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Also very worrying they don't have detection at the recycling input stream. You'd think everyone would have learned from the Mexico event.
by pixl97 1y ago
Also very worrying they don't have detection at the recycling input stream. You'd think everyone would have learned from the Mexico event.
- yard2010 1y ago> Vicente Sotelo Alardín, then an employee of the medical center, dismantled the unit on December 6, 1983, to sell it as scrap metal at the Fénix junkyard at the request of the hospital's maintenance manager. Sotelo had disassembled the head of the radioactive unit and extracted a cylinder containing the cobalt-60 source. He then loaded the material into his truck, where he drilled into the cylinder, causing some cobalt-60 granules to spill into the bed of the vehicle. The truck, now contaminated by the cobalt-60, subsequently suffered a mechanical failure upon Sotelo's return from the junkyard and remained immobile near his home in Ciudad Juárez for 40 days. Oh my god, what an idiot.
- oneshtein 1y ago> at the request of the hospital's maintenance manager This one?
- voidUpdate 1y agoOr any one of the many orphan source -> scrap metal events, which happens scarily often
- inferiorhuman 1y agoIndonesia accepts a ton of plastic waste for "recycling" in spite of actually banning the importation of plastic waste. The plastic waste (much of it from the west) is recycled by burning it in e.g. tofu factories. If they can't manage to not burn toxic plastic to cook food I doubt process around handling radioactive material is high up on the list of priorities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV9v0RIE-iI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV9v0RIE-iI
- CGMthrowaway 1y agoOr the Brazil one, with children