[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: "No injuries or external contamination detected from incident at DOE-Idaho Site"

[Lenny Siegel]

No injuries or external contamination detected from incident at DOE-Idaho Site

Fluor Idaho, LLC. News Release
KIFI TV-8 News (Idaho Falls, ID)
Apr 12, 2018 

IDAHO FALLS - Emergency operations were terminated following an incident at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex (RWMC) Accelerated Retrieval Project (ARP 5) containment structure at the Department of Energy’s Idaho site.  

No injuries were reported nor environmental contamination detected from the incident Wednesday evening involving containers of radioactive waste in the building. A drum experienced elevated temperature and pressure resulting in its seal breaching and smoldering inside the drum as air contacted the material.

Emergency operations were terminated at 10:35 a.m. MDT Thursday. Plans are being made to enter the facility and gather more information for a recovery plan to be completed by Fluor Idaho, the environmental cleanup contractor at the Idaho Site. 

All external surveys detected no radioactivity outside the building. The facility is engineered with specially designed high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters, which are designed to trap contamination. No employees were in the building nor the surrounding area when the incident occurred.  

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For the entire story, see
http://www.localnews8.com/news/kifi-breaking-news/doe-emergency-center-investigating-cleanup-project-incident/728565754 <http://www.localnews8.com/news/kifi-breaking-news/doe-emergency-center-investigating-cleanup-project-incident/728565754>

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org <mailto:lsiegel at cpeo.org>>
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