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Pretty sure the lethality is being grossly over-stated for the purpose of sensationalism
by retube 13y ago
Pretty sure the lethality is being grossly over-stated for the purpose of sensationalism
- makomk 13y agoNot really, people have died from mishandling of this kind of radioactive material before: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull472/htmls/lessons_learned.html http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull472/...
- danbruc 13y ago111 TBq [1] and it seems like they carried it for more than half a kilometer after they removed the material from the shielding [2]. [1] http://iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/mexicoradsource.html http://iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/mexicoradsource.html [2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25224304 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25224304