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We will likely never know. Once you melt the evidence and stir it with tons of other molten metal there’s not much to track.
by hinkley 1y ago
We will likely never know. Once you melt the evidence and stir it with tons of other molten metal there’s not much to track.
- m4rtink 1y agoIIRC all sources are tracked at manufacture and it migh also be possible to try to match the isotope ration to the original source material ? Not to mention the whole "spraying deadly radiation all over the place" that can be detected with modern sensitive detectors, possibly tracing back all places where the original source was miss-handled.
- hinkley 1y agoIf the metal is still radioactive they can probably narrow it down to a couple of train cars of scrap that were likely sources, but short of adding sensors to prevent a repeat, and auditing their partners…