Highly radioactive spill near Columbia River in E. Washington worse than expecte

[Marlin]

Highly radioactive spill near Columbia River in E. Washington worse than expected

https://news.yahoo.com/highly-radioactive-spill-near-columbia-185553698.html?guccounter=1

[Mounder]

"The spill has not reached the groundwater, where it would travel underground the short distance to the Columbia River, based on data from monitoring wells, DOE said Thursday."   Short Distance of over 5 miles....

[RTRT]

"In a statement Thursday, the Department of Energy said the contamination in the soil at the Hanford 324 Building 1,000 feet from the Columbia River." Yep only a thousand feet from the river. I stood at those airlock doors many times.

[Mounder]

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-the-US-Department-of-Energys-Hanford-site-state-of-Washington-showing-the_fig1_326526358

whoops. Looked at a questionable map, that is wrong and it was in kilometers anyway! (3 miles) You're absolutely right.  Didn't believe the quote in the article. Cesium, being water soluble, is a big deal if it can get to the water table.