Caesium-137 leaked from an Acerinox plant in Los Barrios

Quand

30 mai 1998

Type

Événement

Coordonnées

36.18° N, 5.44° W

Description

Caesium-137 leaked from an Acerinox plant in Los Barrios, causing radioactive contamination in the Acerinox accident.

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Caesium-137 leaked from an Acerinox plant in Los Barrios, causing radioactive contamination in the 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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