KTVI, Oct 24, 2015 (emphasis added): Brush fire at West Lake Landfill sparks concern — Smoke could be seen for miles as fire crews responded to a brush fire at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton Saturday… The fire was started by a faulty switch… inside the landfill’s perimeter. The switch overheated, causing hot . . . → Read More: CBS: Fire erupts at another U.S. nuclear site near major city — Witness: Flames within feet of radioactive waste — TV: “You can see the smoke for miles… A big-time scare” — EPA emergency response specialists deployed (PHOTO & VIDEOS)

AP, Oct 8, 2015 (emphasis added): Beneath the surface of a St. Louis-area landfill lurk two things that should never meet: a slow-burning fire and a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste, separated by just 300 meters… Authorities have quietly adopted an emergency plan in case the smoldering embers ever reach the waste, a . . . → Read More: AP: Catastrophic event could release radioactive fallout over major U.S. metropolitan area — Gov’t issues emergency plan as fire burns near nuclear site — Report: “World is on brink of nuclear disaster” — Senator: “What we have… could end up as Chernobyl” (VIDEO)

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Event Notification Report for Sep. 24, 2015 (emphasis added): HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL… URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE PRODUCTION… METROPOLIS, IL… Emergency Class: ALERT… 10 CFR Section: 40.35(f) – EMERGENCY DECLARED… ALERT DECLARED DUE A FIRE GREATER THAN 15 MINUTES OUTSIDE OF THE FACILITY — At 2019 CDT, the licensee declared an Alert due to . . . → Read More: Emergency Alert at US Nuclear Facility: Semi truck filled with uranium catches fire — Initial attempt to extinguish flames fails, blaze continued for over 30 minutes — Officials test for radioactive contamination — FEMA, Homeland Security, EPA notified (VIDEO)

 Follow-up to: “Emergency” at US Nuclear Facility, Uranium Gas Release–Witnesses: “There’s the plume… moving across highway… Chemical taste in mouth… I could smell it!” (VIDEO)

NRC, Nov. 13, 2014 (emphasis added): NRC inspection found that Honeywell did not recognize that the HF [hydrogen fluoride gas] released… warranted an emergency classification of ALERT. Honeywell . . . → Read More: US Gov’t: Uranium plant leak “warranted emergency classification of ALERT” — Worker: “Video shows release was out of control… Smoke billowing… They refused to warn community” — TV: “I’ve lived here 30 years and never seen anything like it… I was shocked” — “It’s ridiculous… it’s not contained, everybody watched it” (VIDEOS)

CBS St. Louis, June 17, 2013 at 7:24a ET: State Rep. Bill Otto Scheduled To Release New Landfill Information [..] Work continues to put out the fire at the burning Bridgeton [near St. Louis, MO] landfill, while new information is expected to be released Monday about the nearby nuclear waste sit. State Representative Bill . . . → Read More: TV: Official to reveal “new concerns” about landfill fire nearby nuclear dump — “Will unveil new information about the radioactive waste” — Erin Brockovich’s group meets with residents

KMOV, May 7, 2013: Residents living near the Bridgeton landfill are being given a choice to relocate to nearby hotels while work is done at the landfill to attempt to reduce the odor. [...] To fight the odor that will come from the project, workers at the landfill are looking at installing misting systems . . . → Read More: Fire burning next to buried nuclear waste near St. Louis — Officials: Measurements of radioactivity ‘have not reached levels of concern’ (VIDEO)

Title: VIDEO: Feds Swarm Metra Train After Detecting Nuclear Risk Source: CBS Chicago Reporter: Dave Savini Date: March 15, 2013 h/t Anonymous tip Emphasis Added

“Chicago commuters were stunned — A nuclear scare on board a Chicago metro train just last night.”

