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2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium
>>> 2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium (PDF) I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will probably eventually barely finish it and then post it here.
Several self-luminous dial manufacturers knowingly subjected their women painters to shockingly irresponsible conditions, leading inevitably to radium poisoning that disfigured, debilitated, and ultimately killed. USRC handled almost a dozen radioisotopes in Bloomsburg, much of them due to diversified operations during the 1950s that included calibration sources, ionizers, and luminous products built to various specific military requirements. Keep in mind that tritium's short half life means this is not a long-term geological repository situation; the waste needs to be safely contained for only, say, fifty years to get down to levels not much different from background.
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