The U. S. S. KURSK:
              GENERIC ENDEMIC Navy (SSN, SSBN, CVN) / Utility

             NUC"EL"AR "ACCIDENTS"/TERRORISTS TARGETS

                      WAITING TO HAPPEN
(Courtesy:

Westin"KL"ouse, G.-E., P. & W./U.-T., A.B.B./C.-E., B. & W., Elgin, Inco, Haynes, Cabot, Prudential..., Morgan/Brown-Louis-Githers-Ahn-…-Ashpahani, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, and metals/alloys-TRADERS: Perrot, Enron!!!, Andersen!!! …)

                                                        "Señor Admirálíssimo El Exigente ("OsamaBin")von"

                                                                             Dr. E. Siegel"

                                                                              Consultant

                                                                 ThermAlloy Technology Ltd. (TAT(L))

                        (Avenger of U.K. Admiral Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1492 British Fleet Vanquishing of the Spanish Armada)

                                              (a.k.a. Lawrence of "Arabia"(???) Siegel of Brooklyn

                                                                 messages c/o (858) 270-5111

                                                                        tat@tnl-online.com

· very recent Davis-Bessie (a.k.a. "Betty Davis" (sorry Betty!)) B.&W.. P.W.R. (with water-temperature @ ~642 F,(a.k.a. "666") simply UNbelievable nuc"EL"ar "accident" WAITING TO HAPPEN (see www.toledoblade.com, Tom Henry (3/12/02, 4/6/02, 4/12/02) and ongoing!!!; www.nirs.org, Front page/March Newsletter: "Millimeters from Catastrophe"; …, M. Wald, New York Times (poor by-rote NRC/DoE-shill coverage)); Keith Brown, on Bill Moyers "Now" (1/24/03)

· very recent Hamaoka I Toshiba- G.-E. B.W.R., Chubu Electric Co. Japan (www.japantimes.com (11/10/01, 11/17/01, 12/26/01) FAILURE of ALL INCO-182/82 transition-welds EXACTLY AS SIEGEL (among many many others!!!) PREDICTED SO LONG AGO!!! (1974-1978) with systematic/systematically ignored by: A.E.C., E.R.D.A., N.R.C., D.o.E. [see: Lawrence Pringle book, "Nuc‘EL’ar Power: From Physics to Politics"(1979)] ; Intl. Conf. on Magnetic Alloys and Oxides, The Technion, Haifa, Israel (8-9/1977); Jnl. Magnetism & Magnetic Materials 7, 31 (1978); Ana Mayo, The Village Voice, p. 40 (8/21/78); Howard French, Tokyo Bureau Chief, The New York Times;…

· very recent Barensbuttel (Germany) P.W.R. and Temlin (Slovakia) P.W.R. ((supposedly)"repaired" by Westin"KL"ouse!!!) - (2001) - see: www.nirs.org (2001); www.japantimes.com(?); …

