ProPublicaDec 3, 2022

In America’s rush to build the #nuclear arsenal that won the Cold War, safety was sacrificed for speed.

#Uranium mills that helped fuel the weapons also dumped #radioactive and toxic waste into rivers. Thousands of sheep turned blue & died after foraging on tainted land. #Cancer wards across the West swelled with sick uranium workers.

The government bankrolled the industry but didn’t have a plan for the toxic byproducts of this nuclear assembly line.

https://www.propublica.org/article/uranium-mills-pollution-cleanup-us?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The Cold War Legacy Lurking in U.S. Groundwater

For the first time, ProPublica has cataloged cleanup efforts at the 50-plus sites where uranium was processed to fuel the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Even after regulators say cleanup is complete, polluted water and sickness are often left behind.

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@ProPublica Yes, but an even bigger nuclear threat looms as extreme weather and geophysical events exceed the design capacity at nuclear plants. If the Beaver NPP just down from PGH on the Ohio is hit by a wall of water from the failure of the locks and dams on the Allegheny (now ranked deficient including the Kinzua) after a microburst or small quake (now more probableO, all the water intake plants on the Ohio and Mississippi will cease forever.
Dec 4, 2022 at 5:07pmWeb