Why It’s Called A Dump Truck

The combination of “adults” plus “diapers” gets messy

VIENNA -Austrian hazmat specialists called in after Geiger counters showed alarmingly high readings for a dump truck arriving at an incinerator have found the problem — radioactive adult diapers.

After unloading the truck, firefighters from the hazardous materials unit of the city of Linz found nearly two dozen diapers from a hospital that had become contaminated with radioactive iodine. The substance is swallowed during some medical and diagnostic procedures.

…Austrian officials, however, are tracing the truck’s route. And the truck will stay in a metal container at the incinerator for eight days — the time it takes for the emissions to reach safe levels.

Judging by the baby diapers I’ve changed there is no “safe level of emissions.”

2 Responses to “Why It’s Called A Dump Truck”

1. Kathy Kinsley says:

   January 7, 2014 at 7:14 pm

   Judging from adult diapers I’ve changed, that’s true.

2. BlackDog says:

   January 7, 2014 at 9:27 pm

   In the States, all this material is surveyed before disposal.