#inquinamento #nucleare
"Il 9 agosto ricorre l'anniversario del bombardamento di #Nagasaki. Il combustibile nucleare per la bomba atomica sganciata su Nagasaki è stato prodotto a #Hanford, nello stato di Washington orientale, che ora è il sito più tossico dell'emisfero occidentale e la #bonifica più costosa nella storia del mondo. Oggi il sito è disseminato di miliardi di litri di liquami chimici e 56 milioni di litri di #scorie radioattive di alto livello".
Giosuè Frank
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/09/the-bombing-of-nagasaki-78-years-later/

"The nuclear arms race’s legacy: Contamination, staggering cleanup costs and a culture of secrecy"

@histodons #ColdWar #nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #Hanford

https://missouriindependent.com/2023/08/04/the-nuclear-arms-races-legacy-contamination-staggering-cleanup-costs-and-a-culture-of-secrecy/

"A Nagasaki Hibakusha at the B Reactor in Hanford, Washington"

#Hanford #Nagasaki #NuclearWeapons @histodons

https://www.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/web_essay/web-essay-in-july-2023/

"Spent naval nuclear reactor compartments: part of Hanford’s complicated issues"

#Hanford #nuclear #NuclearWaste #NuclearPower #ColdWar

https://columbiainsight.org/spent-naval-nuclear-reactors-part-of-hanfords-complicated-issues/

“Highly radioactive spill near Richland WA worse than expected”

This says as much about the “expectations” (PR) as it does about the spill.

#Hanford #nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #ColdWar @sts

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/washington/article276863128.html

"A nuclear site is on tribes' ancestral lands. Their voices are being left out on key cleanup talks"

#Hanford #NuclearWaste #NuclearPower #Yakima @sts @histodons

https://www.krem.com/article/news/history/nuclear-site-on-tribes-ancestral-lands-yakama-nation-confederated-tribes-of-the-umatilla-indian-reservation-and-nez-perce-tribe-richland/293-08b04fec-1e77-4258-b775-0ad816cb5122

When the NRC dings you, you must have really messed up.

"Energy Northwest failed to correctly measure the exposure of workers who inhaled or ingested #radioactive material during an incident at the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant, said the #NuclearWaste Regulatory Commission."

#nuclear #NuclearPower #Hanford

https://news.yahoo.com/nw-nuclear-plant-failed-properly-120000448.html

“As cleanup efforts continue in Washington state at a decommissioned U.S. #nuclear facility that played a crucial role in the country's acquisition of the atom bomb in World War II, questions linger over whether the site has caused serious health issues for workers and local residents.”

#Hanford #plutonium #NuclearPower @histodons

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/06/cadbfd7d3e81-feature-victims-of-us-nuclear-reactor-site-continue-to-suffer-80-years-on.html

#Hanford

"A Poisonous Cold War Legacy That Defies a Solution
A $528 billion plan to clean up 54 million gallons of radioactive bomb-making waste may never be achieved. Government negotiators are looking for a compromise."

NYT gift link

#nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste @histodons #histodons

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/us/nuclear-waste-cleanup.html?unlocked_article_code=MwxcQkEUHWjt3_6-p-9OhRE0ewJT8LPHdEt02AkL7I1himvYeNPeWXPm9mXlFoDFSj8zq6E2GeBGLaOD564EFm9pMX5hLqZak0u7gR7mRQdatbCkfuFnnXLQNzNzxxtY0KmR-Pn_0K2dWpUq99UeVlREDwgLdNRbELlMeE-nIOJaetIJySHAa1MUtXJaqUwQRMtWpHFu3CBOMEwhgpDKZNXFteRifv9t76muDpjRJtbO2owtewKv6xb8a_CQDKYdptCx2md12XTXZJBrw6dhl_aAh9PrCFGEipnN3O9Wq0pnMEFhm5nwlHt1Op4HMAdCXCB2N-XpD6q74g&smid=url-share

"Safety record, leadership criticized for new $45B Hanford radioactive waste contractor"

#Hanford #nuclear #NuclearWaste #ColdWar

https://news.yahoo.com/safety-record-leadership-criticized-45b-200022858.html

#AmandaSpaulding #GenitalHerpes #OutbreakAlert #Hanford #California Danger! Amanda Spaulding - Hanford, California https://stdcarriers.com/registry/bio/1090-amanda-spaulding-genitalherpes.aspx?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Born Violent: The Origins of Nuclear Power" (2019)

The first 13 #nuclear reactors built in the US only manufactured plutonium. The 14th was for electricity.

