Comment on Urgent public health warning issued over lost radioactive capsuleComments−hprotagonist3yhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident−ComputerGuru3yI can’t remember where but more recently some transiently homeless people died (I want to say in Europe) because they found an object emitting heat and used it for warmth, not realizing it was radioactive and was killing them. Quite sad.−rahidz3yhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident−ComputerGuru3yThat’s the one. It’s from 2001 so I must have only stumbled upon a write up of it in recent years and mixed up the recency. Thank you!−ipython3yThere are a lot of these incidents (“orphan source”) documented on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_source−ComputerGuru3yThanks for giving me the missing keyword.−zapdrive3yVery intersting story. Do you have a source per chance? Google search didn't bring anything up.Edit: ok found it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
I can’t remember where but more recently some transiently homeless people died (I want to say in Europe) because they found an object emitting heat and used it for warmth, not realizing it was radioactive and was killing them. Quite sad.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident
That’s the one. It’s from 2001 so I must have only stumbled upon a write up of it in recent years and mixed up the recency. Thank you!
There are a lot of these incidents (“orphan source”) documented on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_source
Thanks for giving me the missing keyword.
Very intersting story. Do you have a source per chance? Google search didn't bring anything up.
Edit: ok found it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident