Here's your problem as a junkman ~ you get junk. I have no doubt Rossi had a build up of materials brought to his factory that could not simply be converted nor disposed of through any normal process. He was naive.
Give you an idea of what goes on in the junk business. When I was a kid you rarely saw a geiger counter in a junkyard ~ today, even your basic smash and trash vehicle crush operations have them.
Nothing like a stray bit of hospital isotope getting in the mix to mess you up and put you out of business ~ that's 'cause the next guy down the line wants to separate that stuff from his, and so on all the way to the smelter somewhere.
Our landfill operation in Fairfax (which uses a co-generation power plant to dispose of everything burnable) has radiation detectors, as do all our fire trucks, trash trucks, police cars, public buildings, and so on. I think they used to use "exposure badges" for this but modern electronics has reduced the size and cost of better equipment.
My neighborhood is regularly surveyed by Department of Defense. They fly a helicopter overhead with a very sensitive radiation detection device hanging from a long cable ~ this is because we "hosted" the AlQaida 9/11 ground support team and DOD figures some of them may come back ~ from time to time they do. We've had a shooting or two involving those guys since 9/11.
People are just nuts about getting tapped out with invisible radiation so they take precautions.
Give you an idea of what goes on in the junk business. When I was a kid you rarely saw a geiger counter in a junkyard ~ today, even your basic smash and trash vehicle crush operations have them.Where in the world did you get the idea that PetrolDragon had anything to do with nuclear waste?
Rossi was collecting garbage from a syndicate of partner companies, adding some lime and dumping it, then selling non-existent fuel back to those same customers. It was a classic money laundering scheme. Prosecutors noted that the other companies were still generating invoices for the fuel a year after Rossi's company had been shut down.
I'll ask again: Why did Rossi drop his garbage-to-oil process as soon as authorities started investigating it? That's not the action of someone with a legitimate discovery. That's the actions of a con artist when he's about to be caught.
What in the hell does your rant about smoke detectors in landfills have to do with Rossi’s waste oil to fuel scam? Nice attempt at misdirection.