Loading ...i watched the vid which was linked. it said that it was a low level waste facility. i have worked in nuclear power plants, and have a somewhat less alarmist view of low level waste. every time we finished a task in the containment area, we discarded all our tools and our clothing down to our skivvies, just on the possibility that they might have picked up a speck of radioactive dust. no doubt, some of them did pick up some dirt or dust, and it’s possible some of that was radioactive – but not very likely, and not very radioactive.
low level waste consists in large part of sealed drums packed with almost new pipe wrenches, voltmeters, screwdrivers. coveralls, and such – also filters from the air handling system. no doubt there is some radioactivity, but i’m confident you’d find much more in a case of radium dial wrist watches. remember them? no doubt they were dangerous, but not very.
i expect the nuclear regulatory commission to spend a half a brazillian dollars investigating the downstream plume of the nevada incident, and, after due consideration report that local desert tortoises face an elevated risk of leukemia of between one and five percent over the next twenty years.