View Full Version : 13 DOE Workers Exposed to Radiation @ WIPP, Carlsbad, NM & Kirkland AFB Orders 1200 RAD Suits
HOLLYWOOD
02-27-2014, 03:38 PM
Leak happened 2 weeks ago at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant(WIPP) located just outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico. A week ago Kirkland A.F.B., located on the southeast border of Albuquerque, N.M. ordered 1200 sealed Radiation suits.
CNN: 13 workers exposed to radiation at New Mexico disposal plant (http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/us/new-mexico-radiation-exposure/index.html)
(CNN) -- Nearly two weeks after a radiation leak was reported at the Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/16/us/new-mexico-radiation-alarm/index.html) outside Carlsbad, New Mexico, 13 employees have been notified that preliminary test results show they were exposed to radiation, officials said.
"It is important to note that these are initial sample results," DOE's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Nuclear Waste Partnership, its contractor, said in a statement Wednesday. "These employees, both federal and contractor, will be asked to provide additional samples in order to fully determine the extent of any exposure."
The release did not quantify the initial estimates of the exposure. "We can't release that information," said Nuclear Waste Partnership spokesman Donavan Mager, who cited the HIPAA privacy rule...
[PDF] Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Radiation Safety Manual (http://nnsa.energy.gov/sites/default/files/nnsa/11-12-multiplefiles/432_WIPP%202006%20WP12-5.pdf)
BIN: Prep To Evacuate! USAF Base Orders 1,200 Radiation Suits In New Mexico (http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2014/02/prep-to-evacuate-usaf-base-orders-1200-radiation-suits-in-new-mexico-2524650.html)
Due to a massive radiological event in New Mexico and the release of airborne plutonium, Kirkland Air Force Base (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/02/prepare-to-evacuate-albuquerque-air.html) in Albuquerque, New Mexico has ordered 1,200 radiation suits and our videographer POTRBlog has put out this prepare to evacuate notice in the video below.
The obvious purpose for this order is to prepare for another massive Plutonium release from DOE’s WIPP plant outside Carlsbad New Mexico.
BUGOUT ALERT! CDC Preps MASSIVE Ventilator Order, References Radiological Event And Pandemic Influenza (http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/02/bugout-alert-cdc-preps-massive.html)
One thing we know for sure, it would be wise risk mitigation to be able to IMMEDIATELY escape upwind of the WIPP site within a moments notice for anyone living within a 200 mile zone. This means having a P100 mask and items to sustain comfort immediately available and transportable (along with a plan to get out). We expect that the DOE WIPP site should be tracking levels of Hydrogen, Methane, & VOC’s from increased radiolysis occurring in the WIPP mine. But, this does not mean they will alert you. DOE denied the Plutonium release for DAYS.
Alternative media is just now reporting the size of the Plutonium release, we first quantified and reported the size of that Plutonium release over 1 week ago. People did not want to believe there was a massive release because of Normalcy Bias, don’t make that mistake again!
alucard13mm
02-27-2014, 03:51 PM
The title made me think it was department of education.
donnay
02-27-2014, 04:17 PM
Leak happened 2 weeks ago at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant(WIPP) located just outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico. A week ago Kirkland A.F.B., located on the southeast border of Albuquerque, N.M. ordered 1200 sealed Radiation suits.
CNN: 13 workers exposed to radiation at New Mexico disposal plant (http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/us/new-mexico-radiation-exposure/index.html)
[PDF] Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Radiation Safety Manual (http://nnsa.energy.gov/sites/default/files/nnsa/11-12-multiplefiles/432_WIPP%202006%20WP12-5.pdf)
BIN: Prep To Evacuate! USAF Base Orders 1,200 Radiation Suits In New Mexico (http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2014/02/prep-to-evacuate-usaf-base-orders-1200-radiation-suits-in-new-mexico-2524650.html)
That is truly scary. Not much reporting on this by MSM.
HOLLYWOOD
02-27-2014, 04:58 PM
The title made me think it was department of education.Official US Government abbreviations:
ED Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/)
DOE Department of Energy (http://energy.gov/)
angelatc
02-27-2014, 05:47 PM
Last week:
"No one was underground when the alarm went off," Sahd said. "And everyone that was in the facility (at the time), we know where they are and we've tested them."
This week:
http://extremeliberal.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/emily_litella_-_never_mind.jpg
Zippyjuan
02-27-2014, 06:09 PM
More on the exposure levels:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/radiation-levels-fall-after-nuclear-waste-leak-in-new-mexico/
On 16 February, two days after the initial release, Hardy’s centre detected plutonium and americium contamination at an air-monitoring station 1 kilometre away from an exhaust shaft leading from the facility. The centre's latest results, released on 25 February based on samples collected four days after the leak, identified no plutonium and sharply lower levels of americium. Hardy says that the centre’s data align with reports from the US Department of Energy. The agency estimated that a person at one of its above-ground monitoring stations would have sustained a cumulative radiation exposure of 1 millirem – ten times less radiation than that delivered during a typical chest X-ray.
