The people in charge knew where they were going.
The radiation detector should have been online before they got near the area and the entire crew should have been given Patassium Iodide pills greatly reducing the chances of being harmed.
Total incompetence. The people in charge need to be held accountable.
Our local fire department routinely operates radiation detection. Recently, they had the cops pull over a “hot” car that turned out to contain a guy coming home from a thyroid test. How difficult could it be have a basic level of detection in constant operation?
I’m sure the detectors are on constantly on those things. Inside and out. They simply aren’t going to admit what they say for political reasons unless it’s so high that there will be hair-loss type acute sickness.