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Reactor at Hanford SCRAMMED...

Posted on 03/29/2016 11:08:55 AM PDT by djf

One of the nuclear reactors at Hanford has had a scram. That means the cooling failed and the reactor automatically shut down.

The news reports say they are checking it out and will restart when it's safe.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: chinasyndome; crisis; hanford; nuclearplant; scram; washington
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Where’s Hanford?

Hanford is located in the Columbia Basin in Eastern Washington next to the Columbia River. It is the site of some of the development of the A-Bomb. It has several deactivated reactors and numerous tanks of radioactive fluid.

There is currently an extensive cleanup program that has been in effect for lots of years.

21 posted on 03/29/2016 11:18:34 AM PDT by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: Parmy

I think it’s still a superfund site.
Whatever that means anymore.


22 posted on 03/29/2016 11:20:47 AM PDT by djf ("It's not about being nice, it's about being competent!" - Donald Trump)
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To: steve86

There’s a sort of amusing story about them wanting to reuse the land over a couple of warmish areas by putting a shopping center there, and then when people pointed out that it might be a bit of a risk of exposure they changed the plan to be a golf course. The plan got trash-canned. By golfers.


23 posted on 03/29/2016 11:21:20 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

I lived in the Tri Cities area for 38 years and can’t recall that story.


24 posted on 03/29/2016 11:23:44 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Delta 21

“Its in the state of Washington poised atop an active volcanic region of the Ring of Fire.”

What could go wrong?


25 posted on 03/29/2016 11:24:21 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: Delta 21

Smart money is betting that after taking the oath of office Pres Trump will no longer be able to pronounce it correctly and begin saying nukular.


26 posted on 03/29/2016 11:24:22 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: Delta 21

“Its in the state of Washington poised atop an active volcanic region of the Ring of Fire.”

LOL. Maybe 50 billion eons ago. Hanford sits on the most stable basalt foundation you could imagine and the most extinct volcanically.


27 posted on 03/29/2016 11:24:26 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: djf

Possible hack? Like the NY dam by the Iranians?


28 posted on 03/29/2016 11:24:50 AM PDT by milford421 ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke))
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To: shotgun

Heard it from a friend whose Dad spent a career doing reclamation there. Probably an urban legend. Well, a rural legend. I know the guy - he’s a golfer.


29 posted on 03/29/2016 11:25:03 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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30 posted on 03/29/2016 11:25:56 AM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: dp0622

Of course, everyone here knows that SCRAMming a reactor means interrupting the chain reaction with carbon control rods which absorb outgoing neutrons.

It’s done by hitting the SCRAM switch or button.


31 posted on 03/29/2016 11:26:35 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Billthedrill

Areas with any detectable levels of radiation are well inside the boundaries of Hanford proper and not subject to any commercial development. The closest golf course and residential area would be Horn Rapids, about 20 miles from the nearest former disposal or contaminated area.


32 posted on 03/29/2016 11:32:49 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: elcid1970

This says SCRAM in Russian!

33 posted on 03/29/2016 11:33:13 AM PDT by McGruff (Somebody has been copulating.)
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To: dfwgator

Zactly. Where’s Jimmuh?


34 posted on 03/29/2016 11:34:03 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: steve86

I had heard that Hanford was almost as stable as the salt deposits around Carlsbad, NM where they built the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), but I couldnt pass up the chance to rouse the rabble.

A lot of the superfund cleanup ends up there.


35 posted on 03/29/2016 11:34:25 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: dp0622

As in “SCRAM!! This thing’s about to blow!”

LMAO!


36 posted on 03/29/2016 11:35:18 AM PDT by tatown (#Cheatin' Ted - A 'principled' conservative)
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To: corkoman
Press Here!


37 posted on 03/29/2016 11:37:15 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: djf

IIRC Hanford is a graphite reactor, similar to Chernobyl.


38 posted on 03/29/2016 11:37:22 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: elcid1970

I don’t understand a #####ing word you said.

how embarrassing.


39 posted on 03/29/2016 11:37:44 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: djf

They should open up the Atomic National Park.

See the bubbling waste plutonium tanks. Good for 500 years. The waste lasts for thousands, however....

Be at a real reactor scram....

See us make nuclear waste into glass....

Oh wait, it’s the government polluting the environment. Nothing to see here. Nothing happened. Never mind. ;-)


40 posted on 03/29/2016 11:38:06 AM PDT by r_barton
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