Just a few buckets of uranium.....

bigdog wrote:https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/696001017/grand-canyon-museum-reportedly-had-buckets-of-uranium-sitting-around-for-18-year

And a HUGE thank you to my two dogs, without whom we would have probably gone inside the giant radiation filled building about 5 years ago.
I really would like to know why this was not on the 6:00 national news? Why did it only appear in the USA today and online?
Apparently, these cans containing uranium rock were sitting right next to a bench where children sit for a 30 minute educational presentation done by the park rangers.
I'm very glad that at least one of our dogs is so scary looking we usually avoid taking him inside buildings on vacations, even in places where dogs are allowed.  That just may have saved me and my hubby from having cancer today.

Talk about a cover up.

bigdog wrote:https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/696001017/grand-canyon-museum-reportedly-had-buckets-of-uranium-sitting-around-for-18-year

Talk about a cover up.

Floridatexan wrote:
That may not have been a threat, but this is:

US secretly shipped plutonium from South Carolina to Nevada

By SCOTT SONNER
January 30, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy revealed on Wednesday that it secretly shipped weapons-grade plutonium from South Carolina to a nuclear security site in Nevada months ago despite the state’s protests.

The Justice Department notified a federal judge in Reno that the government trucked in the radioactive material to store at the site 70 miles (113 kilometers) north of Las Vegas before Nevada first asked a court to block the move in November.

Department lawyers said in a nine-page filing that the previously classified information about the shipment from South Carolina can be disclosed now because enough time has passed to protect national security. They didn’t specify when the one-half metric ton of plutonium was transferred.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak said he’s “beyond outraged by this completely unacceptable deception.” He announced at a hastily called news conference in Carson City late Wednesday the state is now seeking another court order to block any more shipments of plutonium as it pursues “any and all legal remedies,” including contempt of court orders against the federal government.

The newly elected Democrat said he’s exploring options for the plutonium that already has arrived and is working with Nevada’s congressional delegation to fight back against the U.S. government’s “reckless disregard” for the safety of Nevadans.

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen called the government’s move “deceitful and unethical.” Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, also a Nevada Democrat, said she would demand department officials come to her office on Thursday to explain how they made the “reckless decision” in such “bad faith.”

Democratic Rep. Dina Titus said the Trump administration has repeatedly tried to use Nevada as a dumping ground for nuclear waste. Trump revived a decades-old proposal to store the nation’s nuclear waste at another site outside Las Vegas, Yucca Mountain, after the project was essentially halted under the Obama administration.

Justice Department lawyers said in new court filings Wednesday that no more shipments of weapons-grade plutonium are planned from South Carolina to Nevada. They said they believe Nevada’s lawsuit aimed at blocking the shipments is now moot.

But lawyers for Nevada said late Wednesday that their bid for an emergency injunction is more critical than ever after the Energy Department misled them about the shipments. They say the government has created the “palpable suspicion” that more shipments are coming to Nevada.

Sisolak described the months-long negotiations with Energy Department officials over the plutonium leading up to the new disclosure as a “total sham.”

“They lied to the state of Nevada, misled a federal court, and jeopardized the safety of Nevada’s families and environment,” he said.

U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno already is considering the state’s earlier request to block the Energy Department’s plans — announced in August — to ship a full metric ton of plutonium to Nevada from South Carolina, where a federal judge previously ordered that the plutonium be removed from a Savannah River site by 2020.

Nevada argues the department has failed to adequately study the potential dangers of moving the material that still has the potential to be used to help develop nuclear weapons to an area that is subject to flash floods and earthquakes, and that the state’s lands and groundwater may already be contaminated with radioactive materials.

In January, Du declined to immediately block the plutonium and indicated she wouldn’t rule until February. “I hope the government doesn’t ship plutonium pending a ruling by this court,” she said at the time.

Nevada and the Justice Department filed their latest briefs Wednesday at the request of the judge, who questioned whether the case should go forward. Justice Department lawyers said any additional plutonium removed from South Carolina would not go to Nevada.

Meanwhile, the states of Nevada and South Carolina are continuing to argue over where any legal challenge should be heard. Each said in briefs filed in Reno last week that theirs is the proper venue.

Nevada’s experts testified that the material likely would have to pass directly through Las Vegas on the way to the Nevada National Security Site. They fear an accident could permanently harm an area that is home to 2.2 million residents and hosts more than 40 million tourists a year.

The Energy Department’s plan approved last August called for the full ton of material to be stored at the Nevada nuclear security site and the government’s Pantex Plant in Texas, two facilities that already handle and process plutonium. The department says it would be sent by 2027 to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico or another unnamed facility.

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Associated Press writer Ryan Tarinelli contributed to this report from Carson City.


https://www.apnews.com/bcd700b7826d41bc82af5ab316d155ca

Floridatexan wrote:
Here's info on the Pantex Plant outside Amarillo, TX:

The perils of Pantex: Hundreds of workers sickened at Texas nuclear weapons plant

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article49500030.html

Deus X wrote:

bigdog wrote:https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/696001017/grand-canyon-museum-reportedly-had-buckets-of-uranium-sitting-around-for-18-year

Talk about a cover up.

Talk about a completely bullshit post! The full title of the article in your link is:

Uranium Ore Stored At Grand Canyon Park Museum Unlikely To Have Been Dangerous

Did you even bother to read that last bit: Unlikely to have been dangerous!

bigdog wrote:

Deus X wrote:

bigdog wrote:https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/696001017/grand-canyon-museum-reportedly-had-buckets-of-uranium-sitting-around-for-18-year

Talk about a cover up.

Talk about a completely bullshit post! The full title of the article in your link is:

Uranium Ore Stored At Grand Canyon Park Museum Unlikely To Have Been Dangerous

Did you even bother to read that last bit: Unlikely to have been dangerous!

I did read it. I also read another article in USA Today about this same thing yesterday that reported that the uranium was stored in paint cans, one of which was so overfilled that it was open. I'll find it and post it too, since you love to be snarky. Here's a suggestion for you if you believe it wasn't dangerous- get yourself some paint cans and some uranium rocks and put them in your own closet.

bigdog wrote:https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/02/18/grand-canyon-tourists-exposed-radiation-safety-manager-says/2876435002/ 

Try this one and actually red the whole thing. Children could have been exposed to up to 4000 times the safe levels of radiation by sitting next to these "paint cans."  No, they're not being tested, because of the government tells someone like Deus that everything is just hunky dorey, they can get by with anything. This is Trump world.