Galen Winsor - The Nuclear Scam - Nuclear Waste & Radium Are Probably Safe

SUMMARY:

Introduction (00:05): Galen Windsor introduces his lecture addressing the misconceptions surrounding nuclear energy and radon, emphasizing his practical experiences and skepticism towards government regulations regarding radiation.

Radon and Uranium Discussion (00:43): Windsor critiques the high costs associated with radon mitigation in homes, using his high-grade uranium rock as a case study to challenge common perceptions of radiation danger.

Gamma Radiation Experiment (01:19): He demonstrates how a gamma radiation meter reacts to different materials, questioning the narrative that gamma radiation is the most dangerous and highlighting the insignificance of his hand as a barrier when measuring radiation.

Confiscation Incident (02:56): Windsor shares a story about government agents confiscating his uranium samples, asserting that his knowledge of radiation is undervalued by authorities, as he claims to safely consume uranium during his lectures.

Critique of Federal Regulations (16:54): He critiques the inefficacy of government regulations regarding nuclear energy, highlighting the financial burden on taxpayers while suggesting an overhaul of the current energy regulatory system.

Energy Independence Argument (22:01): Windsor advocates for decentralized energy production, arguing that small reactors could allow individuals to become energy independent, challenging the control of large governmental energy systems.

Call to Action (24:11): He concludes by emphasizing personal responsibility in addressing the issues he discusses, urging the audience to take an active role in questioning and reforming energy regulations and practices.

