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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 10:50, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident

  • ... 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

Created by 219.91.135.57 (talk). Nominated by Tbhotch (talk) at 03:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC).

  • 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 • tc) 06:13, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
ALT0 to T:DYK/P7