What could possibly go wrong?
Posted on 04/03/2021 6:04:52 PM PDT by dynachrome
Despite the headline, state authorities said, “It is slightly acidic, but not at a level that is expected to be a concern, nor is it expected to be toxic.”
It is more likely that it will have zero effect on Manatees or anyone else. The biggest problem is that it may increase the amount of algae in the water. The risk from phosphogypsums radioactivity to humans is minimal. Oddly enough despite the common perception that the EPA has helped perpetuate that low levels of radiation cause cancer is contradicted by pretty much every study ever done on people who live with higher than normal radiation background levels.
For every 5000 feet in elevation that you are at the background radiation level approximately doubles. People who live at higher altitudes tend to have lower rates of cancer than people who live near sea level. People who are exposed to low levels of radiation where they work also tend to have a lower risk of cancer.
Seriously? This has been a running issue in the ‘critical’ stage for well over two years (https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20190116/commissioners-major-storm-could-cause-piney-point-crisis) and dates back 7 years?
At what point are the citizens going to hold their elected officials responsible for a continual crisis?
This is the sort of thing that still makes me a little leery of nuclear power.
You are referring to nuclear or radiation hormesis.
The dangers of radon and low level radiation are another EPA con job.
How the hell do you end up with a radioactive waste pond in FLA?
It has to be the dumbest place to put one.
All the water goes through the Everglades out to sea.
Generation IV plants are safer than safe.
Interesting. Thanks for the information.
You read my mind.
This is an old gyp stack. I’ve worked around the stuff for years. Even wore a dosimeter for a while and it showed nothing. There’s just enough radiation in the stuff to call it radioactive. Makes for scary news and not much else except for a possible money pump for Morgan & Morgan. Anytime you dig a whole in Florida, you’re going get a smidgen of radiation in the form of radon gas.
Phosphate mining. Big business and big corruption.
Dammit! Don’t we have illegals living in $250 a night hotels looking for work? Giver them a ladder and a red cup to drain it.
Pump it into tankers and drive it to Flint Michigan. It should improve the quality of the local water supply there.
Find the guy who had the water-filled bags around his property to protect it from flooding, and borrow his bags
Was visiting Bradenton in manatee county last week. Did not know of the problem. Seems to me they are trying to conflate radiation from nuke plants with this resort from mining. Anything to besmirch desantis is fair game with the commie press.
Everything is radioactive. Coal ash is radioactive. Cement is radioactive.
There is natural occuring radioactive products in the phosphorus-gypsum composite. As the phosphates are used (naturally occuring in Florida btw and the radioactive parts were already there) what is left behind are small amounts of radioactive elements.
Bananas and spinach are radioactive fyi.
This is hard to understand because the nincompoop writing it doesn’t understand that radioactivity isn’t the same in all elements. Like I said, bananas have radioactive potassium in them. Right now you are getting radiation, from the universe when God made it. Most of the midwestern United States is in a radon belt, where people get radon in their basements. Radon is an alpha emitter (helium) and when it gets in your lungs you get lung cancer. Polonium in cigarettes is an alpha emitter as well. Iodine 129, what is given off during a meltdown like Chernobyl, gives off betas (electrons) and gammas. People take iodine pills so the radiation is absorbed in the pill and flushed out instead of destroying your thyroid (which uses iodine). You poop out radioactive banana parts and it has limited affect on you.
I’m guessing by the fact that there is nothing about the actual radiation levels, it’s probably not that high.
It’s hyperbolic to describe it as radioactive. It does have low levels of radioactivity but it’s not enough to worry about. The bigger issue is its reactivity with waterways and effect on wildlife.
It’s like how people fear the radioactivity of depleted uranium. Meanwhile the safe handling for it says the radiation is effectively blocked by a single layer of clothing.
What could possibly go wrong?
Radioactive minerals are found in phosphates. Refined into fertilizer liberates the minerals to contaminate the refining waste product.
Looks like one of the new modular designs will be built next to my town. Research and electricity production. On the grounds of a more conventional operating plant. We’re really happy about it.
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