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Your Evening Longread: The mysterious cargo container emitting radation
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In 2010, a cargo container arrived in Genoa, Italy, which had huge amounts of radiation emitting from it. What was going on? A longread from the archives. (Might require login)
(Wired, approx mins reading time)
As he stood in the morning sun listening to that sound, Montagna realized that one of the containers in front of him held a lethal secret. But was that secret merely a slow-motion radioactive industrial accident — or a bomb, one that could decimate the Italian city’s entire 15-mile waterfront? Montagna ran back to his car to get a less sensitive detector. He didn’t give much thought to protection; at those radiation levels, he would have needed lead armor 5 inches thick to stand within a couple of feet of the source for very long.
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