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Brazil also had an incident like this one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

• semi-extrinsic 2y ago
  Of note is that the (horrible) Goiania incident had a source with around 74 tera-Bq, the source in the original post here is something like 360 kilo-Bq. So try to visualize the difference between a 360 kilobyte file and a 74 terabyte file. Or the cost difference between a cheap pack of chewing gum and an F-35 fighter aircraft.
  • HPsquared 2y ago
    A factor of 200 million.
  • KennyBlanken 2y ago
    There's also the small matter that the Goiania incident involved a gamma source, and the source here is an alpha source, of which all the radiation is blocked by an inch or so of air. There's some hand-waving about the source self-sputtering. It seems highly unlikely that the source a)is not coated b)is pure enough for that to be a risk Even if it did, the amount of dust generated would be so small it would be inconsequential compared to numerous natural radiation sources, including alpha emitters like radon.