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Tunnel at plutonium finishing plant collapses in Hanford
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Posted on 05/09/2017 9:20:46 AM PDT by lancium
Hundreds of workers were in "take cover" position after a tunnel in a plutonium finishing plant collapsed in Hanford early Tuesday morning. The tunnel was full of highly contaminated materials such as hot radioactive trains that transport fuel rods.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hanford; news; plutonium; thatcantbegood; washington
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:20:47 AM PDT
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lancium
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:22:18 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:23:42 AM PDT
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Ezekiel
(All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: lancium
The newest tourist attraction.
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:24:35 AM PDT
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bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:24:38 AM PDT
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lancium
To: lonevoice
Yikes! Best do some research on this to see what the consequences may be! Are we safe, I wonder?
To: lancium
The incident occurred in the 200 East Area near the PUREX (Plutonium Uranium Extracation Plant) Facility... Washington state.
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:26:19 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Ezekiel
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:27:07 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: lancium
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:30:09 AM PDT
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MeganC
(Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
To: Pride in the USA
Pretty sure after the feds step in we won’t hear anymore about it. Time to buy a geiger counter...
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:30:21 AM PDT
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lancium
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:31:57 AM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
To: Ezekiel
To: lancium
Thanks for posting. This doesn’t say definitively that there has been a collapse but I guess the ground subsiding may be indicative of a likely collapse.
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:34:43 AM PDT
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House Atreides
(Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison)
To: lancium
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:34:49 AM PDT
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pgkdan
(The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
To: lancium
Dang gophers................
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:35:32 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:36:24 AM PDT
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b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:36:50 AM PDT
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Raebie
To: Pride in the USA
It is reported on that Hanford alert as though soil subsidence above and along the location of a buried rail tunnel (used to transport plutonium during its production process) has indicated the tunnel collapsed. Therefore, it is assumed for safety sake, that dangerous pollutants in the tunnel, may have been expelled as dust, prompting the lock-down indoors.
Plutonium dust is about as deadly a material as humans can come in contact with in such a situation. A single one micron dust particle lodged in a lung will kill you.
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:37:16 AM PDT
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KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: lancium
Is it true Hanford operated for years (forever?) without a containment building? And that it's the filthiest nuclear site in the country?
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:40:48 AM PDT
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GOPJ
(The liberal media is the thug arm of the Democrat Party.)
To: lancium
“Hot radioactive trains”?
Must have put some super chargers on them.
I had a “hot car” when I was young.
Didn’t have a garage and it sat out in the sun all day.
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:48:51 AM PDT
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blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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