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Toxic radioactive legacy of rare earths processing plan
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At retail sites, good deals sometimes mix with unsuspected remnants of industrial history. Wake-ups from another century, forgotten flasks, anodized furniture can conceal relics loaded with previously trivialized substances. It is in this context that radioactive objects on Leboncoin have recently been discovered by a Tourangelle buyer, revealing the persistent residues of a time when radium lit up the dials without alarm.When radioactivity is h…
Toxic radioactive legacy of rare earths processing plan
Industrial health expert T Jayabalan told FMT that he lived in Bukit Merah for three years during the 1980s, “collecting data” on the residents there. According to him, Lai Kwan and Cheah were only two of the many people he studied before presenting his findings to Malaysian courts. “Birth defects still exist,” he said, “and the number of miscarriages is incredibly high. Even if a foetus survives, it can still be born with leukemia and brain dam…
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