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> How can someone just dump a highly radioactive (at short distances) source in a scrap yard?

"I could pay a few thousand dollars to properly dispose of this, or I could throw it over the fence of the local junkyard."

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Or I can pick up the phone and have the yard pay me and send over guys who can't read long words like "radioactive" to pick it up.

although usually those who own the equipment containing the radioactive material usually have a financial incentive to dispose it properly. The doctors owning the medical device in the Goiania incident were essentially fined to bankruptcy for their mistake.

> although usually those who own the equipment containing the radioactive material usually have a financial incentive to dispose it properly.

Only if you get caught.

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