OK, just a word of warning to anyone and I mean anyone planning to visit Asse in Lower Saxony,Germany…. don’t. Not only is it home to a friggin salt-mine nuclear waste storage facility (WTF) but the friggin thing is crumbling (WFT). Oh and hold on to your radio active suits people, the leaky hell hole contains unknown amounts (yes, unknown amounts) of friggin explosives (WTF).Oh yeah and those explosives are kept right near the nuclear waste (WTF). Hmm, watch the officials and Asse operators run! But no need to alarm the locals….oh except that a “bog of radioactive salt water has built up by the entrance to the explosive chamber.” (WTF). Hmm, and so I wonder how that cancer and leukemia monitoring is working for them? So do ya wanna know what else is in the 126,000 untouchable barrels of scary waste? Try arsenic, lead and pesticides for starters. Hmm, if you want more WTF’s just have a read of Schacht Asse II.
Psst I did a quick Wiki on the location and I came across this line “For several hundred years, salt has been mined in Asse.”… lucky it didn’t have a “the” in that sentence!
Geez, check out the locals protesting the facility….OK lose the torches people you might go boom! The line of protesters went for miles! Hmm, a human fuse!
You have Asse?
We have Picher Oklahoma.
The town is in the middle of mountains of mining waste. Supposed to have been cleaned up for 2o years now. It was leveled by a tornado and the govt just bought the whole town.
Know the place (Picher) well. The ‘waste’ was called chad, and was everywhere. That whole area was zinc mining. When the zinc played out, the leavings were scattered all over the place. It’s riddled with caves, where usually one or more kids are lost every year. Driving through the area is like stepping back in time. Really weird place.
The Carthage, MO, town square is sinking due to the mining that took place there. For some reason, the town council keeps spending money to figure out why it’s sinking. I suspect inhaling the tailings has something to do with it.
WFT? Does that mean “what fuck the”?
WFT, really? My bad?
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