Nuclear Power  Truths

Recently there have  been  many  media  outlets publishing  articles  on the  Hanford Nuclear  Reservation Tanks  leaking Radioactive  waste underground  where  they are located.  Mixed  with a deadly  cocktail of  nuclear  waste  and  chemicals  that  not  even those directly responsible  and  in  charge of  the  safety  protocol and maintenance  of  said   tanks are  sure of.

These p;ants  like  Nuclear  Power  Plants  are  subsidized  with  taxpayer  monies.  However, any  upgrades  or  retrofitting  that  needs to  be  done must be paid  for  by the company  itself, not  taxpayer  funds.  Right off the  nat  the  fact that company  monies  must  be  used to  improve, repair  or safeguard the facility  for the  security of  the people that  live in the  surrounding areas, not to mention the  soil and the underground  water  supply.  A  water  supply  that  would concern areas   outside of the  immediate  are  of the  Plant.  The  Colorado  River  being one  of  the  sources in  danger.

According  to  Wikipedia information  available  about the  Colombia  River   Watershed, we are  looking  at  waterways basins  that  empty into and  mix  with  bodies  of  water all the  way  from Washington State  to the  Gulf  Of  Mexico.

We have  Governor Inslee  stating that there is  no  danger to  the  residents and  yet  there  have  been  issues  associated  with the  Hanford  site  since  before   2010.  That  is   3  years of  safety irregularities,  leaks  of  dangerous radioactive  waste  not only into the  ground endangering  the  water  shed  for  millions of  Americans both  directly  and  indirectly situated  near  Hanford.    Now  they are  trying to  tell us  that there is  no  danger  to the  public?  According to the  testimonies  given in the videos provided below.  It is  indeed  obvious that  the  leaks  have  been  an  ongoing  problem  that  was made clear  to  both the  management  of  the  Plant and  the  DOE.  Neither  of  which  made  any  move  to  correct.  Now  we  are  expected  to believe  that  there is no  danger  posed,  yet the  leaks  and  the danger  to  their   exposure  was  never addressed,  no one  cared.  SO  now  we  are  to  believe  the  very  same  entities that  have  lied to  us  for  well into  3  years?

How  stupid  do they  actually  think  we  are  ,  exactly ?

If the  testimony  being  given  is  to be  believed  then  not  only  has  our  watershed  been  compromised,  the  air around  the  plant has  been  compromised as  well.  Contaminating   the  residents  that  live  there  and   placing their  children in  danger.

The  Nuclear  Energy  Plants  and  these  Nuclear  Waste  Facilities  are  subsidized  by  taxpayer   monies yet  we  have  no  say  in  vetting there  safety  practices.    Nor  do  we apparently  have  any  say  in  the  approval  process of  these plants  either.   Recently the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved licenses to build two new nuclear reactors Thursday, the first authorized in over 30 years.  They  will be  built  in   Georgia  about   170 miles East  of  Atlanta.  The location  already contains  two  old  reactors.  Just  what  we  needed  …. more  radioactive  waste  to  be  housed  in these  leaky sieves  they call “Nuclear  Reservation Plants”

This is  madness and if it  continues  unchecked the  contamination of  Fukushima  and  Chernobyl  will look  like child’s play  compared  to the  disaster in the  making here  in the   US……..

~Desert Rose~

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Inslee says 6 underground tanks at Hanford leaking waste

by Associated Press and KING 5 News

Posted on February 22, 2013 at 2:37 PM

Updated yesterday at 5:12 PM

 

After meeting with Energy Secretary Steven Chu Friday, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says at least six underground single-shell tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington are leaking, not one as reported last week.

Inslee called the latest development “very disturbing news” and called for a new action plan to remove the nuclear material.

“There is no immediate or near-term health risk associated with these newly discovered leaks, which are more than 10 miles from the Columbia River,” Inslee said in a news release. “But nonetheless this is disturbing news for all Washingtonians. One week ago, Secretary Chu told me there was one tank leaking. But he told me today that his department did not adequately analyze data it had that would have shown the other tanks that are leaking.”

The amount that is leaking varies from tank to tank, but Inslee did not have specific amounts.

Inslee says Chu blames the Department of Energy’s failure to catch the leaks on their inability to properly evaluate the data from the monitors. The leaking was so small over a short period of time that it was imperceptible. If they had looked at the data over a longer period of time, they would have detected the leaks earlier.

Chu said there will be additional evaluations and information released in the coming days.

 

Read Full Report  and  Watch Video Here

 

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The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.[9] The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. It flows northwest and then south into the US state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state of Oregon before emptying into the Pacific Ocean. The river is 1,243 miles (2,000 km) long, and its largest tributary is the Snake River. Its drainage basin is roughly the size of France and extends into seven U.S. states and a Canadian province.

