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Hanford Nuclear Reservation tunnel collapse triggers alert
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| May 9, 2017
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Posted on 05/09/2017 10:04:24 AM PDT by Enchante
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Not much info yet on whether there is any actual danger to hundreds of workers, or not. Could be entirely contained, but the concern is about radioactive particles which can be breathed in.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:04:24 AM PDT
by
Enchante
To: Enchante
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:06:00 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Enchante
After Fukishima you would think we would be quickly shutting down the nuclear industry. This industry needs to shut down ASAP.
To: gunsequalfreedom
This plant hasn’t produced plutonium since the 1980s. It is all on a kind of maintenance and clean-up basis, I understand, but it is a prolonged, expensive, and difficul process to deal with plutonium.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:13:55 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: gunsequalfreedom
I don’t agree at all the nuclear power should all be shut down. It makes a lot of sense but new generation reactors should be deployed.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:15:01 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: Enchante
That area was called “Whoops” for a reason.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:15:54 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
To: gunsequalfreedom
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:17:06 AM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: Enchante; BenLurkin; SoothingDave; NicknamedBob
The physical fall/collapse of an old tunnel ceiling almost certainly knocked loose surface contamination and grit from nearby surfaces .. As well as the physical hazard of being underground while the roof is collapsing!
Many hundreds of areas at Hanford are not contaminated nor contain radioactive piping, equipment or elements.
Many acres and storage spots do contain contaminates.
We don’t know yet enough to decide or debate anything. No reports of injuries?
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:18:00 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Enchante
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:18:50 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
To: Reno89519
Since Government’s in charge, you can expect stupidities.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:19:57 AM PDT
by
TheConservator
("The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle)
To: gunsequalfreedom
After Fukishima you would think we would be quickly shutting down the nuclear industry. This industry needs to shut down ASAP. This is nuclear weapons industry.
PUREX was last plant built, but is still the legacy of WWII.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:20:01 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Liberals think in propaganda)
To: Enchante
And ofc this was not any “power” plant it was about nuclear weapons production many decades ago.....
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:23:28 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
To: Reno89519
WPPSS (WHOOPS) was a private entity set up by the state to develop 5 commercial reactors. Plants 1,2, & 4 were to be located on the Hanford Reservation and Plants 3 & % were to be located at Satsop near Aberdeen. They went bust and only completed Plant #2.
The building in this story was shut down a number of years ago and was constructed for the purpose of extracting plutonium from spent fuel rods from the government owned N Reactor. It was not a nuclear reactor.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:24:47 AM PDT
by
shotgun
To: Reno89519
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:26:25 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
To: gunsequalfreedom
After Tacoma Narrows you’d think we’d have stopped building bridges and shut them all down.
To: Enchante
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:27:35 AM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
To: gunsequalfreedom
BS. Nothing is unconditionally safe.Shall we ban cars because of crashes?Aircraft? House because people die in fires? Natural gas use? Windmills chop up birds make noise and spoil the views. EVERY energy source has consequences.
Morenew nuclear plants ,quite possibly thorium fueled is a better stategy.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:27:55 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Freedom isn't free)
To: gunsequalfreedom
After Fukishima you would think we would be quickly shutting down the nuclear industry. This industry needs to shut down ASAP. Your position is irrational, and I oppose it strongly. Nuclear power is far safer, per megawatt, fuel to distribution, than any other method of power generation.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:28:36 AM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
To: gunsequalfreedom
After the South Fork Dam collapse (killed 2200 people), you’d think we’d have shut down all the dams and stopped building them.
To: CharlesWayneCT
good one!
I don’t know why we still have trains, cars, planes, etc.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:28:59 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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