EPA Is Letting a Company Build a Road Using Radioactive Waste

[@CarCoachReports]

www.earth.com/news/floridas-controversial-idea-using-radioactive-waste-to-build-roads/

[@markseehawer3762]

It's like floride its a toxic waist by-product that they don't know what to do with. So lets dump it into the enviroment and hope for the best. Floride was billed as good for your teeth when infact it does nerolgical damage to the brain espcially in Children. How do these scumbags keep getting away with this SHITE.

[@SandcastleDreams]

@@CarCoachReports The state legislature approved a study, not actually paving our roads with it! Of course, it could be politically motivated...where were these roads located?

[@opencarry3860]

Government isn't the solution, Government is the problem.

[@mrjim1973]

Amen

[@souljaboy1416]

The gov blocked this proposal that Florida has been requesting for decades. They're the #1 manufacturer of this material. The companies that make it in Florida want to use it and sell it in more ways, and after probably a lot of lobbying and funding political campaigns, they're winning against their citizens to remove this regulation.

[@TRONA-CA]

One thousand times that under the communist governor Gavin Newsome! 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏽🤦‍♂️

[@j._.taylor]

Always was

[@opencarry3860]

@MidRiseDenseMixedUseWalkable "What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else." Tom Clancy

[@alfredmcbride000]

Make the EPA driveway and parking lot out of it for their pilot project

[@tom-c1j2p]

build their houses out of radioactive materials and their driveway

[@michaeljohnson4947]

Well their poising our roads, to stop us from driving. Maybe if their own building was as dangerous, they might choose to do what they want us to....stay home.

[@johnconnor7501]

😂

[@fleebee3639]

Cool👍

[@jerryzilligen6043]

How about their bedding?

[@goldy7678]

Road workers, tow drivers, and state troopers unions ought to be fighting this tooth and nail.

[@wildcoyote34]

this subject needs immediate study ,use of the stuff in road paving ,i'm not even sure what it is causei never heard of it ,, if it's dangerous why are they allowed to produce it

[@davidsimmons8447]

Study what, Radioactive material is toxic.

[@thebionicbassplayer]

I agree with you. Whenever you see the public's safety sacrificed, someone has either taken a bribe or a kick back.This is the same agency who is trying to take away our vehicles.

[@Nordic_Mechanic]

SAME agency which willing polluted a pristine river never touched by mankind

[@NoPrivateProperty]

for profit (capitalism)

[@junicohen7918]

Aww look at you trying to be edgy .better luck next time kid .​@NoPrivateProperty

[@NoPrivateProperty]

@@junicohen7918 okay jew

[@SG-js2qn]

EPA: "Didn't you know we're just another access scam? Big companies pay us and if it's enough money, we allow them to do what they want."

[@davesup5059]

It's all about lining pockets with money. Money talks, BS walks

[@liberty0758]

It's all about wanting us sick and eventually dead. The depop agenda is very real, whether someone wants to accept it or not.

[@j._.taylor]

*population reduction + big profits from pHarma "cures" & cancer "treatments"

[@renderuthis]

Someone is getting the cash for this.

[@StC-j5k]

my first thought was corruption ... you have a known carcinogen and your going to make roads from it, potentially you could poison entire ecosystems ... and yet they green light it 🤬

[@biggg7670]

One thing I learned is that whatever they are telling us is wrong. Thanks for the info. I appreciate it.

[@CarCoachReports]

You’re welcome. I’m glad you learned something.

[@TheAllMightyGodofCod]

@@biggg7670 yes, you are right. Influencers are often telling you stuff that is simply not true. You should be suspicious of what you see on social media.

[@TheAllMightyGodofCod]

Yes, you are right. Always be suspicious of influencers and what they say on social media! Well said!

[@neubauerjoseph]

@@CarCoachReportsit’s another example of the EPA not doing its job as it’s job is not mpg or EVs it’s to protect the public from harmful chemicals.

[@davesup5059]

I hope they tell the public where this road is so we can avoid it

[@playboycharmed1]

These government agencies need to be completely overhauled.

[@woodturner1954]

Obviously the EPA is in business for contractors and not the people. Payoffs by contractors supports EPA members.

[@stevem7508]

The EPA should be sued, collectively on this issue......

