SUBURBAN NUCLEAR DUMP FIRE HAS BURNED FOR YEARS. GOVERNMENT "NOT CONCERNED," BUT KEPT MASSIVE EMERGENCY EVACUATION PLAN SECRET UNTIL LAST WEEK.
St. Louis, MO – According to an emergency plan recently distributed by St. Louis County officials, a fire at the Bridgeton Landfill is now within 1,000 feet of a nuclear waste dump. The landfill fire has actually been burning for over 5 years, and they have been unable to contain it thus far.
St. Louis, MO – According to an emergency plan recently distributed by St. Louis County officials, a fire at the Bridgeton Landfill is now within 1,000 feet of a nuclear waste dump. The landfill fire has actually been burning for over 5 years, and they have been unable to contain it thus far.
There are clouds of smoke that have been billowing from the site, making the air in parts of St. Louis heavily polluted. In 2013, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster sued Republic Services, the company responsible for the landfill, charging the company with neglecting the site and harming the local environment.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nuclear-fire-20151020-story.html
Last year, city officials became concerned that the fire may reach the nearby West Lake Landfill, which is littered with decades worth of nuclear waste from government projects and weapons manufacturing. Remnants from the Manhattan Project and the cold war have been stuffed there for generations. The site has been under the control of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 1990, but they have not made any significant effort to clean up the waste.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nuclear-fire-20151020-story.html
Last year, city officials became concerned that the fire may reach the nearby West Lake Landfill, which is littered with decades worth of nuclear waste from government projects and weapons manufacturing. Remnants from the Manhattan Project and the cold war have been stuffed there for generations. The site has been under the control of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 1990, but they have not made any significant effort to clean up the waste.
Although the fire has been burning for over 5 years and the city began making evacuation plans last year, they didn’t tell the public until this past week, when they leaked the emergency plans to local news station KMOX.
BUT THEY HAVE BEEN BEEN FINDING RADIOACTIVE THORIUM IN RESIDENTIAL BACK YARDS AS EARLY AS TWO YEARS AGO
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/27/radioactive-waste-found-in-st-louis-suburbs.html
BUT THEY HAVE BEEN BEEN FINDING RADIOACTIVE THORIUM IN RESIDENTIAL BACK YARDS AS EARLY AS TWO YEARS AGO
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/27/radioactive-waste-found-in-st-louis-suburbs.html
However, this week Koster told the Associated Press that the fire is even closer to the contamination zone than the city officials have even estimated because the radiation extends beyond the walls of the site.
The emergency plan provides very basic options for people to either evacuate the city or stay sheltered in their houses. Aside from saying that nuclear contamination can spread through the area in plumes of smoke, there was little mention in the report about what they actually expect to happen. Also alarming, is the fact that while there is an evacuation plan, there has been no plan proposed to actually stop this, or clean the mess up. It seems that the local government and the EPA are just hoping for the best as the fire continues to spread.
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