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Uranium hunter follows trail of tiles



I found this on MSNBC today kind of interesting..

 

 

SAN FRANCISCO, May 30 —  Walter Wagner can see the radioactivity as he walks the streets of San Francisco: He stretches out his Geiger counter to a decorative tile on the facade of an apartment building — and sure enough, gets a chorus of clicks. Those sounds are what motivate the self-appointed sleuth’s campaign to root out radiation sources most people don’t know exist: the vintage uranium-glazed tiles in their kitchens and bathrooms, stairways and schools.

 

To read the rest click on link

 

http://www.msnbc.com/news/917153.asp#BODY

 

 

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