Chapter 76. LOCATION SHOOT pages 328 - 335
Having dropped Tito and driven on, not far at all along the strip of low-lying auto-body repairs and marine supplies, Garreth turned right, into the parking lot of what seemed to be a much taller building, one built on an entirely different scale.
Chapter 76. LOCATION SHOOT
Garreth and Hollis, pretending to be location scouts for an untitled movie, enter an eight-story building ["built on an entirely different scale"] with the Pelican case, a tripod and leather apron. After verifying a direct line of site to the shipping container and checking the radiation level of the case, Garreth assembles a rifle ["biomorphic, counterintuitive, like something from a Max Ernst landscape"] and prepares to shoot nine Remington silvertips full of radioactive material into "evenly spaced along forty feet of Cor-ten steel" along the bottom of the shipping container filled with super spoiler. [635 characters]
The apron seems to be a radiographer's lead lined protective apron, rather than a leather one.
Cor-Ten steel contains sulphur and is designed to weather and rust only on the surface i.e. not to require to be painted "turquoise" like the shipping container.