Posted on 03/27/2014 5:17:37 PM PDT by ruralvoter
he Department of Energy said Thursday it expects to get underground next week to begin investigating the cause and extent of a mysterious radiation leak from the government's nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico.
Officials said the inspections of the shafts that workers will use to access the half-mile-deep repository are complete and they are preparing to send an initial crew of eight into the mine early next week.
The dump has been shuttered since mid-February, when radiation was released above ground and into the air around Carlsbad, contaminating at least 17 workers with low doses of radiation. Four more workers are undergoing additional tests to see if they were exposed, the DOE said.
Also Thursday, the DOE said it will expand its environmental monitoring to 10 more stations that will test air, soil and vegetation around Hobbs, Artesia, Loving, Eunice and other nearby communities.
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feel bad for em, they’re gonna be dead prematurely.
Nukes are safe. They’re safe!
I suspect the people making entry know what they are doing. The amount of radiation in question is very small. However ANY measurable amount released to the surface is abnormal and needs to be investigated.
Send in Kevin Bacon and the rest of his crew from “Tremors”.
Zombies. Radioactive zombies! Don’t go in there! Too late.
I always thought it was dumb to put this disposal site in SE New Mexico. The area is riddled with caverns. I think this is in the Rustler Anhydrite if iI remember right.
It isn’t exactly a dead area. Not seismically but it isn’t exactly dry as a bone either. Somewhere up in Granite like the Canadian Shield would have been better.
Take it all out of there and dump in in Afghanistan.
From the air should work just fine.
5.56mm
Take it all out of there and dump in in Afghanistan.
From the air should work just fine.
May I suggest 30 minutes out of Minot would be more efficient?
5.56mm
It’s worse than that: It’s surrounded by well sites and on top of a brine formation.
Related:
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board letter to New Mexico Senators Udall & Heinrich in response to their request for an ‘assessment’ of the conditions at WIPP
http://www.dnfsb.gov/sites/default/files/Board%20Activities/Letters/2014/ltr_2014321_23931.pdf
“The Wet Repository”
http://www.cardnm.org/repository_a.html
Evaluation of Long-term Integrity of WIPP (1997)
http://www.wmsym.org/archives/1997/sess10/10-04.htm
The more I looked into this a month ago, wow.
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