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How can someone just dump a highly radioactive (at short distances) source in a scrap yard? Gee, some people... I bet the guy who did it is dead now. This remin

• ceejayoz 15y ago
  > How can someone just dump a highly radioactive (at short distances) source in a scrap yard? "I could pay a few thousand dollars to properly dispose of this, or I could throw it over the fence of the local junkyard."
  • catch23 15y ago
    although usually those who own the equipment containing the radioactive material usually have a financial incentive to dispose it properly. The doctors owning the medical device in the Goiania incident were essentially fined to bankruptcy for their mistake.
    • ceejayoz 15y ago
      > although usually those who own the equipment containing the radioactive material usually have a financial incentive to dispose it properly. Only if you get caught.
  • marshray 15y ago
    Or I can pick up the phone and have the yard pay me and send over guys who can't read long words like "radioactive" to pick it up.