[UPDATED APRIL 10, 2015, WITH FUTURE UPDATES GIVEN IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS BLOG.]
REALLY?
WHEN?
ANOTHER MONTH, 2 MONTHS, 12?
MEANWHILE THE LEAK IS STILL LEAKING AND THE WIPP BOYS ARE STILL DANCING US AROUND.
<<The contaminants were spread through more than 3,000 feet of underground
tunnels, leading to the 2,150 foot exhaust shaft into the surrounding
above-ground environment.>>
THAT IS A LOT TO CLEAN UP JUST INSIDE THE FACILITY!
WHAT ABOUT THE CONTAMINATED AREAS DOWNWIND?
WHAT ABOUT CONTAINERS SITTING TOO LONG ABOVE GROUND RIGHT NOW?
WHICH OF THESE WIPP CRAZIES ARE CHECKING THOSE AND HOW?
HAS ANYONE ARRIVED TO SHOW THEM HOW TO DO THAT YET?
NO ONE REALLY KNOWS THE DAMAGE DONE TO THE 21 WORKERS WITH RADIATION SICKNESS/EXPOSURE, AND THEY WON'T ALLOW THEIR WORKERS TO SPEAK WITH THE PRESS!!!
“The first rule of thumb is nobody thinks any of this is
good for you,” said Dr. Fred Mettler, a radiologist at the Albuquerque
Veterans Affairs Medical Center and U.S. representative to the United
Nations World Health and Atomic Energy Agency. “So you want to keep
doses as low as possible.
Medically, it’s very, very difficult to get
the stuff out of you.”
NOW THERE'S AN UNDERSTATEMENT!
LET'S REMEMBER: "NWP workers are not permitted to speak to the press, according to a spokesman."
SO, WHO IS GOING TO SPEAK TO THOSE DOWNWIND, NEXT DOOR? THE EASTER BUNNY?
HANG ON! The United Steel Workers union represents about 300
WIPP workers. Jim Frederick, USW assistant director of health, safety
and environment, says the union’s primary question is: “Is this place
going to be safe for our folks to go back to?”
Like other stakeholders, the union is awaiting the
results of the investigation into the radiation leak before it weighs in
on what kind of protections may be needed going forward.
“What was not in place that might have kept this from
happening?” Frederick asked. “And what do we need to do to keep the
workers safe and make sure the public health risks are kept at zero or
very, very close to zero?”
GAG ORDER, FREDERICK.
YOU CAN'T BE GIVEN ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS....IT'S A SECRET!
The DOE investigation MADE PUBLIC LAST WEEK determined that the Carlsbad Field Office had
"insufficient nuclear safety management and staffing" since 2010. The
report cited the retirement of a senior technical advisor combined with a
lack of staff expertise.
SO FOR 4 YEARS, WHAT?
INMATES WERE RUNNING THE ASYLUM THERE?
THE BLIND LED THE BLIND?
THERE ARE DEADLINES FOR "CONTAINING" THE NUCLEAR WASTE STILL SITTING ABOVE GROUND AT THE NEW MEXICO SITE!
LOOKS LIKE THOSE MAY PASS WITHOUT SENDING THAT WASTE SOMEWHERE ELSE!
[NOTE: AS OF MARCH 2015, YES, THEY WERE STILL SITTING THERE.]
AS WILDFIRE SEASON APPROACHES, N.M. GOVERNOR PUSHES FOR DISPOSAL OF ABOVE-GROUND CONTAINERS THAT WOULD BE AT RISK IF FIRES INVADED THE NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP SITE.
After a large wildfire lapped at the edges of lab property in summer
2011, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez identified removal of the waste as
a top priority.
The Federal Government still hasn't removed the nuclear
waste which is now a public health hazard.
Dozens of drums and other special containers
of waste are being stored in a PARKING LOT at the Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant near Carlsbad and inside the facility's waste handling building.
The
waste is usually taken to its final resting place deep in underground
salt beds. But, the repository has been closed since early February
after back-to-back accidents, including a radiation release that exposed
at least 13 workers, which has been making headlines.
In an
administrative order that was just made public, deadlines and other
requirements for the dump were outlined. State officials say this order
helps them keep a closer watch on what is happening at that site in New
Mexico.
USA TODAY REPORTS:
BUT....
Due to the closure, the state is extending both deadlines to
allow the federal government time to develop an alternative storage plan
if the underground dump remains off-limits for more than three months.
Jeff Kendall, general counsel for the department, said state officials
believe allowing a little more time to fully vet all the options for
safely storing the waste is the best bet.
The above-ground material targeted by the state Environment Department's
order includes 145 cubic meters of waste in containers of various sizes
and shapes.
THAT "EXTENSION" MUST BE NICE FOR WIPP, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE ALREADY EXCEEDED THE LIMITS BY 40 DAYS AND 16 RESPECTIVELY, BUT WHAT IF WILDFIRES BURN THOSE CONTAINERS?
At a press conference in Albuquerque Monday to kick off "Wildfire
Awareness Week," she said continuing historic drought conditions
heighten the risk of what already has the potential to be another active
summer of fires.
So far this year, nearly 100 fires have burned close to 6,000 acres of state and private land.
SENDING ALL THOSE BARRELS TO LOS ALAMOS WON'T GET THEM OUT OF HARM'S WAY.
WILDFIRES CAME DANGEROUSLY NEAR THAT FACILITY BEFORE, TOO!
<<In 1989, in the run-up to a referendum in
Caithness in November of that year on whether or not to allow Nirex to
search for a deep disposal site in the County, the Head of Information
Services at Dounreay used WIPP as an example of a successful waste
disposal site in an article he wrote for the John ‘O Groat Journal.
In
response, a letter from the US Radioactive Waste Campaign described the
article as “an outright lie”.
McRoberts had claimed that WIPP was
already receiving shipments and that the repository was dry.
OTHERS CLAIMED that the
repository remained unopened at the time because in 1987 salt-laden
water was found to be seeping inside.
[NOTE:IT HAS BEEN DISCLOSED THAT THE SALT CAVERNS OF WIPP WERE INDEED LEAKING BEFORE THE FACILITY WAS OPENED! SOMEONE FOUND PHOTOS OF THE STALAGMITES/STALACTITES FORMED BY THOSE VERY LEAKS!]
DO GO SEE THEIR 1987 AND 2005 PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE AND THE ACTUAL 1987 DOE DOCUMENT THAT ADMITS THERE WERE STALACTITES FROM LEAKAGE!
WIPP'S STALACTITES ARE COMPOSED OF HALITE.
"Halite is NaCl -common salt- which is highly reactive with metals, both of the metal barrels and the transuranic metals (e.g. plutonium, americium) found within the metal barrels.
Stalactites, leaks and even roof collapse might be controllable if they would put proper rows and aisles in the WIPP “Facility”, but no, they think they must jam pack the maximum nuclear waste possible into the space. That is dumb. And, WIPP is therefore a DUMP."
GOOD CALL, GUYS!
One State Senator told the New
Mexico press that:
“We have waste we aren’t sure about, stored
in containers that haven’t been approved, travelling over roads that
haven’t been improved and being put in salt beds we don’t know about.
We’d like to put the brakes on before we get to the edge of the cliff.”
Given that WIPP, until the recent problems, was the only OPERATIONAL deep geologic disposal facility operating in the world (in
Europe, especially Eastern Europe, it is frequently–and
incorrectly–described as a “high-level” radioactive waste site by
nuclear advocates), the lessons, whatever they turn out to be, from the
series of WIPP failures surely will affect other proposed and potential
sites for years to come.
INTERESTINGLY, IN 1990, JUST SUCH AN ACCIDENT WAS PREDICTED BY EXPERTS!
"The past 100 years, April 10, 2015
April 10, 1990: A radiological health expert Monday predicted five accidents in New Mexico involving nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant during the project's 25-year life - including one in which radioactivity would be released.
A poll found residents of southern New
Mexico opposed the project three to one, but because of considerable
encouragement from local businessmen and politicians, the project
eventually moved forward.
Many New Mexicans fought the WIPP project, knowing that, in the expected 10,000-year life of the project, there eventually would be problems.
Locals felt their concerns had been ignored,
while local and state politicians used the depressed economic conditions
in southern New Mexico to push the project forward since it promised
jobs.
Given that it is a mere 15 years since the site began receiving
waste, the concern appears to be justified.
