Powershift posted:

Phanatic posted:

It's for sufficiently-low values of "nuclear waste" and "emergency evacuation."

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/05/emergency_reported_at_hanford.html

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As we noted in an earlier CNS message, the Hanford Site’s 200 East Area is under a take cover after an Alert was declared. Here’s an update from Hanford at 10:37:

DOE activated the Hanford Emergency Operations Center at 8:26 a.m., after an alert was declared. Officials are responding to reports of a cave-in of a 20-foot section of a tunnel that is hundreds of feet long that is used to store contaminated materials. The tunnel is located next to the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Facility, also known as PUREX, which is located in the center of the Hanford Site in an area known as the 200 East Area. There is no indication of a release of contamination at this point, Crews are continuing to survey the area for contamination.

Actions taken to protect site employees include:
• As a precaution, workers in the vicinity of the PUREX facility as well as the Hanford Site north of the Wye Barricade (southern entrance to the site) have been told to shelter in-place
• Access to the 200 East Area of the Hanford Site, which is located in the center of the Hanford Site, has been restricted to protect employees
Hanford is providing updates at their Hanford.gov website. Click on the Hanford Emergency (red) banner at the top.

At PNNL, we have modified operations in the 3425 Building (Shallow Underground Laboratory) as a precautionary measure to protect the ultra-low-level detection research capability. As noted by Hanford, at this time there is no indication of a release of contamination.

Powershift posted:

TotalLossBrain posted:

No released contamination/activity has been detected. Tunnel with old contaminated poo poo collapsed. That's pretty much all. I imagine they'll put a couple tons of dirt on it and worry about it later. There isn't any nuclear material in those tunnels. They are these old railroad tunnels that were built next to a giant radiochemical processing plant. Whenever they'd have a bunch of hot equipment (contaminated), they'd shove it into these tunnels. They're a few hundred feet long and very shallow.

DirtRoadJunglist posted:

It's probably nothing to be alarmed about in the moment, but it does give us yet another example of a Hanford structural fuckup. That place is a disaster waiting to happen, though the worst that could probably happen is a major release of radioactivity into the Columbia River. They've already had problems with waste meeting groundwater in some of the underground storage facilities. And insects. Wasn't it ants carrying radioactivity around the city some decades ago?

Humerus posted:

I feel it's pretty relevant to mention that the current Secretary of Energy, who is responsible for sites like Hanford, initially thought his job was going to be about promoting American coal and oil and was quite surprised to learn about all the nuclear stuff. After he accepted the job.

Basically what I'm saying is we'll probably start seeing a lot of stuff worse than this.

Platystemon posted:

I won’t get in a plane that has only one human pilot, let alone zero.

Humerus posted:

I feel it's pretty relevant to mention that the current Secretary of Energy, who is responsible for sites like Hanford, initially thought his job was going to be about promoting American coal and oil and was quite surprised to learn about all the nuclear stuff. After he accepted the job.

Phanatic posted:

Sorry, that's nonsense. He was the governor of Texas, where Pantex is located, you can bet the governor of the state where our nuclear weapons are actually manufactured is aware of the DOE's role in that. The very day he was nominated, he stated that he was eager to "safeguard our nuclear arsenal." What you're referring to was a false story, a claim from an unnamed source with nothing to back it up and plenty to contradict it:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/the-times-may-have-launched-a-false-rumor-about-rick-perry.html

Note that that's NY Magazine, not Brietbart or WND or any nonsense like that.

Phanatic posted:

Sorry, that's nonsense. He was the governor of Texas, where Pantex is located, you can bet the governor of the state where our nuclear weapons are actually manufactured is aware of the DOE's role in that. The very day he was nominated, he stated that he was eager to "safeguard our nuclear arsenal." What you're referring to was a false story, a claim from an unnamed source with nothing to back it up and plenty to contradict it:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/the-times-may-have-launched-a-false-rumor-about-rick-perry.html

Note that that's NY Magazine, not Brietbart or WND or any nonsense like that.

Phanatic posted:

Sorry, that's nonsense. He was the governor of Texas, where Pantex is located, you can bet the governor of the state where our nuclear weapons are actually manufactured is aware of the DOE's role in that. The very day he was nominated, he stated that he was eager to "safeguard our nuclear arsenal." What you're referring to was a false story, a claim from an unnamed source with nothing to back it up and plenty to contradict it:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/the-times-may-have-launched-a-false-rumor-about-rick-perry.html

Note that that's NY Magazine, not Brietbart or WND or any nonsense like that.

RatHat posted:

Aren't those things notoriously dangerous?

EDIT: Yeah... http://hikinginglacier.blogspot.ca/2012/06/yellowstone-visitor-gored-after-failing.html

zedprime posted:

Yet if you're talking about being a passenger on an airline you also won't get in a plane that has no electronics which the pilots defer decision making to with the operative action that makes some people feel better and some people feel worse is the pilot decides when the electronics is making sense or not.

The whole conversation is at kind of a dumb circling impasse because there's a thought process that shows how humans make the bad decisions when the computer makes the good decisions and there's another that shows how humans make the good decisions when the computer makes the bad decisions and by the time the FMEA finishes in 10 years and decides who is right more percent of the time its all going to be outdated.

