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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
There is a large market for WW2 battleship's scrap steel!
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Yup. I guess they don't do "In-vivo" whole body counts routinely anymore, just 2L of urine a month for a bioassay, but when I was in the plutonium business in Los Alamos about 20y ago twice a year you had to go to the Health Physics building. Down four flights of stairs into the bowels of the mesa and through 6" thick doors like a bank vault into a room built of WW1 battleship steel/iron. Sit in the chair, relax while they literally cover your chest with cryogenic radiation detectors. Hopefully not panic (claustrophobic?) when they leave amd shutting the many-ton door behind them. Try to relax for a soothing 20-30 minute paid nap.
fact: LA's HPL is home to one of Karen Silkwood's lungs - yes that Silkwood