Nuclear operator being sought for possible incompetence - developing....
Posted on 05/09/2017 9:20:46 AM PDT by lancium
Hundreds of workers were in "take cover" position after a tunnel in a plutonium finishing plant collapsed in Hanford early Tuesday morning. The tunnel was full of highly contaminated materials such as hot radioactive trains that transport fuel rods.
Hmmmmmm. one micron = 39 millionths of an inch???
Interesting and disturbing. A quick google search shows the same plant had a leak of liquid nuclear waste from a holding tank. This happened April 16, 2016.
It was noted that this particular tank was failing since 2011. Following the 2016 incident the DOE’s reaction was ...
The U.S. Department of Energy released a statement Monday calling the leak an “anticipated” outcome of an ongoing effort to empty the tank in question. The Washington state Department of Ecology said, “There is no indication of waste leaking into the environment or risk to the public at this time.”
They used graphite core in the reactor building. None of the old federal reactors were constructed with modern containment buildings. This was similar to the soviet era reactors. The difference was Soviet reactor scientist were allowed to experiment with their reactors by pushing them to new limits which is what happened at Chernobyl.
American reactors were designed to operate to produce nuclear weapons grade materials and there was no need to experiment or play around with them as if they were a giant physics lab.
Nuclear operator being sought for possible incompetence - developing....
I saw a program a while ago about how they built the dome for the Chernobyl reactor. They equipped the dome with robots that would, over time, disassemble the reactor.
Hanford has several underground liquid waste storage tanks. They area all failing. They can’t just pump them out because they have no place to put that material. That is why they are building the Vitrification Plant that will turn this stuff to glass.
Small measure of length.
Five mile no fly zone now in place over the site.
Hi - I wonder if it’s the one to be shown tonight here on PBS - Atlanta PBA... Looks interesting. Is it currently being built or old? I made a note so I wouldn’t forget it. HA - watch me forget it!
http://www.pba.org/schedule/wpba-protrac-schedule/#page=schedule&day=20170509&provider=Broadcast
Sorry - looks current..pardon my dumb question. Also looks interesting...
Seriously?
Yes, that looks like it’s the same program. It was first aired in the UK on December 21, 2016, so it’s fairly recent.
Official news release speaks of a 20 by 20 feet section of soil that’s sunk.
There are some tweets from this reporter at “OregonLive/Portland Oregonian”.
https://twitter.com/SMatsumoto55
This is a BIG problem
Was it good? Hold your attention? The articles about the dome online are certainly interesting...
The Conqueror......
John Wayne .... Susan Hayward .....at the atomic cafe.
It was a very good documentary. I know I didn’t fall asleep while I was watching it.
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