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Buzz Clik

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4. These tanks have been leaking into the soil for decades.

Fri Jun 21, 2013, 10:07 PM

Jun 2013

Your state is being screwed in large part by the left wing of the environmentalists blocking every attempt to establish a permanent repository for high level radioactive waste. And, thank you, Nevada.

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Worst Hanford tank may be leaking into soil [View all] Generic Other Jun 2013 OP

Hanford is such a lovely gift to our great, great, great grandchildren htuttle Jun 2013 #1

Company Town -- I had this published a few years ago Generic Other Jun 2013 #27

That sure does say it well. Nice writing. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #34

We are downwinders dixiegrrrrl Generic Other Jun 2013 #35

Shit...I lived in Moses Lake too... dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #38

UNFORTUNATELY, seems Wash. has been screwed, elleng Jun 2013 #2

Sounds pretty dangeous RobertEarl Jun 2013 #3

These tanks have been leaking into the soil for decades. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #4

As a left wing environmentalist RobertEarl Jun 2013 #6

Noplace. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #8

They can move it? RobertEarl Jun 2013 #9

This is precisely the problem to which I was referring. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #10

2019? RobertEarl Jun 2013 #11

If you are asserting that the material could go critical, it would have done so in the gigantic tank Gravitycollapse Jun 2013 #44

The left wing environmentalists? Really? Generic Other Jun 2013 #16

Damn Enviromentalist. If it wasn't for them blocking the stuff from being used for crop dusting, we bahrbearian Jun 2013 #18

I agree, 100%. Enthusiast Jun 2013 #19

Evidently, Buzz is a public employee RobertEarl Jun 2013 #30

Yippee! Let's all play "I disagree with you, so I'll intentionally misrepresent your position!" Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #21

I have been anti-nuke to the core my whole life Generic Other Jun 2013 #25

"You slur those who insist on a solution to a problem they did not create." Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #29

Using the word "leftwing" like this is a bad thing like you are sets me off Generic Other Jun 2013 #31

If you're a teacher, then take your own advice for a second: Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #36

Number 6 is wrong Generic Other Jun 2013 #37

I am not defending Hanford indie9197 Jun 2013 #39

Thanks for tidying up my errors. Buzz Clik Jun 2013 #40

Oh and a link to my poem upthread Generic Other Jun 2013 #33

And those are the 'better tanks' suffragette Jun 2013 #5

Not nuclear power, it's the cost of atomic bomb production. NutmegYankee Jun 2013 #7

I'd say both since there's also an active nuclear plant there suffragette Jun 2013 #12

You can say both if you like indie9197 Jun 2013 #13

If you read Suff's link you see RobertEarl Jun 2013 #15

They have an entire nuclear submarine dumped out back Generic Other Jun 2013 #26

Who knew? Not me. RobertEarl Jun 2013 #28

If onl;y those dirty "leftwing" enviros would let them build more nuke plants Generic Other Jun 2013 #32

That's a part that isn't discussed as much, the operation of Columbia Generating Station suffragette Jun 2013 #41

Read that the fuel rods were dissolved in acid RobertEarl Jun 2013 #42

Hanford Watch has that listed as the method they used in the past suffragette Jun 2013 #43

The explosions at Fukushima were hydrogen sourced. Gravitycollapse Jun 2013 #45

I've been under the impression the radioactivity from that area has screwed up for many decades. freshwest Jun 2013 #14

Yes but the Columbia River has not been contaminated yet Generic Other Jun 2013 #17

Well It has been contaminated, Link bahrbearian Jun 2013 #20

I didn't know that story! Generic Other Jun 2013 #23

I read years ago that it had been and mutated wild stock, causing loss. freshwest Jun 2013 #22

The dams already have killed the salmon in the Columbia Generic Other Jun 2013 #24