HOLLYWOOD
02-27-2014, 06:31 PM
More on the exposure levels:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/radiation-levels-fall-after-nuclear-waste-leak-in-new-mexico/AND what about the other half of the equation... the ones below ground in the vast cavernous bowels of the nuclear salt mines? Got those stats?
angelatc
02-27-2014, 06:34 PM
AND what about the other half of the equation... the ones below ground in the vast cavernous bowels of the nuclear salt mines? Got those stats?
I think the levels are intentionally higher there. That's kind of the point.
Zippyjuan
02-27-2014, 06:57 PM
AND what about the other half of the equation... the ones below ground in the vast cavernous bowels of the nuclear salt mines? Got those stats?
Yes- what about all of those people who were underground at the time?
(using my same link as before):
Because no one was underground when the radiation alarms went off, it remains unclear what caused the release.
Zippyjuan
02-27-2014, 07:14 PM
As for the other half of the "story",
Due to a massive radiological event in New Mexico and the release of airborne plutonium, Kirkland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico has ordered 1,200 radiation suits and our videographer POTRBlog has put out this prepare to evacuate notice in the video below.
Kirtland Air Force Base is home to the Air Force's nuclear Weapons Center so ordering radiation suits is not a big deal. http://www.kirtland.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=5827 Given that the base has 23,000 personel, if they wanted to protect them from some expected nuclear event, they will need a lot more than 1200 suits. (and they haven't had a "major radiological event"- they did have a leaking jet fuel tank a couple years ago though).
HOLLYWOOD
02-27-2014, 07:17 PM
Well, here, Call Carlsbad local reporter Ponce and get the latest... because the DOE stated to everyone, February 15 that all workers tested negative for radiation exposure and that has now been proven false. CAMs are used throughout the U.S. and they triggered the alarm. Somebody is lying or grossly incompetent.
Radiation leak detected at WIPPBy Zack Ponce
zponce@currentargus.comPosted: 02/15/2014 03:16:11 PM MST
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site563/2014/0206/20140206__cca-l-wippfolo-0207%7Ep3_300.jpg (http://www.currentargus.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=5734550 )Current-Argus file photo Underground operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant have been suspended until a federal team of investigators can visit the site.
Update -- 6:45 p.m.
Department of Energy Officials said that all non-essential personnel were allowed to return home this evening after radioactive tests resulted in the employees testing negative for contamination.
No timetable has been set for underground re-entry and officials believe Saturday's incident is not connected to the fire that broke out on a vehicle that hauled salt in the underground north mine less than two weeks ago.
"We don't believe there is a connection between the earlier salt haul truck event and this event," said Roger Nelson, DOE spokesman. "They are obviously in different portions of the underground.http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site563/2014/0206/20140206__cca-l-wippfolo-0207%7Ep1_300.jpg (http://www.currentargus.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=5734549 )Current-Argus file photo This aerial photo shows the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, 26 miles east of Carlsbad.
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New Mexico Congressional Delegation issued statements:
"WIPP has acted quickly and cautiously to ensure the safety of personnel and the local community," said Representative Steve Pearce Saturday afternoon. "My office remains in close contact with officials at WIPP. Full analysis of the readings is expected be available tomorrow."
Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich issued a joint statement late Saturday saying, "We are in close contact with officials at the Department of Energy and WIPP, and we will continue to monitor the situation as more information becomes available. The safety of WIPP personnel and the surrounding community is of the utmost importance."
Originally posted at 3:30 p.m.
CARLSBAD -- Technicians at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant were taking surface samples Saturday afternoon after a radiation leak was reported at the nuclear waste repository.
The airborne radiation was detected around 11:30 p.m. on Friday, according to officials with the Department of Energy. All 139 workers at the site, located 26 miles east of Carlsbad, have been accounted for and are being sequestered on site. No injuries have been reported and no personnel were underground when the facility's continuous air monitors, or CAMs, detected radiation downstream of where nuclear waste is disposed.
WIPP is the nation's first transuranic nuclear waste repository, used to permanently dispose of low-level nuclear waste from government sites around the nation.
"These are radionuclides that are of a hazard if inhaled but it is not the kind of radiation that penetrates, and so the primary concern for the release of this nature is (through) the ventilation passageway and that's why our employees are sequestered in place," said Roger Nelson, a Department of Energy spokesman.
WIPP stores waste that primarily radiates alpha and beta-type radiation, according to Nelson.
"I can't tell you the amount or level but they were elevated and above normal, above background (levels)," Nelson said of the radiation that was detected airborne near Panel 7, Room 7, in the south salt mine.
According to Nelson this is the first time in WIPP's 15-year history that the facility has had a CAM alarm detect this level of radiation underground.
Public inquiries can be made the joint Information Center at (575) 234-7380.
