"You might have very curious scientific people at the level just before Marie Curie, i.e. very scientific and interested, but knowing nothing about radioactivit

"You might have very curious scientific people at the level just before Marie Curie, i.e. very scientific and interested, but knowing nothing about radioactivity." Marie Curie and her contemporaries had no warning the material they were dealing with might have been dangerous. In the case of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, there would be clear warnings.