> "Some of the highest levels of contamination detected in the area were reportedly found in the company’s furnace, which is about 1.5 miles southwest of the BMS Foods facility where the shrimp was processed. Investigators think that radioactive dust was released into the environment after PMT inadvertently smelted scrap metal containing cesium-137. “Because it’s airborne, the contamination can be carried by wind,”..."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/radioactive-sh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_c...
Is the classic example of what happens when you don't do rad checking at the foundry. You can end up with a highly radiated piece that ends up right beside someone for half their life giving them cancer the entire time.
The radiation levels we're talking about here are so low that you could make a bed frame out of it and it'd be fine.
Well now that's the glass half empty point of view, from the glass half full vantage point, I'm no scientist but my understanding of science if you get bit by a radioactive species, those traits a nuclearly transferred upon your person as superpowers. So what I'm thinking the upside is all the peoples who eat these shrimps will also develop superpowers as the new superhero - SHRIMP-MAN:
"Looks like you've gone from the big fish... to the tiny, tiny shrimp!"
"Don't worry, my justice is always freshly boiled and ready!"
"That's a negative, I'm not a side dish! I am the main event!"That's impractical; the decay product Ba-137 is stable and already present in much larger amounts, compared against which the Cs-137 decay products are undetectable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_radioactive_shrimp_recall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prachin_Buri_radiation_inciden...
https://qz.com/thailand-radioactive-cylinder-found-foundry-1...
My parents read it regularly, and I subscribed for a year or two about a decade ago and felt so strongly how it hadn’t seemed to change since I was a kid in 1990s. And as I’m deep in tech, I feel the lack of content and communication.
https://www.riskyornot.co/episodes/815-radioactive-shrimp
> Risky or Not? Radioactive Shrimp
> Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating shrimp impacted by the recent recall.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
Vs. you can click on the "(consumerreports.org)" link in the title, to quickly see if something is an actual duplicate submission.
Also notice how the "X [hours|days] ago" text changes, depending on context. Vs. the mouseover timestamp for that is always the original submission time.
I just remembered the headline from a few days ago and (on mobile) could not find it again, coming to the incorrect conclusion. Mea culpa.