Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, safety manager says

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Although federal officials learned last year that the five-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.

Technicians reached the Grand Canyon, on June 18. Lacking protective clothing, they purchased dish-washing and gardening gloves, then used a broken mop handle to lift the buckets into a truck.

Technicians concealed the radiation readings from him and dumped the ore into Orphan Mine, an old uranium dig that is considered a potential Superfund site below the Rim, about two miles from Grand Canyon Village.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/grand-canyon-tourists-exposed-for-years-to-radiation-in-museum-building-safety-manager-says/ar-BBTLyV5?ocid=spartanntp

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1. Were the technicians named 'Vince' and 'Howard', by any chance?

[Quixote1818]

2. The people who worked there every day may be doomed

I doubt if 20 minutes of exposure from someone walking through would be that much of a big deal though.