Tag Archives: radiation
Are These Parking Meters Killing This Woman?
Parking meters aren’t just hurting this woman’s wallet, they are apparently hurting her body.
“In April, they started turning on the new smart meters downtown and I started getting sick,” Barton told ABC News.
Man Sets Nuclear Sub On Fire To Get Off Work Early
When you want to clock out a bit before your shifts over, you can say you’re sick, say there’s an emergency, or just create one.
An anxiety-ridden civilian itching to “get out of work” at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard ignited the blaze that caused more than $400 million in damage to a nuclear sub and injured several firefighters two months ago, according to authorities.
Radiation In Cigarettes?
We always thought the great taste of ash trays came from the rat poison and toilet cleaners, but what do you know? There’s a secret delicious ingredient that’s been kept from the public and it may or may not be radioactive.
Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, reviewed 27 previously unanalyzed documents and found that tobacco companies knew about the radioactive content of cigarettes as early as 1959. The companies studied the polonium throughout the 1960s, knew that it caused “cancerous growths” in the lungs of smokers, and even calculated how much radiation a regular smoker would ingest over 20 years. Then, they kept that data secret.
Hrayr Karagueuzian, the study’s lead author, said the companies’ level of deception surprised him.
“They not only knew of the presence of polonium, but also of its potential to cause cancer,” he said.
