NQN: Truck load of nappies triggers nuclear alarm

Hazmat specialists in Austria were recently concerned with a high radioactive reading from a waste truck entering a refuse facility. An unusually high Geiger counter reading triggered the alarm.

While unloading the truck, Hazardous materials unit firefighters from the city of Linz found nearly two dozen adult nappies from a hospital that had become contaminated with radioactive iodine. The substance is swallowed during some medical and diagnostic procedures.

While radiation levels were substantially above normal, unit leader Dieter Jonas says no one was in danger during the incident.
The truck will stay in a metal container at the incinerator for eight days the time it takes for the emissions to reach safe levels.