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2. 1962 Mexico City radiation accident - Wikipedia

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   Between March and July 1962, a radiation incident in Mexico City occurred when a ten-year-old boy took home an industrial radiography source that was not contained in its proper shielding. Five individuals received significant doses of radiation from the 200- gigabecquerel cobalt-60 capsule, [ 1 ] four of whom died.

3. Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident - Wikipedia

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   The truck, now contaminated by the cobalt-60, subsequently suffered a mechanical failure upon Sotelo's return from the junkyard and remained immobile near his home in Ciudad Juárez for 40 days. [4] Meanwhile, at the junkyard, the use of electromagnets for handling the scrap caused the cobalt-60 granules to spread throughout the yard.

4. List of orphan source incidents - Wikipedia

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   A local resident salvaged materials from a discarded radiation therapy machine containing 6,010 pellets of cobalt-60. The transport of the material led to severe contamination of his truck. Remaining pellets in the scrapyard contaminated another 5,000 metric tonnes of steel to an estimated 300 Ci (11 TBq) of activity. This steel was used to ...

5. Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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   The Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident happened after a private medical company that had illegally purchased a radiation therapy unit sold it to a junkyard to be later smelted to produce rebar. These were distributed and used in multiple cities across Mexico and the United States and exposed an estimated four thousand people to ...

6. Goiânia accident - Wikipedia

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   a cylinder of radioactive source material (caesium-137 in the Goiânia incident, but usually cobalt-60) The Goiânia accident [ɡojˈjɐniɐ] was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, in Goiânia , Goiás , Brazil, after an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city.

7. Radioactive scrap metal - Wikipedia

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   The cleanup operation for the Goiânia accident [20] was difficult both because the source containment had been opened, and the radioactive material was water-soluble.. In 1983, a different incident in Mexico wherein cobalt-60 was spilled in an otherwise similar exposure led to a very different pattern of contamination, since the cobalt in such a source is normally in the form of cobalt metal ...

8. Hannah Kobayashi Has Been Found a Month After Voluntarily ...

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   Hannah Kobayashi's family says she was "found safe" on Wednesday, Dec. 11, about a month after she walked into Mexico and vanished in what police have called a voluntary disappearance that made ...

9. List of civilian radiation accidents - Wikipedia

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   In the Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident, a local resident salvaged materials from a discarded radiation therapy machine containing 6,010 pellets of 60 Co. The transport of the material led to severe contamination of his truck.