(1) It shows that the explosion and its after affects were strong enough to affect the highly radioactive "Remote Handled" TRansUranic waste (RH-TRU).
(2) It is indicative of severe underground destruction, as RH-TRU wastes are stored in sealed boreholes drilled into the walls of the Panel rooms.
Many questions still remain, a good portion of which could be cleared up IF more raw data was released on the ambient air detections. We suspect there is good reason why that data seems to be obfuscated, as there is no plausible deniability that those readings were mitigated by HEPA filters.
What are the facts? Is WIPP endanger of going critical mass and creating another melt down?
ReplyDeleteWouldn't rule out a criticality, but don't expect it to happen either.
DeleteWhat this detection likely means is that a container storing Cs-137 got damaged enough to spew its guts; but thats a very hard thing to do given how the higher radioactive stuff is stored. So what it means is that there is likely some significant damage underground
Why is cesium-137 in containers at this storage site. I thought they were only supposed to be storing transuranic waste. Cesium isn'i transuranic, right? Even if they label it "remotely handled," it still doesn't seem to fit the definition of the type of waste this facility was officially supposed to be storing.
DeleteMission creep? Maybe because they had a bunch of Cesium at Hanford they needed to get rid of.
DeleteThe real question is why is the POTRBLOG team the only ones who are point this stuff out and asking questions about it? Our guess is that they don't want to concern the masses with how tenuous things really are at WIPP, or maybe they are afraid people will think there was a criticality (which btw we don't rule out)
excellent answer. i am quoting you fyi, at the simplyinfo chat
DeleteMs. X you dont know what a criticality entails. Just because there are neutrons or fission products doesnt mean a criticality.
ReplyDeleteLoL, unless of course you're North Korean or Iranian
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