{"id":4211,"date":"2020-09-17T21:55:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2020-09-17T21:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T04:55:55","slug":"hanford-has-a-radioactive-capsule-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/17\/hanford-has-a-radioactive-capsule-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanford Has a Radioactive Capsule Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at IEEE Spectrum, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/aerospace\/military\/hanford-has-a-radioactive-capsule-problem\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">another in-depth article<\/a> on problems at the Hanford Site in Eastern Washington state. This essay deals with problems found in the &#8220;nearly 2,000 capsules of highly radioactive cesium and strontium&#8221; kept in a facility known as &#8220;Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/image\/MzY4NzA2MQ.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Built in 1973, the facility is well beyond its 30-year design life. In 2013, nuclear specialists in neighboring Oregon warned that the concrete walls of the pools had lost structural integrity due to gamma radiation emitted by the capsules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After reading the above linked article, you will be ready to watch some effective DOE\/CH2MHILL propaganda:<br \/>\nCesium and strontium relocation animation: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HJa2xCTvrg0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/HJa2xCTvrg0<\/a><br \/>\nSludge removal success: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IibgaOApQWU&#038;feature=emb_rel_end\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IibgaOApQWU&#038;feature=emb_rel_end<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at IEEE Spectrum, another in-depth article on problems at the Hanford Site in Eastern Washington state. This essay deals with problems found in the &#8220;nearly 2,000 capsules of highly radioactive cesium and strontium&#8221; kept in a facility known as &#8220;Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF).&#8221; &#8220;Built in 1973, the facility is well beyond its &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/17\/hanford-has-a-radioactive-capsule-problem\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13,15,17],"tags":[2797,565,802,2807,2804,1246,2802,2801,2008,2803,2798,2806,2805,2800,2799],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4211","6":"format-standard","7":"category-ethical-and-green-living","8":"category-nuclear-industry","9":"category-politics","10":"category-science","11":"category-thinking-about","12":"post_tag-cesium","13":"post_tag-doe","14":"post_tag-hanford","15":"post_tag-kennewick","16":"post_tag-office-of-environmental-management","17":"post_tag-oregon","18":"post_tag-pasco","19":"post_tag-portland","20":"post_tag-radioactive","21":"post_tag-richland","22":"post_tag-strontium","23":"post_tag-tri-city-development-council","24":"post_tag-tridec","25":"post_tag-waste-encapsulation-and-storage-facility","26":"post_tag-wesf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}