Inaccurate Whitewashing Of Stupid

[funranium]

This news story is inaccurate and suffers from great sins of omission.  Slightly better coverage is here.

Based upon first hand accounts, several someones deserve jail time for malfeasance and dereliction of duty.  I will hope for a more complete story to come out.  Suffice it to say, no matter how much dilution of guilt there is and how many people retire rather than be fired, the building is crapped up along with most everything in it.  It is going to be expensive and take a very long time to clean, if it ever is.  A little plutonium goes a very, very long way toward crapping up a big space.  The stuff practically crawls around the room.

The media got one thing right at least, plutonium isn't much of hazard outside the body.  Get it inside however...again, a little goes a very, very long way.

Comments

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Shiny. Keep us updated :)

[funranium.livejournal.com]

*I* can't. However, I will be watching for news, but I don't expect I'll see much. This is an embarrassment that people would like to go away. And there are many more fucked up things in the world for the media to not pay attention to every day.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

yeah. trying to get follow up on damn near anything sucks.

[toxgunn.livejournal.com]

Well, there is some info at www.nrc.gov. Look up event 44281

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

I used to use a lot of NIST glass standards when doing the ion microprobe U-Pb dating in Canberra. If their lab procedure for spills is that bad, maybe we shouldn't have trusted the accuracy of their standards that much...

[funranium.livejournal.com]

You aren't the only one with that thought.

Of course their science is probably just fine, but a bad safety culture does not reflect well upon the diligence of their work. Cowboy research is not generally looked upon as being professional or reliable.