I do remember something about nuclear batterys being stolen from light houses. The people that did that are no longer with us.
http://www.bellona.no/en/international/russia/nuke-weapons/nonproliferation/28067.html Nuclear lighthouses to be replaced
OSLO - The USA will give Russia aid to replace its nuclear lighthouses — many located along the coast of the Kola Peninsula and other places in the Arctic. But the Russian authorities cannot say precisely where all of them are located. Nuclear-powered lighthouses can lead to environmental contamination and represent a serious proliferation threat if diverted to terrorists.
Lighthouses powered by a strong radiation (RTG) are located in remote areas along the Russian Arctic coast.
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Thomas Nilsen, 2003-02-02 14:46
Exactly ten years ago Bellona reported the whereabouts of 132 nuclear-powered lighthouses situated along the north coast in Russia. The closest one was just a few dozen meters from the Norwegian border. Since 1993 Bellona has warned of the possible radioactive leaks into the environment and the threat of theft of the radioactive strontium-90 in the unguarded and distantly situated lighthouses.
The lighthouses are located in the area without available electricity sources. They are powered by so-called radio thermoelectric generators, or RTGs, in which the strong strontium source of energy produces heat to power a generator. The generator finally produces electricity to power the lamp in the lighthouse.
Strontium-90 is a waste product generated in a nuclear reactor. The USSR had access to this product thanks to the large reprocessing facilities in Siberia. Similar power sources were used in distant radars, weather stations and satellites since the mid-1960s.
According to the dismissed environmental committee, Russia possessed 500 operative RTG.
Leaks and theft
Strontium-90 has half-live decay period of 30 years, so the lighthouses can operate without any inspection for many years. Bellona considers the lighthouses to be a threat to the environment's safety. It can take many years before any theft or radioactive leak is noticed, as the lighthouses are not inspected.
Such lighthouses are situated along the coast of the Kola Peninsula, around the White Sea and on Novaya Zemlya. An unknown number of lighthouses are located in Baltic Sea, along the northern sea route in Siberia and around Kamchatka in the Russian Far East.
In the beginning of the 1990s two strontium power sources were found on the coast of the Kola Peninsula not far away from the Norwegian border. The radioactive sources were taken out of the lighthouses. The people who were responsible for shipping the sources did not communicate with those responsible for moving the sources and they remained on the ground until they were accidentally discovered.
In summer 2001 two people received radioactive doses after the attempt to dismantle the lighthouse near Kandalaksha in Murmansk region. They tried to extract the lead from the lighthouse in order to sell it later as scrap metal. They were not aware of the fact that there was a strong radiation source inside the lighthouse.
Lack of information
Last summer the Russian Nuclear Regulatory specialists inspected the lighthouses in Siberia. Inspection revealed terrible facts: most of them were described as in very bad condition. The radiation levels near the lighthouses exceeded the permitted level, which indicates the possibility of radioactive leakage.
But the scariest thing was that the inspectors have not found all the lighthouses they were looking for. There is a slim chance they were stolen and a big chance that the Russian authorities simply lack the full overview of the lighthouses' locations.
At the same time representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, were desperately looking for RTG in the mountains north in the former Russian republic of Georgia. The IAEA was afraid the Chechen rebels would use the radioactive source to build a radiological dispersal device, or RDD, such as a "dirty bomb". The Chechen rebels use the area near the Georgian—Russian border for training and hiding.
The American authorities believe terrorists connected with al-Quaida where previously hiding in Georgia.
When used with conventional explosives strontium-90 would cause more serious long-term damage than any ordinary bomb. The blast region would be contaminated with radiation and the population's health will be affected for many years.
The CIA has stated that they found manuals describing the manufacture of RDDs in the al-Quaida caves in Afghanistan.
The American delegation on their boat expedition north in northern Norway last year.
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Solar batteries in the darkness
It is quite possible to change the radioactive energy source with other sources for a small price. There are lighthouses along the Norwegian northern coast that are powered with solar batteries. Even during the dark winters they function well due to a good battery capacity.
