[ars]

You can dilute uranium that way. The issue is the radioactive material is all other place, not concentrated. You need to dilute cements and wood, and paper, and glass, and other materials the lab is made from.

[saalweachter]

Also, this is Marie Curie's workshop.

I hope to god the goal of any remediation is in the service of conserving the site and the artifacts for their historical value. If Marie Curie's notebooks eventually end up encased in concrete somewhere "because they're contaminated"--

[ars]

> If Marie Curie's notebooks eventually end up encased in concrete somewhere "because they're contaminated"

They are in fact contaminated, so they are kept in lead lined boxes:

https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/Horizons/2011/1107/Mari...