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Similar accident in Chihuahua Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_contamination_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C

Similar accident in Chihuahua Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_contamination_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_c... It talks about 4000 people. My father built our house in Chihuahua around 1985-86. Our family lived in that house for 30 years. We don't if we were affected, but it hit me when my sister died of brain cancer two years ago.

i_am_jl 4y ago
Similar to both incidents is Kramatorsk, where a Ce-137 capsule was found in an apartment block, embedded inside a concrete wall, after it fell out of a piece of quarry equipment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accide...
- klodolph 4y ago
  “Ce” is cerium, it was Cs-137.
verytrivial 4y ago
I'm very sorry to hear about your sister.
huevosabio 4y ago
I'm from Juarez, Centro Medico de Especialidades was the hospital we all went to back in the day. I only know about this story because my father told me how one of the biggest radioactive accidents happened in Juarez when discussing radioactive events after watching the show Chernobyl.
timetraveller26 4y ago
And it was only detected by accident! > On January 16, 1984, a radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S. state of New Mexico detected the presence of radioactivity in the vicinity. The detector went off because a truck carrying rebar produced by Achisa had taken an accidental detour and passed through the entrance and exit gate of the laboratory's LAMPF technical area.[6] Local authorities realized that the rebar triggered the alert and notified Mexico's National Commission on Nuclear Safety and Safeguards [es] (CNSNS) on January 18. CNSNS confirmed a wide dispersion of radioactive material had occurred and ordered Achisa to suspend the distribution of manufactured rebar until it was verified that it was not contaminated. Mexican authorities also proceeded to close the junkyard.[4]
ummonk 4y ago
Seems like it might be a good idea to have geiger counters or whatever as standard at junkyards and bulk waste facilities.

i_am_jl 4y ago

Similar to both incidents is Kramatorsk, where a Ce-137 capsule was found in an apartment block, embedded inside a concrete wall, after it fell out of a piece of quarry equipment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accide...

klodolph 4y ago
“Ce” is cerium, it was Cs-137.

verytrivial 4y ago

I'm very sorry to hear about your sister.

huevosabio 4y ago

I'm from Juarez, Centro Medico de Especialidades was the hospital we all went to back in the day. I only know about this story because my father told me how one of the biggest radioactive accidents happened in Juarez when discussing radioactive events after watching the show Chernobyl.

timetraveller26 4y ago

And it was only detected by accident! > On January 16, 1984, a radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S. state of New Mexico detected the presence of radioactivity in the vicinity. The detector went off because a truck carrying rebar produced by Achisa had taken an accidental detour and passed through the entrance and exit gate of the laboratory's LAMPF technical area.[6] Local authorities realized that the rebar triggered the alert and notified Mexico's National Commission on Nuclear Safety and Safeguards [es] (CNSNS) on January 18. CNSNS confirmed a wide dispersion of radioactive material had occurred and ordered Achisa to suspend the distribution of manufactured rebar until it was verified that it was not contaminated. Mexican authorities also proceeded to close the junkyard.[4]

ummonk 4y ago

Seems like it might be a good idea to have geiger counters or whatever as standard at junkyards and bulk waste facilities.