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More than 240 people were exposed to radiation when a junkyard dealer in Goiania, Brazil, broke open an abandoned radiation therapy machine and removed a small highly radioactive cake of cesium chloride. Children, attracted to the bright blue of the radioactive material, touched it and rubbed it on their skin, resulting in the contamination of several city blocks which had to be demolished.
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Date: April 1st, 2009 - 03:33 pm
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The accident in the Siberian city of Tomsk took place after a tank exploded while being cleaned with nitric acid. The explosion released a cloud of radioactive gas drifting from the Tomsk-7 Reprocessing Complex.
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Date: April 1st, 2009 - 03:34 pm
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The incident took place while workers were mixing liquid uranium.
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Date: April 1st, 2009 - 03:34 pm
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After the Baneberry test, involving the detonation of a 10 kiloton nuclear device underneath Yucca Flat in Nevada, the plug sealing the shaft from the surface failed and radioactive debris vented into the atmospher. Eighty six workers at the site were exposed to radiation.
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Date: April 1st, 2009 - 03:36 pm
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