Nuclear emergency in Hanford, Washington

Tunnel collapse, radioactive material. Not good.

Live feed from somewhat dubious source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQuYkaG--Kg

Specialun

Ok

Donal55

Build a wall.
A big one.

Mainstream news channels catching up
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/washington-nuclear-tunnel-collapse-hanford-latest-news-updates-plutonium-plant-disaster-a7726866.html

cython

Donal55 wrote: »

Build a wall.
A big one.

Lead-lined too!

Gatling

This happened a few hours ago surprised it's only getting a mentioning now

Beyondgone

Not an easy fix either.. seems there's some cans that when kicked down the road, just get more dangerous:
https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj9uYbUzOPTAhVEFMAKHcuzBwIQFggoMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican.com%2Farticle%2Fhanford-nuclear-cleanup-problems%2F&usg=AFQjCNHvVbAU8KbbKd52afmV1U67QIkPfg&sig2=TYAu2I4rhvFzuGSBSzy9DA

suicide_circus

MAINSTREAM MEDIA SURPRISING THIS

kevovek

What kind of surprise are the mainstream media going to announce next

tomwaterford

Can we expect an emergence of super heros and villains here

SEPT 23 1989

tomwaterford wrote: »

Can we expect an emergence of super heros and villains here

Radioactive apes

Capt'n Midnight

Hanford is like Sellafield, a place where #1 priority was developing the bomb, at any cost. Back in the 1940's before health and safety.

70 years later clean up costs are a hundred billion and rising, mainly because the can keeps getting kicked further down the road.

70 years later and some infrastructure may be showing it's age.

it's either just pure dumb bad luck or something that could have been prevented if the job wasn't being done on the cheap.



Nothing to do with modern power plants, except as a warning not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Something the nuclear industry has a very hard time learning.

stimpson

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

70 years later and some infrastructure may be showing it's age.

Infrastructure designed for a 20 year lifespan. It's beyond ****ed tbh. Even if they got their vitrification plant built to the current plan without any issue (and that ain't going to happen as it should have opened 10 years ago) it would take 50 years to process all of the material on site.

LordSutch

China Syndrome?

Nothing on Sky or BBC News ..... Yet.

Atlantic Dawn

I can't remember what I did with my jaysus iodine tablets.

Glenster

LordSutch wrote: »

China Syndrome?

Nothing on Sky or BBC News ..... Yet.

Its been on the bbc website for hours.

they just dropped some waste, its not going to melt down or anything.

Beyondgone

Glenster wrote: »

Its been on the bbc website for hours.

they just dropped some waste, its not going to melt down or anything.

Possibly a teensy bit more complex than that.

FishOnABike

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I can't remember what I did with my jaysus iodine tablets.

Stock up on as much dilisk as you can now.... be grand...

LithiumKid1976

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I can't remember what I did with my jaysus iodine tablets.

Check the attic, that's where mine were...

biscuithead

Apparently this site is the most contaminated place in the US and has been leaking since 2011. There is 53 million gallons of deadly radioactive liquid waste held in decrepit, ageing tanks. 53 million gallons is over 100 Olympic swimming pools. :-0

stimpson

biscuithead wrote: »

Apparently this site is the most contaminated place in the US and has been leaking since 2011. There is 53 million gallons of deadly radioactive liquid waste held in decrepit, ageing tanks. 53 million gallons is over 100 Olympic swimming pools. :-0

In 160 decrepit, aging tanks, many of which are only single walled.

The nearby Columbia river which is where the waste will ultimately end up if when it leaks, passes through Portland, a city of 2 million people.

ED E

Isnt this the definition of "Superfund site". Take 0.001% of the DoD budget and its sorted.

stimpson

ED E wrote: »

Isnt this the definition of "Superfund site". Take 0.001% of the DoD budget and its sorted.

It's not just a question of funding. They still haven't fully developed the tech to process the waste. That didn't stop them commencing work on the Vit plant so it has been put on hold while they figure it out. Just reading some articles on it and if there is a blockage of any of the conveyors it could cause a criticality (very bad). Even if this doesn't happen, the waste will corrode the machinery inside the plant.

biscuithead

According to CBC, 3.8 million litres of radioactive waste from this site are believed to have leaked out into the ground in the past.

www(dot)cbc(dot)ca/news/technology/hanford-us-nuclear-waste-radioactive-contamination-tunnel-1.4107595


CNN claims there was no leak from the plant on tuesday.

Capt'n Midnight

biscuithead wrote: »

Apparently this site is the most contaminated place in the US and has been leaking since 2011

2011 ?

The first waste leak was suspected in 1956 and confirmed in 1959

From 1944 through the late 1980s, Hanford generated nearly 2 million cubic meters ... of high-level tank waste ... Liquid evaporation,
discharge to the ground, chemical treatment, and tank leakage reduced this volume by 90%

Donald Trump

biscuithead wrote: »

Apparently this site is the most contaminated place in the US and has been leaking since 2011. There is 53 million gallons of deadly radioactive liquid waste held in decrepit, ageing tanks. 53 million gallons is over 100 Olympic swimming pools. :-0

Any truth to the rumour that one of our Olympic medal winners gained extraordinary superpowers by training in one of said radioactive pools before her amazing jump in performance over beyond in Atlanta.
If there is no truth to the rumour, might I suggest sending over a few of the current swimmers to give it a shot.