[ryandward]

Something isn't adding up. I grew up about twenty miles from here in the 1980s and 1990s and never heard of this. How is this possible?

[jeffbee]

The ASARCO copper smelter put so much arsenic, lead, and cadmium in the air around there that this radiation accident hardly even matters in a public health context.

[ryandward]

That's the grim truth.