Nuclear Leaks 4: Goiânia, Brazil

Cesium Chloride.

This post is not about a nuclear leak, rather a radioactive materials accident that took place in 1987.  The blog The Last Word On Nothing recently summarized a famous incident in Goiânia, Brazil in which the locals were exposed to cesium chloride. It is considered one of the worst radioactive disasters ever and occurred after radiotherapy materials were scavenged from an abandoned hospital site.  According to Wiki, "The dispersal of radiation was equivalent to a medium-size dirty bomb."
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