ShanwickOceanic wrote:I'm intrigued by this houseboat story.
I'm not sure of all the details, but in short there was a political gathering of some sort going on which clearly involved drones/helicopters checking for any terrorist activity. One of the big old houseboats you see just outside the centre of Dam had a large industrial case clock (I think the translation called it an early clocking-in clock) that contained uranium and tritium, because 19th century clockmakers were quite mad. The house boat was being moved for maintenance so the security services picked up a source of radiation on the move in the city and went into full panic mode before establishing that it was infact a reasonably harmless clock. Fun times!
It has been suggested that another explanation for the LHR incident could be a bullion dealer. Gold can sometimes be contaminated with heavy metals such as uranium which are present in similar mineral seams, particularly in Canada where uranium and gold are mined side-by-side, and can remain unnoticed in precious metal cleanups due to the yellowish colour of uranium ore.
It's really interesting stuff. If only my Father was still functioning - he was a global knowledge on all things radioactive.
A million great ideas...