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Radiation Alarm at Washington State Hanford Reservation (False Alarm)
Dow Jones Wire
| 2/5/03 @ 19:54
| ? Dow Jones Wire
Posted on 02/05/2003 5:03:24 PM PST by mrweb
Radiation Alarm at Washington State Nuclear Facility
TOPICS: US: Washington
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I'm sorry but this is all I have. It just came across the the Dow Jones Wire. But that was all they had.
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:03:24 PM PST
by
mrweb
To: mrweb
You mean HANFORD?
To: mrweb
Hanford reservation .... NOT Hartford
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:04:52 PM PST
by
dennisw
( http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
To: HairOfTheDog; Admin Moderator
Local Washington news not covering this, and I would think it would be a big deal.
Admin Mod correct the Title at any rate, our Nuclear facility is "Hanford" not Hartford.
To: HairOfTheDog
Yes, sorry. HANFORD
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:06:27 PM PST
by
mrweb
To: HairOfTheDog
Well, if not, at least it's NOT Hanford... THAt would suck... ;0)
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:07:30 PM PST
by
Chad Fairbanks
('I WISH, at some point, that you would address those damned armadillos in your trousers." - JustShe)
To: mrweb
You didn't perchance see a notification for an "Amber Alert" near Hanford did you? - there is a child missing there.
To: mrweb
I hope that they haven't done something that would darken the mirrors at LIGO. (Not a particularly healthy situation for anything organic that's about either!)
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:08:13 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(Jøin the Cøälition tø Prevent Unnecessärily Verbøse änd Nønsensicäl Täg Lines, eh)
To: Chad Fairbanks
It sure would suck!
To: mrweb
Radiation alarm at Hanford may have been false alarm
UPDATED 5:05 -
RICHLAND - There's an emergency alert at the Hanford nuclear reservation after a radiation alarm sounded at the K East Basin.
No evacuations have been ordered. No word on what caused the air monitor alarm to go off. The area has been locked down.
A Department of Energy spokesperson said all filters are clean and results from workers testing the air have not found any contaminants as of 4:45 p.m.
Deborah Dunn of the Energy Department says people using the nearby Columbia River between White Bluffs and the Vernita Bar have been asked to leave.
The K Basins at Hanford hold 21-hundred metric tons of spent fuel, including four tons of plutonium. The Energy Department and its contractors have been moving the fuel from the K East Basin to the K West Basin for processing.
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:10:21 PM PST
by
RCW2001
To: mrweb
Radiation alarm sounded at Hanford
http://www.krem.com/topstories/krem2_hanford_radiation-alarm.26fabac9.html
(Richland) A radiation alarm sounded Wednesday afternoon at the K East Basin at the Hanford nuclear reservation, forcing an onsite lockdown, the U.S. Department of Energy said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the alarm to go off, said Guy Schein, a spokesman for the Energy Department.
The alert reached the second of four levels of severity, according to Mark Clemens with the Washington State Office of Emergency Management.
Clemens confirmed that the alarms were in response to air monitoring.The alert set off sirens in an area around the Columbia River from the White Bluff area to Vernita Bridge. The sirens are designed to get people to move away from the area near the river, Clemens said.
"This is pretty rare. It's unusual to get this high," Clemens said of the air readings.
The K Basins are two large pools of water where corroded spent nuclear fuel is stored, and workers were in the process of transferring some of that fuel from the east basin to the west basin when the alarm sounded. The K Basins at Hanford hold 2,100 metric tons of spent fuel, including four tons of plutonium.
Clemens said people in the Tri-Cities area should stay put and listen for media reports of further developments.
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:10:30 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: mrweb
Asking this again because I think I am on to something...
You didn't perchance see a notification for an "Amber Alert" near in Pasco, near Hanford did you? - there is a child missing there, and an Amber Alert has been issued.
Local Seattle news just is NOT covering anything having to do with Hanford.
To: HairOfTheDog
KIRO (Channel 7, Seattle) is calling it a false alarm.
To: mrweb
GoogleNewsBeta:
Radiation alarm has sounded at HanfordKatu.com, OR - 21 minutes agoRICHLAND - There's an emergency alert at the Hanford nuclear reservation after a
radiation alarm sounded at the K East Basin. No evacuations have been ordered. ...
Radiation alarm sounds at Hanford
KTVB, ID - 21 minutes ago
RICHLAND, Wash. - A radiation alarm sounded Wednesday afternoon at the K East Basin
at the Hanford nuclear reservation, forcing an onsite lockdown, the US ...
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:11:10 PM PST
by
backhoe
(The 1990's will be remembered as "The Decade of Fraud(s)..." ( Clintons, Dot-Bombs, Oslo... ))
To: CyberCowboy777
FYI
To: HairOfTheDog
RE 11:
[Gilda Radner voice]
Nevermind!
To: Scott from the Left Coast
Channel 5 is about to cover it they say....
To: backhoe
You da man...
Johnnie on the spot...
Up to datest wid da latest...
How ya been, man?
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:13:51 PM PST
by
error99
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law...)
To: HairOfTheDog
... it's always something ...
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:14:16 PM PST
by
error99
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law...)
To: All; mrweb
TAKE COVER NOTICE HAS BEEN LIFTED;
FALSE ALARM
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posted on
02/05/2003 5:15:56 PM PST
by
Spunky
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