Reply #3: Sad to say, he will have a lot of company [View All]

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Maybe the screwworm flies were lucky. Used for research at Iraq’s Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center, thousands were supposed to be sterilized with doses of radioactivity as part of a pest-control program...

DURING THE WAR, they just starved to death, or so the International Atomic Energy Agency has been told. As for the dangerous isotopes that were used on them? Those may well have been stolen and could be irradiating humans accidentally these days. Or worse.
There used to be a whole lot of radioactive material at Tuwaitha. United Nations inspectors identified it, stored it, sealed it. There were roughly 500 tons of uranium, of which about 1.8 tons was low-enriched stuff. There was also cobalt 60 and strontium 90. All in all, the inspectors found some 228 sources of radioactivity.
Then the United States came along. During the war, U.S. troops on the ground didn’t know quite what they were supposed to do at the facility and much of the radioactive material was looted. No one outside the United States government is sure how much...maybe the dead screwworm flies were lucky. They died quickly.

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