Yikes

http://tr.trfastenings.com/news/41/90/

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Similar scares occur all the time. When I was at Cado Special
fasteners we always had to be wary or Russian origin stainless ..
Inconels, Titaniums and other more exotic metals.

There's so ittle chance of any actual contamination 'here' that it's
unlikely to be a real worry, other than for those doing the actual
smelting/recovery etc.

 

We should sell them steel from Scapa Flow.

 

So it's safe for me to carry on licking the MV then? Cool.

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An earlier incident -

http://www.window.state.tx.us/border/ch09/cobalto.html
Some scrap men scrapped a Cobalt 60 powered
radiotherapy machine in mexico.

"Mexican health officials also ordered the demolition
of 109 houses ....."

I recall (perhaps incorrectly) from the time that the incident
was reportedly discovered when a worker in a nuclear
plant turned up at work a trifle warm after dining near
some hot table legs. Article does not mention this
but it makes a good story No idea as to the plausibility
of secondary radiation being detected at work in these
circumstances.

 

How about building an accommodation block out of bricks recycled from
a building that got a bit 'hot' a few years ago?

I've seen the footings and first 5 feet of brickwork which was as far
as the builders got before someone realised why the bricks were so
cheap and there's now a security fence topped with razor wire keeping
out the unsuspecting and foolhardy.

I've never managed to find mention of it on the internet and I deeply
regret not taking photos of the warning signs on the fence but my
inbuilt fear of things that can kill me without me seeing them kept me
a fair way back.

 

MI5 bullet?

 

Don't you mean Bulgarian brollies?

I used to work on the basis that what you can't see can't hurt you and
that got me through a lot of seriously hard caves (and cave diving)
but Russian mafia peddling radioactive bricks went just that little
bit too far.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie

Hyundais, IMLE.

 

And this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

 

Le Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:15:58 +0100, Andy Bonwick a écrit :

It is probably a ginge, but:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/

 

It's probably a fake, too.

 

Any particular reason? AFAIK you can take tours to Pripyat <fx:googles>
Yep, loads of them. I quite fancy it, myself.

C

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Somebody debunked it a couple of years ago, although quite what the
details were I unrecall.
It could be that, in light of the tours being run, the dangers on the
kiddofspeed site were greatly exaggerated. Otoh, perhaps every tourist
comes back ready to toast bread simply by walking into the room.

 

See that could be useful as an energy saving measure.

 

She didn't seem to make too much of the dangers, and it was some time
ago (I don't know quite how fast the levels of radioactivity will be
declining, not *that* fast I suspect).

I still really quite fancy it.

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Probably safe enough now in the bits the tour bus would take you. It's a
cheap day out, Iwt.

 

On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:29:51 +0200, Catman

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It's certainly a fake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova

While there are organised tours of Pripyat, you can't ride in on your own
on a
motorcycle. A pity, really, its less than 600 klicks away and I'd certainly
fancy a go. I even considered buying an adventure bike sometime in the
future, for touring in the East, and riding offroad to Pripyat to avoid
checkpoints. Then again, the guards have guns, and Ukrainian justice system
does leave something to be desired in the "not requiring bribes to get back
home" department. So I've filed it under the "not really that brilliant
an idea" label. ;-)

Leslie

 

Well I never.

Cool, well thanks for that.

Another dream smashed by a callous stranger.


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Judging by the photo, all that radiation is starting to take its toll.