[@JohnByrnes-x7v]

They should be shut done and the whole organization should be abolished the end no more EPA !

[@Nordic_Mechanic]

thats like suing yourself, their money comes from you

[@tracesmith3572]

@@stevem7508 It should be abolished and it's funds reabsorbed by the Treasury.

[@wetlandweasel]

Corruption is so blatant nowadays!

[@ChrisSherry]

If you believe politicians choose human life over money in their pockets…you haven’t been paying attention

[@sandasturner9529]

The irony in your statement/phrase, "paying attention" . Indeed time is money sooo.......

[@thomasedward1319]

Get rid of the EPA

[@don-tl6hu]

The EPA has been a joke for decades, they do nothing to big businesses or corporations, just fine them a few thousand dollars and be done. They will go after small businesses and close them down because the big guys pay to end any competition.

[@Flub_Kub]

10000000000%

[@gimpygardner3377]

If you pour oil onto the ground, it is called pollution. If you pour oil onto gravel, it's called a road. There ain't no difference.

[@stefanlundblad7693]

As is Fluoride in water, it’s a waste product.

[@tom-c1j2p]

build their houses out of radioactive materials and their driveway , politicians could wear radioactive underpants.

[@aliendroneservices6621]

The US Capitol building is already radioactive: "Yes, the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. is radioactive due to the natural uranium in its granite walls. In fact, the Capitol building emits radiation levels that are much higher than the average person's annual radiation exposure and exceed the radiation protection standards for a nuclear waste facility" (Google AI)

[@unbreakable7633]

Corporations own and operate the government, both parties. Our government is broken at the core.

[@tracesmith3572]

Our government HAS BEEN A CORPORATION since 1871.

[@alfredmcbride000]

Well..now we know what happened to all the turtles crossing the road

[@steven4315]

If the state of Florida didn't want to do this, it wouldn't be done.

[@DanThomas-n1e]

They will be doing it in DEMOCRAT DISTRICTS HEY! WANT SOME FREE ROADS!

[@bigbuilder10]

