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.
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.
That's impractical; the decay product Ba-137 is stable and already present in much larger amounts, compared against which the Cs-137 decay products are undetectable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
Vs. you can click on the "(consumerreports.org)" link in the title, to quickly see if something is an actual duplicate submission.
Also notice how the "X [hours|days] ago" text changes, depending on context. Vs. the mouseover timestamp for that is always the original submission time.
I just remembered the headline from a few days ago and (on mobile) could not find it again, coming to the incorrect conclusion. Mea culpa.
> "Some of the highest levels of contamination detected in the area were reportedly found in the company’s furnace, which is about 1.5 miles southwest of the BMS Foods facility where the shrimp was processed. Investigators think that radioactive dust was released into the environment after PMT inadvertently smelted scrap metal containing cesium-137. “Because it’s airborne, the contamination can be carried by wind,”..."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/radioactive-sh...
https://www.riskyornot.co/episodes/815-radioactive-shrimp
> Risky or Not? Radioactive Shrimp
> Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating shrimp impacted by the recent recall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_radioactive_shrimp_recall
My parents read it regularly, and I subscribed for a year or two about a decade ago and felt so strongly how it hadn’t seemed to change since I was a kid in 1990s. And as I’m deep in tech, I feel the lack of content and communication.
zarzavat•3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prachin_Buri_radiation_inciden...
https://qz.com/thailand-radioactive-cylinder-found-foundry-1...