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A N A S S I S T E D R E M E D I AT I O N E M E R G E N C Y P L A N

THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR PLANT

Sir Daniel BilbruckBison Resource Development Group

P.O. Box 18223, Boulder, Colorado 803081.303. 468.5237

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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant site and its surroundings are being monitored by a variety of U.S. aircraft, including:

•U-2 spy planes. The U-2s, flying out of Okinawa, have "radiation suites" that can take readings at various altitudes.•Global Hawk Drone. The Global Hawk remote-controlled plane, now on its second run, has multispectral imaging capabilities, including thermal infrared and synthetic aperture radar. Kyodo News Service quoted Japanese government sources as saying that the Global Hawk was taking images of the inside of the reactor buildings.

•WC-135 Constant Phoenix aircraft. One radiation-sniffing WC-135, basically a converted Boeing 707 jet, is on its way from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska to the area around Japan, where it will take atmospheric readings.

Intelligence experts are saying that the United States has a network of ground-level stations around the world that monitor radiation and can backtrack to calculate how much has been dispersed from a specific site.

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As of 10 P.M. local time on Thursday, the JAIF listed the following status of the six Fukushima Daiichi reactors:

• Buildings around reactor Nos. 1, 3 and 4 were "severely damaged"; the building housing reactor No. 2 was "slightly damaged";• Cooling was not working for reactor Nos. 1, or 3;• Water levels were covering more than half of the fuel in reactor No. 2; reactor Nos. 1 and 3 water levels were covering only about half of the fuel. • Structural integrity of the spent fuel pools was unknown for reactor Nos. 1 and 2; • Reactor Nos. 3 and 4 had low water levels; pool temperature was continuing to rise for reactor Nos. 5 and 6.

The spent fuel pools are of significant concern, Marvin Resnikoff, a radioactive waste management consultant, said in a Wednesday press briefing organized by the nonprofit organization Physicians for Social Responsibility. Resnikoff noted that the pools at each reactor are thought to have contained the following amounts of spent fuel, according to The Mainichi Daily News:

• Reactor No. 1 fuel pool: 50 tons of nuclear fuel• Reactor No. 2 fuel pool: 81 tons• Reactor No. 3 fuel pool: 88 tons• Reactor No. 4 fuel pool: 135 tons• Reactor No. 5 fuel pool: 142 tons• Reactor No. 6 fuel pool: 151 tons• Also, a separate ground-level fuel pool contains 1,097 tons of fuel; and some 70 tons of nuclear materials are kept on the grounds in dry storage.

The reactor cores themselves contain less than 100 tons of fuel, Resnikoff noted.

How Much Spent Nuclear Fuel Does the Fukushima Daiichi Facility Hold?As Japan attempts to cool overheating nuclear fuel with seawater, experts worry that the damaged spent-fuel pools pose the greatest threat

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Promoting Nuclear Fuel

Cycle spent nuclear fuel contains unused fissionable uranium and newly produced plutonium. These substances can be collected, reprocessed, and reused as new fuel, to achieve effective utilization of energy resources.

This process of recycling uranium resources is referred to as the nuclear fuel cycle. As a country that relies heavily on imports for most its energy needs, Japan is actively pursuing the establishment of the nuclear fuel cycle as a means for securing stable, long-term supplies of energy resources through the effective utilization of uranium, and for ensuring the proper treatment and disposal of radioactive waste.

Plutonium-thermal Power Generation

In plutonium-thermal ("plu-thermal") power generation, plutonium is removed from spent fuel and mixed with uranium to produce MOX* fuels for use in existing nuclear power plants. This effective utilization of limited uranium resources is expected to contribute significantly to securing stable energy supply in the future.

To promote the introduction of plutonium-thermal power generation, electric power companies in Japan are making various efforts to obtain broad public acceptance of this new power generation method. At TEPCO, wthey have loaded MOX fuel into Unit 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in August 2010, and was steadily working their way toward the implementation of plutonium-thermal power generation.