TRANSCRIPT

(00:05) I'm Galen Windsor and I thought I'd share a few hands on practical things that have to do with this nuclear scare scam. Now, you've heard that gamma energy, the kind of energy that comes off a rock like this, is the most penetrating, most damaging of all radiation. And not only that, here is uranium, the parent of radon, and they say if you can measure, detect radon in a home, then it's bad. If you exceed the EPA's limit, it's reason to run you out of your home.
(00:43) Spend $13,000 like they did with Stanley Watrous' house in Pennsylvania the other day to get rid of the radon to ventilate it out through. Ridiculous! Let's take take them one at a time. This is a rock that I picked up in Nattereta, Colorado. 16 weight percent uranium. High grade uranium. Hot! I read a thing the other day that says they had high grade uranium and, lo and behold, it's too hot to transport, so they had to bury it on-site.
(01:19) Oh, wonderful! Let's talk a little bit about radiation. If we can yeah, are we picking up? If you put the probe right there, the meter goes off scale and you can hear it. Alright? Hot. Radiation, gamma radiation, is the most penetrating of all radiation. Oh, is it? All it's got between the rock and the probe is my hand. Doesn't count so pretty much, does it? What if I put the rock behind me? You don't suppose I've been lying to you, do you?
(02:07) I suspect they have. Well, let's do a little bit more. I've got a black bottle. This stuff comes in white bottle. A bottle of no dose. You can send children down to the drugstore to buy no dose. All they need is money. In this are six sixty white caffeine pellets. And this one is uranium oxide, U3O8. You can't buy it for love nor money. The State of Washington sent two of their Gestapo agents over to my home to confiscate uranium samples on the December 17.
(02:56) I've got a challenge. I'd like to have somebody in the room volunteer to take all of this bottle or all of this bottle. The only things I'll tell you is that one of them won't hurt you and the other one will kill you. Do you want the white stuff or the black stuff? White stuff? You do, there's enough in there to kill four men your size. The government says, We've got to ban this material. It's radioactive.
(03:33) Radioactive. Let's check it from the bottom of the bottle. Not very radioactive. Let's take the cap off. Oh, goodness! Very radioactive. This instrument will only count gamma energy. It's just energy. Light's coming from those lights, only you're getting lots of infrared from the lights as well as ultraviolet. Energy response, and it's very carefully damped to only discriminate it so it only gets the energy that comes from this.
(04:12) I don't want it to respond to a light, just to this. It cost me a thousand dollars to get an instrument that will just respond to this and not to that. This is radioactive by any definition. Radioactive material giving off radiation that is read by an instrument like this. The daughter of this radon can not be read on this instrument because it gives off alpha particles. An alpha particle is a di positive particle that comes from the nucleus.
(04:45) It has two protons and two neutrons, therefore an atomic weight of four, and it's minus two electrons, and if you grab it with a high ionization potential counter, it'll count. But if it travels two inches in air or through a piece of paper, it picks up electrons, two beta particles if you will, and becomes helium gas and it won't count on an ionization chamber. Did you know that this thing right here has given off helium?
(05:15) Gas, alpha, comes from uranium. Okay, radioactive material. You pour it out in the hand, and that's radioactive contamination. Is it radioactive? Yeah, it is. Very radioactive. Now, decontamination is nothing but scooping it back up and putting it into the bottle. I just now decontaminated my hand. No, I didn't do such a good job. Not good at all. Is it still radioactive? Yeah, that's called residual radioactivity.
(06:01) Now, under the decontamination rules of the government, when you decontaminate somebody like this that's that contaminated, and this is certainly a reportable incident under current DOE regulations, when you're decontaminating it, it has to go down controlled drain so that you don't disperse radioactivity. Do I qualify as a controlled drain? That material that I just ate is not soluble in body fluids.
(06:44) It's fired at nine forty degrees C where it becomes U3O8 known in the industry as HCl insoluble. In other words, it will not dissolve in concentrated hydrochloric acid hot. Your stomach has tenth normal hydrochloric acid in it, so it won't even dissolve. The stuff is so fine that it has no texture to it. It doesn't even feel rough. So it's tasteless, odorless, has no texture. How is it supposed to hurt me?
(07:22) Because I've been eating this on lecture tour for two years, the State of Washington felt it necessary to confiscate my uranium samples so that I would be safe. Doctor. Fulton from the Hanford Environmental Health Foundation called up and he says, 'Hey, I heard one of your guys OD'd on uranium today, Galen.' And we talked for a little while and he says, oh, that was you!' And I says, 'Listen, I can eat all that stuff I want.' He says, 'It'll ruin your kidneys.
(07:50) How are your kidneys?' 'They're fine.' well, you should have chelated within four hours. You guys are going to follow me around the country and give me chelating agents every four hours after I eat it on lecture tour? He says, We'll give you any medical assistance that you need, Galen. We don't want anything to happen to you. I said, Does that include turning out the federal SWAT team four days ago to get me?
(08:15) Where are these guys coming from? Well, here's a piece of metal, density of 19. 19. If you know your chemistry and physics, you know that there are only two metals that have that density: plutonium and uranium. Radioactive pyrophoric density of 19. Outside of a laboratory, most of you can't tell me whether this is uranium, plutonium, or mixture of the two. Now, I said that it's heavy and it is. Let's see if it's radioactive.
(08:57) Yeah, it is. Pyrophoric. What does that mean? Pyro fire. Black on the end. The spark that just came off there is fire burned. If it's plutonium, I just contaminated this area of Arizona in excess of the EPA's limit for one square mile of surface. Somebody laughed. It's serious! The end of progress altogether says that I just contaminated you in excess of the limit for one square mile. It's now silver on the end.
(09:45) Tomorrow it'll be black because it self oxidizes, this black color like this, all by itself. Plutonium does that and uranium does that. Is it hazardous? Yeah, it is because they take depleted uranium metal and make it into 50 caliber bullets, fire them from shoulder held weapons. In 1976, they obsoleted tank warfare with these things because it only takes one dog face with one weapon to knock out a 65 ton tank.
(10:20) It'll go through three inches of armor plate and when it comes out the other side it's that white hot spark that we just made. And the five men in that tank are dead because it'll burn all of the oxygen out of the air and burn their flesh. 1976, they obsoleted tank warfare and you never even knew that. They make 10,000 of those bullets every day in The United States. We've got enough in the arsenal to sink all of Russia's tanks, and our boys in the Defense Department don't even talk about it.
(10:55) Yeah, it's hazardous to your health. Reminds me, lead is hazardous to your health too, isn't it? Particularly if it's in a 45 slug like this and it hits you right here going about 2,600 feet per second. It's not material, it's the impact from the velocity. Let's be very specific in the words that we use. This particular chunk of lead came out of a human body. My son, who's a deputy sheriff, thought maybe I could use it on tour.
(11:29) That's called dying of lead poisoning. Anything less is a figment of imagination because it's not soluble in body fluid either. This is a pellet of cobalt 59. If you put it in a reactor into a neutron field, you can convert cobalt 59 to cobalt 60, which gives off a gamma. It becomes the source that doctors use patients to 7,000 Roentgen for one patient. The total dose absorbed by radiation workers at 3 Mile Island in the last six years is something like 1,500 Rentken.
(12:17) Five times more given to a single individual in a doctor's facility. Now, do you know why I say that the federal regulations are absurd? And you live by those federal regulations, maybe you're being absurd too? Now, a pellet of cobalt-sixty this size got shipped by mistake to Mexico, got diluted into 5,000 tons of iron, some of the reinforcing rod came up to Los Alamos, New Mexico, and they said, 'Hey, that stuff's radioactive.' Understand that this single pellet diluted roughly a factor of 1,000,000,000 was what they were reading on a detector like this at Los Alamos.
(13:01) And so they pulled back table legs that were in Spokane, Washington made out of the same batch because it was hot and radioactive and it would burn you. When the pellet pellet itself could be held in your hand like that for a few minutes without it burning you. Now, Christ walked the earth a billion minutes ago. If I could scratch this stretch this pellet out into a wire and it went clear around the earth and right back here to Phoenix, a billionth of this amount is 1.7 inches of that wire so stretched out.
(13:36) Stagger your mind? It ought to. Now, let's try a little game. The EPA says that five picocuries per liter of air is the limit for two twenty two radon. And they handle that like it's a real number. Madame Curie says that one gram of radium equals one Cure Cure equals 2.22 times 10 to the twelfth disintegrations per minute, and that's the basic definition of radioactivity. How many disintegrations is this?
(14:41) Should we find out? And the EPA, in its wisdom, says that 11 disintegrations per minute from one liter of air, you have exceeded the limit. You know what I did the other day? I've been having a little tough with some legal authorities up in my house, so I took one of these bottles of uranium like this, and I dissolved it in a Erlenmeyer flask with nitric acid. And I got a crack in the basement floor, and I squirted that whole bottle into that crack on the basement floor in acid solution so that it'll drive that counter off scale any place along a 10 foot section of that crack that I put.
(15:36) When they bring the radon measurement in there, can you know what the radon's going to do? It's going to go off scale in their measurement. It won't go that high. If House with 17 times this limit in it was caused to spend $13,000 and give it national TV coverage, press coverage, think what Galen Windsor's house is like. I went to the trouble to notify my congressman about it, Mike Lawrence, the manager of the Department of Energy in the Pacific Northwest, my state representative, Ray Isaacson, and a few other astute people, including the banker, and the liars, and the appeal court.
(16:19) What are they going to do with that? I set them up on that last Thursday, and I come down to Phoenix, so I escaped the fall to all. What I'm saying to you is that the federal regulations are absurd. The congressmen that put them into place ought to be fired. They ought to be sent home. The regulators, what do you do with them? Quit paying them. The taxpayer electorate elects those people to go out and do a job.
(16:54) Why do you continue to pay them? When they're teaching you baloney? When they're putting in regulations that don't make any sense? Cut it out. Quit paying them. Fire them. Send them home. Term I grew up with says, Can them. Is it easy? Apparently not. You haven't got the job done. Majority of the Congress is irresponsible, amoral, atheistic, irresponsible. Let's see, how many more adjectives can I drum up? But that many.
