Sorry about the huge graphic, but it needs to be this size to read the detail.
PLEASE READ THE CHART BEFORE PANICKING!
And Yes, we are all gonna DIE!... sometime in the net 50 to 100 years, give or take a few.
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The MSM will be playing “find the Republican” with this one.
OMG. This sounds incredibly bad. How dangerous is it for the people? What area does the aquifer serve?
Actually, if memory serves, there have been at least a couple of sinkholes in Florida; maybe many more. I think there was one man who died when he was sleeping when his house fell into the ground.
So much development on what is basically swampland.
The Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu National Park Australia produces high grade ore at a site which has been inhabited by Aboriginals for 30,000 years - with no genetic or other issues evident. US greenies are caught between the hard place of the publics' cynicism about global warming and the rock of Jill Stein's failing campaign. All they've got left is all they ever had - alarmism.
Damn. Usually, with an environmental disaster this bad, the EPA is responsible.
Why was this allowed in the first place? What sense is it to store any hazardous material above an aquifer?
A measure of how much radioactive water was leaked is stupid. If I pour a teaspoon of banana juice into a glass of water, that water is now radioactive. If I throw that glass into a lake, does that make the lake radioactive?
Everything is radioactive. The issue is how radioactive is it.
The article refers to radioactive phosphate. Well, all phosphate is made out of phosporus, and all phosphorus is slightly radioactive. Hence, my reference to banana juice. But seriously... how much radioactivity are we talking about? Is this phosphorus *extra* radioactive, somehow? More radioactive than the vats of phosphoric acid that Coca-cola legally mixes into Coke, with the worst health risk being osteoporosis?
This same exact thing happened there in 1994. The company was supposed to “repair” things. That’s the trouble with Florida. It’s full of potential sinkholes.
Sorry about the huge graphic, but it needs to be this size to read the detail.
PLEASE READ THE CHART BEFORE PANICKING!
And Yes, we are all gonna DIE!... sometime in the net 50 to 100 years, give or take a few.
Just wonder how they are going to spin it so the EPA can say it was preventable and fine them billions.
Who was the geologist that gave the okay for this
project?
The article says the sinkhole is in Mulberry, FL. I drove through Mulberry once, back around 1990. There is so much phosphate mining between Bartow and Mulberry, that the landscape looks like the moon, not like Florida.
IIRC the radioactivity comes from Radium in the phosphate.
Eat two bananas and then stay away from any Geiger counters.
This is 3 miles from my house . i have well water oh boy
Does that mean some Floridians will LIGHT UP THE NIGHTS with their radioactive bodies?