thomas malloy wrote:
I read that India built a H W plant. There is a volcanic vent off of the
Indian coast which expresses lots of D2. The Indian plant uses a new
technology which cut the bottom out production cost, forcing the
Canadian plants out of business.
Yes they have an enrichment plant there but the country is apparently
not an important world supplier of D2O. Do you have a reference for the
article on the volcanic water source, etc. ?
There have been a number of rumors circulating over the years about
deposits of hot spring water in various places, which are highly
enriched naturally. Trouble is: nothing with any semblance of authority
can be found in print... at least not by me.
There is still a lingering cloud of secrecy on the whole subject area,
going back to the Nazis. I am privy to a wealth of anecdotal information
on Candu from a former neighbor, who was a retired engineer at Bruce.
They supposedly kept many key details of the technology out of the
public eye and intentionally fabricated others for competitive reasons.
Only problem is, most of the stories which I have heard (and have
documented) were "enriched" shall we say, after a few Molsons... which
is the true Canadian's heavy water, eh.
But there is enough truth there to believe that the basic concept of
Natural U and D2O moderator is far superior - IF - nuclear energy is to
be pursued at all. And also that - of all high level national projects,
this is the one in which intentional disinformation has been released at
high levels. They simply feared US competition and domination.
Speaking of suspicious-info which can be found on the internet - this
was found in my search for the Indian volcanic heavy water source:
ANCIENT CITY FOUND, IRRADIATED FROM ATOMIC BLAST
Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous.
A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a
three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are
investigating the site, where a housing development was being built.
For some time it has been established that there is a very high rate of
birth defects and cancer in the area under construction. The levels of
radiation there have registered so high on investigators' gauges that
the Indian government has now cordoned off the region. Scientists have
unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating
back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of
the buildings and probably a half-million people. One researcher
estimates that the nuclear bomb used was about the size of the ones
dropped on Japan in 1945.
[side note: why should anyone postulate a bomb? why not a Tunguska-type
event?]
The Mahabharata [ancient Indian folklore] clearly describes a
catastrophic blast that rocked the continent. "A single projectile
charged with all the power in the Universe...An incandescent column of
smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor...it
was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of
death which reduced to ashes an entire race.
A HISTORIAN COMMENTS
Historian Kisari Mohan Ganguli says that Indian sacred writings are full
of such descriptions, which sound like an atomic blast as experienced in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He says references mention fighting sky chariots
and final weapons. An ancient battle is described in the Drona Parva, a
section of the Mahabharata. "The passage tells of combat where
explosions of final weapons decimate entire armies, causing crowds of
warriors with steeds and elephants and weapons to be carried away as if
they were dry leaves of trees," says Ganguli.
"Instead of mushroom clouds, the writer describes a perpendicular
explosion with its billowing smoke clouds as consecutive openings of
giant parasols. There are comments about the contamination of food and
people's hair falling out."
ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION PROVIDES INFORMATION
Archeologist Francis Taylor says that etchings in some nearby temples he
has managed to translate suggest that they prayed to be spared from the
great light that was coming to lay ruin to the city. "It's so
mid-boggling to imagine that some civilization had nuclear technology
before we did. The radioactive ash adds credibility to the ancient
Indian records that describe atomic warfare."
Construction has halted while the five member team conducts the
investigation. The foreman of the project is Lee Hundley, who pioneered
the investigation after the high level of radiation was discovered.
