[ RadSafe ] Secret research by U.S. Navy revealed effects of nuclear radiation on animals?

Thu Feb 20 04:52:28 CST 2020

Thanks, Michael and Joseph.  When I saw this part near the top of the
article, I began to wonder, and I guess this comes from the reporter and
not Dr Mahaffey.

"Though the Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Facility has been out of commission
for nearly 50 years,* local residents can still be heard whispering about
two-headed deer and oak leaves the size of elephant ears* spotted around
the nuclear facility’s remains."

Roger

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:31 AM Cowie, Michael I <michael.cowie at aramco.com>
wrote:

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> I found this on amazon.com:
>
> About James A. Mahaffey
>
> Dr. James Mahaffey (Jim) holds a bachelor of science in physics and master
> of science and doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering from the Georgia
> Institute of Technology. During a 25-year career at the Georgia Tech
> Research Institute (GTRI), he directed or worked on projects for the U. S.
> Defense Nuclear Agency, the U. S. National Ground Intelligence Center, the
> U. S. Air Force Air Logistics Center, Georgia Power Company, and other
> government and private industrial organizations, in such areas as nuclear
> power, non-linear analysis, digital systems design, and cold fusion. He
> directed a multi-million-dollar project at Georgia Power's Plant Hatch to
> design and install a safety system after TMI. He left Georgia Tech to work
> in nanotechnology as Head of Advanced Research at Nanoventions Inc. in
> Roswell, Georgia, and later as Director of Technology for AIR2, a company
> with headquarters in Maryland. He is now a full-time writer and consultant.
> He has appeared on PBS NewsHour, on Georgia Public Broadcasting's "Georgia
> Weekly," and on numerous radio talk shows. Having lectured in Australia,
> Canada, Germany, Italy, and Ireland on various scientific topics related to
> his research, he is considered to be a skilled public speaker and is easy
> to understand, as well as entertaining.
>
> Dr. Mahaffey's first book, ATOMIC AWAKENING: A NEW LOOK AT THE HISTORY AND
> FUTURE OF NUCLEAR POWER (Pegasus Books, New York, July 2009), received wide
> critical acclaim. It has enjoyed worldwide sales, and is also available in
> Chinese translation (Shanghai Science and Technology Literature Publishing
> House, 2011).
>
> In 2011, Facts on File published Dr. Mahaffey's six-volume reference set
> for high schools and colleges, on nuclear energy.
>
> His second trade book, ATOMIC ACCIDENTS (Pegasus Books, New York) was
> released in February 2014, and received Starred Reviews from Publishers
> Weekly and Kirkus, positive reviews from Booklist and Nuclear Street, and
> was the lead book in a feature review in Nature. Both Scientific American
> Book Club and The History Book Club purchased rights to include the book as
> one of their selections.
>
> His latest trade book, and the third in the nuclear series, ATOMIC
> ADVENTURES (Pegasus Books, New York) was released in June 2017. All three
> books have been translated into Japanese and are available as e-books.
> ADVENTURES received a favorable review in the Wall Street Journal as well
> as in other publications worldwide
>
>
> https://www.amazon.com/James-A.-Mahaffey/e/B004AOQX7G%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
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> Mike
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> - this is local newspaper in Dawson County, Georgia .  Do any of you know
> the "researcher" Dr James Mahaffey,
>
> Roger Helbig
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>
> New post on nuclear-news
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> Secret research by U.S. Navy revealed effects of nuclear radiation on
> animals
>
> by Christina MacPherson
> What happened inside the Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Lab? Finding the facts
> in the forest with Dr. James Mahaffey  Jessica Taylor Dawson News
> jtaylor at dawsonnews.com Feb. 19, 2020, Over half a century later, rumors
> still swirl around Dawson Forest and the mysterious remnants of Dawson
> County’s past in the Cold War.
>
> Though the Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Facility has been out of commission
> for nearly 50 years, local residents can still be heard whispering about
> two-headed deer and oak leaves the size of elephant ears spotted around the
> nuclear facility’s remains.
>
> For nuclear engineer and author, Dr. James Mahaffey, the task of
