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A fatal accident occurred yesterday in Gasconade County. The State Highway Patrol says it happened after seven o'clock last night on Highway 50 and Highway A. The patrol says 24-year-old Amanda Williman of Owensville was killed in the crash when she pulled off Highway A onto Highway 50 into the path of an eastbound car driven by 35-year-old Shawn Swan of Gerald. Williman was dead at the scene. A passenger, 26-year-old Justin Guetersloh of Cuba, suffered moderate injuries and Swan sustained moderate injuries as well. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Williman and Guetersloh were not wearing seatbelts.
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Chilean ash cloud grounds Australian flights again
By the CNN Wire Staff
June 21, 2011
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(CNN) -- An ash cloud drifting around the world for a second time after spewing from a Chilean volcano more than two weeks ago is once again grounding commercial jets and stranding thousands of passengers in Australia.
After grounding flights across the country Tuesday, Qantas announced that all scheduled international flights in and out of Sydney and Melbourne were cancelled for Wednesday as well.The cancellations include scheduled trips across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand.
The June 4 eruption of Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in the Chilean Andes Mountains forced the shutdown of flights in and out of at least 10 Australian cities Tuesday. The same ash cloud spawned by the fiery South American volcano also forced major flight cancellations Down Under two Sundays ago.
The airlines' decision to ground the flights was based on information provided by the Australian Volcanic Ash Advisory Center.
"The volcano has remained active and as of the 9th of June, the ash plume from the original eruption has travelled across the southern Atlantic Oceans and under Africa to stretch into the Indian Ocean," the advisory center stated. "It is not unprecedented for volcanic ash to remain suspended for long time periods."
Qantas and Virgin suspended flights in and and out of Adelaide, Canberra and Mildura for the entire day Tuesday. The grounding of flights in and out of the southern coast cities of Adelaide and Port Lincoln by Qantas started at 6:30 a.m. local time.
The airlines also suspended scheduled afternoon flights in Sydney, home to the nation's busiest airport. Qantas canceled all domestic flights in and out of Sydney, as well as flights to and from New Zealand, after 3:00 p.m. local time. Qantas also placed several scheduled international flights in Sydney "under review," with the exception of its scheduled 2:15 p.m. Sydney-Singapore flight to London.
"Safety is our first priority and a number of flights have been cancelled or rerouted to avoid the volcanic ash cloud," Qantas stated on its website. "Qantas sincerely regrets the inconvenience caused by these weather conditions and a full fare waiver is in place."
Virgin canceled all service in and out of Sydney, Melbourne and the Tasmanian cities of Hobart and Launceston beginning at 4:00 p.m. local time.
"With a number of major ports ceasing normal operation, Virgin Australia strongly recommends guests re-evaluate their need for travel," the airline stated on its website. "For guests who must travel, we recommend alternatives to air-travel be considered."
Jetstar, Qantas' discount airline canceled all flights in and out of Sydney and Newcastle Tuesday, as well as all scheduled flights between Melbourne and Perth. Tiger Airways, meanwhile, canceled all of its Tuesday flights in Australia.
The eruption of the Chilean volcano sent plumes of smoke more than six miles into the air, filling an otherwise bright blue sky that day with a massive stream of white smoke.
Chile is located on the so-called "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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Fukushima: Strontium levels up to 240 times over legal limit near plant
Ethan A. Huff Natural News
June 21, 2011
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Representing the first time the substance has been detected at the crippled plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported on Sunday that seawater and groundwater samples taken near the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan have tested positive for radioactive strontium. And according to a recent report in The Japan Times, levels of strontium detected were up to 240 times over the legal limit, indicating a serious environmental and health threat.
Radioactive strontium, which is known to accumulate in bones and eventually lead to diseases like cancer and leukemia, is one of at least three “hot particles” being continually released by the damaged plant, according to experts. The others include radioactive cesium and plutonium, both of which are implicated in causing birth defects, cancer, and death.
“We are discovering hot particles everywhere in Japan, even in Tokyo,” said Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president with 39 years of nuclear engineering experience, to Al Jazeera. “Scientists are finding these everywhere. Over the last 90 days these hot particles have continued to fall and are being deposited in high concentrations. A lot of people are picking these up in car engine air filters.”
TEPCO has allegedly installed a new water decontamination system that it claims will eventually help filter dangerous radioactive isotopes from polluted water, and thus limit environmental and human exposure to the poisons. But that system has already run into several problems as flow rates have been lower than intended.
“Fukushima has three nuclear reactors exposed and four fuel cores exposed,” added Gundersen. “You probably have the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactor cores because of the fuel cores, and they are all in desperate need of being cooled, and there is no means to cool them effectively.”
Al Jazeera also reports that a nuclear waste advisor to the Japanese government recently explained that roughly 966 square kilometers (km), or 600 square miles, around Fukushima are now uninhabitable due to the unfolding disaster. This massive dead zone area is the equivalent size of 17 Manhattans placed next to each other. Sources for this story include: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-… http://english.aljazeera.net/indept…
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Nuclear Power Spent Rod Storage Worries World Wide Dilemma NO NEW NUKE PLANTS ANYTIME SOON (3 Parts) Japan Admits 3 Nuclear Meltdowns, More Radiation Leaked into Sea; U.S. Nuclear Waste Poses Deadly Risks.
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Former senior policy adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Energy and now a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. His new report is called “Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the US: Reducing the Deadly Risks of Storage.”
Almost three months after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan, new radiation “hot spots” may require the evacuation of more areas further from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility. Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency recently admitted for the first time that full nuclear meltdowns occurred at three of the plant’s reactors, and more than doubled its estimate for the amount of radiation that leaked from the plant in the first week of the disaster in March. “What they failed to mention is that they discharged an equally large amount into the ocean,” says our guest Robert Alvarez, former senior policy adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Energy. “As [the radiation] goes up the food chain, it accumulates. By the time it reaches people who consume this food, the levels are higher than they originally were when they entered the environment.” Alvarez also discusses his new report on the vulnerabilities and hazards of stored spent fuel at U.S. reactors in the United States. Then we go to Tokyo to speak with Aileen Mioko Smith, executive director of the group Green Action. She says citizens leading their own monitoring efforts are calling for additional evacuations, especially for young children and pregnant women.
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