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Very cool Jacob!

Scary job....stay safe! 🙏☢️

Is the insulators are being destroyed

No one has said what was the cost to humanity for this terrible thing?

Very Nice thank you.

And so the “waste”isn’t really waste

Hundreds of layers my a$$, the dudes ears are totally exposed, latex gloves, seems more they dont want any chance to inhale a spec of dust thats radiating and make sure none leaves.

that's just removing railroad ties not the tracks!!!!

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How interesting! Can't believe I've never heard of Hanford. Well, I guess I can easily believe it. I imagine it was quite a secret for a very long time. Most certainly not advertised while the site was operational I would think!

Ozersk, Chelyabinsk, Russia and Richland,n Washington State, USA should be Friendship Cities

If the energy companies want to do nuclear, there is ONE THING they have to do, which they refuse to do… they have to purchase insurance sufficient to cover the cost of a meltdown. But guess what? THEY REFUSE TO DO IT! Know why? Because it would be too expensive. Because when we figure in the risk and cost of a nuclear accident, NUCLEAR ENERGY IS PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE! Not including the cost of a meltdown - and meltdowns do occur - into the cost equation gives a false sense of security. It makes it seem much cheaper than it really is! And know what happens if they have a meltdown, and they DON’T have insurance? YOU GET LEFT HOLDING THE BAG! If they don’t have adequate insurance, and there is a meltdown, YOU WILL LOSE YOUR HOUSE, YOUR FARM, YOUR LAND, YOUR BUSINESS, EVERYTHING, WITHOUT COMPENSATION!!! THAT is what the nuclear industry is trying to palm off on the American public. They want to EXTERNALIZE THEIR LEGITIMATE BUSINESS COSTS, which is to say, MAKE YOU ABSORB THEIR LOSSES! We need to resist it will all our might. The KEY to a legitimate nuclear industry is insurance adequate to cover the entire cost of a meltdown, a virtual impossibility. The truth of course is that nuclear energy is far too expensive to ensure, because the risk and the permanent losses are gigantic. How much would an area the size of Rhode Island cost to replace, including land, buildings, businesses, infrastructure, machines, etc.? The losses would be so huge, they would be impossible to insure. Nuclear energy, as it is being done today, is absolutely NOT VIABLE.

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It's all messed up all the diseases that the people are suffering you can notice it I lived there noticed it

Not more STUPIDNOISE

My second wife worked in commercial nuclear power. She told me no one in commercial power would even consider working at the Hanford site.

Your transmission of this document is FUZZY…can you focus ?

Hard to believe how idiotic we were about safety and pollution back then.

It was an electrifying experience.

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I love this history. This plant was 100% necessary.

Still not done waste of money!!!!

I want to see a picture of it

it's sad to think about how creative, ingenious and resourceful people can be when it comes to war and ways to kill your "enemy"

how hot are these capsules? whats the radiation level?

It always amazes me that we seem to just move the waste around from one place to another all while contaminating more stuff. Why do we claim this is actually cleaning up when we are just moving stuff around?

How are eastern washington thyroid glands doing now?

Do they not need to decon the tanks before filling them in?

So here under one building we have 740,000 Curies and Chernobyl was Between 50 and 185 million curies of radionuclides escaped into the atmosphere. 2:20:38 is the time where this is referring to. According to some estimates, Fukushima had 40 million curies which were released into the air in the first week of the accident. Another estimate states 4,200 curies per day. So we can see, this is an incredible amount of radiation activity. MH Student of FEMA EMI. Also see time 2:44:35

Are any of you Hanford folks old enough to remember my uncle…….Bud Callen??

where does the supply of plutonium come from now? is there a stockpile, or is it reclaimed from warheads that get decommissioned? I wonder how long plutonium remains useful after production.

A grocery store being involved with nuclear weapon manufacturing is so American!

muh dad worked as an NDT metallurgist at the Hanford Super Fund site back in the day....fun fact!☢️🧫🧪☢️

God Bless everyone involved in this unprecedented, extremely dangerous and vitally important project! 🙏🇺🇸☢️

Ya right just like Fukushima has diluted Toxic Nuclear waste before they started dumping it in the Pacific ocean..Why cant the Nuclear crim syndicate tell the Truth..evil liars...GOD bless America the World.

"Safer and more efficient"-- this is good.

THEN NEXT WOULD BE LAS ALAMOS N.M.,THEN OAK RIDGE TN. ,THEN.PLANO TX.😈🏴‍☠️🌎🇺🇸♥️👌🙏😎😎

OH YEAH. WHAT ABOUT IDAHO FALLS..😮

Awesome!!!!

Don't want to know how this is going in the former Soviet Union states. Thank you for your excellent work.

I was surprised to learn that the Plutonium was not generated in commercial reactors. The whole heat ouptut of these reactors in Hanford was dumped into the river. Japan has collected about 42 metric tons of Plutonium through their commercial nuclear power program.

Did Mads say "on our next boat"???

Yes, please keep doing these. Thanks.

Wow! Unbelievable challenges and complexity with this clean up! Thank goodness we have so many highly educated and well funded people tackling this problem. Many prayers for your health, safety and success!

Nuclear energy was a bad idea

A recent press article cited a contact exposure level of 8,900 Rem/hour. A few questions: I am guessing, given the route of seepage mentioned in the video, that the sources of soil contamination were tanks inside the building which have already been removed - is this correct? What is the radioisotope makeup in the contaminated soil? The article alluded to strontium and cesium, giving a half life of about 30 years. Are there others? When was the last possible contribution to the soil contamination? 1996, 2010, or some other year? What is the estimated total amount of contamination underneath the building in becquerels? What are the controls for and plans in case of unplanned atmospheric release should the building’s structural integrity become compromised? What are the controls for and plans in case of unplanned release to groundwater should the building’s structural integrity become compromised, or heavy rainfall/runoff/soil saturation occurs?

The waste treatment plant is still not operational.