The containment area is open to the public, with its own museum and is a popular field trip location for local schools! It was container of heroic proportions to hold the contaminated debris radioactive waste from the Weldon Springs uranium processing plant! What.?Ī quick phone call to my brother and a search of the Internet explained what I was looking at. I had often used the Weldon Springs boat ramp on the Missouri River and had driven past this location many times. The "Cap" over the radioactive materials. The man made structure sitting near Highway 94 was so large it was difficult-to-impossible to place it into any perspective. "What the heck is that?" I said aloud and enlarged the monitor screen until I could make out an automobile parked at the base of a giant monstrosity. I recall doing research for the worlds longest non stop River kayak canoe race, (the MR340) and looking at satellite photos of the Missouri River that twisted past the nearby Busch Wildlife & Weldon Springs area (my playground as a kid)ĭuring my research I happened to come across an immense- dare I say giant white blob in the photo. The first I heard of the Superfund Status Although the abandoned plant was no joke and the area was made into a superfund site. Growing up in the area & seeing the rusty radiation warning signs made the abandoned plant into a local joke. The area is some of the prettiest land in the North America.Īnd of course the developers do not plan to place their children in the Hot Zone on Route 94ĭetails of the developers plans and the DOE commenting on the radiation levels. The Weldon Springs site area is too 'Hot' to live in. The little fact of bothersome radiation does not prevent hungry developers from constantly attempting to have the area re-zoned to build houses. Weldon Spring Ordnance Works & Radioactive Waste.Eminent Domain of Busch Conservation Area.
Ais Native Americans of Kennedy Space Center.Bioluminescence paddling on the Space Coast.Kayaking and SUP races along the space coast.Not so typical Training weekend Mosquito Lagoon.The last space shuttle from Mosquito Lagoon.NASA Causeway, Banana River, Space Coast Florida.The interior of the islands is dominated by eroded volcanic peaks cloaked in dense vegetation. This part of the island is the most popular with tourists because of the lagoon's suitability for swimming, snorkelling and boating. To the southeast, particularly around Muri, the lagoon is at its widest and deepest. The island is surrounded by a lagoon that extends several hundred metres to the reef, which then slopes steeply to deep water. The interior of the islands is dominated by eroded volcanic peaks cloaked in dense vegetation and remains largely unpopulated due to forbidding terrain and lack of infrastructure. The larger southern islands are the continuation of the Austral Islands, lying along the same north-east / south-west fracture of the Earth's crust. At its base, some 4,000 metres deep, the volcano is nearly 50 km in diameter, which suggests the amount of volcanic activity that has taken place here over the ages. The island is 32 km in circumference and has an area of 67 km². Rarotonga Island is actually an extinct volcano that rises 4,500 metres above the ocean floor, its highest peak measuring 658 metres above sea level. Today’s coral atolls-sunken volcanoes topped by coral growth-were formed by volcanic activity.
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