Re:The Cobalt-60 Accident of Ciudad Juarez (2019)
by gambiting on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:59AM
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So the sad thing is, there are international resources available to help exactly in these kinds of scenarios.
Look at the International Atomic Energy Agency's report of the incident in Georgia(the country) where lumberjacks found an abandoned radioactive source in a forest -
Georgia alone would have never had the resources to deal with it, but because they followed the international protocol the entire operation was done under supervision, cleaned up properly and affected people given top-class help in foreign hospitals:
Look at the International Atomic Energy Agency's report of the incident in Georgia(the country) where lumberjacks found an abandoned radioactive source in a forest - Georgia alone would have never had the resources to deal with it, but because they followed the international protocol the entire operation was done under supervision, cleaned up properly and affected people given top-class help in foreign hospitals:
https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1660web-81...
My point is - all that the Mexican government had to do was to swallow some pride and work with an agency like IAEA to clean it up properly.