Alarming:

Improper disposal of industrial equipment and medicalscanners containing radioactive materials is letting nuclear waste trickle into scrap smelters, contaminating consumer goods, threatening the $140 billion trade in recycled metal and spurring the United Nations to call for increased screening.

Last year, U.S. Customs rejected 64 shipments of radioactive goods at the nation's ports, including purses, cutlery, sinks and hand tools, according to data released by the Department of Homeland Security in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. India was the largest source, followed by China.

Comments

[RBM]

Time for my favorite epithet: Homo Sapiens are monkeys with car keys !

[Billy The Blogging Poet]

Isn't this exactly what globalization is all about-- spreading the risks?

How could any fool(s) not know these things would happen? And why was that fool(s) allowed to assume elected office?

[Wil Wurkfurfud]

my Uncle Mary used to always say, even when he was my aunt, "it takes a fool to vote for some other fool."

[Al Kaader]

Duke; I'm rubbing the last two pennies I have together for good luck. Like so many who voted for only the white half of Obama, I have good reason to believe that his snake oil can circumvent the laws of nature and make a silk purse from a sow's ear. If you are not for the Obamanation, you are against it.