Wildfire + Radioactive Waste is NOT good

[nissangirl74]

http://news.yahoo.com/nm-blaze-threaten ... 26882.html

fire appeared to be about 3.5 miles from a dumpsite where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above ground Can you imagine the fallout from this?

Hey Tyler, Would you PLEASE go put this out? Thx

[dre1507]

ty, remember, it doesn't really give you super powers. so just put the fire out in time, okay. lol. stay safe.

[ADDirishboy]

f*** that noise. I don't wanna be anywhere near that s***. Fire, explosives, and other dangerous s*** is fine. But hazmat is not me in the slightest. Ill keep away from that stuff, kthx.

[nissangirl74]

Damn

[krimsonviper]

And here I thought Tyler's played with hoses long enough to put anything out.

[themadscientist]

2011 is a glowing year so far. At least it's not heading for Yucca mountain over in Nevada, right?

[nissangirl74]

Not yet. The way things have been going though, anything's possible. It's been horrible here in AZ. At least 5 major ones so far, all started by careless humans.

[Dattebayo]

Why would you store radioactive waste in tents? Stupid BS military.

[ADDirishboy]

Not yet. The way things have been going though, anything's possible. It's been horrible here in AZ. At least 5 major ones so far, all started by careless ILLEGALS.

FTFY.

Well, except the Wallow fire. That one was campers.

[bigbadberry3]

Eh. I think the media's exaggeration is feasting on everyone's fear from the Japanese issue.

[LEMHEAD16]

I just had a customer in my store this morning that actually works in the Los alamos lab. He said the media is being a fear monger and there is no danger of any radioactive material escaping even if the fire rolls right through the middle of the lab.

I trust a PHd more than fox news.

[nissangirl74]

I just had a customer in my store this morning that actually works in the Los alamos lab. He said the media is being a fear monger and there is no danger of any radioactive material escaping even if the fire rolls right through the middle of the lab.

I trust a PHd more than fox news.

Freaking media. I hope that guy is right.

**Edit** This just in today: Experts have no fear that the hazardous material is properly contained. Their biggest concerns at the moment are the experiments that were in process in the labs when the town was evacuated.
http://news.yahoo.com/airplane-deployed ... 26943.html

[4cefed]

2011 is a glowing year so far. At least it's not heading for Yucca mountain over in Nevada, right?

Barring anything by steven segal... this was the worst movie I've ever seen. FYI, there are more than two people working at a power plant. Oh and, the Licensed SRO(s) doesn't actually effing leave the control room.

I've seen and heard about all kinds of stuff working commercial nuclear, but stuff the government does makes me drop brix. I talked with a guy that got a gravy job working a dept of enrergy clean up site. He quit after two weeks because he was having trouble sleeping at night thinking about the stuff that the army was literally having him cover-up.

Oh P.S. Be afraid of hospitals too.

I've been reading a bit about Los Alamos. While they have sketchy stuff stored in barrels in tents, there doesn't seem to be too much around the storage sites to actually catch fire. They have had a few close calls over the years with forest fires and it sounds like they have wiped out most vegetation in the area. Still, keep an ear out.

[ADDirishboy]

The radioactive waste really isn't a concern anyway. IC will know about that area and what it contains, and will immediately send in dozer's to clear any brush away. After they have a nice dozer line around the area, they'll start back burning away from the tents or whatever that stuff is being stored in.

[Morph]

I just had a customer in my store this morning that actually works in the Los alamos lab. He said the media is being a fear monger and there is no danger of any radioactive material escaping even if the fire rolls right through the middle of the lab.

I trust a PHd more than fox news.

Exactly,I just watched an episode of Penn & Teller s*** were they sorta coverd this issue. They had old US Goverment footage of a nuclear stoage conainer laying in a pool of jet fuel, that was lit ablaze. After an hour the fire was a few thousand degrees and the inside waste was just above room temp. Fire would actually keep it safe...from people.

Just more fearmongering.

[bigbadberry3]

Link ^^^^. Nerdy side wants to see it.

[kornmanz]

I live 25 minutes away from Los Alamos. If it blows up I'll make sure to tell you guys. As I grow another arm and mutate.

[ADDirishboy]

As I grow another arm and mutate.

Look on the bright side, with 3 arms you could send the message faster then ever!

[kornmanz]

Oh man, for the sake of accuracy I just took a words per minute typing test. I can type at 98 gross words per minute. With a third arm I could type at least 150 words per minute. This would allow me to type and post before I die from radiation! Hell yeah!

[Morph]

Link ^^^^. Nerdy side wants to see it.

Ninja edit!!!


Lol posted the wrong link earlier this has the footage around 7:15 mark [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g88FokrM2f8[/youtube]

[bigbadberry3]

Lol thanks.

[Chaotic_Warlord]

I didn't realize Arizona had enough woodland or grass to burn uncontrollably. I just figured it was like the rest of the SW and just a giant desert with outcroppings of cities with the exception of maybe the Lake Havasu region which I just figured was a fluke or man made.

[ADDirishboy]

I didn't realize Arizona had enough woodland or grass to burn uncontrollably. I just figured it was like the rest of the SW and just a giant desert with outcroppings of cities with the exception of maybe the Lake Havasu region which I just figured was a fluke or man made.

Up north is FULL of forestry. The rest is full of grass and mesquite tree's.

Rains cause grass to grow, heat causes grass to die, and little to no controlled burns let the grass get out of hand. A campfire, an illegal, a cigarette butt, etc. act as an ignition source. Since there is so much underbrush (due to lack of controlled burns) the small s*** on the ground burn EXTREMELY hot, which causes tree's to dry out quickly and then burn themselves.

It's amazing to see a living pine tree burn. I couldn't light one on fire if I tried.