Hanford Sludge Removal Success
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2019
- It took many years and many people to remove highly radioactive sludge away from the Columbia River and into safer storage on the Hanford Site’s Central Plateau. They share their stories and their pride in a job well done in this video that describes how they used innovation, teamwork and thorough preparation to safely solve this hazardous challenge.
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AWESOME WORK, everyone. Incredible stuff. Thanks for sharing this!
Wow, great job. Greatest Country in the World
Good job guys!! Thanks for sharing.
I'll buy some sludge off you guys I can pave my driveway with it!
9:20 zero incidents still? Zero cancer?
Worker responsibility as well as protection go hand in hand - workers can't be dismissive about protecting themselves. As inconvenient as it can be, they have to strictly follow safety protocols. Nor can contractors dismiss worker safety as only a cost on a balance sheet. Perhaps in that one particular area there were no screw ups. But elsewhere within the 586 square miles of the Hanford site, as you suggest, operations got sloppy with the resultant incidents that could lead to cancer. Keep the pressure on.
And what about the thousands of yards of contaminated soils that have leakage sludge and the radionuclide contamination that has already hit the 2000-6000 cfs groundwater to the Columbia? K is one section of the problem, right? So the cleanup is how many percent “clean”?
About 50 to 100 more years to go?
Agreed that the job is far from done. It'll be - at least - another three decades, possibly more, to make the entire 586 square miles of the Hanford site truly benign. It's not a simple dust pan and brush operation.
However, as slow and ponderous as the job is, it is being done. What the operators at Hanford are learning now, can and will be applied to other sites not only here in the U.S., but around the world.
Still not done waste of money!!!!
As a project manager (software), I find an effort of this scale, magnitude and risk to be absolutely fascinating. I can imagine how satisfying it is to see this kind of progress!
job well done, thanks from all of us!