Unreported event at Hanford nuclear site that sickened workers 'smells like a cover-up,' advocates s

On June 18 of this year, 10 workers at the Hanford nuclear site in eastern Washington digging in what are known as the "tank farms," were overcome by strange odors. Nine of the workers sought medical treatment, including three who were transported to the hospital for an overnight stay and were given oxygen.
The KING 5 Investigators have found the event went unreported by the contractor involved - Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS).
According to WRPS documents obtained by KING 5, symptoms reported by workers included dizziness, shortness of breath, chest pain, headache, nausea, a metallic taste in the mouth, stomach issues, light headedness and cough.
Story: www.king5.com/...

[@Isalala3000]

Shout out to Tom at Hanford Challenge. He's been there all along keeping the workers and the rest of us as safe as he can.

[@andibowe6890]

I attended the Blue Mt. Sundance & a Blessing if the Flags & a Vision Quest in Oregon. Our medicine man was Hanford supervisor for pipefitters!

[@mikehunt6107]

@@andibowe6890 what medicine?

[@andibowe6890]

@@mikehunt6107 Native American

[@MyNathanking]

Is this statement in truth or in sarcasm?

[@davidgrech4574]

Thank you for reporting this and hope that we will find out what happened

[@eemoogee160]

Future humans will curse our sins for which they suffer.

[@kevincrosby1760]

Cover up? LOL. The cause was mentioned at about the two-minute mark. Not mentioned was that all witnesses agreed that the gas-powered equipment was not running properly...running very rough and had a very smoky exhaust. Mitigation was accomplished by taking the equipment in to be serviced so that it ran properly. Also not mentioned was that the tank vents are filtered to prevent exactly this scenario, any failure of the filter systems would set off alarms at multiple local and remote locations, and that filter operation is verified before workers are allowed in the area. A convenient omission of facts combined with muckraking journalism from the blatantly anti-nuclear King5 "News".

[@seaweedgreen4604]

Protect the employees!!! Absolutely disgusting!!! Put the workers safety First!!! Not your money !!

[@cattigereyes1]

Life is cheap after all. Protecting it is expensive! Wage slavery makes senators smile!

[@MyNathanking]

This is EXACTLY why I hate nuclear work. For it isn't the nuclear work itself that is dangerous as much as the stupid people who manage it. For nuclear work far exceeds the responsibility capabilities of most people in high positions of power. I don't even like nuclear power plants because some dumbass in one of them might screw up and do something stupid to release massive radiation. That is what happened at Chernobyl, and what almost happened at Three Mile Island.

[@darrenfonzseau5832]

I AM NOT SILENT NO MORE AND KING5 needs to GET HONEST about our injured workers' needed federal oversight. REMAINING SILENT MAKES YOU ALL COMPLICIT IN THE CLASS WAR ON LABOR.

[@darrellrotramel3110]

Have you noticed the striking resemblance of lord Rothschild to Mr Burns?

[@headcold7970]

My father was a geologist. He moved to Richland to work on DOE projects, including many to drill and install wells used to collect groundwater & soil for contamination level evaluations. I am very fortunate to be his son. I loved and admired my father very much. He was a good, wise, & caring man. He taught me vast amounts of valuable lessons in all areas of life. He worked there for about 15 years in which he got cancer twice. The second time he became sick it quickly became metastatic. That took him from our family. The health insurance documents explain to confirm his diagnosis was a result of his working at Hanford. So did the very meager checks contributing monthly to his medical expenses. This place isn’t unlike a massive experiment. As said in a lengthy explanation detailing the career of one scientist who spent years working at the site, “That place is more contaminated than Chernobyl but it’s been vastly dispersed underground & will continue to harm the environment and population for decades upon decades and on - or until scientific advances conquer radioactive waste and contamination. …The people who built and operated the area didn’t understand exactly what they were doing, and to some extent we don’t either. …The entirety, reach, & impacts of this contamination are difficult to comprehend as we have yet to identify them. The Dept’s & Corps. operating the area now are not forthcoming to the public with what we’re learning & as time goes on the whole scope of the contamination changes due to the nature of radioactive material. The goals of this remediation project will remain ahead of us, likely & sadly, for generations.” “Don’t stay here.”

[@TheWorldThroughMyEyes1285]

Im sorry to hear about that.

[@superhyrulean]

This is just as bad as Chernobyl or the more recent Fukushima disaster after the tsunami rocked Japan. They need to clean this up,immediately. Here is some irony:it and 2 other places are part of the Manhattan park project and the Department of energy. It is related to the park in Los Alamos where the Manhattan project was. In other words,this is connected to the Manhattan project. And the government is covering it up.

[@hellokitty_hola]

this is what im afraid of. remember Chernobl, was born in Ukraine

[@maeflood8768]

What do you mean “clean it up?”. that sounds Rosy but there is no solution it can’t really be “cleaned up”. That’s the whole crux of the matter

[@superhyrulean]

@@maeflood8768 Exactly. They need to clean this up as best as they can.

[@theshimmering2064]

How is this the year 2021? We are exposing workers to these dangerous toxins in 2021? Does anything ever change when it comes to greed?

[@superhyrulean]

Dude,they have been cleaning up radiation and nuclear sites for years. The very same power you and I are using right now is powered via the grid(except in Texas)

[@andibowe6890]

I took a course in college @ OSU in Nuclear Rx Technology. Got an A. It was a Rx on campus and one of the safest because it was designed to shut itself down automatically if anything went wrong. It was called a negative reactivity Rx. Had a year left to graduate and they wanted to send me to run Hanford Rx. This was in 73. I said no you don't know what you are doing. A year or so later they had a chemical explosion there...

