Plutonium Dust Released from Closed Hanford Nuclear Weapons Site






Plutonium Dust Released from Closed Hanford Nuclear Weapons Site


April 16th, 2018

Via: Los Angeles Times:

As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a desert plateau above the Columbia River.

The releases at the Department of Energy cleanup site spewed unknown amounts of plutonium dust into the environment, coated private automobiles with the toxic heavy metal and dispensed lifetime internal radioactive doses to 42 workers.

The contamination events went on for nearly 12 months, getting progressively worse before the project was halted in mid-December. Now, state health and environmental regulators, Energy Department officials and federal safety investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong and who is responsible.















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2 Responses to “Plutonium Dust Released from Closed Hanford Nuclear Weapons Site”





  1. prov6yahoo Says:




    Nuclear power is just not worth the danger. At least not on Earth.





  2. Dennis Says:




    Reminded me of this:

    http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=43035









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