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Fire Closes in on Plutonium at Los Alamos National Laboratory
As I noted Tuesday, raging wildfires are threatening the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
As Reuters reported the same day:
The fire ... surrounds the lab complex and adjacent town of Los Alamos on three sides.
Today, Associated Press provides details on the size of the fire:
A
wildfire that is threatening the nation’s premier nuclear weapons
laboratory ... is poised to become the largest fire in state history.
The fire near Los Alamos has charred nearly 145 square miles, or 92,735 acres.
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They’re bracing for winds that could gust up to 40 mph Thursday afternoon.
ABC quotes the lab's former top security official to give some perspective on the danger:
“It
contains approximately 20,000 barrels of nuclear waste,” former top
[Los Alamos National Lab] security official Glen Walp said. “It’s not
contained within a concrete, brick and mortar-type building, but rather
in a sort of fabric-type building that a fire could easily consume.
“Potential is high for a major calamity if the fire would reach these areas,” he added.
Yahoo News notes that the fire is getting close to the drums of plutonium:
[ T]he plant is reportedly home to 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste. As of Thursday morning, the
flames were reportedly two miles away from this waste. “The concern is
that these drums will get so hot that they’ll burst,” says Joni
Arends, executive director of the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear
Safety, as quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle. There is also concern
that the fire could stir up nuclear-contaminated soil left over from
years of testing, sending the nuclear waste into the plumes of smoke
hovering over the area.
ABC reports today:
Along with what’s actually on lab property, there is concern about
what’s in the canyons that surround the sprawling complex. Nuclear
tests were performed in the canyons dating back to the 1940s; so-called
“legacy contaminations.”
“The trees have grown up during that
timeframe, and the soil can also be contaminated. If they get heated
and that stuff goes air borne, then we are concerned,” Rita Bates of
the New Mexico Environment Department said.
As Los Alamos lab expert Peter Stockton told Time:
[We just have to] hope to hell that the wind blows in the right direction.
To add insult to injury, lightning is forecast for the Los Alamos area.
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We are getting lots of smoke here in the four corners region which means the smoke has gone west and north and east. It is a combination from the Arizona and Los Alamos regions and IT IS RADIOACTIVE.
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wasn't the hindenburg made of fabric,
and it is pronounced
fuk us hi ma.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hindenburg_fabric.jpg
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stay positive. it is the only way to get your message
accross, so i have been told.
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http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1237.htm
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but surly this fabric in los alamos is fire retardent, or not, whatever.
30,000 barrels of nuclear waste stored in tents.
Who is in charge at the NRC? Homer Simpson?
You couldn't make this s**t up. I wonder what else is
going on that would match this. Is this just the tip of the
iceberg? I need a drink.
Why do I get the feeling these guys are charge of things out there..... (Roswell is in New Mexico, true?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITUYo7CRg0
Funny, I thought this guy might be in charge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYR1fGSK4U0
(but, I think he's still in Jersey...)
There is no danger. This is just more fearmongering Glen-Beck-wanabe sensationalism from GW, ZH's resident internet media whore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b07-yKnKRMQ
Does this mean that New Mexico goes from being a blue state to being the first glow-in-the-dark state?
GW obviously moved on, Fukushima failed to bring the Nuclear Armageddon so now it is Los Alamos? He really needs a slap in the face from his daddy, being so stupid and advertising the fact to everybody.
I think the reason it was stored the way it was is because of infighting of where to put this stuff. There was probably state and federal law about them storing nuclear waste in that state (remember almost all states fight tooth and and nail not to have any nuclear waste stored permanently on their lands), so by having it in a "temporary" position (barrels above ground under tents) they don't break any rules. Also remember the fire doesn't have to be on top of the barrels or the tent to start a fire or burst them. The heat radiation from a fire front can be massive.
Los Alamos lab director: “I could feel the heat of the fire on my face as I watched from the roof of our Emergency Operations Center"
http://enenews.com/los-alamos-lab-director-could-feel-heat-fire-face-watched-roof-emergency-operations-center
Another "Legacy Species" type.
CW
Don't worry, I know some of the people who work up there at Los Alamos, and believe me, they're so bright they glow in the dark.
Besides, we clearly see how assurances and government regulation protects everyone from danger. Like Fukishima.
I'm not sure what is going on there, but some info can be had here:
http://nmfireinfo.wordpress.com/category/active-wildfire/
and some photos:
http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2011/06/27/las-conchas-wildfire-photos/
OK, for once they have "shovel-ready jobs"(burying this crap) and where the fuck is everyone! "Hello, I'm from the Government and I'm here to fuck this up!"....
Can someone please explain why they aren't covering these cannisters in gian dirt burms?! Or why aren't they hsving it moved out of danger?!?! Sure;y there is time to do this.
That would cost too much and it's near the plants year end!
Cheaper to deny there is any risk and then sack the plant manager once SHTF or rely on good old hope.
Rusty Shorts posted this link for a youtube video that suggests that at least parts of the lab area burned already, particularly the area where the casks were/are stored. This video certainly raises questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3hffTNuOAY
B52 carpet bomb the perimeter [makes great 30 foot instant swimming pools, just like Vietnam - then send in the airborne water tankers to fill them: problem solved!
