Emergency Declared at Hanford Nuclear Waste Site After Tunne
May 10, 2017 3:18:12 GMT 10
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Emergency Declared at Hanford Nuclear Waste Site After Tunnel Collapse
Published on 9 May 2017
This place is deadly..not a great track record either
From 2014
The US Department of Energy has declared an emergency at the Hanford, Washington nuclear waste storage site, after a tunnel used to store contaminated materials caved in.
A tunnel near the plutonium finishing plant collapsed early Tuesday morning local time, most likely from vibrations produced by nearby road work, KING-TV reported.
The tunnel was used to store highly radioactive materials and equipment, such as trains used to transport nuclear fuel rods.
Many early safety procedures and waste disposal practices were inadequate, and government documents have confirmed that Hanford's operations released significant amounts of radioactive materials into the air and the Columbia River.
The weapons production reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, and decades of manufacturing left behind 53 million US gallons (200,000 m3) of high-level radioactive waste[4] stored within 177 storage tanks, an additional 25 million cubic feet (710,000 m3) of solid radioactive waste, and 200 square miles (520 km2) of contaminated groundwater beneath the site.[5] In 2011, the federal agency charged with overseeing the site, the US Department of Energy (DOE), emptied 149 single-shell tanks by pumping nearly all of the liquid waste out into 28 newer double-shell tanks. DOE later found water intruding into at least 14 single-shell tanks and that one of them had been leaking about 640 US gallons (2,400 l; 530 imp gal) per year into the ground since about 2010. In 2012, DOE discovered a leak also from a double-shell tank caused by construction flaws and corrosion in the bottom, and that 12 double-shell tanks have similar construction flaws. Since then, DOE changed to monitoring single-shell tanks monthly and double-shell tanks every 3 years, and also changed monitoring methods. In March 2014, DOE announced further delays in the construction of the Waste Treatment Plant, which will affect the schedule for removing waste from the tanks.[6] Intermittent discoveries of undocumented contamination have slowed the pace and raised the cost of cleanup.[7]
In 2007, the Hanford site represented two-thirds of the nation's high-level radioactive waste by volume.[8] Hanford is currently the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States[9][10] and is the focus of the nation's largest environmental cleanup.[2] Besides the cleanup project, Hanford also hosts a commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, and various centers for scientific research and development, such as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the LIGO Hanford Observatory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
I just wonder???...Could this have anything to do with the massive bills Hanford was facing for the already operational clean up?...Great way to get out of repairing a badly damaged ship..scuttle it??
or how about Earthquake swarms as predicted by Dutch!
Facilty tunnel collapses after earthquake swarm ☢
Published on 9 May 2017
This place is deadly..not a great track record either
From 2014
The US Department of Energy has declared an emergency at the Hanford, Washington nuclear waste storage site, after a tunnel used to store contaminated materials caved in.
A tunnel near the plutonium finishing plant collapsed early Tuesday morning local time, most likely from vibrations produced by nearby road work, KING-TV reported.
The tunnel was used to store highly radioactive materials and equipment, such as trains used to transport nuclear fuel rods.
Many early safety procedures and waste disposal practices were inadequate, and government documents have confirmed that Hanford's operations released significant amounts of radioactive materials into the air and the Columbia River.
The weapons production reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, and decades of manufacturing left behind 53 million US gallons (200,000 m3) of high-level radioactive waste[4] stored within 177 storage tanks, an additional 25 million cubic feet (710,000 m3) of solid radioactive waste, and 200 square miles (520 km2) of contaminated groundwater beneath the site.[5] In 2011, the federal agency charged with overseeing the site, the US Department of Energy (DOE), emptied 149 single-shell tanks by pumping nearly all of the liquid waste out into 28 newer double-shell tanks. DOE later found water intruding into at least 14 single-shell tanks and that one of them had been leaking about 640 US gallons (2,400 l; 530 imp gal) per year into the ground since about 2010. In 2012, DOE discovered a leak also from a double-shell tank caused by construction flaws and corrosion in the bottom, and that 12 double-shell tanks have similar construction flaws. Since then, DOE changed to monitoring single-shell tanks monthly and double-shell tanks every 3 years, and also changed monitoring methods. In March 2014, DOE announced further delays in the construction of the Waste Treatment Plant, which will affect the schedule for removing waste from the tanks.[6] Intermittent discoveries of undocumented contamination have slowed the pace and raised the cost of cleanup.[7]
In 2007, the Hanford site represented two-thirds of the nation's high-level radioactive waste by volume.[8] Hanford is currently the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States[9][10] and is the focus of the nation's largest environmental cleanup.[2] Besides the cleanup project, Hanford also hosts a commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, and various centers for scientific research and development, such as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the LIGO Hanford Observatory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
I just wonder???...Could this have anything to do with the massive bills Hanford was facing for the already operational clean up?...Great way to get out of repairing a badly damaged ship..scuttle it??
or how about Earthquake swarms as predicted by Dutch!
Facilty tunnel collapses after earthquake swarm ☢