Many nations are embracing #nuclearpower as a #lowcarbon energy generating technology. Meanwhile the massively expensive and as yet unsolved disposal problem of #radioactivewaste threatens all life forms over the long term. The current favoured solution is to bury the high and intermediate level wastes. #fukushima #chernobyl #hanford #sellafield are massively contaminated sites. #water
https://www.governing.com/climate/nuclear-power-could-save-our-air-quality-at-what-cost-to-the-water

#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.1 strikes 29 km SW of #Hanford (#California) 2 min ago. More info: http://m.emsc.eu/?id=1541312

Some folks on Twitter may have just confirmed a suspected case of #OSS assassinating a scientist working on the #Hanford #nuclear project in the 1940s by tampering with his car. It’s a pretty mindblowing thing to be buried in a random reply. If you’re logged in to Twitter start with the tweet linked below and scroll up and down; otherwise see the reply for screenshots and alt text #histodons #pnw #oppenheimer https://twitter.com/sanhotree/status/1689635943769325568?s=46&t=b3Gz9KiaLsXTbmshvAozIA

Highly Radioactive Leak At Hanford Came From Spent Fuel Experiments

July 1, 2023

"A recent admission that contaminated soil at the 324 Building at the #Hanford National Lab site was much worse than previously estimated raised concerns this week. A ballpark conversion of the radiation level cited in the article was roughly 1,780 sieverts per hour.

"How did this defunct building at Hanford end up with such #radioactive soil contamination beneath it? The 324 Building housed hot labs including the B Cell. This large hot lab did various experiments including using liquified highly radioactive #Strontium 90 and #cesium 137 extracted from high burnup spent #nuclear fuel. This highly radioactive liquid was used in vitrification experiments, a technology to isolate nuclear waste. The B Cell had a history of spills, fires and equipment failures that lead to significant contamination of the facility and ground beneath it.

"The Department of Energy cites that the waste sump for this hot cell was found to have a breach in it that likely allowed waste to leak out of the facility. There also was a history of spills of this highly radioactive liquid extract of spent fuel."

https://simplyinfo.org/2023/07/highly-radioactive-leak-at-hanford-came-from-spent-fuel-experiments/

#WaterIsLife #ColumbiaRiver #WashingtonState

“How how can you ever support an industry that’s going to produce something that’s dangerous for 250,000 years that we don’t have an answer for? We don’t have a permanent repository for this stuff now in this country. And most of the waste that these plants produce is still sitting there on site where all these plants exist.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/16/why-the-left-must-oppose-nuclear-power/

#Hanford #NuclearEnergy #Climate

#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.3 strikes 8 km W of #Hanford (#California) 2 min ago. More info: https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1258493

A (Bad) Trip to the Most Radioactive Place in America - CounterPunch.org https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/17/a-bad-trip-to-the-most-radioactive-place-in-america/ #Hanford

"You want nuclear waste? I'll show you nuclear waste."

Jack #Devanney's latest on substack. Remember #Hanford ?

#Nuclear #NuclearPower #GordianKnotNews

https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/you-want-nuclear-waste-ill-show-you?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Exposed: The Most Polluted Place in the United States
https://therevelator.org/hanford-nuclear-book/ #Hanford

#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.6 strikes 10 km S of #Hanford (#California) 2 min ago. More info: https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1204964

How a Nuclear Site Was Allowed to Poison Its Own Workers
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/09/how-a-nuclear-site-was-allowed-to-poison-its-own-workers/
#Hanford

The small trees in the foreground are about three feet tall. So if five feet of snow happens this weekend, they'll be completely buried.

Of course as per normal, the #NWS #Hanford day shift disagrees with the night shift. So we'll see what we actually end up getting.

#Weather

The small trees in the foreground are about three feet tall. So if five feet of snow happens this weekend, they'll be completely buried.

Of course as per normal, the #NWS #Hanford day shift disagrees with the night shift. So we'll see what we actually end up getting.

#Weather

#Earthquake (#sismo) M4.2 strikes 53 km SW of #Hanford (#California) 4 min ago. More info: https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1196912