#losalamos — Public Fediverse posts
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watching “Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos” with Pu rods; Right at the end, the podcast author talks about his industry, the north sea Oil industry and how if he’d stayed as an Engineer he’d spend the rest of his career doing cleanup, decontamination and disposal instead of the *sexy* Engineering dreamed up in University.
#Criticality / #SystemsSafety / #LosAlamos / #Sellafield / #NeutronReflection / #IncidentResponses / #RootCauses / #AlexanderTheOk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoo3tcYdr8>
After watching the #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #NVidea shitstorm this year, a lot of *AI engineers* will also meet this fate. Cleaning up the toxic AI mess left behind.
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watching “Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos” with Pu rods; Right at the end, the podcast author talks about his industry, the north sea Oil industry and how if he’d stayed as an Engineer he’d spend the rest of his career doing cleanup, decontamination and disposal instead of the *sexy* Engineering dreamed up in University.
#Criticality / #SystemsSafety / #LosAlamos / #Sellafield / #NeutronReflection / #IncidentResponses / #RootCauses / #AlexanderTheOk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoo3tcYdr8>
After watching the #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #NVidea shitstorm this year, a lot of *AI engineers* will also meet this fate. Cleaning up the toxic AI mess left behind.
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watching “Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos” with Pu rods; Right at the end, the podcast author talks about his industry, the north sea Oil industry and how if he’d stayed as an Engineer he’d spend the rest of his career doing cleanup, decontamination and disposal instead of the *sexy* Engineering dreamed up in University.
#Criticality / #SystemsSafety / #LosAlamos / #Sellafield / #NeutronReflection / #IncidentResponses / #RootCauses / #AlexanderTheOk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoo3tcYdr8>
After watching the #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #NVidea shitstorm this year, a lot of *AI engineers* will also meet this fate. Cleaning up the toxic AI mess left behind.
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watching “Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos” with Pu rods; Right at the end, the podcast author talks about his industry, the north sea Oil industry and how if he’d stayed as an Engineer he’d spend the rest of his career doing cleanup, decontamination and disposal instead of the *sexy* Engineering dreamed up in University.
#Criticality / #SystemsSafety / #LosAlamos / #Sellafield / #NeutronReflection / #IncidentResponses / #RootCauses / #AlexanderTheOk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoo3tcYdr8>
After watching the #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #NVidea shitstorm this year, a lot of *AI engineers* will also meet this fate. Cleaning up the toxic AI mess left behind.
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watching “Hilarious Nuclear Criticality Incident at Los Alamos” with Pu rods; Right at the end, the podcast author talks about his industry, the north sea Oil industry and how if he’d stayed as an Engineer he’d spend the rest of his career doing cleanup, decontamination and disposal instead of the *sexy* Engineering dreamed up in University.
#Criticality / #SystemsSafety / #LosAlamos / #Sellafield / #NeutronReflection / #IncidentResponses / #RootCauses / #AlexanderTheOk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoo3tcYdr8>
After watching the #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #NVidea shitstorm this year, a lot of *AI engineers* will also meet this fate. Cleaning up the toxic AI mess left behind.
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#YpsiTownship is standing up to #DataCenters. We don't want bullies in our backyard. #Ypsilanti #Ypsi #YTown #AnnArbor #Michigan #LosAlamos #USPol #Politics https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kcqXcEZC6xs
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The Dirty Secrets: #Whales, the #GrandCanyon and #WarCriminals
by #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
November 22, 2024"People who travel the world will tell you two things that they really love: Whales and the Grand Canyon.
"The majestic Orca whales are now at risk from the massive oil tankers departing the shores of British Columbia with thick crude oil from Alberta tar sands in Canada, bound for distant refineries and ports.
"Meanwhile, in the heart of the Southwest, the Grand Canyon, loved by the people of the world, now has a uranium mine spewing radioactive dust into the air, and endangering Havasupai's aquifer and future generations.
"Neither the Appeals Court in Canada, nor the U.S. EPA and Interior have done anything to stop these assaults on the most beloved natural wonders in the world, whales and the Grand Canyon.
"Rueben George, səlilwətaɬ, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, remembers the long fight to halt the Trans Mountain Pipeline, now carrying crude oil from Alberta tar sands to the Salish Sea, which flows off the shores of British Columbia and Washington State to the Pacific."George said they thought they were winning their case in Canada's Appeal Court.
"'They said you're right it's going to kill all the Orca whales, you're right -- but we're going to build it anyway,' George said at the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle in November.
"The uranium mine in the Grand Canyon is now spraying radioactive dust on Havasupai's medicine plants, and into the air for the world's travelers to breathe. The uranium mine, operated by Energy Fuels of Canada, threatens the aquifer of Havasupai and future generations.
"The mine's radioactive truck transport is a deadly risk for Supai, Paiute, Dine', Hopi and Ute on the haul route. The radioactive ore is transported by truck to the Energy Fuels mill in the White Mesa Ute community in southeastern Utah.
"Interior's Deb Haaland, who is Laguna Pueblo and Norwegian, has not only failed to halt the deadly risks and destruction, but has proclaimed that the atomic bomb industry, Los Alamos National Laboratory, will lead the green 'energy transition.'
