Emergency declared at Hanford as portion of tunnel containing NUKE waste collapses

It's okay they'll blame all the costs incurred to treat folks on Trump's health care act/repeal of ACA...

On a more serious note, don't these fuckers have an emergency clean up procedure like the lefties forced all the oil companies to have? (it's outrageous what the oil companies have to go through in Alaska) Or were WA nuke plants exempted from such things because they're in a blue area?
We are talking nuke rods so hot they could burn a one acre lake in one hour! Literally boil it dry.

one rod?
One rod yeah. The highest grade material in the world. The rods are placed in drums in containers and then the container is filled with a gel. The gel keeps them stable. One four foot rod could do it. It's military grade. They use the dust to make armor piercing shells for our tanks.
 
What we really need are fewer regulations though...

How many regulations does it take to stop a tunnel collapse?
:desk: However long it takes to get rid of the idiots dumb enough to believe Nuclear energy is clean energy. If it was so fkn clean there wouldn't not be a need to Burry it hundreds of feet down , while it still leaks.

If it was so clean there wouldn't be the need to keep it contained. Other Countries are wising up and getting rid of this shit to power their nations.

The US is filled with so many morons with PHD's who are sold the lies, push it and spread how safe it is...
 
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It's okay they'll blame all the costs incurred to treat folks on Trump's health care act/repeal of ACA...

On a more serious note, don't these fuckers have an emergency clean up procedure like the lefties forced all the oil companies to have? (it's outrageous what the oil companies have to go through in Alaska) Or were WA nuke plants exempted from such things because they're in a blue area?
We are talking nuke rods so hot they could burn a one acre lake in one hour! Literally boil it dry.

one rod?
One rod yeah. The highest grade material in the world. The rods are placed in drums in containers and then the container is filled with a gel. The gel keeps them stable. One four foot rod could do it. It's military grade. They use the dust to make armor piercing shells for our tanks.

i would like to see some math on that. 1 acre-foot (1 acre covered in a foot of water is 325,851 gallons. To raise the temp of the water from say 60F to 212F at 8.33 BTU per degree per gallon and then vaporize it at around 8133 BTU/gal is about 3.06 x 10^9 BTU's. Now the standard I have found for Nuclear waste is 10 KW per tonne, which works about to about 15.5 Btu/hr per pound. So to evaporate a very shallow lake in 1 hour you would need 98,000 tons of the material, assuming ideal conditions.

Please feel free to check my math on this.
 
Rick Perry named head of Department of Energy, which oversees nuclear program, two months later the tunnel where the US DOE stores nuclear waste collapses.

A worker on site was getting a robot ready to enter the tunnel when the robot shouted "I'm not fucking going in there!! Turn me into a coke machine or patio furniture I don't care!"
 
Rick Perry named head of Department of Energy, which oversees nuclear program, two months later the tunnel where the US DOE stores nuclear waste collapses.

A worker on site was getting a robot ready to enter the tunnel when the robot shouted "I'm not fucking going in there!! Turn me into a coke machine or patio furniture I don't care!"

Wow, it took three threads pages until some nimrod went with "Blame Trump by Proxy"

You idiots are as predictable as you are comical.
 
What we really need are fewer regulations though...
And let's gut the EPA more.
It's not the job of the EPA idiot.

Meanwhile the EPA allowed all the dumping of bs right into the Colorado river and just said Oooops.

Half these fkn sheep don't or won't even remember that one.
Hanford has had problems with leaking drums for years! This is truly bad news.
Leaking drums? Man, you really don't understand the extent of the problem there. They have these huge tanks in the ground, many only single walled, plain old mild steel, in which they dumped radioactive waste for decades, with no consideration of the chemistry of what they were dumping, or of that of the daughter elements.