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Most of the Columbia’s drainage basin (which, at 258,000 square miles or 670,000 square kilometres, is about the size of France)[168] lies roughly between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade Mountains on the west. In the United States and Canada the term watershed is often used to mean drainage basin. The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river’s full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.[169] Within the watershed are diverse landforms including mountains, arid plateaus, river valleys, rolling uplands, and deep gorges.

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In 2000, about six million people lived within the Columbia’s drainage basin. Of this total about 2.4 million people lived in Oregon, 1.7 million in Washington, 1 million in Idaho, half a million in British Columbia, and 0.4 million in Montana. Population in the watershed has been rising for many decades and is projected to rise to about 10 million by 2030. The highest population densities are found west of the Cascade Mountains along the I-5 corridor, especially in the Portland-Vancouver urban area. High densities are also found around Spokane, Washington, and Boise, Idaho.

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Several major North American drainage basins and many minor ones share a common border with the Columbia River’s drainage basin. To the east, in northern Wyoming and Montana, the Continental Divide separates the Columbia watershed from the Mississippi-Missouri watershed, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico. To the northeast, mostly along the southern border between British Columbia and Alberta, the Continental Divide separates the Columbia watershed from the Nelson-Lake Winnipeg-Saskatchewan watershed, which empties into Hudson Bay. The Mississippi and Nelson watersheds are separated by the Laurentian Divide, which meets the Continental Divide at Triple Divide Peak near the headwaters of the Columbia’s Flathead River tributary. This point marks the meeting of three of North America’s main drainage patterns, to the Pacific Ocean, to Hudson Bay, and to the Atlantic Ocean via the Gulf of Mexico.[174][175]

Further north along the Continental Divide, a short portion of the combined Continental and Laurentian divides separate the Columbia watershed from the MacKenzie-Slave-Athabasca watershed, which empties into the Arctic Ocean. The Nelson and Mackenzie watersheds are separated by a divide between streams flowing to the Arctic Ocean and those of the Hudson Bay watershed.[176] This divide meets the Continental Divide at Snow Dome (also known as Dome), near the northernmost bend of the Columbia River.[177]

To the southeast, in western Wyoming, another divide separates the Columbia watershed from the Colorado-Green watershed, which empties into the Gulf of California. The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of Wyoming.[178] To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.[174] Great Basin watersheds that share a border with the Columbia watershed include Harney Basin, Humboldt River, and Great Salt Lake.[174] The associated triple divide points are Commissary Ridge North, Wyoming,[179] and Sproats Meadow Northwest, Oregon.[180] To the north, mostly in British Columbia, the Columbia watershed borders the Fraser River watershed. To the west and southwest the Columbia watershed borders a number of smaller watersheds that drain to the Pacific Ocean, such as the Klamath River in Oregon and California and the Puget Sound Basin in Washington.[174]

Wikipedia

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*****Please  notice point  number  15 which enters into the Colorado River Drainage Basin

The  map below  is of the  Colorado  River Watershed which  stretches  from Wyoming all the  way  down  through  Mexico.  Touching  on Wyoming, Colorado, UtahNevada, Arizona, New MexicoBaja Californis , Sonora Mexico

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Below is a  Map of the  Colorado River basin  from  Colorado  all the  way  to the  Gulf  of  Mexico through  New  Mexico and  Texas as  indicated  by the  yellow line.

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Published on Feb 23, 2013

Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state officials said Friday, prompting calls for an investigation from a key senator.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said the leaking material poses no immediate risk to public safety or the environment because it would take a while — perhaps years — to reach groundwater.

But the leaking tanks raise new concerns about delays for emptying them and strike another blow to federal efforts to clean up south-central Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where successes often are overshadowed by delays, budget overruns and technological challenges.

Department of Energy spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler said there was no immediate health risk and said federal officials would work with Washington state to address the matter.

Regardless, Tom Towslee, a spokesman for Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the senator will be asking the Government Accountability Office to investigate Hanford’s tank monitoring and maintenance program.

Wyden is the new chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

State officials just last week announced that one of Hanford’s 177 underground tanks was leaking 150 to 300 gallons a year, posing a risk to groundwater and rivers. So far, nearby monitoring wells haven’t detected higher radioactivity levels.

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Uploaded on Jan 9, 2010

Part I of the U.S. Department of Energy, Environment, Safety and Health, Public Hearing on Exposed Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation held February 3, 2000 at the Federal Building in Richland, WA.

Sound quality is poor due to on camera mic and bad acoustics.

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Talk – Walter Tamosaitis – A Deep Concern on the Hanford Horizon: The WTP

Uploaded on Sep 11, 2010

Talk by Dr. Walter Tamosaitis, the Research and Technology Manager of Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant, who was summarily terminated from his job after he raised safety issues associated with the design and operation of this nuclear facility

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