HANFORD Problems Continue - Nuclear Hotseat #308

Published: Wed, 05/24/17

New HANFORD Accident!
Underground Double-sided Storage Tank w/800K Gallons Hot Toxic Waste shows Radiation - Worker Clothing Contaminated
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HANFORD UPDATE:
  • New Accident – Radioactive contamination of worker’s clothes as underground double-sided tank containing 800,000 gallons of radioactive waste shows signs of failure. 
  • Old Accident – May 9, 2017 collapse of 20’x20′ of tunnel over highly radioactive materials from PUREX facility now “remediated” by 53 dump trucks of soil AND a new plastic tarp held in place by cement blocks <!>. 

This Week’s Featured Interviews:

  • Ian Zabarte Director of the Nuclear Oversight Project of the Western Shoshone NationNative American rights and the nuclear desecration of Yucca Mountain
  • Alex Cohen of Earth Defense Coalition  gives an on-site report on the sit-in at Rep. Lacy Clay‘s (D-MO) office to force introduction of legislation on West Lake Landfill WWII nuclear weapons waste clean-up in North St. Louis.
Numnutz of the Week (for Nuclear Boneheadedness):

University of Arkansas
thinks it's OK to dump waste water from defunct-yet-radioactive nuclear reactor into the town's drinking water source! 

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