Folks,
As it happens, Jeff Pearson is an old mate of mine, even Kafka could not have imagined this one.
Not only was a business destroyed, but the biggest store of legacy instruments and parts in the USA, which means anywhere in the world.
The "radiation hounds" not only destroyed instruments that had some radium dials, the complete stock on two premises was destroyed as "contaminated", and as the article probably says, ALL the offending instruments, along with almost all rest, were US Government disposals, sold by US Government surplus sales, with, of course, no warning that "they" were going to come after him.
One thing I remember well, the virtually complete ignorance of what "radiation" is, among the bureaucratic activists, graduates all in "liberal arts", all we got was a blank stare when we asked if they were going to outlaw "nuclear medicine", or people standing in the sun.
In the end, it seemed like a competition between Federal and California EPA to come up with the stupidest requirements.
Jeff was in Australia last year, doing C-195 clinics, he had a great time --- CASA was not involved.
Tootle pip!!