WIPP plutonium release next Monday, Oct. 20. Restart of contaminated fan.

This is from Myla Reson on Facebook. There was a town hall meeting in Carlsbad yesterday.

During the October16, 2014 WIPP townhall meeting, Nuclear Waste Partnership President, Bob McQuinn gave a presentation on the planned Monday October 20th restart of WIPP surface fan 860A.

Slide number 12 used during McQuinn’s presentation indicates that fan 860A was in use at the time of the mid-February 2014 release of Plutonium and Americium to the environment, and that when the fan is restarted this coming Monday “residual contamination may be released”.

see slide “12”:
http://www.wipp.energy.gov/wipprecovery/Presentations/Town_Hall_Slides_10_16_14.pdf

I’d like to know who authorized the possible release of plutonium and americium that may occur when fan 860A is restarted?

According to the DOE document, “Precautions are being taken to ensure protection of workers and the 
environment”. Why don’t they simply replace the fan?

Time to get your Geiger counters out, and make sure your air filtration units are operating next week. Wish I could do a HYSPLIT prediction of the wind currents, but I can’t now.