Comment: Is this a modern way to shutdown a nasty uranium mill, use crates? No to u mill and mining!
By David O. Williams
Real Aspen – August 14, 2011
Rather than seek an appropriate technological solution, managers of a decommissioned uranium processing mill near Cañon City want the state to let them stop testing a radioactive holding pond because wooden pallets used to cross the pond are sinking into the toxic mud.
Environmental attorneys and watchdog citizen groups point out that the company that owns the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Cleanup site that’s been leaking into local groundwater since the 1950s is Cotter Corp., a subsidiary of General Atomics, which is a division of General Dynamics – the company that makes high-tech Predator Drones.
Read more:
http://www.realaspen.com/blog/782/General-Atomics-subsidiary-wants-to-stop-testing-radioactive-pond-in-Colorado
