I was at the dinky visitors center on the north side and it was in the village on the south side side, good to know.
What the fuck are buckets full of Uranium doing there.
Jesus reading the whole article it feels like one of those world-building stories you'd find in a Fallout game, they knew about it and tried to cover it all up for years.
So they just had three buckets sitting around for 20 years and nobody ever thought “what’s in these buckets” or “these buckets have been here long enough”??
""Of particular concern are 1000s of children attending 'shows' in very close proximity to the uranium," he wrote. Those presentations lasted a half hour or more, he said, yet radiation dosages could have exceeded federal safety standards within seconds."
This is one hell of a fuck up, holy shit.
"Not my bucket, not my problem." / "Not my paygrade."
This combined with the possibility that who ever is in charge is so anal about shit that nobody bothers to move shit around, lest the piss off their bosses because "WHY DID YOU MOVE THAT I WAS SAVING/STORING THAT FOR *reason goes here*?!"
Read the whole article and the question of why bucket s of uranium were laying about at a visitors centre still hasnt been answered
Fuck. I was there 2 years ago.
Well as my deceased father used to say, a little radiation builds character
Finally an explanation for all those wacky millennials - fox news
but hey its probably safe to mine the stuff by the hundreds of tons right next to the colorado river that feeds oh so many people's rivers and waterworks.
well i guess im going to go buy a geiger counter..
well i dont know, but ive been told, uranium ore's worth more than gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acMqxcdxE0E
Explains the Fortnite dancing then
I wonder how they even got there
Unless I missed something, there isn't a single mention of why they felt like storing three buckets filled with uranium ore in a damn museum, the article spends more time trying to explain radiation than anything else and doesn't even bring up a possible explanation. Did someone just put them there for storage, left the country then no one knew how to get rid of them? The fuck were they doing there?
Looking at the images only 1.85 mRem/hr for the radiation inside the building that's pretty shit (hell standing near the building made it 2.0mRem due to background), that's basically 3x the average exposure a non-radiation worker gets yearly dropped down to 1 hr.
Faculty were probably more screwed here than the children, they were not properly equipped to move the material and most likely had more overall exposure especially if they idled around where it was being stored.
ya nobody seems to be freaking out about the workers who work there 8-9 hours a day most of the year for the last 18 years.
I feel bad for the poor fuck who had to move the bucket that was so full the lid wouldn't shut properly.
This is probably on par with the Goiânia accident IMO, even if no deaths or illnesses have been recorded yet.
This is a bit blown out of proportion. While the level is high (about 1.2Sv/yr), the dose the public received is minimal as people would have only stopped nearby for a very short amount of time. It's not like it was stored in someone home next to their bed and they got massive doses day after day.
People who worked there would have been exposed to it, day after day. Use your brain.
It's doubtful their job was to stand next to the cabinet day in, day out.
I wonder when people will start making noise about the tons of abandoned open uranium mines around AZ dumping yellowcake into the rivers and lakes such as lake Roosevelt..
That aside I'm also curious as to how the hell those buckets got in there. I'm wondering with all the active and abandoned mines around the area someone just brought the buckets in thinking the ore would be an interesting addition to the museum not knowing what it even was.
This map is from 2018 from BLM:
https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/sites/default/files/maps/resources/gc-grand-canyon-withdrawal-active-claims-feb2018.jpg
I'm glad my late dad was so stingy about actually stopping anywhere that he never bothered to let us go into the museum on our summer trips to California. Good fucking god.
lol download if you were in upper management at this place you probably would have been the one pushing the coverup
I was actually living and working at the grand canyon until recently. The building in question is next to the Albright center, which has a dirt path children walk every day to go to school. Its also in the lot
where both Delaware North and Xanterra have their storage warehouses, and directly adjacent to a street many people drive to go to work every day.
I wouldn't be surprised if I have a significantly higher than average amount of it in my system, I shudder to think what some of my co-workers who were spending 8-10 hours a day 500 feet away from
there got.
Are you nuts? Doesn't matter whether or not they had to stand next to it or not, there were several buckets of fucking unshielded uranium ore in a building open to the public. That's a serious health issue no matter whether or not people did or didn't stand next to it for long enough to develop illnesses.
I mean, it's not like you're going to be getting radiation sickness out of this (unless you decide to just sleep with the ore next to you for a few days) but everyone's chance for cancer sure up.
I slept next to a box of uranium ore for years, I'm fine. Iirc, uranium primarily radiates alpha particles when decaying and alphas can't penetrate much. So your skin or the side of a bucket will block the alpha particles from causing cancer or anything bad. The problem arises with uranium dust and radon. If it isn't properly ventilated then those two can get breathed in. And the soft tissue of the lungs is very susceptible to alphas. So a bunch of uranium dust or radon in the lungs is what you need to look out for. Lung cancer is the major risk with uranium extraction.
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