A lot to unpack here. The material they’re using is the tailings from the fertilizer and limestone quarry’s in central Florida. It’s not a chemical sludge or slag from a steel mill or anything else. It’s just the rock and soil that was naturally in the ground. The issue around this material is that the EPA defines any material mined from the ground that was naturally radioactive and then manipulated in any way shape or form to be man made radioactive waste. Which is to say, any mine in the country has this same issue. You dig for gold and all the non gold rock and bits is considered radioactive waste because it has some naturally occurring uranium in it. The tailings are more radioactive than other limestone deposits in Florida and that’s to do with the geography of how the phosphate nodules were left in the ground. Going back millions of years, there used to be shallow bays and seas over Florida as well as river deltas that drained into them. Animals that died upstream of the rivers would have their bodies dumped into the shallow seas as well fish, dolphins, oysters, et c. living in the seas died and settled. As ocean levels naturally declined, the shallow seas become land locked lakes that eventually evaporated away, leaving behind the minerals in the water as well as a layer of animal bones. The bones became fertilizer and limestone which is now mined. Sea water naturally contains uranium and because the land locked lakes concentrated down to the deepest parts of the lakes, you ended up with higher than normal uranium levels, in relation to the levels of uranium that were left behind in the rest of Florida’s limestone deposits. The levels aren’t enough to justify mining on their own but some efforts were made several decades ago to try acid leeching the uranium from the tailings piles but there’s just not enough uranium present in a high enough concentration to make it worth while. Fast forward to today though and you have massive tailings piles building up from the central Florida quarries. I mean massive. In addition to being a senior nuclear engineering student at UF who has worked in radiochemistry research labs, I’m a pilot and fly over the tailings piles every week. They’re hundreds of feet high and pose significant threat to the Tampa bay region. A couple years ago, heavy rains almost led to one of the tailings piles collapsing and washing into Tampa bay and the same scenario has almost occurred multiple times over the last several decades. Even more recently, in the last year, a sinkhole formed under one of the tailings piles and took hundreds of millions of gallons of water and tailings with it. You might ask yourself, why don’t they just put the tailings back into the quarry to refill the sections they already dug out? Having flown over the area for close to a decade now, I can tell you the quarries are all still wide open and only get bigger and bigger. Answer being, the same EPA rule declaring tailings as radioactive waste means it can’t go back in the ground because then it’s a superfund site… which is absolutely bonkers. Nothings been done to the rock to introduce chemical or radioactive waste. It’s just top soil and unusable limestone. The same issue occurs at every mine in the US. Rock dug out of the ground that has usable minerals stripped out can’t then be put back in the ground because it’s radioactive waste. If you’re from up north, think about how many old abandoned quarries you see around or look around google maps. Generally there’s hills next to the quarries which are the unusable rock material and top soil. Material can’t go back in the hole to remediate the site because it’s radioactive waste… there are ways to refill the holes. You have to purposefully dig up rock and soil for the express purpose of refilling the holes, then it’s not radioactive waste…. or put a liner in the hole, set up pumps to drain ground water out of the mine/quarry indefinitely, and filter any water you pump out of the ground. Which brings us to the story of Florida trying to do something with the tailings. The piles can’t go back in the ground because you’d need to pump all the water out of the state to meet EPA requirements. If you’ve ever seen the quarries, you’ll know they’re lakes and use dredges to scope out the rock that then gets pumped via pipeline to the kilns where it’s processed into useable material. The ground water table is so close to the surface, it’s the only way to do it. Which also points out the fact that the uranium in the ground was already in the water table. There’s no granite layers in Florida that blocked the uranium from interacting with the ground water… it’s such a dumb rule by the EPA but they’re enforcing it uniformly which is why an exemption isn’t made for the central Florida quarries but come on…. Anyways, the tailings piles are massive, they pose a threat to Tampa Bay and people on the highway, what do you do about it? You declare them not to be tailings and instead fill material for roads. Then it’s magically no longer radioactive waste per the EPA rules. I wish there was a head slap emoji… because the material has been previously declared radioactive waste, the state is being extra cautious from a PR perspective about using the material but keep in mind, road base that’s already used in quarried in the exact same fashion from similar or the same rock formations around the state. Only difference is it wasn’t originally labeled as tailings but purpose dug for road construction or fill for a house or to be turned into cement for concrete production or one of a dozen other uses. Uranium is radioactive and can be dangerous but a glaringly obvious point left out by pretty much everyone who’s reported on this project is just how radioactive is the material and what type of radiation does it give off. The amount of radioactive varies but in general, it’s not much higher or any higher than background levels because it’s literally just the rock from under your feet and Florida already has some of the lowest background radioactivity levels from the ground (the sun contributes more than in other areas but that’s because we’re closer to the equator. The reason ground levels are lower is because there’s no granite close to the surface in Florida. Granite has much higher levels of uranium present than ocean water does due to uranium being largely insoluble in water under basic to neutral conditions). What type of radiation does uranium give off? Alpha particle radiation, which are just ionized helium molecules. Which is to say, helium molecules that don’t have any electrons, just two protons and two neutrons. Given they’re lacking two electrons, the alpha particles are desperate to bond with anything they can and therefore have the shortest lifespans of any other form of radiation. Averaging only a couple inches in air. Bury the material under a road where there will be several inches of concrete and asphalt above the road bases and now you’re talking fractions of an inch the alpha particles will travel before stopping. Which is to say, the vast majority of alpha particles won’t escape the road base layer and make it to the asphalt layer and none will be detectable above the road. Other types of radiation will be present which the lady who made this video correctly pointed out. Uranium decays and eventually turns into lead (some people argue uranium decay stops at bismuth given the extreme half life of bismuth but it’s generally excepted that it stops at lead. Which is an interesting side note because no elements are actually stable, the stable elements just have half lives so long that we’d never notice the change in a human life time. Uranium has a half life in the millions and billions of years… I digress). Some of uranium’s daughter elements give off beta particles which are just free electrons and do travel further than alpha particles given their smaller size but again wouldn’t make it through the asphalt layer of the road. Lastly, gamma rays would be emitted and the higher energy gamma rays could and would make it through the asphalt layer. That being said, gamma rays are the weakest / least dangerous of the various types of radiation. For perspective, the government defines the damage different types of radiation can do to the body with a qualitative scale where alpha particles are the worst with a factor of 20. Compare that to any energy gamma ray with a factor or 1. Side note on the factor of 20 for alpha particles, because they travel such a short distance, the source has to be inside you for it to cause any damage. If the alpha particle is emitted anywhere outside your body, even on the surface of your skin, the qualitative ‘risk’ factor is 0. In summary, there’s so few gamma rays emitted, that they won’t be a risk to motorists and unless you have the most sophisticated detector in the world that can block out the gamma rays coming from your own body, you probably still won’t be able to detect any gamma rays coming out of the ground. Hope that helps clear up any fear or confusion around this. It’s not toxic sludge. It’s not chemical waste. It’s just top soil and low quality limestone (low quality in the sense it’s not worth turning into cement for use in making concrete. Not that it’s unusable junk like Chinese drywall was). It’s slightly radioactive but a banana is more radioactive than the tailings are. You’ll have a greater risk of getting cancer flying in a jet airliner than driving on these roads. Which is true by the way. Background radiation at the cruising altitude of airlines is significantly higher than being on the surface of the earth but the same is true of you go skiing in the alps or Rockies. You’re just closer to space and space is very radioactive.

