A five-year study of the incidence of disease among residents of radiation-contaminated buildings was recently completed, showing that the possibility of chromosome aberration -- damage to DNA -- was proportional to long-term exposure to low-dose radiation
From November 1995 to June 2000, a research team at National Yang Ming University (陽明大學) kept track of more than 4,100 sample people who once lived in buildings that had been constructed in Taipei City between 1982 and 1983 using radioactive steel reinforcing bars

In the early 1980s, rebar contaminated with Colbalt-60 was used in the construction of more than 100 buildings in several counties in Taiwan. The situation was not publicly known until a 1992. One day that summer a Taiwan Power Company (Taipower, 台電) worker took a Geiger counter, an instrument to measure the intensity of radiation, back to his home and discovered levels of background radiation that greatly exceeded safety limits

http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2001/04/29/story/0000083627

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001

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Response to SHT Radioactive rebar linked to cancer

They used this radioactive steel in the 1980s??? No excuse! They had to know this would be a problem.

-- Anonymous, April 29, 2001