discovery...
She was cleaning out her garage, and found a hockey-puck sized container wedged in a crevice
behind a workbench. She carried it about halfway across her yard before looking at it more closely
and seeing it was marked Ra226 and had a radiation hazard symbol on it!
She set the container down - gingerly! - and called 911. First came the fire dept, and then the
hazmat team, replete with nuclear bunny suits. Last came NIET - Massachusett's Nuclear Incident
Evaluation Team, to decide if they needed to quarantine her house. (Thankfully, they did not).
Fortunately, the radiation was well contained, and only showed up on their instruments on direct
contact, but not from 6 inches or 1 foot away.
No one knew what the purpose of the Radium was, or why it was in her garage. She guessed that
for a prior homeowner, it had rolled off the workbench into the crevice and been lost/forgotten. They theorized that at some point back in the 50's-60's the material was legal and had some sort of
home use.
Anyone have any ideas what that might be?
-bryon
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