Collateral Damage or are the drums safe under all that tarp
Does anyone think there would be a little more importance placed on this if it was the strategic oil reserves under threat?
Can they fix the 'Hum' while they are at it?
http://www.aquiziam.com/taos_hum.html
Taos- It's not just for skiing anymore.
From the type of responses I'm getting, you can forget the Thorium route as long as the average "educated" American I'm seeing here shit their pants anytime the word "atomic" comes up.
It's amazing how many people are "experts" on the subject of Los Alamos when they've probably never been west of the Rio Grande.
Shove it mister. I run many a load over that ridge.
Yep, because an evacuation is a 'non-event'. Sorry, the shit in people's pants is you. Frankly surprised that corn and watermelon seeds can type...
Go back to navel gazing you arrogant piece of shit.
Seems to be a lot of people with at least your level of 'expertise'.
Fabric tents
Legacy soil contamination
A 'well cleared area' ? Firestorms just roll over 'well cleared areas'.
The thorium concept is not one that has been held back by the general public btw.
It's the 'engineering experts' that haven't voted for it.
Get real or at least quite trying to foist blame off on people other than those that deserve it.
. . . because everybody who has been worried about nuclear power has been proven so wrong.
Quick, bring in Naomi Klein to handle the fire hoses. Can't trust the firefighters on the scene!
lol
Los Alamos has had several previous fires shown on this map http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/las... Which makes it somewhat easier to fight with back burns and fire lines, etc. Winds are picking up here in Taos right now and it looks like the fire has been active up in the Valles Caldera and on the Santa Clara Pueblo. http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2385/
Do you still think it's such a bad idea that Germany is giving up on nuclear energy. ?
If Siemens mastered the Thorium reactor technology, then I could still be swayed to support THAT kind of nuclear power generation with:
1. Thorium an abundant element
2. The nuclear reaction easily stoppable, no danger of meltdown
3. Nuclear waste from thorium reactors only mildly radioactive with short half-lives of isotopes
I think thorium is worthwhile considering.
Yes, and that would be why China is going to take the ENTIRE country Thorium and Solar, and it has the other positive of being able to replace ALL imported oil.
Or so the Germans would have us believe. /sarc
You were supposed to post this after my post.
This comes from hopping too many time zones.
Whut?
Even on ZH, like in the rest of the media, solid technical knowledge is lacking on a large scale. First - Los Alamos' storage facilities are in large clearings in fire proof buildings - THEY ARE SAFE! I'm here in New Mexico and I've seen the damn place. The fire will not cause a radioactive release even if a hundred burning trees fell on the buildings.
Second - like it or not, when dealing with heavy nuclear particles and explosive fallout, a circus tent is a damn good idea. Little will protect you from gamma rays, a sheet of Al will protect you from betas and a sheet of paper will protect you from alphas. A circus tent will protect you from all those heavy atoms that will screw you up for a long time. It may not sound "sexy", but it works until you can create a hard seal.
We can have a debate later about nuclear energy, but even then...
I never thought ZH would be the place where I would finally say this in public....
"Will all of you people out there WITHOUT engineering degrees PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
I have an engineering degree! And look what I learned to do with this new cool Interwebs tool: I found a picture of the supposed tents. http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/LANL-demolition-for-web
What a bunch of exaggerators! These aren't tents! They are simply cloth covered containment domes. Duh. AND, one of the 13 aircraft carrier-sized ones has ALREADY been torn down. Now there's only 12 of them so everyone can quit their scare mongering.
Besides, the hazardous waste is not just protected by the thick cloth covering, there's also the 18 gauge cold rolled steel 55-gallon drums between the burning building and disaster.
There's also the added bonus of the drums being switched over to .175 inch thick high density polyethylene. And us engineers know that doesn't even burn until (auto-ignition) until a whopping 380 deg C.
So, you see, everything will be fine.
dude, fire is serious bizness - *cough* WTC7 *cough*
You see: everybody thought George Bush was in Texas when he was really next-door in New Mexico setting fires.
Also, Dick Cheney was busy loosening the lids on those waste drums while Blackwater operatives were planting explosives inside the tents....
See how easy this conspiracy stuff is?
aaahh yeah, the difference being MY post referred to something that actually happened that was blamed on "fire" - tad different, but you did mention some co-conspirators, heh.
All your engineers are belong to us.
TEPCO are here
cpn scarlet said:
...storage facilities are in large clearings in fire proof buildings...
The report says they are not in buildings - but rather fabric structures that could be consumed by fire. Fabric structure is a fancy way of describing a tent. A tent is not a building - not by any stretch of your highly educated imagination.
I don't need to be an engineer to realize this is a little messed up and that there is danger with a wild fire, at last report, only 2 miles away. It doesn't even need fire - it only needs sufficient heat to become a problem.
Now, I'll go back to my engineering degree-free life and try to cope - as ill-equipped as I am. Smug, condescending a$$hole......
Disobey.
fanatics don't care about real science
Exactly true, just look at the global warming crowd.
Damn, I dropped out (as a senior) before I finished my degree. Of all of the places I thought it might hinder me, a blog was dead last on the list.
Since you've "been there," can you verify if these are the tents?
35°49'46.20"N 106°14'7.12"W
I used the ruler function in Google Earth and those 4 structures are just a tick over 4K' from the first house in the subdivision in the lower right corner of the map.