The incidents occurred at three different factories: one in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917 one in Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s and a third facility in Waterbury, Connecticut, also in the 1920s. There are a few pics of him covered in radiation induced burns. The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. They wrote a book about him called the Atomic Boy Scout. More recently, a teenager in Michigan created a small nuclear reactor in his backyard using every day household items like radium watch dials, lantern mantles and parts from smoke detectors. Because they were prisoners many of which had life sentences this made the study difficult to complete as most of them are not breeding. He would bribe them to participate using things like cigarettes. So the only group he found was actually prison inmates in Alabama if I remember correctly. As you might expect it was difficult to find people willing to participate in the experiment. The long-term goal was to establish whether or not this would cause birth defects.
He devised what amounted to a commode where the individuals would sit and then their testicles were exposed to x-ray radiation. A scientist was looking to analyze the effects of radiation on sperm. There was also a study done which was somewhat comical. Obviously, the atomic bomb survivors are a good one too. The US failed to consider wind direction and they were exposed to a tremendous amount of fallout. Other good ones are the Marshall Islanders after the US atomic bomb testing in the Pacific. This is the usual case study for Radiation Biology and is certainly among the more fascinating incidents.
I worked with Radioactive Materials for nearly 20 years.
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