[THE POLITICIANS PROBABLY MADE A CONSIDERABLE DEPOSIT TO THEIR CAMPAIGN CHESTS BY PUSHING WIPP THROUGH! SELLING OUT THE VOTERS PAYS!]
BUT DO NOTICE....THE FACILITY BEGAN RECEIVING WASTE 15 YEARS AGO (AS OF 2014) , BUT PHOTOS AND DOCUMENTS REVEALED WATER SEEPAGE, ONGOING LEAKS AND STALACTITES IN 1987... 27 YEARS AGO!
WIPP LIED, THE DOE LIED, WHEN THEY TOLD RESIDENTS THE PLACE WAS DRY!
Don Hancock, director of the Nuclear Waste
Safety Program at Southwest Research and Information Center, who has
been monitoring WIPP since 1975 and is familiar with the technical,
policy, regulatory and legal issues related to the site, is reluctant to
state there are any “guaranteed” methods of safely storing radioactive
waste.
“Given that long-lived nuclear wastes are
dangerous for thousands of generations, emplacing them deep underground
is a possible ‘solution,’ but it certainly isn't ‘guaranteed,’ ” he
said.
“Neither WIPP, nor the proposed Yucca Mountain site in Nevada, are
‘ideal’ and meet publicly accepted standards. Both sites were picked
for political, not technical, reasons, so it is not surprising that they
are inadequate.”
Hancock believes that what is needed is a
decades-long program to develop technical standards for any sites then a
comprehensive national effort to identify the “best” sites that might
meet the standards, then testing and establishing public “consent” for
such sites (including a truck and train transportation system).
He also recommends careful state and
national regulatory oversight of development, operation and
decontamination and decommissioning of such facilities, and long-term
safety procedures to help protect future generations, should nuclear
waste operations be continued.>>
MOST LIKELY, YOU COULD NOT PAY ANY POLITICIAN TO LIVE NEAR ANY NUCLEAR FACILITY LIKE WIPP, BUT YOU MOST LIKELY COULD PAY THEM TO PUT ONE ANY PLACE NOT NEAR THEIR SAFE HOMES THAT YOU CHOSE ...FOR ENOUGH MONEY!
MONEY TALKS AND SPEAKS FLUENT "CONGRESS-ESE"!
ONCE AGAIN, THE AMERICAN CITIZENS HAVE BEEN DECLARED "EXPENDABLE".
TO CONTINUE TO EXTEND THE TIME LIMITS PLACED ON BOTH CLEANUP OF THE MOST RECENT ACCIDENT AND WASTE DISPOSAL OF ABOVE-GROUND CONTAINERS AT THE WIPP SITE IS TO INVITE DISASTER!
WHEN YOU GO TO THE POLLS NEXT TIME, TRY TO REMEMBER WHO FOUGHT FOR YOU AND WHO FOUGHT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO BUILD AND RUN THESE NUCLEAR FACILITIES!
WIPP HAS FEWER THAN 2000 EMPLOYEES, AS COMPARED TO MANY MILLIONS OF LOCAL RESIDENTS WHO ARE EACH DAY IN HARM'S WAY FROM THIS STILL-LEAKING NIGHTMARE!
WIPP, FUKUSHIMA, AND ALL THE OTHER SUCH DELAPIDATED NUCLEAR FACILITIES HAVE CONTINUOUSLY LIED AND DOWNPLAYED THEIR HARMFUL EFFECTS ON HUYMAN LIVES.
SO HAS THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION AND ALL WHO HAVE FINGERS IN THE NUCLEAR ENERGY PIE.
WE CANNOT COUNT ON ANY OF THEM FOR STRAIGHT ANSWERS OR FACTS OR TRUTH.
WE MUST RELY ON THOSE WHO LIVE NEAR THESE CURSED SITES WHO ARE EXPERIENCING THE EFFECTS OF "NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS", ANTIQUATED, LEAKY SYSTEMS AND RUN-DOWN CONTAINMENT STRUCTURES.
UNFORTUNATELY, SADLY, TOO MANY OF THEM HAVE DIED TRYING TO GET THE REST OF US TO LISTEN, TO SEE, TO CONSIDER THEIR PLIGHTS WORTHY OF OUR CONSIDERATION.
