Full title: EPA orders cleanup at St. Louis nuclear waste site. What does it mean for the nation’s other toxic messes? Is this what happens when responsible people are put in charge of agencies? Instead of using their government powers to attack "evil" corporations, they are doing their jobs. The EPA is now working to protect and restore our environment. 27 years of swamp rule have been exposed as fraud by 1 year of Trump. "The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered a long-awaited cleanup of a Superfund site northwest of St. Louis, saying residents living near the landfill contaminated with World War II-era nuclear waste deserve action after waiting 27 years for federal regulators to issue a decision. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to partially excavate tons of radioactive material from the West Lake Landfill over five years — at an expected cost of $236 million to the liable companies — goes beyond a 2008 solution proposed by the George W. Bush administration to cover and monitor the waste." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ns-other-toxic-messes/?utm_term=.a2c5f51e5963
Shoot that stuff to the moon and bring back the equivalent amount of clean, nonradioactive moon dust -- to keep the orbits steady as these presently appear to be.
I think the amount of precautions used to clean up some of these polluted sites are just ridiculous, and result in the clean up costs being exorbitant. A little bit of common sense in the approach, by engineers directly familiar in the field, would be a lot more pragmatic. You might get 95% of the pollution cleaned up for a tenth of the cost. People wonder why industry is leaving America. Of course I believe businesses should be held responsible for their negligence and clean up costs, but it's a waste of money to be handling these clean up cases the way they are and expect everything to be restored to absolutely pristine condition. There's a lot of stupidity in the public and these environmental agencies and they just don't have a good understanding of cost-effectiveness. Another component of this, maybe nuclear power generation facilities should be located in places where it wouldn't be a terrible disaster if some radioactive waste leaked out and didn't get entirely cleaned up. Maybe try to locate them in dry barren unpopulated desert areas, away from any bodies of water that could spread contamination. Special superconductor power lines could be used to bring the electricity to more populated areas far away.
They'll need to be careful. That landfill has an underground fire that's been smoldering for years. The St. Louis metro area has actually done emergency drills on how to respond and best evacuate people should the fire conflagrate.
Ayup...its about time someone did SOMETHING! https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live
