[ RadSafe ] Another scare

Fri Feb 22 07:40:50 CST 2019

Another possibility is that the Grand Canyon safety manager was upset with his salary and decided to hire a couple guys to wear MAGA hats and irradiate him with buckets of rocks containing uranium ore in order to gain sympathy from the dozens of media reports covering the story.

Rick

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Given the media's track record with facts over the last month or so, my money is on the reporter not getting their facts straight.

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Wagner, D. (2019, February 20). Experts dispute Grand Canyon safety manager's claim that radiation posed risk to public. USA Today.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/experts-dispute-grand-canyon-safety-managers-claim-that-radiation-posed-risk-to-public/ar-BBTR3vx?ocid=ientp

"... gamma rays are hazardous if inhaled or swallowed, but not externally dangerous because they can be absorbed and rendered harmless by a sheet of paper, a few inches of air, or a person’s outer layer of dead skin."

Transcription error?

Henry

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Wagner, D. (2019, February 20). Experts dispute Grand Canyon safety manager's claim that radiation posed risk to public. USA Today.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/experts-dispute-grand-canyon-safety-managers-claim-that-radiation-posed-risk-to-public/ar-BBTR3vx?ocid=ientp

Henry

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