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Three people died, one man got radiation sickness and went blind. [62] 15 October 1958: Vinča, Yugoslavia. There was a criticality incident in a newly installed reactor. Six young researchers received high doses of radiation, and were subsequently treated at "Kiri" institute in Paris where one of them died. [citation needed]
This incident prompted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Customs Service to install radiation detection equipment at all major border crossings. [25] 1984 – Lost source accident in Morocco, a Ir-192 source was taken home by a laborer resulting in eight deaths in the 1984 Moroccan radiation accident. Either a drive cable detached from a ...
List of civilian radiation accidents; List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll; Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents; Robert Peter Gale; List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country
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Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness or radiation poisoning, is a collection of health effects that are caused by being exposed to high amounts of ionizing radiation in a short period of time. [1] Symptoms can start within an hour of exposure, and can last for several months.
By analogy, a nuclear incident with a high magnitude (e.g. a core meltdown) may not result in an intense radioactive contamination, as the incident at the Swiss research reactor in Lucens shows – yet it resides in INES category 4, together with the Windscale fire of 1957, which caused significant contamination outside of its facility.
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This incident prompted the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Customs Service to install radiation detection equipment at all major border crossings. [14] [15] March 19, 1984 – Casablanca, Morocco – A 16.3 Ci (600 GBq) iridium-192 source was lost and taken home by a laborer, who placed the source on a table in the family bedroom.