“No one knows for sure what happens when an underground inferno meets a pool of atomic waste, but residents aren’t eager to find out.”
ENE-News on it (with more info in comments) – Mass release of floating radioactive particles in metro St. Louis” possible from inferno at landfill? Fire “smells like dead bodies” — 8,700 tons of nuclear waste nearby
Article with MAP showing how close it is to Mississippi River, swollen with northern snow melt now.
What a coincidence! – Attorney General’s Bridgeton Lawsuit Hearing Today
flying cuttlefish picayune 
Where did the nuclear waste come from? should not be from nuclear power.
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they said it is some of the ‘oldest’ so has to be from nuke weapons program ….
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Reblogged this on The Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle and commented:
Mississippi River related . . .
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The Looming Environmental Disaster in Missouri that Nobody is Talking About
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/01/the-looming-environmental-disaster-in-missouri-that-nobody-is-talking-about.html
[snip] ….Technically, what is occurring isn’t a typical fire with thick, black smoke and flames; rather, “it is a self-sustaining, high-temperature reaction that consumes waste underground, producing rapid ‘settlement’ of the landfill’s surface.”
Bridgeton Landfill LLC alerted MDNR on Dec. 23, 2010, that it discovered high levels of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, low levels of methane, as well as elevated temperatures from several gas extraction wells in the area of the fill known as the south quarry — all indicators of a chemical reaction known as a “subsurface smoldering event” or “underground fire.”
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