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TheDigitalAlchemist
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MAR 25, 10:43 PM
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RWDPLZ
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MAR 25, 11:40 PM
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I watched a video on this incident previously, fascinating stuff. The SCARY part, is there are a LOT of these radioactivity 'incidents', and every time they go over the cause, it was an obvious design flaw, that could have been easily prevented, but usually wasn't in order to save money.
'Plainly Difficult' has no shortage of radioactivity incident videos, here's his on the same incident:
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olejoedad
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MAR 26, 07:59 AM
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Radioactive material is nothing to mess with.
Early on, radium was used to illuminate wristwatch dials.
We make mistakes and we learn and hopefully change.
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theogre
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MAR 26, 09:54 AM
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I believe this same thing also happened in Mexico too.
This and similar Happens more then you think or recorded and why most steel and more around the world has higher "background" radiation as more things are sold as scrap.
ANY metal smelted after Trinity has more radiation but got worse later for Nuc Testing and scrapping nuclear items... Like many equipment and other things used in Chernobyl and other USSR "incidents" has been stolen and sold as scrap.
Is why many project need "pre-atomic" steel and very hard to find or very expensive to get when they find it.
Is why Many would love to salvage any ships including Titanic and WW2 sunk ships to get the steel.
Many areas already salvage(ed) WW2 sunk ships in "Shallow" waters to sell as normal scrap.
Scrappers and corrupt local Gov doesn't give a crap when other govrmnts labels them as Graves.------------------
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
(Jurassic Park)
The Ogre's Fiero Cave
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maryjane
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MAR 26, 12:05 PM
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| quote | This and similar Happens more then you think or recorded and why most steel and more around the world has higher "background" radiation as more things are sold as scrap.
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I used to work in the N.O.R.M. Natuarally Occurring Radioactive Material remediation sector. It is low level radiation that comes mostly from decay daughters of uranium and thorium and include 3 different isotopes of Radium,(222, 226, 228 and as well as thorium, thallium, bismuth and potassium. It's very low, but when concentrated, can and almost always is above background and because ionizing radiation works in harmful way on a principle of exposure time and radioactive strength, a small daily exposure over a long period of time is just as bad as a huge dose over a very short period of time. Radium 226 has a half life of 1600 years.
A large industry sprung up in the late 80s early-mid 90s when an oilfield pipe cleaning worker in Mississippi, with no cancer history in his family was diagnosed with leukemia in the early 70s of and subsequently died. A lawsuit followed and all used oilfield and some water well production pipe then had to be cleaned of scale, but decades of that pipe and related production equipment had found it's way into all kinds of places. Guardrails in front of parking spaces, fencing around schools, farms, small town children playground equipment, home built farm and construction equipment and by that time, many millions of tons of it had historically been scrapped and smelted down to make new steel without ever being checked for radioactivity. It had been going on at least since the 1930s and 40s.
OSHA set new limits for NORM exposure in the late 1970s, but the horse had long prior left the starting gate. It is now against federal law for a scrap yard to accept any pipe or oilfield equipment or water well piping without it first being descaled and checked for ionizing radiation.
It was hard miserable work but I made a lot of $$ doing it.
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