Official:
“4,400,000 disintegrations of alpha radiation” including
Plutonium detected at leaking U.S. nuclear site
“Highest
recorded level” — Santa Fe Briefing: “Serious incident
involving radiation at the WIPP site” — Gov’t “reaching out
to employees who are worried” about exposure
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Febraury, 2014
Jessica
Onsurez, Carlsbad
Current-Argus reporter, Feb. 20, 2014 (emphasis
added):
“[US Dept. of Energy Carlsbad Field Office Manager Joe] Franco: 4.4
mil disintegration
of alpha radiation highest recorded
level, declining levels indicate one time event #WIPP”
Carlsbad
Environmental Monitoring and Research Center,
Feb. 20, 2014: Scientists [...] have detected trace amounts of the
radioactive isotopes Americium (241Am) and Plutonium (239+240Pu) on
an air filter from an ambient air sampling station located
approximately 0.6 of a mile northwest of the WIPP [...] Analyses of
this filter show that 0.64
Becquerels (Bq) of 241Am and 0.046 Bq of 239+240Pu
were found to be deposited on the filter media. The Becquerel is an
international unit of measure of radioactivity and is defined as one
disintegration
per second.
City
of Santa Fe, NM Emergency Management,
week ending Feb. 23, 2014: Late last week a radiation leak was
detected in an underground chamber of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
(WIPP) just outside of Carlsbad. This marked the first
serious incident
involving radiation at the WIPP site and comes just weeks after a
truck fire [...] it is important to understand the effects different
types of radiation can have on the human body and how to protect
yourself in the extremely rare event that you are exposed to
radiation either accidentally or through a deliberate attack.
Carlsbad
Current-Argus,
Feb. 22, 2014: Meanwhile, an organization affiliated with the
Department of Labor began reaching
out to employees who are worried they may have been exposed
to health risks from the radiation.
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