TIL 4 people died (including a child) and over 200 were seriously injured after two men stole a caesium-137 radiotherapy device from an abandoned hospital and sold it for scrap, hoping to make money.
TIL 4 people died (including a child) and over 200 were seriously injured after two men stole a caesium-137 radiotherapy device from an abandoned hospital and sold it for scrap, hoping to make money.
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Wikipedia has an entire list of civilian radiation accidents.
The one that scares me the most happened in Ukraine where a radioactive capsule was accidentally built into an apartment building. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident
New fear unlocked.
Dude! How come something like that is considered lost and "well, enough searching"!?
I personally find the demon core quite haunting.
The demon core doesn't really scare me because at least everyone there knew about the potential for harm.
It is always unsettling that dropping the reflector for a second caused a deadly radiation dose. Radiation is a bitch.