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In reply to the discussion: 'Bizarre' Cluster of Severe Birth Defects Stuns Health Experts [View all]bkanderson76
(266 posts)the mid 70's for the very same reasons being considered today. The Hanford Facility is the largest dump for the nation's nuclear waste, sometimes being shipped from as far away as Bangor Maine.
Not a scientist by any means but an environmental activist from Idaho at the time, this unwarranted glowing trash disposed under the Washington sand leaked then and most surely does now. This problem of this leaking dump is two-fold as the winds of the area are generally of easterly direction blowing clouds of disease into the northern Rockies of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming and sits above one of North America's largest flowing aquifers to which a large populace tap into. A pristine ecosystem including the Columbia river.
Go figure....stood there them days along the rail tracks in Idaho and at the gates of Hanford freezin my balls off with my little sign, watchin everybody scurrying along to get their BigMac with no concern, wavin at the freak with the sign.
So from me to you I say....have a nice day now....and go blow...and glow