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    As this post in The Point Live today makes clear, **we just don’t know** because we do not have **access** to the information. This is what all #AUKUS discussions, reporting, and editorials **MUST** concentrate on: Our Government’s *Secrecy* bent covering just about everything #Defence including #TierOne and #TierTwo. The only time we have access to information, limited thought it always is, is when #Marles or another #Minister announces some #Industrial news related to Defence or when a boat docks in #Fremantle. The Public has valid questions to ask and is deserving of answers from its representatives in Parliament. Let’s pressure Govt secrecy before we criticise the pros and cons of #AUKUS which we know *bugger all* about it. FFS.

    —-Quote
    What is at stake with Aukus
    By Emma Shortis
    As the fallout from that excellent Guardian Australia piece on the US military footprint in Australia continues, the National Indigenous Times has an important story about the impacts of that – and its promised expansion – on Indigenous peoples. As the NIT reports, the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance recently held its annual gathering in Nukunu Country in the Flinders Ranges. The Alliance:

    united communities concerned about impact from the proposed AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine agreement [and] noted that many places in Australia are threatened by plans for submarine construction, new ports and radioactive waste sites as part of this flawed agreement.

    Delegates representing Osborne at Port Augusta in South Australia, Stirling at Meandip (Garden Island) in Western Australia and Port Kembla in New South Wales shared concerns about “the lack of information and meaningful consent, the impacts of a military build-up in those communities, and the risks of nuclear waste”.

    Members expressed concern the AUKUS proposal increases pressure from the federal government to find a radioactive waste storage site and for the first time there are now private companies seeking to play a role in nuclear waste management at sites in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

    It’s an important reminder, along with very serious questions about Australian sovereignty, of just what is at stake with the Aukus deal. If you want to hear more about the relationship between Aukus and nuclear weapons and waste, we had Melissa Parke, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on After America this week. Melissa spoke about the disproportionate impact of nuclear weapons and nuclear waste on Indigenous peoples. “
    —- Unquote
    Source: The Point Live today

    One more point. Australia **must develop** a #NuclearWaste repository regardless of AUKUS in order to relocate the drums of radioactive waste temporarily stored at Australia’s #ANSTO only nuclear reactor site. It’s an issue, yes, and it is what it is, *OUR* waste to be delt with whether we like it or not.

    live.thepoint.com.au/#8fe433f9

    #AusPol #NPT #NuclearWeaponsBan #ICAN

  2. That's an exciting new way for the news to be depressing, I saw this and presumed it was here in #Australia then I found out it's actually in the #USA

    The error seems like a bad sign? But I'm not sure what's exactly its a sign of?

    Part of why I jumped to the wrong conclusion is that I strongly suspect one of the goals of #AUKUS is that #Australia ends up the dumping ground for our "ally's" spent reactors, we get second hand submarines but I have not heard anything about USA plans to accept returns of the waste?

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/ ‘Environmental violence’: inside the fight to save indigenous land from becoming a nuclear dumping ground #DocumentaryFilms #TheGuardian

    cc me @[email protected] @[email protected]

    #SecondHandSubmarines #NuclearSubmarines #NuclearWaste #EnvironmentalViolence #Indigenous #IndigenousLand

    inside the fight to save from becoming a nuclear dumping g

  3. NUKE WASTE DUMP: #Ojibwe Country once again targeted

    May 1, 2025

    "#BeyondNuclear’s radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, presented '#WaterIsLife, #NuclearWasteIsToxic' at the annual meeting of #EnvironmentNorth, in #ThunderBay, #Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of #LakeSuperior, April 23, 2025.

    "Environment North is the lead local grassroots organization resisting the Canadian federal #NuclearWaste Management Organization’s (#NWMO, dominated by the nuclear industry, such as #OntarioPowerGeneration - #OPG) designation of the #IgnaceWabigoonLake #OjibwayFirstNation area as the national #RadioactiveWaste dump.

    "A number of Ojibway #FirstNation Bands have also passed resolutions opposing the scheme, which would require long-distance, high-risk transportation of highly radioactive waste, from some two-dozen reactors to the east in #Canada, on the Great Lakes, Saint Lawrence, and Atlantic."