WIPP entered emergency status less than two weeks ago, when an underground fire was reported. A vehicle used to transport salt in the north area of the underground caught fire. Several employees were taken to the hospital with smoke inhalation. WIPP's underground operations have been suspended since the incident and there has been no indication whether the leak is a result of the previous emergency.
Reporter Zack Ponce can be reached at (575) 689-7402.
Zippyjuan
02-27-2014, 07:28 PM
Well, here, Call Carlsbad local reporter Ponce and get the latest... because the DOE stated to everyone, February 15 that all workers tested negative for radiation exposure and that has now been proven false. CAMs are used throughout the U.S. and they triggered the alarm. Somebody is lying or grossly incompetent.
According to the reports, nobody was even near the area where the alarm went off so nobody received any significant levels of radiation exposure. Exposure rates from radiation are inverse squared to your distance from the source. Twice as far away, you get one quarter of the dose as somebody right there. Four times as far away you get one sixteenth the dose. It said that nobody was underground when the event occured.
CAMs are remote sensors- a person does not have to be at that location.
HOLLYWOOD
02-27-2014, 07:38 PM
According to the reports, nobody was even near the area where the alarm went off so nobody received any significant levels of radiation exposure. Exposure rates from radiation are inverse squared to your distance from the source. Twice as far away, you get one quarter of the dose as somebody right there. Four times as far away you get one sixteenth the dose. It said that nobody was underground when the event occured.
CAMs are remote sensors- a person does not have to be at that location.Prove It! Prove no exposure and now that 13 show exposure... give everyone the details of everyone locations, durations, and travels. Show me the NRO/NSA video footage and GPS locations for the past month of no one being there. If you don't have it, you have zero basis on your excuses.
Zippyjuan
02-27-2014, 07:43 PM
Prove the levels of those exposed (there was minor radiation released into the air which quickly went away). Show me GPS locations and NRO/ NSA video footage. Give details of everybody's locations, durations, and travels. You said they were lying. Prove it.
From your own latest link:
No injuries have been reported and no personnel were underground when the facility's continuous air monitors, or CAMs, detected radiation downstream of where nuclear waste is disposed.
From my link:
The WIPP opened in 1999 and has since taken in more than 80,000 cubic metres of material – including work gloves, tools and machinery – that is contaminated with radioactive elements such as plutonium as well as hazardous chemicals. On 16 February, two days after the initial release, Hardy’s centre detected plutonium and americium contamination at an air-monitoring station 1 kilometre away from an exhaust shaft leading from the facility. The centre's latest results, released on 25 February based on samples collected four days after the leak, identified no plutonium and sharply lower levels of americium. Hardy says that the centre’s data align with reports from the US Department of Energy. The agency estimated that a person at one of its above-ground monitoring stations would have sustained a cumulative radiation exposure of 1 millirem – ten times less radiation than that delivered during a typical chest X-ray.
Although no data were released from real-time radiation detectors within the facility this week, the Department of Energy says that radiation levels are dropping and seem to be limited to one section of the facility. Energy Department spokeswoman Deb Gill says that the agency and its contractors – an industry consortium led by the San Francisco-based URS Corporation – are still working on a plan to re-enter the facility.
HOLLYWOOD
02-27-2014, 07:48 PM
Prove the levels of those exposed (there was minor radiation released into the air which quickly went away). Show me GPS locations and NRO/ NSA video footage. Give details of everybody's locations, durations, and travels. You said they were lying. Prove it.
Hey I'm not the one that CHANGED THEIR STORY in 2 weeks.
OFFICALS:
2 weeks ago no one exposed
today 13 exposed
Got any other challenges you want to pull out of your chocolate wizbang?
Zippyjuan
02-27-2014, 07:55 PM
Maybe you had best head for your bunker to be sure until it all blows over.
From your first article on the reported exposures:
"It is important to note that these are initial sample results,"
(preliminary information- they may or may not have been exposed).
"These employees, both federal and contractor, will be asked to provide additional samples in order to fully determine the extent of any exposure."
if there was any exposure or not and what level it might have been.
The release did not quantify the initial estimates of the exposure.
HOLLYWOOD
02-27-2014, 08:31 PM
Maybe you had best head for your bunker to be sure until it all blows over.
From your first article on the reported exposures:
(preliminary information- they may or may not have been exposed).
if there was any exposure or not and what level it might have been.There's your idiot government incompetence... I have never experience such lackadaisical exposure testing/detection procedures/interlocks... EVER. I have been to most of those government sites,which handle such related fissile materials. BTW, if you were at such sites, your thermolum dosibadge, neutron detectors, etc, would be one of many layers of trip lines.
I'm not buying anything they are stating as a "followup" test, especially after such a long duration of time. I'll wait for the whistleblower, you keep listening to Journey's Don't Stop Believin'... I'm not giving any benefit of a doubt to the very entities that constantly deceive & lies.
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