About 11 liters of radioactive waste per day are leaking from the US burial ground

The volume of radioactive waste leaks at the United States largest storage facility for such materials, the Hanford complex in Washington, according to specialists, does not exceed 11 liters per day, spokesman for the US Department of Energy Lindsey Giesler told ITAR-TASS.

February 22 Washington Governor Jay Insley officially announced the leakage of radioactive waste from six single-body underground storage tanks. In Hanford, there are only 177 tanks, of which single-body tanks are 149. In total, they contain more than 1,6 million tons of radioactive waste.

"It is assumed that the cumulative leakage of the six tanks is now less than 3 gallons (11,3 liters) per day," said the spokesman for the Ministry of Energy. In previous decades, single-body underground tanks at Hanford had leaked "into the soil about 1 million gallons," that is, more than 3,7 million liters of radioactive material.

It is reported that "there are no visible changes in the levels of contamination in the wells used (in Hanford) to monitor the situation," However, the Ministry of Energy continues to monitor the situation “extremely carefully”.

On Friday, the US federal authorities calmed the local population, saying that there was no threat to health.

The object in Hanford was created back in the 40s. During 40 for years, plutonium was produced there destined for nuclear weapons, and now it is the largest and most polluted in the United States repository of radioactive waste left from various military industries.

20-year-old Henford underground tanks have long expired. Approximately one-third of the total amount that the US federal authorities annually allocate to clean up facilities of this kind in the country, which is about 2 billions of dollars, goes to work in Hanford. Much of this money is spent on building a plant that will convert waste at Hanford to a safe storage state, sintering it into a glassy mass. These works come with a significant excess of the original estimate and with a lag from the original schedule. Now it is assumed that the construction of the plant will cost more than 12,3 billion dollars and will be completed no earlier than 2019 of the year.

Comments

[Petrospek]

It turns out an interesting situation, they also have problems with nuclear weapons.
I wonder how they will sinter liquid waste into glass?
And where will the water vapor go?

[ughhh]

In total, they store more than 1,6 million tons of radioactive waste.

In previous decades ... there was a leak "into the soil ... over 3,7 million liters of radioactive material.

nifiga this "storage" ...

[Papakiko]

The volume of radioactive waste leaks at the United States largest storage facility for such materials, the Hanford complex in Washington, according to specialists, does not exceed 11 liters per day, spokesman for the US Department of Energy Lindsey Giesler told ITAR-TASS.
A simple calculation shows that over 40 years they could "run out" up to 200 liters of "kaki", which, well, no matter how it does not correlate with the figures below.

Quote: ughhh

In previous decades ... there was a leak "into the soil ... over 3,7 million liters of radioactive material.

In this case, it turns out 170 liters per day for 60 years.
Who is "held" for "endured"?

[engineer74]

You calculated everything correctly, only the amers forgot to report that all other waste had already leaked. Accordingly, the leak itself will soon cease and the need for a processing plant will disappear.

[Misantrop]

Quote: Petrospek

And where will the water vapor go?

Purified - into the atmosphere. Oddly enough, the water in this regard is unique. It ABSOLUTELY does not perceive and does not accumulate radiation, only impurities dissolved in it are fonit.

[rpek32]

Nothing goes anywhere, and nothing comes from anywhere (one of the laws of nature). Let them say in the future that "infection is within normal limits"

[Alexander Romanov]

Quote: rpek32

Let it be said in the future that "infection is within normal limits"

Yes, they already say from a distance of 20 km 3.7 million liters flowed out and everything is normal, do not be afraid, hair and teeth will begin to fall out later

[pa_nik]

Judging by the news, it was decided to start the implementation of the Plan for the Reduction of the Earth's Population with the States and Japan. And everything turns out so smoothly at the backstage of the world, it seems, as if by accident: either they pour it into the Gulf, then they wash it off in the ocean, then they take out a chop from the can with the products of this same nuclear power plant.

[ughhh]

judging by the results, soon only cockroaches will be able to live on earth ...

[j9qq6]

cockroaches are gone, with the advent of cellular communications !!!

[engineer74]

I thought they rested from GMOs ...

