re: #555 unrealizedviewpoint

Forgive me, but I find it hard to believe most landfills have this technology in place.

According to this page, Pennsylvania requires it for all landfills. And I think California is the same.

According to this article,

Radioactive articles in the household trash of nuclear medicine patients are appearing at solid waste landfills that have installed radiation monitors to prevent the entry of any detectable radioactivity, and alarms are going off around the country. These monitors are set to alarm at extremely low activity levels.

So, they are nationwide. How consistently? I don’t know. But it’s probably more common than you realize that landfill have radiation detectors that incoming trucks must pass through.