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If the underground fire at the Bridgeton landfill reaches nuclear waste in the nearby West Lake landfill, St. Louis County emergency planners say they’re ready. County Executive Steve Stenger has released to KMOX a plan drafted in October of 2014, which aims “to save lives in the event of a catastrophic event at the West Lake landfill.” The 11-page document warns “there is a potential for radioactive fallout to be released in the smoke plume and spread throughout the region.” Cities in the potential path of radioactive fallout are listed: Bridgeton, Hazelwood, Maryland Heights, the village of Champ and the city of St. Charles. “This event will most likely occur with little or no warning,” the study claims. It also warns that local resources may not be adequate, and there will be a need for assistance from federal sources, the private sector and volunteer organizations. In releasing the document, Stenger says he wants the public to know that the county is preparing for an event that everyone hopes will never take place. “None of this is meant to be alarmist, but you have to be prepared,” Stenger says. The disaster plan would go into effect under the direction of the first responding fire department to the landfill in the event of a surface fire. Pattonville Assistant Fire Chief Matt LaVanchy says if someone were to call 911 and report smoke coming from the landfill, his team would go in first. LaVanchy says equipment would be in place “within a half hour” to test the smoke for possible radiation. If radiation were detected, some nearby residents would be urged to evacuate, and others would be urged to take shelter in their homes. http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/10/05/st-louis-county-releases-disaster-plan-for-west-lake-landfill/ Good luck.
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who would notice
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Oct 6, 2015 20:39
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why in the gently caress is there an underground fire near a nuclear waste disposal site?
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Oct 6, 2015 20:40
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Moridin920 posted:why in the gently caress is there an underground fire near a nuclear waste disposal site? the earth is full of lava so its basically underground fires everywhere
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Oct 6, 2015 20:43
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i alwaays thought why not dump waste down like a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge hole where nothing could ever reasonably happen to it that would affect humans, but no we just half rear end it like everything else
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Oct 6, 2015 20:44
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good, they deserve this for what they did to pizza
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Oct 6, 2015 20:46
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Can we nuke Missouri?
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Oct 6, 2015 20:51
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i want to get high on slow burning radioactive waste
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Oct 6, 2015 20:51
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welp, 
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:i alwaays thought why not dump waste down like a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge hole where nothing could ever reasonably happen to it that would affect humans, but no we just half rear end it like everything else e: Importantly though modern nuclear energy does not necessarily need to develop much waste, this issue is more a relic of the past ArbitraryC fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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Oct 6, 2015 20:53
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:i alwaays thought why not dump waste down like a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge hole where nothing could ever reasonably happen to it that would affect humans, but no we just half rear end it like everything else In master of orion 2 this is a legitimate technology to research
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ArbitraryC posted:Because the technology doesn't really exist to house nuclear waste permanently so you have to design the storage to be accessible in the future before it all leaks out into the ground and ends up in your water supply. For example the lab I work at is close to where we developed the bombs for ww2 and there we have a bunch of nuclear waste containers that are currently slowly leaking because past engineers were like "in the future they'll figure this out, we only need these vessels to last until the 70's" and now it's 2015 and we're still not sure how to handle them. Oh drat. Dumb plan, but pretty American imo
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Oct 6, 2015 20:54
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this poo poo is peak stl if it happens there'll be a radiation plume over the drat airport and that'll be loving hilarious imo
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Oct 6, 2015 20:57
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They illegally dumped waste there from the Manhattan project, that is why it's there you gibbering idiots.
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Oct 6, 2015 20:57
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it'll probably just work itself out
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Oct 6, 2015 20:59
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:Oh drat. Dumb plan, but pretty American imo There wasn't really much else they could do, you could just make more and more shells around the tanks to make them last longer but it's basically just a matter of how many generations they wanted to kick the can down to.
