On 3/20/2013 11:26 PM, Martin Eastburn wrote:
There was a case a number of years ago that had a scrap metal
company in Mexico was buying junk metal from LA.

A Dentist had gone out of business - might have died or sold out ...
and the machine was to be taken out and scrapped in a local yard
that could handle the Co60 source. ...

It got to Mexico, a kid got some neat looking metal and off he went.
....

That actually was the case that prompted my earlier comments. There
have been a few others w/ medical sources. There were even loads of
DU-contaminated material from the old gaseous diffusion process
buildings being scrapped at Oak Ridge that made it off the DOE
reservation prior to being declared clean by mistake. They, of course,
were of much less serious a nature as to actual hazard but rather
embarrassing to DOE and the operating contractor for the foulup...

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