Florida Is Finally Getting Its Radioactive Road

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1. Well at least I’ll glow in the dark now. Might save on electric costs. Hey, if enough of us get together we could light up a Walmart parking lot and maybe get paid for that. 🙂

2. People won’t touch the roads but what about animals, or when it deteriorates and spreads or how about when it rains? What happens then. Fuckin A

3. This is the origin story for Gator Man.

4. I hate the world

5. Free cancer for everyone!!!

6. Florida, a state with no redeeming value, other than the Everglades…which of course will be destroyed in the coming years.

7. And this is under the current EPA. Just imagine what that will be like come Jan 20th. Good grief.

8. I’m frustrated by the terrible comments for his article and generally in this sub. Did you not read the article? It’s actually pretty balanced.

   It’s a small road, for r&d purposes, on private property owned by the same company and inaccessible to the public, using already existing waste materials that are otherwise sitting out in piles.

9. Look up Florida Man, Florida Woman, Florida Governor or Florida politician

   Nuff said

10. You’ve got to be kidding me. So the Republican administration said “Yeah sure. Screw it. We’re creating jobs. Anything to look good.” Then supposedly a halt was put on it by the Democratic administration, yet it exists, doesn’t it? A true halt would have demanded disposal of such materials at a secure sight, and ended the project entirely. So what did they REALLY do? And! Approved by the very agency in charge of what? Environmental protection and health. For what reason? Profit.

    Are we starting to see how this system works? Are we starting to see how these parties work? None of them really give a shit, nor are effective with anything but discourse. These are the people our population fawns over?

    Radiation never hurt anyone, right? Not even thousands of miles away, or over extended periods? Its not like we have secure facilities, because this stuff is incredibly dangerous in the volume we use it…

    I lived in Florida. It rains like clockwork. Every day in the late afternoon, its heavy tropical rains. Water does what? Erodes material. It seeps between gaps, carrying this stuff with it. The heavier the water, the faster erosion happens. Gravity exists, so where does it all go? Down. Into the ground. The very soil that creates life. Then the water displaces it all, spreading the toxic shit that literally kills us.

    That in turn leeches into the plant life, which grows. It can take a beating before dying, and still pollenate. Pollination travels as far as its allowed, and there is a lot of pollination in subtropical/tropical regions of our planet. So here we are…

    Yellowstone has this issue… In the decades of its existence, for people to marvel at the natural creations before them, they’ve had to expand. Part of this expansion is parking. Cars are filled with toxic chemicals. All cars start leaking these chemicals as they age and wear. Cars are a necessity for modern living, and expensive to buy new, so often are kept and fixed, but the cycle never stops. People drive everywhere, like Yellowstone, for example. They may even stay for extended periods.

    As the cars sit, parked, they drip, and leak these chemicals onto the tar, and same process as above, over decades. Now those fluids are leaking into the rocks and water beneath those, essentially poisoning the water and ground. This happens literally everywhere there is tar, or concrete, or any surface for driving or parking. Let’s add radiation to the equation? Why not? We’ve come this far!

    Profit above all else.

11. Isn’t this the state horrible afraid of vaccines? Lol

12. The state of Florida has approximately 80% of the world’s phosphogypsum production capacity. In May 2023, the Florida legislature passed a bill requiring the Florida department of transportation to study the use of phosphogypsum in road construction, including demonstration projects, though this would require federal approval. After looking it up EPA banned use with radium contamination higher than 10 picocurie/gram(0.01 milligrams (0.00015 gr) of radium per metric ton or a concentration of 10 parts per trillion) since 1990. Trump administration in 2020 did give Federal approval but the Biden administration rolled it back in 2021 citing the rule was too broad. This Federal approval for the demonstration project is a one-time thing.

    Phosphogypsum below the EPA threshold can be used but that seems to be the minority of the product because most of it is stored in large stacks (piles like mine waste). It can be treated to remove the radium but it’s cost prohibitive.

    Because it is a byproduct from fertilizer production such as phosphoric acid something has to be done.

13. OOh, lets pave the governor’s mansion’s driveway with it!!!!

14. Them: Hey, you’re going to this new job site.

    Me: Fuck you! I’m out.

15. Animals? WTF where are the wildlife protections?

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