[Milsurplus] Radium Paint

[Peter Gottlieb]

I have read a number of stories in the news about people in NYC who have 
similarly been made radioactive getting ensnared in the subway system's 
radiation detectors.  Best case is several hours of police grilling, 
worst was IIRC some guy who was held over the weekend.  The police 
completely ignore the cards patients are given from the nuclear medicine 
people and will not make a call to verify, at least not until very late 
in the process.

Peter




J. Forster wrote:
> I had a couple of Thallium scans and my core body made a GC scream for a
> day or so. FWIW, I peed hot too.
>
> A friend had a theraputic dose of Iodine. She was hot for near a week and
> she was told to sleep alone for a while.
>
> -John
>
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>> What's also interesting is to take a reading of someone who has had some
>> radioactive dye used for a medical proceedure. It will surprise you. Of
>> course the radiation effects are accumulative and the half life of those
>> medical radiations are measured in hours and "wear off" after a few days.
>> Radium dial paint lasts a looooong time and on the "good" side, the
>> particles are readily stopped by dial glass, etc. so you are OK  .....but
>> not if you ingest it.
>> Kees
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