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Radioactive materials getting recycled into goods – Los Angeles Times

Radioactive materials getting recycled into goods Improper disposal of equipment is allowing radioactive materials to contaminate metals used to make consumer products.
Bloomberg News November 12, 2008 French authorities made headlines last month when they said as many as 500 sets of radioactive buttons had been installed in elevators throughout France. It wasn’t an isolated case.Improper disposal of industrial equipment and medical scanners containing radioactive materials is allowing nuclear waste to trickle into scrap smelters, contaminating consumer goods, threatening the $140-billion trade in recycled metal and spurring the United Nations to call for increased screening………………………….”The world is waking up very late to this,” said Paul de Bruin, radiation safety chief for Jewometaal Stainless Processing in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the world’s biggest stainless-steel scrap yard.

Radioactive materials getting recycled into goods – Los Angeles Times

November 12, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized