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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on August 30, 2017, 07:49:34 am
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Preventing a Nuclear 'Dirty Bomb' Attack
By John Ashley
August 29, 2017
In 1985, medical equipment containing cesium-137 was abandoned in a radiotherapy center in Goiânia, Brazil. Two years later, scrap-metal salvagers illegally entered the partly-demolished facility and took the equipment. Unaware of the threat posed by the radioactive source, the salvagers subsequently began dismantling the equipment and brought it to a dealer, where the capsule containing the cesium-137 was ruptured. Not realizing what the blue glowing material was, the dealer gave some to his friends and family as a gift. It was not long before the cesium-137 spread, and
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