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Title: Breaking: Tunnel Collapses At Hanford Nuclear Site – Emergency Declared
Published: 2017-05-09
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fvcj4yx3UQ
Title: Breaking: Tunnel Collapses At Hanford Nuclear Site – Emergency Declared
Published: 2017-05-09
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fvcj4yx3UQ
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spirit for news but breaking news coming out of Washington state the Hanford nuclear facility that produced the plutonium for the atom bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a tunnel collapse just this morning at the plutonium finishing plant hundreds of workers were ordered to take cover the tunnel that collapsed was full of highly contaminated materials such as hot radioactive trains that transport fuel rods2/22
an emergency message was sent from management telling employees to secure ventilation in your building and refrain from eating and drinking a spokesman told the press there apparently has been no release of radiation and no workers injured those key words right there that's those are things to pay attention apparently they're not saying definitively at this point but regardless at this point an emergency has been declared and3/22
central Hanford workers an immediate area have been evacuated and many other workers in central Hanford have been told to shelter indoors now this emergency was activated at eight twenty six AM Tuesday morning today may ninth public information officers were not answering their mobile phones so the US department of energy has declared an emergency at the Hanford Washington nuclear storage site now it is being reported that4/22
they believe that the tunnel collapse was most likely from vibrations that were produced by nearby road work taking a look at the map this red pen here represents the Hanford nuclear site which sits virtually right on the Columbia River now this river runs right through rich land can awake all the way out through Portland before it meets the Pacific Ocean so there are literally millions of5/22
people that live along this river and many people depend on it for their water supply although according to the spokesperson there is no week of radiation at this point time the reason I bring this up is because Hanford has a long history of leaks and contaminations and problems that it happened over the years over the decades as the site continues to degrade and crumble many of6/22
these leaks were often sat on by officials in downplayed as you can see here this is from Hanford knocked out Hanford reach of the Columbia River throws through through Hanford over fifty miles past nine full scale nuclear reactors hundreds of liquid waste and burial sites so this place is an extremely contaminated site contamos entering river along shore at levels fifteen hundred times higher than normal drinking7/22
water standard so they've already had many many issues at the Hanford nuclear facility in the past S. and is you can see emergency was just declare this morning going over some of the history here of the Hanford nuclear site a study shows that the Hanford workers were eleven more eleven times more likely to develop nestled helium he cancer of the lungs strongly tied to his bestest8/22
exposure so this place is contaminated from top to bottom this article hears from two thousand eight it shows that Hanford workers were approved for cancer compensation thousands of people who got cancer after working at the Hanford nuclear site in south central Washington may automatically qualify for a hundred fifty thousand dollars in federal compensation a long standing history of issues here at Hanford it was reported last9/22
year in two thousand sixteen that a nuclear leak at Washington's infamous Hanford site is catastrophic according to a former worker as eight inches of radioactive waste escape from the core of the world's quote unquote safest tank and these are some of that is some of the photos from that week that took place last year it was actually only reported last year the leak took place years10/22
before that and was sat on in downplayed from the Hanford dot go site the official site fifty three million gallons of waste and Hanford's high level nuclear waste tanks thirty five million gallons remain and single shot tanks and these tanks are all grading even the double shell tanks which is what this Daily Mail article was referring to the double shelf tanks are failing in these resposta11/22
be the safest tanks in the world well decades are going by there to tear your ratings are crumbling and what what is the answer what is the solution turn these sites into tourist attractions Hanford is not the only site that is degrading Associated Press reported back in two thousand women that radioactivity it's were found at seventy five percent of nuclear power sites across the country three12/22
quarters of the nuclear power sites so instead of investing money and time to try to six these problems they turned the sites into tourist attractions just last year right around that same time that that catastrophic leak took place at Hanford is when they began conducting tours of the Hanford nuclear facility so S. Houghton quote catastrophically was taking place they started doing tours there so you can13/22
take you know your family and your friends and your children and go tour this highly contaminated radioactive site that produce weapons of mass destruction as you can see here be reactor tours are free of charge and open to all visitors of all ages from all over the world cameras are welcome I call these guys last year asking if I could come participate in this tour and14/22
bring my own radio radiation detection equipment and I was quickly shut down by the employee there at Hanford our records are required to have even Spiro recording this I I live in Washington and I have been hearing on the radio and seen online that you guys are providing tours of other Hanford facility there or actor okay so you do go check out the B. reactor that's15/22
where they did the year a lot of the work for the Manhattan Project right yeah guys like Oppenheimer were out there working on that al-assad's park correct so hampered what boat up you knew in her heart yeah I see some dates here ya among among the website right now I see you have missed the beginning in may register couple weeks away the the tours heart started16/22
I'm not well okay you so yesterday I just started yeah we're going to go there yeah well offered Saturday okay in its is on here that the tours are for or the cleanup part I mean I know that hampered his had lot issues with leaks over the course of its existence there are yeah yeah work what was there another %HESITATION you or are we the records17/22
work and or might work yeah there's another one which is on hand for cleanup okay yes for okay starting in may would I be able to bring my own like radiation detecting equipment just hot for my own kind of a hobby year experiment al-assad's on actually something I have not yeah but for I will have to find out okay I kicked out take your name and18/22
number in the hope that yes you are manager market right now okay sure yeah I can provide you my contact information %HESITATION my name is Spiro in my numbers and you guys have for real I mean that radiation taking women already there on site all yeah radiation Iraq had there you go but you're right that I reactor before each tour and up to date however they19/22
are happening out there we don't have that okay but we're not are we don't talk about that part of it out right talk about which book on the story of the Manhattan Project so I had seen in the news recently that there was a %HESITATION a leak there this weekend and said it was one of the things that had previously been but I thought about it20/22
that much up at least a little bit more but it's not doesn't back %HESITATION towards writing and I don't know look back a lot about it on you know that it is something not being managed and there is not an issue personal crap area okay yeah you seen something about like thirty five hundred up to thirty five hundred gallons of contaminated waste had had leaked there21/22
recently on on Sunday it was alright it was something that they were not adequately protect where Tom that it magically more than normal so what happened over the weekend when I have to admit I don't it extremely interesting that this leak was reported on Sunday and the very next day the two words began their at Hanford again to recap emergency declared at Hansard as a tunnel22/22
collapses and a state right here that the town was full of highly contaminated materials such as hot radioactive transit transport fuel rods but according to the Washington state department of energy of excuse me the Washington state department of ecology there has apparently been no release of radiation stay tuned to news by dot com for more updates reporting for news last year
