Feds Evacuate Hanford Nuclear Workers

AP ^ | 8/24/5

[savedbygrace]

According to Larson, a barrel being handled by workers broke open. It is not known what the barrel contains.

Roll out the barrel,
We'll have a barrel of fun

(I apologize a little for putting that tune in your head. Good luck getting rid of it.)

[Tennessee_Bob]

(I apologize a little for putting that tune in your head. Good luck getting rid of it.)

Ok - time for a retaliatory strike:

I'm just mad about Saffron - and Saffron's mad about me.....

[datura]

Daisy, Daisy, .................

HAL9000

[Westlander]

......a barrel being handled by workers broke open. It is not known what the barrel contains..

They're just having a party. It was a barrel of beer.

[MarineBrat]

(I apologize a little for putting that tune in your head. Good luck getting rid of it.)

Ok - time for a retaliatory strike:

Oh yeah? Everyone knows that the most powerful stuck in your head song is .... GILLIGAN'S ISLAND!!!! HUHUHAHAHAHAHAAAA! Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale.... dee deedleleedlelee!

Now for the insane part. I know someone who says that he knows someone who knew someone that could sing the words to Gilligan's Island to the tune of Stairway to Heaven!

NOOOOOOOoooOOOoooooOOOOOooooooo...........

[Spunky]

I live where the Hanford Nuclear Plant is and I had no idea this was happening until I looked in the mirror and this is what I saw looking back.

:-)
Really it was no big deal.

[Spunky]

See my above posting at #26

[sionnsar]

I recommend a new mirror...

[TheForceOfOne]

Don't they pass out Potassium Iodate or Potassium Iodide to residents in the area to take in emergencies?

[Tennessee_Bob]

Oh, heck - that's just what we in Oak Ridge call a healthy glow....

[polymuser]

OOPS

[Domestic Church]

"Electrical banana is going to be the very next phase...."

[polymuser]

You put the lime in the coconut...

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

a barrel being handled by workers broke open. It is not known what the barrel contains.

If it would have contained significant amounts of radiation, they would have known immediately.

[steve86]

Don't they pass out Potassium Iodate or Potassium Iodide to residents in the area to take in emergencies?

If they do they missed my house. But we have plenty of mirrors to reflect the radiation back.

I actually keep my own supply of KI, but more to protect the thyroid from the inevitable fallout from a nuke event in Seattle or Portland some day.

[Ostlandr]

Ditto. Nuke industry workers are the ones in real danger if something goes wrong. Did anybody who wasn't either working at the plant or a firefighter/rescue worker die after Chernobyl?

That being said, I strongly support nuclear power. For clean air, free-flowing rivers, and cheaper than coal domestic power, I can live with the risk.
And yes, I would be glad to host one in my backyard- I got 50 acres. Pay off my mortgage and give me free electricty for life, and it's a done deal.

[enviros_kill]

More nukes, less kooks.
You got to glow to know.

[Valpal1]

Don't freak, but I have sung Amazing Grace to the tune of Gilligan's Isle, Stairway to Heaven, Ghostriders in the Sky and Joy to the World.

It also raps well.

[chimera]

Don't they pass out Potassium Iodate or Potassium Iodide to residents in the area to take in emergencies?

Not for all. It's only useful as a thyroid blocker, and that means the release has to contain radioiodine, a short-lived fission product. That is only around in either a nuclear explosion or damage to freshly neutron-irradiated fissile fuel, which this was not.

Like any dietary supplement, don't take KI "just for the hell of it". There is always the chance for an adverse reaction. In a random population sample of a million or so people, a couple or a few will be allergic to KI. Anyone who has had a strong allergic reaction to food (as I have) knows it can be a frightening, potentially life-threatening thing.

[johnny7]

That's just your aura silly!