Friday, May 11, 2007

Nuke goo spilled... last year!

Yeah. In '06 there was a spill of 9 gallons of enriched uranium stuff at a nuclear fuel plant in Tennessee.

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Posted by Vespa Rich at 11:06 AM

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks for telling us about this !

Reminds me of an incident in a Japanese processing plant for radioactive materials some years ago. I think some people were killed or got very sick at that one. that was probably the worst radioactive release incident since Chernobyl (orders of magnitude less severe of course).

This one at Knoxville certainly points out the importance of doing things right. Processing plant are getting to generate more incidents than power plant, I think people get more sloppy and take things for granted. Safety culture is of course a very strong thing in nuclear power plant operation, it is billed as the top priority and absolutely needs to remain so.

Adrian Pollock (not a blogger, my first comment)

May 12, 2007 at 2:37 PM
Vespa Rich said...

Well thank you Adrian Pollock. I appreciate your read, as well as the comment. They DO need to make saftey first, I agree.

Have a great weekend.

May 12, 2007 at 3:08 PM

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