Florida, Missouri and New York should all be headline news as they have ongoing nuclear issues that could turn Fukashima at any moment, yet the government, for reasons that baffle, remains silent and the media turns our attention to things that won’t kill us.
Truth and Action shared in March that, “New York State Department of Health has detected deposits of a vast variety of radioactive isotopes both above and below the Indian Point discharge site. Because the Hudson is a tidal estuary, it has been called by Native Americans as “the river that runs both ways.” Thus, just because one may live upstream from the power plant, it does not mean that the leak won’t effect the upstream water sources.
Indian Point schematics provided by the NRC show the site of the leak or leaks is roughly 69 feet above the Hudson River at the beginning of a groundwater flow that widens to about 80 feet as it rushes downward, pools above the bedrock and then flows inexorably into the Hudson River. Once the contaminants enter that groundwater flow there is no system at Indian Point to remove them. Entergy representatives declined to comment on planned and unplanned radioactive discharges into the environment.
This catastrophe has resulted in a rise in cancer levels.
According to a report by RT, Radiation and Public Health Project researchers compared the state and national cancer data from 1988-92 with three other five-year periods (1993-97, 1998-02, and 2003-07). The results, published in 2009, show the cancer rates going from 11 percent below the national average to 7 percent above in that time-span. Unexpected increases were detected in 19 out of 20 major types of cancer. Thyroid cancer registered the biggest increase, going from 13 percent below the national average to 51 percent above.
In spite of the evidence and the dire consequence of such a leak, most in America have not heard about it. Another silent and deadly leak is 1,500 miles south of New York, in the Florida, where the four-decade-old Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant is leaking polluted water into the Biscayne Bay
This has raised alarm among county officials and environmentalists that the plant, which sits on the coastline, is polluting the bay’s surface waters and its fragile ecosystem, reports the NY Times. In the past two years, bay waters near the plant have had a large saltwater plume that is slowly moving toward wells several miles away that supply drinking water to millions of residents in Miami and the Florida Keys.
In December, and January, the levels were far higher than they should be in nearby ocean water which is a telling sign of a much larger underlying problem.
“We now know exactly where the pollution is coming from, and we have a tracer that shows it’s in the national park,” said Laura Reynolds, an environmental consultant who is working with the Tropical Audubon Society and the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, which intend to file the lawsuit, according to the Times. “We are worried about the marine life there and the future of Biscayne Bay.”
Though the scientists may claim the levels of contamination are not high enough to hurt people, are they not under the employ of a silent government that seems to be keeping a tight lid on these looming disasters?
Now travel to Saint Louis, where the air quality is poor due to a fire that has been burning for over five years at the Bridgeton Landfill. The air quality is not of utmost concern at this point, but rather the fact that this uncontained burn is “closing in on a nuclear waste dump”.
Last year, city officials became concerned that the fire may reach the nearby West Lake Landfill, which is littered with decades worth of nuclear waste from government projects and weapons manufacturing. Remnants from the Manhattan Project and the cold war have been stuffed there for generations. The site has been under the control of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 1990, but they have not made any significant effort to clean up the waste.
In December of last year, the EPA announced that it would install a physical barrier in an effort to isolate the nuclear waste. But the timeline given by the EPA said it could take up to a year to complete. Residents aren’t comforted by that timetable, and think the government, despite years of warning, has done too little to stave off a possible environmental disaster. They are right.
Though a settlement has been reached, the wheels of justice and the snail pace of anything government related put the citizens near West Lake Landfill in harms way. Their deep concern for personal safety is legitimate.
This is the reality found in parts of the United States, but the government has kept stories like this from being told and the media has turned our eyes to things that in the grand scheme of life are innocuous.
Source: The Free Thought Project
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