MOXMixed oxide composed of uranium and plutonium

AP – WWII Survivors of the atomic bomb attack of Nagasaki walk through the destruction as fire rages in the background,

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The schematic diagram above shows the GE Mark I Boiling Water Reactor reacter building structure, the Fukushima Dai-ichi Unit 1

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Numbers 1, 2, and 3 are all “boiling water reactors,” made by General Electric in the early- to mid-1970s. A boiling water reactor, or BWR, is the second-most-common reactor type in the world.

A BWR contains thousands of thin, straw-like tubes 12 feet in length, known as fuel rods, that in the case of Fukushima are made of a zirconium alloy. Inside those fuel rods is sealed the actual fuel, little ceramic pellets of uranium oxide. The fuel rods are bundled together in the core of the reactor. During a nuclear fission chain reaction, the tubes heat up to extremely high temperatures, and the way to keep them safe turns out to also be the way to extract useful energy from them. The rods are kept submerged in demineralized water, which serves as a coolant. The water is kept in a pressurized containment vessel, so it has a boiling point of around 550 °F. Even at such a high boiling point, the burning hot fuel rods produce large amounts of steam, which is actually what we want from this whole complicated arrangement—the high-pressure steam is used to turn the turbines on dynamos, producing electricity.

Boiling Water Reactor Schematic: 1. Reactor pressure vessel (RPV) 2. Nuclear fuel element 3. Control rods 4. Circulation pumps 5. Engine control rods 6. Steam 7. Feed water 8. High pressure turbine (HPT) 9. Low pressure turbine 10. Generator 11. Exciter 12. Condenser 13. Coolant 14. Pre-heater 15. Feed water pump 16. Cold water pump 17. Concrete enclosure 18. Mains connection

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Construction of the Fukushima nuclear power plants

The plants at Fukushima are Boiling Water Reactors (BWR for short). A BWR produces electricity by boiling water, and spinning a a turbine with that steam. The nuclear fuel heats water, the water boils and creates steam, the steam then drives turbines that create the electricity, and the steam is then cooled and condensed back to water, and the water returns to be heated by the nuclear fuel. The reactor operates at about 285 °C.

The nuclear fuel is uranium oxide. Uranium oxide is a ceramic with a very high melting point of about 2800 °C. The fuel is manufactured in pellets (cylinders that are about 1 cm tall and 1 com in diameter). These pellets are then put into a long tube made of Zircaloy (an alloy of zirconium) with a failure temperature of 1200 °C (caused by the auto-catalytic oxidation of water), and sealed tight. This tube is called a fuel rod. These fuel rods are then put together to form assemblies, of which several hundred make up the reactor core.

The solid fuel pellet (a ceramic oxide matrix) is the first barrier that retains many of the radioactive fission products produced by the fission process. The Zircaloy casing is the second barrier to release that separates the radioactive fuel from the rest of the reactor.

The core is then placed in the pressure vessel. The pressure vessel is a thick steel vessel that operates at a pressure of about 7 MPa (~1000 psi), and is designed to withstand the high pressures that may occur during an accident. The pressure vessel is the third barrier to radioactive material release.

The entire primary loop of the nuclear reactor – the pressure vessel, pipes, and pumps that contain the coolant (water) – are housed in the containment structure. This structure is the fourth barrier to radioactive material release. The containment structure is a hermetically (air tight) sealed, very thick structure made of steel and concrete. This structure is designed, built and tested for one single purpose: To contain, indefinitely, a complete core meltdown. To aid in this purpose, a large, thick concrete structure is poured around the containment structure and is referred to as the secondary containment.

Both the main containment structure and the secondary containment structure are housed in the reactor building. The reactor building is an outer shell that is supposed to keep the weather out, but nothing in. (this is the part that was damaged in the explosions, but more to that later).

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Fundamentals of nuclear reactions

The uranium fuel generates heat by neutron-induced nuclear fission. Uranium atoms are split into lighter atoms (aka fission products). This process generates heat and more neutrons (one of the particles that forms an atom). When one of these neutrons hits another uranium atom, that atom can split, generating more neutrons and so on. That is called the nuclear chain reaction. During normal, full-power operation, the neutron population in a core is stable (remains the same) and the reactor is in a critical state.

It is worth mentioning at this point that the nuclear fuel in a reactor can never cause a nuclear explosion like a nuclear bomb. At Chernobyl, the explosion was caused by excessive pressure buildup, hydrogen explosion and rupture of all structures, propelling molten core material into the environment. Note that Chernobyl did not have a containment structure as a barrier to the environment. Why that did not and will not happen in Japan, is discussed further below.

In order to control the nuclear chain reaction, the reactor operators use control rods. The control rods are made of boron which absorbs neutrons. During normal operation in a BWR, the control rods are used to maintain the chain reaction at a critical state. The control rods are also used to shut the reactor down from 100% power to about 7% power (residual or decay heat).

The residual heat is caused from the radioactive decay of fission products. Radioactive decay is the process by which the fission products stabilize themselves by emitting energy in the form of small particles (alpha, beta, gamma, neutron, etc.). There is a multitude of fission products that are produced in a reactor, including cesium and iodine. This residual heat decreases over time after the reactor is shutdown, and must be removed by cooling systems to prevent the fuel rod from overheating and failing as a barrier to radioactive release. Maintaining enough cooling to remove the decay heat in the reactor is the main challenge in the affected reactors in Japan right now.

It is important to note that many of these fission products decay (produce heat) extremely quickly, and become harmless by the time you spell “R-A-D-I-O-N-U-C-L-I-D-E.” Others decay more slowly, like some cesium, iodine, strontium, and argon all of which is in these reactors.

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Bison Resource Development Group Remediation Plan

Remediation process that is being proposed for The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant:

Bison Resource Development Group will use high pressure flow through cementing pipe and fittings that are secured together with spin on/off Weco type fittings used to secure the pipe strings together. From the manifold system several strings of pipe will be laid out to all of the reactors at one time through hole/window/doorway and or through already established fittings such as the water coolant system.

Only one egress will be required on to and into the contaminated areas. All the trucks will be tied to one operating system computer that controls the flow from all the pumpers. The mixture of products will blended right at the trucks and then pumped from an environmentally safe distance. utilizing various product mixtures as required to solve various situations that may arise.

Generators, water, water storage and pumps, cement storage tanks, clay tanks and hemp storage for the remediation will be established next to the staging area for the pump trucks. There will have to be pipe racks set up with smaller cranes put in place to move pipes as they arrive for assembly.

A robot would be used to research, verify and visualize the remediation process and for the safety of the remediation crews.

Four 150 foot extended boom cranes will be used for lifting and placing of pipe sections. The booms of the cranes will have video cameras to show and verify the exact locations where the pipe is being placed. All camera and project management will be operated through a command center vehicle that will be environmentally safe.

There will be a decon center established at a safe distance out of the established contaminated perimeter along with a portable camp for remediation crews.

A complete remediation plan will be developed if this proposal is accepted as this is only a preliminary operational proposal. The Microwave and Laser program are classified programs and will only be released at the decision making point in time by officials that approve the remediation plan. This is a need-to-know process.

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At Bison Resource Development Group (BRDG), we pledge to support our clients by providing safe and knowledgeable staff at fair prices. We will treat our employees, associates, sub-contractors, and suppliers honestly through the establishment of equitable relationships BRDG is committed to distinctive quality and unparalleled customer service in all aspects of our business. There are no magic formulas. Our success is guaranteed by creative, productive employees who are empowered to make suggestions while thinking "outside the box". Every job is essential to fulfilling our mission to "provide distinctive quality and unparalleled customer service" everyday to more people who "trust and respect" us. The primary goal at BRDG is to live our vision statement and be an industry leader. We achieve this through dedicated hard work and commitment from every employee. It is the desire of BRDG's management, from top to bottom, to have every employee succeed in their job, and assist in achieving our goals. At BRDG, we strive to recognize the contributions of all employees!

Accident’s Do Happen Whether Manmade or Natural

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Partial Suggested Equipment And Chemicals To Be Used For This Project.

New material traps radioactive Cesium ions via "Venus flytrap" mechanism. Like a Venus flytrap, a newly discovered chemical material is a picky eater—it won't snap its jaws shut for just anything. Instead of flies, however, its favorite food is radioactive nuclear waste.

Mercouri Kanatzidis, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, and Nan Ding, a chemist at Northwestern University, have crafted a sulfide framework that can trap radioactive cesium ions. This mechanism has the potential to help speed clean-up at power plants and contaminated sites.