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Oct 6, 2015 21:00
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dump all radioactive waste in space or central africa
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Oct 6, 2015 21:03
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sounds effen gay. reminds me of a big old dick
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Oct 6, 2015 21:04
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ArbitraryC posted:There wasn't really much else they could do, you could just make more and more shells around the tanks to make them last longer but it's basically just a matter of how many generations they wanted to kick the can down to. probably cant make a hole as deep as im imagining, really
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Oct 6, 2015 21:06
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Mr. Pumroy posted:i want to get high on slow burning radioactive waste
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Oct 6, 2015 21:09
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I hope this means the Cardinals have to disband.
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Oct 6, 2015 21:10
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More ghetto land in St. Louis to house the unwashed
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Oct 6, 2015 21:10
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Fishy Joe posted:dump all radioactive waste in space or central africa then where would we store your posts
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Oct 6, 2015 21:10
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SAINT louis? er ok
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Oct 6, 2015 21:10
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Lil Peeler posted:In master of orion 2 this is a legitimate technology to research Lol I was trying to look up the name for this (I think they were deep core dumps) and found out that in real life it's also a legitimate technology to research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal
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Aralan posted:Lol I was trying to look up the name for this (I think they were deep core dumps) and found out that in real life it's also a legitimate technology to research ya this
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Oct 6, 2015 21:17
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:probably cant make a hole as deep as im imagining, really
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Oct 6, 2015 21:18
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Dr Cheeto posted:Can we nuke Missouri? This but unironically.
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ArbitraryC posted:Because the technology doesn't really exist to house nuclear waste permanently so you have to design the storage to be accessible in the future before it all leaks out into the ground and ends up in your water supply. For example the lab I work at is close to where we developed the bombs for ww2 and there we have a bunch of nuclear waste containers that are currently slowly leaking because past engineers were like "in the future they'll figure this out, we only need these vessels to last until the 70's" and now it's 2015 and we're still not sure how to handle them. Ok put the old containers in bigger newer containers. SOLVED SEND ME MY CHECK!
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ArbitraryC posted:There are limits to this kind of technology yeah, but I couldn't tell you what they are or how far off we are from it being a possible thing to do. There are 3 factors in how you deal with radiation, distance, shielding, and time, so putting it deep in the ground would certainly be effective so long as you can guarantee it's not near any groundwater but drilling really deep is significantly easier said than done. IIRC the most recent plan in washington was to just shove the waste into a man made pocket in a mountain, but that fell through due to a mixture of things. 
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Oct 6, 2015 21:20
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Oh poo poo, everyone in Ferguson is going to get superpowers. There won't be a CVS left standing on this planet!
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Oct 6, 2015 21:20
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Tenzarin posted:Ok put the old containers in bigger newer containers. SOLVED SEND ME MY CHECK! I think this is a plan they have legitimately looked into but there's an issue of the structural integrity of the current ones.
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Oct 6, 2015 21:20
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Missouri loves company
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Oct 6, 2015 21:21
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What if we just bury it underground and light it on fire
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Oct 6, 2015 21:21
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This is what community looks like *pans through a neighborhood of screaming zombies, flesh bubbling off* Show them what community looks like *armed forces at road blocks shooting contaminated missourans trying to flee* This is what community looks like
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Oct 6, 2015 21:22
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So far I think all they've really done is make the waste more thick by removing moisture which retards the rate it's presently leaking into the environment.
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Oct 6, 2015 21:22
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dont say retard
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Oct 6, 2015 21:22
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It is extremely funny to me that we as a species have to live with tons of highly toxic man made waste for tens of thousands of years because we got in a dick waving contest with the Soviets for a few decades.
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Dr Cheeto posted:They illegally dumped waste there from the Manhattan project, that is why it's there you gibbering idiots. this, it's not even an actual waste disposal site, it's a Superfund site because of poo poo idiots did 50 years ago
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We got some o that Fukushima funk in are dumpster fire chief *dons big boy helmet and ring binder with a nuke sign on it* Don't worry I got this
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