I was just reading a CNN report(I know), from a guy flying in a helo 1000 ft. up over the oil spill. He was hanging out the back taking a video and said the smell of gasoline from the oil spill was terrible.
About 30 yrs. ago a truck going thru Houston made a turn too fast and spilled out some stuff. The reporter was holding a small aluminum can with pull tab top. I immediately recognized it as a radar spare part, an electronic switch which contains a few micro curies of radioactive cobalt in a gas which ionizes when hit by radar waves. It is all sealed inside. It was made out to be a potentially very dangerous situation. It had the radiation hazard mark on it. I replaced them on radars on at least a weekly basis. Heck, I drank radioactive iodine to tone down my thyroid activity years ago.
Since Dan Rather and hurricane Carla, reporting has been on a nosedive.
