Episode 132 - Radium Girls: The Factory Workers Poisoned By Radioactive Paint

Episode 132 - Radium Girls: The Factory Workers Poisoned By Radioactive Paint

Author: All That's Interesting January 23, 2025 Duration: 28:25
In 1917, scores of patriotic young women, later known as “radium girls,” counted themselves lucky to have landed war work at a large warehouse complex in Orange, New Jersey. Without exception, the radium girls were told the paint was safe to handle, and so virtually no precautions were taken while they handled and even ingested countless doses of radioactive poison. But in the end, the lethal consequences of their work came to light. https://allthatsinteresting.com/radium-girls Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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