Report: Incompatible cocktail to blame for nuke dump mishap *edited*

[Ptah]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- An incompatible combination of nitrate salts and
organic cat litter is to blame for a mishap that forced the closure of the nation's
only underground nuclear waste repository, according to findings released Thursday
by an independent team of experts from national laboratories around the country.

The technical team was charged by the U.S. Energy Department to investigate all
the possible scenarios that could have led to the release of radioactive material at
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in February 2014.

The report comes more than a year after a single container of waste stored at the
repository breached and contaminated 21 workers with low-level radioactivity. That
container had been packed at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

While it couldn't determine the cause of the breach with absolute certainty, the team
said it was clear a thermal reaction inside the container forced the lid to pop.


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[djean111]

1. So, yeah, let's make more of this shit, because what could possibly go wrong?

Did someone tell those exposed workers that they would have gotten the same amount of radioactive exposure if they were strapped to the wings of an L-1011, or worked on a banana plantation, so STFU and don't whine?