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linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.

since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!

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InterurbanEra
@InterurbanEra

"Working in Infinity" the most ☢️radioactive☢️, most gripping article I've ever read.

Mark Obmascik wrote this incredible story about both the crew who worked assembling plutonium components in extraordinarily explosive, radioactive, and corrosive conditions, and the crew tasked to clean up the site. This was done at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. Some places were so radioactive decades afterward that you were working in Infinity, where radioactivity could not be measured (!)

Grab something to drink, and read in suspenseful horror:

Rocky Flats: The price of peace
By Mark Obmascik
Denver Post Staff Writer

June 25, 2000

Thanks to @atomicthumbs for helping me relocate the article after I read it years ago.

CERESUltra
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I read this when it was chosted originally and I am here to recommend it yet again, it is absolutely gripping.

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darryl
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“The government lost the dead man's brain before an autopsy could check for radiation” is not a sentence I was expecting to read during breakfast this morning.

What a story. Thanks for sharing.

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CypressPunk
@CypressPunk

This is the article that led me to conceive of radioactive contamination like a tangible "evil" in that it cannot be reasoned with, fought, or otherwise really dealt with. At best you can bury it in concrete or just abandon the places it has touched. and hope thats good enough when it probably isnt.

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