Above left: the metal sulfide framework's default conformation leaves a pore open to attract positive ions from the surroundings. Above right: With a Cesium ion inside, the framework changes to trap the ion.

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ENCAPSULATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE MATERIALS Document Type and Number: WIPO Patent Application WO/1998/054107 Kind Code:A1 Abstract:A method of encapsulating hazardous waste materials including heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, nickel and chromium residues, as well as radioactive materials. The method involves adding the hazardous waste material to a settable composition, forming a slurry, and allowing the slurry to set to encapsulate the waste material. The settable composition is a powdered flowable cement composition containing calcium carbonate and a caustic magnesium oxide. Tests conducted on the encapsulated material indicate that virtually none of the hazardous waste material is leached out of the set composition which has a concrete-like appearance.

Radioactive Monazite

Tests were conducted using a powdered sample of the mineral monazite. Monazite is a monoclinic phosphate of the rare earth elements containing the cerium groups (Ce, La, Y, Th) PO4, as well as some uranium and thorium. Monazite is relatively abundant in beach sands, and is one of the principal sources of rare earth minerals and thorium. Thorium is used as a radioactive source in scientific instruments. Rare earth compounds are used in various manufacturing processes, including the manufacturing of glass and certain metals.

Analysis of the monazite material employed in the tests found that it contained 246 Becquerels per gram (Bq/gm) of thorium-232 and 28 Bq/gm of uranium-238. The half life of the thorium contained in the monazite is approximately 4.5 billion years (4.5 x 109). The monazite particle size can be from dust (approx. 0.lem) up to particles of approximately 1.Omm, ideally. The lead tailings, caustic magnesium oxide and calcium carbonate were all pre-ground to approximately 110pm, ie. 90% passed through a 150pm sieve.

EXAMPLE 9 300 grams of monazite, of radioactivity 246 becquerels per gram thorium and 28.1 becquerels per gram uranium, 400 grams of caustic magnesium oxide and a mixture of 480 grams of lead tailings (ex Mt. Isa) and 320 grams calcium carbonate were thoroughly dry mixed with 100 grams of aluminium sulphate and 25 grams of citric acid. To this was added 300 mLs of water to form a thick rapidly setting paste. The thickness of the total mixture could be adjusted by the addition of water to form a mouldable composition. The total mixture was poured into moulds and allowed to set. The radioactivity of the encapsulated monazite mixture was measured to be 44.60+0.20 becquerels per gram thorium and 5.06 + 0.21 becquerels per gram uranium.

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A leach rate analysis (TCLP test) was carried out at 14 days and 28 days to determine the leachable uranium and thorium. At 14 days the leachable uranium was less than 0.05 micrograms per litre and the leachable thorium was 0.25 micrograms per litre. At 28 days the leachable uranium was 0.05 micrograms per litre and the leachable thorium was 0.45-0.50 micrograms per litre. Gamma spectroscopy was carried out on the TCLP solutions to determine the levels of radioactive uranium and thorium at 14 and 28 days. At 14 days the leachable uranium radioactivity was below detectable levels or equivalent to <1 part per million and the leachable thorium radioactivity was 0.034+0.007 becquerels per gram. At 28 days the leachable uranium radioactivity was below detectable levels or equivalent to <1 per million and the leachable thorium radioactivity was below detectable levels or equivalent to <2 parts per million.

EXAMPLE 10 500 grams of monazite, of radioactivity 246 becquerels per gram thorium and 28.1 becquerels per gram uranium, 450 grams of caustic magnesium oxide and a mixture of 360 grams of lead tailings (ex Mt. Isa) and 240 grams calcium carbonate were thoroughly dry mixed with 100 grams of aluminium sulphate and 25 grams of citric acid. To this was added 310 mLs of water to form a thick rapidly setting paste. The thickness of the total mixture could be adjusted by the addition of water to form a mouldable composition. The total mixture was poured into moulds and allowed to set.

The radioactivity of the encapsulated monazite mixture was measured to be 70.20+0.30 becquerels per gram thorium and 8.01+0.31 becquerels per gram uranium.

