Hanford Nuclear Waste Vitrification Plant "Too Dangerous" 292
Noryungi writes "Scientific American reports, in a chilling story, that the Hanford, Washington nuclear waste vitrification treatment plant is off to a bad start. Bad planning, multiple sources of radioactive waste, and leaking containment pools are just the beginning. It's never a good sign when that type of article includes the word 'spontaneous criticality,' if you follow my drift..."
It seems the main problem is that the waste has settled in distinct layers, and has to be piped through corroded old tubes, leading to all sorts of exciting problems (e.g. enough plutonium aggregating to start a reaction).
We glow (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah we glow at night around here...
Re:Hopeless (Score:5, Funny)
Also, what happens if the country in question falls apart and someone decides they want to give it back to you later in the form of a dirty bomb?
I don't think there are many vitrification plants in Kreplakistan. It's far more likely the waste would be sent somewhere like France or Canada. Are you really that worried about the Canucks?
They sent us Celiene Dion and Justin Beiber. I think that counts as a hostile country.
And don't get me started on Canadian bacon...
Re:Hopeless (Score:2, Funny)
That's easy. Spontaneous criticality should take care of the the moving it across borders problem.
Re:Hopeless (Score:4, Funny)
They sent us Celiene Dion and Justin Beiber. I think that counts as a hostile country.
As a non North American can I just point out that the US is responsible for a whole genre of music that makes Celine Dion and Justin Bieber look like Kurt Cobain?
I refer, of course, to Cuntry & Western.