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Why the hell does this not get cleaned up?

• aluhut 11y ago
  The first question that came into my mind. This makes it even worse: > the Environmental Protection Agency has asked that no employee rest on their back within the premises So...they know and admit it's bad but instead of locking it up, they come up with such ridiculous "solutions"?!
• ams6110 11y ago
  Probably politics and money. You'd have to go through an eminent domain process to condemn and buy up all that property, dig up and remove all the earth, underground utilities, etc. down to a depth of at least a few feet if not yards (in the process, probably spreading comtaminated dust all over the surrounding area) and then fill it in with clean earth. Many many millions of dollars to do this.
• matheweis 11y ago
  "a sandwich of 2 inches (5 cm) of steel, 2 inches of lead, and another 2 inches of steel has been laid down under almost the entire block" Not cleaned up, but somewhat mitigated and wow that doesn't sound like it was cheap...
  • iSnow 11y ago
    The sheer volume of money and work and the technical difficulties of putting a 15cm thick sandwich of metal underneath a block make me doubt the veracity of the article. Especially coupled with the factual error "separates into the rare-earth Sodium Sulfate". Sodium is nowhere near a rare-earth metal and Monazite is a Cerium/Lanthanium phosphate that contains lots of other elements, Uranium and Thorium among them.