From a person not much involved with it, but from the same city. For a short period, there was a massive fear around it, and the risk of mass contamination was

From a person not much involved with it, but from the same city. For a short period, there was a massive fear around it, and the risk of mass contamination was in the population day to day talk. You see, the Goiânia incident was almost a year and a half after the Chernobyl incident, which just made the situation worse. As soon as the tests came back and most of the population was ok, most of the fear in the people and medical professionals alike began to fade away. After that, most of our worries began to switch into waste management and what to make with all the soil and things that were contaminated in the process