Rocks from Trestles Spontaneously Combust

Suspicious about what?

1 Someone put rocks in their pocket and left them in there for a few hours....yeah, that does sound odd.

2 Phosphorus (white or red I'm not sure) from old ordinance got picked up....yeah, they are close to a military base but would it still be that reactive?

3 Nuclear fuel, fresh or spent, can't easily be removed/transported around a nuke plant without detectors going off, but if the detectors were disabled, that would be suspicious. More interesting though would be the idea of pocket fission from a couple of 'rocks'.

I am sure there could be more things to be suspicious about, but guessing what people mean always gets me in trouble, so I may as well quit now.

Decommission the plants to replace them with LFTR's, but people are still afraid of atoms!

1 How long do you leave the rocks in your pockets when everyone gets home?

2 Oxidized elements can take on the strangest of colors. Add some salt air and there you go, orange and green colors.

3 I doubt a pocketful of nuclear fuel (fresh) for a commercial nuke plant is fissile enough to produce enough heat to burn someone in a few hours. I'm forgetful of decay products, but maybe if it was MOX fuel and you had enough spent fuel, like a van sized mass of it, you could see some serious heat. But a pocket sized lump? I don't think so (but I am wrong about things often enough).

By the way, the trouble with San Onofre nuke plant is the steam tubes from recent 'upgrade'. Looks more and more like poor design/construction. Irradiated steam is the first concern, not 'rocks on the beach'. But who knows until things are sorted out.

Her pants were LIT'RALLY on fire. You expect me to believe anything she says?

I don't know about the fire crotch stuff, but I surfed there a month ago and it was straight firing. But I ended up with a pretty bad sinus infection that took me a week and half to get over. My wife thinks it was radiation exposure. She thought I was going to turn into the Incredible Hulk or something.

"Her pants were LIT'RALLY on fire. You expect me to believe anything she says?"

I wish I could give this 10 thumbs-up. I LOL'd.

The rocks were tested and it was confirmed that they were contaminated with phosphorus.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/rocks-354702-state-woman.html

Liar, liar, pants on fire !

And it is phosphorus for the win!

Thanks for the follow up Yahguy.

Everyone's probably worn down from the spirited "regulator" discussion...like you said it's "a surf forum"... so don't go postal on us, brody. Or should I say nuclear?

Quote of the article:

"Shea said the incident is likely an isolated incident unless there is something big behind it."