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Record W4408997637 · doi:10.1093/rpd/ncaf025

A curious case: a criminal exposure to X-rays

2025· article· en· W4408997637 on OpenAlexaff
Jacques Blanchette, Farah Nasser, Yvan Dutil

Bibliographic record

VenueRadiation Protection Dosimetry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicRadiation Dose and Imaging
Canadian institutionsCentre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-MontréalSanté MontérégieCentre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-JeanMontreal Heart InstituteInstitut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCommitLaw enforcementEvent (particle physics)Government (linguistics)EnforcementIntervention (counseling)BusinessComputer securityCriminologyPsychologyLawPublic relationsPolitical scienceComputer science

Abstract

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In 1989, following a workplace conflict, a worker activated an industrial radiography generator exposing a colleague to a significant amount of ionizing radiation. To our knowledge, this is the only documented case where an X-ray machine was used to commit a criminal act. Since the incident, 35 years have passed. Using the scientific information gathered at the time, we have attempted to create the clearest possible picture of this event. Although scientific knowledge has advanced since then, the overall assessment remains unchanged. An important lesson to be drawn from this crime is the significance of taking early actions to identify the level of exposure and ensure timely intervention to minimize the consequences for the victim. Another takeaway from this event is the numerous challenges the worker faced in having his situation acknowledged by both law enforcement authorities and various government agencies, given the unique nature of the incident.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.932
Threshold uncertainty score0.629

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.298
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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