[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Latest on Oak Ridge Sr-90 incident
Colleagues ?
URL = http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=1872580&nav=1ugFNB0i
Jim Hardeman
Jim_Hardeman@dnr.state.ga.us
==================
Road reopens after radiation spill; investigation continues
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - A portion of state Highway 95 where radioactive waste dripped onto the pavement was repaired and reopened near the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Reservation, a spokesman said Monday.
However, short-haul deliveries of contaminated material on the reservation were suspended pending a review of the Friday mishap, DOE-Oak Ridge spokesman Steven Wyatt said.
A plastic-covered mixing tank containing strontium 90, a byproduct of the fission of uranium or plutonium, was found to have leaked while being moved in a dump truck around 11:30 a.m. Friday.
The watery, grout mixture was being taken from a shuttered waste cleanup project near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to a new waste treatment facility near the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant.
Authorities determined the truck left the secure reservation for about three-tenths of a mile on state Highway 95 near the intersection with Bethel Valley Road. Contaminated asphalt was removed and taken to the waste management facility and the road reopened on Sunday.
A portion of Bear Creek Road within the Oak Ridge Reservation leading to Y-12 also was contaminated. One lane was reopened Monday with work continuing on the other lane.
No contamination was found on workers or more than 70 personal vehicles that were checked after passing along Highway 95, Wyatt said.
************************************************************************
You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To
unsubscribe, send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu Put the
text "unsubscribe radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail,
with no subject line. You can view the Radsafe archives at
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/