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Between March and July 1962, a radiation incident in Mexico City occurred when a ten-year-old boy took home an industrial radiography source that was not contained in its proper shielding. Five individuals received significant doses of radiation from the 200-gigabecquerel cobalt-60 capsule, [1] four of whom died. [2]
1962 – Mexico City – 1962 Mexico City radiation accident [1] January 11, 1963 – Sanlian, Hefei, Anhui, China – A 10 Ci (370 GBq) cobalt-60 source from an industrial seed irradiator was removed from a buried waste repository and taken to a residence by a child. Over the next 5–9 days, six total family members were exposed.
On January 16, 1984, a radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S. state of New Mexico detected the presence of radioactivity in the vicinity. The detector went on because a truck carrying rebar produced by Achisa had taken an accidental detour and passed through the entrance and exit gate of the laboratory's LAMPF technical area. [6]
In the 1962 Mexico City radiation accident, a boy found a 5 Curie Co-60 lost source in Mexico City and brought it home. Prolonged exposure to the source caused the death of the boy and three other members of the family.
Radiation accident in Mexico City: 1962 Exposure to a cobalt-60 orphan source from an industrial radiographic device. 3 SL-1 accident 1961, January 3 All three of the experimental reactor crew died when the reactor went prompt critical and the core explosively vaporized. 3 Samut Prakan radiation accident: 2000 February
21 March–August 1962: radiation accident in Mexico City, four fatalities. 23 July 1964: Wood River Junction criticality accident. Resulted in 1 fatality; 1964, 1969: Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Los Angeles, California. Partial meltdowns. 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash, where a Skyhawk attack aircraft with a nuclear weapon fell into the sea ...
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