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2005-04-08 Home Front: Tech

Concern over radioactive waste near Colorado River

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-08 5:53:25 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Church Rock Disaster - Mmmm! a disaster where no one was killed or apparently injured. Its language like this that causes a lot of people to dismiss this as alarmist claptrap peddled by people who are ideologically opposed to nuclear power.

The reality is all mining without exception leaves waste behind and that waste contains toxic metals and a degree of radioactivity.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-08 7:27:41 PM|| 2005-04-08 7:27:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 phil_b: Church Rock is a major problem. It happens to be upriver from Lake Mead, which is a major water source for Phx, LV, etc. The worst problem may not be the radioactive contamination, but the really nasty heavy metals and other pollutants. It just needs one good flood to create major havoc. Right now, at half-hour intervals, they broadcast in Gallup, NM, warnings not to use water from the river or nearby wells. Church Rock is going to haunt both states for the forseeable future. Its real irony was that it happened just a few months after Three Mile Island, that joke, so everybody already had "nuclear accident fatigue". But whether the contaminants eventually make it to Mead, or they are blown into a populated area as dust, it's still a significant hazard.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-08 8:57:00 PM|| 2005-04-08 8:57:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Somehow, upon seeing the headline I knew it was referring to that uranium tailings pile near Moab. It can be seen on the right when descending out of the hills into Moab on US 191, just after passing the Arches Nat'l Park entrance. Someone driving past not knowing what it is probably wouldn't give it a second thought.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-08 10:10:09 PM|| 2005-04-08 10:10:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 SD Union paper had a series of articles, with the latest saying it was gonna be moved. Ima thinkr to Fla, ok, Ship?

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-08 10:12:46 PM|| 2005-04-08 10:12:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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