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Politics Trumps Nuclear Science is a social scientist’s non-fiction review of the road from atom splitting to thermodynamic warfare, leading to the development of massive stockpiles of lethal and indestructible radioactive waste for which the U.S. government has repeatedly failed to build a safe repository. The deadly waste has been tossed into unlined pits, buried in now-corroding barrels, and even left unsecured at closed plant processing lines. A long series of sad decisions leaves a record of inept attempts to resolve the issue. Unsuccessful, the government first tried forcing Kansas to allow an old Carey salt mine to become the national radioactive dump site. Underground aquifers would have washed the lethal waste away to unknown destinations. There were also plans to shoot the waste into space where an accident would have poisoned the atmosphere. Another plan involved burying it under the ice sheets, which are now melting. The State Department stopped a plan to dump it in the Gulf of Mexico, half way between Mexican and U.S. shores. Hundreds of thousands of barrels were dumped into the Pacific Ocean, 27 miles off San Francisco's shore, and now leaking. Billions of dollars were spent on the cancelled and incomplete deep geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. In a futile effort to launch a Nuclear Renaissance, the nuclear energy industry pushes the hype, "It is cheap, clean, and safe". A minimum cradle-to-grave total cost of nuclear energy includes mining tons of uranium ore associated with high rates of lung cancer, dangerous irradiation of highly radioactive fuel assemblies in aging nuclear reactors, storing the resultant highly radioactive nuclear waste in vulnerable cooling pools, and exorbitant government (tax payer) subsidies to build and decommission nuclear power plants. Constructing nuclear power plants is like building buildings without toilets. No technology exists to dispose of their waste. The only practical resolution is technologically boosted transmutation. The U.S. government cancelled transmutation R&D decades ago and currently has no plan to resume the research. Europe is developing a transmutation process to reduce the volume, strength, and half-life of its nuclear waste. The process will salvage their nuclear industry while America's is in its death throes.
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Sheet of Skin for Lebensraum. A sequel to Atomic Wilderness, this book describes a radioactive weapon (Polonium 210), developed by Egyptian nuclear scientists to poison Nazi war criminals who escaped conviction and execution at Nuremberg. The scientist’s work is driven by the horrors of Nazi extermination camps (rape, torture, horrid medical experiments, and mass cremations). If ingested, Polonium 210 will melt victims’ internal organs and dissolve their bones. It was produced by burning the uranium fuel of a hijacked U.S. Navy nuclear submarine, armed with 14 Polaris A-1 nuclear missiles. Offered a bottle of polluted German Altbier, their first victim is poisoned and left dying in agony on a deserted stretch of Africa's Skeleton Coast. Before his death, he reveals a plot to use the hijacked submarine’s Polaris missiles in a withering attack on American cities. Millions will be annihilated. Learning this, the scientists return the sub to the UN peace keeping complex on the Suez Canal and warn of the impending assault. Another revelation follows: a secret Nazi organization is mass producing Polonium 210 to dominate the world, raising the warfare bar from nuclear to chemical weaponry. Waterways, food supplies, and pharmaceutical products will be poisoned by releases from drone fleets. The Egyptian scientists flee to a secret lab up the Amazon River where they attempt to produce an antidote to save the world.
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The Antidote is the sequel to Atomic Wilderness. In a desperate hunt for an antidote to the deadly poison, Polonium 210, scientists trek into the Peruvian jungle in search of medicine gardens belonging to an isolated Amazonian tribe. The antidote must be found before a secret organization, founded by escaped Nazi war criminals, produce enough of the toxic poison to dominate the world. Without the antidote, the Nazis can pollute all environmental resources necessary to sustain human life on the planet. While searching for the antidote, nuclear scientists uncover another Nazi plot: mass scale organ harvesting using robotic technology to finance assembly-line production of Polonium 210. Isolated tribes across the globe will be slaughtered, removing their vital organs, selling them on lucrative Asian markets, and processing cadaver remains into fertilizers and food fillers. Huge reefer ships, staged along rivers and coastlines, will be outfitted with cryogenics storage units to preserve cadaver cellular viability until their body parts are sold to black market dealers in the dark world of transplant tourism.
Atomic Wilderness is a fast moving, globe hopping novel about a deadly radioactive poison created by a team of nuclear scientists. Their mission is wresting control of atom splitting from nuclear armed governments and their military. Convinced that nature’s atomic power should be returned to scientific control, in order to prevent world nuclear warfare, they threaten to release their toxic weapon unless all nuclear-powered nations agree to destroy their atomic weaponry and nuclear waste stockpiles. If released, the scientists’ poison (Kineococcus radiotolerans) will feed on all forms of radioactive energy, the strongest emitters first and ultimately humans, which contain the lower emitter, potassium 40. Without a universal agreement to submit to the scientist's demand, the world is doomed.
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