by Tdarcos » Tue Apr 11, 2023 8:32 pm
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:10 pm
It was just a summer job, my dad worked there so I could get a job collecting barrels of it. In darkness!!!!
Darkness!
Photography supplies are
very light sensitive. So much so, that Kodak was getting complaints about contaminated photo paper having white spots. They checked the dates and someone figured out what had happened. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Defense Department did A-bomb tests aboveground at Alamagordo, New Mexico. Prevailing winds would carry the fallout as far northeast as Rochester, New York, and the residual radiation was strong enough to contaminate photo paper. This needed to stop, it made customers unhappy. When they informed the government, someone realized the patterns of those white spot images would be very interesting for other countries to allow them to discover what the blast size was. So, executive management at Kodak was 'read into' the secret testing plans, and from then on was told in advance of the date of each test, and when the fallout would reach them so that they would know not to manufacture photo paper on that day.
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It was just a summer job, my dad worked there so I could get a job collecting barrels of it. In darkness!!!!
Darkness!
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Photography supplies are [i]very[/i] light sensitive. So much so, that Kodak was getting complaints about contaminated photo paper having white spots. They checked the dates and someone figured out what had happened. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Defense Department did A-bomb tests aboveground at Alamagordo, New Mexico. Prevailing winds would carry the fallout as far northeast as Rochester, New York, and the residual radiation was strong enough to contaminate photo paper. This needed to stop, it made customers unhappy. When they informed the government, someone realized the patterns of those white spot images would be very interesting for other countries to allow them to discover what the blast size was. So, executive management at Kodak was 'read into' the secret testing plans, and from then on was told in advance of the date of each test, and when the fallout would reach them so that they would know not to manufacture photo paper on that day.