Posted on 02/24/2016 3:24:19 PM PST by ransomnote
RICHLAND – The Environmental Protection Agency says the uncontrolled spread of small amounts of radioactive waste at Hanford after a Nov. 17 windstorm is alarming.
The winds pushed specks of contamination beyond Route 4, the public highway from Richland out to the Wye Barricade entrance to Hanford.
The Tri-City Herald reports that tests found no contamination on the public highway. And the Department of Energy concluded that workers and the public are not at risk of exposure.
But the EPA in a letter says the uncontrolled spread of contamination “is a matter that is alarming to EPA and requires further investigation and discussion.â€
It has given the Energy Department until the third week of April to prepare a report on its loss of control of radioactive material.
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? what state?
Washington
A NEWS channel picked it up: KREM
http://www.krem.com/news/local/northwest/radiation-from-hanford-blown-onto-highway-after-nov-storm/50666985
Looks like Washington.
Thanks
This was where the WW2 plutonium atomic bomb material was produced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
I pray the EPA is on Mr. Trump’s short list. Cut ‘em by 1/3 per year until they are no more. Let go those employees not protected by a union.
The Hanford nuke plant is in Washington state.
Is it as poisonous as, say, toxic mine runoff?
The only pollution of concern to the EPA idiots is that which their C-grade uncompetant buffoons did not cause themselves.
Following CW-II, special guillotines with unsharpened blades will be reserved for EPA slime.
From a related article in TheRepublic.com:
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/66ef3972d89d46a1a6c9a765141cfd73/US—Hanford-Radiation
“Workers at the burial ground near Route 4 have been digging up contaminated debris and drums of waste from trenches to be treated and taken to a lined landfill in central Hanford for disposal. The waste came from research and uranium fuel fabrication work at Hanford before 1964.
On Nov. 17, winds that hit 70 to 75 mph pushed sandy grains of contamination that had spread toward the road and two grains on the east side of the road. Contamination was cleaned up as it was discovered.
Washington Closure Hanford told the EPA on Nov. 24 that all radiological material had been collected.
But on Dec. 11, the state Department of Health conducted a follow-up survey on behalf of EPA and found four specks of contamination that had spread outside of areas of radiological control. Three were on the west side of the highway and one was on the east side.”
Just say a radical right-wing white supremacist group with ties to the Tea Party released this, and the EPA will be all over it like stank on crap.
I met an old timer that was stationed at Hanford back in the 50s. He told me there were clouds of yellow gas coming out of the earth and scattered puddles of radioactive liquid waste. he was in his 80s when I met him and had developed cancer.
First they came for the coal fired plants...
but I didn't burn coal...
Sadly, Mr. Trump mentioned that he’d use the EPA to the fullest extent of the law to enforce the ethanol mandate, back in Iowa. I don’t think the EPA will be going anywhere.
And fire those who are protected by the union.
A union for federal workers, who would have thought it.
EPA is looking to manufacture a crisis to manage.
Radiation has units of measure.
How about sharing some data?
Or, do the zeros to the right of the decimal place fill the page?
If folks knew about some of the things the early nuke program did, they’d hide under their bed.
Don’t really need a unit of measure. Nuke plant said all radiation contained. Traces found blowing around on a street. Means it’s loose in the environment. Litmus test. Can’t be slightly pregnant or (radiation) slightly contained.
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