Tour A Nuclear Waste Dump!
Wed, Apr 9, 2008
Maxey Flats, Kentucky: once one of the world’s most toxic places, is having an open house on April 19th.
Image from klipspringer on Flickr
Never mind how strange this concept seems, or how close you can get your tour of a nuclear waste dump to Earth Day, there are almost 5 Million cubic feet of radioactive garbage buried in the ground there.
Maxey Flats represents, not surprisingly, the most expensive EPA superfund site in the entire Southeast United States; an area not exactly known for environmental activism.
Nevertheless, it’s supposedly going to be open for tours a scant three days before we are all annually reminded of what bad tenants of the planet we are, and without cost or reservation - a bold step towards transparency for the American government. It will certainly pose an interesting reminder of the errors of previous generations when it comes to the environment.
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April 10th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Nuclear energy is the safest, cleanest, and second cheapest source available to man.
The issues with waste are easily solvable, and entirely with private funds. Almost every other country in the world has proper disposal and reprocessing, but in America the environmentalists have log-jammed the legal process sending costs soaring, making the price of energy go up and up, and basically making us the energy dunces of the world.