Yesterday on an outdoor forum that I'm on, a nuclear power thread got started. There is a member of this forum that works in the nuclear industry so the main question was aimed at him. During the course of the discussion a guy who claims he's from ne OK posted this:



Several years back my dad hauled a load of metal to the scrap yard. Gal at the gate checked it over with a Geiger counter before allowing him in. Dad asked about it and she said it's been SOP for a while. She told dad she turned a farmer away one day. He brought in an old iron gate that had been in his pasture for years... buried the needle when she checked it.

Only thing I could ever figure was that the gate was made from drill stem that got juiced on its journey through the ground.

Not SOP at my steel yard. Anybody ever had a steel load swept with a Geiger counter...??? Just curious.