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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