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Gettysburg Address
Hi, PloniAlmoni, I liked the Sandburg quotation, but I don't think it belongs in the middle of the introduction (it is, after all, just one man's opinion of Lincoln, even though he is a significant scholar of Lincoln). See the talk page if you have comments about this, and thanks for your contribution! Kaisershatner (talk) 13:51, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Pauli and the neutrino
Hello, PloniAlmoni. Thank you for your question over at Talk:The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?. I really enjoyed answering it. And I am glad to see your interest in this article. You can read my reply, under your question. Ti-30X (talk) 23:31, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Ciudad Juarez
I have removed the nuclear accident text. It is too long for an article on the town, see WP:UNDUE. You were resting it on a single source, which is not good practice. It doesn't read encyclopedically, it reads like a newspaper account, and the spelling and grammar need improvement. A short and well sourced couple of lines might be appropriate for the main article. If you want to include it in more detail, a separate article would be needed, but only if you can prove it is WP:NOTABLE.

Nuclear accident
In 1977 a Lubbock, Texas hospital sold a 20 year old Picker 3000 radiotherapy unit to an X-ray equipment company in Fort Worth, which in turn sold it to the Centro Medico medical clinic in Juarez. The unit contained 6,010 tiny, silvery pellets that looked like cake decorations. These were pellets of radioactive cobalt, stored in a stainless steel container. The container was sealed in a tungsten wheel the size of a tricycle tire, which was then placed behind thick lead shielding. (Radiation emitted through a pinhole in the lead is used to treat patients with localized cancers.) In Juarez, the machine was never used because the clinic was not able to hire the specialist required to operate the device. In November 1983, an electrician named Vicente Sotelo came to the clinic to pick up some material to be taken to the Jonke Fenix junkyard in Juarez. He and a co-worker took the radioactive tungsten wheel as well, which had been removed from its enormous lead casing, and put it into the back of their pickup truck. Not knowing what it was, Sotelo forced open the unmarked capsule on the back of his truck.

When the capsule was breached it held about 400 curies of radioactive cobalt. Each pellet produced a radiation dose of 25 rads per hour to a person standing two inches from the pellet. 50 rads per hour is considered a significant radiation dose. An average chest X-ray produces a dose of 20 to 30 millirads. A lethal dose (for half the population) is 450 rads received instantaneously over the whole body. In comparison, the highest exposure a bystander could have received from the Three Mile Island nuclear accident was 100 millirads, i.e. one-tenth of a rad.

By Dec. 6, 1983 Sotelo had thrown the capsule into the salvage yard. Despite getting rid of it, about 60 curies of cobalt remained on his truck, which stood parked for eight weeks in his yard, emitting a dose of 50 rads per hour at a distance of 1 meter. The majority of the cobalt pellets - 340 curies worth - were spread throughout the junkyard,  contaminating everything. The operators used a giant magnet used to pick up and load scrap metal onto trucks for recycling at Mexican foundries. The capsule itself was made of nonferrous metal, so that every time it was scooped up by the magnet it fell back to the ground, spilling out more cobalt pellets. The pellets were ferrous, so the magnet picked them up and mixed them into the scrap leaving the junkyard. Some pellets were pulverized and thoroughly spread across the huge junkyard, and others are believed to have become embedded in truck tires and spread along highways.

In this manner, 300 curies of radioactive cobalt made its way to two Mexican foundries. One, in Juarez, manufactured metal table legs, which sent them to the largest distributor of restaurant tables in the United States. Another, in Chihuahua, produced about 5,000 tons of rebar - steel rods used to reinforce concrete in building projects. About 600 tons of the contaminated steel was shipped to the United States in December,1983 and January, 1984.

The contamination was eventually discover, but only to a fortunate accident. A delivery truck containing contaminated steel took a wrong turn into the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico on Jan. 17, 1984, tripping the radiation alarms that are designed to make sure radioactive material does not accidentally leave the laboratory. The radiation was quickly traced to the junkyard, which was closed on Jan. 20; Mr. Sotelo's truck was found and impounded on Jan. 26 1984.

American officials tracked down all the table legs and rebar in February and March and returned the material to Mexico. While there were a few hot spots of up to 600 millirads per hour, most of the metal produced very low levels of radiation and was said to have never posed a serious health threat to people who came in contact with the metal. However, the situation in Mexican was more complicated, since it was found that 40 curies of the cobalt pellets remained spread around the junkyard; it took two months to clean up the site.

Pellets were off the bouncing truck on the roads between Juarez and Chihuahua. In April 1984, a reconnaisance survey performed by the U.S. Department of Energy found 22 radioactive sites. Eight pellets were dug out of highway pavement. Thousands of tons of contaminated rebar were found to have spread into four or five Mexican states.

Damage to humans
Several people were exposed to 150 or 200 rads, higher than the doses received by Marshall Islanders who encountered radioactive fallout from United States nuclear tests. Those with the highest exposures included two junkyard workers, one of Mr. Sotelo's neighbors and the man who helped Mr. Sotelo load the device off the truck. Mr. Sotelo himself escaped serious contamination.

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Platinum
Sorry about that revert, I didn't notice that the 4th octet of the IP was different. I though I rollbacked to the version by Materialscientist. Best, Markvs88 (talk) 17:46, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Jan Peerce
FYI, in case you don't know: the "ibid" tag in this section requests a fix regarding this edit to the Jan Peerce article. --Rich Janis (talk) 04:15, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

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