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The Yorker takes a look back at some of the major events which hit the headlines in the academic year that was 2007-2008.
Former University of York student Neil Entwistle was sentenced today in the US to life in prison without parole for killing his wife and daughter.
The report concerns the Radium which was eventually found in a scrapyard in early 2007.
The investigation says that a York lecturer dismantled a Rackbeta machine without permission, Vision have reported.
The lecturer then mistakenly sent the steel case containing the Radium to a scrapyard.
But the report, which The Yorker has also seen, admitted that the steel container containing the Radium was not in fact painted with the identifying radioactive paint.
Instead an empty rod from the machine had been labelled as radioactive.
The senior York lecturer, who was portrayed by Vision as a bumbling Homer Simpson, would therefore have had no indication of the actual location of the Radium.
regardless of the factual accuracy of the story, i fear there is a dangerous and fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of radium portrayed by both the yorker and vision. radium does not glow green. it offers a slight blue luminescence.
So this isn't the same rod that featured in the Simpsons? Darn.
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