The Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the young women who used radium paint on watch faces in the early 1900s while employed by ...

For some children it’s dinosaurs, for others trains or mermaids. For me it was rocks. I can pinpoint the moment exactly. I ...

We receive internal exposure from radioactive elements which we take into our bodies through food and water, and through the air we breathe. In addition, we have radioactive elements (Potassium 40, ...

One in four Michigan homes has high levels of radon, according to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great La ...

Evergy officials, Henry County commissioners and Missouri state leaders hosted a town hall on Monday night to address ...

2). Over a period of twenty months this has ranged from less than 1 up to 31 mr. Of the 4 persons with an average weekly exposure above 20 mr, 2 were radium workers, 1 was a dental technician ...

These were the women who painted watch dials beginning in 1916 with the “miracle” chemical – luminescent radium. The magic medium caused them to glow in the dark, the dust clinging to their clothes ...

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...