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09-16-2016, 07:58 PM #1
Florida sinkhole causes radioactive water to leak into aquifer
Florida sinkhole causes radioactive water to leak into aquifer
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KTRKImage The sinkhole - about 45 ft (14m) in diameter - was discovered on 27 August
About 980 million litres of radioactive water have leaked into Florida's main underground source of drinking water, officials in the US state say.
The leak occurred after a huge sinkhole opened up under a phosphate fertiliser firm near Tampa, damaging the stack where waste water was stored.
The water contained phosphogypsum, a slightly radioactive by-product from the production of fertiliser.
The firm, Mosaic, is trying to recover the contaminated water using pumps.
It says there is no risk to the public, as the leak has not reached private water supplies.
"Groundwater moves very slowly," senior Mosaic official David Jellerson was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
However, Jacki Lopez, Florida director of the Center for Biological Diversity, said Reuters news agency: "It's hard to trust them when they say 'Don't worry,' when they've been keeping it secret for three weeks."
The sinkhole - about 45ft (14m) in diameter - at Mosaic's New Wales facility in the town of Mulberry was discovered by a company worker on 27 August.
The sinkhole later caused the waste pond to drain, and the contaminated water has now seeped into the Floridan aquifer.
Aquifers are massive underground systems of porous rocks that hold water.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37390562
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09-17-2016, 10:08 PM #2
Phosphogypsum from central Florida is about 10 times as radioactive as bananas.
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09-18-2016, 01:18 AM #3There are about 1 billion tons of phosphogypsum stacked in 25 stacks in Florida (22 are in central Florida) and about 30 million new tons are generated each year...NO AMNESTY
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