BURIED .—Because estimated one gramme of radium scattered by a bomb might kill 100,000 persons, London’s radium, valued at £35,000, is to be stored in a 50-foot well in the Thames River bed, under Westminster Hospital. Here nurses lend a hand at digging. Machinery is shown that bores the 50-foot hole in the ground into which radium will be let down.
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Northern Advocate, 22 December 1939, Page 3
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61BURIED.—Because estimated one gramme of radium scattered by a bomb might kill 100,000 persons, London’s radium, valued at £35,000, is to be stored in a 50-foot well in the Thames River bed, under Westminster Hospital. Here nurses lend a hand at digging. Machinery is shown that bores the 50-foot hole in the ground into which radium will be let down. Northern Advocate, 22 December 1939, Page 3
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