Reports: S.C. Atomic Waste Tanks Damaged

[RamboLiberal]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040710/ap_on_re_us/nuclear_waste_tanks_1

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Fifteen tanks holding deadly atomic waste at a nuclear weapons complex along the Savannah River have cracked, rusted or leaked, according to federal inspection reports.

Some of the cracks date to the 1950s, when the steel tanks first went into use at the Savannah River Site. But inspection reports say some leaks have been found in the past three years.

In 2001, 92 gallons of radioactive waste leaked through a 40-year-old tank into a containment area. Six leak sites were found on the 750,000-gallon, 24-foot high steel tank.

Secondary containment systems have kept radioactive poisons from getting into groundwater. But a containment system failed in 1960, and the waste leaked into the ground, the reports said.

[NMDemDist2]

1. Hanford (WA) is even worse n/t

[diamond14]

2. ahhh yes, Plutonium, Uranium, Americium....radioactive elements

just keep on reacting....reacting with everything around....reacting through vessels, oxidizing containers until there's little left...

this is another area where bush* has cut funds and downsized environmental clean-ups to the point where we are all endangered...

[Journeyman]

3. Many a little makes a mickle. . .

- Dr. Benjamin Franklin

[mopinko]

4. my grandchilren are gonna have 3 heads.

shit

[Spinzonner]

5. Bu if they fit right in with all the other three-headed people

what's the problem ?

[mopinko]

6. well,

don't think there will be any great grandkids, tho. least not what you would recognize as kids.

[Spinzonner]

8. I dont think that multiple head mutations will necessarily

inhibit reproduction. Though it might make for some rather strange sexual activities.

Now multiple heads of a different kind (gonads) could be a problem, especially if the proper choice among the possible permutations are critical.

[mopinko]

9. then again

they may be fun.

[seventhson]

7. Its the radiation sympathizers and apologists that piss me off

just wait---

They will come and tell you that depleted uranium is actually good for the genes of Iraqi and Afghan babies and our female soldiers of childbearing age

that mutated and spontaneously aborted children are good for the gene pool (Eugenics works!!!)

and that nuke waste absorbed in your gonads and ovaries via nuke emissions and leaks is safer than going into your basement or flying into Denver.

I have one thing to say

doesn't westinghouse own one of the television networks?

or

isn't Cheney's Halliburton a major nuclear corpse?

on edit: Corp

[Kool Kitty]

11. Now, you know better, seventhson,

you've been reading their posts and all their links, so you know darn well that radiation cannot be linked to any deaths. I was thinking the same thing you were when I was reading this thread and I am wondering where they are.) ;-)

[LastDemocratInSC]

10. Don't you even try to defame my native-born-by-God state

My family has lived near that nucular sight since it got brought here and we are proud of our familie's newly-found distingushing features. I am convinced that either the government or NASCAR will find a way of turning our natural-born abiltitities into spys or racing assets.

The additionaly little feet should allow my grandchilds to drive race cars in more creative ways. Fore example, I think they should be able to control the gas pedal, break pedal, and clutch pedals easier with those extra feet. Think about the national assetts of those little extra pitter-patters.

I think the greatest asset my familiy could offer our great nation is my little grandson Jimmy-john that little bubba has an extra eye right on the very top of his head. He can roll it back and forth and can already spot Russian sattellites if he's outsite on a clear night. Talk about a national treasure he is it.

We want to do all we can do, which isn't much I think to make this nation safer from people like us or them.

As for the rest of the world, I know they hate us for the freedom to wiggle our extra toes.

[Kool Kitty]

12. This is one of the funniest posts I ever read.

Thanks for the much-needed laugh. :yourock:

[ozymandius]

13. This is America's "cancer triangle".

If you were to draw lines from the Savannah River Site, south to Brunswick (wher the Navy refuels their ships' nuclear reactors), to the port of Savannah - this would give you a picture of the area where there are more cases of cancer per capita in the U.S.

This is the legacy of our nuclear ambitions.

An old friend of mine grew up in Jessup (due west of Savannah). His mother, aunt (of no blood relation) and grandfather all died of cancer. He says, "The best way to see Jessup is through a rear-view mirror."

[The Zanti Regent]

14. A real mutation?????

My dad worked for 40 years at the nuclear complex at Shippingport PA, yes he handled fuel rods and always said there was nothing wrong with low level radiation.

I wonder if that is how I got six wisdom teeth...