and the solid waste isn't all vitrified because?
Posted on 08/22/2016 1:33:39 PM PDT by logi_cal869
When a drum containing radioactive waste blew up in an underground nuclear dump in New Mexico two years ago, the Energy Department rushed to quell concerns in the Carlsbad desert community and quickly reported progress on resuming operations.
The early federal statements gave no hint that the blast had caused massive long-term damage to the dump, a facility crucial to the nuclear weapons cleanup program that spans the nation, or that it would jeopardize the Energy Department’s credibility in dealing with the tricky problem of radioactive waste.
But the explosion ranks among the costliest nuclear accidents in U.S. history, according to a Times analysis. The long-term cost of the mishap could top $2 billion, an amount roughly in the range of the cleanup after the 1979 partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
WIPP Updates http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3128241/posts
when the heck did thi happen?
I have been on FR every day (the best news site there is) and I missed it? Was there any threads about it here?
Nuclear energy is clean, efficient and safe. It eases the guilt of all the global warming issues (a hoax anyway, right?)
Nuclear power is the answer. Until that pesky waste problem arises. I say let the fiftieth generation from no deal with it. Bunch of babies
Wonder if the air in the caverns has been contaminated.
02/28/2014 Vanity Post: WIPP Updates
03/27/2014 article: Crews preparing to enter underground nuke dump (NM)
04/28/2014 article:First cartridges found at dig site looking to unearth millions of supposedly buried E.T. Atari games Oh. Wait, wrong kind of dangerous buried wsste. Still don't want to get any of this on you.
08/25/2014 article: Cause of New Mexico nuclear waste accident remains a mystery
Any worse than PROJECT GNOME when an underground nuke was set off east of Carlsbad back around 1962? the blast doors blew off and radioactivity was released to the atmosphere.
Within a short time the interior radioactivity had reduced so much that a photo of a man standing on the interior pile could be made.
My dad worked on that project.
Exploding kitty litter doesn’t quite rank up there with the EPA making sure the Navajo nation gets their minimum daily requirement of cadmium in their drinking water, now does it?
Well, cadmium is blue. Maybe they thought the water needed a little more color.
It is one of the most costly BECAUSE Obola’s minions (and his political donor companies) were in charge of the DOE, DOD, and EPA “attempting” to do the cleanup.
Why would it just “explode?” This is the LA Times, and I’m not about to give it a hit. Nor do I believe this is anything but alarmist hyperbole. But if someone else wants to venture into that brain-sapping wasteland and summarize, the article, great.
See my link “WIPP Updates”. Check the dates. Few, if any, notable updates since my last post.
and the solid waste isn't all vitrified because?
I wondered how they were going to decontaminate every salt surface within the mine...
Lab officials had decided to substitute an organic material for a mineral one. But the new material caused a complex chemical reaction that blew the lid off a drum, sending mounds of white, radioactive foam into the air....
I see technical/engineering decisions made by bean-counters/managerial-types all the time - all that education and not a lick of sense.
If you’re being sarcastic, point taken. If you need more info, see my link posted in comments for my former 2014 post WIPP Updates.
I posted this in Chat as almost no one at the time cared. I recall that I was even accused of ‘hystrionics’ for my posts on WIPP, whatever that means to the mind of a mental midget masquerading as a Conservative at FR.
What few understand is that this event was just one of many...a symptom of a systemic problem everywhere. With no accountability, the public is harmed and the cycle repeats. Recall EPA & Gold King Mine. Look at the 2004 DC Lead in Water crisis. Same in Flint. I could go on for far...too...long...the list is endless. Regulations and laws mean jack if there are no penalties for those that cause the public harm. Pointing fingers with political bent or for fiscal convenience is simpleton when government is to blame.
I won’t postulate the solution, but more government workers/bureaucracy, regulations and/or laws certainly do nothing to protect the public or fix broken government...at any level, federal, state or local.
It COULD have been something like this event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster
I don’t know personally, but, improper storage can have its drawbacks.
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Nuclear energy is clean, efficient and safe. It eases the guilt of all the global warming issues (a hoax anyway, right?)
Nuclear power is the answer. Until that pesky waste problem arises. I say let the fiftieth generation from no deal with it. Bunch of babies
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Waste problem? The only *problem*, as is typical, is GOVT. I don’t recall the govt ‘allowing’ the re-use of ‘spent’ fuel rods or the like.
What generation reactors are in use today in the U.S.? Compared to v3, v4, v5+ in other areas of the globe?
Same chicken-little CRAP that they attempt to spew re: fracking...only been around for close to 100yrs; but so ‘new’ to the public it’s ‘dangerous’, destroying water tables/etc.
I thought they fixed it by dumping it in a Colorado river.
Two Billion, big deal.
Hillary “misplaced” Six Billion when she was running the State Department.
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