<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c68c9a3a-3340-47b7-8254-2259b0a3cb47/585DFF6A-59FA-4136-8134-ED95BEB77AF3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsoe-edis-usa-hazmat-2009-11-05/" href="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsoe-edis-usa-hazmat-2009-11-05/" style="font-size: 11px;">bleaknews.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsoe-edis-usa-hazmat-2009-11-05/"><P><STRONG>Area:</STRONG> USA, State of Missouri, University of Missouri (Laboratory), Columbia</p> <P><STRONG>Event exciting :</STRONG> Phosphorus-32 (radioactive isotope) leak <STRONG>Damage level:</STRONG> Moderate (Level 2)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsoe-edis-usa-hazmat-2009-11-05/">Portions of an MU building have been cordoned off after an MU researcher inadvertently spread radioactive material Monday evening by foot – literally.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsoe-edis-usa-hazmat-2009-11-05/">MU spokesman Christian Basi said that a researcher in a lab on the first floor of Schlundt Annex accidentally spilled phosphorus-32, a radioactive isotope, which made it onto his shoes. He then walked in and out of the lab wearing the contaminated footwear.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsoe-edis-usa-hazmat-2009-11-05/">Department employees are using Geiger counters to find contaminated material</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsoe-edis-usa-hazmat-2009-11-05/">“These things can be tedious,” he said. Phosphorus-32 has a half-life of roughly 14 days, Ashbrook said, which is considered to be a short half-life</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsoe-edis-usa-hazmat-2009-11-05/">While it typically keeps wastes containing phosphorus-32 for six months before disposing of it</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/rsoe-edis-usa-hazmat-2009-11-05/">“The amount of ionizing radiation from being out in the sun is greater,”</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/585DFF6A-59FA-4136-8134-ED95BEB77AF3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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