Radium 226............ 1/2 Life 1600 Years
Thorium 230 ........... 1/2 life 32,000 years
Uranium 238 1/2 life 4.5 billion years
Americium 241......... unaccountable, large amounts are present surrounding Tonawanda Landfill. Am 241 was recently used for manufacture of smoke detectors in The Town of Tonawanda, and is also a daughter isotope of plutonium used in America's nuclear weaponry program..........1/2 life 470 years
Large portions of this multi isotope liquid / solid nightmare our U.S. Amy / Linde created is today still a part of a dangerous to live on, walk on Tonawanda landscape.
Nothing here has changed, except incredible high cancer clusters surrounding this once pristine area with people as always speaking in hushed voices afraid to mention the sinister not to be spoken word, Shhhhhhh it's the "MANHATTAN PROJECT".
In only a few years the U.S. Army military's Dept. of Defense managed to put tens of thousands at risk .
Still today we are living in aprehension, and fear while our government continues to submarine the truth. This policy of unreality is not what West Point cadets are taught, I am sure!
Questions persist as to whether or not the sponge like strata below Linde/Union Carbide /Praxair property is still radionuclide contaminated?
Or has it traveled to the Niagara River and on to Lake Ontario?
Is Tonawanda Landfill in violation of the Federal Clean Water Act?, Have the 30 times over acceptable DOE substantiated radionuclides submerged in an underwater spring reached the Niagara River yet?
Will capping ever solve this problem?
Are we burning dollars by promoting a what if perpetual guardianship policy with no end in sight?
The years have come and gone, and government is still in denial.
Our residents remain stranded and, it seems, forgotten.
Tonawanda is often compared to a multitude of toxic waste sites and is one of many sites that qualifies for superfund status.
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