Is North St. Louis a Nuclear Disaster in Slow Motion?

[TechBoyJK]

Everyone I know in St. Louis is talking about this. I know two people in the area, one I work with, who are aggressively trying to leave North County. Just weeks ago, my coworker was saying how much he likes the area. Now, he's trying to sell his house.

For reference, this is just a few miles away from Ferguson.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-investigating-possible-cancer-cluster-near-st-louis/

NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. -- An unusual number of rare cancers has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention taking a close look at a community outside St. Louis, Missouri.

"You'll never forget the moment they tell you, 'We found lesions on your lung and your liver,'" said Mary Osckso, who has stage 4 lung cancer.

CBS News met with Osckso and six of her neighbors, all of whom lived in the same north St. Louis suburbs. Every one of these people either has cancer, or lost a parent or child to it.

So basically, if I understand this right (and other stuff I've read), a St. Louis company manufactured much of the nuclear material used in the Manhattan Project. The waste was dumped illegally and not much was done about it. Most people in the area had no idea. On top of that, it's now basically a landfill, and the landfill is on fire and burning right next to the dump. EPA says no big deal.. everyone else disagrees.

 

[Jaskalas]

EPA says no big deal.. everyone else disagrees.

EPA? Maybe they can wash it down the river...

 

[Spungo]

"If we did not have social media, if Facebook did not exist, we would never have put these pieces together," she said.

That simplifies everything. Now we just wait to see which politician proposes a law that makes Facebook illegal. Then we look at who is bribing that politician.
/Columbo

 

[master_shake_]

Murica fuck yeah!!!

 

[Paratus]

It's easy to tell if this is radiation problem.

Take Geiger counter to landfill.
Take readings.
React accordingly.

Unconfined nuclear material is easy to find.

Remember that Russian dissident who was poisoned with polonium in England a few years ago. They back tracked him everywhere from the small amount of nuclear material.

 

[Thanatosis]

St. Louis?



Couldn't happen to a more deserving city in this great country. Good infection.

 

[AntonioHG]

It's easy to tell if this is radiation problem.

Take Geiger counter to landfill.
Take readings.
React accordingly.

Unconfined nuclear material is easy to find.

Remember that Russian dissident who was poisoned with polonium in England a few years ago. They back tracked him everywhere from the small amount of nuclear material.

From article, "The neighborhood park where they played growing up is now padlocked, while construction crews remove radioactive waste discovered beneath the topsoil."

And more, but yeah, it is there.

 

[HomerJS]

St. Louis?



Couldn't happen to a more deserving city in this great country. Good infection.

You are an asshole!

 

[BxgJ]

St. Louis?



Couldn't happen to a more deserving city in this great country. Good infection.

Wtf is this?

 

[sm625]

"If we did not have social media, if Facebook did not exist, we would never have put these pieces together," she said.

This is not true. This happened in spite of facebook. In the absence of facebook there would be more traffic to real community sites that arent so narcissistic that are more focused on getting the information out there and less about me me me.

 

[Spungo]

Wtf is this?

It's the classic "you deserve to be raped" argument.

I laugh when people cause their own problems, but that's not what happened here. These people didn't choose to have toxic waste in their community.

 

[K1052]

Ah the ever giving legacy of Mallinckrodt Chemical. I think that through acquisition Exelon has the liability now but has argued for years that some of the waste is not theirs, thereby gumming up remediation planning/funding.

 

[Paratus]

From article, "The neighborhood park where they played growing up is now padlocked, while construction crews remove radioactive waste discovered beneath the topsoil."

And more, but yeah, it is there.

Guess I should have read the OP.

 

[Strk]

St. Louis?



Couldn't happen to a more deserving city in this great country. Good infection.

Uhhh no? That argument works on the towns that don't want to raise taxes then shut down schools, but not so much on toxic waste being dumped in their backyards.