only slightly, i worked on a project once that used ultra high lead content glass to vitrify radioactive waste that even if broken, was no more dangerous that the whole
Posted on 08/22/2016 1:33:39 PM PDT by logi_cal869
When a drum containing radioactive waste blew up in an underground nuclear dump in New Mexico two years ago, the Energy Department rushed to quell concerns in the Carlsbad desert community and quickly reported progress on resuming operations.
The early federal statements gave no hint that the blast had caused massive long-term damage to the dump, a facility crucial to the nuclear weapons cleanup program that spans the nation, or that it would jeopardize the Energy Department’s credibility in dealing with the tricky problem of radioactive waste.
But the explosion ranks among the costliest nuclear accidents in U.S. history, according to a Times analysis. The long-term cost of the mishap could top $2 billion, an amount roughly in the range of the cleanup after the 1979 partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
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Try not confuse Nuclear Weapons Program cleanup (government created problem) with commercial nuclear power long term waste storage. Two different things. Oh that right you purposely confusing the issue. To make a political point, I suppose.
That’s some scary stuff right there. Best and brightest my ass.
PING!!
Does this sound familiar to you?
(Project Gnome, near our old mutual ‘stompin’ grounds” in Carlsbad...)
Thank you Obama and Reid for stopping completion of Yucca mountain after we spent 10 billion to have a nuclear waste depository there.
only slightly, i worked on a project once that used ultra high lead content glass to vitrify radioactive waste that even if broken, was no more dangerous that the whole
See my post #6. When the bomb went off our door rattled, and a drop of water fell into a pool in the Caverns.
The world did NOT end.
On the other hand, several years later, when an ICBM missile silo north or Roswell blew up, one of my co workers in Tulsa had worked on that project and was interrogated three-ways-from-Sunday about the blast by the FBI.
Time to open up the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste depository! It was constructed specifically for such use and Harry Reid will be gone soon.
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