Galen Winsor is a nuclear physicist of renown who worked at, andhelped design, nuclear power plants in Hanford, WA; Oak Ridge, TN;Morris, IL, San Jose, CA; Wimington, NJ. Among his positions ofexpertise he was in charge of measuring and controlling the nuclearfuel inventory and storage.Galen Winsor has traveled and lectured all over America, spoken onnational talk radio, and made several videos exposing themisunderstood issues of nuclear radiation. He shows that fear ofradiation has been exaggerated to scare people … so a few powerfulpeople can maintain total control of the world’s most valuable powerresource. Filmed by Ben Williams in 1986.In the video, you can watch Galen lick a pile of highly radioactiveuranium off the palm of his hand and ignite a chunk of plutonium intoa shower of flaming dust. The guy also drank reactor cooling poolwater for fun and liked to go swimming in the pool to relax. He alsospiked the basement flooring of his own home with enough radioactivematerial to send any Geiger counter reading off the scale to disprovethe fear mongering surrounding radon at the time.Galen surmises the regulations and fear mongering that surroundradioactive materials are in place to prevent the widespread adoptionof nuclear power in local small scale neighborhood/home basedreactors. Galen also points out that hot nuclear “waste” can beeffectively turned into a safe power source through thermionicconversion, which is how the U.S. submarine navigation network waspowered. The heat it gives off can also be used to safely heat homes.He points out that nuclear “waste” is worth roughly $10 million (in1986 dollars) a ton if it were to be reprocessed to collect its usefulisotopes, so all of this talk about trying to bury it is a sham. Hesays the power companies are holding all the waste with the intent ofplaying the plutonium futures market. The “waste” could be storedabove ground in already constructed buildings meeting all theregulatory requirements without the need to have these outrageousbasalt mines dug into mountains. The only reason he can think of forthese underground vaults is to hide bodies/evidence that the statedoesn’t want uncovered.At its core, he says federal controls over nuclear material is aboutmaintaining power and control over the masses through the denial ofself-sufficient power sources. Obviously if one had a personal sizedpower source that was cheap and efficient, they wouldn’t need to beconnected to the “grid” for anything. The power grid is the controlgrid our rulers use to keep us under their thumbs.He also says Three Mile Island was an intentionally created disaster,and that a core meltdown could not melt its way deep into the Earth.-------------------------------------------------"Yeah I've met him.I put him in the Bob Lazar school of stunt showmanship.Idiots can do all those things.They won't die immediately from them.He rambles way too much and is about as welcome these days as acopperhead at a pik-nik . The nuclear industry used him as a stuntdummy to try to dispell the dangers in nuclear power.To no avail. The folks they were trying to reach had few brainsanyway. Besides any moron could break free of rational thought in thesixties. It's no big mystery but you can swim in a triga reactor poolprovided you don't dive. They run at low power usually..about 1 wattto preserve the fuel rods. People have fallen in and survived withlittle damage. If you look at any training reactor site you will findrescue rings all over. Most triga reactor have pools that are in the15 foot range at 1 watt the neutron range is low say 3 ft. .. fourfeet max.Spent rods about the same risk!Most intact spent fuel rods emit mostly beta particles with some gammarays. Betas can be effectively be stopped by two feet or less ofwater. The water is distilled in rod storage pools and beta and gammairradiation does not screw up the water one little bit! The only thingthat would make that water unpotable is if the fuel rod had crackedreleasing raw fissile products into the water.Ala Silkwood!Most waste pools are 20 feet deep... so swimming on the surface wouldbe a fairly safe stunt. Even with the glowing stuff below.Gotta keep the kids safe ya know!Low quantities of urainium oxide is pretty harmless if unirradiated.You can't dissolve uranium oxide in stomach acid...takes fuming rednitric to do the trick. In a few days you have radiactive poo.Just as dangerous as eating dirt in Arizona or Colorado.It's the lungs not the gut where the highest risk occurs.The lungs can not expell tiny particulates under a micron. ...."SOURCE: http://www.fusor.net/board/download_thread.php?bn=fusor_general&thread=1049904734ALSO FUNNY: http://amazingdata.com/10-radioactive-products-that-people-actually-used/