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Developer to Build Over Buried Uranium in Staten Island

 
 
Reply Sun 2 Nov, 2003 02:15 pm
In the 1940's, Staten Island was in the bookdocks of New York City. Uranium that had been used used for the Manhattan Project was buried in that borough. Now a developer wants to build some houses right in the area:

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What do you think should be done about this?
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Butrflynet
 
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Reply Sun 2 Nov, 2003 02:33 pm
I think the developer and family should be the first ones to move in when the building is finished. It'd also be nice if he were working on the construction crew that will be stirring up all the dust around there.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sun 2 Nov, 2003 04:39 pm
the "Belgian raffinates" as they were called, were dumped up and down the east coast from NY through Baltimoire. They were then trained out to ST Louis then to colorado for enriching. The raffinates were dark urnaium oxides at about 1% U3O8. the uranium is an alpha emitter so it is most deadly as an uncovered pile with wind whipping it into dust and we take it into oiur lungs where the real damage can occur. Id actually feel better if this crap were cleaned up at its "hot spots" then the remainder evenly distributed and covered with a few feet of low permeability soil . Houses should not have basements and, all should have sub pad vents for radon .
Id like to see it as a commercial propwerty with the same prep and then a parking lot built over top with vents at the light standards.
Theres got to be some risk based engineering being done.
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