Sandia "RAP artists" White Sands techs free stuck radiation source

by Neal Singer for the Sandia National Laboratories Sandia Lab News

The cylinder was small - the size of a restaurant salt shaker - but it emitted enough gamma rays to kill a person in half a minute. And it was stuck.

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