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Post# 936684   5/5/2017 at 22:31 (2,540 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)        

gets rid of that pesky radioactivity!

 

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Post# 936706 , Reply# 1   5/6/2017 at 01:02 (2,540 days old) by Michaelman2 (Lauderdale by the Sea, FL)        
Interesting video

 Never had known about this incident until now.

Post# 936712 , Reply# 2   5/6/2017 at 03:30 (2,540 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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I didn't know about it, either! Would have been two weeks shy of my second birthday. Thanks for sharing the video.

Funny that P&G didn't list this use on the box along with washing floors and dishes, LOL.

Post# 936713 , Reply# 3   5/6/2017 at 04:20 (2,540 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany)        

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I still prefer Dorothy Grey`s Salon Cold Cream even for the toughest of my daily decontamination needs.
It`s so much kinder to my delicate skin than Tide.






Post# 936747 , Reply# 4   5/6/2017 at 09:59 (2,540 days old) by Michaelman2 (Lauderdale by the Sea, FL)        
Radioactive cold cream

 Holy shit, I wonder what the users of this cream ended up developing? Good grief! They even had a Geigercounter against the model's face. I guess the dangers just were not fully understood at that time,

I can remember a thread several years ago talking about how children's shoe stores would have a device, X-raying the child's foot so a shoe could theoretically be fitted properly.

The associates that administered the X-ray were exposed to a good deal of radiation and subsequently developed cancers and other radiation exposure problems.

The old saying "beauty knows no pain"..



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Post# 936792 , Reply# 5   5/6/2017 at 14:09 (2,540 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        

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The Cold Cream Was not radioactive, they used dirt that had a little bit of radioactive material in it to show how effectively the cold cream worked at cleaning.

I dough that anyone was hurt with this demonstration.

Post# 936809 , Reply# 6   5/6/2017 at 15:34 (2,540 days old) by washman (o)        

Hi frig.
Post# 936812 , Reply# 7   5/6/2017 at 15:52 (2,540 days old) by Michaelman2 (Lauderdale by the Sea, FL)        
John, you are right.

 I listened to it again and you are right they placed some radioactive "dirt" on the model's face and then proved with the Geigercounter the particles were reduced after using the cream.

I had originally thought the cream was radioactive much like the lead based cosmetics that were prevelant years ago. Women developed some awful issues due to the lead leeching into their systems.

I still don't think I would have wanted to have had anything radioactive near or on me.

Post# 936984 , Reply# 8   5/7/2017 at 15:13 (2,539 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)        

The Idaho film has been modified to take out the sheriff telling how the third body was "impaled" in the ceiling with one of the control rods. Must have been a big bang.
Post# 936988 , Reply# 9   5/7/2017 at 15:52 (2,539 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany)        

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Some of comments on the SL-1 Accident film hit the nail on the head:

"Only US propaganda can make a nuclear disaster seems like a trip to disneyland"

"The music indeed. Absurd. 3 men died and it sounds like a romance movie. Typical for the military of the time though."

Post# 937015 , Reply# 10   5/7/2017 at 20:04 (2,539 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)        
Not only for the people...

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A little local history: In our area, Westinghouse, Duquesne Light, and the federal government built the first commercial nuclear power station, Shippingport. The facility ran well into the 80's when because of small size (only 60 megawatts) and its age, it would be decommissioned in 1987.

Guess what the workers used to decontaminate the building and all the plumbing: Tide! It was used to remove radioactive "crud" from the parts. I believe the wash water was sent to a filter and the filter was now radioactive waste. The fact that tide had phosphates in 1961 and 1987 probably helped; I don't know how modern Tide would do without the phosphates.

Post# 937113 , Reply# 11   5/8/2017 at 13:05 (2,538 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

In the early 50s, radioactivity was radioactive in advertising. Bendix measured removal of radioactive soil with a Geiger counter because it could measure infinitesimal amounts far below what could be seen and it was something that grabbed peoples' interest.  

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