· recent (5/19/00; Gibraltar/Algericas Bay) H. M. S. Tire"less"d SSN nuclear attack-submarine [Reuters News dispatch: (San Diego Union Tribune, p. 2, 10/22/00) but "amazingly" in no other national U. S. paper: neither: N.Y.T., nor L. A. T., nor W.-P.,...-talk about managed news!!!]; [also: in El Pais (Madrid, Spain major daily (10/31/00) - on WWW) & Fiona Botsford (and Christian Fraser?) on B.B.C. News, [N.P.T.V.; KPBS-Ch.15 (10/31/00), in which Spanish Prime Minister demanded to British Prime Minister that the U.K. "tow it our of Iberian waters forthwith!"], now renamed the H. M. S. "Aged" & Tired) and dry-dock/inspections of whole rest (12) of U.K. SSN nuclear attack-sub fleet, necessitating U. S. Navy guarding of their U. K. whole SSBN nuclear fleet ballistic-missile boats & G.-E.-KAPL core-meltdown diagnosis (518) 587-3245 / Jackshal@aol.com·        plus older French nuclear attack-submarine SSN Emeraud steam-"leak" killing Captain and Nine Crew (Boston Globe, p.25, 3/31/94 ),· plus recent dire warning on Internet by John. P. Shannon and Bob Stater, [G.-E. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) retired Nuclear Engineers, Former Health and Safety Manager, designers of Navy nuclear-reactor cores for some thirty years; @ 262 Jones Rd., Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 12866 / tel: (518) 587-3245 / Jackshal@aol.com] that the H.M.S. Tire"less"d , with no loss-of-coolant (LOC) emergency-core-cooling-system (ECCS) [as do all other nuclear Navy ships of any/all types and any/all countries similarly lack] actually suffered a loss-of-coolant-"accident" (LOCA; "China-Syndrome") on 5/19/00 and is then/ still(?) now(?) stuck powerless and unmovable in Gibraltar/Algereicas Bay, and that ...                                                  · ALL 57 U.S. SSN attack-submarines’ nuclear-reactor cores (which they designed for 30 years) should be as susceptible to and hence suffer similar LOCA "China-Syndrome" problems in the future!!!

·  early unheeded by both nuclear Navy(ies)/commercial nuclear utilities metallurgical dire warnings of (so MIScalled/MISmarketed) "super"alloy generic endemic "Wigner’s-disease"/OVERageing-embrittlement/"Ostwald-ripening" thermal-leading-to-mechanical ("TLTM")-INstability both in-fabrication and or/ in-service problems warnings:

·  (the) Dr. Eugene P. Wigner (he who took Einstein’s letter to Roosevelt), Jnl. Applied Physics 17, 857 (1946)
·  Dr. E. Siegel (Metallurgist), Jnl. Magnetism & Magnetic Materials, 7, 312 (1978) @ Intl. Conf. on Magnetic Alloys and Oxides, (ICMAO), Technion, Haifa, Israel (8-9/1977)

·  Ana Mayo, the Village Voice, "If Leaks Could Kill", Geiger Counter Column, p. 40 (8/21/78)

· Dr. G. Lai, Metallurgical Transactions AIME, 9A, 827 (1978) - especially unbelievable Fig. 2/y-axis!!!)

· Dr. J. R. Kattus, Code # 4112, U. S. DoD Aerospace Structural Materials Handbook, Battelle (1983)

·  Dr. E. Siegel (abstract) 1978 - prediction of Monju, Japan Breeder Reactor nuclear "accident" (Japan Times, front page (12/10-12/95) & thereafter - on WWW in English)

·  E. C. (esp. France & Germany) mandatory commercial nuclear-reactor pressure-vessel heads and cooling piping replacements due to embrittlement-cracking, … (see: R. Rollnick, The European, (1/14/93) front page headlines; Greenpeace Zurich press-releases (~1990’s);…)

·  E. Savage and E. Nippies, Jnl. Welding (1963-67) - many technical papers on "super"alloy welds generic embrittlement

·  Howard Richards(RIP), metallurgist, PSE&G (largest utility/N. J.) suppressed dire multi-decade warnings, suppressed by: P. S. E. & G., A. E. C., E. R. D. A., D. o. E., N. R. C.,…

·  Professor W. B. Pearson, renowned Canadian metallurgist, President (ret.)University of Waterloo - multi-decade dire warnings of generic "super"alloy overageing-embrittlement catastrophic-failures in nuclear power-plants

·  R.M.S.S. TITANIC, (W. Broad, N.Y.T., reprinted in San Diego Union Tribune, p. E2, (2/4/98)) which sank because of (closely related) metallurgical embrittlement of steel bolts and hull plates,...

Warnings, Portents, Continuing / Ongoing Disasters, and Trends are Clear / Undeniable!!!

Do Governments have the courage to ACT NOW
 

 

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