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TIL 4 people died (including a child) and over 200 were seriously injured after two men stole a caesium-137 radiotherapy device from an abandoned hospital and sold it for scrap, hoping to make money. (en.wikipedia.org)
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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 17 points 10 months ago

Wikipedia has an entire list of civilian radiation accidents.

The one that scares me the most happened in Ukraine where a radioactive capsule was accidentally built into an apartment building. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident

[-] fernandocarletti@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 10 months ago

Dude! How come something like that is considered lost and "well, enough searching"!?

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