[@Christina-71]

I guess I was too young to remember it. I'll have to look it up.

[@andibowe6890]

Back in 73 our teacher @ OSU was on loan from a military nuclear sub. The way to balance the nuclear equation back then was to name an imaginary particle and call it a neutrino and an anti-neutrino on the other side of this equation they use to appear as though their scientists are legit. Isaac Asimov whose scifi novels i loved to read as a child actually wrote a non fiction book about this very subject. The namevif the book? "The Neutrino"

[@TheIggypop1]

This is waaaaaaaaaayyy more radioactive than a lab at OSU. Lab is a tip of the iceberg of radioactivity compared to a radioactive dump

[@karlypearl9701]

Yeah that's what happens when you Trust corporations and government "saftey regulations" with peoples Health. Weird hi?

[@mikehunt6107]

DOE downplaying risk/exposure?

[@waynehead7271]

Any guesses what the take-home pay for their executives might be? 🧐

[@moeseck7792]

Much more than anyone can guess...

[@mamasquatch]

Between $400- $600 grand a year.

[@mamasquatch]

Plus all expenses paid for world travel, sky miles galore, 12-20 weeks vacation a year, excellent benefits and one hell of a severance pay. Plus retirement. They also get to cash out if they don't use the up to $200 a day to eat out while on the clock for travel. Plus holiday bonuses.

[@mamasquatch]

They have a movie theater, hotels, shuttle services, lavish employee parties for thousands. Give out easter baskets and have holiday functions with super mega prizes, giant catered BBQs and luncheons, and a whole lot of people thinking its perfectly safe.

[@mamasquatch]

Daughter, Granddaughter and neice reporting live from the area!

[@knuckledraggingbreeder7721]

The person saying safety first is not the same person telling workers about job security.

[@proventure307]

funny how hanford is more damaged these days than nagasaki or hiroshima

[@sophiasummers1637]

My mom died of cancer in 1981. She was a downwinder.

[@headcold7970]

I’m from a downwind city. My dad died of cancer.

[@juanayala2429]

If it’s that dangerous. Why did he continue working there for 25 years?

[@preasail]

The word, metallic, is misspelled in this report -- two l's, not one.

[@elizabethcherry920]

I would walk off the job if it as bad as they are saying it is, that job is not worth the money they are paying.

[@Kam1kaz3dreamer]

Maybe these people care about doing their best to mitigate its damage to the environment, than they do getting paid?

[@explorer7362]

Speak for yourself…

[@indiaburke9457]

SHUT IT DOWN! DINOSAUR NUCLEAR PLANT!

[@Christina-71]

It must be, I went on a school field trip there, in around 1980 or 81....over 40 years ago!😱

[@andibowe6890]

I was asked to run the reactor in Hanford in 73. I said no.

[@Christina-71]

@Renato Villanueva imagine the surprise when we found out it had been leaking and blowing crap to NE OR for decades. The high cancer rates started to make alot more sense.

[@bobl78]

how about--wearing oxygen masks when approaching these tanks?

[@Mendoza1414]

Oxygen is a chemical why would you want to breath that directly?

[@user-xr9kc3xw3u]

And they won't

[@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw]

That's cool man. I would not work there. The people running thing are already praying for extinction because they don't know how to manage us or the energy failure. God does not want to hear it. "It" Gave them everything so rest your head if you've had nothing to do with it. The end is coming soon for them not us.👍🙏

[@Mrs.Self.Distruct]

.... wat?

[@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw]

@@Mrs.Self.Distruct More education or extinction will create the education. Pretty tuff place we are born into. The cosmos is all that is, all that ever was, and all that there ever will be. -Carl Sagan

[@williamcooper1023]

Holy crap. I thought all Bob Ferguson did was try to ban guns.

[@fokkenhotz1]

where are the fine NW med school doctors to report this ?? I'm mad at that too. a doctor can tell!

[@Tucker1Nonly]

He looks young to be working there for 47 years!…think they messed that up

[@stephensciuto7251]

08-27-21 How do I find out want's in my tap. water? Portland,Or.

[@booksgaming1426]

I still don't understand why we're waiting so long to bury these tanks in places like Yucca mountain instead of just letting them sit.

[@andibowe6890]

Those are not safe places. They already leaked into Colorado river aquifer.

[@Just_Vryatt]

Burying them is the worst idea I don’t know why they’d bury it anywhere bc the drums they buried are leaking into ground water as well as the river

[@vincentrusso4332]

Sorry...I ain't buying it was exhaust from a Georgia buggy.....FOH..amazing WW2 era work is still having repercussions.

[@ceedee4085]

I think I broke my arm

[@sandramorey2529]

Chernobyl, Fukishima ain't got nothing on us. Tank farm? Close these things down! We are all at risk. My kids live on Bainbridge Is and I would like them to move..

[@mikehunt6107]

Not good.

[@blonde.bomb77]

Sounds like a cover up to me

[@donnaprice7931]

Yup !! Another COVER UP !!

[@davidroof6041]

bing the sob up on charges

[@DonKeybals]

A leak from Hanford is unlikely. They became sick due to zoonotic spillover from an intermediate host jk

[@stephaniemedina1848]

The air is not clean just because the sky is clear and blue am 67 and don't smoke live on whidbey island some days it's more difficult to breathe am also not overweight am still working walk allott 🐱 air pollution is real

[@philipwebb960]

"Sickness from unknown gasses"? "Workers overcome by powerful odors"? Sounds like tacos for lunch to me.