@mattblaze@federate.social @me_valentijn@m.ai6yr.org @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Back in June 2008, staff in a lab (next to lab where I had worked & across the back yard from my residence in the 80s) found a cracked vial. Some of the release ended up in a lab industrial sink that drained to public sewer when a staff member used it to wash their hands. This was a (thankfully very small) Pu spill to public sewer. Initial find: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2008/06/low-level-plutonium-sample-involved-nist-boulder-lab-incident Public sewer: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2008/06/nist-finds-radiation-contamination-lab-sink Much more: https://www.nist.gov/director/pao/information-updates-and-publications-relating-june-9-2008-plutonium-incident-nist