Feb. 8, 2010
An INCO Cover Up Links Huntington to Seabrook, Indian Point Reactor Per Village Voice
Clarifications on C.C.L.T. Acronym ; There Are Two of Them
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Along came a statement from a reliable source, INCO had allegedly messed up materials at a nuclear plant in New York. One problem: The time frame was after the ‘secret’ Huntington Pilot Plant/Reduction Pilot Plant closed. But , not, before it was buried in a 150 foot long trench in Piketon, Ohio on the Portsmouth Diffusion Plant site.
Insight into that statement comes in a Village Voice column, Geiger Counter. It was published decades ago in the late 70s.
The mothballing of the HPP/RPP plant did not terminate INCO’s involvement with the nuclear industry. Nickel, after all, had been deemed an essential component in the reaction process due to its strength. Thus, Huntington Alloys division of International Nickel manufactured piping known as INCO 82 and INCO 182, which carried water to sooth the “savage uranium fuels.” After use, coolant became dangerously radioactive.
At Public Service Electric Gas & Electric (PSE & G), the lab’s chief metallurgist, Dr. Edward Siegel, claimed he had been assigned to investigate brittling and crackling in Inco 82 & 182 welds. Dr. Siegel claimed that water temperatures would jump rapidly from 500 and 600 degrees to 1,000 degrees.
Village Voice then contact a PSE & G engineer who claimed that Dr. Siegel was trying to “believe in science” and the utility had “no INCO problems in their then operating power plants.
However, out in Iowa, at the Duane Arnold power plant, the nuclear reactor had to be shut down due to radiation leakage. And, after a fuel has been used in a reactor for a longer period of time, it decays. Remote controls cranes have to be used to replace the plutonium, which is now part of the process. What causef the leaks? Inconel 600 fittings.
CORRECTION/CLARIFICATIONS … TWO C.C.L.T. ORGANIZATIONS; Cuyahoga Land Trust, not nuclear related
In an earlier article we referred to C.C.L.T. sending letters to Ohio Congressional leaders. We mis-identified the acronym . Concerned Citizens of Lake Township, NOT Cuyahoga Community Land Trust sent the letters. We apologize for the confusion. The Land Trust , directed by Marge Misak, is a non—profit affordable housing organization in Cleveland. It will soon be known as Community Land Trust of Greater Cleveland.
While I can understand citizen's concerns about the issues at the Portsmouth plant, our organization has no expertise in this area and would not take a position on it,” Ms. Misak wrote.
And, another scientific clarification:
Chris Borello of Concerned Citizens of Lake Township indicated, EPA 's method was (wrongly) geared toward "naturally occurring " radiation, vs. man-mades like Plutonium. Therefore, it has been shown that this shoddy method, which was never meant for raw, untreated toxic dump water at Superfund Sites like IEL, but rather, was meant for finished, treated public water systems, presumably NOT near a toxic/ radiation waste site, ) can mask or underestimate the presence of this deadly material being at a site leaking into the groundwater.
Interesting, he found something ironic in the “imagine digging a hole and dumping rail cars” opening statement, as a landfill operator, Charles Kittinger, testified in Federal Court in 2001 in Cleveland that the US Army buried large "egg"-shaped containers of what he was informed contained Plutonium....
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An INCO Cover Up Links Huntington to Seabrook, Indian Point Reactor Per Village Voice
Clarifications on C.C.L.T. Acronym ; There Are Two of Them
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Along came a statement from a reliable source, INCO had allegedly messed up materials at a nuclear plant in New York. One problem: The time frame was after the ‘secret’ Huntington Pilot Plant/Reduction Pilot Plant closed. But , not, before it was buried in a 150 foot long trench in Piketon, Ohio on the Portsmouth Diffusion Plant site.
Insight into that statement comes in a Village Voice column, Geiger Counter. It was published decades ago in the late 70s.
The mothballing of the HPP/RPP plant did not terminate INCO’s involvement with the nuclear industry. Nickel, after all, had been deemed an essential component in the reaction process due to its strength. Thus, Huntington Alloys division of International Nickel manufactured piping known as INCO 82 and INCO 182, which carried water to sooth the “savage uranium fuels.” After use, coolant became dangerously radioactive.
At Public Service Electric Gas & Electric (PSE & G), the lab’s chief metallurgist, Dr. Edward Siegel, claimed he had been assigned to investigate brittling and crackling in Inco 82 & 182 welds. Dr. Siegel claimed that water temperatures would jump rapidly from 500 and 600 degrees to 1,000 degrees.
Village Voice then contact a PSE & G engineer who claimed that Dr. Siegel was trying to “believe in science” and the utility had “no INCO problems in their then operating power plants.
However, out in Iowa, at the Duane Arnold power plant, the nuclear reactor had to be shut down due to radiation leakage. And, after a fuel has been used in a reactor for a longer period of time, it decays. Remote controls cranes have to be used to replace the plutonium, which is now part of the process. What causef the leaks? Inconel 600 fittings.
CORRECTION/CLARIFICATIONS … TWO C.C.L.T. ORGANIZATIONS; Cuyahoga Land Trust, not nuclear related
In an earlier article we referred to C.C.L.T. sending letters to Ohio Congressional leaders. We mis-identified the acronym . Concerned Citizens of Lake Township, NOT Cuyahoga Community Land Trust sent the letters. We apologize for the confusion. The Land Trust , directed by Marge Misak, is a non—profit affordable housing organization in Cleveland. It will soon be known as Community Land Trust of Greater Cleveland.
While I can understand citizen's concerns about the issues at the Portsmouth plant, our organization has no expertise in this area and would not take a position on it,” Ms. Misak wrote.
And, another scientific clarification:
Chris Borello of Concerned Citizens of Lake Township indicated, EPA 's method was (wrongly) geared toward "naturally occurring " radiation, vs. man-mades like Plutonium. Therefore, it has been shown that this shoddy method, which was never meant for raw, untreated toxic dump water at Superfund Sites like IEL, but rather, was meant for finished, treated public water systems, presumably NOT near a toxic/ radiation waste site, ) can mask or underestimate the presence of this deadly material being at a site leaking into the groundwater.
Interesting, he found something ironic in the “imagine digging a hole and dumping rail cars” opening statement, as a landfill operator, Charles Kittinger, testified in Federal Court in 2001 in Cleveland that the US Army buried large "egg"-shaped containers of what he was informed contained Plutonium....
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