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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.
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. [2]
December 6, 1983 – Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. [13] Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident. 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.
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.
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 ...
Tourists at all-inclusive Mexico resort reportedly drugged, woman dies. Susana Victoria. Updated July 21, 2017 at 8:39 AM. 1 / 2. Report: Tiffany Trump's Berlin trip cost taxpayers more than $22,000.
Mexican health officials on Thursday reported the deaths of 13 children in medical centers in central Mexico due to the possible contamination of IV bags in four health centers. They linked the ...
1982 Bukit Merah radioactive pollution; A. ... Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident; ... 1962 Mexico City radiation accident;