You place a radioactive appearing fox in the Chinese backwoods and they would worship it. You’re not dealing with a group of intelligent people here. And besides, if they were that smart, as they proved with Covid, they’d just capture it and send it to the US and then try to deny it.
Besides, radioactive things do not glow in the dark. The human eye can’t see the actual radioactive materials. They’d just see a fox. That is unless they have any idea that it was placed there and someone put flyers out to tell them. Then their IQ would catch up to the perceived threat as explained. Have kill a number of trees to get that one done.
rwood
No one knew it at the time but it was also highly toxic. Saw a documentary on the company named in the article. Most all the workers there were women and a large majority of them lived short lives and died of cancer.
Young pup, the world existed before you were born. You might want to read about it before pontificating.
Back before the eviro-Mentalists took over, radium paint was routinely used on watch dials and alarm clocks. So they would glow in the dark.
https://raddoc1947.com/2016/07/17/radium-dial-company/
https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0401841