I for one cannot believe this. From article:
Iraq-Villagers looted a nuclear power facility here during the waning days of the war and instead of treasure, may have made off with death-drums filled with radioactive uranium oxide concentrate, also called yellow cake....
In what may prove to be deadly errors, they dumped the radioactive substance on land near their village and washed the drums in a local river.....
One of the villagers who took part in the looting said he tasted the yellow powder in the drums because it looked pretty
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