Makes me think of the medical device that was scrapped in Mexico, releasing BB sized cobalt 60 pellets into the metal recycling supply chain. They did not melt

Makes me think of the medical device that was scrapped in Mexico, releasing BB sized cobalt 60 pellets into the metal recycling supply chain. They did not melt during the recycling process, and several thousand pellets ended up randomly distributed among 600 tons of steel. Many ended up in rebar, while some made it into table legs that were sold all over North America. The problem was only discovered when a Los Alamos truck took a wrong turn and their Geiger counter detected on that was embedded into a road. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/01/science/nuclear-spill-at-juarez-looms-as-one-of-worst.html https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/01/science/nuclear-spill-at-...