Visit the Cellar!

The Cellar Image of the Day is just a section of a larger web community: bright folks talking about everything. The Cellar is the original coffeeshop with no coffee and no shop. Founded in 1990, The Cellar is one of the oldest communities on the net. Join us at the table if you like!

 
What's IotD?

The interesting, amazing, or mind-boggling images of our days.

IotD Stuff

ARCHIVES - over 13 years of IotD!
About IotD
RSS2
XML

Permalink Latest Image

October 22, 2020: A knot of knots is up at our new address

Recent Images

September 28th, 2020: Flyboarding
August 31st, 2020: Arriving Home / Happy Monkey Bait
August 27th, 2020: Dragon Eye Pond
August 25th, 2020: Sharkbait
July 29th, 2020: Gateway to The Underworld
July 27th, 2020: Perseverance
July 23rd, 2020: Closer to the Sun

The CELLAR Tip Mug
Some folks who have noticed IotD

Neatorama
Worth1000
Mental Floss
Boing Boing
Switched
W3streams
GruntDoc's Blog
No Quarters
Making Light
darrenbarefoot.com
GromBlog
b3ta
Church of the Whale Penis
UniqueDaily.com
Sailor Coruscant
Projectionist

Link to us and we will try to find you after many months!

Common image haunts

Astro Pic of the Day
Earth Sci Pic of the Day
We Make Money Not Art
Spluch
ochevidec.net
Strange New Products
Geisha Asobi Blog
Cute animals blog (in Russian)
20minutos.es
Yahoo Most Emailed

Please avoid copyrighted images (or get permission) when posting!

Advertising

The best real estate agents in Montgomery County

   Undertoad  Saturday Aug 10 01:18 PM

8/10/2002: Environmental problem burned



Somewhere in remote Nebraska was the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant, where they made munitions from 1942 through 1973. When there was war, the plant was activated; when there was peace, it was put on standby. In 1989, not having been activated since 1973 and Vietnam, the Army decided it didn't need the plant any longer.

While it was active, the plant attempted to manage its waste properly by building a complicated filtering system. But it must not have worked. At this point, the plant has contaminated ground water in wells up to 4 miles away. The main pollutant: TNT.

So how do you get rid of a plant contaminated with explosive dust? Simple, you BURN it. And that's what they're doing in the above shot.

The more you know. It turns out that the United States military is the #1 domestic polluter and produces more hazardous waste annually than the five largest international chemical companies combined.



elSicomoro  Saturday Aug 10 10:04 PM

This is along the lines of the link I posted in the Best Headlines thread. A site near St. Louis notorious for its radioactive waste was recently opened to the public by the DOE.



Your reply here?

The Cellar Image of the Day is just a section of a larger web community: a bunch of interesting folks talking about everything. Add your two cents to IotD by joining the Cellar.