Hanford Officials Hid Leak Evidence From Advisory Panel

[DeSwiss]

by SUSANNAH FRAME / KING 5 News
Posted on May 21, 2013 at 10:10 PM
Updated yesterday at 7:49 AM

A government-chartered advisory panel was told last September that materials spotted outside the inner wall of a tank holding radioactive waste at the Hanford Site were possibly the result of a "carbonate buildup," “cross-contamination” or "rainwater leakage."

"We've seen a lot of things and they don't point to any one thing," a senior U.S. Department of Energy official at Hanford told the group on Sept. 7, "so that's why it's hard to speculate what it is."

But internal emails obtained by KING 5, written by the government contractor carrying the multi-billion-dollar contract to manage the tanks, show that tests conducted weeks earlier had already confirmed that the materials found in the safety space of the double-shell tank were highly radioactive and matched the chemical makeup of waste contained in the primary tank.

On Aug. 13, results of a scientific analysis showed samples taken from the space contained high levels of two radioactive isotopes -- Strontium-90 and Cesium-137. Smaller traces of Plutonium-239/240 and Americium-241 were also detected. In addition scientists analyzing the sample found traces of potassium -- a unique marker to this specific tank (found in one other double-shell tank at Hanford).

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[DCKit]

1. See? They keep telling us we can trust them.

Why are we still so skeptical?

[madokie]

3. What I've been saying since day one

They LIE. Can't even trust the NRC either as they'll leave shit out or lie too, which ever better suits their narrative.

[1-Old-Man]

2. That's why its a double wall tank. The real leak problem at Hanford is the single wall tanks

And just so you know, there are slightly over 160 of those tanks at Hanford, and they were typically designed to hold one million gallons of material. The Columbia River is within sight of a number of the tank farms. It is my opinion that no one in their right mind would ever eat a fish taken out of the Columbia River adjacent to or down stream from the Hanford site.

[madokie]

4. Since fish swim around I'd say even upstream

I never really cared for salmon anyway.
Salmon patties made with farm raised salmon only and not very often.
now that its brought to my attention I'll have to put in a request to the cook, my wife, for salmon patties this evening

[bahrbearian]

7. How about Oysters, Willipa Bay Oysters ?

This is from the 50s and 60s
http://toxipedia.org/display/wanmec/Radioactive+oysters+in+Willapa+Bay,+WA

[Tikki]

5. There are no billboards on the sides of these containment tanks, no athletic shoes named after...

the tanks...this is all TAX PAYER money and the clean up and containment
work by these contractors has been going on for decades.

But internal emails obtained by KING 5, written by the government contractor carrying the multi-billion-dollar contract to manage the tanks....

NUKE is a scam and a very costly one at that...


Tikki
child of the radiant glow

[1-Old-Man]

6. The tanks are underground, assembled in groups called "Tank Farms"

All you see when you come to a tank farm is a fenced in area - amazingly small - with a guard-shack/entrance way and then a lot of pipes sticking up out of the ground. The fences surrounding the area are very well marked.

[Tikki]

8. They're hidden from view...just like the accountability of the cleanup, containment and..

maintenance of the projects themselves. Yes, Hanford is out in the middle of nowhere and still
in restricted space but I don't see how that keeps the tanks from leaking.

There is nothing supernatural, trendy, progressive or cool about nuclear waste.


The Tikkis
..children of the radiant glow