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On arrival the engine company finds a male in his 30s, diaphoretic, sitting on the floor of his garage. There is emesis in a garbage can next to him. The patient’s brother, on scene, confirms the patient has no pertinent medical history and just started vomiting repeatedly after lunch. It is cold outside, and the garage door is closed with a heater running. When assessing the scene, the fire captain sees a piece of metal with a yellow label and a faded radioactive trefoil partially visible. Its markings are obscured, but he can see the word
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When questioned about it, the brother reports they’d bought the contents of a storage unit at auction. Inside they’d found a locked toolbox that contained something that looked like a “heavy metal lunchbox” and started taking it apart for recycling. The brother says they got it open last weekend and left it on the workbench, where his brother then worked throughout the week. The patient had also spent all morning in the ga
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It’s not just the value of bitcoin that has soared in the last year – so has the huge amount of energy it consumes.
The cryptocurrency’s value has dipped recently after passing a high of $50,000 but the energy used to create it has continued to soar during its epic rise, climbing to the equivalent to the annual carbon footprint of Argentina, according to Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, a tool from researchers at Cambridge University that measures the currency’s energy use.
Recent interest from major Wall Street institutions like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs probably culminated in the currency’s rise in value and an endorsement by Tesla’s Elon Musk helped drive its recent high as investors bet the cryptocurrency will become more widely embraced in the near future.
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) team members, who provided consultation during a breached radioactive source event at the University of Washington’s Harborview Research and Training Facility in 2019, received the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award for their contribution.
As a member of the Seattle Response and Recovery and Cs-137 Joint Investigation Teams, REAC/TS members were recognized for their part in the “successful emergency response, recovery, stabilization, and investigation of the breached radioactive source event at the University of Washington’s Harborview Research and Training Facility. The Response and Recovery Team’s focused and tireless efforts in responding to a radiological emergency at the facility and removing the breached radioactive source led the way for facility remediation efforts and minimized any harm or negative impacts to the public,” according to the awa