Category:Radioactive Waste: Difference between revisions

Nuclear Waste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

Nuclear Fuel Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel_cycle

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Nuclear Test Data

https://marshallislands.llnl.gov/enewetak.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elugelab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Redwing

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/opinion/a-pacific-isle-radioactive-and-forgotten.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2013/06/25/the_cactus_dome_is_enormous_concrete_structure_built_over_a_nuclear_crater.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/jul/03/dome-pacific-radioactive-waste-leaking-video

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Siterunner: My father in World War 2 was a bomber pilot trained to fly "secret missions" over Japan at the end of the war.

My father spoke to me, on rare occasion about his training and B-17/29 "special" assignments.

One day stands out in my memory.

Posterity says to share -- as my dad has passed away. Secrets have long faded into history.

Marfa/Roswell/Ardmore/Clovis/Almorgordo -- from B-17s to B-29s -- missions to the Pacific

It was in July 1945. He was based in New Mexico at Clovis Army Air Field flying training missions as a pilot. He told me that his unit knew, via rumor mill, about the first test of a nuclear weapon. They knew it was close to their base. The newspapers in New Mexico had reported, on July 17th that a "munitions storage" had exploded and this was the official line to explain the bright flash in the sky south of Albuquerque and north of Almorgordo, where he was to transfer on July 23rd.

The initial testing of the first nuclear weapon was at Trinity in a barren area of New Mexico known as Jornada del Muerto ("Journey of the Dead Man").

The desolation made it the choice of the Army and the scientists who had developed the bomb at the isolated nuclear physics laboratory at Los Alamos.

The B-17 crew that flew that week from Clovis decided (in a departure from the planned flight path) to veer "off course" and to go take a look at the area where the bomb went off... not a good decision, but in those days many of the pilots and crews were, how do I put this, let's say, strong willed. This crew chose to take a look at where they thought the site was...

They were (or descended) off the radar and then as they all strained to look out the windows as they flew north (instead of west) they could see in the distance a bright glistening spot in the desert.

He told me it was both frightening and beautiful.

It was the left-over crater from the blast. The sand had turned liquid then fused and fallen back to earth.

A turquoise gleam that would be called "Trinitite" glistened in the sun, he said.

They flew on without talking, he said. No more fly-boys on a run.

Now they knew what their bomber group, their B-29s and their special runs with unusual maneuvers were being equipped to do.

In Almorgordo, they were to hear the news, August 6th and 9th, 1945, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, then Nagasaki, Japan.

Today in August 2015 it's seventy years on and I remember how my father told me of his relief there were to be no more atomic bombs or war with nuclear weapons.

He was being trained as a warrior with nuclear weapons. He was, we were, fortunate to not suffer the consequences as others have, even as the sword of a Damocles or worse continues to hang over our heads.

Generations in the future have to deal with the potential consequences as the nuclear age continues on...

The words of the head of the atomic weapon project for the U.S. continue to echo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/06/how-the-hiroshima-bombing-is-taught-around-the-world/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant

Welcome https://www.env.nm.gov/wipp/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository