Episode 132 - Radium Girls: The Factory Workers Poisoned By Radioactive Paint
Inside Their Decades-Long Fight For Justice
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Show Notes
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.
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