"Los Alamos Labs produces nuclear weapons and is already poisoning the Pueblo homelands in northern New Mexico with radiation. A federal judge recently halted the push to produce and store more plutonium at the site, citing a risk to the environment."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-dirty-secrets-whales-grand-canyon.html#AlbertaTarSands #TarSands #LosAlamos #EnvironmentalRacism #Plutonium #Greenwashing #NuclearWeapons #UraniumMining #UraniumMills #DebHaaland #NuclearIndustry #AtomicBombs #Downwinders #Environment #WaterIsLife #Supai #Paiute #Dine' #Hopi #Ute #HaulNo #EnergyFuels #WhiteMesaUte #WhiteMesa #Havasupai #SalishSeaAssembly #Salish #OceansAreLife #RadioactiveDust #RadioactiveContamination #TsleilWaututh #TsleilWaututhNation #CanadasAppealsCourt #TransmountainPipeline #RuebenGeorge #BritishColumbia #WashingtonState #NoUraniumMining #NoTarSands #Oiligarchy #ExtractiveIndustries #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #ProtectHaKamwe #NavajoTransitionalEnergyCompany #DefendTheSacred #AirIsLife
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O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024
"In the #GilaRiver Indian Community today, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to #NativeAmerican children who were victims of U.S. #BoardingSchools. His glory campaign was short-lived.
"As Biden spoke, an O'odham woman held up this sign: 'There Are Still Babies in Mass Graves. Your Apology Means Nothing!! #LandBack!'
"Calling out to Biden, she said, 'What about the people in #Gaza! What about the people in #Palestine?'
"'How can you apologize for a #genocide while actively committing a genocide in Palestine! #FreePalestine.'
"Security removed her."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/oodham-woman-becomes-hero-when-genocide.html#NoMiningWithoutConsent #TruthAndReconciliation #Hulapai #ProtectHaKamwe #ProtectThackerPass #SaveOakFlat #RioTinto #CulturalGenocide #DefendTheSacred #StolenChildren #MMIW #WhiteMesa #LosAlamos #BigMountain
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ICYMI from 2014. Meee-oooow! Misleading headline, however, the wrong type of cat litter caused an explosion at a #NuclearWaste repository in #NewMexico.
Radioactive kitty litter may have ruined our best hope to store nuclear waste
Billions invested in an underground New Mexico repository could be wasted because of one seemingly innocuous decision
By Matt Stroud
May 23, 2014"Some of the most dangerous nuclear waste in the US is currently scattered between 77 locations all over the country, awaiting permanent storage. Until February, many experts suggested that the best place to put it was a facility about 40 miles east of #CarlsbadNewMexico, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). For 15 years, #WIPP has operated as the first and only permanent, deep geologic nuclear waste storage facility in the country, holding 'low level' radioactive materials — mostly clothing and tools exposed to radiation from nuclear weapons production — in steel barrels more than 2,150 feet below the Earth’s surface.
"But earlier this year two emergencies brought that suggestion — and WIPP’s future — into question. And now it seems kitty litter may be to blame.
What happened?
"WIPP is in a salt desert, and much of the work there involves burrowing through the salt and using huge elevators to deposit the stuff at surface level. The resulting underground caverns are then filled with radioactive waste and eventually closed shut, sealed forever.
"First, on February 5th, a salt-hauling truck caught fire. That would be an inconvenience on the side of a highway, but in an enclosed #SaltCavern surrounded by nuclear waste, it’s a potential catastrophe. Workers evacuated the site. Fortunately no one was hurt. But the fire was significant enough to shut down underground operations until investigators could figure out what happened and how to stop it from happening again. Surface-level operations continued.
"But not for long. Nine days later, late at night on Valentine’s Day, an alarm sounded, indicating that #radioactivity was present in the air underground. No one was below ground at the time, but employees on the surface activated massive fans designed to ventilate the underground air. The next day, another monitor went off — this one on the surface — indicating #AirborneRadiation. Employees who worked outside on the surface were told to take shelter inside buildings completely separated from storage operations. Valves allowing air to flow underground were sealed with high-density expanding foam. Everything came to a standstill, indefinitely.
Fallout
"There are no indications that anyone has been injured from the radiation leak. (All employees went through examinations for radiation exposure; a DOE press release says most workers were not affected, and those who were 'received less exposure than a person receives from a chest X-ray.' [THIS IS TYPICAL PRO-NUCLEAR PROPAGANDA]) But for months, nothing has changed. The standstill remains. WIPP’s 850 or so employees are mainly sitting around, waiting (or "performing surface facilities maintenance or assisting with procedure reviews and revisions") while investigators from the US Department of Energy (#DOE), the New Mexico Environment Department and elsewhere attempt to figure out what happened.
"Initially, there were two hypotheses. The first was that something had gone wrong with the supports inside the cavern where waste was being stored. If that were the case, it meant a piece of salt rock or a steel support had fallen into one of the sealed barrels, puncturing it and releasing radiation into the air.
"'That was an unlikely possibility,' says Norbert T. Rempe, PhD, a retired geologist who spent decades as a principal engineer at WIPP. The cavern where the radiation monitor went off had been dug only recently, so the chances that supports had eroded or collapsed were probably slim.
Burstlid
"Organic kitty litter likely caused a steel barrel's seal to puncture at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, NM. The damage and the resulting radiation leak could close the facility, experts say. (Department of Energy)
"More likely, he said, was the second hypothesis: that something had gone awry inside one of the radioactive containers — that the radioactive material had become hot for some reason, expanding and puncturing a steel barrel from the inside.
"Last month, DOE investigators went into the cavern. Pictures showed that the latter hypothesis was true; a waste container’s lid was unsealed, and dust around the lid had turned yellow from the unusual heat emanating from inside. Each barrel is labeled to track where it came from. The punctured barrel originated from #LosAlamos National Labs.
"Jim Conca, PhD, a geologist who worked for years at WIPP who now blogs at Forbes about energy issues, believes he knows what blew the lid off at least one of WIPP’s radioactive barrels. The culprit, he wrote, was kitty litter."
#NuclearWasteStorage #NuclearWaste #NuclearRepository
https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/23/5742800/did-kitty-litter-just-kill-the-most-successful-nuclear-waste-facility