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Sinkhole causes 980 million litres of radioactive water to leak into Florida aquifer
The Telegraph ^ | 17 SEPTEMBER 2016 | Chris Graham

Posted on 09/16/2016 6:52:26 PM PDT by Rabin

A sinkhole has opened up at a fertilizer plant in the US, causing about 260 million US gal of radioactive water to contaminate a part of Florida's main sources of drinking water. The sinkhole, which is about 15. yd in diameter, collapsed beneath a pile of waste material called a “gypsum stack”. Sitting on top of that stack was a storage pond containing phosphogypsum, which is a radioactive byproduct resulting from the production of phosphate.

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To: Frank_2001

Watch for the drug cartels
to come up with assault sinkholes.


41 posted on 09/18/2016 1:45:08 PM PDT by sparklite2 (The game overs whether you play it or not.)
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To: Rabin

Does that mean some Floridians will LIGHT UP THE NIGHTS with their radioactive bodies?


42 posted on 09/19/2016 5:03:29 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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