What's Inside The Leaking Tanks At Hanford

Dear Readers, Hanford is the most contaminated place in the Western Hemisphere, where the United States dumped billions of gallons of radioactive waste on the banks of the Columbia and into the river itself. Today, waste in unlined cribs and trenches has spread into large pollution plumes and doz‐ ens of storage tanks have leaked high‐level nuclear waste. Vast areas of groundwater are poi‐ soned and, in some places, flowing into the Columbia River. After decades of nuclear weapons production, the U.S. Department of Energy’s mission at Han‐ ford is now focused on cleanup. Removing and containing the nuclear contamination at Hanford and preventing additional waste from reaching the Columbia are imperative for the economy and ecology of downstream communities. Citizens can play a key oversight role to ensure the job is done right. This report highlights Hanford’s ongoing and projected impacts on the Columbia River. Despite the widespread contamination and the tremendous challenges that lie ahead, there is great hope in cleaning up the Hanford Reach and restoring the Columbia River. More and more people are demanding a clean Columbia and our work at Hanford is vital to river health. The Columbia River is the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest, providing salmon runs for Native American, commercial, and sport fishermen alike, irrigation for thousands of farmers, and even drinking water to some river communities. Salmon continue to return to the Hanford Reach and the pollution continues to flow downstream. The stakes are too high to fail. Brett VandenHeuvel, Executive Director

http://columbiariverkeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/hanford_and_the_river_final2.pdf
 
What we really need are fewer regulations though...
And let's gut the EPA more.
It's not the job of the EPA idiot.

Meanwhile the EPA allowed all the dumping of bs right into the Colorado river and just said Oooops.

Half these fkn sheep don't or won't even remember that one.
Hanford has had problems with leaking drums for years! This is truly bad news.
Leaking drums? Man, you really don't understand the extent of the problem there. They have these huge tanks in the ground, many only single walled, plain old mild steel, in which they dumped radioactive waste for decades, with no consideration of the chemistry of what they were dumping, or of that of the daughter elements.

What's Inside The Leaking Tanks At Hanford

Dear Readers, Hanford is the most contaminated place in the Western Hemisphere, where the United States dumped billions of gallons of radioactive waste on the banks of the Columbia and into the river itself. Today, waste in unlined cribs and trenches has spread into large pollution plumes and doz‐ ens of storage tanks have leaked high‐level nuclear waste. Vast areas of groundwater are poi‐ soned and, in some places, flowing into the Columbia River. After decades of nuclear weapons production, the U.S. Department of Energy’s mission at Han‐ ford is now focused on cleanup. Removing and containing the nuclear contamination at Hanford and preventing additional waste from reaching the Columbia are imperative for the economy and ecology of downstream communities. Citizens can play a key oversight role to ensure the job is done right. This report highlights Hanford’s ongoing and projected impacts on the Columbia River. Despite the widespread contamination and the tremendous challenges that lie ahead, there is great hope in cleaning up the Hanford Reach and restoring the Columbia River. More and more people are demanding a clean Columbia and our work at Hanford is vital to river health. The Columbia River is the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest, providing salmon runs for Native American, commercial, and sport fishermen alike, irrigation for thousands of farmers, and even drinking water to some river communities. Salmon continue to return to the Hanford Reach and the pollution continues to flow downstream. The stakes are too high to fail. Brett VandenHeuvel, Executive Director

http://columbiariverkeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/hanford_and_the_river_final2.pdf


I saw a documentary on nuclear waste. It was a whole discussion on whether to bury it and leave no trace on the surface or bury it and leave a marker so that even ten thousand years from now, after perhaps mankind nearly wipes himself out and all these places are forgotten, people then would recognize 'don't dig here, don't touch this stuff forever'. The task is daunting because it has to be assumed they may not have any of the languages we use today. It would be like heiroglyphics were to modern humans today. We could not decipher their meaning for a couple centuries until the Rosetta Stone was found. But what if it hadn't. We'd still be in the dark.

How then do you convey, maybe by images in stone, not to disturb the nuclear waste burial site. Ever. It appears now we may face the worst case scenario in our time. They actually built a cave and said "yeah that's good enough, what could happen?" I think mediocrity with this should not have been one of the options. You don't want low bidder to be storing nuclear waste.
 

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