[@FoxRob93]

This is exactly why we should not trust government bureaucrats..

[@bethroman1264]

This happened in Denver many years ago. Now, when the city wants to put utilities in the street, or repair something already there, they have to go through all the expensive safety precautions.

[@mattrowan2680]

The EPA needs to be severely curtailed in its mission. And get it out of DC. In fact get the entire Fed government out of DC and then pave it.

[@jerryzilligen6043]

What more do you expect from our government

[@Trawoysky]

Defund EPA and jail all their corrupted peoples.

[@LMacNeill]

I don't get *why* they want to use this stuff. What is their justification for asking to use it? Glow-in-the-dark roadways that are easier to see at night? And how much radium are we talking about? Radium occurs naturally in the environment -- there's background radiation we're exposed to every single day as a result of various radioactive substances that exist in trace amounts all over the world. How much higher than "background radiation" will this stuff be? Did they publish any numbers? None of this makes any sense to me...

[@CarCoachReports]

Gathering more content- will keep you posted

[@CharlesCurran-m9p]

Yep, that’s the important information. Saying something is radioactive is a scary term but without the intensity levels it doesn’t mean much.

[@LMacNeill]

@@CharlesCurran-m9p Yeah, the poison is in the dose.

[@neubauerjoseph]

@@CarCoachReportsdo you think it’s part of the epa plan of making wireless charging roads for EVs ? If so this might make some sense on why they might approving this also this might take a while to find the truth

[@markawbolton]

@@CarCoachReports But so far you have made a video where you say you have no idea about the engineering behind what is going on but it is self evidently wrong because radiation....

[@catsspat]

They always find a way to dump industrial waste onto the public. Flouride, anyone?

[@theodavies8754]

Aluminium dust?

[@Jeremy-c5h]

Ain't Florida good for your teeth?

[@theodavies8754]

@Jeremy-c5h it's got to be better than the UK unless you are an uninvited guest.

[@Zoleankico4267]

@@Jeremy-c5h Yes, but at the cost of cognition, immune system, and who knows what else.

[@digger105337]

It's really no big deal. Porcelain toilets and sinks use to be very radioactive. Radon is from any Granite rock product, including countertops. The Sunshine is radioactive. Not to be outdone by the Asbestos reinforced Roads placed in the U.S and Canada 😮 Yup, there still out there.

[@1320pass]

@@digger105337 exactly. And as for this test strip roadway, the aggregate will be locked in (enveloped) with the bitumen product- the asphalt liquid binder.

[@toddhodgson2130]

Breath in that "safe and effective" road dust.

[@CarCoachReports]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@tracesmith3572]

Tires are RUBBER, not plastic.​

[@oddshot60]

Just remember, this is the Lib-Dem EPA and predates DJT.

[@owenhill-vf7ko]

Depends on the ppm rate and asphalt sealant capabilities.

[@mistersniffer6838]

Shyt in your own sandbox, I see!!

[@krismorgahan8589]

THEY GOT PAID LOT OF MONEY, THAT WHY THEY APPROVED IT.

[@davesup5059]

Who wants to volunteer to install it. CRAZY

[@DanThomas-n1e]

GLOW IN THE DARK-WONT NEED STREET LIGHTS SAVE THE EARTH

[@BlackRoostar-cf2yv]

Good ol EPA, always putting American lives in critical situations.

