[Milsurplus] Clear protective spray on panels?

[KD7JYK DM09]

: You can be prosecuted for throwing that in your trash
: and if you try to turn it in to the local HazMat people,
: they and the Feds are going to get very curious about

Odd when you consider the following:

New York City did a haz-mat check a few years back and found roughly 800
sites of radioactive waste in town, parks, alleys, trash cans, schools, taco
stands...  This check was done with a helicopter, the materials were hot
enough to be detected from several hundred feet up.

In South Pasadena, my friend and I found 80 curies of tritium in a gutter
near a bus stop.

Around 1994, a scientist where a friend of mine worked security used to
throw radioactive material in the trash to avoid hazmat charges, the really
good stuff was sold on the black market.  Materials were stored behind a
door that could be jimmied with a pen-knife.  The joke was "How much of what
material can be sold for how much?"  Documentation of materials on-hand was
off by roughly 90%, less material, less fees, less traceability, easier to
toss in the lunch room trash.

Around 1993, a fellow in a van with a load so hot it glowed drove through
Glassell Park nuking the low-income neighborhood, then died some twenty
minutes later and rolled the van down the hill through several houses,
clean-up was slightly more than a push-broom and garden hose...

A co-worker had a background radiation monitor on his filing cabinet back
around 2000.  He lived in a typical housing tract, nowhere near industry or
major routes.  Roughly once a week or so, a heavy truck could be heard
driving by and the tick every few seconds increased to a near constant white
noise that diminished as the truck drove on.

Why go to any fuss at all?

Kurt