Johnston Atoll

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by danasan

From the article: "A 25 acre landfill on Johnston Island holds radioactive debris from the failed 1962 nuclear test, along with chemical residue from Vietnam and sarin nerve gas from the former Soviet Union."

Well done...

We have a lot of that right here in Utah. As long as it's buried deep I see no problem. Well, as long as it's buried deep there...

[soopaman2]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

We have a lot of that right here in Utah. As long as it's buried deep I see no problem. Well, as long as it's buried deep there...

Being in a populous area where open space is a potential strip mall or Wal-Mart. I always wondered are sites like this guarded? Or just buried in a mine with a big padlock on the doors? Are they marked as dangerous, or just a non descript "federal property, no tresspassing sign" like they have here at Naval Weapon Station Earl (they used to let people fish off the pier pre 9-11, the signs are burned in my head)

Just asking as it seems a manpower waste (especially with spent uranium with massive halflives) to guard dump sites. (for thousands of years)

I guess what I am asking, is whether an enterprising terrorist with a backhoe can "find" this stuff?

[Jimbuna]

Reminds me in some ways of Bikini Atoll.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Being in a populous area where open space is a potential strip mall or Wal-Mart. I always wondered are sites like this guarded? Or just buried in a mine with a big padlock on the doors? Are they marked as dangerous, or just a non descript "federal property, no tresspassing sign" like they have here at Naval Weapon Station Earl (they used to let people fish off the pier pre 9-11, the signs are burned in my head)

80% of Utah's population live withing 50 miles of each other. Tooele Army Depot is in the desert, miles from nowhere and fenced, guarded and patrolled. Not a lot of manpower, but humvees with guns on a regular basis. Anybody who took a backhoe into the range would be spotted soon enough, and if the .50 cal on the humvee wasn't enough an airstrike could be there from Hill AFB in a matter of minutes.