Goiânia Accident

I found this one[0] the other day where a radiation source ended up in the concrete wall of an apartment building. A whole family got leukemia, took 9 years to eventually have it removed. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accide...

One of my a ex-girlfriend's mother was one of the doctors that tended to some of the sick. She didn't like to talk about it, saying the movie covered what she saw but, ~20 years later (at the time we were dating) she didn't like to remember what she went through. I vividly remember her talking about it because she tried to end the conversation with a joke ("don't poke holes in stuff") that didn't land but I had a…

Also see the International Atomic Agency's report on the accident (linked from the wikipedia article): https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub815_web.pd... It's a heart wrenching story. The guys who caused the accident were scavenging for scrap- pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring their families money. On that day, they brought death to their families- death in the form of an enchantingly blue-glowing powder that their kids played with and put on their skin like glitter. These people…

Analphabetism kills.