Reply to post: Re: That dirty yard in the neighbourhood

Crooks swipe plutonium, cesium from US govt nuke wranglers' car. And yes, it's still missing

Alister

Re: That dirty yard in the neighbourhood

I doubt she would have been cancer-free having plutonium against her neck since 1957.

When I was six or seven, I was bought my first wristwatch - a Timex if I remember correctly - which had each hour marker, and all three hands (hour, minute and second) painted in Radium paint to glow in the dark.

A few years later, in a school physics lab, we were introduced to a Geiger counter, which registered my watch quite strongly!

I had been wearing all that radioactive goodness every day for a number of years, as I'm sure many other people of my generation will have done.

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