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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
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"Drop and Run" is now the most morbidly interesting thing I've seen written on something.
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While not 60-Co, we used these quite a bit for radiography in the field. I think they're more sustainable than Cobalt's ~5y half life. Never happened to us but I guess there's some decent drama if the source pellet gets stuck outside of the pig.
As the hippies are dying off we get less action from protesters here in Los Alamos but I find it hilarious that they'll prattle on about plutonium remaining deadly for tens of thousands of years yet they have no idea of what's on that construction site or well logging truck. I'll take Pu any day - that other stuff will jack you up!
A fun rabbit hole, in the manner of "Drop and Run" is the archaeological/sociological study of how to label nuclear waste so that someone, long after english is forgotten, will know not to mess around there. We do have a few places on the mesa with "don't ever, like ever, dig here" signs where there might be some interesting stuff in the ground. Not, and will not ever be, publicly accessible. Luckily not reactor waste...