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applegrove

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4. I don't think it is funny. I lived in Halifax. I know the two container terminals.

Reply to mindwalker_i (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 12:18 AM

Mar 2014

Both of them are right around many homes. I didn't know so much uranium was being imported in Halifax. And now terrorists know it. Shocking all around.

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Radioactive Leak At Halifax Shipping Yard; Hazmat Team On Site [View all] applegrove Mar 2014 OP

Link Repair Wilms Mar 2014 #1

Thanks. Fixed it. applegrove Mar 2014 #2

Grab some hot dogs! mindwalker_i Mar 2014 #3

I don't think it is funny. I lived in Halifax. I know the two container terminals. applegrove Mar 2014 #4

I also lived there! many many years ago.. Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #5

That port has a history of dangerous cargoes. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #6

have never heard of this before, Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #7

For its time, it was just an incredible disaster. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #8

and a tsunami, to boot.. and so many people, just yikes nt Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #9

And a snowstorm in the hours and days afterward that covered all the wounded with frozen snow and applegrove Mar 2014 #10

yow Voice for Peace Mar 2014 #11

Curse of the Narrows is an excellent book about that disaster. likesmountains 52 Mar 2014 #15

uranium hexafluoride reacts violently with water and is highly toxic. Shouldn't be "falling off Sunlei Mar 2014 #12

Fortunately they said there was no leak in the end. applegrove Mar 2014 #13

No leak?, the reported "higher than normal" radiation levels should still be a concern. Sunlei Mar 2014 #14

The USA has about 700,000 tons of this stuff sitting around in various places. hunter Mar 2014 #16

Update applegrove Mar 2014 #17