The authorities of Finnmark county in co-operation with the Russian Northern Fleet changed the energy source in the five lighthouses near the Norwegian border with a solar panel source.
Bellona’s influence
Last August Bellona together with other representatives and experts of the US Congress examined solar-powered lighthouse in Norway near the Russian border. Bellona raised concerns before over the need to change nuclear-powered lighthouses in Russia.
After the American delegation visited Norway, the Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism Threat Reduction Act was introduced on October 16 2002 by Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) and original cosponsors Lugar, Pete Domenici (R-NM), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
In mid-January this year another American delegation visited northern Norway where they inspected the solar-powered lighthouse on Reinoya Island outside Kirkenes.
The fear of nuclear terror still haunts the USA, especially after September 11 2001. Since then Americans have expressed a strong wish to assist Russia in securing its nuclear materials. Senator Richard Lugar informed Bellona in his message that he supported the initiative to allocate a part of $400m—designated for securing weapons of mass destruction in Russia—to change the power source on the nuclear-powered lighthouses.
US Senator Richard Lugar.
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
-- These RTGs are considered to be very dangerous because they hold nuclear material that might be used in a radiological weapon, or "dirty bomb". The Russian government does not have an accurate account of where all the generators are located. "We must find these units, secure them and remove the dangerous materials", Lugar (R-IN) said.
Since the break-up of the Soviet Union Senator Lugar has been a key figure in the US regarding dismantling the nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered submarines. At present he is a leader of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate.
The funding will be distributed to the MPC&A programmes to prevent nuclear smuggling and the harvesting of orphaned radiation sources for use in "dirty bombs" by terrorists. Approximately $19.7m will be spent to secure radioactive batteries and other radiation sources that could be used in RDDs.
In addition to the American assistance to change the energy sources in the lighthouses Norway will provide funding for the most important step: to help Russia to establish a system for the safe transport and reception of the old radioactive sources. Such a facility should be built at the Mayak plant at the South Urals.
News group? Never mind news group...that was in a Senate hearing.
(I was just looking for the senate hearing...but I found this site instead....I'm posting this)
KGB Controls Major Stations in U.S. Government
The above headline (which should send chills all the way down your spine!) is not meant for rhetorical effect, as some of our readers may think. It is taken directly from Jesus' message to Veronica Lueken at the September 7, 1985 Vigil. Jesus prefaced the importance of the revelation He was giving that night by stating: "...no words will be able to contain the exact knowledge that We give you this evening, whether by parable, or symbolicness, or anything that you may call scientific. This, My child and My children, is a direct Message from Heaven.... They [the KGB] are now holding the major stations in your government." That can only mean that the highest members of the U.S. government are secretly KGB agents, people who head the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, etc. And this already while Ronald Reagan was President! Our Lady stated that though he [Reagan] had a good heart, he was unable to see or understand the evil around him. They plan, Jesus asserts, to take over without meeting any resistance: "It is true, My child, that one of the KGB agents who rose to power [Khrushchev] was allowed to appear in the Senate and slam his shoe upon the table and say, 'We will take the United States without firing a shot!' Do not take this lightly, My children, for that is exactly what they are doing."
Earlier in the message that night, Our Lady had stated that "a plan has been built now in Russia to attack the United States and Canada....Your country, the Unites States, and Canada, and most of the nations of the world now, are being lined up by Russia for major strikes." Presumably She is talking about workers' strikes, which would paralyse the government and the country—which may in turn cause the world monetary crash, and then allow the government to declare a state of national emergency. Martial law would then be declared. The KGB agents would then take over the government completely.That is a possible scenario of how they would take over without having to fire a shot.
If Plan A doesn't work, then Plan B may go into effect: staging a confrontation with tthe USA. Our Lady warns that we are under constant surveillance on both shores, " as they go about in the outer waters, sailing and diving, and watching, and coming into your land, keeping with them contact with an organization called the KGB. These agents will provoke the U.S. government into a confrontation with Russia.
