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Someday I hope to find a way to mess up a recipe so badly that it draws the attention of the International Air Transport Association, the International Mathematical Olympiad, or the NSA.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3131/
Holy shit it was cesium-137?
It can be found in natural U-238, but otherwise it's produced in nuclear fission. Stupid radioactive, and has a halflife in your body of like 70 days.
People who consumed this will be at a higher risk of cancer.
How the fuck did shrimp get contaminated with Cesium-137? Did they have like an X-ray machine radiation source blow up over a batch?
Apparently the shipping containers themselves were contaminated. The shrimp itself wasn’t detected to be radioactive but they’re recalling it anyways out of caution.
That makes sense, but it's weird that the shipping containers were contaminated unless they were shipping nuclear waste or unsafe radiological sources...
Best guess I heard was broken medical equipment leaked cesium
Smuggling and clandestine military operations with zero regard for public safety are more common than you’d think, because when things go wrong nobody gets punished.
I'm sure they hosed it out before piping in the shrimp.
It's not often that a news story makes it into an xkcd.
New and magical food screwups!
Live reaction from Schrödinger's cat:
What are you doing? If we can see the cat, we will know if it died.
Doesn't look like it's moving. Death state is inconclusive.
Ok, wow. This is real. I'll just steer clear of shrimp in general for a while.
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