Radioactive waste will roll through area (St Louis)

[struggle4progress]

Beginning Monday and extending through the end of the year, trucks loaded with thousands of tons of radioactive waste will pass through the St. Louis area on their way to a temporary resting place in Texas.

More than half of the waste will be making its second visit here. It came from the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works on the riverfront just north of downtown. Mallinckrodt, an atomic-age pioneer, altered the course of World War II by developing a way to purify uranium to the grade needed to make the atomic bomb.

After the war - in the 1950s - 6,000 tons of radioactive byproducts from the processing were shipped to a uranium processing plant northwest of Cincinnati, where it was kept in silos. There it has stayed for the last half-century. But now the Department of Energy is intent on cleaning up the site at Fernald, Ohio, and shutting it down for good because it's located near a major water supply and heavily populated areas. That means finding yet another home for the waste. <snip>

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/1D6508C16E54619B86257016000F68B5?OpenDocument

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Thank God, for R.F.K. j.r! thank Shrub for "Dominion Theocracy"

[MichiDem]

2. Sounds like good news

cleaning up a river front that is contaminated with radio active waste.

[struggle4progress]

5. This stuff was removed from the river front fifty years ago.

And if I remember correctly, the Mallinkrodt site was flooded in the big flood about a decade ago -- so if anything was left, it might simply have washed around the city ...

[cornermouse]

3. God, please don't let me find myself following one of these

potential death machines down the highway.

[pie]

4. The security must be mind blowing

I would turn off and take an alternate route.

[cornermouse]

6. Security costs money.

Probably also draws attention. I would bet money that there is NO security.