It was stunning for those who watched Thursday night as federal agents . . . → Read More: CBS: Nuclear scare on board Chicago metro train — Elite VIPR team detects “high isotope reading” on luggage — Man emitting radiation (VIDEO)

Daily Times (Illinois), March 6, 2013: Contacted by phone Wednesday, [environmental scientist Robert] Bowcock expressed shock and alarm from lab results recently processed from Wedron [Illinois] groundwater samples [...] “The federal government allows five parts per billion of benzene as its maximum level,” said Bowcock. “The samples I collected and had tested were at . . . → Read More: Scientist: Tap water could probably run a lawn mower… it’s real gas — 500,000 times legal limit for benzene — “I’ve never seen such high levels” — Brockovich visits Illinois community (VIDEO)

Follow-up to: Massive gas blast in downtown Kansas City — Gruesome injuries reported — Up to 3 explosions (VIDEO)

KMBC at 10:40p ET:

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When you look at this and you see what is left, which is nothing of the restaurant, it goes beyond rubble, it’s just completely gone.

And that . . . → Read More: Blast Update: One of top restaurants in Midwest “just completely gone” — Firefighters searching rubble for victims (VIDEO)

AP: A northeast Ohio man charged with violating the federal Clean Water Act is suspected of having an employee repeatedly dump gas-drilling wastewater into a storm sewer, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Hardrock Excavating LLC owner Ben Lupo [...] faces up to three years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a year of supervised release . . . → Read More: Years in prison for CEO charged with dumping fracking waste? Full tanker trucks of toxic fluid released directly into storm drain — Crews monitoring for radioactivity (VIDEO)

Title: Cancer cluster map of St. Louis Source: KSDK Author:  Leisa Zigman Date: Feb 1, 2013 h/t Anonymous tip

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Anchor: There are radioactive secrets beneath the banks and waters of a north St. Louis County creek that may be linked to a staggering number of cancers, illnesses and birth defects. In . . . → Read More: TV: “Staggering number of cancers, illnesses, and birth defects” linked to nuclear waste? Over 700 cases found in only four square miles — “There’s something very wrong” (VIDEO)

Title: EPA: Public is safe despite high levels of radioactive material at St. Louis landfill Source: KSDK Author: Leisa Zigman Date: 12:14 AM, Jan 18, 2013 h/t Anonymous tip

About 200 North County residents squared off against EPA officials Thursday night over tons of illegally dumped radioactive material that is sitting on a flood . . . → Read More: TV: Uranium used to make atomic bombs dumped in landfill with no cover near major U.S. city — Experts: Waste “is becoming more radioactive” — EPA: It’s safe, leave it there (VIDEO)

Title: Repairs at Four Nuclear Reactors Are So Expensive That They Should Not Be Restarted Source: Fairewinds Energy Education Date: January 13, 2013

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Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: At the Ft. Calhoun plant [in case of an upstream dam failure] we’re looking at 35 feet more water than there . . . → Read More: Gundersen: US nuclear plants at risk of ‘flood of biblical proportions’? — “They’re not designed against biblical floods” (AUDIO)

Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 11: h/t Anonymous tip

A missing nuclear plant operator who vanished after being charged with a DuPage County carjacking faces a March 5 trial date even though authorities say there’s evidence he fled the country.

[A nuclear engineer who worked at the Dresden plant in Illinois,] Michael Buhrman, 32, was free . . . → Read More: “Bizarre disappearance” of US nuclear plant operator — Carjacking, private jet, $100,000 in gold bars? (AUDIO)

(Subscription Only) Title: House explodes near Albion Source: KPC News Author: Bob Braley Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 1:00am

A house in rural Albion exploded Tuesday afternoon, demolishing the building and leaving a couple homeless, the Albion Fire Department said. The home of Pete M. and Ella Jimenez at 2435 E. C.R. 175, was . . . → Read More: Another mysterious explosion demolishes home in Indiana — Captain: No fire with blast (VIDEO)

Title: Feds joining search for cause of Indianapolis blast Source: WTSP, AP, CBS Date: Nov. 12, 2012 h/t Anonymous tip

Feds joining search for cause of Indianapolis blast

[...] Deputy Fire Chief Kenny Bacon [...] said investigators had not eliminated any possible causes for the blast. But U.S. Rep. Andre Carson, who represents the . . . → Read More: Police: We just don’t know what caused massive Indiana explosion — State Employee: I don’t know how a gas leak could do that kind of damage — Feds joining investigation (VIDEO)