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maxsolomon

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17. "the project is at least as protective of public health as maintaining the phosphogypsum in a stack."

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #14)

Tue Dec 24, 2024, 03:25 PM

16 hrs ago

There are hills ( AKA "stacks" ) of phosphogypsum piled up all over the nation, so I think Mosaic's trying to figure out some other way to deal with the waste stream.

It's research. Research is OK with me.

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EPA approves pilot project to make road out of radioactive material in Florida [View all] BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP

I'm sure it'll be in the highest income areas LetsGetSmartAboutIt Yesterday #1

amd, of course this stuff is done in poor black neighborhoods rampartd Yesterday #3

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Sounds a lot like what is speculated as one of the things that helped kick off evolution. cstanleytech 7 hrs ago #21

perhaps the gift we leave the surviving species as we slouch towards extinction rampartd 6 hrs ago #22

I'm kinda meh over it though as the problems with the radon seem to occur when it's long term concentration. cstanleytech 6 hrs ago #23

after katrina, thousands of hhomes repaired with "chinese drywall" essentially radioactive gypsum rampartd 6 hrs ago #24

They'll find a way... 2naSalit Yesterday #4

Phosphogypsum used in playground surfaces? maxsolomon 16 hrs ago #15

Yup... 2naSalit 16 hrs ago #16

When it rains, the radioactive material will leach into the surrounding soil. no_hypocrisy Yesterday #5

110 Percent Dum djacq Yesterday #6

Trump approved it, Biden stopped it's approval years ago but what...the EPA head and others decided to re-instate it? Bengus81 22 hrs ago #7

Trump had already picked Lee Zeldin to head the EPA Jose Garcia 21 hrs ago #8

Current EPA head Michael Regan BumRushDaShow 21 hrs ago #9

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music 14 hrs ago #18

What else could go wrong in Florida? Clouds Passing 20 hrs ago #10

This is Cherokee100 20 hrs ago #11

Just when you think Florida could not get stupider... NotHardly 19 hrs ago #12

A little more on this PILOT project: maxsolomon 17 hrs ago #13

I included a link to the Federal Register notice BumRushDaShow 17 hrs ago #14

"the project is at least as protective of public health as maintaining the phosphogypsum in a stack." maxsolomon 16 hrs ago #17

WTF? We are slipping into insanity. And Rod Serling isn't narrating anymore. Evolve Dammit 10 hrs ago #19

It's the radioactivity stupid. It has HALF-lives of thousands of years. No better way to tell future generations FU. Evolve Dammit 10 hrs ago #20

Long half-lives usually means less dangerous. NutmegYankee 3 hrs ago #25

It shall be named "Cancer Road" sakabatou 1 hr ago #26

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