    Source [includes more info and links]:
    beyondnuclear.org/nuke-waste-d

    #EnvironmentRacism #NoDumpingWithoutConsent #NuclearWasteIsForever #DGR #NuclearPowerPlants #NuclearPowerNoThanks #IndigenousLand

  4. Nuclear semiotics is an interdisciplinary field of research with the goal of communicating nuclear waste warning messages well into the next 10,000 years. Attempts include written messages, physical markers, artificial satellites, and a song designed to be "so catchy and annoying that it might be handed down from generation to generation over a span of 10,000 years".

    youtube.com/watch?v=amn3kn0XPL

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-ter

    #language #linguistics #communication #music #NuclearSemiotics #NuclearWaste #TenThousandYears

  5. #Colombia's #Indigenous Demand #AncestralKnowledge is at Forefront of #COP16 #Biodiversity Convention

    Indigenous communities from different regions of Colombia march in the southwestern city of #Cali to demand that their ancestral knowledge on #conservation be taken into account at the #UNBiodiversity summit, COP16, which is being held in the city.

    Article by #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 24, 2024

    "The United States is the only United Nations member state that has not ratified the Convention on #Biodiversity. While 197 countries arrive in Cali, Colombia for the COP16 Biodiversity Convention, the U.S. is engaged in #WarCrimes and #genocide in #Palestine.

    "In the U.S., the team of #Biden and Interior Sec. #DebHaaland plans to desecrate the #Hualapai's sacred ceremonial water with a #LithiumMine; is promoting #LithiumMining digging into the #Paiute Massacre Site at #ThackerPass; is allowing #UraniumMining in the #GrandCanyon threatening Havasupai's aquifer and poisoning their #MedicinePlants with #radioactive dust; allowing #dumping radioactive ore and global radioactive waste in #WhiteMesaUte's community; is bulldozing the ancient village sites, burial places and medicine plants of #TohonoOodham and #SanCarlosApache for a wind energy project; plans a massive #CopperMine from San Carlos #Apache sacred #OakFlat; and plans to increase the radioactivity in the #Pueblo homelands with increased #plutonium production and storage at #LosAlamos Labs in northern #NewMexico."

    Read more, view photos:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10

    Watch video by AFP: youtube.com/watch?v=AWUjFLE1AY

    #WaterIsLife #ProtectTheSacred #SaveOakFlat #RioTinto #HaKamwe #Greenwashing #CorporateColonialism #NoOpenPitMining #WhiteMesaMill #CulturalGenocide #RecycleLithium #RecycleCopper #ToxicWaste #NuclearWaste #FirstNations #NuclearWeapons #ReaderSupportedNews #HaulNo #DefendTheSacred

  6. #WhiteMesa Ute March Against International Radioactive Waste Dumping on Homeland

    by Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
    October 14, 2023

    WHITE MESA, #Utah -- "#UteMountain #Ute Yolanda Badback welcomed all to the spiritual walk and rally to halt the uranium mill now poisoning the land, water and air in southeastern Utah, in the #FourCorners region.

    "The #WhiteMesaMill, operated by #EnergyFuels, is now bringing in #RadioactiveWaste from other countries, after already storing #NuclearWaste that was too dangerous to remain at the #NevadaTestSite.

    "Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Manuel Heart said the uranium mill is not just a Ute problem and the resources must be protected."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/10

    #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousResistance #WaterIsLife

  7. #WhiteMesa Ute March Against International Radioactive Waste Dumping on Homeland

    by Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
    October 14, 2023

    WHITE MESA, #Utah -- "#UteMountain #Ute Yolanda Badback welcomed all to the spiritual walk and rally to halt the uranium mill now poisoning the land, water and air in southeastern Utah, in the #FourCorners region.

    "The #WhiteMesaMill, operated by #EnergyFuels, is now bringing in #RadioactiveWaste from other countries, after already storing #NuclearWaste that was too dangerous to remain at the #NevadaTestSite.

    "Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Manuel Heart said the uranium mill is not just a Ute problem and the resources must be protected."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/10

    #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousResistance #WaterIsLife

  8. #WhiteMesa Ute March Against International Radioactive Waste Dumping on Homeland

    by Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
    October 14, 2023

    WHITE MESA, #Utah -- "#UteMountain #Ute Yolanda Badback welcomed all to the spiritual walk and rally to halt the uranium mill now poisoning the land, water and air in southeastern Utah, in the #FourCorners region.

    "The #WhiteMesaMill, operated by #EnergyFuels, is now bringing in #RadioactiveWaste from other countries, after already storing #NuclearWaste that was too dangerous to remain at the #NevadaTestSite.

