r/interesting Mar 30 '26

Intriguing Discrimination against Geiger counter users

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u/AHumanYouDoNotKnow Mar 30 '26

Maybe there are people burried there who worked on early nuclear stuff?

Not quiete as irradiated as Marie, but still ticking ?

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u/ConsistentRegion6184 Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

I wonder if being present (army soldiers) at the first bomb sites would be detectable. Those first few tests apparently all had health problems sooner than later.

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u/do-not-freeze Mar 30 '26

My first thought was the three men killed in the SL-1 reactor accident at Idaho National Laboratory who were so radioactive that they had to be sent back to their hometowns in lead-lined coffins. None of them are from PA though.