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Re:The Cobalt-60 Accident of Ciudad Juarez (2019) by vilhelm_s on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:19PM (#24892258)
I think you are thinking of the accident in Goiânia (Brazil) in 1987, but this article is actually about the accident in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) in 1983.

There have been quite a few accidents involving radiation sources from disused radiotherapy machines, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_acc... . In particular, there was an incident in Taiwan in 1982 which seems extremely similar to the one described in this article, it also involved a Cobolt-60 source contaminating recycled steel.

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Re:The Cobalt-60 Accident of Ciudad Juarez (2019) by olliej on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:36AM (#24893096)
oh nuts, you are correct.

How many times has this happened???

O_o

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Re:The Cobalt-60 Accident of Ciudad Juarez (2019) by NickNameNick on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:14AM (#24893251)
Wikipedia has a list of 'Civilian radiation accidents' [1] which is worryingly long.

Johnstonarchive has an interesting list of 'radialogical events' [2] which is easy to search through for 'theft' and 'lost source'.

Wikipedia also has a more specific list of orphaned source events [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_acc...

[2] http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/index.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_source

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