I don’t think people these days quite understand the impact that a nuclear accident of even moderate size can have on the area around them.
A couple of years ago, I did sort of a personal deep dive into the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters and the devastation that was caused to the people who lived in the area at the time the area itself is simply mind-boggling to understand at times.
This is why so much care needs to be taken around places that handle any kind of nuclear material, yet it seems that while Joe Biden has been sticking his nose in what seems like everyone else’s business he has been more than lax in protecting areas that handle nuclear material.
Take for instance what is happening down in the great state of Texas. Governor Abbott has been forced to issue a disaster declaration for several dozen countries as a series of wildfires have burned all throughout the state. The largest one is somewhere in the neighborhood of four hundred square miles.
The scariest thing about this whole scenario is that the fire is moving towards a strategic nuclear facility in the state and if that thing goes up, it may make Chernobyl look like a drop in the bucket.
The facility, operated by Pantex, is where the United States government has its nuclear weapons assembled and disassembled after they have been decommissioned.
So think about that for a second. Outside of a nuclear power plant, that may be the largest depository of radioactive material in the entire world.
Now, as we all know, as long as radioactive material is contained in the appropriate places you are in relative safety.
However, if those facilities are burnt to the ground then we are in some trouble. Never mind the fires themselves.
If the metal housings on those nuclear devices were melted from the heat of the fires and the radioactive material exposed it could render several sections of the state of Texas if not the entire state itself uninhabitable.
That’s not even mentioning what could happen to areas along the border in other states.
So far, evacuation orders have been issued in various parts of Texas that would be affected by the fires and ones that would be at risk of radioactive exposure.
If Joe Biden was worrying more about taking care of nuclear facilities than trying to remember what day of the week it was; the people of Texas would not have to sit and wonder what getting a thousand X-rays at once was going to feel like.
