Re:We discovered three poisonous books in our university lib...
by reaperducer on Sunday July 01, 2018 @09:05PM
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Well, we used to have a radium paint in our watches
And there used to be radioactive thorium used in the making of lanterns. One company that manufactured the lamps in the early 1900's would just dump the leftover thorium into the ground in downtown Chicago.
Now any time a skyscraper is built in downtown Chicago, the soil has to be tested and often remediated.
And there used to be radioactive thorium used in the making of lanterns. One company that manufactured the lamps in the early 1900's would just dump the leftover thorium into the ground in downtown Chicago.
Now any time a skyscraper is built in downtown Chicago, the soil has to be tested and often remediated.
Examples:
https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2012/11/06/radioactive-d...
https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2017/07/24/downtown-chic...
https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2015/10/27/building-with...