Fire Breaks Out At Underground Nuclear Repository In New Mexico (Carlsbad)

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Emergency crews are battling a fire in the federal government’s underground nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico.

Officials say a truck hauling salt caught fire about 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.

According to a press release and a spokeswoman who answered the emergency line, all employees have been evacuated and none of the radioactive waste has been impacted. But a press release says “multiple employees” are being taken to a hospital for potential smoke inhalation.

Melissa Suggs, a spokeswoman for the Carlsbad Medical Center, said six patients were brought to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. “They are all listed in stable condition,” she said.

Read more: http://news.gnom.es/news/fire-breaks-out-at-underground-nuclear-repository-in-n-m

[diabeticman]

1. OH Damn! this isn't good.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Yawn

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3. A phrase that can't help but end badly

"... a fire in the federal government’s underground nuclear waste repository..."

Oy.

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4. k and r nt

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5. ^

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6. Not really a headline that you want to be reading ...

"Oops" doesn't quite cut it.