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#and btw. the firefighters? didn't make it out scot free neither
goldpilot22 · 1 year
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girls will get angry about rocky flats for the yet againth time
#psii.txt#im having a moment#like I do approximately twice a week#growling and snarling and biting. three mile island was NOT america's chernobyl#yes that was a nuclear reactor meltdown however it was able to be cleaned up and no one was seriously harmed#meanwhile the mothers day 1969 fire at rocky flats#you Don't fight a plutonium fire with water. that can cause a criticality aka Bad News. but the fire was so bad that they had no choice#the firefighters had to use water. and it worked. and if not for them it would have burned through the roof and released enough#enough plutonium dust to make denver look like pripyat#the mother's day fire is the closest the us has ever come to having our own chernobyl#and btw. the firefighters? didn't make it out scot free neither#one of them had his mask knocked off and he inhaled toxic radioactive fumes. it gave him lung cancer#so many rocky flats workers have similar stories and not even from the fire. ill fitting masks. damaged glove box gloves.#plutonium dust. beryllium dust. carbon tetrachloride.#you wanna talk about a nuclear disaster in the states‚ look at rocky flats#look at the workers sick and dying with cancers and lung diseases and organs failing and Still Fighting to get compensation#my great-aunt was a secretary there and she's fighting cancer and they tried to tell her the only thing she was exposed to there was 'ink'#god. I could go OFF about this for probably hours#it's just like the radium girls. history repeating itself
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