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> “easiest explanation” is that a medical or industrial device containing cesium-137 was inadvertently reprocessed as scrap metal. The radioactive material coul
by comrade1234 1y ago
> “easiest explanation” is that a medical or industrial device containing cesium-137 was inadvertently reprocessed as scrap metal. The radioactive material could have become gaseous after entering the PMT furnace and then been released from the facility’s smokestack
- pixl97 1y agoWhich is highly concerning in itself. A ban on any steel imports from that country should happen immediately and strict requirements on preprocess detection and post process radiation levels should be put in place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_contamination_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_c... Is the classic example of what happens when you don't do rad checking at the foundry. You can end up with a highly radiated piece that ends up right beside someone for half their life giving them cancer the entire time.
- amy_petrik 1y ago[flagged]
- vivalahn 1y ago[flagged]
- potato3732842 1y agoWhat kind of hyperbolic alarmism is this? You don't need to ban anything. Just scan it for radioactivity. Radiation is a lot easier to detect than any other contamination because it pretty much announces itself. The radiation levels we're talking about here are so low that you could make a bed frame out of it and it'd be fine.