Scavenger hunt - new world champions announced

[IronWing]

"I lost a radioactive capsule the size of a .22 bullet."
"Where did you last see it?"
"Um, somewhere in Western Australia."
"Da f'? Okay, I'll see what I can do."
<one week passes>
"Here ya go."

Search team finds Rio Tinto’s radioactive capsule lost in Australia

The capsule was recovered after a nearly week-long search involving around 100 people along a 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) stretch of highway.

www.mining.com

 

[MrSquished]

In the '60s or thereabouts a little kid found small radioactive capsule and brought it home and put it in the kitchen cabinet. He died shortly after. Then his pregnant mom and sister, all within months. The father survived and then they figured out what the hell happened.

 

[Captante]

In the '60s or thereabouts a little kid found small radioactive capsule and brought it home and put it in the kitchen cabinet. He died shortly after. Then his pregnant mom and sister, all within months. The father survived and then they figured out what the hell happened.

This is a fairly common event although the directly linked deaths are less so.

There are many old industrial and medical devices that have strong radioactive elements and very few enforced laws regarding their safe handling and disposal.

 

[IronWing]

The US used to allow private companies to use cesium 137 sources but realized it was a really bad idea and gathered them back in in the 90s. One shipment from Virginia to the Hanford site was so hot that the shipping container was a giant concrete and steel tank with a camera inside to watch the cesium. The cesium created its own light for the camera to see by.

 

[KMFJD]

didn't take all that long to find it

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

New contender:

Metal detectorist unearths Tudor gold pendant linked to Henry VIII in Warwickshire

Cafe owner Charlie Clarke ‘shrieked like schoolgirl’ when he turned up pristine necklace bearing initials of Henry and Katherine of Aragon

www.theguardian.com

 

[lxskllr]

~30 years ago, I found a bottle of radioactive medicine packed in a lead container next to a road. Can't remember what it was. I ended up just leaving it there.

 

[allisolm]

This is a fairly common event although the directly linked deaths are less so.

There are many old industrial and medical devices that have strong radioactive elements and very few enforced laws regarding their safe handling and disposal.

And then there were the Radium Girls, many of whom died from being exposed to and ingesting radium on paint brushes when they painted watch dials with luminescent paint containing radium in or about the 1920s.

 

[Ajay]

We had a manufacturing plant in a now retail location. They used to work with radioactive samples. All that was left over is buried in a steel bunker and encased in reinforced concrete. Now there is a strip mall over it. I have no idea how this is legal.

 

[IronWing]

We had a manufacturing plant in a now retail location. They used to work with radioactive samples. All that was left over is buried in a steel bunker and encased in reinforced concrete. Now there is a strip mall over it. I have no idea how this is legal.

The dumb movie plot writes itself. Deep beneath the nail salon a terrible secret lurks. The glow-in-the-dark slasher nails will be the best.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Thread scope seems to be expanding, so ....

They handled nuclear missiles. Now they're getting cancer.

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