
Well There's Your Problem | Episode 28: Goiânia Incident
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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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There’s a good Well There’s Your Problem episode about this, if people would rather see a video about it: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗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]
Read original comment ↗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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