About this episode
When a radiation therapy machine was left behind during a move between buildings in central Brazil, it set in motion a series of events that would lead to one of the worst radiological incidents in history. We look into how bureaucracy and misdiagnosis cost four people their lives and how the actions of a concerned mother with no medical experience, saved the lives of countless more.With John Chidgey.This show is Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced
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Official Report:
The Radiological Accident in Goiânia (PDF)
Links of Interest:
Goiânia Accident
IGR - Instituto Goiano de Radiologia
Teletherapy Capsule
Becquerel
The Goiânia Incident
Caesium
Gray
Other Reports and Articles:
The most rambling and insane nuclear accident in history (Italian)
Doctors and the radioactive accident (Portugese)
Notes on nuclear energy. What lawyers should know about nuclear technology (Spanish)
Goiânia Brazil 1987 - Rick On Theater
Caesium Radiation Goiania Brazil - 1102
The blue powder entranced…then it killed…
The Response to Technological Accidents: The Case of Radioactive Accident in Goiania (PDF) (Portugese)
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