IMAGINE YOU LIVED DOWNWIND FROM WIPP.
OR HANFORD, OR YANKEE, OR TURKEY CREEK, OR ANY NUCLEAR SITE IN AMERICA.
IMAGINE WHAT YOU WOULD HOPE ALL OF AMERICA DID TO HELP YOU SURVIVE!
THERE IS NO SAFE LEVELS OF RADIATION, AS THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ADMITTED IN THE 1940s!
NEVER WAS, NEVER WILL BE.
PERIOD, THE END.
still no cause of leaks found, no cleanup possible, nuclear waste still sitting out above ground, wildfires season upon us & that facility was in the way of fires before. we in New Mexico are screwed.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abqjournal.com/395233/abqnewsseeker/stoppage-of-wipp-shipments-could-affect-june-30-deadline-for-los-alamos-waste.html
You may be interested in Reynolds history at these sites ( INL, SRS, Hanford) and what role she played in the Waste being Approved for WIPP. While your at it, research: David Little (URS-Hanford), Bill Kerley (URS- LANL), Steve Piccolo (URS/Kurion/Fukushima)
ReplyDeleteYeah, she HAS "been around"!
DeletePerhaps the "latest" on the cleanup, should we ever decide to believe what any nuclear facility puts out to the press/public: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDUQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ans.org%2Fpubs%2Fmagazines%2Fdownload%2Fa_934&ei=VI-rU8XlIOaO8QGPiYCACA&usg=AFQjCNEZrwBXJuTAIONHvJGJ23YDsedwTA&sig2=wsDUF5DuOmN8kC0qH4eUOg&bvm=bv.69837884,d.aWw&cad=rja
PDF file, pix, screw the tiny url...says they're in Phase 3 of the cleanup...sure, right, whatever.
Will indeed look up the others...thanx for going to the trouble of posting a comment...you wouldn't believe what would be on this site if I didn't moderate the hell out of it...
Something everyone should see, JUST ONE of the leaking containers!
DeleteThat's criminal!
http://alpinedailyplanet.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f2e9fdbf970b01a511be1a65970c-800wi
<< Investigators are still considering a number of theories for the Valentine’s Day incident.>>
WE WILL NEVER KNOW HOW AD THIS WAS, NOR THE TRUTH OF HOW BAD IT WILL GET!
a CALL OUT FOR CLOSURE OF two ENTIRE PANELS, #6 & #7,
The New Mexico Environment Department demanded Tuesday that the federal government seal off two underground storage rooms in a nuclear waste repository to prevent the possibility of another radiation leak. - See more at: http://alpinedailyplanet.typepad.com/alpine-daily-planet/2014/05/new-mexico-agency-demands-wipp-seal-some-rooms-at-carlsbad-nuclear-waste-plant-photo-shows-leaked-ma.html#sthash.aS846zWo.dpuf
JULY 11, 2015
ReplyDeleteTHE FOLLOWING SHOULD SHOW US THAT THOSE IN CHARGE AT WIPP HAD ALLOWED FLAGRANT VIOLATIONS OF POLICY/PROTOCOL BEFORE THE ACCIDENT...BUT, UMMM, THEY'RE FIXING IT???
"CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) - More workers will be able to go underground at Carlsbad's radioactive waste disposal site because of the addition of a new evacuation area.
The Current Argus reports that the number of workers allowed beneath the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant jumped from 75 to 98 last week.
Nuclear Waste Partnership Recovery manager Jim Blankenhorn says the number increased because of the combustible-free zone that will serve as a safe area for workers if there is an underground fire.
The safe zone was established underneath shafts to the surface. WIPP removed flammable materials and restricted diesel equipment in the area. The equipment can pass through the area but not remain there.
Blackenhorn says the fire-free zone is just one of WIPP's planned safety upgrades. They hope to eventually allow 149 workers underground."
NOTHING YET ON HOW THEY INTEND TO SAFEGUARD THE NEARBY AND DOWNWIND RESIDENTS SHOULD ANOTHER FIRE OCCUR.
HOW ABOUT THOSE FILTERS, GUYS?
@ "JOHN WALTER", again, the Tea Room allows NO comments with hyperlinks to businesses, we don't do advertisements here.
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