Desantis signs radioactive waste for roads bill.

[Toddsterpatriot]

With a halflife of 1600 years, and the material being a comparitively few years old, I would guess most of it.

Most is how much?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

There too.

Not in roads.

 

[elektra]

If you don't already understand why birth defects caused by radioactive materials is a problem, I'm not sure I know how to respond to your post

I simply wanted clarification as to what you think the problem is. You need not turn your comment into an attack.

Birth defects, that tells me you have no understanding of radiation or the article's subject.

Simply put, radioactive material is completely harmless, you could eat it and nothing will happen.

Driving over radioactive material will have zero effect.

 

[elektra]

Radioactive enough till the EPA banned it's use in 1989

Banned the use of what, you don't make any sense.

 

[BULLDOG]

Are those materials that dangerous?

No. The EPA just regulates it for fun.

 

[BULLDOG]

Most is how much?

Again, you'll have to ask one of your 5 minute google experts, but with a half life of 1600 years it won't change much in the short time since it was a fresh hazardous byproduct of industrial fertilizer production.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

Desantis just signed a bill that could allow radioactive waste to be used in road construction. Evidently there isn't enough stone, gravel, or sand in the state to use for agregate in Florida's roads. Seems Desantis thinks that would be a good place to get rid of all that radio active phosphogypsum that has been piling up since th EPA started regulating it in 1989. More than 20 environmental groups urged him to not sign the bill, but he apparantly figured his supporters were more likely to prefer to stick it to the tree huggers and not worry about all the birth defects that amount of radioactivity might cause.

MSN

"The bill, which DeSantis signed on Thursday, lists phosphogypsum among “recyclable materials” that can be used for road construction.

Phosphogypsum, a waste byproduct of phosphate fertilizer mining, “emits radon, a radioactive gas,” and contains uranium, thorium and radium, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Radon is “potentially cancer-causing,” an EPA spokesperson told CBS News."

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Look, the phosogympsum came from natural phosphate rock. No radioactivity was added to it by man.

The material is being returned to the ground.

Fertilizers are mildly radioactive, and we sprinkle them on our food crops.

Potassium, an essential dietary nutrient, is also present in large quantities in most fertilizer. Potassium Chloride is salt substitute for people who have sodium restricted diets. You can buy it at the grocery store, and a small container will set off a Geiger counter quite well at 10 times background. And you can sprinkle it on your food.

Robot or human?

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The phosogypsum is not "radioactive waste;" the silly environmentalists are just combining two words inappropriately. It is naturally radioactive, and it is a byproduct of fertilizer production which sustains human life.

Using it on roads means we don't have to dig more holes to bury it, or two dig up rocks to be used in its place.

We should probably put more non-volatile non-soluable waste products in our roads instead of mining new material.

Regards,
Jim

 

[Markle]

Desantis just signed a bill that could allow radioactive waste to be used in road construction. Evidently there isn't enough stone, gravel, or sand in the state to use for agregate in Florida's roads. Seems Desantis thinks that would be a good place to get rid of all that radio active phosphogypsum that has been piling up since th EPA started regulating it in 1989. More than 20 environmental groups urged him to not sign the bill, but he apparantly figured his supporters were more likely to prefer to stick it to the tree huggers and not worry about all the birth defects that amount of radioactivity might cause.

MSN

Your childish scare tactics are a sign of sheer desperation.

Phosphogypsum is the material that has your hair on fire. It is wise to examine its use and only a fool would suggest that it will cause birth defects. Grow up!

Various applications have been proposed for using phosphogypsum, including using it as material for:

• Artificial reefs and oyster beds
• Cover for landfills
• Road pavement
• Roof tiles
• Soil conditioner

According to Taylor (2009), "up to 15% of world PG production is used to make building materials, as a soil amendment and as a set controller in the manufacture of Portland cement". The rest remains in stack.

 

[BULLDOG]

I simply wanted clarification as to what you think the problem is. You need not turn your comment into an attack.

Birth defects, that tells me you have no understanding of radiation or the article's subject.

Simply put, radioactive material is completely harmless, you could eat it and nothing will happen.

Driving over radioactive material will have zero effect.

Birth defects are just one side effect of radioactive material. Cancer is another. Don't know where you got your info, but do you have a credible link that shows radioactive material to be harmless, or even that shows this particular radioactive material to be harmless?

 

[BULLDOG]

Banned the use of what, you don't make any sense.

All uses.

