"NUCLEAR FIRE" ERUPTS AT RADIO ACTIVE FACILITY NEAR MAJOR US CITY
FOOTAGE SHOWS UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS, MASSIVE SMOKE PLUMES
AP: "UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE BURNED"
EPA SENDS EMERGENCY RADIOLOGICAL TEAM
RESIDENTS: "WE WERE FLAT OUT LIED TO..... WHY DIDN'T THEY EVACUATE THE TOWN?"
Published: October 23rd, 2015 at 2:12 pm ET
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Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct 21, 2015: Carol Johnston, owner of KC’s Outpost [in Beatty, Nevada]… said she was serving customers on a patio Sunday when she “heard a big boom” then looked up and saw a big puff of smoke. “Why didn’t they evacuate the town then?” she asked in a telephone interview Wednesday.
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CBS Las Vegas, Oct 22, 2015: In the 40-second cellphone video… you can see the explosion in the shooting from the ground causing massive plumes of smoke. The explosion caused the facility to go up in flames. State officials said the fire started in one of 22 covered trenches used to store low-level radioactive material…
AP, Oct 19, 2015: EPA said the unknown amount of low-level radioactive waste that burned had been deposited… before 1992… [USGS previously] found high concentrations of radionuclides underground, the Nuclear Resource and Information Service said.
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct 22, 2015: Fire Marshal Chief Peter Mulvihill said [it] “burned very hot“… Items buried in the low-level nuclear waste dump include… nuclear reactor crude…
AP, Oct 21, 2015: Mulvihill said the fire burned unabated after starting Sunday during intense thunderstorms and flash flooding… Now, first-responders have backed off while investigators locate archived paperwork to determine what was buried in the burned trench…
[I]ncident managers initially feared about 2,000 people in the sprawling rural area would need to be evacuated if radiation had been detected. Mulvihill told reporters that all but two employees left the… facility adjacent to the radioactive waste dump…
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct 20, 2015: “We don’t know exactly what caught fire. We’re not exactly sure what was burning in that pit,” Fire Marshal Chief Peter Mulvihill said… “there was some energetic burning” that blew a hole in the cover soil that caps trench No. 14, where
low-level radioactive materials were buried.
AP, Oct 19, 2015: [EPA] is sending a radiological emergency team to look for contamination …
EPA spokesman Rusty Harris-Bishop says no dangerous gamma radiation has been detected…
The fire erupted Sunday during heavy rain…
KSNV, Oct 20, 2015: [R]esidents are still concerned because of what was burning, and because they say they were “flat out lied to“… As the fire burned, the US 95 was closed for a 140 mile stretch for nearly 24 hours. People waiting in their cars say they were told a much different reason for the traffic jam. “They told us it was debris in the road,” one resident told News 3. “We found out it was a nuclear waste fire.”
Las Vegas Sun, Oct 23, 2015: Sunday’s nuclear fire… reportedly did not emit above-average doses of radiation.
Las Vegas Sun, Oct 22, 2015: Media buzzed with reports of a low-level nuclear fire… [T]he plume of smoke — determined by the… 'government' to not be hazardous to public health — billowed… residents, though, were unaware of the details of the emergency situation.
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oct 19, 2015: Mulvihill said investigators would be taking a close and methodical look at the site “once it is safe to go down there.”… [The fire] was allowed to burn itself out over the course of about 12 hours… US Ecology officials said they created “an exclusion zone around the facility” at the request of state regulators… As part of their investigation, state officials said they will be looking at the [dump's] overall stability…
KTNV, Oct 22, 2015: You can see a column of white smoke… Then multiple underground explosions in trench 14 send more smoke spewing out. The ground erupts… We don’t know what these explosions kicked up into the air but we do know state leaders were well aware of the risks buried at the U.S. Ecology site… Minutes from legislative hearings detail concerns about “unknown contamination levels.” The state expressed concern because it was not sure of the contamination levels or when a fissure might occur.
KTNV transcript, Oct 22, 2015 (at 2:20 in): “We’ve just learned… there are 2 new areas of land that are sinking from recent flooding at the site, and a crater where the fire broke out.”
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Published: October 23rd, 2015 at 2:12 pm ET
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1 comment:
Why didn't they evacuate people who know they live near a dangerous facility and choose to stay there after a fire?
That's like evacuating Californians who live on a fault line and choose to stay there after a low intensity earthquake.
People who are Republicans, should think like a Republic and know the responsibility for One's safety belongs to them.
I guess since they can't put a bullet in it, they think their safety belongs to someone else?
And who's going to pay for coordinating their move out, and where they are going to stay when they leave, and the social services they will require especially for all those on medication and with special needs to 'stay alive'.
Always someone else's responsibility to keep them alive, eh?
vaccine everyone so they can stay alive.
get guns so they can stay alive.
get rid of guns so they can stay alive.
knock on their doors and tell them to pack cause they are moving and everything is taken care of, no worries so they can stay alive.
A whole town, and surrounding areas who are fearful of this facility, that they are still living by.
When the fire is put out, ask them would they move back, and they will say yes, and want to be evacuated again come the next disaster.
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