Radiation scandal? Academics at Manchester University fear for safety - The Guardian 9th September 2008

A confidential report reveals Manchester University staff were using contaminated labs. Radiation left over from 100-year-old experiments by Ernest Rutherford, the father of modern nuclear physics, may be responsible for the recent deaths of two Manchester University lecturers. Hundreds more former lecturers and students at Manchester University could be at risk from nuclear materials they were exposed to. At least as late as 2006, there was still contamination in the building in which Rutherford worked, known as the Rutherford Building. This included materials such as polonium, which killed Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian dissident.

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