Radioactive Leak At Halifax Shipping Yard; Hazmat Team On Site
Source: CTV News (Canada)
A container carrying a radioactive material used in the uranium enrichment process leaked at a Halifax shipping yard late Thursday, after falling more than 15 metres from a crane onto the deck below.
Emergency officials and a hazardous materials team were on the scene at the shipping yard after the container carrying uranium hexafluoride fell.
The material is used in the production of fuel for nuclear reactors and and weapons.
Fire officials told CTV News they are treating the situation as a radioactive leak.
Officials said radiation levels around the unit are higher than normal.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/radioactive-leak-at-halifax-shipping-yard-hazmat-team-on-site-1.1728685
Wilms
(26,795 posts)applegrove
(118,925 posts)mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)And let's become superheroes.
applegrove
(118,925 posts)Both of them are right around many homes. I didn't know so much uranium was being imported in Halifax. And now terrorists know it. Shocking all around.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)would never have thought of uranium and halifax in the same sentence.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)holy crap
thanks!
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)And so sudden. No warning really.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)applegrove
(118,925 posts)killed many more. My grandmother was at school in the south end of Halifax at the time....many miles away and was in assembly singing. The windows blew out of the school. The huge iron anchor of one of the ships flew right over the whole city.
Voice for Peace
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(4,100 posts)I have never been to Halifax, and don't know much about shipping etc., but the book was really fascinating.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)forklifts"
Uranium hexafluoride http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_hexafluoride
applegrove
(118,925 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)hunter
(38,353 posts)Some of it in leaky containers.
It's as scary as a heavy metal toxin as it is for its radioactivity.