    "Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Manuel Heart said the uranium mill is not just a Ute problem and the resources must be protected."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/10

    #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousResistance #WaterIsLife

  9. #WhiteMesa Ute March Against International Radioactive Waste Dumping on Homeland

    by Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
    October 14, 2023

    WHITE MESA, #Utah -- "#UteMountain #Ute Yolanda Badback welcomed all to the spiritual walk and rally to halt the uranium mill now poisoning the land, water and air in southeastern Utah, in the #FourCorners region.

    "The #WhiteMesaMill, operated by #EnergyFuels, is now bringing in #RadioactiveWaste from other countries, after already storing #NuclearWaste that was too dangerous to remain at the #NevadaTestSite.

    "Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Manuel Heart said the uranium mill is not just a Ute problem and the resources must be protected."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/10

    #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousResistance #WaterIsLife

  10. #WhiteMesa Ute March Against International Radioactive Waste Dumping on Homeland

    by Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
    October 14, 2023

    WHITE MESA, #Utah -- "#UteMountain #Ute Yolanda Badback welcomed all to the spiritual walk and rally to halt the uranium mill now poisoning the land, water and air in southeastern Utah, in the #FourCorners region.

    "The #WhiteMesaMill, operated by #EnergyFuels, is now bringing in #RadioactiveWaste from other countries, after already storing #NuclearWaste that was too dangerous to remain at the #NevadaTestSite.

    "Ute Mountain Ute Chairman Manuel Heart said the uranium mill is not just a Ute problem and the resources must be protected."

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/10

    #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousResistance #WaterIsLife

  11. #WhiteMesa #Ute #SpiritualWalk and #Protest of #UraniumMill: Oct. 7, 2023

    Posted September 26, 2023, via Censored News

    Annual White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk Draws Attention to Threats from Nearby #UraniumMill White Mesa Concerned Community
    protectwhitemesa.org

    What: A rally and spiritual walk to protect the White Mesa Ute community’s health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from the nearby White Mesa #uranium mill and show community opposition to the mill operating as an international dumping ground for radioactive waste from around the world. The protest and walk are sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. All supporters are welcome.

    When: Saturday, October 7, 2023, 11 a.m. MDT rally followed by spiritual and protest walk to the White Mesa uranium mill.

    Where: The White Mesa Ute Community Center, located in White Mesa, #Utah, just south of #BlandingUtah off of Highway 191. The community center is located on the west side of the highway. Turn in at the gas station and continue one block south to the community center.

    Why: Citizens of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa and the #UteMountain Ute Tribe are concerned about contamination from the nearby uranium mill and desecration of sacred sites and cultural resources. The mill is now taking #radioactive waste from Estonia in Europe.

    Contact for White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk and Protest:
    Yolanda Badback, White Mesa Concerned Community [email protected]
    Bradley Angel, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice [email protected]

    White Mesa Concerned Community is a grassroots group of concerned citizens of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa, Utah, located south of the White Mesa uranium mill. We work to inform our fellow citizens and protect our community, health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from toxic contamination.

    The 2023 Rally and Spiritual Walk is sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.

    Event co-sponsors: #BearsEars Inter-Tribal Coalition, #Earthworks, Grand Canyon Trust, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, #Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, #HEALUtah, #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork, National Parks Conservation Association, #PANDOS, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Uranium Watch, University of Utah Environmental Justice Clinic, and the Utah Chapter of the #sierraclub

    Full article:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09

    #Activism #NativeAmericanActivists #SpiritualWalk #EnvironmentalRacism #RadioactiveWaste #CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericanNews #EnvironmentalJustice #NuclearWaste #LandBack

  12. #WhiteMesa #Ute #SpiritualWalk and #Protest of #UraniumMill: Oct. 7, 2023

    Posted September 26, 2023, via Censored News

    Annual White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk Draws Attention to Threats from Nearby #UraniumMill White Mesa Concerned Community
    protectwhitemesa.org

    What: A rally and spiritual walk to protect the White Mesa Ute community’s health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from the nearby White Mesa #uranium mill and show community opposition to the mill operating as an international dumping ground for radioactive waste from around the world. The protest and walk are sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. All supporters are welcome.

    When: Saturday, October 7, 2023, 11 a.m. MDT rally followed by spiritual and protest walk to the White Mesa uranium mill.

    Where: The White Mesa Ute Community Center, located in White Mesa, #Utah, just south of #BlandingUtah off of Highway 191. The community center is located on the west side of the highway. Turn in at the gas station and continue one block south to the community center.

