TIL 4 people died (including a child) and over 200 were seriously injured after two men stole a caesium-137 radiotherapy device from an abandoned hospital and sold it for scrap, hoping to make money.

bermuda@beehaw.org · 11 months ago

bstix@feddit.dk · 11 months ago

Wikipedia has an entire list of civilian radiation accidents.

The one that scares me the most happened in Ukraine where a radioactive capsule was accidentally built into an apartment building. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 months ago

New fear unlocked.

SisIsNotMaiMaserTong@feddit.de · 11 months ago

I personally find the demon core quite haunting.

flicker@kbin.social · 11 months ago

The demon core doesn’t really scare me because at least everyone there knew about the potential for harm.

fernandocarletti@lemmy.eco.br · 11 months ago

Dude! How come something like that is considered lost and “well, enough searching”!?