What the records say
- When
- 13 Sep 1987
- Kind
- Industrial accident
- Coordinates
- 16.67° S, 49.26° W
- Description
- radioactive contamination accident in Brazil
- Deaths
- 4
Goiânia accident
1987 radioactive contamination incident in Brazil
The Goiânia accident, also known locally as the caesium-137 accident/caesium-137 Goiânia, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after an unsecured radiotherapy source, inside a lead-and-steel medical device, was found by scavenger thieves at an abandoned hospital site in the city.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Goiânia accident: Metal scrappers open an old radiation source abandoned in a hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, causing the worst radiation accident ever in an…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “accident nucléaire de Goiânia au Brésil”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Бразилии ок. 250 человек подверглись радиологическому заражению”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “حادثة غويانيا الإشعاعية: حادث تلوث إشعاعي في مدينة غويانيا وسط يقتل فيها 4 أشخاص ويجرح 28 شخص، وأكثر من 200 حالة تسمم إشعاعي”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page