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Well There's Your Problem | Episode 28: Goiânia Incident

Well There's Your Problem | Episode 28: Goiânia Incident

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2 HN recommenders · discussed 2021–2023
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An episode of the Well There's Your Problem podcast on the 1987 Goiania radiological accident in Brazil, based largely on the IAEA report. It goes through the event day by day.

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HN points to it as a good, detailed podcast account whenever the Goiania incident or lost radioactive sources come up.

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From the Hacker News discussion

smcl · 2023-01 · rec

There’s a good Well There’s Your Problem episode about this, if people would rather see a video about it: [VIDEO]

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Pxtl · 2023-02 · rec

There's a pretty good Well There's Your Problem episode about it (dirtbag-left podcast-with-slides about industrial disasters). Goes into detail day by day about the events, including celebrating some of the heroes of the story who probably saved countless lives. [VIDEO]

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occz · 2021-11 · reference

The podcast Well There's Your Problem has an episode covering this incident: [VIDEO] As it turns out, when you have highly radioactive stuff in your buildings, you should probably clean that radioactive stuff out when abandoning said building.

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