[@ginog5037]

Term Limits and Recall Elections is the key to draining the swamp 😉

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

We live on a planet bathed in radiation, there are definitely safe levels to which we can be exposed, and this roadway is likely far, FAR below that threshold.

[@tracesmith3572]

Blah, blah, blah. Tell that to the women painting her glow in the dark watch hands back in the '50s.

[@margaritadesantiago1672]

@@PistonAvatarGuy Ask PA ...Centralia..how'd that went. Only an hour 1/2 from here.

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

@margaritadesantiago1672 How is that even related?

[@mistersniffer6838]

Im sure you could inject Clorox in your veins at low enough doses. Why???

[@3089280288]

The devil is in the road making business

[@ld2048]

make it prohibited until every EPA member involved in this has all of their residences paved with said material.

[@terry_willis]

EPA - unelected bureaucrats running our lives.

[@mikeruhland6928]

Would the EPA like to pave their parking lot?

[@brianjosey8113]

Look on the Bright Side, the Road will never ice over

[@CarCoachReports]

🤦🏻‍♀️

[@jrs9264]

it's in Florida, duh! 🫣🙄🤡💩🙆🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@3ducs]

I live in New Hampshire, the Granite State. Granite has a small amount of radioactivity, but even so our roads are paved with crushed granite, countertops are made from granite. Our wells are drilled into granite, the water from these wells is very good. I am from the Buffalo area, the wells my grandparents had were terrible, sulfurous. A little bit of a bad thing is not necessarily a bad thing, it all comes down to dosage. Dihydrogen oxide is required for life, but too much can kill a person.

[@LorisSawmill]

It's Dihydrogen Oxide. H2O. Water.

[@3ducs]

@@LorisSawmill Yes, I omitted the "gen", I corrected my post, thank-you.

[@dukegilbert2786]

30 odd years ago the Montana highway dept used “slag” from a phosphate plant near Butte, on Interstate 15 for road mix. Made a good surface especially light in dark conditions. After a few years they “discovered” the slag was “radioactive “ and they quit using it, and removed the layers from the road. Pilot project in Fla????. I don’t think so.

[@Offensively-normal]

The question is not weather somebody's getting paid off. The question is how much are they getting paid off.

[@MacTX]

Like anything else that comes from public officials, just follow the money, and you'll get your answer as to why something is done.

[@jimblack-x4e]

Start using it in Sacramento California and the rest of CA. And NYC on the east coast. Since EPA is woke start in woke lands.

[@helifynoe9930]

A fellow was being given a tour of the plant where I worked. During that time we were building prototype dosimeters. He was wearing his fathers old watch with the glowing hands on that day. That set off the dosimeter alarms of each of the prototypes on my bench as he walked up behind me.

[@Crupett-c3c]

But you can't use pesticides on farm crops.

[@Robert-u3w]

Thanks for the putting this info out there. Hopefully this terrorism will be stopped.

[@kevingrierson2331]

What is the "benefit" they expecting by adding this to the road material?

[@Nordic_Mechanic]

being paid to remove the waste from someone;s else hand.

[@heartbeatbowie]

Hey Lauren, love your content. I’m a sales guy at a local dealership and I like staying savvy about the automotive world and what’s going on. So can you explain what the benefit is to using this harmful Material. Based on what you said I agree it’s harmful but I didn’t hear why they’re doing it. is it something they’re trying to repurpose to make money? does it act like some sort of binder and it’s cheaper to use?

[@RichardHartley-x3x]

Why did this company and the state of Florida choose to do this? Shame on them.

[@snowcats95]

What the hell is wrong with good old fashioned asphalt or ground up tires to make new roads? EPA should be ashamed of themselves!

[@hobbyhermit66]

Gives new meaning to the term "road kill", doesn't it?

[@Greatwrx]

God forbid my new car gets less then 30 mpg I’m a menace to society me personally I say can we please get rid of the epa

[@susansauceda9879]

Where is the road located?

[@johnbehneman1546]

SUGGESTION: DEFUND THE EPA.

