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The Living Moon => Thorfourwinds Section => The Challenges and Solutions Associated With Nuclear Energy => Topic started by: sky otter on February 15, 2013, 08:08:24 pm

Title: nuclear site leaking radioactive liquids
Post by: sky otter on February 15, 2013, 08:08:24 pm
oh shoot..copywrited..
gotta erase most of this
go to the link for the whole article

Tank at Hanford nuclear site leaking radioactive liquids, Washington governor says

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U.S. Department Of Energy
The disposal facility for mixed and low-level radioactive waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is shown in an aerial image.


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By Mike Baker and Shannon Dininny, The Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A tank that holds radioactive liquids is leaking at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday, raising concerns about the integrity of other storage facilities at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

The U.S. Department of Energy said liquid levels are decreasing in one of 177 underground tanks at the nuclear reservation. Monitoring wells near the tank have not detected higher radiation levels, the agency said. Inslee said the leak could be in the range of 150 gallons to 300 gallons over the course of a year.

"I am alarmed about this on many levels," Inslee said at a Friday afternoon news conference. "This raises concerns, not only about the existing leak ... but also concerning the integrity of the other single shell tanks of this age."

NBC News (http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/16977573-tank-at-hanford-nuclear-site-leaking-radioactive-liquids-washington-governor-says?lite)
Title: Re: nuclear site leaking radioactive liquids
Post by: zorgon on February 15, 2013, 08:22:35 pm
Beat me to it :P

It's okay to put that much (as I added into your post)
Title: Re: nuclear site leaking radioactive liquids
Post by: sky otter on February 23, 2013, 10:02:51 am


it's worst than they thought.. and i'll bet it gets even more so
wow who needs asteroids..
the people down river may not want to go swimming  this year.. :( ::)






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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/22/17060321-six-tanks-now-said-to-be-leaking-at-contaminated-hanford-nuclear-site?lite


Six tanks now said to be leaking at contaminated Hanford nuclear site


By M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News
The leaking of radioactive liquids at the Hanford, Wash., Nuclear Reservation is more extensive than previously reported, with six storage tanks affected, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday.


 In a conference call with reporters Friday after a meeting with Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Inslee disclosed that six of the 177 tanks were leaking at the nuclear facility in Richland, in eastern Washington about 50 miles southeast of Yakima.


Inslee said Chu told him that evaluation system of the tank levels wasn't used correctly, raising the prospect that there may be even more leaks. But he said he was told that there was no immediate threat, a point the Energy Department reiterated in a statement Friday evening.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/22/17060321-six-tanks-now-said-to-be-leaking-at-contaminated-hanford-nuclear-site?lite

Title: Re: nuclear site leaking radioactive liquids
Post by: Eighthman on February 23, 2013, 10:59:52 am
Interesting stuff  ......... but to what end?

I don't see any hope here - or in a dozen different areas concerning the erosion of our rights, even to promote change or reform.

Either Aliens intervene to help us or we somehow develop mass psychic skills in which our oneness prevents these horrors ( and much more, as with the corrupt financial system). 

How can  the world get better when masses are sheeplike and passive, no matter what the provocation?

How does this story end?  And do I really want to know?