Question: Which county in Central Florida is home to a radioactive road?
Answer: Polk County
On a small plot of land in Polk County, a company is studying a road crafted from radioactive materials. The Mosaic Company created the road using phosphogypsum (PG), a waste byproduct of processing phosphate ore into phosphoric acid, which is then used in fertilizers. The EPA notes that PG contains radium, which is a radioactive material that can potentially cause cancer.
