NEW MEXICO SAYS 57 NUKE CONTAINERS COULD BE THREAT

AP ^ | 5/19/14 | JERI CLAUSING

[Kartographer]

Los Alamos National Laboratory packed 57 barrels of nuclear waste with a type of kitty litter believed to have caused a radiation leak at the federal government's troubled nuclear waste dump, posing a potentially "imminent" and "substantial" threat to public health and the environment, New Mexico officials said Monday.

State Environment Department Secretary Ryan Flynn issued a formal order giving the lab two days to submit a plan for securing the waste containers, many of which are likely stored outdoors on the lab's northern New Mexico campus or at temporary site in west Texas.

[Kartographer]

Should have used Fresh Step?

[Kartographer]

New Mexico Ping!

[demshateGod]

One for each state!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Tidy Cat!

[umgud]

many of which are likely stored outdoors on the lab's northern New Mexico campus or at temporary site in west Texas.

If in west Texas, it's none of their business.

[Steely Tom]

Los Alamos National Laboratory packed 57 barrels of nuclear waste with a type of kitty litter believed to have caused a radiation leak at the federal government's troubled nuclear waste dump, posing a potentially "imminent" and "substantial" threat to public health and the environment, New Mexico officials said Monday.

If written eight years ago, that sentence would have read "at the Bush Administration's troubled nuclear waste dump."

[BuffaloJack]

Just shit it to:
HELLO KITTY
FUKASHIMA, JAPAN

[BuffaloJack]

Just ship it to:
HELLO KITTY
FUKASHIMA, JAPAN

[HereInTheHeartland]

That’s what kitty litter is designed to surround!!

[Cooter]

Switched from clay-based to wheat-based absorbent. More details here:
Absorbent Used in Kitty Litter May Be Cause of Radiation Leaks at WIPP

[apillar]

It sounds like a plot for a bad 1950's monster movie:

"An ordinary house-cat wanders into a nuclear storage facility and uses the cat box, but this is no ordinary cat box, it's really a box of highly radioactive cat litter. Now the country is threatened by 200 foot MEGA-CAT and her litter of glowing RAD-KITTENS. IN 3-D!

[Tijeras_Slim]

There’s a regional compact regarding radioactive materials among several states out here. Ran into it when I was trying to get rid of some cobalt sources.

[tennmountainman]

We need to find out who made the decision to switch products.

[Cooter]

...EnergySolutions, a Salt Lake City-based company hired to package radioactive waste at LANL into containers for shipment to the WIPP, switched from using a clay-based absorbent in the storage drums to a wheat-based mixture.

[umgud]

The reason for the compacts is that federal law requires each state have a plan to deal with rad waste, but most states don’t have rad waste disposal facilities and must enter compacts with states that do. I don’t know if this gives NM in this case jusriditction over material that is already out of state........ it might.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Don’t know, but the NM Radiation Dept is actually pretty good to deal with. They never went “full bureaucrat” on me, but always explained the easiest way to deal with the regs.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I;m calling BS on this. Fukashima radiation circles the globe once every 40 days and we are getting it.

[Lazamataz]

Kitty.

Litter.

.

Considered a solution by our best and brightest.

We are so screwed.

[DavidLSpud]

But wheat is so “organic” ( ; )

Yeah....screwed. PERIOD

[tennmountainman]

Thanks for info.