TIL that in 2001 three men in Georgia camped beside two warm metal cylinders they found in the snow, not knowing they were abandoned Soviet RTG cores containing Strontium-90. All three developed acute radiation syndrome and one later died.

TIL that in 2001 three men in Georgia camped beside two warm metal cylinders they found in the snow, not knowing they were abandoned Soviet RTG cores containing Strontium-90. All three developed acute radiation syndrome and one later died.

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