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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: 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.