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I think you are thinking of the accident in Goiânia (Brazil) in 1987, but this article is actually about the accident in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) in 1983. There
by vilhelm_s 6y ago
I think you are thinking of the accident in Goiânia (Brazil) in 1987, but this article is actually about the accident in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) in 1983.
There have been quite a few accidents involving radiation sources from disused radiotherapy machines, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_acc... . In particular, there was an incident in Taiwan in 1982 which seems extremely similar to the one described in this article, it also involved a Cobolt-60 source contaminating recycled steel.
- olliej 6y agooh nuts, you are correct. How many times has this happened??? O_o
- NickNameNick 6y agoWikipedia has a list of 'Civilian radiation accidents' [1] which is worryingly long. Johnstonarchive has an interesting list of 'radialogical events' [2] which is easy to search through for 'theft' and 'lost source'. Wikipedia also has a more specific list of orphaned source events [3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_acc... [2] http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/index.html http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/index.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_source