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Picocurries. that's 75 times the radio activity that any north carolina landfill is supposed to be able to take. the people drilling north dakota are producing dozens of tons of these filters every day, and there's nowhere to legally dispose of them anywhere in the state. if you get caught bringing one of these in a north dakota landfill, it's a thousand dollar fine per filter. what do you think is happening to them in north dakota? this was found at an indian reservation in north dakota last year, nobody knows who dumped them all there. the tribe said they realized they had a problem when one...

Marie currie, nobel prize in physics, chemistry. we have the word radioactive because marie currie figured out radio activity. she came up with that term. the unit we use to describe how radioactive something is is a currie, it was named for her. she was polish by birth. the first radioactive element she discovered she called polium. she worked with and discovered radioactive elements all her life and it killed her. she died by a form of anemia, brought on by exposure to radio activity. the second of the two elements has the added and memorable feature of growing in the dark, just like everyth...

Were working with. it was standard operating procedure to lick the paintbrush hundreds of times a day. and the radium girls in those factories died because of it. in the 1920s, the united states radium corporation was sued by their own low level employees who were dying from exposure to radio activity encountered in their every day work on their job. the upper level scientists knew it was radioactive, they protected themselves from it but not their lower level work irs. a lot of the lower level employees died because of it. they sued because of it, and the suit became a foundation governing ho...

That's 75 times the radio activity that any north dakota landfill is supposed to be able to take. the people drilling north dakota are producing dozens of tons of these filters every day, and there's nowhere to legally dispose of them anywhere in the state. if you get caught bringing one of these in a north dakota landfill, it's a thousand dollar fine per filter. what do you think is happening to them in north dakota? this was found at an indian reservation in north dakota last year, nobody knows who dumped them all there. the tribe said they realized they had a problem when one of the trucks ...

They were doing fine work and they were small brushes they were working with. it was standard operating procedure to lick the paintbrush hundreds of times a day. and the radium girls in those factories died because of it. in the 1920s, the united states radium corporation was sued by their own low level employees who were dying from exposure to radio activity encountered in their every day work on their job. the upper level scientists knew it was radioactive, they prot t protected themselves from it but not their lower level work irs. a lot of the lower level employees died because of it. they...