bermuda to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoTIL 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.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down11
arrow-up161arrow-down1external-linkTIL 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.en.wikipedia.orgbermuda to Today I learned@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-square@bstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglish18•1 year agoWikipedia 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
minus-square@fernandocarletti@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilink3•1 year agoDude! How come something like that is considered lost and “well, enough searching”!?
minus-square@SisIsNotMaiMaserTong@feddit.delinkfedilink2•1 year agoI personally find the demon core quite haunting.
minus-squareflickerlinkfedilink8•1 year agoThe demon core doesn’t really scare me because at least everyone there knew about the potential for harm.
minus-square@SisIsNotMaiMaserTong@feddit.delinkfedilink1•1 year agoIt is always unsettling that dropping the reflector for a second caused a deadly radiation dose. Radiation is a bitch.
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
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Dude! How come something like that is considered lost and “well, enough searching”!?
I personally find the demon core quite haunting.
The demon core doesn’t really scare me because at least everyone there knew about the potential for harm.
It is always unsettling that dropping the reflector for a second caused a deadly radiation dose. Radiation is a bitch.