NUCLEAR GARBAGE THE DEADLY POTENTIAL - Robert A Ginskey - May 1979

Robert A Ginskey

Radioactive waste - the "thousand-year problem" - threatens the world of tomorrow. Some thirty blocks from Utah's State Capitol building and downtown Salt Lake City is a 3.4-billion pound pile of rather ordinary - looking sand. Nobody thought it was dangerous. And contractors reported that the fine sandy tailings from the uranium mill made excellent fill for homes and other buildings. Before 1968, over 22,000 tons of the tailings were used as fill at an unknown number of building sites. Eight hundred tons, compacted into a six-foot layer, went under Salt Lake City's main fire station when it was built in 1958. But the sand was not harmless, and it in fact poses a monumental problem that nobody likes to think or talk about. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library