 

[miketx]

Desantis just signed a bill that could allow radioactive waste to be used in road construction. Evidently there isn't enough stone, gravel, or sand in the state to use for agregate in Florida's roads. Seems Desantis thinks that would be a good place to get rid of all that radio active phosphogypsum that has been piling up since th EPA started regulating it in 1989. More than 20 environmental groups urged him to not sign the bill, but he apparantly figured his supporters were more likel to prefer to stick it to the tree huggers and not worry about all the birth defects that amount of radioactivity might cause.

MSN

No longer satisfied to be an expert on submersibles and gas pricing, this week he's a depleted uranium expert.

 

[progressive hunter]

Again, you'll have to ask one of your 5 minute google experts, but with a half life of 1600 years it won't change much in the short time since it was a fresh hazardous byproduct of industrial fertilizer production.

you havent said what your credentials are in nuclear waste??

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

No. The EPA just regulates it for fun.

Well, they are a bunch of pussies.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Again, you'll have to ask one of your 5 minute google experts, but with a half life of 1600 years it won't change much in the short time since it was a fresh hazardous byproduct of industrial fertilizer production.

Is it a gram? A milligram? A femtogram?

 

[BULLDOG]

"The bill, which DeSantis signed on Thursday, lists phosphogypsum among “recyclable materials” that can be used for road construction.

Phosphogypsum, a waste byproduct of phosphate fertilizer mining, “emits radon, a radioactive gas,” and contains uranium, thorium and radium, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Radon is “potentially cancer-causing,” an EPA spokesperson told CBS News."

Ron DeSantis Signs 'Radioactive Roads' Bill Allowing Mining Waste In New Highways

Florida highway construction could use radioactive mining waste tied to cancer under a law signed by the GOP governor.

www.huffpost.com

Look, the phosogympsum came from natural phosphate rock. No radioactivity was added to it by man.

The material is being returned to the ground.

Fertilizers are mildly radioactive, and we sprinkle them on our food.

Potassium, an essential dietary nutrient, is also present in large quantities. Potassium Chloride is salt substitute for people who have sodium restricted diets. You can buy it at the grocery store, and a small container will set off a Geiger counter quite well at 10 times background. And you can sprinkle it on your food.

Robot or human?

www.walmart.com

The phosogypsum is not "radioactive waste;" the silly environmentalists are just combining two words inappropriately. It is naturally radioactive, and it is a byproduct of fertilizer production which sustains human life.

Using it on roads means we don't have to dig more holes to bury it, or two dig up rocks to be used in its place.

We should probably put more non-volatile non-soluable waste products in our roads instead of mining new material.

Regards,
Jim

Asbestos, arsenic, botulism, mercury, formaldehyde, anthrax, and a long list of other deadly poisons that are naturally produced by plants and animals, are naturally produced without the need for anything being added to it by man.

 

[progressive hunter]

Asbestos, arsenic, botulism, mercury, formaldehyde, anthrax, and a long list of other deadly poisons that are naturally produced by plants and animals, are naturally produced without the need for anything being added to it by man.

what are your credentials to support your claims??

 

[BULLDOG]

Your childish scare tactics are a sign of sheer desperation.

Phosphogypsum is the material that has your hair on fire. It is wise to examine its use and only a fool would suggest that it will cause birth defects. Grow up!

Various applications have been proposed for using phosphogypsum, including using it as material for:

• Artificial reefs and oyster beds
• Cover for landfills
• Road pavement
• Roof tiles
• Soil conditioner

According to Taylor (2009), "up to 15% of world PG production is used to make building materials, as a soil amendment and as a set controller in the manufacture of Portland cement". The rest remains in stack.

And that 15% is solely in 3rd world countries with little to no regulation of hazardous materials.

 

[progressive hunter]

And that 15% is solely in 3rd world countries with little to no regulation of hazardous materials.

do you have any credentials or formal education in nuclear waste to back up your claims or not??

 

[elektra]

Birth defects are just one side effect of radioactive material. Cancer is another. Don't know where you got your info, but do you have a credible link that shows radioactive material to be harmless, or even that shows this particular radioactive material to be harmless?

Bananas are radioactive, do you hide from them in the produce section of the supermarket

You must not use smoke detectors either?

And you never go around a campsite at night cause of the radiation?

You also must not like antiques from grandma's China cabinet

 

[BULLDOG]

No longer satisfied to be an expert on submersibles and gas pricing, this week he's a depleted uranium expert.

No. I'm not an expert, and would never claim to be an expert on uranium, depleted or not, or the other things you mentioned. I can, however differentiate between the conclusions of experts in those fields who have studied and worked within their chosen subjects for most of their lives, and the opinion of some anonymous idiot on the internet who offers no creible proof of their claims, but relies solely on insults and conspiracy theories. .