This article traces the history of the development and construction of the first prototypes & operating nuclear power plants, all as part of the Manhattan Project. Beginning with CP-1, the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction in 1942, it details subsequent Manhattan Project reactors and then examines the construction & operation of the first modern nuclear power plants built at Hanford, WA. These were built for the sole purpose of manufacturing plutonium for nuclear weapons. It argues that nuclear power was born violent: it was invented as part of the manufacturing process of nuclear weaponry. It was immediately essential to killing 100,00s of people.

#NuclearPower #ManhattanProject #Hanford

@histodon @nuclearhumanities @sts

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333617931_Born_Violent_The_Origins_of_Nuclear_Power

The US will either never stop paying off the #radiological legacies of the Cold War, or will simply abandon its responsibilities to future generations:

"Is $3 billion a year enough for Hanford #NuclearPower cleanup? Cost an issue at Senate hearings"

"The Department of Energy estimates that $300 billion to $640 billion will be needed to complete the remainder of #Hanford environmental cleanup by 2078, during the hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

It would require annual budgets of $5.4 billion at the low end of the estimate to $11 billion at the high end, according to DOE’s 2022 Hanford Lifecycle Scope, Schedule and Cost Report."

That's half a trillion dollars just to clean up Hanford, if they come in on budget. Unlikely.

#ColdWar #DOE #NuclearWaste #NuclearWeapons @histodons @sts

https://news.yahoo.com/3-billion-enough-hanford-nuclear-120000581.html

Hundreds of billions spent, hundreds more needed. Nuclear is the taxpayer gift to corporations that never stops giving.

"$45 billion Hanford nuclear waste cleanup contract awarded to a new company"

#nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #Hanford

https://www.aol.com/news/45-billion-hanford-nuclear-waste-163250762.html

"Law to ban high-level nuclear waste storage facility effective June"

#WIPP #NuclearWaste #Hanford @sts #nuclear #NewMexico

https://sourcenm.com/2023/04/10/law-to-ban-high-level-nuclear-waste-storage-facility-effective-june/

@pattykimura @histodons The spike in thyroid cancer was more from atmospheric nuclear testing, and was not just nearby Pacific nuclear test sites, but all major #nuclear test sites, and many production sites like #Hanford.

A 1963 explosives test near #Hanford to determine the safest underground spot for disposing of radioactive waste.......

Turns out they found 1400 such spots. And that's not counting the spent nuclear fuel and the tank waste.

@histodons #nuclear #ColdWar

A graphic of how the 177 radioactive waste tanks at Hanford are leaking contaminated material into the ground.

A plume of underground radioactive waste has been migrating from the "Tank Farms" towards the Columbia River for decades.

The waste in these tanks is primarily a liquid sludge from putting spent nuclear fuel rods into vats of acid to dissolve them and make possible the extraction of plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.

See: https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/29/hanford-not-fukushima-is-the-big-radiological-threat-to-the-west-coast/

@nuclearhumanities @sts @histodons #Hanford #ColdWar #nuclear #NuclearWeapons

Map showing the areas contained with radioactive iodine after the disastrous 1949 “Green Run" experiment at #Hanford.

Read more about Hanford:

“Hanford, Not Fukushima, is the Big Radiological Threat to the West Coast”

@nuclearhumanities @sts @histodons #nuclear #radtiation #ColdWar #enviroment

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/29/hanford-not-fukushima-is-the-big-radiological-threat-to-the-west-coast/

"Hanford boss warns of potential delays ahead in starting to make glass"

"The timeline to start converting low-level radioactive waste into glass at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state has already been slowed by technical & workforce issues and more challenges could arise.

While DOE’s Office of Environmental Management targeted the end of 2023 for starting vitrification at the plant’s Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste facilities, an agency budget official said in early December, the milestone could slip into 2024.

'“My gut tells me we are still well within the consent decree milestone that’s been adjusted for the COVID impacts,' into early 2025, Fletcher said. A modified consent agreement approved by a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington approved a formula allowing DOE and plant contractor Bechtel until 2025 to start low-activity waste vitrification.

@sts #Hanford #nuclear #nuclearwaste @nuclearhumanities

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/hanford-boss-warns-of-potential-delays-ahead-in-starting-to-make-glass-2/?oly_enc_id=9029J3663890B4T