According to documents discovered at the Public Record Office approximately two tonnes of concrete-encased metal drums, filled with radioactive laboratory rubbish and luminous paint, were dumped into Beaufort Dyke, 300 metres deep and 10 kilometres off the Scottish coast.
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The Trotters drive to the cemetery and find out where Del had been for the last couple of days : painting his mother's monument with the luminous paint, so in the middle of the night it emits a near radioactive glow.
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Another British commando raid, this one intending to land on Sark, Operation Basalt, comprising 12 men arrived on 3 4 October 1942 by MTB with the objective of capturing a prisoner, landing and marking their route with luminous paint to aid their return.
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Negatives of pre-made spirit images were found in his house and it was also discovered that Wyllie had used a method of " palming small spirit drawings executed in luminous paint and pressing them to the photographic plate " which he confessed to.
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Dr . Martland determined that minute traces of radioactivity contained in luminous paint had caused the deaths of watch dial painters employed at the US Radium Corporation in Orange, NJ . The Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ) credits Dr . Martland's work with having made it possible for atomic development to proceed with comparative safety.
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:The tradition of "'" glow green in the dark " "'radioactivity presumably derives from the radioactive luminous paint mentioned in the article to which Seren-dipper refers above : " ( " The formula used on watch dials between 1913 and 1950 was a mix of radium-228 and radium-226 with a scintillator made of zinc sulfide and silver ( ZnS : Ag ) . " )"
