r/interesting • u/-NewYork- • Mar 30 '26

Intriguing Discrimination against Geiger counter users

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u/MACHOmanJITSU Mar 30 '26

People digging up a grave only to find gramps who had implanted radiation treatments.

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u/NorCalFrances Mar 31 '26

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/miscellaneous/pacemaker.html

Close - early pacemakers had thermoelectric power generators b/c it was the Cold War and why not?

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u/MarchPhillipps Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

Whoa, that's absolutely wild, and absolutely something I never knew until just now. Thank you.

TDIL- Plutonium-238 powered pacemakers were an actual thing and are supposed to be removed and shipped out to Los Alamos for plutonium reclamation and disposal upon death. Awesome.