A leach rate analysis (TCLP test) was carried out at 14 days and 28 days to determine the leachable uranium and thorium. At 14 days the leachable uranium was less than 0.05 micrograms per litre and the leachable thorium was

0.15 micrograms per litre. At 28 days the leachable uranium was 0.05 micrograms per litre and the leachable thorium was 0.15-0.45 micrograms per litre.

Gamma spectroscopy was carried out on the TCLP solutions to determine the levels of radioactive uranium and thorium at 14 and 28 days. At 14 days the leachable uranium radioactivity was below detectable levels or equivalent to <1 part per million and the leachable thorium radioactivity was below detectable levels or equivalent to <2 parts per million. At 28 days the leachable uranium radioactivity was below detectable levels or equivalent to <1 part per million and the leachable thorium radioactivity was 0.038i0.007 becquerels per gram.

EXAMPLE 11 800 grams of monazite, of radioactivity 246 becquerels per gram thorium and 28.1 becquerels per gram uranium, 400 grams of caustic magnesium oxide and a mixture of 300 grams of lead tailings (ex Mt. Isa) and 200 grams calcium carbonate were thoroughly dry mixed with 100 grams of aluminium sulphate and 25 grams of citric acid. To this was added 400 mLs of water to form a thick rapidly setting paste. The thickness of the total mixture could be adjusted by the addition of water to form a mouldable composition. The total mixture was poured into moulds and allowed to set.

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The radioactivity of the encapsulated monazite mixture was measured to be 104.0+0.41 becquerels per gram thorium and 12.0+0.42 becquerels per gram uranium.

A leach rate analysis (TCLP test) was carried out at 14 days and 28 days to determine the leachable uranium and thorium. At 14 days the leachable uranium was 0.05 micrograms per litre and the leachable thorium was 0.25 micrograms per litre. At 28 days the leachable uranium was 0.10 micrograms per litre and the leachable thorium was 1.10-1.40 micrograms per litre.

Gamma spectroscopy was carried out on the TCLP solutions to determine the levels of radioactive uranium and thorium at 14 and 28 days. At 14 days the leachable uranium radioactivity was below detectable levels or equivalent to <1 part per million and the leachable thorium radioactivity was below detectable levels or equivalent to <2 parts per million. At 28 days the leachable uranium radioactivity was below detectable levels or equivalent to <1 part per million and the leachable thorium radioactivity was 0.038+0.007 becquerels per gram.

In each of the above examples 9 to 11the leach rate solutions were all less than 10 parts per million (ppm) for thorium and uranium, indicating successful encapsulation of the radioactive material.

It should be appreciated that various other changes and modifications can be made to the embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, the nature of which is to be determined from the foregoing description and the appended claims. Furthermore, the preceding examples are provided for illustrative purposes only, and are not intended to limit the scope of the process of the invention.

Magnesium Oxide 85%

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Hemp "Eats" Chernobyl Waste, Offers Hope For Hanford Winter 1998-99

by Elaine CharkowskiCentral Oregon Green Pages

An explosion at a nuclear reactor on April 26th, 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine created the world's worst nuclear disaster - so far.

The blast heavily contaminated agricultural lands in a 30 km radius around the reactor. The few people still living there must monitor their food and water for radiation. However the combination of a new technology (phytoremediation) and an old crop (industrial hemp) may offer the Ukraine a way to decontaminate it's radioactive soil.

In 1998, Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP), PHYTOTECH, and the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops began what may be one of the most important projects in history - the planting of industrial hemp for the removal of contaminants in the soil near Chernobyl.

CGP is an ecologically-minded multinational corporation which finances the growing and processing of sustainable industrial crops such as flax, kenaf, and industrial hemp. CGP operates in North America, Europe and the Ukraine.

PHYTOTECH (see webpage: www.phytotech.com/index.html ) specializes in phytoremediation, the general term for using phyto (plants) to remediate (clean up) polluted sites. Phytoremediation can be used to remove radioactive elements from soil and water at former weapons producing facilaties. It can also be used to clean up metals, pesticides, solvents, explosives, crude oil, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and toxins leaching from landfills.

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Plants break down or degrade organic pollutants and stabilize metal contaminants by acting as filters or traps. PHYTOTECH is conducting field trials to improve the phytoextraction of lead, uranium, cesium-137, and strontium-90 from soils and also from water.

