>The Goiânia accident [ɡojˈjɐniɐ] was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people were examined for radioactive contamination and 249 of them were found to have been contaminated>On September 13, 1987, the guard tasked with protecting the site did not show up for work>Roberto dos Santos Alves and Wagner Mota Pereira illegally entered the partially demolished IGR site. Roberto dos Santos Alves and Wagner Mota Pereira illegally entered the partially demolished IGR site.[7] They partially disassembled the teletherapy unit and placed the source assembly in a wheelbarrow to later take to Roberto's home. They thought they might get some scrap value for the unit.[1] They began dismantling the equipment.>On September 16, Roberto punctured the capsule's aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created.[1] He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite.>On September 18, Roberto sold the items to a nearby scrapyard. That night, Devair Alves Ferreira, the owner of the scrapyard, noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule's contents were valuable or supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing powder.
>>219872841CIA's fault
>Thinking the capsule's contents were valuable or supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house
>>219872841My father was involved with this
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>>219872841same shit happened here but with cobalt-60
>>219873866holy kek
>>219873548anyways further on the story: dad was a professor of physics finishing his phd in Goiânia when it happened. He alongside the people of the physics and chemistry department were tasked with going around suspected places with Geiger counters and measuring radiation levels. This kept going on for up to 10 years after the fact to ensure no new contamination just showed up
>>219872841yummy
>>219874280Neat!