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2nd radiation release at New Mexico nuclear dump
New air sampling data from southeastern New Mexico’s troubled nuclear waste dump indicates there has been another small radiation release.
Department of Energy officials say a monitoring station picked up elevated radiation readings around the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad on March 11. That’s nearly a month after a Valentine’s Day leak contaminated 17 workers and shut the only repository for toxic waste from the nation’s nuclear bomb-building program.
Engineers say they believe the contamination is from previous deposits on the inner surface of exhaust ductwork.
Officials say occasional low-level releases are anticipated, but they should be well within safe limits.
The plant has been shuttered since early February. Shipments were halted after a truck hauling salt through the repository’s tunnels caught fire. Nine days later, the plant’s alarms were triggered by the radiation release.
5 Comments on "2nd radiation release at New Mexico nuclear dump"
Dave Thompson on Wed, 19th Mar 2014 7:06 pm
“but they should be well within safe limits”. There are no known safe limits of radiation exposure. All radiation exposure carries risk.
Davy, Hermann, MO on Wed, 19th Mar 2014 7:51 pm
Well at least they are playing around a little bit with long term storage. The hundreds of spent fuel ponds sitting there like land mines is far worse in my book.
Kenz300 on Wed, 19th Mar 2014 9:35 pm
NuclearPower — The industry said it would be “too cheap to meter” but it really turned out “too expensive to contain and clean up.”
The energy transition tipping point is here – SmartPlanet
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/the-take/the-energy-transition-tipping-point-is-here/?tag=nl.e660&s_cid=e660&ttag=e660&ftag=TRE4eb29b5
GregT on Wed, 19th Mar 2014 11:42 pm
“Well at least they are playing around a little bit with long term storage.”
It’s probably pretty safe to say, that long term storage will mostly be contained on the planet Earth. People living on other planets, should be safe from exposure for at least another 100,000 years or so.
Makati1 on Thu, 20th Mar 2014 3:00 am
I often wonder what the next dominant species will be in, say, 500 million years when all remnants of homo sapien’s civilization is gone. Two meter long roaches? ^_^