    Why: Citizens of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa and the #UteMountain Ute Tribe are concerned about contamination from the nearby uranium mill and desecration of sacred sites and cultural resources. The mill is now taking #radioactive waste from Estonia in Europe.

    Contact for White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk and Protest:
    Yolanda Badback, White Mesa Concerned Community [email protected]
    Bradley Angel, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice [email protected]

    White Mesa Concerned Community is a grassroots group of concerned citizens of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa, Utah, located south of the White Mesa uranium mill. We work to inform our fellow citizens and protect our community, health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from toxic contamination.

    The 2023 Rally and Spiritual Walk is sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.

    Event co-sponsors: #BearsEars Inter-Tribal Coalition, #Earthworks, Grand Canyon Trust, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, #Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, #HEALUtah, #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork, National Parks Conservation Association, #PANDOS, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Uranium Watch, University of Utah Environmental Justice Clinic, and the Utah Chapter of the #sierraclub

    Full article:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09

    #Activism #NativeAmericanActivists #SpiritualWalk #EnvironmentalRacism #RadioactiveWaste #CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericanNews #EnvironmentalJustice #NuclearWaste #LandBack

  13. #WhiteMesa #Ute #SpiritualWalk and #Protest of #UraniumMill: Oct. 7, 2023

    Posted September 26, 2023, via Censored News

    Annual White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk Draws Attention to Threats from Nearby #UraniumMill White Mesa Concerned Community
    protectwhitemesa.org

    What: A rally and spiritual walk to protect the White Mesa Ute community’s health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from the nearby White Mesa #uranium mill and show community opposition to the mill operating as an international dumping ground for radioactive waste from around the world. The protest and walk are sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. All supporters are welcome.

    When: Saturday, October 7, 2023, 11 a.m. MDT rally followed by spiritual and protest walk to the White Mesa uranium mill.

    Where: The White Mesa Ute Community Center, located in White Mesa, #Utah, just south of #BlandingUtah off of Highway 191. The community center is located on the west side of the highway. Turn in at the gas station and continue one block south to the community center.

    Why: Citizens of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa and the #UteMountain Ute Tribe are concerned about contamination from the nearby uranium mill and desecration of sacred sites and cultural resources. The mill is now taking #radioactive waste from Estonia in Europe.

    Contact for White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk and Protest:
    Yolanda Badback, White Mesa Concerned Community [email protected]
    Bradley Angel, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice [email protected]

    White Mesa Concerned Community is a grassroots group of concerned citizens of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa, Utah, located south of the White Mesa uranium mill. We work to inform our fellow citizens and protect our community, health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from toxic contamination.

    The 2023 Rally and Spiritual Walk is sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.

    Event co-sponsors: #BearsEars Inter-Tribal Coalition, #Earthworks, Grand Canyon Trust, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, #Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, #HEALUtah, #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork, National Parks Conservation Association, #PANDOS, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Uranium Watch, University of Utah Environmental Justice Clinic, and the Utah Chapter of the #sierraclub

    Full article:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09

    #Activism #NativeAmericanActivists #SpiritualWalk #EnvironmentalRacism #RadioactiveWaste #CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericanNews #EnvironmentalJustice #NuclearWaste #LandBack

  14. #WhiteMesa #Ute #SpiritualWalk and #Protest of #UraniumMill: Oct. 7, 2023

    Posted September 26, 2023, via Censored News

    Annual White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk Draws Attention to Threats from Nearby #UraniumMill White Mesa Concerned Community
    protectwhitemesa.org

    What: A rally and spiritual walk to protect the White Mesa Ute community’s health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from the nearby White Mesa #uranium mill and show community opposition to the mill operating as an international dumping ground for radioactive waste from around the world. The protest and walk are sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. All supporters are welcome.

    When: Saturday, October 7, 2023, 11 a.m. MDT rally followed by spiritual and protest walk to the White Mesa uranium mill.

    Where: The White Mesa Ute Community Center, located in White Mesa, #Utah, just south of #BlandingUtah off of Highway 191. The community center is located on the west side of the highway. Turn in at the gas station and continue one block south to the community center.

    Why: Citizens of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa and the #UteMountain Ute Tribe are concerned about contamination from the nearby uranium mill and desecration of sacred sites and cultural resources. The mill is now taking #radioactive waste from Estonia in Europe.

