Sinkhole Sends MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER Into Florida Aquifer

Quite big news in a large Swedish newspaper as well ( http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/slukhal-orsakar-radioaktiv-lacka/ ) were they refer to the newsagency Reuters and to Tampa Bay Times ( http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/mosaic-plant-sinkhole-dumps-215-million-gallons-of-reprocessed-water-into/2293845 )

Carl

It's a good thing the phosphogypsum that was in the water is only weakly radioactive, having come from marine deposits that concentrate the natural Uranium and Thorium in seawater. One photo shows that this pond was on the top of a stack of this gypsum, so it would seem quite a bit of gypsum fell in as well.. This gypsum is a by-product of fertilizer production, and is too radioactive to use for most applications so it has just been stacked in big flat piles until they think of a way to use it. Florida has a billion tons of this phosphogypsum stacked. See Wikipedia article