Posted on 04/03/2021 6:04:52 PM PDT by dynachrome
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.
good article. tks for posting.
HOW DARE YOU !!!!
Slow decay of natural sources of radiation is being blamed for reduction of natural volcanism, ice ages and the lack of CO2 in atmosphere.
Volcanos are powered by the radioactive decay, and they are the major source of CO2 on the Earth. As we are, slowly, running out of radioactive materials, Earth is cooling down, volcanic activities are diminishing and so is CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is about 5x less now than in the dinosaur era.
New and improved! Now hiring government school educated affirmative action small brained women, minorities, H1B visa holders, mentally disturbed transgenders, socialists, and ex-cons. Cooling pond and onsite waste storage security staff are now provided Muslim foot baths and prayer rooms. Obedient Japanese engineers trained to operate old white man technologies are now forbidden.
How about first finding a non-Chinese run dump for the pre-existing onsite radioactive waste?
Maybe it will just cause them to grow exponentially. Oh, the huge manatee.
I think a lot of the fluoride from phosphate mining goes into our drinking water. Cheapest way to get rid of it.
Acidity is the real environmental from phosphate retention ponds.
The radioactive businesses is primarily sensationalism.
I was one of those in charge of a “big city” hazmat team for quite a few years. It was my job to evaluate the risks to my crews and the public from various situations that we encountered and also help plan for possible challenges in the future.
If the past year has taught us anything... it has illustrated how shockingly poor the public, politicians, bureaucrats and the media are at calculating any type of meaningful risk assessment. All the media has to do is throw around a few triggering words like radiation, acid, toxins, etc... and they can manipulate the public and politicians into an artificial panic for fun and profit.
Containers made to hold "hazardous materials" often fail and persons such as myself are called on to evaluate what the likely consequences will be, and what actions shoud be taken to stabilize the situation. It is just a fact of life in modern society.
This is a real problem. I don’t think Greta does real problems.
That’s funny ! I used to swim with them and gators 🐊 in the suwanee and Santa Fe rivers back in the 90s. The springs there ( ichetucknee etc ) are AMAZING
An even better option would be to further harvest the original rocks for other items of value. It turns out what we're putting in stacks annually contains nearly as much rare earth elements as is currently being mined in the world. Mostly by Chinese monopolists. That could be extracted and sold for a lot by the phosphate mining firms.. Some U would be extracted, which could also be sold. But there also would be a bunch of Th collected and concentrated by any such process, which they can't sell and for which they'd be liable for eternal storage costs as radioactive 'waste.' Thorium based nuclear reactors have been proposed as a solution to the waste 'problem.' But haven't yet overcome the 'liberal' problem to reach fruition.
Both then.
Everything is radioactive. Coal ash is radioactive. Cement is radioactive.
A lot of to-do over nothing...
The manatees and other animals will not be overly affected...
The plant life will marginally suffer..
This is just another fake-news distraction by our communist rulers...
MSM doing its job...
Peasants mumbling as usual and looking the wrong way...
Dance like a butterfly, sting like a bee...
What’s Florida man been eating that his waste is radioactive?
Li Cohen is a dishonest “reporter”. Phosphogypsum is NOT naturally radioactive. It absorbs low levels of naturally occurring radioactivity/materials in its environment including Thoriuam and Uranium (known to us as background radiation, esp. from granite and other igneous rocks).
A good article at Wikipedia “Phosphogypsum” says that the processed remains of the phosphate made into fertilizer is stored the way it is was because it had “weak radioactivity”.
Also Uranium is found in seawater due to the natural deterioration of rock (aka background radiation).
The mentioned “Center for Biological Diversity” is a hardcore leftist, extremely well (foundation) funded leftist group (out of California as I recall). They are the twin of the far-left Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and not to be trusted.
“social justice” issues writer Li Cohen is a hack journalist and budding Marxist propagandist.
Spread the word: She’s a poisonous fake journalist.
That radiation decline, and the cooling, too, are both negative exponential functions. Which means that by now they are VERY slow declines. Unless there was a trip point of some sort of the internal Earth cooling, something else started the rather sudden and wildly cyclical period of glaciation cycles (Ice Age) we are now in (for roughly the last 40 million years.)
What the beginning of our Ice Age DOES correspond to is movement of continental plates and associated events, most prominent of which has been India crashing into Asia, forming the Himalayas (etc.), which are a giant CO2 sink. The formation of the Isthmus of Panama, changes in ocean currents, solar radiation, vulcanism, etc., also get into the act.
Now, as an aside, and sure to irritate many FReepers, volcanoes for one thing are mainly a source of cooling actors: They emit considerably more SO2 than CO2, and then (shorter term) there are particulates belched high into the atmosphere by the big violent eruptions. (Tambora, for example.) The irritating part is that if one actually goes back to their high school chemistry, checks long held estimates of volcanic emissions over past decades, looks up consumption worldwide of fossil fuels, and does a little math and chemistry, they will find that humans are actually responsible for more CO2 production than volcanoes have been, both during recent decades.
Don’t believe me? Get out a piece of notebook paper or an envelope and run the math and chemistry yourself. Even with the above caveat about SO2 vs. CO2, volcanoes ARE prodigious producers of CO2. But humans are considerably more prodigious in our population. Few people actually comprehend how many of us 7.8 billion is.
I’m not saying some added CO2 is a bad thing: There is some reason to believe we have delayed our next period of glaciation. (Uncertain, as solar radiation “should” be a bigger driver.) I’m ok with a little warmth (and more so as I get older.) Humans REALLY don’t want to go through the next period of glaciation, if it is anything like the last few. They are cold, and, dry. The last such spell very nearly killed off humans.
Yes.
Lot of hazardous materials are really not that hazardous.
Lot of it is media hype. Plus, the people who know are often safeguarding to ridiculous levels, just to be covered from lawsuits.
We are overprotected.
It is reported the pond/lake which is actively leaking supports fish wildlife, including snook. The water is primarily salt water, pH around 5.5. This gyp stack pond was also the recipient of dredging material from berth 12 at the nearby port about ten years ago.
Additional concern revolves around the integrity of adjacent gyp stack ponds, which are considered significantly more toxic (ie unable to sustain life). The concern specifically relates to whether the walls of the adjacent ponds would also collapse with a sudden collapse of the breached pond.
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