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In reply to the discussion: Plutonium from Fukushima is a global catastrophe. [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)18. G_j, have you heard about this?
KING5 News here aired one hell of a disturbing story last week about an old leaking waste tank over at Hanford.
State blasts feds response to Hanford leak ~ by SUSANNAH FRAME KING 5 News January 16, 2014
http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/State-blasts-feds-response-to-Hanford-leak-240657781.html
Washington State Dept. of Ecology officials are fed up with the federal government's handling of a leaking nuclear waste tank at Hanford, prompting an unusually harsh letter to the U.S. Department of Energy blasting Hanford's managers for wasting time and failing to finalize plans on how to address the leak.
"In short, we are deeply disappointed, Ecology's top Hanford regulator, Jane Hedges, wrote in a January 9 letter. Your proposal, as we understand it, is to monitor the leaking Tank AY-102 and take no action to remove its waste until conditions get worse. This is unacceptable. You have known for more than a year that Tank AY-102 is leaking ... and what the regulations require in response.
A 2013 series by the KING 5 Investigators showed that the government contractor charged with managing millions of gallons of radioactive waste at Hanford knew, or should have known, that tank AY-102 was leaking as early as October 2011 -- more than a year before state officials were told. AY-102 contains the most chemically contaminated and radioactive nuclear byproducts held at the site. The worst case scenario would be waste migrating into the groundwater and eventually into the nearby Columbia River.
In the wake of KING 5's reporting, Ecology in May ordered the Energy Department to produce a plan for emptying the tank -- as required by Washington state law, which says any nuclear waste tank at Hanford that's found to be leaking must be emptied within 24 hours. Energy responded on June 14, saying it would take 19 months to plan and prepare to empty the tank.
http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/State-blasts-feds-response-to-Hanford-leak-240657781.html
Washington State Dept. of Ecology officials are fed up with the federal government's handling of a leaking nuclear waste tank at Hanford, prompting an unusually harsh letter to the U.S. Department of Energy blasting Hanford's managers for wasting time and failing to finalize plans on how to address the leak.
"In short, we are deeply disappointed, Ecology's top Hanford regulator, Jane Hedges, wrote in a January 9 letter. Your proposal, as we understand it, is to monitor the leaking Tank AY-102 and take no action to remove its waste until conditions get worse. This is unacceptable. You have known for more than a year that Tank AY-102 is leaking ... and what the regulations require in response.
A 2013 series by the KING 5 Investigators showed that the government contractor charged with managing millions of gallons of radioactive waste at Hanford knew, or should have known, that tank AY-102 was leaking as early as October 2011 -- more than a year before state officials were told. AY-102 contains the most chemically contaminated and radioactive nuclear byproducts held at the site. The worst case scenario would be waste migrating into the groundwater and eventually into the nearby Columbia River.
In the wake of KING 5's reporting, Ecology in May ordered the Energy Department to produce a plan for emptying the tank -- as required by Washington state law, which says any nuclear waste tank at Hanford that's found to be leaking must be emptied within 24 hours. Energy responded on June 14, saying it would take 19 months to plan and prepare to empty the tank.
Just type "Hanford" into the search bar on the KING 5 page, they've been on this story for awhile.
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Thanks, Cleita. That's why I posted. Few who know are talking about Fukushima in public.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#3
Maybe when people start discovering they have polluted a whole food supply chain, they will
Cleita
Jan 2014
#6
Stephanie Miller isn't all that smart. She means well, but she's not one to go to for info.
cui bono
Jan 2014
#97
1 Millionth of One Gram of Inhaled Plutonium Will Give You Cancer -- Helen Caldicott, MD
Octafish
Jan 2014
#9
our granddaughter wanted to spend this summer in Japan... that was nixed in a heartbeat
secondwind
Jan 2014
#11
You first, (in the hug your plutonium for real department with no shielding)
nadinbrzezinski
Jan 2014
#35
Something like 80% of the mass of the core of the reactor at Chernobyl
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2014
#131
They must not like the smell of plutonium and stapelia gigantea. Sucks the breath right out of them
lonestarnot
Jan 2014
#147
EDIT: Original line here contained statistics I pulled out of my ass. It was wrong, and I apologize.
NuclearDem
Jan 2014
#33
That is the stupidest thing I've read all day! Just how the fuck can you say that? You have
ChisolmTrailDem
Jan 2014
#44
"Octafish, is there anyone who disagrees with you that isn't a COINTELPRO operative? "...
SidDithers
Jan 2014
#61
If you want honest discussion, don't attribute to me what I didn't write then.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#62
For the record, I enjoyed the DU Mail back and forth just a few minutes ago.
NuclearDem
Jan 2014
#76
Again, at levels far, far below levels that would cause even minor health risks.
NuclearDem
Jan 2014
#91
Except that study indicated the plutonium, americium, and uranium levels corroborated with pre-2000
NuclearDem
Jan 2014
#144
As a child in the 1950s, I got lots of propaganda about the "promise of the peaceful atom."
LongTomH
Jan 2014
#78
It's a disaster on a planetary scale and yet Corporate Media pretend it isn't.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#94
I try not to dwell on this because, frankly, there's Jack Shit that I can do about it.
Electric Monk
Jan 2014
#99
I feel that way too, Electric Monk. Problem is, TEPCO also feels that way, too.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#107
Here's a report on plutonium from Fukushima: only detectable very close to the reactor
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2014
#103
How Dangerous Is 400-6000 Pounds Of Plutonium Nano Particle Dust Liberated By Fukushima?
Octafish
Jan 2014
#148
What does Helen Caldicott's position on transparency have to do with the validity of her claims?
NuclearDem
Jan 2014
#151
No. Caldicott made a mistake, based on what was then known. A lot different than what you call her.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#159
No, she took a study that fit her preconceptions despite its numerous known flaws
NuclearDem
Jan 2014
#161
Release of plutonium isotopes from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
SidDithers
Jan 2014
#163
It may have to do with clouding the central issue: Fukushima is a global catastrophe.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#171
You continually claim the plutonium from Fukushima is a 'global catastrophe' without any evidence
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2014
#173
I gave you science from sources independent of TEPCO, or governments, in #103
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2014
#176
Great. And I gave you sources in #105 that showed where it was found 25 miles away from FNPP.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#177
Right. But it's plutonium and found 25 times further from the plant than you reported in #103.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#181
I'd rather people get the facts and use them to set policy. The phrase is democracy.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#184
For the cost of Iraq War, we could've built National 100% Renewable Clean Energy Grid.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#224
Don't worry. The situation may even be worse than what's posted on this thread.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#188
Unfortunately, the facts say otherwise: Plutonium from Fukushima is a global catastrophe.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#185
I read the article where the scientist from NMSU said they detected plutonium on March 14, 2011.
Octafish
Jan 2014
#207
There's a big difference between depleted uranium and the nearly-undetectable cesium in tuna.
NuclearDem
Jan 2014
#216
An Admirable Ability. Here's what Physicians for Social Responsibility said back in March, 2011...
Octafish
Jan 2014
#223
Did they ask: 'What if the Fukushima nuclear fallout crisis had happened here?'
Octafish
Jan 2014
#221