Word: radiumator
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...help them find out how much radiation the human system can tolerate, researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory picked convicts at Illinois' Stateville Prison. They have soaked up minute, detectable amounts because Stateville's water (from a deep well) contains 50 times as much radium as most U.S. water supplies...
...minutes the tank was lowered into its canvas shroud, to be towed to a deserted spot and covered with sand. Not until last week, with the tank safely in its grave, did the scientists reveal that its radioactivity was half as strong as that of all the radium which the world has produced...
...Atomic Energy Commission believes that a noteworthy radiological safety record has been established in its operations, which involve radioactive materials equivalent to millions of pounds of radium...
...book by Ben Hecht; music & lyrics by Jule Styne and Bob Hillard) is generally cheerful, insistently lavish and notably loud. Based on Nothing Sacred, a satiric Ben Hecht movie of the '30s the story tells of a vast fraud: a young Vermont girl pretends to be dying of radium poisoning and yearns for lights and laughter at the end. Hazel Flagg stands forth a creature of breathtaking gallantry, reduces the city to wild and wet-eyed idolatry, inspires everything from prayers to parades...
...California's Stanford Research Institute, where a rod and four nesting cylinders of radioactive cobalt glow with a weird blue light. Together they weigh only 10 Ibs. and they cost only $22,500, but they give off as much radiation (4,500 curies) as $80 million worth of radium. If their shielding water were to leak away, they would give a man a fatal dose of radiation in seven seconds...