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"Radium Girls" Had A Tragic Glow

"Radium Girls" Had A Tragic Glow

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In the 1920s, young women working at a radium dial company in Ottawa, Illinois were being poisoned. Surviving "radium girls" would go on to participate in studies at Argonne National Laboratory.
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