tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786783108846468976.post4901713137800193279..comments2024-03-03T02:40:44.015-06:00Comments on The Hemlock Tea Room and Ladies' Emporium: RADIATION LEAKS CONTINUE IN NEW MEXICO, GOVERNMENT REPORT CITES MANY ERRORSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786783108846468976.post-31320306154089381362015-09-01T04:11:41.270-05:002015-09-01T04:11:41.270-05:00UPDATE, AUGUST 31, 2015.
THERE WERE ALARMS AT WIPP...UPDATE, AUGUST 31, 2015.<br />THERE WERE ALARMS AT WIPP ON AUGUST 5, BUT WIPP OFFICIALS HAVE NOW SAID THEY WERE CAUSED BY HUMAN ERROR AND THERE WERE NO LEAKS AFTER ALL.<br />http://www.currentargus.com/carlsbad-news/ci_28592453/human-error-prompts-emergency <br />A radiological control technician detected what was believed to be elevated radiological readings on a filter from an air particulate sampler located where air is exhausted from the WIPP underground," a news release said.<br /><br />The elevated levels were eventually found to be the result of a bad calculation, but the false reading sent a notification to the Central Monitoring room and activated the emergency operations.<br /><br />The false alarm came less than a week after WIPP officials announced it would not reopen in March, as it had originally planned.<br /><br />Russell Hardy, director of the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring Research Center, said the center would start to perform its own calculations of the area.<br /><br />Hardy said that CEMRC should have the results of its own radiological analyses by Saturday or Sunday.<br /><br />IMPORTANT NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN NO SUCH RELEASE OF INDEPENDENT TESTING AND TWO OFFICIALS HAVE SINCE ANNOUNCED THEIR RESIGNATIONS.<br />http://www.currentargus.com/carlsbad-news/ci_28721534/another-wipp-official-announces-departure<br /><br />BAD, BAD NEWS, NEW MEXICO FOLKS...THE NEW DIRECTOR OF FIELD OFFICES THERE COMES TO YOU FROM HANFORD!<br />http://www.currentargus.com/wipp/ci_28734726/doe-new-field-office-manager-announced <br />Waninahihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05714851314831283910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786783108846468976.post-31837210150016204602015-04-30T06:45:57.748-05:002015-04-30T06:45:57.748-05:00UPDATE APRIL 30, 2015;
http://www.santafenewmexic...UPDATE APRIL 30, 2015; <br />http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/wipp-investigator-can-t-rule-out-more-radioactive-leaks/article_b6f187a1-07d9-5dcc-9771-13e47a92ae99.html <br /><br />Ted Wyka, head of a team of federal investigators who spent a year reviewing the Feb. 14, 2014, radiation leak at WIPP, NM, says he cannot assure the public that there will not be other radiation leaks.<br />With hundreds of drums containing organic materials and nitrate salts at Los Alamos, WIPP and at Waste Control Specialists, a storage site in West Texas, the passage of 14 months since a rupture does not equal an assurance than other breaches won’t follow, Wyka said.<br />The Energy Department expects to spend at least a half-billion dollars on repairs to WIPP before it can reopen. Preliminary operations are expected to resume next year, but full resumption of work at WIPP could take another two to three years.<br />The Accident Investigation Board’s report found a series of lapses in the handling of the problematic waste at Los Alamos.<br />Waninahihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05714851314831283910noreply@blogger.com