The Salt Lake Tribune
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Next time, use bubblegum
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A radioactive waste tanker repaired with duct-tape dribbled an unspeakable ooze cocktail (benzene, thorium, tritium, technetium and uranium isotopes) on Utah highways from Tooele County to Carbon County where the leak was discovered near Price. The truck was carrying waste from the EnergySolutions landfill in Tooele County to a U.S. Energy Department facility in Tennessee.

Congressman Jim Matheson, of course, says the accident (If using duct-tape to repair a hose on a hazardous-waste tanker can be considered an "accident") shows why Utah shouldn't be the world's nuclear dumpster.

It just highlights that we are talking about materials that are dangerous and they are on our roads.

2 Comments:

At April 23, 2009 8:29 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

doooooooh

 
At April 24, 2009 9:08 AM , Blogger rdale said...

"Excellent!" M. Burns

 

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