(17:26) Let me tell you, we as a people sent a bunch of rascals out to the energy store with a signed blank check, and we say, Hey fellows, if you run out of money, just go build us a good power plant. If you run out of money, come back. We'll give you another signed blank check and guarantee the payment out of the ratepayer's pocket.' Tennessee Valley Authority has the most nuclear reactors of any outfit in the place.
(17:55) Not one of them has produced any power since last August. Browns Ferry one, two, and three in Mississippi hasn't produced any power since last March, and they don't plan on producing any power at Browns Ferry until mid year in 'eighty six. At a million dollars a day in lost power revenue per plant and held off in the name of health and safety? Now tell me we didn't send rascals out to the energy marketplace with a signed blank check.
(18:35) They're still getting paid. Those reactors are all fully fueled, fully staffed, and just sitting there. Who's getting taken? The ratepayer. You're still paying more and more for your electricity all of the time. Now, Bonneville Power Administration says that 57% is okay for a nuclear reactor. Maine Yankee is often run at 103% availability, which means it's running over nameplate rating. Enough days out of the year that its average availability is 100%.
(19:15) Bonneville Power Administration mob, the Department of Energy, says that 57% availability is okay. That means that you can let those things set down 43% of the year and that's judged as an acceptable performance on the part of the government. There's an obvious answer: get the government out of the energy regulating business. Turn those plants over to people who will run them efficiently a 100% of the time.
(19:42) When we put in zero release containment, we started playing games. About the time that we proved that a nuclear reactor has no measurable impact upon the environment, that's when they bottled them up, put catalytic recombiners on them. Some of the reactors in Texas were designed not to breathe for eight years expense. Why? When you bottle up a reactor like TMI-two does, then you get radiolytic hydrogen and indeed they had a radiolytic hydrogen burn at TMI-two.
(20:12) And they moaned and they groaned about that and all they had to do was open and the let the breezes blow through. You don't need containment on them. I'm going up to Colorado this weekend to meet with the Uranium Producers Association, and they're upset because the government is dumping uranium on the market and ruining the price of the commodity that they get their bread and butter from. But what they're unaware of is that the Grand Junction operation office is going to issue a contract so that the new operator has a $25,000,000 budget over the next five years, 80% of which will be spent for remedial action.
(20:57) Where you take this material, dig it up, if you find it counts on a Geiger counter, can have them come in and change out the whole front yard of your house. Give you a new front yard, new foundation under your house at government expense. If you don't do it, they'll take you down to the courthouse, blacklist your property, so that you have to remove the radioactivity at your own expense before it can be sold.
(21:18) Now, do you know what I did when I took that uranium solution and poured it into the crack in my house? I set up the United States government, and that episode is about to be played. Did I do it on purpose? Yeah, I did. Just like I used to dive into that swimming pool and drink that cesium contaminated water. I found out that it doesn't hurt me. You need to find out that it doesn't hurt me or you. In fact, the only reason for the existence of these big transcontinent distribution lines would be if they could compete with a small mass produced reactor sitting in your backyard.
(22:01) Why don't they want you to? Because Because they are the federal energy cartel. They like to set the price, the total availability, and whether you can hook onto it and if you don't pay your bill, cut you off. That's called power, domain, and control, and they like that. They do not want you to be energy independent. If you had one of these setting in every 10 block area in Phoenix, you could tell the rest of the world to go get lost.
(22:39) Oh, there's another use for that heat. You could heat your homes in the wintertime or you could cool them in the summertime with it. Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, they call it, HVAC. In countries where it freezes, you could run that hot water out and chase the frost away in the spring and in the fall. And they found out that plants grow faster in warm water anyway, so you'd irrigate with it all summer.
(23:08) So cooling towers are called 'wasting towers'. They throw over 50% of the heat away. The other morning coming out of Tri Cities, WNP2 was putting its 700 MW electric up through the clouds, eight seventy they were running at. And the clouds were laying all over the ground and there was a little ice cream cone right out there, and I said, There's WNP2. It snows five inches every night out of WNP2 and the rest of us don't get any.
(23:44) Where'd the water come from? That's cooling the heat from the condenser cooler. You should have a business right out there, an oil cracking plant, something taking that heat and using it. Like they built at Midland, Michigan ten years ago and they've never used. And so Dow Chemical is suing the utility because they never produced the steam for their chemical plant right alongside it. We got troubles in this country.
(24:11) I'm telling you what the problem is. The doing something about it responsibility is yours.