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Fire at Y-12 National Security Complex on August 6th _________________ ________ Spent Nuclear Waste (Fuel Rods and Other) Threatened

Posted by miningawareness | Saturday August 13, 2016

The US active and recent fire map shows a fire at what seems to be the Y-12 site last Saturday, August 6th.

Fire map source: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/index.php The yellow dot is the center or estimated center. Y-12 location icon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex

“The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of EnergyNational Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan Projectfor the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs. In the years after World War II, it has been operated as a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components and related defense purposes. Y-12 is managed and operated under contract by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS), which is composed of member companies Bechtel National, Inc., Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., ATK Launch Systems, Inc., and SOC LLC, with Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. as a teaming subcontractor. CNS also operates Pantex Plant in Texas.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex (Contractors as of late 2014. We haven’t verified current contractors.)

Y-12 is where the highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Japan was recently sent: http://web.archive.org/web/20160813103500/https://nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/nnsa-announces-arrival-plutonium-and-uranium-japan%E2%80%99s-fast-critical-assembly Foreign waste HEU seems to stay in South Carolina, awaiting probably dilution and burial, as in this Swiss Spent HEU fuel (waste): http://web.archive.org/web/20160304185257/http://nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/last-heu-removed-switzerland-under-nnsa-collaboration

About the fire data | Available fire data:

“KML Descriptions:
Fire Detections – MODIS (1km), VIIRS (375m and 750m), Landsat 8 (30m), AVHRR (1km) and GOES (4km) fire detections by time/date of occurrence within the last 6, 12 and 24 hours, and the 6 days previous to the last 24-hour period.
Fire Radiative Power – Measured fire radiative power (fire intensity) for MODIS fire detections within the last 6, 12 and 24 hours, and the 6 days previous to the last 24-hour period. Available for MODIS and VIIRS-AF only.
Large Incidents – Location and intelligence information of large wildfire incidents currently being tracked by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and Canadian provincial and territorial fire management agencies.
Fire Weather – Current National Weather Service fire weather watch and red flag warnings by fire weather zone. Available for CONUS, Alaska and Hawaii only.
AFM KML Bundle – A single KML containing all available KMLs provided by the Active Fire Mapping Program for each geographic area“. http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/googleearth.php