What the records say
- When
- 1984
- Kind
- Industrial accident
- Coordinates
- 31.67° N, 106.42° W
- Description
- Radioactive contamination accident in Mexico
- Deaths
- 0
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident
1984 Mexican radiation incident
A radioactive contamination incident occurred in 1984 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, originating from a radiation therapy unit purchased by a private medical company and subsequently dismantled for lack of personnel to operate it. The radioactive material, cobalt-60, ended up in a junkyard, where it was sold to foundries that inadvertently melted it with other metals and produced about 6,000 tons of contaminated rebar.
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