My goodness, just what we need, a radioactive road. Hey fella’s let’s go for a ride and breathe some radioactive dust kicked up by the traffic. Is this a new way to depopulate the planet?
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This just cements (in my mind) just how
much the Biden administration and it’s (3) Letter Agencies don’t care
about the Health and Welfare of the American people.
That this is a proposal @ all is staggering.
That ANY sane person/Agency gives this traction @ all is Criminal
and Thank God NEVER happen because Trump will squash it like a bug on the windshield. ‘Glo Road I-95’ is INSANE!
The Biden administration is INSANE!
RETURN TO SANITY IN (23) days!
WWG1WGA
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Then we can turn out the lights and glow in the dark after we inhale the dust.
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I believe I know just where ‘DOGE’ can start------the ‘E-P-A’
The 49K WAH (that’s Work @ Home) unlabor force
The 95K Armed IRS ARMY!
FEMA
DEI…
Lessee, A Trillion here a TRILLION there
eventually it adds up to some real m$ney!
I’ll personally donate $50.00 to the Joe Biden pResidential ‘Book mobile’
with the caveat I can paste some Targets on her side and plink!
A Road made from Radioactive waste? Really? Seriously?
And these same Mensa Moron’s try to sell ‘Cow Farts’, Monkey Pox, Avian Flu
and oh yeah almost forgot COVID…to us .
‘raises CRITICAL QUESTIONS INDEED!’ S-Stoopid!
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From the article
“Phosphogypsum is a waste product generated by the phosphate industry when processing phosphate ore into the phosphoric acid used in fertilizer. This byproduct contains radium, which decays to form radon, an odorless and colorless radioactive gas linked to roughly 21,000 lung cancer deaths ever year, according to an EPA estimate.“
Yeah, you don’t have to worry about it though! Radon only accumulates in low lying areas right?
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Think of the electricity savings of having a glow in the dark road. No more of them silly streetlights to get in the way of drivers.
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Or in your home. Do they still make the radon detectors you can put in your house?
Hey what’s this new gadget in the dash?
Car salesman: that’s the new improved radon detector that lets you know when to lower the windows. It automatically lowers the windows an inch or two. Don’t worry, you won’t be able to roll them up until the detector says it’s OK.
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My tongue in cheek comment was more about exactly that, it accumulates in low lying and relatively stagnant areas (like basements, where the concentration is high enough to cause cancer)
So it will naturally dissipate in an open air environment like a highway…… right?
I’m certain the study that approves of using this stuff as aggregate in asphalt reads that way. (Though I admit I have not read it, it MUST exist!)
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Hey Will,
Did you hear about the new glow in the dark oranges FLA has developed? I hear they’re very tasty but makes your tongue this funny green color!
Sarcasm off now. 
Edit: correcting the stupid autocorrect
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Hmmm …
Countless Republican elected officials have run on the promise that if we just vote for them (and give them money), they will abolish the Republican Nixon-era EPA. More than half a century has passed, and Republicans still can’t (won’t) do what’s required to rein in or abolish this agency that is at war with fossil fuels, chemicals of all sorts, use of waterways, CO2 emissions, etc.
It is worth noting that the federal government has also failed to establish a nuclear waste repository for spent radioactive materials from nuclear power plants. So, utilities that generate power with nuclear reactors literally store their waste on-site in what looks like blue swimming pools of boron in 55-gallon drums. But, hey, Congress has more important issues to deal with, like who can use the bathrooms at the Capitol or Tik-Tok videos or Taylor Swift concert ticket gouging.
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So, this is Puddin’ Pants 
infrastructure money to improve our (GLO in the dark) roadways! 
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@William191 Soon, we’ll all be GLOing green as we prepare to become inhabitants in MARS to blend/fit in with the little green aliens! 
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I GOT NOTHING MAN!
All I keep seeing in my head is the Liar-in-Chief w/ Hunter
and da Chinese and him saying 1,000 times
I had no business, didn’t speak to him, No I didn’t have sex…Whoops
Wrong Residential Liar!
This guy is Toast!
picture evidence of the Traitor-in-chief in action!
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Keep clam, there are no neutron activated components, just naturally occuring isotopes that have a slightly higher concentration in the waste material. It’s been used in roads for decades, probably as the aggregate in asphalt.
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Still not a comforting thought.
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I lived a few miles north of Gunnison Colorado and they had a uranium processing plant where they made yellow cake uranium.
I guess they didn’t keep very good tabs on the tailings and neighboring asphalt company got a hold of the tailings and used it in the aggregate for the asphalt.
Some of the roads were a little too hot, and they need to be taken back up and replaced.
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All of this only reminds me of when doctors back in the 50s time frame would put a little block of uranium or whatever it was next to a new born to lower the swelling in its neck. It worked but 30-40 years later they all got thyroid cancer. Doing this reminds me of that except on a grand scale.
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I can’t speak to the long term safety of this decision but it does reveal an interesting conundrum.
Many on the right want to completely gut environmental regulations. The EPA has a lot of issues but does everyone here trust corporations to police themselves and not continue to expose us to toxic materials? All the superfund and other polluted sights around the country give me zero faith of that happening. Why hurt your bottom line cleaning up the messes you make when you can just stiff the tax payers with the bill? Not to mention sticking us with the long term toxic after effects.
Those on the right might want to be careful what they wish for. Especially if they don’t have a viable plan to replace the EPA with some other form of effective protections to ensure our air is safe to breath and water safe to drink, etc.
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It’s a real issue, what to do with that left over phosphogypsum. Right now it’s in giant piles around the West Central Florida area, called “stacks”. Often, these stacks leak it into the ground. There was a huge mess in Manatee County a few years back when one of these stacks, which held a big lake at its top full of contaminated water, had a breach and the water almost flooded a community.
Now they’re injecting the wastewater deep into the ground below the water table. Again, what could possibly go wrong?
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