Let's start a pool on how much it will cost to get the "bad kitty litter" barrels into compliance with the WIPP waste acceptance criteria.
My guess is $2M per barrel.
My guess is $2M per barrel.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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" WINNING ! " -- Charlie
What, you ask, is this CAC unit? According to the local table, it is "Charlie's Annual Compensation".
Given what we know about DOE estimates, I would put the actual time period at around a decade. That figure may even be wildly optimistic given the incredibly long times needed to finish NIF, DARHT, etc.
The cost? Billions at least. Perhaps even tens of billions if it is allowed to drag out year after year for a decade or longer.
Without a safe repository for low to mid level waste products, count on most of the nuclear weapons and other DoD & NASA reactor work at LANL being put out of commission for a very long time. Charlie's one year shut-down of the work out at TA-55 may just be the beginning of a long hiatus. The Greg Mello's of the world should be delirious right now. It's amazing that McMillan still has his job (for now) after this fiasco.
Do your own research, if you know how.
http://news.yahoo.com/feds-could-2-years-seal-nuke-dump-222636282.html;_ylt=AwrBEiQpBolTKwoAEu3QtDMD
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It could take two years or more for the federal government to seal off hundreds of potentially dangerous containers at its troubled underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy said in a filing Friday.
Responding to an order from the New Mexico Environment Department to detail its plans, the department gave broad ranges that indicate it could take a minimum of about 100 work weeks — and possibly twice that long — to secure the rooms at the now-shuttered plant where more than 350 containers of toxic waste from decades of building nuclear bombs at Los Alamos
National Laboratory is stored.
Also on Friday, the Department of Energy said Los Alamos National Laboratory won't be able to meet a deadline for getting the last of thousands of barrels of the waste containing things like contaminated gloves and tools off its northern New Mexico campus before wildfire season peaks because of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's closure.
June 1, 2014 at 8:15 AM
As usual LANL doesn't have the courage or fortitude to admit they won't the deadline of the 3706 (cubic-meters) Program. This bad boy (LANL) has to have it's mommy (DOE/NNSA) tell everyone that their son (LANL) pottied their diaper. What a disgrace!
June 1, 2014 at 6:34 PM
Well, that was certainly a definitive, well-reasoned, authoritative prediction. Any more pearls of wisdom, Mr. Crystal Ball?
June 1, 2014 at 7:19 PM"
The guy did say it was all just speculation. In any case the math is rather sound if you buy two points. (1) it will cost one billion.(2) LANL pays for it. That is rather straight forward and fairly well reasoned.
Would you like to offer pearl of wisdom yourself?
June 1, 2014 at 10:01 PM"
Who will pay for it?
It's another Work Free Safety Zone in action.