OT Emergency reported at Hanford site, staff evacuated

[SlyPokerDog]

 

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[SlyPokerDog]

That goodness we have Rick Perry to guide us through this emergency.

 

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[oldfisherman]

 

[Natebishop3]

So like..... where is this?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So like..... where is this?

You don't know where Hanford is?

 

[Shaboid]

Good thing they have all been trained exceptionally for this: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article149397329.html

Oh wait.........

 

[BlazerWookee]

 

[Shaboid]

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

It's a good thing they didn't put that near the Columbia River.

 

[Denny Crane]

The sky is falling!

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...sf/2017/05/emergency_reported_at_hanford.html

There apparently has been no release of radiation and no workers were injured, said Randy Bradbury, a spokesman for the Washington state Department of Ecology.

The emergency was declared at 8:26 a.m., according to an announcement on the Energy Department's website. An alert came from the 200 East Area, the department said. Access to the area has been restricted.

There is a 20 square foot area of sunken soil over a tunnel near the site's Plutonium Uranium Extraction plant -- also known as PUREX, the department said at about 10:15 a.m. The department initially said the sunken area was four square feet.

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The sprawling Hanford site is near Richland and is half the size of Rhode Island.

The 200 East Area contains the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, a facility built in the 1950s that is no longer used today, according to the Department of Energy. The plant processed plutonium from 1956 to 1972, and again from 1983 to 1988.

 

[PDXFonz]

The sky is falling!

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...sf/2017/05/emergency_reported_at_hanford.html

There apparently has been no release of radiation and no workers were injured, said Randy Bradbury, a spokesman for the Washington state Department of Ecology.

The emergency was declared at 8:26 a.m., according to an announcement on the Energy Department's website. An alert came from the 200 East Area, the department said. Access to the area has been restricted.

There is a 20 square foot area of sunken soil over a tunnel near the site's Plutonium Uranium Extraction plant -- also known as PUREX, the department said at about 10:15 a.m. The department initially said the sunken area was four square feet.

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The sprawling Hanford site is near Richland and is half the size of Rhode Island.

The 200 East Area contains the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, a facility built in the 1950s that is no longer used today, according to the Department of Energy. The plant processed plutonium from 1956 to 1972, and again from 1983 to 1988.

Gee where have I read this before?

 

[Shaboid]

The sky is falling!

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n...sf/2017/05/emergency_reported_at_hanford.html

There apparently has been no release of radiation and no workers were injured, said Randy Bradbury, a spokesman for the Washington state Department of Ecology.

The emergency was declared at 8:26 a.m., according to an announcement on the Energy Department's website. An alert came from the 200 East Area, the department said. Access to the area has been restricted.

There is a 20 square foot area of sunken soil over a tunnel near the site's Plutonium Uranium Extraction plant -- also known as PUREX, the department said at about 10:15 a.m. The department initially said the sunken area was four square feet.

...

The sprawling Hanford site is near Richland and is half the size of Rhode Island.

The 200 East Area contains the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, a facility built in the 1950s that is no longer used today, according to the Department of Energy. The plant processed plutonium from 1956 to 1972, and again from 1983 to 1988.

An emergency has been declared, BUT THERE IS NO EMERGENCY!!!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

The sky is falling!

The emergency was declared at 8:26 a.m

Psst... it was Hanford who declared the emergency. If Hanford declares an emergency it should be taken seriously.

 

[Denny Crane]

Gee where have I read this before?

Oregon Live.

 

[Denny Crane]

Psst... it was Hanford who declared the emergency. If Hanford declares an emergency it should be taken seriously.

Of course it should be taken seriously, but it's nowhere near as awful an accident as the sky is falling.

A 20ft area of a much larger area (1/2 the size of the state of Rhode Island.

@MARIS61 should prepare for a slow and agonizing death.

 

[MarAzul]

Uh, I missed something here. Why is it an emergency that a tunnel collapsed in a plant that hasn't been used in 30 years? Would you not predict such an event as probable?
This sounds like and attention grabber. What could possible be the reason?

 

[MarAzul]

Yucca Mountain?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Of course it should be taken seriously, but it's nowhere near as awful an accident as the sky is falling.

A 20ft area of a much larger area (1/2 the size of the state of Rhode Island.

@MARIS61 should prepare for a slow and agonizing death.

Stop with the silliness. Hanford is a radioactive toxic mess. It is the highest producing plutonium site on earth. Over $114 billion has already been budgeted to clean it up and the absolute earliest it will be completed is the year 2060. 47 Million of gallons of radioactive sludge are stored in 177 underground tanks that are rotting and losing structural integrity. 67 are currently leaking and seeping into the groundwater.

Any underground collapse on the Hanford site could have serious repercussions.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Uh, I missed something here. Why is it an emergency that a tunnel collapsed in a plant that hasn't been used in 30 years? Would you not predict such an event as probable?
This sounds like and attention grabber. What could possible be the reason?

The breach at the defunct Purex processing plant tunnel could expose the highly radioactive material disposed of in the tunnel to the atmosphere.

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Railcars full of highly contaminated materials and equipment from the plant were backed into waste disposal tunnels at the plant and left there as a disposal method. The material was so radioactive that several empty cars were placed between the railcar holding waste and the locomotive to protect the driver from radiation.

The last radioactive material was placed in the tunnels in the early 1990s.

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The massive plant, formally called the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant, was used to chemically process irradiated fuel rods to remove plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.

It was built in the 1950s and operated from 1956 to 1972 and again from 1983 to 1988.

PUREX processed about 70,000 tons of uranium fuel rods to produce about 75 percent of Hanford’s production.

Plans call for eventually decontaminating and demolishing PUREX. The option of grouting the rail cars in place — encasing them in concrete — has been considered.

Removal of the cars would entail extreme worker safety hazards, DOE has said.

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article149475209.html

 

[MarAzul]

Stop with the silliness. Hanford is a radioactive toxic mess. It is the highest producing plutonium site on earth. Over $114 billion has already been budgeted to clean it up and the absolute earliest it will be completed is the year 2060. 47 Million of gallons of radioactive sludge are stored in 177 underground tanks that are rotting and losing structural integrity. 67 are currently leaking and seeping into the groundwater.

Any underground collapse on the Hanford site could have serious repercussions.

Are you saying they urgently need a better storage facility for the waste stored at Hanford?

 

[MarAzul]

Perhaps a lead shield and a few more old cars between the engine and the hot cars could allow them to haul them to this mountian instead of leaving them in the sandpile that is Hanford.
Probably need a few bucks allocated to the task though.

 

[Natebishop3]

You don't know where Hanford is?

Well obviously Hanford is on the planet Earth.... and I can deduce that it's in the USA....... and from that photo that was posted, I can also assume it's in Washington state. Beyond that... nope.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Well obviously Hanford is on the planet Earth.... and I can deduce that it's in the USA....... and from that photo that was posted, I can also assume it's in Washington state. Beyond that... nope.

https://www.google.com/

 

[Natebishop3]

https://www.google.com/

But I don't want to....