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Three paint buckets filled with uranium sat in the Grand Canyon
Museum Collection building for nearly two decades while tourists
were unaware they were being exposed to radiation, a safety
manager at the National Park has claimed.
The containers were removed from the site last year, but not
brought to the public’s attention until this month, after Elston
Stephenson, the park’s safety, health, and wellness manager,
alerted his colleagues via email that nothing was done to warn
employees or the public.
“If you were in the Museum Collections Building (2C) between the
year 2000 and June 18, 2018, you were ‘exposed’ to uranium by
OSHA’s definition,” Stephenson’s email read.
103-YEAR-OLD WOMAN SIGNS ON AS JUNIOR RANGER AT GRAND CANYON
NATIONAL PARK
Stephenson said the buckets were placed in an area where tours
averaged 30 minutes and close exposure could have exposed adults
to 400 times the health limit, and children 4,000 times.
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Emily Davis, a public affairs specialist at the Grand Canyon,
said the Park Service has launched an investigation with the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Arizona
Department of Health Services, the Arizona Republic reported.
Davis said the building remains open.
"The information I have is that the rocks were removed, and
there's no danger," Davis said.
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/grand-canyon-tourists-exposed-to- radiation-for-nearly-two-decades-safety-manager-claims
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