How do you dismantle a nuclear submarine?

Re:How do you dismantle a nuclear submarine? by chiph on Thursday July 23, 2015 @01:18PM (#9937148)

For instance both INL and Hanford have suffered unusual radiation leaks from tumbleweeds blowing into waste cooling ponds, picking up contaminated water, and then being blown over the facility's perimeter by the wind.

Radioactive tumbleweeds. There's two words used together that I never anticipated.

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Re:How do you dismantle a nuclear submarine? by mikeyouse on Thursday July 23, 2015 @07:49PM (#9939217)

Hanford is a disaster of never-before-seen proportions in the US.. It's going to take decades as well as hundreds of billions of dollars to clean the site. From reading about how the waste was handled there (dumped down deep unlined holes in the flood plane), radioactive tumbleweeds are not the least bit surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site#Cleanup_era

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