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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on May 09, 2017, 12:55:51 PM
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This is a major problem. The site has areas that may be safe for humans in, say, a couple thousand years . . . Someone help me out on this?
Tunnel at plutonium uranium extraction plant collapses in Hanford
Hundreds of workers were in "take cover" position after a tunnel in a plutonium uranium extraction (PUREX) plant collapsed at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation early Tuesday morning.
The AP reports no workers were in the tunnel at the time of collapse. Workers at the site have now been evacuated. Workers farther away were told to remain indoors.
"I would underscore this is confined to a small area of the Hanford site," Destry Henderson, deputy news manager for the Hanford Joint Information Center, told NBC News. "There are no reports of injuries, no reports of a radiological release."
The tunnel was full of highly contaminated materials such as hot radioactive trains that transport fuel rods. It connects to a PUREX (plutonium uranium extraction) building.
"The facility does have radiological contamination right now but there is no indication of a radiological release," Henderson said.
Hate to point this out, but . . . If this only affects a small area of the site, why is the whole site on lockdown, and workers there are being told not to eat or drink anything?
The rest of this is here: http://www.king5.com/news/local/hanford/hanford-tunnel-plutonium-uranium-extraction-plant-collapse/438116235
Oh--road construction in the nearby area supposedly caused the tunnel to collapse. :o
ETA: Here's Zero Hedge's take on the matter.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-09/emergency-alert-declared-hanford-nuclear-facility-washington-evacuation-ordered
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Nothing to worry about yet.
Federal Law orders the CDC to issue an immediate radiation-scale; 1-thu-5 threat-level alert. Like the terror-threat scale. If an alert hasn't been broadcasted, nothing dangerous is happening.
" Get inside. Stay inside. Stay tuned. " would also be netcasted/broadcasted.