Published on Jul 5, 2014
Don Hancock: "Something that was never supposed to happen, happened. We don't know as much about handling waste, about geologic repositories as we've been told and in fact government and corporate people thought they knew. We don't know as much as we think we know."
Published on Jun 12, 2014 by NewMexicoMercury
V.B. Price gets an update on the WIPP leak from Don Hancock, Director of the Nuclear Waste Safety Program for the SW Research and Information Center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9ns...
Internal Memo: 10 times more WIPP nuclear drums risk exploding than media reported — Expert: Data shows increasing amount of radioactivity going into environment — Official: Something "caused drum to later catch fire"; Gov't should investigate if truck fire & electrical surge led to the radiation release
http://enenews.com/10-times-as-many-p...
Nuclear Radiation Releases Continue in New Mexico: Something happened in February, something is STILL going on
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/w...
Why do we still not know what's wrong with WIPP?
http://lajicarita.wordpress.com/2014/...
'Very strong' quake hits New Mexico border — Seismic data spikes at WIPP nuke site — Emergency declared at nearest nuclear plant — "Larger magnitude event could still occur" — TV: "Sounded like a train derailed" — "Very rare... Still trying to figure out what caused it... no known fault lines in area" (VIDEOS)
http://enenews.com/very-strong-quake-...
Radiation spikes at WIPP nuclear facility — Hits highest levels since initial hours of radioactive release in February — Document link removed from official website — Gov't analyzing samples for "potential impact on human health"
http://enenews.com/large-spike-radiat...
WIPP radiation leak leads to layoffs at Los Alamos
Created: 07/03/2014 8:03 AM
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3...
Radiation Expert: 5 types of plutonium were released from WIPP; Officials not informing public — Caldicott: "I predict that facility will never be able to be used again"; Inhaling a millionth of a gram of plutonium will induce lung cancer (AUDIO)
http://enenews.com/radiation-expert-5...
What Is Plutonium?
The U.S. Department of Energy's Carlsbad Field Office is responsible for the management, transportation,
and permanent disposal of large amounts of the transuranic wastes left over from both World War II and the
Cold War. Plutonium and the other radioactive wastes destined for permanent disposal at the Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), are scientifically well understood and easily managed. The purpose of the
National Transuranic Waste Program is to manage the disposal of the transuranic waste generated at the
nation's defense production facilities. Various sites around the nation have transuranic wastes stored above
ground in temporary storage facilities. In that nuclear waste, there are numerous plutonium isotopes that will
be entombed 2,150 feet below ground at the WIPP near Carlsbad, New Mexico.
http://www.wipp.energy.gov/fctshts/pl...
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