Waste Isolation Pilot Plant WIPP – New Mexico – Radiation leak – Update 2/28/14

Current Argus –
DOE preps for re-entry underground at WIPP
Employees concerned about safety, better environment at WIPP
Zack Ponce – reporter for Current Argus – on twitter

Radcast – Updates on WIPP

Energy News – Most likely a ‘worst-case scenario’ at WIPP — NPR: ‘Huge chunk’ of salt believed to have crushed drums of radioactive waste — ABC: “Investigators now admit problem is serious” — NYT: Plutonium, americium can bombard organs “for rest of person’s lifetime”

WIPP Recovery Information Center – Latest Recovery Activities
Farok Sharif (Project Manager for the Nuclear Waste Partnership) At Thursday WIPP Press Conference – On using scaffolding, attempting to ‘STABALIZE’ the mine’s ventilation system
More extensive press conference recording

PotrBlog –

2-28-14 – STAY OUT OF THE RAIN! JetStream To WIPP Plutonium Up I-44 Corridor: OKC, Stroud, Tulsa, Joplin, Springfield, Rolla, Saint Louis, Chicago

2-28-14 Insider WIPP Information Indicates PLUTONIUM CLOUD WAS MUCH LARGER Than Previously Calculated! – The POTRBLOG team has received additional inside information in a response to our analysis of WIPP’s statements that it was using scaffolding, attempting to ‘STABALIZE’ the mine’s ventilation system, and were bringing in outside experts to help with the stabilization effort (prima facie evidence of explosion damage).

2-27-14 HIGH RISK of New Large Plutonium Release! ‘Stabilization Efforts’ Indicative of Explosion Damaged Ventilation System! Today a WIPP official seemingly has confirmed our analysis by stating that they were trying to stabilize their mine ventilation system, they have put up scaffolding, and even built a mock up of the system so that outside experts could stabilize it.