2 HN users recommended this podcast episode2 months2021–2023score 2
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN points to it as a good, detailed podcast account whenever the Goiania incident or lost radioactive sources come up.
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.
“Goes into detail day by day about the events” (HN, 2023)
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. [this video]
Day by day account of the event, celebrating heroes.
The podcast Well There's Your Problem has an episode covering this incident: [this 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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