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A fact from Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 March 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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... that the Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident was caused when radioactive material ended up in a junkyard and it was smelted to produce rebar? Source: "Most of the cobalt 60 pellets were scooped up by a giant junkyard magnet, mixed in with other scrap metal and taken to two Mexican foundries, where they were melted into steel reinforcement rods and restaurant table legs." NYT
ALT1: ... that the "Mexican Chernobyl" was caused when radioactive material ended up in a junkyard and it was smelted to produce rebar? Source: Same as above. The "Mexican Chernobyl" name is sometimes used by the press.[1]
Wow! I had never heard of this before, and that's scary! New enough into mainspace and long enough. Sources check out, and I would support ALT1 given a search and its use by other media. No technical issues. I suspect we'll see this at DYKSTATS... Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:13, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
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We have one reference to one fringe website : this seems a bit thin to phrase it as *sometimes* or to warrant the bold words in the first sentence.--Noliscient (talk) 11:24, 6 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
Lo siento, no hablo español, pero Aunque no tiene una comparación con la explosión de un reactor nuclear seems an appropriate precaution. Still not worthy of being bolded in the introductive summary of an encyclopedic article, in my very humble and non Mexican opinion. --Noliscient (talk) 12:41, 7 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Wow! I had never heard of this before, and that's scary! New enough into mainspace and long enough. Sources check out, and I would support ALT1 given a search and its use by other media. No technical issues. I suspect we'll see this at DYKSTATS... Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:13, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
