John Denver Hoxha posted:

My nuclear waste disposal plan is foolproof and relies on simple human nature...
Mix it up with a little soil and then stick a big sign saying
"Free backfill*

*use at own risk
"
There you go, itll be off your hands before you can say "free" and you just covered your own rear end too

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In the late 1970s, Love Canal received national attention for the ensuing problematic health development originated from disposal of 22,000 barrels of toxic waste. Numerous families were displaced from their houses, having been contaminated with chemicals and toxic waste. Many of the families suffered several health issues with common problems of high red blood cell counts and indications of leukemia. The entire neighborhood has since been demolished and an Superfund cleanup took years before wrapping up in 2004.

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Hooker Chemical deeded the site to the Niagara Falls School Board in 1953 for $1 with a liability limitation clause. In the "sales" agreement signed on April 28, 1953, Hooker Chemical included a seventeen-line caveat that they believed released them from all legal obligations should lawsuits arise in the future

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Despite the disclaimer, the School Board began construction of the "99th Street School" in its originally intended location. In January 1954, the architect of the school wrote to the education committee informing them that during excavation, workers discovered two dump sites filled with 55-US-gallon (210 l; 46 imp gal) drums containing chemical wastes. The architect also noted that it would be "poor policy" to build in that area since it was not known what wastes were present in the ground, and the concrete foundation might be subsequently damaged.[14] The school board then moved the school site eighty to eighty-five feet further north.[2] The kindergarten playground also had to be relocated because it was directly on top of a chemical dump. Upon completion in 1955, 400 children attended the school, and it opened along with several other schools that had been built to accommodate students. That same year, a twenty-five foot area crumbled exposing toxic chemical drums, which then filled with water during rainstorms. This created large puddles that children enjoyed playing in.

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According to the September 12, 2007, study by the Blacksmith Institute (United States), Dzerzhinsk is one of the worst-polluted cities of the world and has a life expectancy of 42 years for men and 47 for women, with the 2003 death rate exceeding its birth rate by 260%.[10] Environmental action groups such as Greenpeace attribute such low life expectancy to high levels of persistent organic chemicals, particularly dioxins. The Blacksmith Institute also names sarin, lewisite, sulfur mustard, hydrogen cyanide, phosgene, lead, and organic chemicals among the worst pollutants.[10] Parts of Dzerzhinsk's water are contaminated with dioxins and phenol at levels that are reportedly seventeen million times the safe limit.[10]

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The catalogue of waste dumped at sea by the Soviets, according to documents seen by Bellona, and which were today released by the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, includes some 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 ships containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; 735 other pieces of radiactively contaminated heavy machinery, and the K-27 nuclear submarine with its two reactors loaded with nuclear fuel.

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In the next 10 to 11 hours, the radioactive cloud moved towards the north-east, reaching 300–350 kilometers from the accident. The fallout of the cloud resulted in a long-term contamination of an area of more than 800 to 20,000 square kilometers (depending on what contamination level is considered significant), primarily with caesium-137 and strontium-90.[3] This area is usually referred to as the East-Ural Radioactive Trace (EURT).[6]

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As many as forty villages, with a combined population of about 28,000 residents, lined the river at the time.[4] For 24 of them, the Techa was a major source of water; 23 of them were eventually evacuated.[5] In the past 45 years, about half a million people in the region have been irradiated in one or more of the incidents,[4][6] exposing them to as much as 20 times the radiation suffered by the Chernobyl disaster victims.[2]

JayKay posted:

I've been on a radiation accident kick as of late.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Clinic_of_Zaragoza_radiotherapy_accident

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The ER doctor ordered x-rays and CT scans to check for damage to the boy's cervical spine. The child was taken to the scanning room, where radiologic technologist Raven Knickerbocker performed CT scans at C-spine levels C1 through C4 in the same section of the midmaxillary sinuses, midclivus, and posterior fossa. Over the next 68 minutes, the toddler was exposed to 151 scans.

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Dr. Fred Mettler, a radiation injury specialist at the radiology department of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, estimates the boy received the following radiation doses: 5.3 Gy to the brain and salivary glands, 7.3 Gy to the skin, and 1.54 Gy to the lenses of both eyes, according to Stockett. The child will probably develop cataracts within three to eight years, Mettler concluded.

Say Nothing posted:

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

My brother has been living in his current house for about 10 years now and every now and then he'd get a faint whiff of gas in the kitchen, even when he hadn't been using the gas grill at all. It was only ever a tiny faint whiff of gas and it barely ever happened so he never got around to looking into it. Last year he finally decided to get a plumber to check it out and the guy discovered that when the house was being built someone put a nail right through the pressurised gas line but it was only when the weather got to a certain temperature that the copper pipe expanded enough to emit some gas.

Now that's a slow leak.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Why get a space pen when you get get a self defence pen? It's like a normal pen, but one end is a bit pointier than normal, so you can jab someone real good with it (just like you can with a normal pen).
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/CQB...2703231390.html






I'm sure the police have never heard of these things and will totally buy your cries that "but it's just a pen!" and not bust you for possession of burglary tools or assault with a weapon.

revolther posted:

It's also probably about the fact that they were trying to solve like 4 stupid problems under the label of new pens.
If you need cops to have glass shatterers in cars, put glass shatterers in the cars.
Same with flashlights and knives, buy them and make them part of the required utilities on their belt.

Don't buy them a loving 23 dollar wonder pen they will lose within a week and have to either replace, replace personally, or operate without for fear of looking stupid.

Say Nothing posted: