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Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, safety manager says
For nearly two decades at the Grand Canyon, tourists, employees, and children on tours passed by three paint buckets stored in the National Park's museum collection building, unaware that they were being exposed to radiation.
Although federal officials learned last year that the 5-gallon containers were brimming with uranium ore, then removed the radioactive specimens, the park's safety director alleges nothing was done to warn park workers or the public that they might have been exposed to unsafe levels of radiation.
In a rogue email sent to all Park Service employees on Feb. 4, Elston "Swede" Stephenson — the safety, health and wellness manager — described the alleged cover-up as "a top management failure" and warned of possible health consequences.
[...] Stephenson said the containers were stored next to a taxidermy exhibit, where children on tours sometimes stopped for presentations, sitting next to uranium for 30 minutes or more. By his calculation, those children could have received radiation dosages in excess of federal safety standards within three seconds, and adults could have suffered dangerous exposure in less than a half-minute.
Also at NPR.
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday February 22 2019, @03:55AM (16 children)
Fair enough, we'll dock their pay. Seriously though, failures to know everything under the sun can be taken care of in comments when they happen. No need to get your panties in a twist about the occasional dropped ball.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Snotnose on Friday February 22 2019, @03:59AM (13 children)
I really really hate to say this. But maybe read /. Or foxnews?
Honestly, this greenlight is such a fail I don't know what to say.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday February 22 2019, @04:12AM (4 children)
It happens. I mean it's not like we ran with two fake racism stories inside a month like most of the media but we still flub one now and then. That's when "haha, dumbasses" comments come in useful. Like now, the eds have been alerted and it'll be taken care of when one of them can manage the time.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday February 22 2019, @04:16AM (3 children)
Understood. Forgiven.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @04:23AM
How magnanimous of you
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:59AM
Doesn't sound like it.
If you don't like the quality of anything on this site then put your time where your mouth is and volunteer! I could go on and on, but since you suggested using /. as a source I only have two words for you: Fuck Beta
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday February 22 2019, @08:27PM
We don't need your forgiveness asshole. If you feel that strongly about it, walk the walk buddy. Become an editor here, or just go back to /.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Friday February 22 2019, @04:14AM (3 children)
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @04:21AM
Yeah, instinctively I feel somebody is a poser, but I can't know for sure.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Friday February 22 2019, @04:24AM (1 child)
I know it, but I think TFA is fine.
"Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, [stupid] safety manager says"
is not
"Grand Canyon tourists mutated by uranium-containing rocks"
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday February 23 2019, @12:56AM
...
*Cancels trip to Grand Canyon, and super-suit purchase order*
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday February 22 2019, @08:26PM (3 children)
We don't need anything from /., and Fox News has nothing to do with news. It's a Republican propaganda outlet pushing hate, fear, and few facts. Fox News has no place in any intelligent discussion about anything.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 23 2019, @03:07AM (2 children)
Neither does any cable news network by that standard. You get better odds of truth and unbiased reporting off a randomly selected YouTube video about the day's events than you do off any news network.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday February 23 2019, @09:26PM (1 child)
No, the standard is a news network. I will agree that journalism has some work to do. However, Fox News has far, far, far, far more in common with the Daily Show and that show with John Olliver, than it does with CNN, CBS, etc.
Remember, Fox News identifies itself as an entertainment network which is more or less abdicating all journalistic responsibilities. Even the assclowns like Tucker admit they are not journalists. Since they refuse to identify as a news network, and refuse to identify as journalists, they are not a newsworthy source for anything.
The day Fox News steps up and starts identifying as a news network, and participates in good faith in the journalism community, and subjects itself to those standards, I might take it more seriously. At the very least, I will agree to put in the same cesspool of shit along with the other news networks.
Until that time, it's a thinly veiled hate group.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 23 2019, @09:54PM
Good faith? In the journalism community? The same journalism community that managed two completely bullshit "Terrible racism by Trump supporters! Lynch them now!" stories in a month's time? That most still refuse to admit was a major ideologically driven fuck-up on their part? Nah, they're no better than anyone.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by sjames on Friday February 22 2019, @04:25AM
He is obviously the victim of a gamma irradiation accident. You'd be grumpy is your pants were that tight too.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday February 22 2019, @06:40PM
Radiation is indeed under the sun, so no harm no foul.... No, wait, we are around the sun and not under it, but it's nevertheless above me. Illogical! Illogical! *boom, and Soylent bursts in applause as Lawn's head explodes....*
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