Founded in 1931, the Institute of Bast Crops is now the leading research institution in the Ukraine working on seed-breeding, seed-growing, cultivating, harvesting and processing hemp and flax.

The Bast Institute has a genetic bank including 400 varieties of hemp from various regions of the world.

"Hemp is proving to be one of the best phyto-remediative plants we have been able to find," said Slavik Dushenkov, a research scienst with PHYTOTECH. Test results have been promising and CGP, PHYOTECH and the Bast Institute plan full scale trials in the Chernobyl region in the spring of 1999.

Industrial hemp is not a drug. Unlike its cousin marijuana, industrial hemp has only trace amounts of THC - the chemical that produces the high. In 1973, the Department of the Interior and Department of Health and Agriculture of the former USSR issued an ultimatium to the Institute of Bast Crops - either create non-psycoactive varities of hemp or stop cultivating hemp. So, scientists at the institute created an industrial hemp plant containing only minute traces of THC. Modern testing in Canada confirmed the low THC content of the Bast Institute's hemp.

New technologies in hemp harvesting and processing are also being developed at the Institute whose library contains more than 55,000 volumes mainly on hemp-growing and flax-growing.

Chernobyl may seem distant, but the EPA estimates that there are more than 30,000 sites requiring hazardous waste treatment throughout the U.S. including Hanford and Three Mile Island.

Phytoremediation with industrial hemp could be used at many of these sites. Unfortunately, the U.S. government refuses to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp and clings to the obsolete myth that it is a drug.

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Sale 2314 Lot 757

NASA Hazbot III Prototype Mobile Robot, constructed in burnished metal, driven by internal brushless DC motors and batteries, with articulated front and rear wheels, caterpillar tracks, camera, chemical sensor, pressurized arm and plaque NASA JPL HAZBOT III. Emergency Response Robotics Project. Section 347 / 613, lg. 60 x wd. 27 x ht. (with arm folded) 54 in.; and communication tether and remote control panel for torso, arm and wrist movements, camera and gripper lights (pan / tilt, zoom and rotating boom) laser pitch and laser pointer, winch, coordinating pitch, and forward / reverse, left / right directions.

Note: Begun in October 1990, the Emergency Response Robotics Project's mission was to design a tele-operated mobile robot for remotely exploring combustible and hazardous atmospheres. During the first year of the project, two Remotec Andros Mark V robots were used as the basis for future development and design work. The results were then incorporated into the Hazbot system, which in turn became the basis for the future Hazbot II and III prototypes. Hazbot III incorporated and replaced the previous two prototypes and is, as such, a one-off. Important developments in the final product included a pressurization system with enclosure of all electrical components, the incorporation of solid state electronics and brushless DC motors (to prevent electrical arcing and ignition), and the additions of a sophisticated on-board computer system, a chemical gas detector and tools for unlocking and opening doors.

Hazbot III was used by the JPL Fire Department in simulated reconnaissance missions. Its final demonstration mission was carried out in April 1994. Also in 1994, NASA loaned Hazbot III for the Kurt Russell and James Spader film Stargate, which features the robot as the messenger that moves between two worlds.

Provenance: Purchased by the vendor at GSA Auctions, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Literature: R. Welch and G. Edmonds, "Applying Robotics for Hazmat", NASA Technology 2003, Vol. II, pp. 279 - 287. http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/hazbot/homepage.html.Estimate $20,000-30,000__________________

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Cementing Systems

Designed and manufactured cementing equipment for the oilfield. The systems have been counted on as highly reliable that complete the job accurately and efficiently. The design includes a high energy system for dustless cement mixing with either automatic or manual density control. Available in trailer, truck or skid versions and high pressure pumping units are fabricated in either single or dual pump configurations that provide the required flexibility to meet the most difficult job requirements.

The units have been designed with modern heated control cabs and hydraulic pipe-racks.

The cementing units can be used for a wide variety of fluid pumping operations. Typical operations include oil well cementing, solvent pumping, pressure testing and miscellaneous fluid pumping.

