those radiation detectors do indeed work!

So what is this stuff?

 

I read an article about a radiation alarm being set off in NYC by a vacuum truck that had hauled fly ash . This was after I had worked several years hauling fly ash from power plants .

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste

 

we hauled off a torn down fire station. to make for a new model being built.

it was radioactive. although minimally. but when i started out in life as a mechanic. it was the first shop i worked at. my uncle spent half his career in that building. i'm still waiting for after effects. the other 2 mechanics that also worked there. have since passed on.

 

A long time ago I remember a mother and father dying from brain cancer. The house was old, so after the parents died the house was torn down. Found sealed in the wall at the headboard of the bed was a radioactive part from a X-Ray machine. Strangest thing I've ever heard of. As far as I know the case was never solved.

 

In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant'a by-product from burning coal for electricity'carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy. At issue is coal's content of uranium and thorium, both radioactive elements. They occur in such trace amounts in natural, or "whole," coal that they aren't a problem. But when coal is burned into fly ash, uranium and thorium are concentrated at up to 10 times their original levels.

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I hauled many, many loads of that stuff also, mostly from Cumberland Furnace. That stuff's nasty. When I hauled it, it was used to mix in concrete for added strength. That stuff is everywhere; highways, sidewalks, buildings, homes. After loading I always went to the nearest truckstop and took a long hot shower.

 

Environmental cleaning companies have workers walking around knee deep in fly ash moving the vacuum hose around and the truck drivers eat plenty of dust emptying loads about every hour of 12 hour shifts , sometimes 2 or 3 weeks straight .

 

Oh gee, that's nice to know. I haul that stuff out of Jeffrey Energy to construction sites. We have to sweep out our trailers after dumping, and have been breathing that crap.

 

Sounds like a good murder mystery. I wonder if they built the house and had family involvement or an enemy on the crew who did the plastering. If second owner, what happened to first owner. Sounds like someone knew what they were doing, esp if there was only one place for the bed to be placed.

 

In 40-50 yrs this will be the next lawsuit for lawyers like the asbestos suits.