Tony-I hate to think that I could be buying a new fying pan which is just recycled nuclear waste. Gee I like to think my 'radar' would pick it up in the store long before I brought it home!
Blessings, Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Nelson-Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:19 AM Subject: Re: Did Anyone Lose a Cesium Rod? Jane - I'm sure that the suspicions reported are well-founded, but radioactive releases can sometimes be due to plain ignorant stupidity - as in London some years ago, when a radio-source used in some sort of checking on a demolition site was taken away by the scrap merchant commissioned to clear the site of waste metal. The source was kept in a lead castle in a pit railed off and marked with the standard danger signs. The lead castle was recovered from the scrap-yard only minutes before a worker there was about to break it open. The man clearing the site claimed, apparently in all honesty, that he had no idea what the radioactive danger sign meant and that he'd been told he could take all the metal left there. Tony N-S.