CW Fabrication Office is:9335 60 Ave.Edmonton, AlbertaT6E 0C2

Phone: (780) 435-5033Fax: (780) 436-5578

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Cement Manifolds

NOV high pressure cement manifolds are designed and manufactured to customer requirements. The NOV product line offers the widest range of hammer union ended equipment available from any one manufacturer. Purpose forged tees, crosses, “Y’s”, laterals, plug valves (two types), crossovers; the list is endless. This allows NOV to supply very competitively priced cement manifolds in a wide variety of sizes and configurations. Manifolds with pressure ratings up to 20,000 psi are available.

Cement Dry Bulk Transport

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FMC Flow Line Products such as Unions, Butterfly Valves, Plug Valves, Cementing and Circulating Hoses, Check Valves, Pressure Relief Valves, Pup Joints, Tees, Elbow ,Wye's & Cross etc. and its spare parts.

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Plug Valves

Energy Products is pleased to offer a full line of Halliburton style and Weco style plug valves. Sizes range from 1” – 3” and can handle pressure from 5K – 15k. Our plug valves can handle regular and sour service. They are available both threaded and integral.

High Pressure Fittings

Energy Products offers a complete line of high pressure nipples, swivel joints, pup joints, tees, ells and more. Our high pressure fittings can be configured to any size or pressure rating to meet your requirements.

Valve Automation

Energy Products can automate any valve to suit your particular service conditions. We stock vane, double acting, and spring return actuators for all valve sizes.

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Unions Integral Fittings

Pup Joints

Swivel Joints

Hose Loops

Union Crossovers

Kemper Valve & Fittings Corporation is one of the United States' leading suppliers of pressure pipe unions and fluid control products to the oil and gas industry.

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John Deere 450D LC excavator with shear

Excavator With Thumb & Buckets

Takeuchi TB175W 2005 Case 580 F Backhoe

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World food supply threatened by Japan nuclear radiation

Ethan A. HuffNaturalNewsMarch 17, 2011

Fallout from the current meltdown occurring at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which was hit by the 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami last Friday, could contaminate the world’s food supply with toxic radiation, say experts. If the plant’s radioactive particles get caught in the jet stream and travel the world over, they will end up contaminating crops and grazing fields.

“The explosions could expose the population to longer-term radiation, which can raise the risk of cancer. These are thyroid cancer, bone cancer and leukemia. Children and fetuses are especially vulnerable,” said Lam Ching-wan, a chemical pathologist at the University of Hong Kong. “For some individuals even a small amount of radiation can raise the risk of cancer. The higher the radiation, the higher the risk of cancer.”

According to experts, there are many ways in which radioactive particles can travel. They can bind to rain droplets and fall with the rain, or they can just travel in the wind and be inhaled by animals and humans. Either way, radioactive particles eventually end up embedding in soil and water where they contaminate the environment, wildlife, crops, and drinking water. Even cows grazing on radioactive grass will produce dangerous milk unsuitable for consumption.

As of this writing, officials have declared that the situation in Japan is currently a Level Six on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES). The scale ranges from Level One, which represents little danger, to Level Seven, which represents a large release of radioactive material where widespread environmental and health effects are to be expected.

The Fukushima plant has experienced four major explosions thus far since the earthquake, and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has urged everyone within roughly 20 miles of the plant to remain indoors with their windows and doors closed

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The Future of Japan - Energy and Water

250 Megawatt plant is approximately $850 million dollars.Runs on water

Makes water and electricityShort build out time

Environmentally friendly

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Power Stream Sustainable Technology Systems and the Future of Renewable Energy

Renewable Biogas-Hydrogen Energy Generation

A Renewable Ultra-Pure Water Supply and Electricity

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The power stream process is comprised of proven off the shelf technology components along with a proprietary high output hydrogen generation system which utilizes almost any water source and a unique gasification component to generate a renewable, dispatchable power supply whose only by-products are clean energy and an ultra-pure water stream.

Because the fuel source is water there is no conventional fuel cost as such because the fuel is created by the process operation directly. This energy is generated utilizing specially modified internal combustion engines which run conventional generator sets ensuring compatibility with conventional power systems. The technology is well understood and proven in reliability and efficiency. Therefore operation and maintenance is easily facilitated by existing labor pool of engine and generator technicians. This image is of the modified Catapillar internal combustion based generator modified to burn the hydrogen supplemented biogas fuel created in the Power Stream process.

