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----------------------------------------------- Radioactive Beachcombing The Trinity Site in New Mexico is the perfect nuclear science tourist trap by, Kristin Abkemeier 18 December 2006 “Did you know that all bananas are slightly radioactive?” The young woman picked up a banana lying on the table between a clock with a radium-painted dial and an old Fiestaware saucer tinted orange with uranium oxide. Her Geiger counter rattled away, click-click-click, as soon as she held the piece of fruit to it. My mind raced from thoughts of banana splits to bananas splitting the atom. Forget yellowcake, was banana bread the new nuclear threat? “One out of every ten thousand potassium atoms is naturally radioactive, and bananas are high in potassium,” the woman explained, to my and my husband’s… http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/radioactive-beachcombing/
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