When the girls mixed the paint, radium dust got everywhere, making everything glow, including the girls. Dials were painted with fine camel-hair brushes, but the bristles tended to spread.

Paul Baton worked for three months in clouds of the radioactive dust. "I was coated like flour in radium dust as it leaked from the heavy bags on my back. It gets into your clothes, hair ...

An IAEA expert mission was deployed to Suva, Fiji, to support the recovery and transportation of radium-226 to the USA, where the sources will be used as a feedstock to produce actinium-225, an ...