Posted on 10/25/2015 9:58:44 AM PDT by logi_cal869
A video of Sunday's explosions that preceded a fire in a state-owned radioactive waste trench at the US Ecology site 10 miles south of Beatty shows white smoke emanating from the soil before the ground erupts, shooting debris and more white smoke into the air.
The 40-second cellphone video, released Thursday by the Nevada Department of Public Safety two days after the Las Vegas Review-Journal had requested it, was taken from a berm atop Trench No. 11 overlooking the soil cap of Trench No. 14.
Trench No. 14 is where containers of low-level radioactive waste were buried in part of a pit the size of a football stadium in the 1970s.
Authorities shut down a 140-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 95 for nearly 24 hours because of the fire and flash floods during Sunday's heavy rains in Nye County. Beatty is about 117 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
State Fire Marshal Chief Peter Mulvihill said Tuesday investigators don't know yet what caused the "energetic burning" in that pit Sunday but whatever caught fire below the surface of the unlined, clay terrain "definitely burned very hot."
(Excerpt) Read more at reviewjournal.com ...
This corresponding story
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/state-investigate-radioactive-waste-site-fire-nevada-34612143
describes a 10 foot crater and the finding of 'zero hazardous waste and radioactivity readings' at the blast/fire site.
Given the nature of this dump, isn't that curious.../s
jimmy hoffa
Perhaps the low-level nuclear waste wasn’t as low-level as they thought. maybe not even nuclear.
I’m pretty sure the fire/explosions had nothing to do with radioactivity. More likely, some reactive waste, that was likely contaminated with rad material, was buried there.
This site does not have a history of accepting hi level or fissile rad materials. The level of rad doesn’t in and of itself lead to this outcome.
low-level radioactive waste is know of a misnomer. It includes everything except spent fuel and spent fuel processing byproducts
No green glow.
Ahh, those classic 50’s and 60’s sci-fi movies!
Wonder if there’s a good comprehensive thread some where in our FR archives?
RE: “Killer Ant film”
That movie scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Where is the EPA on protecting the sage grouse now? I would expect them to be there enmasse catching and saving them all.
If this is where I think it is (Nevada test site), I took a tour of this site last year. If I remember correctly, they said that no nuclear waste was stored there. It was all just toxic/dangerous stuff that no one else wanted to handle.
obammy, satan’s lair?
you and me both! “THEM!”
No not really.
Government regulations require pretty much anything that can not be PROVEN to not be radioactively contaminated be buried.
Until the last 10 years the technology to do that efficiently did not exist. So it was cheaper to ship trash off to be buried than it was to spend the man hour to check every square inch of trash for contamination.
So all sorts of valuable materials were shipped off to burial sites rather than recycle it.
So it would not surprise me at all if some large piece of lightly contaminated magnesium or titanium was buried in that pit 30 years ago.
The radioactive waste dump is right next door to where you were.
It means they elected a new pope.
;)
Good one!
Santa Claus is a long way from 34th Street.
With all those millions of wasteland acres available, what kind of imbeciles build a radwaste dump 1/3 of mile from a major E-W US highway -- at a place with no exits for 10 miles -- at the closest? Can you say, "GREED" and, "STUPIDITY"?
Here's the US EcoFreeko site -- with the approximate explosion site denoted with a Google Earth "placemark"...
Not quite sure how to post a "clickable" KML file here on FR, but, for those who are interested, the coordinates of the placemark are
Lat: 36.767150°
Long: -116.690651°
(Note the automobile-size containers at the upper (N) corner of the site...)
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