What the records say
- When
- 30 May 1998
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 36.18° N, 5.44° W
- Description
- Caesium-137 leaked from an Acerinox plant in Los Barrios, causing radioactive contamination in the Acerinox accident.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Acerinox accident.
Acerinox accident
1998 radiological contamination accident occurring in Cádiz, Spain
The Acerinox accident was a radioactive contamination accident in the province of Cádiz. In May 1998, a caesium-137 source managed to pass through the monitoring equipment in an Acerinox scrap metal reprocessing plant in Los Barrios, Spain. When melted, the caesium-137 caused the release of a radioactive cloud.
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