Jake Mustache posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsSMfLYIQg

Phanatic posted:

Sorry, that's nonsense. He was the governor of Texas, where Pantex is located, you can bet the governor of the state where our nuclear weapons are actually manufactured is aware of the DOE's role in that. The very day he was nominated, he stated that he was eager to "safeguard our nuclear arsenal." What you're referring to was a false story, a claim from an unnamed source with nothing to back it up and plenty to contradict it:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/the-times-may-have-launched-a-false-rumor-about-rick-perry.html

Note that that's NY Magazine, not Brietbart or WND or any nonsense like that.

Ramadu posted:

Meats class.

Memento posted:

Please elaborate on this for the viewers who think that it can't possibly mean what they think it does.

quote:

The online syllabus for Texas A&M University's contemporary "Meats" course, ANSC 307 Meats, describes it as the integrated study of "the production of meat-type animals and the science and technology of their conversion to human food." Topics include "Meat inspection," "Kosher and halal," "Meat tenderness," "Meat color," while laboratories include "Pork evaluation" and "Ham manufacturing."

In an email to Mic, course instructor Dr. Jeffrey Savell explained ANSC 307 Meats is an advanced science class requiring students to demonstrate understanding of animal biology as well as regulatory and safety requirements in meat production.

"Animal Science 307 is a rigorous upper level science course that covers growth and development of food animals; antemortem and postmortem factors affecting meat quality; USDA inspection and regulatory requirements for the harvest and processing of livestock and muscle tissue; and the chemistry of meat color and preservation," Dr. Savell wrote.

Platystemon posted:

https://mic.com/articles/162340/future-energy-secretary-rick-perry-got-a-d-in-a-college-class-called-meats#.4gsZKgC7q

Memento posted:

Looking at that transcript is amazing. Somehow a dude whose college record makes him vaguely qualified to be a cattle farmer is in charge of the scientific advancement of energy supply and the radioactive waste disposal of the largest economy in the world.

Elendil004 posted:

A worker is caught on a cable spooling machine, pretty bad but not as bad as I expected

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c5a_1494366041

Seems like it takes folks an awful long time to hit the e-stop, if there is one.

pidan posted:

And this is how we learned that cultural differences are deadly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision

quote:

Devastated by the loss of his wife and two children aboard flight 2937, Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian architect, held Peter Nielsen responsible for their deaths. He tracked down and stabbed Nielsen to death, in the presence of his wife and three children, at his home in Kloten, near Zürich, on 24 February 2004.[19][25] The Swiss police arrested Kaloyev at a local motel shortly after, and he was sentenced to prison for the murder in 2005. He was released in November 2007 because his mental condition was not sufficiently considered in the initial sentence. In January 2008, he was appointed deputy construction minister of North Ossetia.[26]

Memento posted:

Looking at that transcript is amazing. Somehow a dude whose college record makes him vaguely qualified to be a cattle farmer is in charge of the scientific advancement of energy supply and the radioactive waste disposal of the largest economy in the world.

Counting his grades, he has 9 Bs, 15 Cs and 5 Ds. Napkin math and my vague understanding of the way US colleges figure things out gets him a GPA of less than 2.2

shiftless posted:

That is actually pretty bad. At least or that because some people just don't want to watch a corpse flying around for about a minute.

Elendil004 posted:

A worker is caught on a cable spooling machine, pretty bad but not as bad as I expected

Nenonen posted:

just how bad were you expecting??

chitoryu12 posted:

There's another video of a guy having that happen to him. He whips around so fast that he becomes a naked, flesh-colored blur

pidan posted:

And this is how we learned that cultural differences are deadly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision

quote:

Two years after the crash, Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller on duty at the time of the collision, was murdered in an apparent act of revenge, by Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian citizen who had lost his wife and two children in the accident.

quote:

Devastated by the loss of his wife and two children aboard flight 2937, Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian architect, held Peter Nielsen responsible for their deaths. He tracked down and stabbed Nielsen to death, in the presence of his wife and three children, at his home in Kloten, near Zürich, on 24 February 2004.[19][25] The Swiss police arrested Kaloyev at a local motel shortly after, and he was sentenced to prison for the murder in 2005. He was released in November 2007 because his mental condition was not sufficiently considered in the initial sentence. In January 2008, he was appointed deputy construction minister of North Ossetia.

HardDiskD posted:

Wikipedia posted:

Kaloyev presented a document received from a law firm in Hamburg dated 11 November 2003. It was an agreement in which Skyguide offered him 60,000 Swiss francs for the death of his wife and 50,000 francs for the death of each of his two children. In return, Skyguide asked Kaloyev to decline any claims to the company. The document infuriated the man: he decided to meet the company director Alan Rossier and Nielsen in person.[citation needed]

"Apparently he did not expect that he would have to answer for the results of his work," Kaloyev said. "He murmured something to me. Then I showed him some pictures of my children and said: "They were my children. What would you feel if you saw your children in coffins? I was infuriated about Skyguide's initiative to haggle over my dead children."[citation needed]

Kaloyev wanted Nielsen to apologize to him for the death of his family. "He hit me on the hand, when I was holding the envelope with the photographs of my children. I only remember that I had a very disturbing feeling, as if the bodies of my children were turning over in their graves" he said.[citation needed]

Kaloyev offered no explanation of why he brought the murder weapon with him on a peaceful errand and has denied the killing.[6]

Memento posted:

Looking at that transcript is amazing. Somehow a dude whose college record makes him vaguely qualified to be a cattle farmer is in charge of the scientific advancement of energy supply and the radioactive waste disposal of the largest economy in the world.

Counting his grades, he has 9 Bs, 15 Cs and 5 Ds. Napkin math and my vague understanding of the way US colleges figure things out gets him a GPA of less than 2.2