When you don't respect Cobalt 60 it kills you

In a stretch of gruesomely preventable disasters in the late 80s and early 90s, Cobalt 60, a highly radioactive isotope used in industrial radiography, cancer treatment, and sterilization of medical equipment, did none of those things and instead irradiated people, sickening some in under a minute. — Read the rest
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