Nuke Facility Roof Collapse
A fire department hazardous materials team was on the site of another roof collapse saturday morning at the harcross chemical co.
Nuke facility roof collapse. A tunnel sealed in 1965 encasing old railroad cars and equipment contaminated with radiation through years of plutonium processing. Ten people were injured in three rain related roof collapse incidents the edhi ambulance service said. Three people were hurt when the roof of a post office facility in houston fell on them during severe weather thursday. The men were repairing the roof of the russian space shuttle hangar at the cosmodrome the principal location for russia s rocket launches when three of five columns supporting the roof fell.
This possibility was recognized early in wipp design exercises most nuclear waste is stored where it is generated which usually means at nuclear power plants. Reported the collapse. But roof collapse is a possible event if there is a thin layer of anhydrite above the roof salt and the salt separates from the base of the anhydrite strata. Officials at the wipp have said they believe a large section of an underground roof collapsed in the underground facility storing radioactive waste from nuclear warheads smashing barrels full of nuclear waste and allowing large amounts of radioactive material to spill.
A section of the chernobyl nuclear power plant in ukraine collapsed under the weight of snow officials said raising new concerns about the condition of the facility that was the site of the world s worst nuclear accident. Rafferty said a call to 911 at 8 12 a m. Hanford which is overseen by the us department of energy doe is a cold war era facility that led us production of plutonium for use in tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. Last week s accident at the hanford nuclear reservation should have come as no surprise.
First ventilators production facility opened must read. The collapse happened just before noon at a u s.