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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident

> scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house

> spread some of it on the concrete floor

> His six-year-old daughter later ate an egg while sitting on this floor

> She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother.

> Dust from the powder fell on the egg she was consuming

> she eventually absorbed 1.0 GBq and received a total dose of 6.0 Gy, more than a fatal dose even with treatment.

Glowing blue dust that kills families.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident

In this incident 3 villagers find abandoned radioisotope thermoelectric generator cores in the forest and cozy up to them:

> Around the canisters there was no snow for about a 1 m (3.3 ft) radius, and the ground was steaming.

> the men decided to move the sources a short distance and make camp around them

> The men used the sources to keep them warm through the night, positioning them against their backs, and as close as 10 cm (3.9 in). The next day, the sources may have been hung from the backs of Patient 1-DN and 2-MG as they loaded wood onto their truck.

The stuff of nightmares really.


Plainly Difficult on YouTube covers these kinds of stories. Tragic as they are interesting :/




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