Washington State Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking | Drudge Retort

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Washington State Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking

Six underground storage tanks at a nuclear site in the state of Washington are leaking, authorities say. Governor Jay Inslee (D) described the situation at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation as "disturbing news." But he stressed that there was no current risk to human health. Nearly 200 aging containers hold millions of liters of radioactive waste left from decades of plutonium production for nuclear weapons. "There is no immediate or near-term health risk associated with these newly discovered leaks, which are more than five miles from the Columbia River," Inslee said. "But nonetheless this is disturbing news for all Washingtonians."

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Six underground storage tanks at a nuclear site in the US state of Washington are leaking

HA..!!!

#1 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-23 05:58 AM | Reply | Flag:

It is only a matter of time before anything American starts to leak... either on Wikileaks or into your drinking water.

#2 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-23 06:04 AM | Reply | Flag:

HA!!!

www.nation.com.pk

Get real Rigel. You people need to learn a lot.

#3 | Posted by coyote at 2013-02-23 08:47 PM | Reply | Flag:

You people need to learn a lot.

We have ;earned more than you.

The first lesson we have learned is, "disregard cry-baby articles by Libs".

Pakistani Libs are as big cry-babies as those in US.

Both your articles are basically garbage. We don't store nuclear weapons on Airforce bases or on Navy bases. We have a separate command structure for them similar to what was once your "Strategic Air Command".

We have not had a single nuclear accident (civilian or military) since we started a nuclear program in the early 1960s.

Maybe we're just smarter than you are? LOL

#4 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-23 10:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

And we sure as hell don't have radioactive water leaking from tanks. LOL

#5 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-23 10:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

"But nonetheless this is disturbing news for all Washingtonians."

Wink wink, let's just forget ...
Fukushima Is A Mess. That's not really disturbing any more right(?)!

#6 | Posted by reitze at 2013-02-23 10:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Strategic Air Command"

It's called "National Command Authority".

The National Command Authority is charged with joint-space operations (such as military satellites), information operations (such as information warfare), missile defense, internal and external command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR), and strategic deterrence (Pakistan's nuclear detterent program), and combating weapons of mass destruction.

And we also have something called "Missile Command". They don't leave their weapons lying about where people can get to them.

If it was so easy, there would be satellite pics of our nukes... but there isn't a single one.

I think there is always something you can learn from me. LOL

#7 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-23 10:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

Fukushima Is A Mess

Thanks to lousy American reactors.

#8 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-23 10:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

And we sure as hell don't have radioactive water leaking from tanks. LOL

#5 | Posted by Rigel

It ain't water. It is acid.

#9 | Posted by Sniper at 2013-02-24 10:48 AM | Reply | Flag:

It ain't water. It is acid.

It might as well be p--s for all I care. It still leaks.

#10 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-24 10:53 AM | Reply | Flag:

Hey let's replace fossil fuels with hundreds of nuclear power plants around the country. What possibly could go wrong?

#11 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-02-24 11:19 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Thanks to lousy American reactors."

Idiot. All reactors are a health hazard, regardless of who built them.

#12 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-02-24 11:20 AM | Reply | Flag:

Idiot.

Sez someone who can't recognize his own country on a map. LOL

All reactors are a health hazard

American ones more than others.

The ones in Japan were extra lousy.

#13 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-24 11:44 AM | Reply | Flag:

Hey let's replace fossil fuels with hundreds of nuclear power plants around the country. What possibly could go wrong?

You are just afraid of turning into a Mutant.

You are prejudiced.

#14 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-24 11:46 AM | Reply | Flag:

i mean you can't really hate on american power Rigel with this

www.thenewstribe.com

:-P

#15 | Posted by klifferd at 2013-02-24 03:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

Its just a leak, everything leaks at some point, fix it and move on.

#16 | Posted by danv at 2013-02-24 03:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

I had a claim back in the 1990's at Hanford--not with the tanks.

One of the newly constructed buildings was sagging profusely on the second and third floors. Light weight concrete floors with tons of filing cabinets in the center was an accident waiting to happen. The walls at the center were sunk up to 12 inches from normal. Cracks in the drywall and around windows on the perimeter everywhere.

Best claim for our insured who was the framer--as the architechs were wrong and they paid the entire claim.

--------

They need to fix this asap.

#17 | Posted by MURPHY at 2013-02-24 03:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

That settles it! We need one trillion windpower towers and double the number of solar panel to replace this facility....along with making consumers use less energy!

The left

#18 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-02-24 06:54 PM | Reply | Flag:

This has been known to the DOE, Bechtel and other consultants have known this for a decade or longer while spending hundreds of billions a year and accomplishing absolutely nothing.

#19 | Posted by nutcase at 2013-02-24 08:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

And we sure as hell don't have radioactive water leaking from tanks. LOL

#5 | Posted by Rigel

No, you just pump it and your drinking water directly from the ditches. Calling a Pakistani bright just means he glows in the dark.

#20 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-24 11:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

Hey let's replace fossil fuels with hundreds of nuclear power plants around the country. What possibly could go wrong?

#11 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-02-24 11:19 AM | Reply |

Nothing really if like Washington state they're all put in blue states and then leak.

#21 | Posted by matsop at 2013-02-24 11:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

Good call, the red states have enough mutants as it is.

#22 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2013-02-24 11:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Blue state mutants:

Red state mutants:

www.freakingnews.com

#23 | Posted by matsop at 2013-02-24 11:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Idiot. All reactors are a health hazard, regardless of who built them."

A difficult argument to counter! Let's try...
Ummm, so's yer mother?

#24 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-02-25 02:07 AM | Reply | Flag:

Spokane has one of the highest incidents of MS in the nation. The winds blow thru Handford to Spokane. Just saying there may be a link here.

#25 | Posted by uncle_meat at 2013-02-25 03:01 PM | Reply | Flag:

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