Perhaps this is what is going on in Yugoslavia. The latest news on that front is that NATO is planning to enforce an oil embargo at sea. They intend to board, inspect and turn away— by force if necessary—all oil tankers heading for Yugoslavian ports, and this includes Russian ships. Yeltsin has already stated that he will not allow that to happen. What will happen then? Some think that Russia is only bluffing. We shall soon see.
The Ruses of the Russian Bear Don't fall for the tricks and deceits of Russia. The changes there are only cosmetic in nature, designed to fool the West once again about their ambitions to take over the whole world.
Listen to what Our Lady said on June 18, 1992, referring to the so-called "Coup" in 1991, which supposedly buried Communism: "This is a ruse," I repeat again. This is the visage to your country...
Yeltsin: the Man of Sin
"Do you know who is in your nation now? The Man of Sin [Yeltsin]. I counseled you in the past, and I will warn you all for the last time that you have allowed to come in upon your nation a man who is a counterpart, an identical figure to his past successors.
"I tell you now, and I will not tell you again. This is the last time you will receive this counsel.
"As in the past, Lenin; as in the past, Stalin; and Khrushchev; and many others had tried to deceive the United States. They all felt that by trying to ensnare you with delusions of casting aside their communistic aspirations, that they had become as you, a free nation for all.
"I assure you, My children, there is no freedom in Russia. It is all a delusion.
"They seek the monies of the world from the nations of the world. And why do you not learn a lesson? It happened in the time of Lenin; it happened in the time of Stalin. And there you are all on the same road, ready to give billions of monies that should be given to those of your nation and the free nations of the world.
"Do not be deceived, My children, Russia is not free. It is a cosmetic act to delude you. Lenin and Stalin used the same tactics, My children. Why do you not learn from your errors?
"This man, these two men [Yeltsin, Gorbachev] are of the same creed, color, spirituality—or should I say, My children, lack of spirituality. They have a father who is the father of all liars, so what does it make them, My children—Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Gorbachev?
"That is the same old plan, My children, and those leaders of your nation are as blind as they were in the past. I tell you for your own good, My children of the United States of America, that once was a nation under God and indivisible, that you will fall! If you do not come out of your slumber now, you will fall!
Storing Armaments in Other Nations
"For it is their plan to subdue you, once they get the billions that they need in aid, to bring up the economy and buy more armaments. They have not disposed of their armaments, My child and My children. They store them in other nations. They have the same goals as their forefathers."
Defector Col. Stanislav Lunev on Russia's Plans If you refuse to believe what Heaven is telling you at Bayside, consider what the highest ranking military intelligence officer ever to have defected from Russia has to say. This happened in 1992 after the so-called "dissolution" of the Soviet Union, when Boris Yeltsin had already come to power. His assignment was to pose as a journalist for the Tass news agency while he spied on the U.S.A.
He has just co-authored a book entitled Through the Eyes of the Enemy: Russia's Highest Ranking Military Defector Reveals Why Russia is More Dangerous than Ever. In his book, he asserts that the Cold War never ended, that the Soviet collapse is part of their deceptive strategy to lull us to sleep; that the Russians are preparing for an all-out nuclear war with the U.S.
First, their plan calls for the special operation forces already here in the U.S. to assassinate all members of Congress, and then destroy key targets like communications facilities, air bases, command centers, etc. They may already have in place nuclear suitcase bombs ready to strike at a moment's notice. Their armed forces are as big and dangerous as before. While we have been foolishly downsizing our military, they have been building more and more advanced nuclear and conventional weapons. Their new Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles are said to be more sophisticated than anything we have, and they have just introduced their own version of the stealth bomber.
Underground bunkers the size of cities as large as Washington D.C. are ready for their leaders to take cover in case of enemy retaliation. They plan to move on us with their nuclear and conventional forces only after sabotaging the country from within. If they launched a first strike against us, they probably would destroy most of the country in a very short time.
