@dollarindex: Fire at a US Nuclear Weapons Site: What We Know (and Don't) #Fire #southcarolina #savannah #emergency #breaking

Carolina Sons :

How scary imagine if you’re one of the 12,000 people that work there and actually understand this place.

kaitlyn :

i just want to let everyone know that is required to report any incident like this, regardless of the severity, so it always come across way scarier than it is. this specific incident was a small fire and there was not a contamination issue. please don’t fear the savannah river site!

KaiserSkateLab :

Told a local TV news station?

Imafordman :

It shuts down roads and above because it’s procedure. Also they have to inform the public when a site area emergency is declared. If we were in another country we may never know when something like that happens. You can praise the USNRC for that.

S.CRedFish1 :

that's pretty crazy because multiple places are reporting different information one says radioactive contaminants outside the safety zone

Amie Beard :

This is my home town and my daughter was there when it happened. I have lived here all my life. Very scary incident for sure.

Suki_E004 :

That is incorrect. There was no “massive radioactive release”. The fire was quickly contained and everything is fine. Also SRS does not make bombs at least not right now. Nor have they. They had active reactors a longtime ago that have been shut down and sealed. They have a video on YouTube and they offer tours. This is coming from someone who lives down the road and has many friends that work there.

@siren gulch :

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Kenzie! :

I live by the Catawba Nuclear Station, like within range that I’d die immediately if it blew up. They better tell me ASAP if they fuck smthn up

Hazy36 :

This was nothing I lived through 3 mile island in 1979 living in Jackson now in the shadow of the site the safeguard and protocols they have are insane. Nothing to worry about.

GnosticVirgoOx :

What we know about the recent incident at the federal Savannah River Site in South Carolina is that a Site Area Emergency was declared on Wednesday evening after a fire broke out inside a single room at the Savannah River National Laboratory. To handle the situation safely, officials quickly instituted strict precautions, sheltering nearby workers and briefly restricting air, rail, river, and vehicular traffic. Thankfully, the blaze was successfully extinguished, only one employee suffered minor injuries, and rigorous radiological surveys confirmed no detectable levels of contamination outside the facility, allowing the complex to return to normal operations later that night. What we don't know yet is the exact cause of the fire or the specific radioactive materials involved during the initial unfiltered ground-level release classification. Historically, this Cold War-era complex was built in the 1950s to manufacture plutonium pits and tritium for nuclear weapons, and today it focuses on environmental cleanup and nuclear waste management. As Albert Einstein once beautifully observed, "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." 🕊️It is comforting to see that stringent safety protocols worked exactly as intended to keep the local community safe. 🛡️✨

Matthew :

I’d like to be told immediately, but unfortunately, with all the propaganda we are dealing with. I doubt we would be told to way late.

Jacobeys :

That’s the thing about radiation is that you won’t know it’s hurting you till it’s too late. Immediate injuries are usually never present only after about 6-8 hours then you’ll know unless they were exposed to very high doses of radiation then you’ll know right away.

Red Head Vet Tech :

Aiken resident here…do I need to freak out or nah…

Aaron🖤🫶🤜✨ :

It was a small fire in a lab that was quickly contained. No radiological release.

💩🅱🆄🅱🅱🅰 🅲🆁🅾🆂🅱🆈 :

I'm in Augusta ga and I would like to know as soon as possible

Bomani Sentwaki❌️ :

I'm in Augusta, If something happens at SRS, we're COOKED!

Mr. House :

gave me chills getting the site emergency robo call for it, 4 years and only ever gotten it for weather, and now here i am back at work lol

onions_football :

This was a nothing burger. They announce emergency for just about anything out of protocol.

Alex :

I live in Aiken and had no idea this was happening

Samantha :

And how is it that as someone who lives near there, I had no idea

Nichole Patterson :

I live in Martinez (Augusta). Local news said 1 injured

JamesMcWhinney83 :

Everything is back to normal again correct ??

Rica5 :

immediately

Gages_ reviews :