[Ciaphas Cain]

Look up the "demon core" accident sometime. It wasn't long after World War II, the Manhattan boys were still experimenting. The plutonium demon core would have been one of the next payloads dropped had Japan not surrendered.

To summarize: there was an accident and one of the scientists was fatally irradiated. He became so clicking hot that the grave site had to be concrete and lead reinforced against the radiation coming from his corpse. The casket used to first transport the body was dumped at sea.

[OregonRancher]

It was called “tickling the dragoons tail”.