Trump’s swift demolition of East Wing may have launched asbestos plumes

There is no confirmation that the Trump admin. followed abatement processes.

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[MMarsh]

Hell, past the 40s, it wasn't much less popular. The middle of the 20th century was a fucking wild time. It was like we realized we had all this cool shit like rockets, radioactive elements, PCBs, fission, fusion, asbestos, perchlorates, plastics, CFCs, DDT, you name it, and it was like a race to find as many uses for each of them as imaginable so we could cram them into every possible aspect of modern life before anyone realized they were capable of killing us all, either individually or all at once, often in combination. The friendly atom! Better living through chemistry! Wait, shit, oops

The Hanford Site reports are one hell of a read. They're just page after page of "So, the 1960s nuclear weapons engineers went to the 1960s chemical engineers and asked for a tanker car each of their 20 nastiest most aggressive solvents, then they tried dissolving the radioactive plutonium in each of them, and this one worked but the other 19 didn't, so they dumped them in underground tanks 24 through 43 beside the river and buried it and moved on. Now we're spending $4bn to clean that experiment up." Repeated like 20 times over until they've spent the GDP of a midsize island nation on "toxic radioactive hazmat leaking into the river" abatement.