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Or, there’s the report earlier this week of a semi-truck hauling Teslas catching fire on I-80 near Patrick, Nevada. Admittedly, this isn’t Tesla’s fault, but it’s further proof that Tesla may want to avoid anything flammable for the foreseeable future. We won’t even mention the Model S on Autopilot that rear-ended a parked firetruck last month. Tesla recycling machine catches fire at Fremont, California campus on Reusters Read next: Apple announces new warranty program for faulty MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards ... (sla factory becomes literal dumpster fire after recycling machinery goes up in flames)
There was no releases of any hazardous constituents.”According to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, the steam was released during a treatment process to neutralize a tanker of acidic liquid waste.“The resulting water vapor was notably visible due to the cold morning temperatures,” said JoAnn Kittrell, spokeswoman for the agency.Kittrell said the facility’s permits do not set limits for such steam releases, but “the facility has been advised to generally control mixing operations to the extent possible to avoid the generation of excessive reaction plumes.”She said the water vapor isn’t harmful, “especially not to anyone driving by on the highway,” but workers at the site do wear full protective gear. “It is hot,” Kittrell said.The 2015 explosion and fire occurred on a now-closed, state-owned portion of the waste dump, sending debris sixty feet into the air and scattering damaged 55-gallon drums around the crater, including two that landed outside the fence.Investigators later traced the cause to rainfall that seeped through a compromised cover and reacted with metallic sodium. The incident forced the highway to close for almost 24 hours and raised questions about the integrity of the aging dumpsite.From 1962 through 1992, US Ecology and its predecessor, Nuclear Engineering Co., operated the dump on state land leased to the companies as one of the few disposal sites in the United States for low-level nuclear waste.US Ecology continues to operate a 40-acre landfill for hazardous waste adjacent to the 40-acre radioactive waste landfill, which closed for good on Jan. 1, 1993.Contact ...
The Fire Safe Council of Nevada County is seeking to fulfill its mission by providing various alternatives such as the free chipping program and community green waste collection sites, according to a release.Green waste collection bins will be available from 9 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays in October at 12270 LaBarr Meadows Road in Grass Valley. All vegetation must be put inside the 30-yard dumpsters and taken out of bags if they were used to transport materials. All users of the site must enter while travelling southbound on LaBarr Meadows Road as well as exit in this direction for safety reasons, the release stated. Any loads transported in Nevada County are required to be secured.While there is no fee to use the grant-funded program, site users are required to complete a survey which demonstrates the need for services and collects data on users' contributions of time and energy to make their property more fire safe. Surveys are available at the collection site, or for download in advance at: http://www.areyoufiresafe.com under the... (The Union of Grass Valley)
South Arkansas state senators:District 12 (Columbia and Dallas counties, parts of Ouachita, Nevada, Clark and Grant counties) – Bruce Maloch, Democrat. 650 Columbia Road 258, Magnolia, 71753. 870-235-7041. bruce.maloch@senate.ar.govDistrict 11 (Lafayette, Miller and Little River counties, parts of Hempstead and Sevier counties) – Jimmy Hickey Jr., Republican. 3216 E. 35th St., Texarkana, 71854. 903-824-8861. jimmy.hickey@senate.ar.govDistrict 27 (Union and Calhoun counties, parts of Ouachita, Cleveland, Clark and Jefferson counties) – Trent Garner, Republican. P.O. Box 11135, El Dorado, 71730. 870-818-9219. trent.garner@senate.ar.gov... (Magnoliareporter)
Yucca Mountain in Nevada.To remove the bonded sodium, the government used a complex process, known as pyroprocessing, which was developed to also separate plutonium from the spent fuel. The spent fuel parts from the reactor are placed in a chemical bath and subjected to an electrical current, which draws off the sodium onto another material. The process is similar to electroplating a kitchen faucet.Back in 2000, the project managers estimated in an environmental report that they could treat 5 metric tons annually and complete the job in six years.But privately, the department estimated that it would take more than twice that long, according to internal documents that Lyman obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.Even that was unrealistic, because it assumed that the treatment plant could work around the clock every day of the year, without down time for maintenance or allowance for breakdowns. Lyman found that during one year — 2012 — no waste at all was processed.Since the project began 17 years ago, 15% of the waste has been processed, an average of one-fourth of a metric ton per year. That’s 20 times slower than originally expected, a pace that would stretch the work into the next century — long past the 2035 deadline.The problem with the breeder reactor waste is just one of many environmental issues at the lab, located on a high desert plateau near Idaho Falls. The federal government gifted the Idaho lab with additional radioactive waste for decades.After the highly contaminated Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver was shut down in 1993, the waste was shipped to Idaho. The Navy has been sending in its spent fuel from nuclear-powered ships.The lab is dealing with tons of waste containing artificial elements, so-called transuranic waste. The Energy Department promised to move an average of 2,000 cubic meters to a special dump in New Mexico, but it has missed that goal for several years, because of an underground explosion at the dump.The Energy Department declined to answer specific questions about the breeder waste cleanup, citing the sensitivity of nuclear technology. It blamed the slow pace of cleanup on inadequate funding but said it was still trying to meet the deadline.“When the implementation plan for the treatment of the [spent fuel] was developed in 2000, there was very limited nuclear energy research and development being performed in the United States,” a department spokesperson said in a statement.“The funding for this program has been limited in favor of other research and development activities. The Department remains strongly committed to the treatment of this fuel in time to meet its commitments to the State of Idaho.”Susan Burke, who monitors the cleanup at the laboratory for the state’s Department of Environmental Quality, said the statewill continue to demand that the waste be ready for shipment out of Idaho by 2035.“The Energy Department is doing the best it can, but our expectation is that they will have to meet the settlement agreement,” she said.Idaho watchdogs are sk... (Los Angeles Times)
