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

[Marylia Kelley]

Lenny, from Idaho, more on the INL rad barrels - 4 ruptured, one caught fire...
https://idahostatejournal.com/news/state/officials-say-radioactive-sludge-barrel-ruptures-now-total/article_b9f7073d-0091-53e2-a11c-2ca60fe9e912.html <https://idahostatejournal.com/news/state/officials-say-radioactive-sludge-barrel-ruptures-now-total/article_b9f7073d-0091-53e2-a11c-2ca60fe9e912.html>


> On Apr 26, 2018, at 3:05 PM, Lenny Siegel <lsiegel at cpeo.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.  
> 
> …
> 
> 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
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> Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Marylia Kelley
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