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The accident in Goiania was one of the most serious radiological accidents to have occurred to date. It resulted in the death of four persons and the injury by radia-tion of many others; it also led to the radioactive contamination of parts of the city. The report on the accident suggests that its consequences could have been
Hace 2 días · The present report is divided into four parts: a chronology of destruction of the source, discovery of the accident and initial response; a description of the human consequences and the dosimetry and treatment of seriously exposed and contaminated persons; an account of the assessment of the environmental contamination and the remedial actions t...
El accidente de Goiânia fue un incidente de contaminación radiactiva en el centro de Brasil que ocasionó la muerte a 5 personas e hirió a otras 249 a causa del envenenamiento por radiación. [1] La revista Time identificó este accidente nuclear como uno de los peores de la historia. [2]
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.
Goiânia accident, a radioactive disaster resulting from the discovery and subsequent mishandling of a radioactive canister in Goiânia, Brazil, in September 1987 that caused the deaths of four people and the contamination of about 250 others.
Hace 6 días · El Gobierno y las autoridades del Brasil tuvieron que hacer frente a un trágico accidente en Goiânia ocurrido como consecuencia del empleo indebido de una fuente de teleterapia de uso médico altamente radiactiva que no estaba bajo vigilancia a los fines de la protección radiológica.
23 de ene. de 2020 · The radiological accident in Goiânia, Brazil, occurred in September 1987 and was the worst radiological accident in the history of Brazil. The accident began when two scrap dealers, Roberto dos Santos Alves and Wagner Mota Pereira, entered an old abandoned hospital in Goiânia and found a disused radiotherapy machine.