[@russellhalford8811]

This has been happening for decades. I live in Oklahoma. There are lease roads everywhere in rural Oklahoma that traverse private pastureland, hill country, and dense forests that allow for oilfield traffic to travel from main roads to the oil and natural gas wells, drilling rigs, work over rigs, compressor pads, and dry holes. It’s built from radioactive drilling mud that’s pulled from the ground, and the meters read it as “hot.” However, once you grease a politician’s palm with a few greenbacks known as a “permit,” all of a sudden it’s acceptable building material????? Come on now! They’re not fooling anyone. This has been happening in Oklahoma my entire 44 year tenure on the Earth.

[@nobodyinparticular5224]

I would demand some accountability. What way does the leadership go? Dem or Rep? Regardless of what political affiliation, get someone in office who addresses these issues with common sense instead of financial kickbacks.

[@randytidmore8021]

I can't believe that the governor is allowing this

[@davidjernigan8161]

The only people who were affected by the radium used on watch and instrument dials were the workers who tipped the brushes they were using by placing the brush in their mouth and thereby ingesting radium.

[@sandasturner9529]

Wait until the general public hears about this....😅

[@davescheer5038]

We’re are those roads located ? And why hasn’t Ron Desantis been informed and if he was why hasn’t the local media said anything about this ?

[@johnnysaudade773]

@davescheer5038 DeSantis encouraged and approved it. Media been talking about it for months.

[@davescheer5038]

@ I hadn’t seen anything on it till yesterday, it’s ridiculous why would they even think of an approval, I just saw were they were using agent orange in Florida on a pop up on you tube , what the hell is going on 🤔

[@arlo0011]

Why? Can't they find anything else to make roads with, or are they hoping this will be a future way to get rid of hazardous waste?

[@Ray__E]

America really doesn't care about public health and safety. I'm looking forward to the inevitable lawsuits in the future from road cancer.😐

[@Shakerhood69]

@MidRiseDenseMixedUseWalkable Big Tech, Big Green, Big Education, etc.

[@LeviHeatonIII]

Climate change has absolutely nothing to do with concern for the environment.

[@pjkoths]

Finally a good use for waste. I am glad we are using material thought useless!!!!

[@unclefester4626]

The movie Idiocracy was a warning....

[@styldsteel1]

Hello Lauren. Would you know why, (at least in my state) the painted lane markings are so difficult to see now. At night. It is not possible to make them out, andvwhen it rains at night. Im pretty much using guard rails to stay on the pavement. I dont remember ever having this much trouble. Are the h'way departments using housepaint or something?

[@CarCoachReports]

I actually know a lot about this. The stripes on the highways are supposed to be reflective. My friend, Gerry, created this technology used all over the country and it works.States, cities and and localities should be repainting these stripes so drivers can see the stripes and the edges of the roads. If they are not using this reflective paint, take it to your highway supervisor or town/city leaders. I hope that helps

[@styldsteel1]

@CarCoachReports it helps tremendously. I'm at wits end here. And now with these " dazzle" headlights, it really compounds this issue. Its major tysm!

[@got2kittys]

We cant put radioactives in a cavern under a mountain in the Nevada desert. But we can make public roads with it? The EPA is insane.

[@michaelspicer1236]

When a road is newly tared there are endless tire marks leaving that area and leaving quite a trail. Won't there be radioactive trails all over the roads from vehicles coming and going?

[@justincooper5189]

And this kind of stupidity is why some people want to disband the EPA. They are now working against not only the people, but the environment.

[@NAVYABHAN]

The Governor of Florida has been fighting to have this Radio Active Material used on roadways. When Rafium was used on watch faces andial’s, there were a group of women that worked in the factory. They used their tongues to wet the tips of the brushes. After a time, their Jaw and Facial Bones began to disintegrate. He is doing this purely for Corporate Interests and personal profit.

[@PhoneRanger-ij4wc]

But we need to regulate cow farts...

[@Mr.frag-out]

Whoever maintains these roads are going to be severely affected.

[@lancereagan3046]

Former resident from central New York, which is rich in Marcellus Shale. Yes, Radon is harmful if in concentrated form (i.e. confined space) and long term exposure. This is why when you test for, and find out that your home has this in the basement, it has to be vented outside. Yes, "vented outside". If this was so dangerous, then the property owner would have to treat vented Radon as hazardous waste, or hazardous material. But they don't, because being outside takes the danger out of it. A "once ruling" may have been reversed after further review/testing/evaluation, etc... but to label it as radioactive waste is only terminology used to create hysteria and hyperbole. Radioactive material is used in smoke detectors, construction tools such as pavement density meters, and low level radiation comes from natural marble. This story is only a half hearted attempt to lead uninformed citizens on a disinformation campaign.