    Contact for White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk and Protest:
    Yolanda Badback, White Mesa Concerned Community [email protected]
    Bradley Angel, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice [email protected]

    White Mesa Concerned Community is a grassroots group of concerned citizens of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa, Utah, located south of the White Mesa uranium mill. We work to inform our fellow citizens and protect our community, health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from toxic contamination.

    The 2023 Rally and Spiritual Walk is sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.

    Event co-sponsors: #BearsEars Inter-Tribal Coalition, #Earthworks, Grand Canyon Trust, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, #Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, #HEALUtah, #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork, National Parks Conservation Association, #PANDOS, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Uranium Watch, University of Utah Environmental Justice Clinic, and the Utah Chapter of the #sierraclub

    Full article:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09

    #Activism #NativeAmericanActivists #SpiritualWalk #EnvironmentalRacism #RadioactiveWaste #CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericanNews #EnvironmentalJustice #NuclearWaste #LandBack

  15. #WhiteMesa #Ute #SpiritualWalk and #Protest of #UraniumMill: Oct. 7, 2023

    Posted September 26, 2023, via Censored News

    Annual White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk Draws Attention to Threats from Nearby #UraniumMill White Mesa Concerned Community
    protectwhitemesa.org

    What: A rally and spiritual walk to protect the White Mesa Ute community’s health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from the nearby White Mesa #uranium mill and show community opposition to the mill operating as an international dumping ground for radioactive waste from around the world. The protest and walk are sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. All supporters are welcome.

    When: Saturday, October 7, 2023, 11 a.m. MDT rally followed by spiritual and protest walk to the White Mesa uranium mill.

    Where: The White Mesa Ute Community Center, located in White Mesa, #Utah, just south of #BlandingUtah off of Highway 191. The community center is located on the west side of the highway. Turn in at the gas station and continue one block south to the community center.

    Why: Citizens of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa and the #UteMountain Ute Tribe are concerned about contamination from the nearby uranium mill and desecration of sacred sites and cultural resources. The mill is now taking #radioactive waste from Estonia in Europe.

    Contact for White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk and Protest:
    Yolanda Badback, White Mesa Concerned Community [email protected]
    Bradley Angel, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice [email protected]

    White Mesa Concerned Community is a grassroots group of concerned citizens of the Ute Mountain Ute community of White Mesa, Utah, located south of the White Mesa uranium mill. We work to inform our fellow citizens and protect our community, health, water, air, land, culture, and sacred sites from toxic contamination.

    The 2023 Rally and Spiritual Walk is sponsored by the White Mesa Concerned Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.

    Event co-sponsors: #BearsEars Inter-Tribal Coalition, #Earthworks, Grand Canyon Trust, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, #Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, #HEALUtah, #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork, National Parks Conservation Association, #PANDOS, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Uranium Watch, University of Utah Environmental Justice Clinic, and the Utah Chapter of the #sierraclub

    Full article:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09

    #Activism #NativeAmericanActivists #SpiritualWalk #EnvironmentalRacism #RadioactiveWaste #CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericanNews #EnvironmentalJustice #NuclearWaste #LandBack

  16. "How a school shutdown resurrected concerns over nuclear contamination in North Saint Louis"

    "Last October, #Jana Elementary School in Florissant, Missouri shut down after an independent study found radioactive lead dust in the school building.

    The incident brought light back on a decades-old issue in the community -- nuclear waste that has seeped into the environment throughout North St. Louis County.

    The waste is the product of the country's earliest #nuclear programs. Starting in the 1940s with the Manhattan Project and continuing through the beginning of the Cold War, downtown St. Louis' #Mallickrodt Chemical Works was responsible for processing #uranium ore."

    #StLouis #ColdWaterCreek #NuclearWaste #Missouri #ManhattanProject @histodons @sts

    abcnews.go.com/US/school-shutd

  17. "EPA finds radioactive contamination in more areas of West Lake Landfill

    Despite pleas from community members who say the landfill is responsible for mysterious illnesses, federal environmental regulators said Tuesday they can’t provide a timeline for cleanup

    Radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill is more widespread than previously thought, officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.

    The finding is based on two years of testing at the St. Louis County site, which has held thousands of tons of radioactive waste for decades. An underground “fire” in another area of the landfill threatens to exacerbate the issue, which residents believe is responsible for a host of mysterious illnesses."

    #StLouis #nuclear #NuclearWaste #Westlake #ColdWaterCreek #MED #ColdWar @sts

    missouriindependent.com/2023/0