Nuke Facility Roof Collapse

Officials at the wipp have said they believe a large section of an underground roof collapsed in the underground facility storing radioactive waste from nuclear warheads smashing barrels full of nuclear waste and allowing large amounts of radioactive material to spill.

Nuke facility roof collapse.

First ventilators production facility opened must read. The site no longer. A section of the chernobyl nuclear power plant in ukraine collapsed under the weight of snow officials said raising new concerns about the condition of the facility that was the site of the world s worst nuclear accident. A tunnel sealed in 1965 encasing old railroad cars and equipment contaminated with radiation through years of plutonium processing.

Ten people were injured in three rain related roof collapse incidents the edhi ambulance service said. An image released in the aftermath of the natanz incident and satellite images released abroad showed significant damage including ripped out doors scorch marks and a collapsed roof at a. A fire department hazardous materials team was on the site of another roof collapse saturday morning at the harcross chemical co. Rafferty said a call to 911 at 8 12 a m.

Reported the collapse. The collapse happened just before noon at a u s. Last week s accident at the hanford nuclear reservation should have come as no surprise. The men were repairing the roof of the russian space shuttle hangar at the cosmodrome the principal location for russia s rocket launches when three of five columns supporting the roof fell.

Hanford which is overseen by the us department of energy doe is a cold war era facility that led us production of plutonium for use in tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. But roof collapse is a possible event if there is a thin layer of anhydrite above the roof salt and the salt separates from the base of the anhydrite strata.