DEP Seeks Information about Antique
Medical Kit Containing Radium-226
The Department of Environmental Protection is trying to find out where antique medical kit containing radioactive material came from.
DEP said in a news release today the kit was found January 19 when a load of construction debris set off radiation alarms at a transfer station in the Philadelphia suburb of Norristown. The kit contained one curie of Radium-226, or the equivalent of having more than 100 CT scans all at once.
Officials say they've traced the source to a container that had come from a retirement community in West Chester. They say the metal box likely came from a basement, an attic or a collector's stash.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the DEP at 717-787-2480.
For more information go here.
The news leader of the Twin Tiers ...
since 1947
DEP said in a news release today the kit was found January 19 when a load of construction debris set off radiation alarms at a transfer station in the Philadelphia suburb of Norristown. The kit contained one curie of Radium-226, or the equivalent of having more than 100 CT scans all at once.
Officials say they've traced the source to a container that had come from a retirement community in West Chester. They say the metal box likely came from a basement, an attic or a collector's stash.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the DEP at 717-787-2480.
For more information go here.
The news leader of the Twin Tiers ...since 1947
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