Posted on 07/06/2011 10:01:14 AM PDT by Nachum
Reports indicate the fire came within 50 feet of the grounds of the Los Alamos lab where plutonium was stored in a fabric material building. This is unexplainable, unacceptable, and came within feet of causing the worst disaster in US history.
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We used to sing this song in elementary school in Las Vegas NM in the early 60's. In wintertime the teachers reminded us not to eat the snow during recess. Los Alamos was just over the mountains from us. Good times. ;o)
Looks like a really weak source.
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Unless the spent fuel is stored in Teepee’s, Grass or traditional wooden structures there is no danger.
They are stored in hard shelters impervious to flame from a forest fire.
Would a brush fire produce enough heat to cause harm even if you put the plutonium in the flames? I seen the brush fires around here and soft metals such as aluminum melt but harder metals such as an iron fence will have the paint burnt off.
During WWII, a fellow named “Ernie” (his full name is still classified) lathed the uranium and plutonium used to make the first atomic bombs.
While machining the plutonium, the lathe shattered, embedding approximately 200 milligrams of weapons-grade plutonium under “Ernie’s” skin.
Last I heard of “Ernie” was in 1992. He would set off alarms everytime he entered a nuclear facility. The man smoked cigars daily and drank a bottle of hard liquor every week but he seemed unaffected by the plutonium in his body.
So much for it being the most toxic material on earth!
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Where’s that picture of the guy holding his head, “Not that s*** again!”
I watched the lab director say it was transuranic contact waste. Gloves, kleenex, gowns, masks, booties, screwdrivers, wrenches etc... Who "made up" this headline ?
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