> unraveling the history behind Dawson County’s top-secret nuclear test site
> and separating facts from the fiction has led to decades of research and
> hard work. .........
>
> On paper, it seemed feasible as an incredible amount of power could be
> housed in a very small space, however the findings from the Dawsonville
> laboratory proved that nuclear aircraft would take more than what was
> originally thought.
>
> “Any nuclear reactor on this earth has shielding,” Mahaffey explained.
> “It’s got lead, concrete, steel, you know, heavy things to keep it from
> killing everybody, but you put it in an airplane and you can’t have
> concrete and steel and lead. It’s got to be naked.”
>
> Components for nuclear-powered engines were assembled in a facility in
> Idaho then brought to Dawsonville for testing inside the reactor. In
> Mahaffey’s research, he discovered that the facility found that rubber
> tires either melted or turned to rock when exposed to different radiation.
> Hydraulic fluids turned into a tacky substance akin to chewing gum.
> Transistors in the radio system were immediately killed by radiation.
>
> The other aspect of the Dawsonville facility was testing the effects of
> radiation on the environment and living creatures.
>
> “What does flying over a farm with a nuclear aircraft do to the farm?
> Well, it kills everything on the ground. It kills trees, grass, crops,
> insects, birds, anything. It might even kill the farmer if he’s out looking
> at it so what are you going to do about that? And also, what happens when
> one of these things crashes,” Mahaffey said. “If a jet plane crashes you
> clean it up and you pay the people for the house that it destroyed and all
> that, but what if it’s a nuclear aircraft?
> Nuclear aircraft - when it crashes - it makes a five mile radius area
> contaminated with long lasting radionuclides and you have to fence it off
> so nobody can go there. Are you really willing to have that as part of your
> Air Force operations?”
>
> The effects of radiation were tested through controlled experimentation
> but also through observation of what Mahaffey describes as “instant
> taxidermy” of animals caught inside the kill zone around the outside of the
> operational reactor.
>
> “Any animal like a toad frog that happened to be hopping around on the
> ground when the reactor was turned on, he died and interestingly it also
> killed all the bacteria in and around the frog,” Mahaffey said.
>
> “When those [bacteria] die, it doesn’t deteriorate so you have this dead
> frog that you can put on your mantle and it’ll just stay there.”
>
> According to Mahaffey, the scientists conducted many experiments with
> animals including releasing rats and studying the effects of radiation on
> them.
>
> “I heard a rumor that the largest animal they ever irradiated was a mule
> and the mule died of course, and like a toad frog it would not deteriorate
> in a normal way,” Mahaffey said.
>
> Billions of dollars were poured into the Nuclear Aircraft Project that
> GNAL was part of during the 1960s, but funding was cut in the John F.
> Kennedy administration. The GNAL was closed in pieces and shut its
> completely in 1971.
>
> The GNAL buildings inside Dawson Forest were dismantled and hauled away.
> The hot cell building, the only remaining structure still standing, was
> boarded up with stainless steel to keep intruders from entering the
> radioactive building. To this day, the building remains radioactive with
> particulates of Cobalt 60.  ......
>
> What makes Dawsonville’s secret nuclear facility stand out from other
> nuclear facilities for Mahaffey is the very detailed extent to which they
> dug into the dangers of nuclear fission products.
>
> “An enormous amount of work was done to find out how having this reactor
> affects the environment. I’ll give them that,” Mahaffey said.
> “They wanted to find out how groundwater would transport radiation and
> they dug wells all over the facility, and they would have monitors
> monitoring what type of radiation, how much radiation and knew how fast
> radiation could transport in the environment.”
>
> Great care went into studying radiation in the Etowah River including the
> construction of rafts to track and map the flow of radiation as well as the
> atmospheric effects of radiation.
>
> “This was all unknown,” Mahaffey said. “You have to build a facility
> that’ll test it in real ways, not just computer simulations and it has to
> be somewhere where you’re not potentially going to wipe out a city.”
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