Talk:Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents/Archive 1

message: A B-52 bomber carring one or more nuclear weapon was reported to have exploded in midair about 10 miles north of Monticello, Utah (source: www.cdi.org/issues/nukeaccidents/accidents.htm). Why isn't this particlular indicent listed in the Wikipedia encyclopedia?
:There is no reason why it hasn't been added. Why don't you do it? --enceladus 08:32, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  January 19, 1961, Monticello, Utah 

message: Does anyone know why:
:January 15–16, 1983 – At a nuclear power plant in Brown's Ferry, Tennessee, 207,000 US gallons (780 m³) of low-level radioactive water is accidentally dumped into the Tennessee River.
has been commented out. Can't see anything in the discussions about it. --enceladus 05:44, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brown's Ferry, Tennessee 

message: I just created Mayak, only to find there was more information than I had added in my stub already written here!  Good- I think.  I'm not sure how to divide up the information.  Clearly there should be more on Mayak than on this page, but I can't decide what should be moved.  If anyone has some ideas, please just be bold and do them.  JesseW 20:52, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mayak]] 

message: The following was removed from the section of the article on the 1986 Hanford declassification.  Think we can use any of it?
:JSD -- This misstates somewhat the concerns raised by the document release. The primary concern was the airborne release of something on the order of 700,000 curies of radio-iodine, primarily during the first two or three years of operation of the reactors and the chemical separation facilities (1945-47). The early releases were primarily from the separation facilities and were reduced by a factor of about a hundred by the addition of silver to the sand filters filtering the airborne releases from the plants. In 1952, there was an intentional release of 5000 curies of radio-iodine (the Green Run) to the atmosphere. The intent was to develop a basis for interpreting airborne radiation from Soviet atomic weapons plants and weapons tests. The document release lead to a 14-year epidemiological study of thyroid disease in the counties surrounding the Hanford Site and in several control counties outside the area of dispersion of the airborne releases (the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study). The final report from that project found no statistically significant difference in thyroid disease between the near-Hanford and control counties. The HTDS also looked at releases of phosphorus-32 to the river, but did not consider the airborne release of any radionuclides other than iodine-131. There is similar confusion about liquid releases from the Hanford Site. As noted in the Wikipedia entry for the Hanford Site, the early once-through reactors at times released significant amounts of radionuclides to the Columbia River, some of which can still be found in river bottom sediment downstream from the reactors. The chemical separation process (located on the plateau in the center of the site, a few hundred feet above and about 10 miles from the river) produced two liquid efluent streams. One was high-volume with low levels of radionuclide concentrations. Billions of gallons of the low-level effluent was poured into the sand, migrated 300-400 feet down to groundwater and eventually 10-20 miles downgrade in the aquifer to the Columbia River. Some of those radionuclides are presumably still in river sediment. The second waste stream was low-volume with high concentrations of radionuclides. That was diverted to waste storage tanks, initially 149 carbon steel tanks and later to 28 double-shell carbon steel tanks. A number of the original single-shell tanks leaked over the years, a total of approximately one million gallons of the high-level waste. Most of that million gallons is sequestered in the soil between the tanks and the aquifers 300-400 feet below. A small fraction has reached the aquifer. Since the once-through reactors were shut down, all radionuclides reaching the Columbia from Hanford waste streams have been sufficiently diluted by the flow of the Columbia to be below EPA drinking water standards by the time the water reaches the water intake of the Richland water plant just downstream from the Hanford Site.		 
:Jim Dukelow -- jim.dukelow@pnl.gov	
 
:Information about the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study is available from the CDC web site. Information about Hanford airborne and liquid effluents is in Hanford documents (available, I believe, from the Hanford web site, www.hanford.gov, and through Google search). Information about timing of Hanford airborne releases is available from Hanford documents and, I believe, in the HTDS Final Report. Monitoring of radionuclide in the Columbia is done by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and reports should be available from the laboratory web site or from the Hanford web site.
--Carnildo 00:50, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed information 

message: I renoved this section:
*The (supposedly successful) Japanese program to develop nuclear weapons in World War II. The story is that a prototype was exploded in the China Sea, but the factory in Japanese Korea was not yet on-line when the US began nuclear bombing of Japan. (This is unlikely, as there is no evidence that Japan had acquired sufficient materials for an atom bomb.)
*Reports of glow slaves (intentionally irradiated unwilling nuclear laborers) in the USSR, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, United States and pre-World War II Japanese Korea.
"glow slaves" gives only 3 google hits excluding wikipedia, and if the japanese really exploded a nuke it wouldn't be an accident. Thue | talk 13:37, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unconfirmed incidents 

message: Why is the same article here twice? Isn't that just a colossal waste of space? If you look past the first references, you see the EXACT SAME THING from 1960's onwards! Why was this reverted back to this form after i took off all this extra crap?
--DA Roc 22:32, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Am i seeing double?