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Posted on 06/29/2011 10:24:11 AM PDT by RummyChick
The wildfire that surrounds the nuclear lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico, has grown to at least 61,000 acres amid mounting concerns about what might be in the smoke that's visible from space.
Such fear has prompted the Environmental Protection Agency to bring in air monitors, along with a special airplane that checks for radiation levels. So far officials have not been able to find anything. "Our facilities and nuclear material are protected and safe," Laboratory Director Dr. Charles McMillan told ABC News.
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Pictures from the local radio station here:
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Any “nuclear waste” held in barrels contains things such as rags used to wipe things down, old disposable Tyvex suits used in low radiations areas and other very low level “radioactive” materials.
Except they did. Part of the problem is the disposal facility that’s been in the planning stages since the Carter administration (Yucca Mountain) is STILL in the planning stages while they figure out “important” things like signage that will still warn people away 5000 years from now. So lacking a permanent disposal option everything has been in “temporary” storage for 30 years, and will probably still be in “temporary” storage for 5000 years, all without that signage.
They refuse to check radiation in fish from the gulf of Alaska . . . and other crops where radiation has definitely risen since Japan . . .
but they’ll check Los Alamos.
Kind of them.
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I heard it was leftover skin fabric from the Hindenburg.
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Yes, unfortunately they are. Another report said that some are in outdoor tents, some buried and some left outside in the open air.
Oh, but they’ll shut down all private farming, manufacturing and oil wells if they find a tiny lizard that might be “harmed” by human activity.
Mega double-standard, anyone?
With fire burning just a few miles away, Los Alamos National Laboratory spokesman Terry Wallace pointed out Area G. It's there that 10,000 fifty-five gallon drums filled with low level radioactive material are stored.
"The bulk of the drums there truly are things like notes that are contaminated, contaminated gloves," Wallace says.
Those drums are in outdoor domes made of reinforced steel covered with a plasticized fire retardant. But lab officials insist this site and two others containing additional radioactive materials are safe. More radioactive waste is stored in concrete tubes buried deep in the ground; plutonium and uranium are stored in vaults inside hardened concrete buildings.
Part of the reason the waste is stored in porous volcanic sediments on a mesa hundreds of feet above the Rio Grande river and the nearby populated communities of Santa Fe and Albuquerque is that the environutters (and Harry Reid) have blocked storage deep inside Yucca Mountain in the barren Nevada desert.
I think the low level stuff is destined for the WIPP Site in SE New Mexico. Yucca is intended for the very hot stuff. There is so much low level material to be transported, it will be many years befor they get it all down there.
Indeed, the stuff in drums can be transported to WIPP. I believe it’s the higher level radiation material that’s buried.
Any reasons or explanations as to why the lab had radioactive material stowed in tents around the facility?
The sky is falling. The sky is falling. Typical LIB media hyperbole. If nothing else, this is why the taxpayers spent billions on the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada that the government has closed before using. Further disgust with the government is at hand.
Is someone stealing secrets from Los Alamos again? This happened during the Clinton administration.
I drove to Santa Fe from Houston and back twice in the last month. There is nothing to stop that fire from sweeping all the way to the gulf coast. Everything is so dry and crisp from drought, even the weeds are dead.
Best post of the month!
I guess the media want to turn this into a Fukushima time spectacle and that really bugs me. Nonetheless, it is a real nightmare of a situation and all the states from Texas to Arizona need rain and lots of it. It is hard to fathom that the federal and state governments would let Los Alamos burn to the ground. I’d think they’d throw every man, woman, and bucket at this fire.
Here are some pictures before and today.
same time of day , same direction.
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