Truck Carrying Radioactive Load Crashes
Hazmat Team Says Containment Wasn't Broken
POSTED: 6:04 pm PST December 22,
2008
UPDATED: 6:22 pm PST December 22,
2008
LA GRANDE, Ore. -- A semitrailer that was carrying a low-level radiation load jackknifed and crashed on Interstate 84 Monday afternoon.No one was hurt when the commercial semitrailer lost control, jackknifed, went off the road and collided with a rock wall, Oregon State Police said.Oregon troopers, ODOT workers and the La Grande Fire Department's Regional Hazmat Team responded to the scene, police said.The Hazmat team found that there had been no breach of the container with the unidentified load.The semitrailer and its cargo will be towed to a secondary location before being taken to its destination of Perma Fix in Richland, Wash.According to the Web site for Perma Fix, the company houses "offices, laboratories, and processing facilities for the treatment of low level radioactive and low level mixed waste."The right westbound lane was closed while crews worked to get the truck towed.









