The Fallout (2017)

There is a recent HBO Documentary about this landfill called Atomic Homefront https://www.atomichomefront.film/about/

The government also sprayed (possibly radioactive) chemicals on low income areas of St Louis during Cold War https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-cold-war-tests-in-st-lou...

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/suit-fi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-GK_OOjYEw

Lookup Operation LAC (this is one reason we have chem-trail conspiracies)

On the other end of St Louis they had to remove an entire city in one of the worst ecological disasters in the USA Dioxin Times Beach, MO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri

https://www.stlmag.com/Remember-Times-Beach-The-Dioxin-Disas...

One of my teachers from St Louis worked for a major chemical company there that made some really dangerous products. He claimed for extra money they paid employees $20 a barrel to put barrels in their cars & dump them in the river or elsewhere, during your commute back home. He died rather young of cancer.

While governments & the war machine played a major role in many ecological disasters & toxic & radioactive disasters, perhaps as the reason for the initial production, for-profit companies have their hands in the R&D, the production, the distribution & allegedly safe removal & storage. After these companies split up the profits between executives & investors, they usually go through a series of paper sales or just shut down to protect the beneficiaries from legal liability. The problems are then outsourced to the government and the taxpayers pay millions or billions for the cleanup and litigation. Sometimes the "efficiencies of the free market" have an enormous hidden price tag.

I find it interesting that the people in the story seem amazed that the government would actually do something that was dangerous to the general population.

I’m not suggesting tin foil hats, but it seems that experience shows that governments regularly do things that end up harming others either through ignorance or incompetence.

Wait till all the chemicals used for fracking finally make the drinking water of big cities unusable.

And no, Europe won't take refugees from the US.

If it is so bad, why isn't anybody making a short, accessible story out of it?

I read as far as the cancer map. I wonder if the population density is perhaps simply higher around the creek. I can't tell from the map.

> Even if every gram of radioactive waste were removed from the landfill, where would it go? There are facilities in Idaho and Utah willing to accept it. But those facilities are located in communities, or near them, and those people don’t want this waste in their backyards or their gardens or their rivers or their drinking water either. Even if we box it up and send it in train cars to remote places, it will be there, ready and waiting to kill any of us long after we’ve forgotten where we put it, or what “it” even is.

I know there are a lot of HN readers that keep pushing for nuclear power. This article seems to suggest we're not ready for it. It's as simple as asking for one more failure, which can, apparently permanently destroy large areas of land.

The US government should buy every property and relocate all of those people and give them all 2 acres of land.