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The New Mexico wildfire that has turned America’s heads towards the Los Alamos nuke plant is inching closer and closer to the laboratory, where the Associate Press says it is now a few miles from a dumpsite.
If the fire extends another 3.5 miles, it could overtake an area where 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste are being stored above ground.
A spokesperson for Los Alamos previously denied that the drums existed, but the plant is now backtracking and admitting that the complex’s “Area G” is home to thousands of gallons of dangerous waste.
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Originally posted by Schkeptick
RT loves making the USA look bad, and they aren't so concerned about this thing called "truth". Be very, very wary of anything you get from that source, and try to find something to corroborate it.
Let's hope they get the fires contained very soon.
Originally posted by snowen20
Is it just me or is this year turning to SH**?
Talk about Murphy's freaking law gone bad or Murphy's Law on crack! I can't decide.
So,....What, I should probably get my information from Fox, CNN, MSNBC?
Originally posted by Signals
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
I'm gonna have to call disinfo on that...
A chance of burning plutonium waste is a HUGE deal.
Low-level wastes include paper, rags, tools, clothing, filters, and other materials which contain small amounts of mostly short-lived radioactivity.
- it goes on to say that this level is usually solidified in bitumen or concrete, and stored in geological repositories.
Intermediate-level waste (ILW) contains higher amounts of radioactivity and in some cases requires shielding. Intermediate-level wastes includes resins, chemical sludge and metal reactor nuclear fuel cladding, as well as contaminated materials from reactor decommissioning.
Originally posted by Signals
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
I'm gonna have to call disinfo on that...
A chance of burning plutonium waste is a HUGE deal.
Do you realize how many particles of this stuff it takes to kill you?!?!??