this horror bushfire season, In 2008, the Garnaut Climate Change Review said Australia would face a more dangerous fire season by 2020. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/how-a-climate-change-study-from-12-years-ago-warned-of-this-horror-bushfire-season– 6 Dec 2020, BY NICK BAKER As the nation’s horror bushfire season shows no sign of abating, a landmark 2008 report that warned of these looming conditions is once again in the spotlight.
Twelve years ago, economist Ross Garnaut led an independent study of the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy. The Garnaut Climate Change Review’s final report said projections of fire weather “suggest that fire seasons will start earlier, end slightly later, and generally be more intense”. “This effect increases over time, but should be directly observable by 2020.” Broadly, the report stated, “the weight of scientific evidence tells us that Australians are facing risks of damaging climate change”. “The risk can be substantially reduced by strong, effective and early action by all major economies. Australia will need to play its full proportionate part in global action. As one of the developed countries, its full part will be relatively large, and involve major early changes to established economic structure.” One of the report’s key recommendations was the implementation of an emissions trading scheme. Conditions ‘will keep on getting worse’On Monday, SBS News asked Mr Garnaut his reaction to the current conditions, in light of the 2008 report. “It’s one of sadness, that I was ineffective. Having been given the opportunity to talk to Australians on this issue, that I was ineffective in persuading Australians that it was in our national interest to play a positive role in a global effort to mitigate the effects of climate change,” he said. However, Mr Garnaut said, “although things are bad, they will keep on getting worse if the concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere keep increasing”. The report said there could be a 300 per cent increase in the number of days with extreme fire weather by 2067. “It’s in the interest of the whole of humanity that we move promptly towards zero net emissions,” he said. However, Mr Garnaut said, “although things are bad, they will keep on getting worse if the concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere keep increasing”. The report said there could be a 300 per cent increase in the number of days with extreme fire weather by 2067. “It’s in the interest of the whole of humanity that we move promptly towards zero net emissions,” he said. ‘What will our government do?’Over the weekend, a number of social media users in Australia started sharing the bushfire passage of the 2008 report, as fires raged across the country. ….. ‘What will our government do?’Over the weekend, a number of social media users in Australia started sharing the bushfire passage of the 2008 report, as fires raged across the country. The Rudd government accepted a number of key findings of the report including, “that a fair and effective global agreement delivering deep cuts in emissions consistent with stabilising concentrations of greenhouse gases at around 450 parts per million or lower would be in Australia’s interests”. But climate change policy went on to become both a divisive and defining issue in Australian politics in the years ahead. Mr Rudd tried but failed to pass an emissions trading scheme. A carbon tax was passed under his successor Julia Gillard but it was later overturned by then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Australia committed to the Paris Agreement under Mr Abbott but the Coalition has seen sustained criticism that it is not doing enough to curb climate change. |
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Malcolm Turnbull blasts government’s ‘right-wing’ over energy policy sabotage
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has blasted the “right wing” of the Morrison federal government for bringing down his signature energy policy, calling for it to be “reinstated now”.
On Monday, a Twitter user challenged Mr Turnbull for only “calling for coherent energy policies now [he’s] out of government”
The former PM responded by defending his proposed National Energy Guarantee (NEG), which faced opposition in government ranks and was later ditched.
“The National Energy Guarantee was a coherent integration of climate and energy policy,” he tweeted.
“It was sabotaged by the right-wing of the Coalition and their supporters in the media and coal lobby and finally abandoned by Morrison Government. It should be reinstated now.”
The policy was intended to deal with rising energy prices as well as cutting emissions.
Mr Turnbull was later dumped as the leader and his successor Scott Morrison announced the NEG “is dead”…… https://www.sbs.com.au/news/malcolm-turnbull-blasts-government-s-right-wing-over-energy-policy-sabotage
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