Published: March 15th, 2012 at 12:49 am ET
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Title: Incident during LANL Cleanup
Source: The Santa Fe New Mexican
Author: Anne Constable
Date: March 14, 2012
Hazardous waste workers inside a sealed enclosure at Los Alamos National Laboratory drilled into an old container releasing an unknown gas that flashed on contact with the air, according to Kevin Roark a laboratory spokesperson [...]
A hazardous materials team was dispatched to Material Disposal Area B [...]
A Los Alamos County emergency official sent out a reverse-911 telephone call warning residents. DP Road across from the dump was closed, and occupants of businesses along the road were asked to stay inside. No injuries were reported and an all-clear was sounded about two hours later. [...]
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Published: March 15th, 2012 at 12:49 am ET
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This must stop! What are they up to now.
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Why, they're busy drilling into unlabeled 1-liter bottles in the waste area with their handy-dandy cordless DeWalts, because they all got handy-dandy cordless DeWalts and wanted to test 'em out. What could possibly go wrong?
And if that's NOT the precise scenario then they know exactly what was in that bottle and aren't telling you because it would give you an immediate heart attack to know. Don't worry, the containment held, and no you can't go home for dinner because if you go outside you'll get rather badly dosed by stuff that's worse than plutonium…
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Why were they drilling? Maybe they found a number of the bottles that were damaged, and empty. Maybe they wanted to find out what exactly was in them. Seems to fit but just a geuss.
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Reverse 911 call …wow… somebody deserves a medal!
Old fire extinguishers … now that's a new one
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they were bored so they saw a container and said" I know lets drill it and see what happens, oops wrong idea"
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Boys will be boys. I wonder if any are in the hospital.
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Helen Caldicott Fukushima Legacy on GRTV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZrOwjPa7xA&list=UUvtTGZEcS8mbWdB7prg4QNw&index=1&feature=plcp
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That was the best explination of radiation Ive ever seen!
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Yeah and one of the reasons you see Arnie all over the place, Helen, well not so much.
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isnt uranium prone to combustion when it hits the air in certain conditions
its mentioned here
DEPLETED URANIUM IN THE HUMAN BODY: Sr Rosalie Bertell, PhD
snowshoefilms series #1) Epidemiologist Rosalie Bertell (PhD, biometrics)explains the effects of the weaponized DU on the people of Iraq and the planet. In subsequent parts of this series, Dr. Bertell offers readily-accessible ways to detox some heavy metals and poisons from the body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQ79-oDX2o&feature=bf_next&list=HL13
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EXCUSE ME LOS ALAMOS When I was a firefighter at NASA JSC we had detailed records and ID tags on EVERY can or drum of fuel or chemicals. Guess no one kept records of what was in containers and NEVER updated and ID-ed same. What happened to your safety and understanding of Identification of all containers and proper storage areas where same materials were marked and stored
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Ummmmmmmm, the guard dogs ate the records?
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And there homework
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Hard to say. That area used to be involved in 'pit research' at one stage from memory. Probably a waste cannister containing plutonium. They used to do all sorts of things with plutonium chemistry, and then use small waste jars in closed hoods to dispose of it. Lacking the ability to process the chemicals …. reading Nickel Carbonyl, ethers, complex ligands etc … they dumped it in the land fills.
Wouldn't you too? If your work mates have been exposed to Pu and they don't look too hot a few months later?
Biff … and let someone else sort out in the future.
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