[Recon]

there is such a thing, I have not seen cockroaches for many years in residential buildings. in military units, however, they still live and live

[rpek32]

Quote: Recon

I have not seen cockroaches for many years in residential buildings

their ants were evicted. but they’re not as nasty as cockroaches

[Misantrop]

Quote: ughhh

soon only cockroaches can live on earth

Not only. So far, the champion is a scorpion. 15 x-rays without visible consequences

[Krsk]

do Harakiri sssats do something for themselves? maybe we can offer them help if they themselves aren’t able After the disaster from the oil platform, I would completely forbid the drill to work with this crooked head. okay, we go boobies themselves. And then there it is ...

[Renat]

The same mess. Estimates are exceeded, deadlines are not met.

[horoh]

UZHAZZZ. And this is a type of state with advanced technologies.

[IRBIS]

And these poets will teach us how to farm in our country? Ha. After such a leak, even their analyzes should be stored in lead containers. This is known even to any other poz, if only he did not get a little under this emission.

[engineer74]

Everyone is waiting for Russia to be appointed guilty of the leak ...

[Thepawlik]

Rather, Syria and Bashar al-Assad !!! And they will have a reason to start a war.

Well, or in extreme cases, Iran is blamed for everything!

[JonnyT]

The capitalist elite do not care about ecology

[bdolah]

Well, the absurd statement that the USSR was to blame for the bombing by the states of Japan more than once sounded, when will they begin to blame Russia for the leak?

[Egoza]

Quote: bdolah

when will they begin to blame Russia for the leak?

And then! And so everyone knows that evil Russians in black tight overalls made their way and dig holes in barrels! About this soon and in Hollywood the film will be released!

[IRBIS]

And who will Bezrukov play in this movie - Putin or Obama? What do you think?

[pa_nik]

Quote: KrSk

do Harakiri sssats do something for themselves? can help us offer them

We have rich experience ... The lighthouse, Chernobyl, and so on, at the request of the neighbors, we’ll drag every ge into the house ..

[Misantrop]

Quote: pa_nik

and so, at the request of the neighbors dragging any ge into the house ..

And here it is not right. Even if the assembly has worked completely (which is not so often the case), there still remains significantly more fuel than the critical mass (due to slagging, etc.). Thus, after holding the decay time of short-lived isotopes (giving the maximum activity), not garbage is obtained, but briquetted nuclear raw materials of a very high degree of enrichment. Those. great "nuclear mine" for a rainy day.

[Stiletto]

Urgently need to recruit environmentalists, sound the alarm and take away amers vigorously weapons - after all, this is not a toy for children! Their programs on the peaceful atom, too, to curtail, since they do not know how to properly store and dispose of waste. Well, for them, we, in turn, will throw firewood at risk - in the form of humanitarian aid, as they used to be in North Korea.

[Nick Nick]

Now the amers will begin to unfold the script of the film "Evolution" in reality)))
Ah, Stiletto, right !!! Current, it is necessary to officially push these proposals through the UN, there China will join with its opinion and deep disappointment in capitalist connivance)))

We must harness everyone - to launch Greenpeace with tambourines to them; empty-bout bloggers with photoshop photos from space, where it is clearly visible that half of America shines at night, but not from light bulbs. Be sure to convene a conference of crabs and shrimps on the east coast of the United States, where to condemn the American genocide of crustaceans by their violent radiation by radiation ....
And there is already another naughty catch up !!!!

[Hemi cuda]

Amerians at the extraction of shale oil came up with the idea of ​​pumping chemical waste underground and this is next to the aquifers + radioactive waste flowing to this, they interestingly figured out how to poison themselves or who suggested

[Olegovi4]

Quote: Nick Nick

Greenpeace with tambourines run to them

By the way, why is this green front silent? or again double and other standards? they say the radioactive waste, but here in the Russian they will be more radioactive.

[knn54]

Oleg. It's like in a joke: Comrade policeman, it’s dangerous to walk here. Answer: it would be dangerous. I wouldn’t go.
It’s easier for them to notice a straw in our eyes. Why is there a log ... in the eye.

[Ruslan67]

Of course, I understand that human stupidity, unlike the universe, has no boundaries, but there was no other state for this?

[Geisenberg]

But their own country is being bullied and blatantly declaring that there are no visible changes! That is, they recognize that they are, but no one sees them. Off the way, the loot conquers evil.