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Anyone that wants to read more about this should check out "Full Body Burden" by Kristen Iversen https://www.amazon.com/Full-Body-Burden-Growing-Nuclear-ebook/
by clumsysmurf 9y ago
Anyone that wants to read more about this should check out "Full Body Burden" by Kristen Iversen
https://www.amazon.com/Full-Body-Burden-Growing-Nuclear-ebook/dp/B006L7I4AE https://www.amazon.com/Full-Body-Burden-Growing-Nuclear-eboo...
An interview with the author was in the Atlantic a few years ago:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/09/a-september-11th-catastrophe-youve-probably-never-heard-about/261959/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/09/a-septe...
This happened quite a while ago, but similar things are still going on today. Recently, I was considering a job in Pennsylvania, which unfortunately was several miles from the Marcus Hook Sunoco refinery (which has been in operation since 1902). It was recently fined $750,000 for "illegal modifications to equipment that allowed tons of potentially hazardous gases to be released into the air over two years." ...
"According to DNREC, the flare was modified at some point to receive gases from multiple sources throughout the Marcus Hook side of the facility, although no permit for those changes was ever sought by the company."
Those gases included hydrogen fluoride among other things.
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/business/2018/03/16/sunoco-refinery-slammed-750-000-delaware-fines/432609002/ https://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/business/2018/03/...
- jacobush 9y ago"hydrogen fluoride". That's insane.
- sethrin 9y agoHF is the first entry in Derek Lowe's Things I won't work with[0] blog series. There's a video[1] on YouTube of a spill of some eight tons, which killed five and injured thousands; there are some situations for which the best possible outcome is a quick death. The idea of intentionally dumping HF into the atmosphere is nauseating. [0] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2004/03/03/things_i_wont_touch_1 http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2004/03/03/thi... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EpE3JHHoaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EpE3JHHoaI