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And that’s basically it!
To quote Ron Burgundy:
I'm not even mad, that's amazing
Like, there's a good chance that this leads to us discovering a "secret" nuke test, it would almost be worst case scenario if this "just happened".
C-137 doesn't just fucking happen, it and S-90 are fission byproducts.
Either someone tested a nuke in the ocean, or there's somehow fission happening somewhere in the ocean without human involvement.
Atlantis is joining World War III
The way shit is going if an ancient nuclear capable country of mermaids just showed up and took over...
Probably wouldn't be the worst thing
I, for one, would welcome our new mermaid overlords.
Cs-137 is used in industrial density gauges. You want to measure the density of a liquid in a pipe? A radioactive source on one side, a detector on the other, easy-peasy.
Now how the fuck a controlled substance escapes from its highly encapsulated and supposedly-well-tested-and-regularly-inspected compartment and gets into your food, well that's something else to ponder.
Not in the shrimp, it was detected in the shipping container.
That's better, but it's still a mystery. Cs-137 sources should be rigorously stored, even in density gauges they are permanently inside a capsule with a shutter that turns the beam "on and off". It's not like you have a chunk of Cs-137 rattling around in a drawer somewhere (or worse, somehow in powered form that gets all over the inside of a shipping container) but that sounds like that's been the case here.
It's not the first time one of these sources has come loose though - there was a capsule lost on 1400km of highway in Western Australia a little while ago.
The radiation was detected in the shipping container, not the shrimp corpses.
Godzilla
I'm eating frozen shrimp I got from costco right now. Hopefully, it's not radioactive
I have some from Costco. Hoping they are radioactive and I can gain the powers of shrimp.
Your super power is now being tasty in a salad
I also make a mean fried rice!
supersonic mantis punch!
Well I'm gonna ask what Walmart that sells this shrimps ?, i need it for scientific propose
Has no one else read the story?! The Cs was detected in the shipping container, not the shrimp.
Radioactive sea bugs. They crave cocktails. This summer in cinemas.
frozen breaded shrimp imported by BMS Foods of Indonesia
Not a country with nuclear reactors. Could be nice if they could trace where they were fishing it, because right now, with lack of info, every sea food from Asia, perhaps Pacific or Oceans, is suspect.
They look cheap and nasty based on the packaging alone. Looks like my kid made it in school.