The Power Stream system can utilize virtually any water source as process make-up water. The technology utilizes advanced membrane technology to separate the water from the contaminants in the water supply. The water stream is then further purified and the concentrated matter removed from the water is processed through a proven gasification process and turned into bio-gas as a fuel source. The pure water is then processed further by splitting the water molecules in a high pressure, high efficiency hydrolysis process to extract hydrogen while creating a super oxygen saturated water stream as a by-product.

Power Stream will provide our communities with cost effective green sustainable, renewable energy and water supplies. The future of our world will depend upon our communities implementing alternative resources into our utility structure. Power Stream represents a breakthrough innovation to help our communities with this lofty but essential effort.

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The Sustainable Community Infrastructure Package

Our world faces serious issues in the availability of potable water and cost effective energy resources that do not pollute our environment. Alternative renewable energy has become a priority for our global society to alleviate fossil fuel resource based water and air pollution. However the intermittent nature of wind or solar energy supplies, create problems for energy managers with the need for additional back-up power generation available for dispatch when these costly wind or solar resources are idle. Power Stream technology utilizes modified conventional generation technology to take the concept of utility convergence to the marketplace by providing an integrated package of utility technology which can provide a dependable, cost effective renewable power supply without the intermittency and high cost of more conventional wind or solar resource systems while also providing an important additional renewable resource in an ultra-pure alternative water resource.

The Power Stream system incorporates an innovative, high output hydrogen generation capacity in concert with a proven gasification process which produces high quality, renewable bio-gas for a clean and green output without the intermittency of wind or solar systems. The key to the cost effectiveness of the system is the use of proven conventional combustion generation technology. The result is a process providing dependable, cost effective base load generation capacity available when demand calls without the down time of other green power technology.

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Smart Grid Managed Electrical Services Market To Grow 75% Year-Over-Year Between 2011 And 2012March 19, 2011

Utilities in many parts of the world, and especially in the United States, are experiencing radical operational change as they deploy smart grid upgrades. To meet this challenge, many utilities are already seeking consulting and implementation services from vendors to assist with smart grid deployments. And even after the infrastructure is in place, utilities will face a new set of challenges associated with ongoing smart grid operations, presenting an expanded opportunity for managed service providers.

According to a new report from Pike Research, the smart grid managed services market is accelerating rapidly, and the clean tech market intelligence firm forecasts that the sector will experience year-over-year growth of 75% between 2012 and 2012, rising from $470M to $821M during that period. The firm anticipates that smart grid managed services will reach $4.3B in global revenue by 2015.

"The market forces fueling demand among utilities for smart grid managed services can be grouped into four major drivers: economic, environmental, social, and technological factors," says industry analyst Marianne Hedin. "Of these, the economic drivers are the strongest influencers of change. Utilities are motivated by the opportunity to reduce their operating expenses through improved process and technology efficiency and mobile workforce management."

Hedin adds that Application Outsourcing, including demand response (JPN) programs, is currently the largest segment within the smart grid managed services market. By 2015, however, she expects that Infrastructure Outsourcing will become the leading segment, and Business Process Outsourcing will also experience strong growth during the 2011-2015 forecast period.

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Pike Research's analysis indicates that three major factors will determine managed service providers' ability to succeed in this emerging market:

Domain expertise within the utility sector, including a long track record of having served clients in this industry – especially as a managed services provider.

Information technology (IT), as well as operations technology (OT), expertise to tie IT requirements with OT demands. Ability to address customer relationship management needs among utilities, as this is increasingly becoming a critical component of a smart grid program.

Pike Research's study, "Smart Grid Managed Services", examines global and regional smart grid managed services trends, and forecasts market size and growth prospects by region and managed services segment from 2011 through 2015. In addition, the study assesses the competitive landscape, including a detailed competitive analysis of major smart grid managed service vendors. An Executive Summary of the report is available for free download on the firm's website.

Pike Research is a market research and consulting firm that provides in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The company's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research and demand assessment, and deep examination of technology trends to provide a comprehensive view of the Smart Energy, Clean Transportation, Clean Industry, and Building Efficiency sectors.

SOURCE: Pike Research

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