France radioactive incident, Chimilin, 30 workers radiated with Cobalt 60 from India

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France radioactive incident, Chimilin, 30 workers radiated with Cobalt 60 from India

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Custom's detector found Cobalt-60

Nobody would ever know about the nuclear raditaion incident, if the customs would not have dectected accidently the cobalt 60 radiation. The package with the radiaoctive leak contained buttons for elevators with the metal frame.

Elevetor button unit radioactive

The Metal frame was finally detected to radiate C-60. The production company Mafelec said it received the radioactive metal plates from it's Indian daughter company.

INES (International Nuclear Event Scale) level 1

30 WORKERS, touching the metal have received radiation, 20 over the limit of 1mSv/year

How does Cobalt-60 melt into metal ?
Nuclear decommissioning, radioactive waste

The question is not answered. India has ship wrecks, also military from all over the world. Old metal could mix to new to "make disappear radioactivity" by distributing it. The dismantling of nuclear power reactors provides also radioactive metal. In a first german test the radioactive nuclear power plant metal was purified ? (how) and remixed with meatal to end up in the seats of BMW cars, just driving away.