OT Emergency reported at Hanford site, staff evacuated

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  1. Denny Crane

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    Of course it should be taken seriously, but it's nowhere near as awful an accident as the sky is falling.

    A 20ft area of a much larger area (1/2 the size of the state of Rhode Island.

    @MARIS61 should prepare for a slow and agonizing death.
     
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  2. MarAzul

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    Uh, I missed something here. Why is it an emergency that a tunnel collapsed in a plant that hasn't been used in 30 years? Would you not predict such an event as probable?
    This sounds like and attention grabber. What could possible be the reason?
     
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    Yucca Mountain?
     
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    Stop with the silliness. Hanford is a radioactive toxic mess. It is the highest producing plutonium site on earth. Over $114 billion has already been budgeted to clean it up and the absolute earliest it will be completed is the year 2060. 47 Million of gallons of radioactive sludge are stored in 177 underground tanks that are rotting and losing structural integrity. 67 are currently leaking and seeping into the groundwater.

    Any underground collapse on the Hanford site could have serious repercussions.
     
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    The breach at the defunct Purex processing plant tunnel could expose the highly radioactive material disposed of in the tunnel to the atmosphere.

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    Railcars full of highly contaminated materials and equipment from the plant were backed into waste disposal tunnels at the plant and left there as a disposal method. The material was so radioactive that several empty cars were placed between the railcar holding waste and the locomotive to protect the driver from radiation.

    The last radioactive material was placed in the tunnels in the early 1990s.

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    The massive plant, formally called the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, was used to chemically process irradiated fuel rods to remove plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.

    It was built in the 1950s and operated from 1956 to 1972 and again from 1983 to 1988.

    PUREX processed about 70,000 tons of uranium fuel rods to produce about 75 percent of Hanford’s production.

    Plans call for eventually decontaminating and demolishing PUREX. The option of grouting the rail cars in place — encasing them in concrete — has been considered.

    Removal of the cars would entail extreme worker safety hazards, DOE has said.

    http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article149475209.html
     
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    Are you saying they urgently need a better storage facility for the waste stored at Hanford?
     
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    Perhaps a lead shield and a few more old cars between the engine and the hot cars could allow them to haul them to this mountian instead of leaving them in the sandpile that is Hanford.
    Probably need a few bucks allocated to the task though.
    [​IMG]
     
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    Well obviously Hanford is on the planet Earth.... and I can deduce that it's in the USA....... and from that photo that was posted, I can also assume it's in Washington state. Beyond that... nope.
     
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    Lazy Bum. lol
     
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    My body.....is ready.
     
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    You are stating facts, which is fine. But they're not particularly relevant to the tunnel collapse.

    :MARIS61:
     
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    maybe I missed it Denny, who is in here saying the sky is falling? Sly is just posting information about the declared nuclear waste disposal site emergency. Was it the three eyed fish that set you off? Pants shitting pants shitters!
     
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    There's a plus about living in Salem that I never thought of. I'm 50 miles further away from Hanford, than most of you.... Lol
     
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    Here in beautiful Central Oregon.
     
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    Yeah, but.
    You are 50 miles closer to LaLa land, which is far more toxic.
     
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    The ONLY upside to living in Salem. Good of you to find it.

    Although, all of us are going to get superpowers from the radioactivity and you're going to miss out being 'safely' in Salem.

    Damn.... There goes your upside.

    Oops.
     
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