<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">No injuries or external contamination detected from incident at DOE-Idaho Site<br class=""><br class="">Fluor Idaho, LLC. News Release<br class="">KIFI TV-8 News (Idaho Falls, ID)<br class="">Apr 12, 2018 <br class=""><br class="">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. <br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">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. <br class=""><br class="">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. <br class=""><br class="">…<br class=""><br class="">For the entire story, see<br class=""><a href="http://www.localnews8.com/news/kifi-breaking-news/doe-emergency-center-investigating-cleanup-project-incident/728565754" class="">http://www.localnews8.com/news/kifi-breaking-news/doe-emergency-center-investigating-cleanup-project-incident/728565754</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
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