From what I can see, it is absolutely nothing. The radiation charts quoted show spikes each day from the sun starting in the morning and peaking at high noon, and dropping significantly at night, It is measuring solar radiation because there was not enough of leak there to even compete with sunlight in any way at all.

Of course those who drive hits with fear are going to milk this. FOR THE RECORD, Whatever happened happened underground, and even in a contained underground environment no one got enough radiation to get sick. This is a non event, which even if it became an event would simply get sealed off and buried forever from our perspective. This did not happen at Los Alamos, it happened at a nowhere location that can simply be disposed of. I could really care less if there is radiation a thousand feet down a hole, we will never have to worry about it anyway.

This leaked a lot less than Project Gnome, and people went into the chamber created by project gnome afterward, and even after standing in the heart of it, green walls and all, they were fine.

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Here is a great comment left below a piece of fear porn related to this non event

"Remember the Rocky Flats fire of 1957? It released 777,000,000,000 Bq of Plutonium-239 over Denver. That is 2400 times as much as this WIPP release. Remember that? Remember when everybody in Denver was killed and the entire state was left a uninhabitable radioactive wasteland for millennia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_from_the_Rocky_Flats_Plant#1957_fire

Learn some history before spouting more idiotic nonsense."

My comment: Very few in the portion of the alternative media that plays the radiation fear game will pay attention to history. After all, a thousand of anything sounds big, and a billion sounds like even more. Nevermind the fact that a head of a pin, if it was made out of Plutonium, would contain hundreds of trillions of Becquerels. The nuclear field is so precise that the smallest measurement - the becquerel, can be listed in peta units and not mean much.

When talking about what reactor 3 threw all over Japan, the real numbers are peta units multiplied by peta units. Japan has plenty of fatal areas. So much was released that there is no real way for anyone to know how much it was; I guess just add up what was in the reactor to begin with and start from there. Japan is the real issue, not what just happened in New Mexico,where an amount so small was released that a fly turd would dwarf it.

UPDATE: Reports of plutonium being millions of times normal levels outside the WIPP facility still do not mean much, when the normal level is ZERO ATOMS. All it takes is a few million atoms of Plutonium to get out (not enough to construct a single microscopic living cell) because the amount is too small. If they are talking millions, it takes an entire milligram of plutonium to kill someone if they eat it directly, and there are trillions of atoms in a milligram. The bottom line is that this is STILL a non event.

http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/