Billions of Gallons Radioactive Waste Dumped & Leaking at Hanford

[DeSwiss]

MsMilkytheclown1 ·Published on Mar 4, 2013

Hanford Dumped Billions of Gallons of Radioactive Waste in the 50s & 60s on the ground
Special Thank you to http://tinyurl.com/3ywthf5 for the beginning of the video!

The Hanford Site is a mostly decommissioned nuclear production complex on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, operated by the United States federal government. The site has been known by many names, including Hanford Project, Hanford Works, Hanford Engineer Works or HEW and Hanford Nuclear Reservation or HNR. Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project in the town of Hanford in south-central Washington, the site was home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear bomb, tested at the Trinity site, and in Fat Man, the bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.

Sunday Spin: Helping to understand Hanford
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/spincontrol/2013/mar/02/sunday-spin-helping-understand-hanford/ for full article and 58 minute video. [... Hanford's] tanks are big. The largest are the size of a basketball court with a 75-foot wall around it. Inside the tanks are a "stew of different materials" that form a radioactive sludge, from which the liquid was supposed to have been pumped out years ago. [...]

67 tanks are 'suspected leakers' at U.S. nuclear site — "The stuff inside melts the instruments... eats rubber and plastic" (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/67-suspected-leakers-nuclear-site-stuff-inside-melts-instruments-eats-rubber-plastic-video

Of the 177 tanks, 149 only have a single wall, or shell, and 67 of those were "suspected leakers", but the rest were thought to be secure. Thought to be is a relative term, because in a container that big, a drop of even a fraction of an inch can represent many gallons of waste. You can't just drop a giant dipstick into the tank. As [Jane Hedges of Washington's Department of Ecology] explained, there's no easy way to get an extremely accurate measurement because lowering cameras or instruments into the tanks isn't practical. The stuff inside melts the instruments, and eats rubber and plastic. [...]

Getting the liquid out of the tanks is a problem. First, there's no good place to put it right now, because the more secure double-shelled tanks are also pretty full. Second, there's the danger of triggering evaporation of the liquid, which would cause a tank to heat up and create a deflagration. (AKA an EXPLOSION)

Washington nuclear waste tanks 'leaking'
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/02/2013223223927460308.html

Hanford - Washington
http://yosemite.epa.gov/r10/cleanup.nsf/sites/Hanford

Sequestration Could Hinder Hanford Nuclear Reservation Cleanup, Says Washington Governor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/sequestration-hanford-nuclear-reservation_n_2779095.html

Radioactive waste leaking from six tanks at Washington state nuclear site
http://news.yahoo.com/six-washington-state-nuclear-tanks-leaking-governors-office-001058166.html

The latest news of 6 leaking tanks at Hanford
Hanford Watch president Paige Knight, Feb. 23, 2013
Study Slams Nuclear Waste Practices at Hanford
New York Times, Feb. 5, 2013
http://www.hanfordwatch.org/

CBS News: Mind-boggling mistakes at leaking U.S. nuclear site — "The chances of a catastrophic event are real" -Former Governor (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/cbs-news-mind-boggling-mistakes-at-leaking-u-s-nuclear-site-the-chances-of-a-catastrophic-event-are-real-former-governor-video

Dr. Helen Caldicott at A15 Hanford Rally
http://tinyurl.com/ap5ktth

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[JohnyCanuck]

1. No need to worry.....

Living next to, or downstream from, Hanford should should have no more potential danger than eating two bananas a day instead of one.

[DeSwiss]

5. Or fish from the Columbia River.....

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2. How much idiotic non-science can appear in one post?

I'm constantly amazed.

[midnight]

3. It sounds like more idiotic corporate greed to me...

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4. Yes there's a good share of that too.

A hysterical reponse doesn't help at all.

[midnight]

6. If you know some scientific explanation for why this story explaining that a dixie cup of this

witches brew is not the lethal consequence stated please share... I would appreciate a more positive spin on this....

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7. I didn't see the part about the dixie cup

however there were so many inaccuracies in the video I had to stop watching after a minute or two.

I have no doubt that the crap in the tanks at Hanford is lethal. Hanford is a mess, and nobody disputes that. It needs to be cleaned up.

What is disputed is whether it poses an immediate risk to people. If it does, it's insignificant compared to global warming. And Hanford is completely irrelevant to nuclear power and modern materials handling, which have come a long way in fifty years.