Reply #35: the text from that link that is very chilling is..

[bleedingheart]

"We suspect that there are hundreds of such chemical dumpsites across this Nation.

Unlike Love Canal, few are situated so close to human settlements. But without a doubt, many of these old dumpsites are time bombs with burning fuses -- their contents slowly leaching out. And the next victim cold be a water supply, or a sensitive wetland.

The presence of various types of toxic substances in our environment has become increasingly widespread -- a fact that President Carter has called "one of the grimmest discoveries of the modern era."

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Back in Carter's day people knew it would end up being a bigger issue and we all knew that eventually the water supply would be at risk...

Nuclear power has a great deal of risks and a lot of them are subtle...like tritium water..no one notices at first until a number of cancer clusters appear and children are born deformed.
Not all nuclear disasters are earth shattering like Chernobyl ...some are slow and could be just as deadly.

One thing I remember from years ago was that fuel oil companies would get rid of the bad stuff by offering services to help "keep down dust" on local roads...so local muncipalities would pay for these folks to help keep the old dirt roads from being so "dusty"...so the fuel oil companies would spray sludge onto the roads....it kept the dust down and also seeped into the well water....