Published: November 11th, 2011 at 2:31 pm ET
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Sodium Fire Burning At INL Building, KIFI Idaho Falls, Nov. 11, 2011 at 1:17 pm ET:
The Idaho National Laboratory said a sodium fire is burning at a building inside the Materials and Fuels Complex this morning. [...]
People calling in to us said there may have been an explosion which started the fire, but right now that has not been confirmed through the INL. [...]
See also:
- Sodium fire underway at 'Material and Fuels Complex' at Idaho National Lab -- Identical location as recent plutonium exposure
- Weapons-grade plutonium at location of Idaho sodium fire -- Just days ago director of complex said "hazards were not thoroughly understood and controls were not properly in place"
Published: November 11th, 2011 at 2:31 pm ET
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Truth will always out….eventually.
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How bad does it have to be for sodium to ignite?
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Sodium exposed to water will ignite, doesn’t take much, perspiration on your fingers can set it off. It’s very unstable stuff with an extremely high valence activity level. Because it is so easy to ignite, it is usually kept in an oxygen free environment, usually pure nitrogen or one of the noble gases (inert). Any breech of environment could set it off, so any explosion big enough to blow a single seal could do it.
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Can someone show me how to figure out which way the jet stream is going? I live in Eastern WA, and I would like to know. Is there a website somewhere that shows the current jet stream flow?
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For Winds, assuming you are in North America go to Intellicast, select North America, On left side scroll down & Select “Current Wind”. It will give you “Current Winds”, “Windcast” & “Jetstream”
Direct link to that area: http://www.intellicast.com/National/Wind/Current.aspx
If you are not in North America choose one of their other options. I’m not what they offer for other areas.
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http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/NCOMAGWEB/appcontroller?prevpage=index&MainPage=index&cat=MODEL+GUIDANCE&page=MODEL+GUIDANCE
http://squall.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html
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With Squall, click on Northern Hemisphere, Latest Available. Then look to see which way the tiny little blue arrows are pointing. In your situation, they would mostly be pointing towards Idaho, Canada or the top of NV.
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Thanks!
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Is this the same liquid sodium that’s in the supposedly safer next generation of reactors (and, which was also in Japan’s Monju reactor, which also caught fire)?
WHen are these people going stop stop putting everyone else at risk just so they can make a profit off of their dangerous technologies?
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Yes, Monju is a fast breeder reactor, the scourge of the nuclear industry, the same as was being decommissioned and exploded at INL. Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking that liquid sodium is a safe material. It’s very hazardous stuff outside a sealed environment, especially in contact with even small amounts of water. Mix in plutonium….. Russian roulette with five bullets.
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The best part about the monju reactor is that it was created to enrich uranium. They don’t even make electricity with it. Good stuff.
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There were any number of attempts at Monju to generate electricity. That was its original stated purpose. But since it was so dismal at doing so, accumulating one day’s electrical generation in the years its been operational, they had to justify its continued running somehow. So they called it a fuel enrichment plant.
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