Daily Grist: Recent nuke spill in U.S. kept secret, and more

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PLEASE NOTE THAT NO ONE IS TELLING WHERE IN TENNESSEE THIS " SPILL "

HAPPENED.......NATIONAL SECURITY AND ALL!

>We Put the Unclear in Nuclear

>Potentially deadly uranium spill in Tennessee kept secret

>

>As part of its model for a newer, more relevant form of democracy in the

>21st century, the U.S. government in 2004 clamped down on the public's

>access to information on all things nuclear, for so-called

>national-security reasons. Hidden in the big ol' nuclear hidey-hole: news

>of a leak of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear fuel processing plant in

>Tennessee that could have caused an uncontrolled nuclear reaction (aka, a

>world of radioactive hurt). The leak was just one of nine problems since

>2005 at privately owned Nuclear Fuel Services, which has most recently

>been turning the U.S. government's weapons-grade uranium stockpile into

>commercial reactor fuel. Over nine gallons of highly enriched uranium

>seeped out of a transfer line onto the floor and was first noticed by a

>passing employee when the yellowish liquid seeped into the hallway. The

>company was not fined for the incident, but instead was asked to review

>its " safety culture. " Hmm, maybe it's time for cultural revolution.

>

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>straight to the source: Houston Chronicle, Associated Press, Duncan

>Mansfield, 20 Aug 2007

 

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