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Re:Berlin police find radioactive iodine on playing cards by kpil on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @08:15PM (#15803624)
Radioactive material messes up certain types of fire detectors, and more advanced detectors detects also when they go outside their working parameters.

A plausible explanation would be that the garbage made some fire detectors in a power plant's loading bay to go offline.

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Re:Berlin police find radioactive iodine on playing cards by germanier on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:52AM (#15804903)
Apparently garbage is really routinely checked for trace contamination of radioactivity.
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