[@rapidcars1]

Radar gas is only toxic if it’s in a concealed environment

[@Gfysimpletons]

And?

[@hwilmore]

This is a fantastic idea. However, the only way to test it will be to build houses made out of the same substance for the EPA director and the company owners' and investors'

[@geraldine7931]

Just another three letter agency that need to be investigated and held acountable for their failures.

[@CliftonNelson-o7q]

So who is getting paid off???

[@johndoyle2970]

Wow… Hard to understand how this was approved… Very disappointing.

[@Willowspov]

@@johndoyle2970 government also approves a lot of bad stuff in our food

[@charlesbutterfield3464]

They also use ash from coal combustion for road building. Unfortunately the ash from coal combustion often contains radioactive materials.

[@why78yu]

Who is supposed to monitor the EPA? Who makes sure that they are actually protecting our environments? How do we the public, workers unions involved, those who are endangered, et cetera get them to stop this poisoning? How can we find out which individuals within the EPA approved or are trying to push this through? So that we can publicly expose them and allow the EPA to fire them!

[@russellstyles5381]

If you listen, this will be used only for a few short segments. Presumably, this will be monitored to see if it is in fact safe. Radon is heavy, if the road is in a hollow, it might accumulate there, as it does in basements. But roads are mostly out in the open.

[@Winterascent]

Is this to punish Florida for something?

[@reidselby2569]

They would NEVER have done this in a "blue" state.....

[@dannywatts2077]

This is not the first time they've made a mistake and putting stuff in asphalt. I worked with the company that delivered asphalt to job sites and also took the grindings away from the job sites. In Long Beach California at one time they put asbestos in the asphalt. I believe their thoughts were was to lock up the asbestos in the asphalt where it would be safe, not thinking one day we were going to come and grind it up spreading the dust all over the town mixing it with new asphalt delivered all over the place. So what do you think will happen when this road is old and needs to be ground up and be replaced. But what do I know

[@AAA-o4g]

What about the near by environment ?

[@joem9380]

The whole govt needs to go.

[@alvinwong9362]

Trump needs to abolish EPA!

[@GMAN420BC]

Or let Musk loose in there

[@ld2048]

None of them will save you, they are all against us, no matter what side they are on. They only want money and control

[@njb7209]

Just think about the hot asphalt off gassing.😮.

[@digger105337]

The gypsum is encapsulated by the liquid asphalt, gassing isn't a problem. Natural Radioactive rock is nothing new, most granite curbing is slightly RA.

[@eatMY455]

What's even worse than the epa allowing the materials to be used, is the people stupid enough to build a road with it

[@melissamcknight2916]

Absolutely not. If they approve it, it should be on their roads first.

[@JBRion22]

Sounds to me like it’s time to shut down the EPA and help the national debt. If they’re corrupt and not going to protect us, why have them?

[@bensears7499]

They don’t change their ways unless they become threatened. When they cannot be threatened they continue in the pursuit of personal equity. I call for treason if a public official endangers the citizen for personal gain.

[@carterlee8344]

All Blacktop tarmac has “NAT”(naturally occurring radiation). Heard this from an offshore X-Ray Pipe Photographer. He said it’s not generally well known and that they would like to keep it that way.

[@Jagdtyger2A]

I always felt that by using radioactive waste elements that only break down into alpha or beta emitting materials they could be bound inside glass spheres and embedded into concrete base layers of asphalt roads. Allowing the radioactive decay to help melt road ice during the winter, while at the same time being safe for hunans and animals

[@911Hammer]

I would have a lot of questions too. One being with "What's the dose that it's giving off?" Because if it's little then there is nothing to worry about. How this does compare to a flight NYC to LAX? More? Less? "Radioactive" does not equal bad in every situation. Radiation is everywhere (NORM) including in your marble countertop, ceramic sinks, toilets and your grandma's fiestaware and uranium glass. (and there is nothing to worry about with any that.) Don't follow the hype without informing yourself.

[@bsaver5942]

They did that with Dioxin in a Missouri town years ago causing the town to be evacuated.

[@danielcobbins8861]

Times Beach, MO.